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Case: Lafayette Park Detroit (CASE)
Manufacturer: Prestel Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 3791330446 |
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At a time when many of the past decades' urban renewal projects are facing the wrecking ball, Detroit's Lafayette Park continues to be a model of urban livability. This in-depth look at the project explores why. Amid the oppressive urban blight of post-World War II Detroit, the Lafayette Park project emerged as a vibrant point of optimism and viability. Planned by Ludwig Hilberseimer, with concrete, glass, and steel buildings designed by Mies van der Rohe, and a park and gardens designed by Alfred Caldwell, this series of subsidized high- and low-rise apartments remains a superb example of an integrated community a half-century after its construction. This latest volume in the CASE series published in collaboration with the Harvard University's Graduate School of Design examines an often-overlooked paragon of modern architecture's highest goals. Today, while public housing and other urban renewal projects are being abandoned and even torn down, this volume discusses not only the significance of Lafayette Park's singular achievement, but also its relevance to the continuing debates about the status of public housing in the contemporary city.Customer Reviews:
Surprisingly good.......2005-08-14
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Metalwork and Machining Hints and Tips (Workshop Practice)
Arnold Throp Manufacturer: Trans-Atlantic Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0852429479 |
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Metalwork and Machining Hints and Tips (Workshop Practice Ser.20)
Ian Bradley Manufacturer: Nexus Special Interests ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000TZ2XE2 |
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A Soldier's Life: Inside the Israeli Army
Manufacturer: Exploration Society Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0967942888 |
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In the months leading up to Operation Defensive Shield, Xeriqua Garfinkel was the only photographer permitted to travel with units of the Israeli army. Her objective was to put a human face on the young men and women who risk their lives daily defending the Jewish homeland. In this deeply affecting collection of photographs, culled from the thousands taken during her stay, we meet the new inductees and the seasoned veterans, the artillery men and the border patrol officers, the mechanics and the combat soldiers. The dramatic reproductions are enhanced by text explaining the origin, evolution, and current workings of the Israel Defense Forces.Customer Reviews:
A disappointment. I expected many more things.......2007-02-07
A Soldier's Life: Inside the Israeli Army.......2002-11-28
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Gold Digger: Edge Guard (Gold Digger)
John Barrett Manufacturer: Radio Comix ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0970791046 |
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In the pages of Gold Digger, Fred Perry created a haven world of modern day swords and sorcery called Jade, along with the dimension-spanning peacekeepers that patrolled its borders called the Edge Guard. Five Guardian Werecats protect the Northern Lands of Jade, able to summon the most devastating elemental weapons to pacify any threat to its people, ever vigilant of the potential corruption that wielding such power can bring. Yet the Old Ones tell tales of the Dark Edge Guard hiding within the ranks of heroes, waiting for their chance to strike. Safrita Cleo, a lowly office clerk full of dreams, bears witness to their struggles. In the heart of this darkness and despair, when conjoined hearts and souls are mixed, interchanged, and torn apart, Cleo is surprised to find herself asking the question if love can trascend death and rebirth. This graphic novel collects the entire seven-issue Gold Digger: Edge Guard mini-series from Radio Comix. This publisher is a new client to Diamond Book Distributors!
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Organizational Survival in the New World: The Intelligent Complex Adaptive System (KMCI Press)
Alex Bennet , and David Bennet Manufacturer: Butterworth-Heinemann ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0750677120 |
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In this book David and Alex Bennet propose a new model for organizations that enables them to react more quickly and fluidly to today's fast-changing, dynamic business environment: the Intelligent Complex Adaptive System (ICAS). ICAS is a new organic model of the firm based on recent research in complexity and neuroscience, and incorporating networking theory and knowledge management, and turns the living system metaphor into a reality for organizations. This book synthesizes new thinking about organizational structure from the fields listed above into ICAS, a new systems model for the successful organization of the future designed to help leaders and managers of knowledge organizations succeed in a non-linear, complex, fast-changing and turbulent environment. Technology enables connectivity, and the ICAS model takes advantage of that connectivity by fostering the development of dynamic, effective and trusting relationships in a new organizational structure.Customer Reviews:
A Great Treatment od a Complex Topic.......2006-11-17
The Application of ICAS to KM Education.......2004-10-04
Breakthough for Organizational Thinking.......2004-04-27
You can't read this book without disagreeing with the Bennets. They touch too many subjects too dear to too many of us. Still, give them credit for so many new ideas. They have laid the basis for a broad dialogue grounded in the credible view of complexity theory. The Bennets have sent out the invitations, they have set the table, who will join the feast? It is challenging for me to read this book. I constantly want to be able to discuss it with others. There is so much depth and breadth at the same time. Also, you may not be able to read it without being remorseful about your own organization, especially if you work in a complex enterprise. Recommend you scan the table of contents and then start reading. As the Bennets say, go to Chapter 19 if you need grounding in complexity theory. I found it useful to jump ahead and read chapters as my interest was peaked. Then go back and pick up from where you left off.
The Bennets' research alone has immense value. This book should become a college text for graduate work. They are well grounded in complexity theory, nevertheless, they pull from many fields, disciplines, and theorists to build this new body of knowledge. The book would rock an MBA program.
Drucker says that figuring this sort of thing out will determine how well we'll compete in this new century. The Bennets give us new frameworks for describing what we're working with and how we can organize for breakthroughs on multiple levels. In the meantime, hopefully a leader at Homeland Security is reading this book.
Outstanding Book for Executives in a Competitive Environment.......2004-02-27
Outstanding Book for Executives in a Competitive Environment.......2004-02-27
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Towards Knowledge Portals: From Human Issues to Intelligent Agents (Information Science and Knowledge Management)
B. Detlor Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1402020538 |
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Adopting an informational perspective towards knowledge work, this book investigates how enterprise portals can promote knowledge creation, distribution, and use. Moving beyond the design and delivery of portals as mere information retrieval tools, an enterprise portal is viewed as a shared information work space that can facilitate communication and collaboration among organizational workers, as well as support the browsing, searching, and retrieval of information content. Adopting an information vantage point, the book uniquely explores the human issues surrounding enterprise portal adoption and use, as well as the utilization of intelligent agents to ameliorate the use of portals for knowledge-based tasks. The result is a novel, rich and comprehensive discussion on the factors affecting the design and utilization of enterprise portals for knowledge work, suitable for both graduate-level students and organizational workers alike.
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Developing A High-performance Workforce: Practical Strategies For Exploiting Knowledge In The Intelligent Enterprise (Management Briefings Executive Series)
Karin Breu , and Geoff Smith Manufacturer: Financial Times Management ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0273661566 |
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Knowledge Management was heralded as the tool that would enable companies to pool the information contained in individual employees' heads. What it became was an expensive database that no one ever used. It failed because it didn't address the needs of managers or take account of the human element in passing information from one point to another.This report, based on two major research projects, bridges the gap between knowledge management theory and practice, between the apparent potential and deliverable reality, between communication and conviction. As the report identifies, the key is for the developers of knowledge solutions to directly identify with the needs of their business users, rather than attempting to 'convert' them.
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The Intelligent Enterprise: Theoretical Concepts and Practical Implications (Contributions to Management Science)
Markus J. Thannhuber Manufacturer: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 3790815551 |
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Today's enterprises have to continuously extend their operational limits to earn profit, thrive and prosper. Over time evolution led to the development of two concepts to master this challenge: intelligence and knowledge. This work introduces a system theoretic perspective on enterprises, regarding them as natural living systems formed by evolutional forces. Intelligence and knowledge manifest in the system's behavior. 'Intelligence' is identified as the necessary framework that realizes continuous adaptation through the ongoing development and incorporation of control procedures and building blocks. The content that fills this framework is the 'Enterprise Knowledge'. The transition towards an intelligent enterprise requires drastic organizational changes. The rigid framework of business processes has to be replaced by a project framework, employees have to be integrated as 'Knowledge Workers' and IT systems have to offer advanced structural and organizational properties to facilitate declarative processing.
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The Knowledge Enterprise: Implementation of Intelligent Business Strategies (Series on Technology Management)
J. Friso Den Hertog , and Edward Huizenga Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1860941362 |
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Knowledge Enterprise: Intelligent Strategies in Product Design, Manufacturing, and Management: Proceedings of PROLAMAT 2006, IFIP TC5, International Conference, ... Federation for Information Processing)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0387344020 |
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This volume contains the edited version of the technical presentations of PROLMAT 2006, the IFIP TC5 international conference held on June 15-17, 2006 at the Shanghai University in China.
Profitability is no longer only a function of price, cost, and adequate quality. The way sustained competitive advantage relates to a firm is distinctive and it is difficult to replicate competencies. The basis for a firm’s core competencies is its repository of organizational knowledge. This is highly-valued knowledge that provides opportunities for adding exclusive value to products and services of an enterprise. Knowledge strategy will be related to innovation, learning, and agility. Conversion of advanced research into advanced products; acquisition of knowledge from experience; and fast response-time to the dynamic market changes, are the important rules of international industrial competition at the moment. Innovation, learning, and agility are key factors for companies, which must shift in global markets rapidly and efficiently by delivering new products in the shortest time frame, while maintaining the highest quality and the lowest costs. The successful enterprise of our century will be characterized by an organizational structure that supports thinking process, experience transferring, knowledge discovery, and intelligence exploitation, all of which are based on data and information.
The success of a modern company is not based on its size but on its ability to adapt its operation to the changing environment. To answer to these constraints, the enterprise must develop a corporate culture that empowers employees at all levels and facilitates communication among related groups for constant improvement of its core competitiveness. Such an organizational structure requires a technological infrastructure that fully supports process improvement and integration, and has the flexibility to adjust to unexpected changes in corporate direction. To keep up with rapid developments in global manufacturing, the enterprise must first look at its organization and culture, and then at its supporting technologies. Too often, companies invest only in technology to compete in the global market and don’t give enough attention to the training, the education, and the knowledge of their employees. This conference concentrates also on knowledge strategies in Product Life Cycle and brings together researchers and industrialists with the objectives to reach a mutual understanding of the scientific - industry dichotomy, while facilitating the transfer of core research knowledge to core industrial competencies.
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Knowledge Management and Intelligent Enterprises
FONG J , LI Q , CHAN D , and CHEUNG R Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9810246358 |
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Technology enablers for the intelligent enterprise
Marcelo Hoffmann Manufacturer: SRI Consulting, Business Intelligence Program ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006QTY1O |
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California Real Estate Principles: Year 2003
Sherry Shindler Price Manufacturer: Ashley Crown Systems Inc Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0934772215 |
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