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The ArtsJuly 2024Italian graphic design
Culture and practice in Milan, 1930s-60s
by Chiara Barbieri
Italian graphic design offers a new perspective on the subject by exploring the emergence and articulation of graphic design practice, from the interwar period through to the appearance of an international graphic design discourse in the 1960s. The book asks how graphic designers learned their trade and investigates the ways in which they organised and made their practice visible while negotiating their collective identity with neighbouring practices such as typography, advertising and industrial design. Attention is drawn to everyday design practice, educational issues, mediating channels, networks, design exchange, organisational strategies and discourses on modernism. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources and placing an emphasis on visual analysis, this book provides a model for a contextualised graphic design history as an integral part of the history of design and visual culture.
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Business, Economics & LawOctober 2020Design Thinking Navigator
Kartenset zur kreativen Projektarbeit
by Mayer, Lena; Osann, Isabell; Szymanski, Caroline; Taheri, Mana
Design Thinking: Solve problems together, user-centered and iterative, develop innovations and have fun doing so! - Practical cards for innovation project work with change of perspective- Consistently customer-oriented and iterative- Targeted use of the maps in project planning and implementation with Design Thinking- Pragmatic, compact and wonderfully descriptive- Suitable for the most diverse questions or problems- With folding poster for targeted use of maps in project planning and decorative at the workplace- From the authors "Design Thinking Quick Start
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2023An archaeology of innovation
Approaching social and technological change in human society
by Catherine J. Frieman
An archaeology of innovation is the first monograph-length investigation of innovation and the innovation process from an archaeological perspective. It interrogates the idea of innovation that permeates our popular media and our political and scientific discourse, setting this against the long-term perspective that only archaeology can offer. Case studies span the entire breadth of human history, from our earliest hominin ancestors to the contemporary world. The book argues that the present narrow focus on pushing the adoption of technical innovations ignores the complex interplay of social, technological and environmental systems that underlies truly innovative societies; the inherent connections between new technologies, technologists and social structure that give them meaning and make them valuable; and the significance and value of conservative social practices that lead to the frequent rejection of innovations.
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May 1980Dialoge
by Stanisław Lem, Jens Reuter, Stanisław Lem
In diesem Werk, das in einer Reihe steht mit seiner ›Summa Technologiae‹ (1976) und ›Phantastik und Futurologie‹ (1977), unternimmt Stanislaw Lem eine Neuschöpfung der sokratischen Dialoge, sokratischer Dialoge in einer Zeit, in der die traditionellen Themen der Philosophie, Theologie und Gesellschaftstheorie, vor allem unter dem Einfluss der Kybernetik, eine neue Darstellung erfahren. Die in der Zukunft liegenden Konsequenzen, die die weiter fortschreitende Konstruktion von Computern zeitigen werden – von einem eventuell möglichen ewigen Leben des Individuums bis zur Konstruktion neuer Gesellschaftsformationen – suchen diese Dialoge zu explorieren und zu bewerten.
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Product designOctober 2018Creative Souvenirs Design
by Zhu Yue, Yang Meng
It is quite significant for the souvenirs for travellers to mould fine figures of tourism and make brands for tourism and promote the development of tourism. The souvenirs for travellers which adopt the people's ideas in particular regions, give expressions to the history of the regions, prolong the folk contradition and make the regional culture be rich and bring forth new ideas. No matter who they are, Whatever they are, famous specialized working men or new hands, they have the same wish to activate the regionous culture, then, improve people's income and raise their consumption. The author of the book collects many concrete examples showing the design of the unique keepsakes by outstanding designers from all over the world into the book. Following the publishment of this book, more and more readers will suely become better and better designers of tourist souvenirs.
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Mycology, fungi (non-medical)January 1968Concept of Vertical and Horizontal Resistance as Illustrated by Bacterial Wilt of Potatoes
by R. A. Robinson
Paper on the concept of vertical and horizontal and resistance as illustrated by bacterial wilt of potatoes
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The ArtsSeptember 2021Building reputations
Architecture and the artisan, 1750–1830
by Conor Lucey
Taking a cue from revisionist scholarship on early modern vernacular architectures and their relationship to the classical canon, this book rehabilitates the reputations of a representative if misunderstood building typology - the eighteenth-century brick terraced house - and the artisan communities of bricklayers, carpenters and plasterers responsible for its design and construction. Opening with a cultural history of the building tradesman in terms of his reception within contemporary architectural discourse, chapters consider the design, decoration and marketing of the town house in the principal cities of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British Atlantic world. The book is essential reading for students and scholars of the history of architectural design and interior decoration specifically, and of eighteenth-century society and culture generally.
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January 1966
Dialoge
by Marguerite Duras, Gerda Uslar, Walter Maria Guggenheimer, Werner Spies, Walter Boehlich
"»Ihre Dialoge haben die träge Gefährlichkeit eines Krokodils«, schrieb ein Kritiker der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung zu der Prosa der Marguerite Duras. Das trifft auch ihre Theaterstücke.In fast jedem Stück reduziert sich die »Handlung« auf zwei Partner: die beiden jungen Leute, die sich im »Gespräch im Park« treffen, sich suchen, ein Verständnis möglich erscheinen lassen, wieder auseinandergehen; das Paar, das sich gerade hat scheiden lassen, sich am Abend zufällig im selben Hotel gegenübersteht; und ›LaMusica‹ kommt wieder, füllt sie, steigt ihnen bis zur Kehle, wird sie immer begleiten; die beiden unbegreiflichen Alten, die ihre schuldlose Nichte umbrachten und stückweise vom ›Viadukt‹ herunter in die Güterwagen der Eisenbahnen fallen ließen, sich später fragend, warum, grübelnd über die jäh aus ferner Zeit in die Einsamkeit einbrechende Verdi-Melodie und die »Zeit, die beschäftigt werden muß«.Vom Liebespaar, vom Ehepaar, vom Mörderpaar zum Paar der sehr alten und sehr reichen Mutter und ihres Sohnes, der sein eigenes Leben lebt, so wie er schon als Junge ›Ganze Tage in den Bäumen‹ verbrachte, unabhängig, egoistisch und eben darum geliebt. Der Versuch, zurückzuholen, was einmal Wirklichkeit war, mißlingt. Dialoge der Entfremdung. Auch bei den drei Straßenpassanten, die eines Hundes bedürfen, um von ›Seen und Schlössern‹ zu träumen, die Gelegenheit, noch einmal zum Sprechen zu kommen, aber zu welchem Geschwätz!Es fehlt den Stücken der Duras keineswegs an Grausamkeit, freilich auch nicht an Moquerie. Ihre Probleme sind im gängigen Sinne weitaus konkreter als die Becketts, sie gehören in unsere soziale Umwelt, schildern das real Vorkommende, aber Nicht-Alltägliche als ein Stück Alltagswirklichkeit derer, die durch Einsamkeit zu extremen Handlungen gezwungen werden, die wehrlos sind und sich durch verzweifelten Kalkül gegen die wehren, die sie wehrlos machen."
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Concept Maps and Concept Mapping in Nursing
How to Record and Structure Complex Care Situations
by Dave Zanon-Di Nardo, Claudia Leoni-Scheiber
Concept maps are graphical representations of interrelationships in complex care situations. They show patterns from the features and characteristics of a situation and thus visualize the specific image of the patient. In the process of concept mapping, the case-related nursing situation can be analyzed and assessed in a differentiated manner within the framework of the nursing process. Concept maps visualize case-related assessment data as well as nursing diagnoses and their relationships to each other in a bundled way. Thus, nursing interventions are derived to solve or alleviate current or potential health problems. Nursing goals and desired nursing outcomes can be named. The book is a valuable toolbox for teaching, training, and studying nursing and the nursing process.
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May 2024The Concept of Ecostacking
Techniques and Applications
by Jinjun Wang, Huai Liu, Ingeborg Menzler-Hokkanen, Hongbo Jiang, Heikki M.T. Hokkanen, Ingeborg Menzler-Hokkanen
Ecostacking is a new concept and approach which aims to maximize the benefits of ecosystem service providers in cropping systems to help achieve the goal of long-term sustainable agriculture and food production. The term "ecostacking" means combining synergistically the beneficial services of functional biodiversity from all levels and types. It is a comprehensive approach, where the various ecosystem service providers are fully integrated with the rest of the cropping system including agronomic practices. It is an approach which goes beyond conventional Integrated Pest Management practises, and attempts to take advantage of all the functional biodiversity of a system. The main focus of ecostacking is on maximizing ecosystem services for biological control and pollination from beneficial arthropods, but the approach also utilizes other invertebrates (e.g., earthworms) as well as beneficial vertebrates such as bats, birds and small mammals. Microbes also provide invaluable ecosystem services including pest, disease, and weed control, either directly as components of "suppressive soils" or as plant colonizers (as endophytes or as epiphytic microbial flora). The ecostacking approach also aims to maximize other nature-provided services such as maintenance of soil health and nutrient cycling. The Concept of Ecostacking is the first book in a series which introduces ecostacking concepts to the reader and explores how this approach can be used in a variety of ways and in different cropping systems. The book defines this new concept and shows, using illustrative case studies from around the world, how ecostacking principles can be successfully employed in cropping systems in the open field, in greenhouses and in forestry. This book: · will serve as inspiration for developing further applications of this breakthrough technology for sustainable agricultural production. · is a must-read for everyone with an interest in developing sustainable crop protection systems and ecosystem management. · has been written and edited by the world's leading experts in this new and exciting endeavour.
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October 2024
Agricultural Innovation for Societal Change
Towards Sustainability
by Bo Malte Ingvar Bengtsson
Over the centuries, agriculture has developed through technological steps illustrated by various agricultural revolutions. This book describes and analyses significant agricultural changes since the mid-1960s in the context of development, innovation and adoption by revisiting resource-poor farmers in Ethiopia, Sweden and Trinidad and Tobago, and considering overall development changes up to the early 2020s. It is a platform for discussing current issues for future global food security in the context of globalization and free global trade which have influenced economic growth in many countries but also created environmental concerns and a rapid increase in the number of transnational corporations (TNCs). Sustainable food production is now a global priority and therefore ecological footprints must be reduced - this book provides examples of possible technical changes required to achieve this. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone is insufficient: political attention must be paid to declining biodiversity, the increasing global exploration of natural resources, demography, increased consumption, waste mountains, expanding migration and antibiotic resistance. Agribusiness TNCs will challenge national governments and international donors in both research and development, increasing competition for leadership. A gradual societal change, incorporating an understanding of biological fundamentals, is necessary for achieving sustainability and for leading us towards the next agricultural revolution.
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February 2024Experimental Design and Analysis for Tree Improvement
by Emlyn Williams, Chris Harwood, Colin Matheson
This third edition of Experimental Design and Analysis for Tree Improvement provides a set of practical procedures to follow when planning, designing and analysing tree improvement trials. Using many fully worked examples, it outlines how to: design field, glasshouse and laboratory trials; efficiently collect and construct electronic data files; pre-process data, screening for data quality and outliers; analyse data from single and across-site trials; and interpret the results from statistical analyses. The authors address the many practical issues often faced in forest tree improvement trials and describe techniques that will efficiently give conclusive results. The techniques provided are applicable to the improvement of not only trees, but to crops in general. Building on the success of the second edition, this new edition has been fully revised to include the construction of p-rep and spatial designs using the commercially available software package for design generation (CycDesigN). For analysis of the examples, it provides online Genstat and SAS programs and a link to R programs.
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September 2021Paul Valéry: Dialoge und Theater
by Paul Valéry, Karl Alfred Blüher, Rainer Maria Rilke, Eliane Blüher, Friedhelm Kemp, Carlo Schmidt, Karl August Horst, Franz Wurm, Max Looser
Band 2 der Gesamtausgabe enthält Valérys Dialoge und Theaterstücke von 1920 bis 1945. Die dem Sokratischen Dialog nachempfundenen Streitgespräche vermitteln einen Eindruck der weitreichenden Interessen Valérys und loten kontrovers Formen künstlerischen Schaffens aus. Auf die Dialoge folgen die Fragmente Mein Faust, das Melodram Amphion sowie theoretische Schriften zum Theater. Mit seinen unvollendet gebliebenen Stücken des Faust-Zyklus knüpft Valéry an Goethe an und versetzt die Figuren, mit ihrem Streben nach Erweiterung der rationalen Fähigkeiten und nach totaler Beherrschung von Natur und Welt, ins 20. Jahrhundert. Wie im gesamten Werk Valérys bedingt auch hier die mit philosophischem Gedankengut aufgeladene Sprache die Neuverhandlung des Stoffes.
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Business, Economics & LawAugust 2017Visitor Experience Design
by Noel Scott, Jun Gao, Jianyu Ma, Pierre J Benckendorff, Ana Claudia Campos, I-Ling Chen, Peiyi Ding, Rouven Doran, Afiya Holder, Shan Jiang, Svein Larsen, Dung Le, Kuan-Huei Lee, Shanshi Li, Xiang Li, Wei Liu, Júlio Mendes, Brent Moyle, Liubov Skavronskaya, Beverley Sparks, Patricia Valle, Gabby Walters, Ying Wang, Katharina Wolff, Laurie Wu, Lihua Gao
Most discussion of visitor experiences uses a behavioural or managerial approach where the way the visitor thinks is ignored - it's a black box. Visitor Experience Design is the first book of its kind to examine best practice in creating and delivering exciting and memorable travel and visitation experiences from a cognitive psychological perspective - it opens the black box. The chapters draw on recent findings from cognitive psychology, cognitive science and neuroscience to provide a basis for a better understanding of the antecedents of a memorable experience, including: · The psychological process of the formation or creation of a visitor's experiences · Psychological aspects of tourism experiences such as attention, emotion, memory and mindfulness · Pre-stage experience: customer inputs such as knowledge, myths, values and memories from previous travel · On-site experience: co-creation processes · Post-stage experience: immediate and long term outcomes including happiness and well-being · Experience design cases Tourism, hospitality and event managers seek to provide WOW experiences to their visitors through better design and management.This book encourages the discussion of different facets of experience design such as emotions, attentions, sensations, learning, the process of co-creation and experiential stimuli design. It will be of interest to tourism researchers and postgraduate students studying tourism management, marketing and product design.
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FictionJuly 2015The Craftsman
by Shen Fuyu
It tells the story of the craftsmen and their families. They all come from the Shen Village, the hometown of the writer. They are gardeners, tailors and blacksmiths. From the story, we can see the change of northern Suzhou. And the writer reminisces about her hometown. The prosperity or decline of Shen Village not only shows the changes of the time, but also tells about the fate of karma.
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March 2004Der ununterbrochene Dialog
by Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Martin Gessmann, Martin Gessmann
Jacques Derrida und Hans-Georg Gadamer lernten sich in den frühen 80er Jahren kennen, und seit dieser Zeit entspann sich eine kontroverse Auseinandersetzung über die Hermeneutik, die Kunst der Interpretation, insbesondere über die Endlichkeit unseres Verstehens. Als Gadamer starb, hielt Derrida im Februar 2003 die Festrede zur Gedenkfeier der Universität Heidelberg. Mit einer eindringlichen Celan-Lektüre führt Derrida vor, wie das Gespräch mit Gadamer über seine letzte Unterbrechung hinaus am Ende zu einem ›ununterbrochenen Dialog‹ werden könnte. Dem Band beigefügt sind Kommentare Gadamers zu Celans Gedichtfolge Atemkristall sowie Materialien aus der Zeit der ersten Begegnung. In Derridas Reflexion über den Abschied und das Abschiednehmen kommt es hier zu einer letzten, vielleicht entscheidenden Annäherung.
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April 1997Dialog in Leticia
by Ernst Tugendhat
In Leticia, einem kolumbianischen Dorf am Amazonas, trifft der Autor auf einen alten Herrn aus Santo Domingo, der ihn in ein Gespräch über die Grundlagen der Moral verwickelt. Den Ort gibt es wirklich, der alte Herr und das Gespräch dagegen sind fiktiv. Der Dialog entzündet sich zunächst an Tugendhats bisheriger Moralphilosophie, insbesondere am Begründungsbegriff, den er in seinen Vorlesungen über Ethik entwickelt hat. Moralische Normen, so erklärt der alte Herr, seien per definitionem Handlungsregeln, die als begründungsbedürftig angesehen werden, aber sie können nicht an und für sich begründet werden, sondern sie sind gegenüber den Betroffenen zu begründen. Im weiteren Verlauf des Gesprächs geht es um den Gerechtigkeitsbegriff und den moralischen Universalismus, um Sitten und Konventionen, um moralische Motive und schließlich auch um die "Blutrünstigkeit" der Moral: Die Moral der Herzensgüte wird als hölzernes Eisen verworfen. Am Ende des Gesprächs wenden sie sich dem Problem der Korruption in modernen Gesellschaften zu und erwägen den Vorschlag, Korruption zu entmoralisieren und nur durch externe Sanktionen zu unterbinden.
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Humanities & Social Sciences2012Mirrors of Identity. Studies in the History of Concepts and Ideas in Ukraine (16th through the Early 18th Century)
by Natalia Yakovenko
A book by a prominent Ukrainian historian, professor of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Natalia Yakovenko includes selected articles on identity formation, worldview, the concept of “correct” power and duty of the nobility in early modern Ukraine
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The ArtsJanuary 2021Critical design in Japan
Material culture, luxury, and the avant-garde
by Ory Bartal
This book tells the story of critical avant-garde design in Japan, which emerged during the 1960s and continues to inspire designers today. The practice communicates a form of visual and material protest drawing on the ideologies and critical theories of the 1960s and 1970s, notably feminism, body politics, the politics of identity, and ecological, anti-consumerist and anti-institutional critiques, as well as the concept of otherness. It also presents an encounter between two seemingly contradictory concepts: luxury and the avant-garde. The book challenges the definition of design as the production of unnecessary decorative and conceptual objects, and the characterisation of Japanese design in particular as beautiful, sublime or a product of 'Japanese culture'. In doing so it reveals the ways in which material and visual culture serve to voice protest and formulate a social critique.
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September 2021Enjoying the Moment
by Changsha Bank Corporate Culture Construction Committee
This is a collection of works on the theme of corporate culture. There are four chapters in the book: "Enjoy•Value", "Enjoy•Ecology", "Enjoy•Life", "Enjoy•Culture". The first chapter elaborates the development of Changsha Bank into a big, party building as the soul, management as the foundation, service as the key, love as the beauty, and technology as the first from the three dimensions of management, products and the future. It records the birth and development of Changsha Bank’s products Growth, imaginative business planning, etc.; Chapter 2 shows the steps of Changsha Bank to explore ecological banking, build a financial ecosystem, cross-border brand alliances, openness and win-win, compatibility and inclusiveness; Chapter 3 tells the story of employees' hard work, etc.; The fourth chapter presents the research results of the Changsha Bank’s Corporate Culture Construction Expert Advisory Committee.
