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Designed leadership

The strategic-design scholar and urban-systems designer Moura Quayle shares her plan for integrating design and leadership, translating processes, principles, and practices from years of experience into tools of change for professional leaders. Designed Leadership uses field-tested examples to te...

Designers' guide to eurocode 5: design of timber buildings

This guide interprets and assists in the use of EN 1995-1-1 structural timber. Showing typical material properties and dimensions; modifiers, and structural responses, it presents concise worked examples.

Designers' guide to eurocode 8: design of bridges for earthquake resistance

Designers’ Guide to Eurocode 8: Design of Bridges for Earthquake Resistance covers Part 2 Bridges of EN 1998 Design of structures for earthquake resistance.

Designers' guide to eurocode 9: design of aluminium structures

Designer's Guide to Eurocode 9 covers the design of building and civil engineering works made from wrought and cast aluminium alloys. The ultimate guide to designing with EN 1999-1-1 and - 1-4.

Designers' guide to eurocode: basis of structural design

Eurocode 0 is considered the primary document in the Eurocode suite and establishes for the structural Eurocodes the principles and requirements for safety and serviceability of structures. More importantly, EN 1990 must be applied whenever the Eurocodes 1 to 9 are used.

Designing a fashion collection

A richly illustrated and practical step by step tutorial for novice fashion designers and students to create and present their own capsule collections—a collection based on one single design concept.

Designing a safer built environment

Designing a Safer Built Environment places the statutory obligations on designers into the real world of commercial projects.

Designing and constructing prestressed bridges

Designing and Constructing Prestressed Bridges focuses on troubleshooting the problems that are connected with finding the correct structural solution of bridges, the methods of their construction and the corresponding arrangement of prestressing steel.

Designing and tracking knowledge management metrics

Knowledge management metrics are one of the weakest areas of practice in the field. Providing practical guidance for identifying different types of measurements and metrics, as well as methods for defining and collection information about metrics, this is an essential book for knowledge managemen...

Designing better maps

Learn from the best to create successful maps using any GIS or illustration product with Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users, third edition, written by an expert cartographer.

Designing cities with people, not just for them

Designing Cities with People, Not Just for Them draws on original research and global case studies to reveal how participatory planning fosters inclusive and resilient cities. A practical guide and call to action for leaders, citizens and students alike.

Designing creative organizations

This is one of the first books to cover ways to organize creativity, innovation and business model development in a way that provides a seamless transition from an idea generated through team brainstorming to a business solution. It provides systematic ways to design new business models, and how ...

Designing data governance from the ground up

Designing data-intensive applications

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability need to be resolved. In addition, there's an overwhelming variety of systems, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, data war...

Designing distributed systems

Every distributed system strives for reliability, performance, and quality, but building such a system is hard. Establishing a set of design patterns enables software developers and system architects to use a common language to describe their systems and learn from the patterns and practices deve...

Designing effective library learning spaces in higher education

Traditional roles of higher education are giving way to academic partnership, research and open resources. Libraries play a key role to serve as a gateway to information and to promote intellectual discovery among students. This book explores the relevant issues and strategies library science par...

Designing elixir systems with otp

Designing environments for people with dementia

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and is freely available to read online. This book systematically explores and assesses the quality of the evidence base for effective and supportive design of living environments for people living with Dementia.

Designing experiences

J. Robert Rossman and Mathew D. Duerden present a comprehensive and accessible introduction to experience design. They synthesize the fundamental theories and methods from multiple disciplines and lay out a process for designing experiences from start to finish.

Designing for cycle traffic

Designing for Cycle Traffic compares and evaluates international principles and practices for designing for cycle traffic. It is essential reading for designers and planners in traffic and highway engineering, transport planning, and urban design.

Designing for growth

Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie educate readers in one of the hottest trends in business: "design thinking," or the ability to turn abstract ideas into practical applications for maximal business growth. Liedtka and Ogilvie cover the mind-set, techniques, and vocabulary of design thinking, unpack ...

Designing for modern learning

Meet Learning Needs With New Tools and New Thinking Learning is no longer an activity or luxury that only occurs at specific stages in your life or career. With the digital revolution, learning has become immediate, real-time, and relevant whether you’re young, old, in the workforce, in school, o...

Designing local e-government

In the age of digitalization, even the way we govern is adapting. Here, Israel Patiño Galvan suggests a specialized design structure as an alternative to the new, digital governments that are becoming increasingly more common.

Designing machine learning systems

Designing map interfaces

Designing Map Interfaces is the essential guide to designing map interfaces that are usable and efficient, and that look good in the process.

Designing microlearning

Learn to Create Effective MicrolearningMicrolearning is an essential tool that talent development professionals can use to fully engage their learners and tackle organizational performance needs. How do you know if the microlearning approach is successful? And what works? In Designing Microlearni...

Designing our future

See how the AEC industry is implementing GIS to improve efficiency and transform the way they plan, design, build, and operate in the built and natural environments.

Designing public space for an ageing population

Designing Public Space for an Ageing Population examines the barriers older people face by being a pedestrian in the built environment and how to overcome them. Drawing on research carried out across the globe these limitations are framed around Bourdieu's theory of capitals.

Designing san francisco

A major urban history of the design and development of postwar San FranciscoDesigning San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions of the future. In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book, Alison Isenberg ...

Designing the computational image, imagining computational design

During the three decades following the Second World War, before the advent of the personal computer, government investment in university research in North America and the UK funded multidisciplinary projects to investigate the use of computers for manufacturing and design.Documenting the eponymou...

Designing transformative change

How can designers help addressing societal needs and navigating complex global issues?

Designing virtual learning for application and impact

Show the value of virtual learning to demonstrate business impact.In Designing Virtual Learning for Application and Impact, virtual learning expert Cindy Huggett teams with evaluation experts Jack and Patti Phillips and learning transfer authority Emma Weber to create a guidebook for TD practitio...

Designing worlds

Designing Worlds responds to the growing literature on global design history and national identity in design, and furthers the debate on this central issue. Designing Worlds contributes an original and innovative reassessment of the role of national histories within a global context. ...

Designing xr

In Designing XR, H+C immersion is presented as a multi-dimensional design problem which addresses the question of: How can transformative design-thinking-based knowledge systems complement the existing HCI invention model to contribute to the creation of more socially viable and humane immersive ...

Designs for living and learning, second edition

The best-selling source of inspiration for early childhood professionals designing learning environments; updated with all new photographs and fresh content

Designs on empire

Andrew J. Priest offers a new understanding of the roots of American empire that foregrounds the longer history of perceptions of European powers. He traces the development of American thinking about European imperialism in the years after the Civil War, before the United States embarked on its o...

Designs on nature

Biology and politics have converged today across much of the industrialized world. Debates about genetically modified organisms, cloning, stem cells, animal patenting, and new reproductive technologies crowd media headlines and policy agendas. Less noticed, but no less important, are the rifts th...

Desire

The ivory trade, smallpox, rock-'n'-roll, and one woman's past converge in this gripping, psychological page-turner.

Desire and fate

Brilliant and unsparing essays on the blind spots and maladies of contemporary culture.

Desire and pleasure in seventeenth-century music

In this book, Susan McClary examines the mechanisms through which seventeenth-century musicians simulated extreme affective states—desire, divine rapture, and ecstatic pleasure. She demonstrates how every major genre of the period, from opera to religious music to instrumental pieces based on dan...

Desire in language

Desire in Language traces the path of an investigation into the semiotics of literature and the arts. Julia Kristeva proposes and tests theories centered on the nature and development of the novel.

Desire lines

Lola Haskins propels the reader through the inevitable terrains of desire, love and loss.

Desires for reality

A groundbreaking study providing a full account of the cinematic crises, innovations, and provocations of the era of protest in the late 1960s, as well as the social and aesthetic contexts in which they appeared. A fresh analysis of a contested period in which everything from the avant-g...

Desires mothers to please others in letters

A reissue of Bernadette Mayer's classic fugitive intergenre text

Desiring revolution

There was a moment in the 1970s when sex was what mattered most to feminists. White middle-class women viewed sex as central to both their oppression and their liberation. Young women started to speak and write about the clitoris, orgasm, and masturbation, and publishers and the news media jumped...