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Where do design principles come from? Are they abstract "rules" established by professionals or do they have roots in human experience? And if we encounter these visual phenomena in our everyday lives, how do designers use them to attract our attention, orient our behavior, and create compelling...

Some companies think that adopting devops means bringing in specialists or a host of new tools. With this practical guide, you’ll learn why devops is a professional and cultural movement that calls for change from inside your organization. Authors Ryn Daniels and Jennifer Davis provide several approaches...

What are your organization’s policies for generating and using huge datasets full of personal information? This book examines ethical questions raised by the big data phenomenon, and explains why enterprises need to reconsider business decisions concerning privacy and identity. Authors Kord Davis...

Public policy permeates every aspect of our lives. It is the stuff of government, justifying taxes, driving legislation, and shaping our social services. Public policy gives us roads, railways and airports, emergency services, industry development, and natural resource management. While politicians...

Making tech decisions from a diverse space starts here! This book offers leaders and teachers a reflective journey into diverse perspectives on technology as it is used and understood in our schools. Through step-by-step strategies and powerful vignettes, Rafranz Davis explores the deep impact...

A collection of the handwritten and electronic correspondence of generations of Stanford students, Letters Home from Stanford recalls the common human experience of breaking out and trying to find our way as we observe the world around us and look over a shoulder toward home. From first letters...

In the 1960s and ’70s, a diverse range of storefronts—including head shops, African American bookstores, feminist businesses, and organic grocers—brought the work of the New Left, Black Power, feminism, environmentalism, and other movements into the marketplace. Through shared ownership, limited...

What do we mean by entertainment? How does this concept relate to theatre? Should theatre be for pleasure or instruction? Can it not be both? In this stimulating book, Jim Davis examines this relationship, by assessing audience reception, political theatre and melodrama, and ultimately questions the limits of entertainment in theatre.

“IT Auditing: An Adaptive Process” is a self-contained tool for learning IT audit process flexibility -- while performing effective IT audits -- as well as companion subject matter material for “IT Auditing: The Process.” Specifically, “IT Auditing: An Adaptive Process” is an enhanced...

Part I is a straight to the point self help book on being a man, approaching women and building attraction. This book is full of useful and practical knowledge that is guaranteed to help you with women, life and dramatically improve your social skills. Women often say they wish all men possessed this...

The economy has hurt many individuals and their families from all walks of life from working class to middle class. Still it’s important to remain positive and faithful to your dreams. Many have lost their homes, possessions, and in some cases either their family, because of financial hardship....

The Greeks of the classical age invented not only the central idea of Western politics--that the power of state should be guided by a majority of its citizens--but also the central act of Western warfare, the decisive infantry battle. Instead of ambush, skirmish, maneuver, or combat between individual...

Of course you can make a decision... But can you carry it through to the end? For most people, making decisions is an unconscious activity. We find ourselves slammed against the wall by some pressing need and we react by making decisions that get us out of our predicament. That allows us to...

For a Christian, an understanding of spiritual maturity and its development in one’s life is, without a doubt, one of the most important elements of our faith. At the same time, it may be one of the most elusive. Here you will find a definition of spiritual maturity along with its parameters. Additionally, you will find the things you must work on in your life to develop that maturity.