“…Co-designing Infrastructures tells the story of a research programme designed to bring the power of engineering and technology into the hands of grassroots community groups, to create bottom-up solutions to global crises. Four projects in London are described in detail, exemplifying community collaboration with engineers, designers and scientists to enact urban change. …”

“…This book presents 27 operational techniques useful for making the practice of reading aloud as effective as possible in the educational structures dealing with children up to 6 years of age, by following a bottom-up approach. The methodological proposals are organised in three sections: Gaining and Developing Attention, Creating Interest in Stories and Encouraging Participation and Book Culture. …”

“…While cities were supposed to be declining back in the 1980s, the globalised economy has established them as crucial world hubs leading billions of people on every continent, both at the top and the bottom of the social ladder, to move to cities. Today, global cities cry out for a more prominent role. …”

“…Through embracing a pragmatic DEI approach drawing from cutting-edge research on organizational change, evidence-based practices, and incisive insights from a DEI strategist with experience working from the top-down and bottom-up alike, stakeholders at every level of an organization can become effective DEI changemakers. …”

“…Scientists and researchers use spatial computing to track diseases, map the bottom of the oceans, chart the behavior of endangered species, and create election maps in real time. …”

“…Reilly showcase fifteen years of data to describe their powerful framework for predicting everything from trust, employee engagement, and job satisfaction to bottom-line results.Technology is at the very core of everything we do, and it enables us to be more connected than ever before. …”

“…Yet most project managers don't have the business knowledge necessary to make project-based decisions that lead to bottom-line success. In this audiobook, Dennis Cohen and Robert Graham, both former university professors and experienced project management consultants, provide the skills that, until now, could only be gained through a graduate degree and years of hands-on experience.Cohen and Graham walk project managers through basic business concepts such as value creation, accounting and finance, strategy, and marketing. …”

“…They watch behaviors, they listen to concerns, they apologize when their companies make mistakes, they are transparent and honest, and engage their audiences and employees to foster growth, increase brand awareness, and tap their collective knowledge to improve their bottom lines. Anyone who manages employees who access social media from the palms of their hands or from their workspaces or even at home, must stay abreast of the constantly shifting ways social media does all of this while helping employees maintain productivity and avoid damaging reputations. …”

“…Chasing Digital is that playbook.Outlining a clear and detailed framework, this book is designed to help leaders re-design their organisation from the bottom up by leveraging their strengths to create a new competitive advantage in the digital economy. …”

“…These processes are analyzed through the Triple Bottom Line perspective, which effectively describes the primary objectives of sustainability. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Proposal for a critical neuroscience / Jan Slaby and Suparna Choudhury -- The need for a critical neuroscience : from neuroideology to neurotechnology / Steven Rose -- Against first nature : critical theory and neuroscience / Martin Hartmann -- Scanning the lifeworld : toward a critical neuroscience of action and interaction / Shaun Gallagher -- Toys are us : models and metaphors in brain science / Cornelius Borck -- The neuromance of cerebral history / Max Stadler -- Empathic cruelty and the origins of the social brain / Allan Young -- Disrupting images : neuroscientific representations in the lives of psychiatric patients / Simon Cohn -- Critically producing brain images of mind / Joseph Dumit -- Radical reductions : neurophysiology, politics, and personhood in Russian addiction medicine / Eugene Raikhel -- Delirious brain chemistry and controlled culture : exploring the contextual mediation of drug effects / Nicolas Langlitz -- Critical neuroscience : from neuroimaging to tea leaves in the bottom of a cup / Amir Raz -- The salmon of doubt : six months of methodological controversy within social neuroscience / Daniel Margulies -- Cultural neuroscience as critical neuroscience in practice -- Joan Y. …”

“…The notion of inverse infrastructures - that is, bottom-up, user-driven, self-organising networks - gives us a fresh perspective on the omnipresent infrastructure systems that support our economy and structure our way of living. …”

“…Part two focuses on the reality of actions brought about by human rights ideas with illuminating case studies showing that human rights ideas and practice are generated from both the bottom up and top down by individual actors and institutions. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Ontology of theistic beliefs : A Short Orientation / Miroslaw Szatkowski -- Agnosticism and the balance of evidence / Chris Daly -- Theism and the ontological ground of moral realism / Gabriele De Anna -- Polygeny, plelotropy, and two kinds of concurrentist ontology / Michal Glowala -- "Bottom-up" versus "top-down" / Christian Kanzian -- Cognitive bias, the axiological question and the epistemic probability of theistic belief / Daniel Linford, Jason Megill -- On computable metaphysics : on the uses and limitations of computational metaphysics / Jason Megill, Daniel Linford -- What evil must be in order to exist / Uwe Meixner -- Normative rules for indeterminacy / Elisa Paganini -- The openness of God : eternity and free will / Eleonore Stump -- The recovery of St. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Celebrating and Experiencing Cultural Heritage: Top-down and Bottom-up Processes and Negotiations -- 5. Creating a Race to the Top / 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Book Cover; Half-Title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Project Scoping; Chapter 3 Assessing Current Network Concerns; Chapter 4 Network Vulnerability Assessment Methodology; Chapter 5 Policy Review (Top-Down) Methodology; Chapter 6 Technical (Bottom-Up) Methodology; Chapter 7 Network Vulnerability Assessment Sample Report; Chapter 8 Summary; Appendix A-1 ISO 17799 Self-Assessment Checklist; Appendix A-2 Windows NT Server 4.0 Checklist; Appendix A-3 Network Vulnerability Assessment Checklist…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 15: Fur, Hair, and ClothingChapter 16: Maya Fluids; Chapter 17: MEL and Python; Appendix A: The Bottom Line; Appendix B: About the Companion DVD; Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover; Dedication; Contents; Contents; Preface; Preface; Chapter 1 Plasmonics: A Theoretical Background; Chapter 2 Synthesis and Surface Engineering of Plasmonic Nanoparticles; Chapter 3 Amorphous Nanoparticle Assemblies by Bottom- Up Principles; Chapter 4 Optimizing Surfactant on Nanoparticles; Chapter 5 A Brief Overview on Synthesis and Characterization of Nanomaterials; Chapter 6 Plasmon- Gain Interplay in Metastructures; Chapter 7 Localized Surface Plasmons: A Powerful Tool for Sensing…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Why business is best equipped to fight global poverty -- Zero-based design and the bottom billions -- What to do before you launch your business -- The ruthless pursuit of affordability -- Zero-based design in practice : low-cost drip irrigation -- Design for the market -- Zero-based design in practice : a cautionary tale -- Design for scale -- Zero-based design in practice: safe drinking water for small villages -- Design for delivery the last 500 feet -- Building a mission-driven global business -- Opportunities abound -- It's your turn now -- Resources : takeaways and what we say to critics -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Public participation and media -- When citizens matter in the mass mediation of science : the role of imagined audiences in multidirectional communication processes / Contested ethanol dreams : public participation in environmental news / Citizen action and post-socialist journalism : the responses of journalists to a citizen campaign against government policy towards smoking / Discourse communities as catalysts for science and technology communication / Public participation and formal public engagement initiatives -- Communicating about climate change in a citizen consultation : dynamics of exclusion and inclusion / Public engagement as a field of tension between bottom-up and top-down strategies : critical discourse moments in an "energy town" / The stem cell network : communicating social science through a spatial installation / Issue-centred exploration with a citizen panel : knowledge communication and ICTs in participatory city governance…”