Development category: 15312 books
Character Building
Psychological View
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
The need to educate for character is viewed as critically important by many societies, ranking ahead of academic achievement. Accordingly, many schools have included moral education in school curricula. Conversely, the society is complaining that immoral acts have increased in the society.
Many...
Hands-On Chatbot Development with Alexa Skills and Amazon Lex
Create custom conversational and voice interfaces for your Amazon Echo devices and web platforms
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Build artificial intelligence (AI) powered voice and text conversational interfaces with Amazon
Key Features
Develop Alexa Skills to create a working voice user interface (VUI)
Integrate Amazon Lex chatbots into Facebook, Slack, and text messages
Learn to use AWS Lambda, Alexa Skills Kit, and...
The Capability Approach
Development Practice and Public Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This book provides a unique laboratory of ‘capabilities in practice’ in the Asia-Pacific region. It explores the application of the capability approach in development practice and public policy from a multidisciplinary perspective by bringing together scholars and practitioners from a wide range...
From Individual to Community
Issues in Development Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
From Individual to Community brings together a set of papers that provides critical commentaries on various facets of the ongoing process of development. The book addresses issues that concern developing countries—such as globalization, economic growth, rural transformation, gender equality, educational...
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A Self-Improvement Process for Software Engineers
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2005
Most software-development groups have embarrassing records: By some accounts, more than half of all software projects are significantly late and over budget, and nearly a quarter of them are cancelled without ever being completed. Although developers recognize that unrealistic schedules, inadequate resources,...
Anti-Poverty Land Reform Issues Never Die
Collected essays on development economics in practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
What can we do to unlock the unrealised potential of the hundreds of millions of rural poor and landless workers?
The ever-topical central theme in this collection of essays is the mixed role of government and the institutionally regulated market in tackling rural poverty and land distribution...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
As entrepreneurs seek to gain an advantage against their competitors, understanding how to share information throughout their organization will be vital in their success. Accordingly, it is critical for researchers, managers, and consultants to strengthen their own systems to facilitate knowledge...
by Robert Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Robert Chambers returns with a new book that reviews, together for the first time, some of the revolutionary changes in the methodologies and methods of development inquiry that have occurred in the past forty years, and reflects on their transformative potential for the future.
This book breaks...
Adoptees' Ethnic Identity Within Family and Social Contexts
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 150
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
This special issue addresses the construction of ethnic identity among international transracial adoptees, which typically involve the placement of Black, Asian, Hispanic, or Multiracial children with White parents. International transracial adoptees, similar to immigrants, navigate a cultural and...
Model-Driven Software Development
Technology, Engineering, Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Model-Driven Software Development (MDSD) is currently a highly regarded development paradigm among developers and researchers. With the advent of OMG's MDA and Microsoft's Software Factories, the MDSD approach has moved to the centre of the programmer's attention, becoming the focus of conferences...
ATDD by Example
A Practical Guide to Acceptance Test-Driven Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
With Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD), business customers, testers, and developers can collaborate to produce testable requirements that help them build higher quality software more rapidly. However, ATDD is still widely misunderstood by many practitioners. ATDD by Example is the first practical,...
Assessment of Public-Private Partnerships in Viet Nam
Constraints and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
This report is a diagnostic assessment of the readiness of Viet Nam to develop and manage public-private partnerships (PPPs). It was prepared jointly with the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), and it is part of a series of studies being prepared by the Southeast Asia Department of the Asian...
The Value of Arts and Culture for Regional Development
A Scandinavian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
In this new volume, 28 Scandinavian researchers and others who are active in arts and culture seek to answer the questions: What has been the effect of regional and local investment in arts and culture? And what positive and negative experiences have there been? This book describes and analyzes the...
Form, Art and the Environment
Engaging in Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Form, Art and the Environment: Engaging in Sustainability adopts a pluralistic perspective of environmental artistic processes in order to examine the contributions of the arts in promoting sustainable development and culture at a grassroots level and its potential as a catalyst for social change...