Computer System Procurement for Non-Technical Managers
Focusing on the challenges of business purchasing, this book guides readers through potential pitfalls when acquiring systems from reputable sellers. It aims to equip them with the knowledge needed to make informed decisions, ensuring they choose the right system at the right price.
Focusing on Maya Lin's Confluence Project, this scholarly monograph explores the intersection of contemporary public art with environmental humanities and indigenous studies. It delves into the project's significance, highlighting its cultural and ecological dimensions while emphasizing the importance of indigenous perspectives in understanding and appreciating the work.
In BIGGEST, FULLEST, BRIGHTEST: Shifting the Consciousness of Humanity we journey through Matthew Reynolds' story of finding a place of belonging in a world that tells him he isn't good enough.
Vom Suchen und Finden
A story of ambition, obsession and alphabetical order Most of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up. But here, hiding in plain sight, is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. Here we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. This is the secret world of the index- an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past. Here, for the first time, its story is told. Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, Dennis Duncan reveals how the index has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from high office and made us all into the readers we are today. We follow it through German print shops and Enlightenment coffee houses, novelists' living rooms and university laboratories, encountering emperors and popes, philosophers and prime ministers, poets, librarians and - of course - indexers along the way. Revealing its vast role in our evolving literary and intellectual culture, Duncan shows that, for all our anxieties about the Age of Search, we are all index-rakers at heart, and we have been for eight hundred years.
With a global population estimated to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050 we face a huge challenge in feeding everyone on the planet. How is that to be achieved?In this brilliantly insightful, one stop guide WIRED journalist Matt Reynolds assesses the limits and drawbacks of current food production and looks at the ways in which they can be tackled. He considers the potential for lab-grown meat to replace inefficient livestock farming. He talks to the scientists hoping to perfect more productive and disease-resistant crops. He explores initiatives to make agriculture less environmentally damaging and to reduce food waste. And he addresses the fundamental how do we feed more people while using fewer of the Earth's resources?
This innovative and lavishly illustrated collection of essays shows how linguistic diversity has inspired people across time and cultures to embark on adventurous journeys through the translation of texts. From papyrus fragments to Asterix cartoons, it explores how ideas have travelled via the medium of translation.
Translation is everywhere, giving us dubbed films, and access to foreign news and the literature of other cultures. Considering subtitling, interpreting, and adaptations, Matthew Reynolds reveals how translation is changing radically in the new age of electronic media.
The teachings of the Great Spirit emphasize the importance of reverence for the Earth among Native American cultures, advocating for a harmonious relationship rather than domination. This perspective highlights the value of learning from nature and underscores the spiritual connection between people and the environment, offering profound insights into indigenous wisdom and practices.