“…This book helps agencies prepare EISs by providing step-by-step direction for navigating the EIS process-- Preface The US National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) provides a systematic and comprehensive planning process for considering the consequences and alternatives of federal actions before a final decision is made to pursue a course of action (Figure 0.1). …”

“…The reviews in this book were written by those of us who have actually used the tool and others like it. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Why write it collaboratively and why us? -- Who is this book for? -- Why coaching dialogues and why this structure? …”

“…Problemzentrierte Leitfadeninterviews mit Handelsmanagern aus dem US-amerikanischen und deutschsprachigen Raum zeigen Unterschiede im Verständnis der Konzeption. …”

“…Explores how Jihad, political violence and audio-visual media are entangled in particular ways as discursive formationsFosters critical perspectives on the invocation of a narrow understanding of jihad and political violence in different social contextsPoints to the operation of media and aesthetic means to articulate or defy notions of jihad in the context of political violenceComprises 16 case studies on forms of knowledge production, aesthetic manifestations, socio-political enactments, and archival practices that shape the entanglement of jihad, political violence, and mediaPresents empirically-grounded research from the perspective of Anthropology, Art History, Cultural Studies, Islamic Studies, Media Studies, and Political ScienceAdvances reflections on knowledge production and ethical challenges of research in this fieldThe entanglement of Jihad, Political Violence, and Media has determined the lives of Muslims in Europe and the US over the past 20 years. This book unravels the nexus of these elements, to critically examine how their conjunction is perpetuated, reproduced, or disputed. …”

“…The large number of retailers that have gone out of business in recent years shows us that the scenario has changed and closures have pushed some to use terms like "apocalypse" or "Armageddon" to describe the difficulties of the current situation. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface: Great Leadership Transforms Everything -- Part I Dismantling the Leadership Crisis -- Chapter 1 The Catastrophic Leadership Crisis -- The Real Crisis -- Confronting Reality -- The Greatest Challenge -- Chapter 2 The Road Leading Us Here -- The Main Culprit -- Clinging to Comfort -- The Generational Shock -- The Damaging Narrative -- Chapter 3 Rethinking the Fundamentals of Leadership -- Traditional Shortcomings -- The Whole Person Concept -- The Inspirational Leader -- Moral Obligation and Responsibility -- Leadership Vision of Impact -- Chapter 4 Adapting to the Evolving Leadership Dynamics -- 1. …”

“…These types of managers are here to stay and Extreme Value Hedging tells the story of their rise to power in the U.S. and how they are spreading their influential gospel around the globe to places like China, Ukraine, South Korea and Sweden. …”

“…The need for designers of high-performance, application-specific computing systems has never been greater, and many universities and colleges in the US and worldwide are now developing advanced courses to help prepare their students for careers in embedded computing.High-Performance Embedded Computing: Architectures, Appli…”

“…In many cases, we use developed techniques which help us to recognize some special features. In the context of this innovative research on computational intelligence, the Special Issue “Advanced Computational Intelligence for Object Detection, Feature Extraction and Recognition in Smart Sensor Environments” present an excellent opportunity for the dissemination of recent results and achievements for further innovations and development. …”

“…The book, an echo of other contemporary sites of the social sciences and their conceptions of Public Opinion, has proposed an invitation: to recover the diversification, the leaks and transmutations of those ways of sharing, of communicating with opinions, what concerns us to communities as imagined as effective and pedestrian, as industrious as artisan, as officially produced as artisanal destabilizing Este libro es resultado de cinco años de trabajo del Observatorio de Opinión Pública de la Universidad de Chile, de académicas, académicos y estudiantes que han estudiado cómo se estudia la opinión pública, mediante un núcleo de investigación. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creating a Model -- The MATLAB environment -- Command Window - how MATLAB talks to us -- The workspace - our treasury chest -- The working folder - where MATLAB saves our work -- The path - where MATLAB finds the tools -- The Simulink interface -- Our first model - a cruise controller -- Step 1 - create and save the model -- Step 2 - do comment the code! …”

“…Many of us feel that we spend too much time in unproductive meetings when we could be getting on with some ‘real’ work. …”

“…The practice of science in its search for the First Americans is a flawed endeavor, Robert V. Davis tells us. His book is an effort to explain why. Most American history textbooks today teach that the First Americans migrated to North America on foot from East Asia over a land bridge during the last ice age, 12,000 to 13,000 years ago. …”