Productivity

Mike Haynes provides a detailed examination of the concept of productivit and why it is held by economists to be so important in evaluating the health of modern economies. He maintains that too little attention is paid to why productivity grows or fails to grow in certain contexts as well as the ...

Productivity growth in the manufacturing sector

The growth of manufacturing industries is one of the key sectors in helping to mitigate global recessions. Productivity Growth in the Manufacturing Sector thoroughly discusses issues and potential remedies of this sector for a range of international countries.

Products for conscious consumers

Products for Conscious Consumers is a guide for academics, students and professionals who want to measure and influence responsible consumer behaviour and attain genuine Green Marketing.

Profane

Humans have been uttering profane words and incurring the consequences for millennia. But contemporary events—from the violence in 2006 that followed Danish newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed to the 2012 furor over the Innocence of Muslims video—indicate that controversy concernin...

Profane halo

A rich, thoughtful investigation of this political/historical moment that both illuminates and transcends that moment.

Profane illumination

Margaret Cohen's encounter with Walter Benjamin, one of the twentieth century's most influential cultural and literary critics, has produced a radically new reading of surrealist thought and practice. Cohen analyzes the links between Breton's surrealist fusion of psychoanalysis and Marxism and Be...

Professing architecture

Bryan E. Norwood tells the story of how a small group of architects built a profession amid the powerful forces of capitalism and religious faith in the antebellum United States.

Professional development for in-service teachers

This book provides professional development approaches for teachers to integrate computing in K-8 curricula or deliver stand-alone computer science courses at the secondary level. It identifies computational competencies, promising pedagogical strategies, and alternative pathways for ongoing lear...

Professional identity crisis

The book deals with an increasingly crucial but under–researched topic, that is the crisis of the professional identity. It will be both theoretically driven and empirically focused, also attempting to provide useful practical recommendations.

Professional learning networks

This book illustrates key attributes of professional learning networks that build educators’ ownership, practice, and expertise and highlights the potential of PLNs to address questions of equity, both for educators working in rural communities who have limited access to professional development ...

Professional learning networks in design-based research interventions

Mei Kuin Lai and Stuart McNaughton provide a theoretical and practical account of how PLNs focused on collaborative analysis of data can be integrated into design-based research interventions to improve practice and student learning outcomes.

Professional meeting management

The sixth edition of Professional Meeting Management is the newest edition of the longtime standard reference and textbook for the meetings industry and meetings education. This is the first student and meeting professionals textbook aligned with the new Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) Inter...

Professional perspectives on banking and finance

With 100% emphasis on accessible, clear, and applicable advice Professional Perspectives on Banking and Finance provides suggestions to instil best practice in any commercial bank.

Professional services agreements

This is a comprehensive review of the issues that readers need to be aware of when negotiating the minefield of professional services contracts in the construction industry.

Professional work

Current challenges to the legitimacy of expert knowledge has caused professional control over knowledge, autonomy at work, orientation toward public service, and social status to have declined. In this collection, scholars examine the nature of these changes and how they have altered the experie...

Professional-scientific education

This volume intends to reflect and to enhance the discourse on the relation and integration of professional and scientific education. In a series of contributions by well-known educational scientists from Germany and other countries, the theoretical, conceptual and practical design questions for ...

Professionalizing early childhood education as a field of practice

A guide to starting the conversation to professionalize early childhood education as a field of practice.

Professor of apocalypse

The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual lifeScion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar Vienna to Zurich, Israel, and ...

Profiles in injustice

Racial profiling—as practiced by police officers, highway troopers, and customs officials—is one of America's most explosive public issues. But even as protest against the practice has swelled, police forces and others across the country continue to argue that profiling is an effective crime-figh...

Profiles of dual language education in the 21st century

In the last 20 years dual language education programs have increased in number and expanded in range, spanning pre-K through high school. This book examines the key attributes of successful dual language programs, as well as the challenges and opportunities involved in extending the dual language...

Profitable ideas

O'Flynn demonstrates the way that liberal ideas have served the interests of capitalist development from their very beginning.

Profitably healthy companies

Profitably Healthy Companies lays out ten essential principles of organizational development for sustained success. Bringing together practical and academic expertise, W. Warner Burke and Michael O’Malley detail proven methods for every organization at each level.

Program management for open source projects

Programmable planet

Programmable Planet is a grand tour through the world of synthetic biology, telling the stories of the colorful visionaries whose ideas are shaping discoveries. Ted Anton explores the field from its beginning in fighting malaria in Africa to the COVID vaccines and beyond.

Programme management in construction

This book is essential reading for the client, stakeholders, contractors and other practitioners dealing with large projects and programmes in the construction industry worldwide.

Programming clojure

Programming clojure, fourth edition

Quickly turn complex problems into simple, working solutions using functional programming, safe concurrency, and the expressive tools of Clojure.Struggling with unnecessary complexity, unmanaged state, and brittle data that’s hard to change? Clojure combines the expressiveness of Lisp with the st...

Programming concurrency on the jvm

Programming creativity

Jan Sebastian Zipp examines the concept of creativity in large IT companies in times of digital change, including new ways of working or potential artificial creativity with no human interaction. This study contributes vital foundations for a critical engagement with today's prevailing understand...

Programming crystal

Programming ecto

Programming elixir ≥ 1.6

This book is the introduction to Elixir for experienced programmers, completely updated for Elixir 1.6 and beyond. Explore functional programming without the academic overtones (tell me about monads just one more time). Create concurrent applications, butget them right without all the locking an...

Programming elm

Programming erlang

Programming flutter

Programming groovy 2

Programming kotlin

Programming machine learning

Programming phoenix 1.4

Don't accept the compromise between fast and beautiful: you can have it all. Phoenix creator Chris McCord, Elixir creator Jose Valim, and award-winning author Bruce Tate walk you through building an application that's fast and reliable. At every step, you'll learn from the Phoenix creators not j...

Programming phoenix liveview

Build highly interactive applications without ever leaving Elixir, the way the experts do. Let LiveView take care of performance, scalability, security, and keeping the browser up to date.The days of the traditional request-response web application are long gone, but you don't have to wade throug...

Programming ruby

Programming ruby 1.9 & 2.0

Programming ruby 3.3

Programming rust

Programming sound with pure data

Programming the future

Programming the Future examines how recent speculative television takes on the contradictions of the neoliberal order. Sherryl Vint and Jonathan Alexander consider a range of popular SF narratives of the last two decades, including Battlestar Galactica, Watchmen, Colony, The Man in the High Castl...

Programming webassembly with rust