Optimization algorithms on matrix manifolds

Many problems in the sciences and engineering can be rephrased as optimization problems on matrix search spaces endowed with a so-called manifold structure. This book shows how to exploit the special structure of such problems to develop efficient numerical algorithms. It places careful emphasis ...

Optimization and learning via stochastic gradient search

An introduction to gradient-based stochastic optimization that integrates theory and implementationThis book explains gradient-based stochastic optimization, exploiting the methodologies of stochastic approximation and gradient estimation. Although the approach is theoretical, the book emphasizes...

Optimizing the german workforce

During the twentieth century, German government and industry created a highly skilled workforce as part of an ambitious program to control and develop the country’s human resources. Yet, these long-standing efforts to match as many workers as possible to skilled vocations and to establish a sys...

Optimum type

This book features examples of different types of custom-designed lettering—from digital typefaces to printed matter and handwriting—and their practical applications.

Opting back in

Taking a career break is a conflicted and risky decision for high-achieving professional women. Yet many do so, usually planning, even as they quit, to return to work eventually. But can they? And if so, how? In Opting Back In, Pamela Stone and Meg Lovejoy revisit women first interviewed a decade...

Opus dei

In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty, Agamben investigates the roots of our moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy. Beginning with the New Testament and working through to late scholasticism and modern papal encyclicals, Agamben tra...

Or consequence

Orange is the new black and philosophy

This collection of 18 chapters by talented philosophical minds probes some of the many lessons to be learned from Orange Is the New Black. The show and the book that inspired it both dramatically highlight the troubling, stressful situation of millions of incarcerated Americans.How do the show’s ...

Oranges in no man's land

A gripping story of a girl risking death to make a lifesaving dash through wartorn Beirut.

Orbital

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 • A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**New York Times Book Review Book Club Pick****Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show Book Club Pick**Winner of the 2024 Hawthornden Prize Shortlisted for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political FictionShortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Pr...

Orchestrating austerity

Following the 2007–08 global financial crisis, Western nations engaged a variety of measures that departed quite dramatically from conventional neoliberal wisdom. However, these policies were quickly succeeded by what we now call “austerity” measures. This collection engages with the question: Is...

Order of the sacred earth

Essays and calls-to-action to create a deeper sense of community whose mission is the preservation of the earth.

Ordering the human

Ordering the Human presents cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship that examines the racialization of science in various global contexts, illuminating how racial logics have been deployed to classify, marginalize, and oppress.

Ordering the world

The Sung Dynasty (960–1278) was a time of vast changes and new challenges in China. The growth of the urban and rural economics, population increase, the emergence of an educated elite, political and intellectual ferment, and threats from hostile neighbors are some of the forces that shaped the a...

Orderly anarchy

Orderly Anarchy delivers a provocative and innovative reexamination of sociopolitical evolution among Native American groups in California, a region known for its wealth of prehistoric languages, populations, and cultural adaptations. Scholars have tended to emphasize the development of social c...

Ordinary days

Ordinary Days is a memoir by the scholar and critic Leo Ou-fan Lee and his wife Esther Lee Yuk Ying. Set partly against the backdrop of some of Hong Kong’s most turbulent years, partly in the far-flung diaspora of the Chinese intelligentsia, this is a revealing record of the inner life of a highl...

Ordinary ethics

What is the place of the ethical in human life? How do we render it visible? How might sustained attention to the ethical transform anthropological theory and enrich our understanding of thought, speech, and social action? This volume offers a significant attempt to address these questions. It is...

Ordinary lives and grand schemes

The volume looks at the experience of religion in the intersection of existential ends and grand schemes in everyday practice. Focussing on different religious traditions around the world, the volume offers a comparative and global perspective to living with greater powers that looks bey...

Ordinary people in extraordinary times

For generations, influential thinkers--often citing the tragic polarization that took place during Germany's Great Depression--have suspected that people's loyalty to democratic institutions erodes under pressure and that citizens gravitate toward antidemocratic extremes in times of political and...

Ordinary things and their extraordinary meanings

This book explores the relationship between psychological processes and ordinary phenomena, emphasizing the material, symbolic, and affective levels of existence. It discusses how normal things transcend their particular object-signs, creating complex sign fields and incorporating opposites.

Ordinary wisdom

Ordinary wolves

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award “An astonishing book: exotic as a dream, acrid and beautiful and honest as life.”—Barbara KingsolverAfter his mother flees back to the Lower 48, never to return, Cutuk Hawcly is raised along with his older sister and brother by his father, Abe, in an igl...

Organic cinema

Presents conceptual parallels between modern cinema and modern architecture. Approaches director Béla Tarr through the particularities of Hungarian culture. Develops the theoretical discourse on Slow Cinema or “Contemplative Cinema” emergent in contemporary philosophy of film.

Organic growth disciplines

If your firm doesn't grow sustainably, can you grow professionally? In Organic Growth Disciplines, business expert Devanathan Sudharshan introduces a new framework for exploring the fuzzy front end of the search for growth opportunities.

Organisational behaviour in the public sector

This book adopts a highly critical approach to the ways in which organisations have been analysed by orthodox theories and offers instead a perspective on elements of organisational behaviour including leadership and its failures, structures, cultures, bullying and the denial of individual voice.

Organisational control in university management

Organisational Control in University Management focuses on reform and change in large organisations. The book takes as its primary focus the example of management reform at the University of Tartu, Estonia, foregrounding the complexity of change and reform of the management structures at a HE ins...

Organisational roadmap towards teal organisations

This volume explores and presents challenges that “traditional” organisations experience once they take off towards self-managing organisations - what Laloux (2014) called Teal Organisations. It offers a new roadmap for leaders who are responsible for the implementation of self-managing teams in ...

Organization and administration of adult education programs

This practical guide helps administrators of adult education programs navigate issues like programming, budgeting, marketing, and strategic planning. The second edition includes new content on the future of the field, scenarios, and activities, making it a valuable resource for effective practice.

Organization and governance using algorithms

Avramopoulos offers a ground-breaking theory and application on organisational systems design, including discussions on organisational systems design requirements, such as productivity, emotion, and reward, the problems of unaccountability, including hierarchical delegation, and the benefits of a...

Organization design

Advances in Strategic Management is dedicated to communicating innovative, new research that advances theory and practice in Strategic Management. This volume focuses on organization design and collaborative ways of working.

Organization development basics

A primer on the broad field of organization development (OD) and a foundation for understanding of the tools, practices, and core skills of the OD practitioner.Organizational Development Basics will help trainers, training managers, and beginning OD practitioners learn the fundamentals of inf...

Organization development fundamentals

In a tumultuous global business environment, change is a constant. Organizations are affected by many factors from the local economy to global competition. To be successful they must do more than react to changes, they need to be proactive. Organization Development Fundamentals provides a startin...

Organization development in the largest global organization

This book explores the U.S. military's extensive OD programs over 50 years, identifying three epochs: Traditional OD, Total Quality Management (TQM), and Continuous Process Improvement (CPI). It examines how OD interventions evolved to meet environmental demands, enhancing operational readiness.

Organization theory

Understanding of the history & development of organization theory has recently made advances through work emerging on the history of management thought as well as through the institutionalization of critical approaches to organizations & organizational knowledge. This book provides a new ...

Organization theory meets strategy

Organization Theory Meets Strategy brings together researchers who work at the intersection of Organization Theory and Strategy to fuel cutting edge discussions around common questions and challenges faced by researchers working in this area.

Organizational behavior management

Seyed Mohammad Moghimi examines both the everyday and the theoretical insights offered by Islamic sources for managing organizational behavior. He takes a wide-ranging approach to key organizational issues, including organizational communication, organizational leadership, conflict management, an...

Organizational coaching

Written by a team of three behavioral practitioners, Organizational Coaching is based on the best practices of a wide range of private sector, government, and not-for-profit organizations. The authors provide a complete systems approach to enable any workplace learning professional to develop an ...

Organizational culture and its impact on continuous improvement in manufacturing

Organizational Culture and its Impact on Continuous Improvement in Manufacturing presents detailed insights into recent studies, providing solutions that can be scaled up at a global level.

Organizational economics

A wide-ranging introduction to the foundations and applications of organizational economics—essential for theorists and empiricists across a broad range of fieldsThe rapidly expanding field of organizational economics studies the activities and interactions of organizations of all kinds, from the...

Organizational hybridity

This book contains Open Access chapters   This volume integrates and redirects research on organizational hybridity, the mixing of logics, forms, and identities that do not conventionally go together. It sets a foundation for continued analytical rigor and real-world relevance.

Organizational imaginaries

This volume explores an expansive array of organizational imaginaries, or conceptions of organizational possibilities, with a focus on collectivist-democratic organizations, to showcase how organizations can ultimately support and serve broader communities.

Organizational intelligence and knowledge analytics

Organizational Intelligence and Knowledge Analytics expands the traditional intelligence life cycle to a new framework - Design-Analyze-Automate-Accelerate - and clearly lays out the alignments between knowledge capital and intelligence strategies.