The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (MIT Press)

This pioneering publication, first released in 1987, introduced the hot box of social reports of know-how. It brought a style of inquiry--social development of know-how, or SCOT--that turned a key a part of the broader self-discipline of technology and expertise stories. The booklet helped the MIT Press form its STS record and encouraged the interior know-how sequence. The 13 essays within the publication inform tales approximately such diversified applied sciences as thirteenth-century galleys, eighteenth-century cooking stoves, and twentieth-century missile structures. Taken jointly, they verify the fruitfulness of an method of the learn of know-how that offers equivalent weight to technical, social, financial, and political questions, and so they exhibit the illuminating results of the mixing of empirics and concept. The ways during this volume--collectively referred to as SCOT (after the volume's name) have on the grounds that broadened their scope, and twenty-five years after the e-book of this ebook, it truly is tough to think about a know-how that has now not been studied from a SCOT standpoint and very unlikely to think about a expertise that can't be studied that way.

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UX for Beginners: A Crash Course in 100 Short Lessons

By Joel Marsh

Apps! web pages! Rubber geese! bare Ninjas! This ebook has every thing. to be able to start in consumer adventure layout (UX), you will have come to the appropriate position: a hundred self-contained classes that disguise the complete spectrum of fundamentals.

Forget dry, technical fabric. This book—based at the wildly well known UX Crash path from Joel Marsh’s web publication The Hipper Element—is laced with the author's snarky model of humor, and teaches UX in an easy, functional approach. changing into a qualified doesn’t must be boring.

Follow the real-life UX strategy from start-to-finish and follow the abilities as you research, or refresh your reminiscence ahead of the subsequent assembly. UX for Beginners is ideal for non-designers who are looking to turn into designers, managers who train UX, and programmers, salespeople, or sellers who are looking to study more.

  • Start from scratch: the basics of UX
  • Research the unusual and lovely issues clients do
  • The procedure and technology of creating something user-friendly
  • Use dimension, colour, and format to aid and impact users
  • Plan and create wireframes
  • Make your designs consider enticing and persuasive
  • Measure how your layout works within the actual world
  • Find out what a UX clothier does all day

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Heat Transfer: A Practical Approach (2nd Edition)

By Yunus A. Cengel

With entire insurance of the elemental ideas of warmth move and a extensive variety of purposes in a versatile structure, warmth and Mass move: a realistic technique presents the proper mixture of basics and functions. The textual content offers a hugely intuitive and functional knowing of the cloth by way of emphasizing the physics and the underlying actual phenomena concerned. Key: textual content covers the traditional themes of warmth move with an emphasis on physics and real-world each day functions, whereas de-emphasizing the intimidating heavy mathematical elements. This process is designed to exploit students' instinct, making the educational approach more uncomplicated and extra attractive. Key: the hot version will upload priceless web-links for college kids. Key: 50% of the Homework difficulties together with layout, computing device, essay, lab-type, and FE difficulties are new or revised to this variation. utilizing a reader-friendly process and a conversational writing type, the publication is self-instructive and entertains whereas it teaches. It indicates that hugely technical subject might be communicated successfully in an easy but special language.

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One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?

By Gordon Conway

Hunger is a regular fact for one billion humans. greater than six a long time after the technological discoveries that ended in the golf green Revolution geared toward finishing global starvation, common nutrients shortages, malnutrition, and poverty nonetheless plague titanic swaths of the realm. And with expanding nutrition costs, weather swap, source inequality, and an ever-increasing international inhabitants, the long run holds additional challenges.

In One Billion Hungry, Sir Gordon Conway, one of many world's ideal specialists on worldwide foodstuff wishes, explains the numerous interrelated concerns severe to our international nutrients offer from the technological know-how of agricultural advances to the politics of foodstuff safeguard. He expands the dialogue all started in his influential The Doubly eco-friendly Revolution: meals for All within the Twenty-First Century, emphasizing the basic blend of elevated nutrition construction, environmental balance, and poverty relief essential to finish endemic starvation on our planet.

Conway addresses a sequence of pressing questions on international starvation:

• How we are going to feed a turning out to be worldwide inhabitants within the face of a variety of antagonistic elements, together with weather switch?

• What contributions can the social and usual sciences make find solutions?

• and the way do we interact either executive and the personal region to use those recommendations and accomplish major effect within the lives of the poor?

Conway succeeds in sharing his proficient optimism approximately our collective skill to handle those primary demanding situations if we use know-how paired with sustainable practices and strategic planning.

Beginning with a definition of starvation and the way it really is calculated, and relocating via matters topically either distinctive and finished, each one bankruptcy makes a speciality of particular demanding situations and strategies, ranging in scope from the farmer's everyday life to the worldwide move of nutrients, funds, and ideas. Drawing at the newest clinical learn and the result of initiatives around the globe, Conway addresses the techniques and realities of our international nutrition wishes: the legacy of the fairway Revolution; the influence of industry forces on nutrients availability; the promise and perils of genetically changed meals; agricultural innovation in regard to plants, cattle, pest keep watch over, soil, and water; and the necessity to either adapt to and sluggish the speed of weather change. 1000000000 Hungry may be welcomed by means of all readers looking a multifaceted realizing of our worldwide foodstuff provide, nutrition defense, foreign agricultural improvement, and sustainability.

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Web Content Delivery (Web Information Systems Engineering and Internet Technologies Book Series)

The idea that of content material supply (also referred to as content material distribution) is be­ coming more and more very important as a result of speedily growing to be calls for for effective distribution and speedy entry of data within the net. content material supply is especially extensive and complete in that the contents for distribution conceal quite a lot of kinds with considerably various features and function issues, together with HTML files, photos, multimedia streams, database tables, and dynamically generated contents. furthermore, to facilitate ubiqui­ tous details entry, the community architectures and units additionally differ commonly. they vary from broadband wired/fixed networks to bandwid- limited wireless/mobile networks, and from strong workstations/PCs to private electronic assistants (PDAs) and mobile telephones with restricted processing and demonstrate services. a lot of these degrees of range are introducing quite a few demanding situations on content material supply applied sciences. it's fascinating to carry contents of their very best quality in response to the character of the contents, community connections and customer units. This publication goals at delivering a photograph of the state of the art learn and improvement actions on websites supply and laying the rules for destiny internet purposes. The ebook specializes in 4 major parts: (1) net con­ tent supply; (2) dynamic websites; (3) streaming media supply; and (4) ubiquitous internet entry. It involves 17 chapters written by way of prime specialists within the box. The publication is designed for a certified viewers together with educational researchers and business practitioners who're drawn to the latest study and improvement actions on websites supply.

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Power Pivot and Power BI: The Excel User's Guide to DAX, Power Query, Power BI & Power Pivot in Excel 2010-2016

By Rob Collie, Avichal Singh

Microsoft strength BI, together with energy Pivot and gear question, are a suite of unfastened accessories to Excel that permit clients to supply new types of reviews and analyses that have been easily most unlikely before.
This e-book provides an summary of energy BI, strength Pivot and gear question, after which dives into DAX formulation, the center power of energy Pivot. consistently from the point of view of the Excel audience.
Written through the world's premiere energy BI bloggers and practitioners, the book's options and method are brought in an easy, step by step demeanour adapted to the educational type of Excel clients in every single place. The concepts awarded permit clients to provide, in hours or perhaps mins, effects that previously may have taken complete groups weeks or months to produce
This publication contains classes on:-
  • difference among calculated columns and measures
  • how formulation could be reused throughout studies of totally different shapes
  • how to merge disjointed units of knowledge into unified reports
  • how to make sure columns in a pivot behave as though the pivot have been filtered whereas different columns do not
  • how to create time-intelligent calculations in pivot tables resembling "Year over 12 months" and "Moving Averages" whether or not they use a typical, financial, or an entire customized calendar.
  • how to leverage strength question to make your strength Pivot versions awesome!
  • how to exploit energy BI machine and PowerBI.com and the way they healthy into the Excel landscape

The "pattern-like" ideas and most sensible practices contained during this e-book were built and sophisticated over a number of years of onsite education with Excel clients all over the world, and the main classes from these seminars costing hundreds of thousands of greenbacks in step with day at the moment are on hand to you, in the pages of this easy-to-follow advisor. This up-to-date moment version covers new positive factors brought with workplace 2016 and gear BI Desktop.

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Fundamentals of Digital Communication

By Upamanyu Madhow

It is a concise presentation of the techniques underlying the layout of electronic verbal exchange platforms, with no the element that could weigh down scholars. Many examples, from the elemental to the state of the art, exhibit how the speculation is utilized in the layout of contemporary platforms and the relevance of this conception will inspire scholars. the idea is supported by way of sensible algorithms in order that the coed can practice computations and simulations. innovative issues in coding and instant conversation make this a great textual content for college kids taking only one path at the topic. basics of electronic Communications has assurance of rapid and LDPC codes in adequate aspect and readability to permit hands-on implementation and function assessment, in addition to 'just sufficient' info conception to allow computation of functionality benchmarks to match them opposed to. different distinctive gains comprise space-time conversation and geometric insights into noncoherent conversation and equalization.

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Linux Cookbook

By Carla Schroder

This designated and precious selection of counsel, instruments, and scripts offers transparent, concise, hands-on recommendations that may be utilized to the demanding situations dealing with an individual operating a community of Linux servers from small networks to giant info facilities within the functional and well known problem-solution-discussion O'Reilly cookbook format.The Linux Cookbook covers every little thing you would anticipate: backups, new clients, etc. however it additionally covers the non-obvious info that's usually missed in different books the time-sinks and complications which are a true a part of an administrator's task, similar to: facing strange different types of units that Linux traditionally hasn't supported good, construction multi-boot structures, and dealing with such things as video and audio.The wisdom had to set up, set up, and retain Linux isn't simply came upon, and no Linux distribution will get it appropriate. Scattered info are available in a pile of guy pages, texinfo records, and resource code reviews, however the most sensible resource of data is the specialists themselves who equipped up a operating wisdom of coping with Linux platforms. This cookbook's confirmed concepts distill years of hard-won adventure into sensible cut-and-paste strategies to daily Linux dilemmas.Use only one recipe from this diverse choice of real-world suggestions, and the hours of tedious trial-and-error kept will greater than pay for the price of the e-book. yet those that like to research hands-on will locate that this cookbook not just solves speedy difficulties speedy, it additionally cuts correct to the chase stating power pitfalls and illustrating established practices that may be utilized to a myriad of alternative situations.Whether you are answerable for a small Linux approach, an enormous company method, or a combined Linux/Windows/MacOS community, you will find important, to-the-point, useful recipes for facing Linux platforms daily. The Linux Cookbook is greater than a time-saver; it is a sanity saver.

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Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming (MIT Press)

By Anthony Dunne

Today designers frequently specialize in making expertise effortless to exploit, horny, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby suggest one of those layout that's used as a device to create not just issues yet rules. For them, layout is a way of speculating approximately how issues may be -- to visualize attainable futures. this isn't the standard kind of predicting or forecasting, recognizing traits and extrapolating; some of these predictions were confirmed unsuitable, repeatedly. in its place, Dunne and Raby pose "what if" questions which are meant to open debate and dialogue in regards to the type of destiny humans wish (and don't want).

Speculative Everything deals a travel via an rising cultural panorama of layout principles, beliefs, and ways. Dunne and Raby cite examples from their very own layout and instructing and from different tasks from tremendous artwork, layout, structure, cinema, and images. in addition they draw on futurology, political thought, the philosophy of expertise, and literary fiction. They express us, for instance, rules for a sunlight kitchen eating place; a flypaper robot clock; a menstruation laptop; a cloud-seeding truck; a phantom-limb sensation recorder; and units for nutrients foraging that use the instruments of man-made biology. Dunne and Raby contend that if we speculate extra -- approximately every thing -- fact turns into extra malleable. the guidelines freed by way of speculative layout elevate the percentages of accomplishing fascinating futures.

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The Decline and Fall of IBM: End of an American Icon?

IBM is in deep trouble. massive Blue, because the corporation is understood, has a tendency to count for its luck on magical considering yet that magic ran out decades in the past. the corporate acquired in difficulty again within the Nineties and needed to rent for the 1st time an outdoor CEO, Lou Gerstner, to avoid wasting the day. Gerstner driven IBM into providers with remarkable effects yet this damage the corporate, too. As providers have grew to become commoditized IBM might merely compete by way of offshoring the paintings and caliber suffered. the opposite adverse influence of Gerstner used to be his reimbursement which used to be for the 1st time in IBM background very excessive. in basic terms the Watson family members had turn into wealthy operating IBM with later CEOs like John Opel and John Akers residing cozy lives with plenty of perks, yet they by no means bought substantial wealthy. that modified with Gerstner. Sam Palmisano an IBM lifer Gerstner as CEO and undefined, too, the Gerstner playbook. Palmisano retired 3 years in the past with a retirement package deal worthy $241 million, changed via IBM's first girl CEO, Ginni Rometty, who definitely expects a related golden parachute. so as to in attaining those numbers, even though, IBM has basically sacrificed either its buyers and staff. that allows you to have ever growing to be profits consistent with percentage the corporate has lower hard work to the bone, off-shored every thing it could actually, dropped caliber, intentionally underbid contracts to win them then now not played. IBM's acquisition coverage is one in all purchasing businesses to get their revenues then slicing charges to the bone and under-delivering. This and proportion buybacks have stored profits becoming till this condo of playing cards lately started to fall. Ginni Rometty, who will turn out taking the autumn for Palmisano's improper process, has said a truly particular gains aim for 2015 that she is going to ruin the corporate to accomplish if she needs to. This booklet how IBM fell from grace, the place it truly is headed, and what particularly might be performed to avoid wasting the corporate sooner than it really is too overdue.

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