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Fundamentals of Digital Logic with VHDL Design is intended for an
introductory course in digital logic design, which is a basic
course in most electrical and computer engineering programs. A
successful designer of digital logic circuits needs a good
understanding of the classical methods of logic design and a firm
grasp of the modern design approach that relies on computer-aided
design (CAD) tools. The main goals of this book are to teach
students the fundamental concepts of classical manual digital
design and to illustrate clearly the way in which digital circuits
are designed today, using CAD tools. This title will be available
in Connect with the MHeBook, but will not have SmartBook at this
time.
Security concerns increasingly influence foreign aid: how Western
countries give aid, to whom and why. With contributions from
experts in the field, this book examines the impact of security
issues on six of the world's largest aid donors, as well as on key
crosscutting issues such as gender equality and climate change.
."a timely book that.sets a standard for a new field of study and
therefore deserves to be read widely. the volume's] contributions
contain fascinating material for further study." . International
Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter "Steven Brown and Ulrik
Volgsten haveput together a valuable collection of essays on a
consistently interesting theme. The book constitutes an important
resource for the future development of this theme." . Music
Perception ."fascinating and challenging.this book, illustrates the
diversity, the depth and the potential of the field of the
sociology of music. As much as these texts enlighten, they also
highlight the vastness of the research yet to be conducted.
However, this book is far more than just a compilation of papers
presented at a conference, they are relevant discussions to anybody
who turns on the radio, purchases or downloads a record or even
sings a lullaby." . Leonardo Digital Reviews Since the beginning of
human civilization, music has been used as a device to control
social behavior, where it has operated as much to promote
solidarity within groups as hostility between competing groups.
Music is an emotive manipulator that influences attitude,
motivation and behavior at many levels and in many contexts. This
volume is the first to address the social ramifications of music's
behaviorally manipulative effects, its morally questionable uses
and control mechanisms, and its economic and artistic regulation
through commercialization, thus highlighting not only music's
diverse uses at the social level but also the ever-fragile
relationship between aesthetics and morality. Steven Brown is a
researcher in cognitive neuroscience in the Department of
Psychology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He
received his doctorate at Columbia University in New York, and has
done research at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, the Karolinska
Institute in Stockholm, and the University of Texas Health Science
Center in San Antonio. His research deals with the neural basis of
human communication, including the arts. Ulrik Volgsten is a
research fellow in the Department of Culture, Aesthetics and Media
at Goteborg University in Sweden. He received his doctorate in the
Department of Musicology at Stockholm University, and has published
papers on both musical and philosophical topics. Volgsten's
multidisciplinary research mainly focuses on human communication in
different medi
This volume provides a short and accessible introduction to the
organization that serves as the primary coordinator of the work of
the UN system throughout the developing world -the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP). The book: traces the origins and
evolution of UNDP, outlining how a central UN funding mechanism and
field network developed into a more comprehensive development
agency evaluates the UNDP's performance and results, both in its
role as system coordinator and as a development organization in its
own right considers the return of the UNDP to a more central role
within the UN development system, in order to review the successive
attempts at UN development system reform, the reasons for failure
and the future possibilities for a more effective system with the
UNDP at the centre. Offering a clear, comprehensive overview and
analysis of the organization, this work will be of great interest
to students and scholars of development studies, international
organizations and international relations.
In the era of rapid globalization, the ITC plays a significant and
wide ranging role working with both governments and trade support
institutions to nurture an export culture, this work will provide a
much needed overview of this dynamic organization. This book: *
Details the history of the organization since its inception *
Examines its current mandate and the impact of recent reforms *
Analyses the ability of the ITC to provide trade intelligence, and
its role in the development of national export strategies *
Evaluates the future challenges, and emphasises that the ITC must
continue to broaden its mandate and continue to be responsive and
results orientated to remain a key player The status of ITC --
half-in and half-out of the UN -- could prove to be an interesting
model for the future, and this work will be of interest to not only
to academics but also government trade specialists and negotiators,
the "aid for trade" donors, NGOs, and those involved in the running
of international organizations.
- This book responds directly to the rise of China and the role of
covid-19, which has opened up a new battle ground for aid as a tool
for political influence. - The US and the UK have never been so
open about the underlying politics behind aid, with the US
withdrawing from many global commitments and the UK recently
combining the foreign office with the department for development.
-Written by Stephen Browne, a prominent practitioner with over 30
years experience at the UN, co-director of the Future United
Nations Development System (FUNDS) project, Senior Fellow of the
Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Graduate Center,
City University of New York, and visiting lecturer at the Graduate
Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Imagination is a word that is widely used by marketing
practitioners but rarely examined by marketing academics. This
neglect is largely due to the imagination's 'artistic'
connotations, which run counter to the 'scientific' mindset that
dominates marketing scholarship. Of late, however, an artistic
'turn' has taken place in marketing research, and this topical
study argues that the mantle of imagination has now passed on from
the artist to the marketer. It contends, moreover, that the tools
and techniques of artistic appreciation can be successfully applied
to all manner of marketplace phenomena. Key features include: * the
treatment of artistic artefacts as a source of marketing
understanding * a detailed discussion surrounding the argument that
marketers should adopt more imaginative modes of academic
expression * an analysis of the kind of art that marketing is, and
the place of imagination in marketing's artistic palette. This book
provokes a new way of thinking about marketing, and will prove
invaluable to marketing academics, researchers and practitioners.
This book focuses on the interface between art and the marketplace, applying the tools and techniques of artistic appreciation to the marketing phenomenon. The contributors argue that, since standing out from the crowd is no less important than artistic ability, the mantle of imagination has been passed from the artist to the marketeer.
Related link: Series Editor website eBook available with sample pages: 0203361288
Over three-quarters of a century, the UN has been impacted by major
changes in the balance of powers among its member states. This
unique and insightful book offers detailed commentary on its
historic effectiveness and reviews the capacity of the UN to reform
and adapt to global challenges. This book constitutes a judgement
on the overwhelming importance as well as the vulnerability of
multilateralism at a time when the UN has never been more
indispensable This book describes: How autocracy in the US, China
and Russia constrains the UN Why North-South politics has been a
constant feature of intergovernmental debate How the UN development
system became an extended patronage system What the UN learnt from
its peacekeeping failures, and how it continues to adapt Four areas
of needed and feasible reform to restore UN credibility. This
impressive book will be vital to the staff of permanent missions of
member governments to the UN, as well as UN secretariat staff. It
will also benefit researchers exploring international organizations
and the staff of development NGOs, as well as a broader audience of
those interested in UN and global politics.
Is marketing in crisis? Some commentators have contended that
marketing principles no longer appear relevant to the "real world"
of marketing managers. The foremost figures in the field are
marketing's most outspoken critics rather than disseminators of the
marketing message. Indeed, a number of noted academic authorities
have announced nothing less than "the end of marketing". While such
apocalyptic sentiments are very much in keeping with our degraded,
post-modern, pre-millenial times, the present volume of essays
examines the extent to which the end of marketing "is" nigh. The
authors explore the present state of marketing scholarship and put
forward a variety of visions of marketing in the 21st century.
Ranging from narratology to feminism, these suggestions aim to
enlighten, provoke and occasionally outrage.
Is marketing in crisis? Some commentators have contended that
marketing principles no longer appear relevant to the 'real world'
of marketing managers. The foremost figures in the field are
marketing's most outspoken critics rather than disseminators of the
marketing message. Indeed, a number of noted academic authorities
have announced nothing less than 'the end of marketing'. While such
apocalyptic sentiments are very much in keeping with our degraded,
postmodern, pre-millennial times, the present volume of essays
examines the extent to which the end of marketing is nigh. The
authors explore the present state of marketing scholarship and put
forward a variety of visions of marketing for the twenty-first
century. Ranging from narratology to feminism, these prophesies are
always enlightening, often provocative and occasionally outrageous.
Marketing Apocalypse is required reading for anyone interested in
the future of marketing.
Sustainability, digitalization, and artification have become the
cornerstones of a successful business model in a world rocked by
the effects of a pandemic and a climate crisis. Organizational
strategies in the art, fashion, and wine industries have to be
redesigned to reflect these changes. The circular model discussed
in this work provides guidance and a vision for systematically
moving towards social and environmental sustainability from both a
production and consumption perspective. Digitalization provides a
viable alternative to brick and mortar and helps create a hybrid
presence for brands in both real and virtual worlds. Artification
is the process of elevating an object into a work of art and
closely mirrors the aestheticization of society in a postmodern
world. While selling online is a given, creating an auratic
atmosphere to envelop and provide an unforgettable experience
requires greater levels of creativity. Each chapter focuses on
aspects of consumer culture theory, with its emphasis on identity,
lifestyle, and symbolic meaning, with the introductory chapter
paying more attention to the application of practice theory to the
study of sustainability, artification, and digitalization. The
complementarity between the practice turn and the cultural turn
promises new insights.
International commissions, academics, practitioners, and the media
have long been critical of the UN's development efforts as
disjointed and not fit for purpose; yet the organization has been
an essential contributor to progress and peacebuilding. This
handbook explores the activities of the UN development system
(UNDS), the largest operational pillar of the organization and
arguably the arena in which its ideational endeavors have made the
biggest contribution to thinking and standards. Contributions focus
on the role of the UNDS in sustainable social, economic, and
environmental development, describing how the UNDS interacts with
the other major functions of the UN system, and how it performs
operationally in the context of the new 2030 development agenda
focused on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The volume
is divided into three sections: Realizing the SDGs: opportunities
and challenges; Resources, partnerships, and management; and
Imagining the future of the UN in development. Comprised of
chapters by knowledgeable and authoritative UN experts, this book
provides cutting-edge and up-to-date research on the strengths and
weaknesses of the UNDS, with each chapter focusing on different
operational and ideational aspects. Chapter 11 of this book is
freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license at
https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780367186852_oachapter11.pdf
The mandate of the United Nations Industrial Development
Organization (UNIDO) is close to many of the core issues now
confronting developing and transition economy countries, and this
book offers the first concise and accessible guide to this
important organization. As the only UN organization to have been
transformed from a UN secretariat entity to an independently
governed UN agency, UNIDO has also an agency which has had to make
drastic changes of focus and business practice in order to adjust
to a changing environment. This book charts the complex origins and
developments of the organization, and moves on to examine the
current mandate of the agency, including trade capacity building,
poverty reduction and Green Industry Initiative. It also examines
the significant partnerships it has formed with other UN based
systems such as UNCTAD and the ITC to achieve these goals. In the
era of rapid globalization, UNIDO faces growing challenges. In the
second part of this work, Browne seeks to review these challenges,
and UNIDO's recent reforms under its current management, and looks
suggest how the organization can help to meet some of the key
global development challenges in the increasingly competitive
environment of development cooperation and private sector
initiative. This work will be a useful resource for all those with
an interest in international organizations, international
relations, development and trade, and international political
economy.
Contemporary Coloproctology covers colorectal surgery, as practiced
today, in an easily accessible format with emphasis on bringing key
facts rapidly into focus. It is ideal reading both for the medical
trainee and the practicing colorectal surgeon. As well as a
succinct presentation of the current colorectal knowledge base,
each chapter contains practical advice and pearls of wisdom from
established practicing clinicians. A unique feature of the format
is the identification of key references and questions and scenarios
that present real life decisions in colorectal surgery. Edited and
authored by outstanding surgeons in their fields, this book brings
the reader expertise in surgery and management across the various
conditions encountered in coloproctology.
Rory Stewart, a thirty year old former British diplomat and soldier
of distinction and accomplishment, is posted to serve as governor
in a province of the newly liberated Iraq. His job is to help build
a new civil society at peace with itself and its neighbours - an
ambitious mission, admittedly, but outperforming Saddam should
surely not prove too difficult...
London possesses a literary heritage which is unique and in large
part unrivalled in any city in the world. In this book, literary
London is presented through its authors and literature: William
Shakespeare, Andrea Levy, G.A. Henty, Geoffrey Chaucer, P.L.
Travers, Samuel Pepys, Sherlock Holmes, Charles Dickens, Una
Marson, Joe Orton, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Phillis
Wheatley, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Katherine Mansfield, Harry Potter and
Samuel Selvon to name just a very few. The text takes the reader on
a series of walks, each of which is original and unique, the result
of twenty years' exploration of this wonderful city by the author.
Detailed maps have been specially commissioned. The text is
accompanied by over 80 original photographs taken by the author. In
these pages you will find the details of hundreds of writers and
their works; wherever you walk in the great city of London - even
if solely in imagination from an armchair - the experience is going
to be extraordinary.
Situating contemporary critical praxis at the intersection of the
social, the political, and the rhetorical, this book is a
provocative inquiry into the teaching philosophies of Plato's
Socrates and Paulo Freire that has profound implications for
contemporary education. Brown not only sheds new light on the
surprising and significant points of intersection between ancient
rhetoric and radical praxis as embodied in the teaching
philosophies of Socrates and Freire, using the philosophy of each
to illumine the teaching of the other, but uses this analysis to
lead contemporary education in a bold new direction, articulating a
vision for a neo-humanist pragmatism. The book draws on the
post-Freudian theories of Jacques Derrida, Peter Brooks, and Otto
Rank, as well as on the neo-pragmatism of Cornell West to craft a
new radical pedagogy configured to the realities of "post
flash-crash" America. In the process, it discovers a space for a
much broader application of Freire's teaching philosophy than
previous works, moving beyond a narrow focus on "liberatory"
pedagogy or "teaching resistance," toward a neo-humanist pragmatism
emphasizing interactive learning, problem-posing analysis, and
civic engagement. Brown crafts a social-epistemic praxis that fuses
the pedagogies of Freire and Socrates, joining the analytical, the
ethical, and the political as part of an inquiry and intervention
into the real, the good, and the possible that poses problematic
aspects of contemporary reality in a search for the program content
of a Pedagogy of Social Change.
This book explores the record of the UN development system (UNDS)
over more than 70 years as a fount of ideas and concepts in
development; as a contributor to development thinking and strategy;
and as the principal source of global development goals from the
first UN Development Decade to the SDGs. It also examines the more
mixed record of the UNDS in its operational role and asks how the
ideational and operational functions can be more successfully
aligned, and what changes such an alignment would imply. The
chapters consider: The logic of global governance through
international organizations The origins, functions, structure of
the UN development system UN contributions to development thinking
The UN's development agendas, 1960s to 2015 Reforming the UN
development system The future of the UN and multilateralism The
book will be of great use for students and scholars studying
political science, international organizations, the UN, and
development, as well as for practitioners associated with the UN,
including member-state missions, UN staff, and development
cooperation professionals.
This book explores the record of the UN development system (UNDS)
over more than 70 years as a fount of ideas and concepts in
development; as a contributor to development thinking and strategy;
and as the principal source of global development goals from the
first UN Development Decade to the SDGs. It also examines the more
mixed record of the UNDS in its operational role and asks how the
ideational and operational functions can be more successfully
aligned, and what changes such an alignment would imply. The
chapters consider: The logic of global governance through
international organizations The origins, functions, structure of
the UN development system UN contributions to development thinking
The UN's development agendas, 1960s to 2015 Reforming the UN
development system The future of the UN and multilateralism The
book will be of great use for students and scholars studying
political science, international organizations, the UN, and
development, as well as for practitioners associated with the UN,
including member-state missions, UN staff, and development
cooperation professionals.
Tony the Tiger. The Pillsbury Doughboy. The Michelin Man. The
Playboy bunny. The list of brand mascots, spokes-characters, totems
and logos goes on and on and on. Mascots are one of the most
widespread modes of marketing communication and one of the longest
established. Yet, despite their ubiquity and utility, brand mascots
seem to be held in comparatively low esteem by the corporate
cognoscenti. This collection, the first of its kind, raises brand
mascots' standing, both in an academic sense and from a managerial
perspective. Featuring case studies and empirical analyses from
around the world - here Hello Kitty, there Aleksandr Orlov, beyond
that Angry Birds - the book presents the latest thinking on
beast-based brands, broadly defined. Entirely qualitative in
content, it represents a readable, reliable resource for marketing
academics, marketing managers, marketing students and the consumer
research community. It should also prove of interest to scholars in
adjacent fields, such as cultural studies, media studies,
organisation studies, anthropology, sociology, ethology and
zoology.
Vital Memory and Affect takes as its subject the autobiographical
memories of 'vulnerable' groups, including survivors of child
sexual abuse, adopted children and their families, forensic mental
health service users, and elderly persons in care home settings. In
particular the focus is on a particular class of memory within this
group: recollected episodes that are difficult and painful,
sometimes contested, but always with enormous significance for a
current and past sense of self. These 'vital memories', integral
and irreversible, can come to appear as a defining feature of a
person's life. In Vital Memory and Affect, authors Steve Brown and
Paula Reavey explore the highly productive way in which individuals
make sense of a difficult past, situated as they are within a
highly specific cultural and social landscape. Via an exploration
of their vital memories, the book combines insights from social and
cognitive psychology to open up the possibility of a new approach
to memory, one that pays full attention to the contextual
conditions of all acts of remembering. This path-breaking study
brings together a unique set of empirical material and maps out an
agenda for research into memory and affect that will be important
reading for students and scholars of social psychology, memory
studies, cultural studies, philosophy, and other related fields.
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