“…The Product Manager’s Survival Guide, Second Edition features brand new material, including: •A product management acumen assessment •Action planning ideas at the end of each chapter •Techniques to earn empowerment •Tools to develop product strategies and roadmaps •Methods to deploy and release products •Metrics to assess product performance Simple and easy to understand, this invaluable guide will help you bring your company into the digital age and continue to evolve with changing times…”

“…In addition, the book's companion website will have a social function, allowing you to connect with other Phoenix acolytes and share your own experience and ideas with others. Whether you're a corporate leader, academic, consultant or executive trainer, The Phoenix Encounter Method Implementation Guide provides the advice you need to lead your organization to the head of your industry"--…”

“…Drawing on 20+ years of experience designing games, launching game studios, and teaching game design, Sellers explains: What games are, and how systems thinking can help you think about them more clearly How to systematically promote engagement, interactivity, and fun What you can learn from MDA and other game design frameworks How to create gameplay and core loops How to design the entire player experience, and how to build game mechanics that work together to create that experience How to capture your game’s “big idea” and Unique Selling Proposition How to establish high-level and background design and translate it into detailed design How to build, playtest, and iterate early prototypes How to build your game design career in a field that keeps changing at breakneck speed…”

“…Presents the necessary basic ideas from both digital signal processing and machine learning concepts. …”

“…Students will learn how to:Translate musical ideas into scores utilizing music theory and composition techniques Transform scores into professional audio through the production stages of tracking, sequencing, editing, mixing, mastering, and bouncingMarket works to prospective clientsThe textbook assumes no prior knowledge of music theory or audio topics, and its modular organization allows instructors to use the book flexibly. …”

“…Standard accounts of neoliberalism generally focus on the influence of political ideas in reshaping British politics; according to this narrative, neoliberalism was a right-wing ideology, peddled by political economists, think-tanks and politicians from the 1930s onwards, which finally triumphed in the 1970s and 1980s. …”

“…By highlighting the political in the spatial, and vice versa, this volume sets out to decentralise and decolonise current definitions of home and displacement, striving for a more pluralistic outlook on the idea of home…”

“…In this revised second edition, you'll find updated advice on how to efficiently surf online job postings, how to reach out to contacts at your dream workplace and when to follow up, and advice on using LinkedIn, Indeed, and Google to your best advantage. Dalton incorporates ideas from leading thinkers in behavioral economics, psychology, and game theory, as well as success stories from readers of the first edition. …”

“…The exposition seeks a balance between financial insight, mathematical ideas of statistical and machine learning, practical computational aspects, actual events and thoughts "from the trenches", as observed by a quantitative portfolio manager, and even actual questions asked at countless quant interviews. …”

“…The best way is to combine great ideas and innovative measures with political support. …”

“…Do Nordic courts and court proceedings share a distinct set of ideas and values that in combination constitute the core of a regional legal culture? …”

“…We are open to new and fresh ideas concerning renewable energy, which is why so many scientists from Central and Eastern Europe visit Krynica to discuss the “Green Future” of this region. …”

“…This proceedings volume contains 30 papers dealing with the history, literature and ideas of the logico-epistemological school of Indian Buddhism initiated by Dignaga and Dharmakirti, and related currents in South Asia (India), Tibet and East Asia (China). …”

“…Specific approaches for the application of the new CRPPH ideas are also illustrated in this report…”

“…In the last decade, ICTs, particularly mobile phones, have also opened up new channels for the free flow of ideas and opinions, thereby promoting democracy and human rights. …”

“…It also illustrates more nascent effort to promote regulatory governance including creating accountability and oversight of regulatory agencies and creating a “whole of government” approach for regulatory design and enforcement. The report provides ideas on developing a robust regulatory environment, a key to returning to a stronger, fairer and more sustainable growth path…”

“…Avritzer challenges this view. Drawing on the ideas of Jürgen Habermas, he argues that democracy can be far more inclusive and can rely on a sphere of autonomous association and argument by citizens. …”

“…"New edition of a classic guide to ensuring effective organizational performance Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of Managing and Measuring Performance in Public and Nonprofit Organizations is a comprehensive resource for designing and implementing effective performance management and measurement systems in public and nonprofit organizations. The ideas, tools, and processes in this vital resource are designed to help organizations develop measurement systems to support such effective management approaches as strategic management, results-based budgeting, performance management, process improvement, performance contracting, and much more.The book will help readers identify outcomes and other performance criteria to be measured, tie measures to goals and objectives, define and evaluate the worth of desired performance measures, and analyze, process, report, and utilize data effectively. …”

“…." -- David Meerman Scott, bestselling author of The New Rules of Marketing and PR "There are a lot of great marketing ideas in this book. If you use just a few of them, you'll be way out ahead of your competitors. …”

“…You will learn how to: Transform your web application ideas into Google Chrome extensions Choose the recommended components for creating your kind of extension Leverage the power of a Google Chrome browser by making use of the extensions API Showcase your existing web-development skills in a modern way by creating useful extensions…”