From his earliest days at Apple, Steve Jobs set the standard that all products should be "insanely great." Apple sees design as a tool for creating beautiful experiences that surprise and delight, but also convey a point of view down to the smallest detail—from the tactile feedback of a keyboard to the out-of-the-box experience of an iPhone package. This is no accident; the entire Apple organization is designed to give top priority to design considerations.Design Like Apple uncover...

This volume grew out of a conference series sponsored jointly by the Stanford-Berkeley Joint Center for Latin American Studies and the Instituto Universitario de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ). Entitled "Opportunities and Constraints in Peripheral Industrial Society: The Case of Brazil," the first conference was held in Nova Friburgo in July 1983 and was followed up by another at Berkeley in late January 1984. In the course of our discussions, the subject matter widened so that a new...

In the twenty-first century, governments around the world began to engage the private sector with the objective of achieving public service delivery targets, and the African continent has as such, been experiencing transformation, particularly since the introduction of public-private partnerships (PPP), as a measure of reform and method of procurement. Unfortunately, there is a mixed bag of successes and challenges through this implementation of PPPs, causing a gap in infrastructure, leavi...

Es un honor presentar esta obra, que aborda las inconsistencias inherentes al derecho penal, explorando sus matices a través de los prismas de la legitimidad y transdisciplinariedad. La misma se erige como un compendio de reflexiones profundas y análisis transversales, sobre diversas temáticas cruciales en el ámbito jurídico, desentrañando las complejidades que rodean los asuntos críticos analizados. El libro, dividido en una amplia serie de capítulos, ofrece una visión panorámica en cada ...

Hamburg Revisited chronicles the people who led Hamburg in business, education, religion, and civic events during the town�s period of growth in the first half of the 20th century. Led by architects Lawrence Bley and Frank Spangenberg, Hamburg developed its distinctive brick and stone architecture of the 1920s and later boomed with growth in the post�World War II period. Many aerial photographs from 1950 show the growth of housing developments in Hamburg village, Blasdell, and Lake Shore, ...

This book gathers problems based on over twenty years of the Indiana College Mathematics Competition, a regional problem-solving contest for teams of undergraduates. Its problems and solutions are accessible to students in a standard college curriculum, not necessarily with Olympiad-level training. Problem sets form the core of Part I, covering myriad aspects of algebra, calculus, number theory, probability, and geometry. Chapters are organized by year, and an index allows easy navigation ...

Este libro tiene la intención de plantear el debate sobre cómo se ha tejido histórica, sociológica y juridicamente la defensa e imaginación de la vida en un territorio paradojal como lo es Buenaventura. Así, se reúnen los aportes de nueve investigadores e investigadoras con diversas experiencias en este territorio y provenientes de diferentes disciplinas académicas, trayectorias sociales y ámbitos profesionales. Los autores y autoras exploran, desde diferentes estrategias teórico-metodológ...

Focus on key issues in expanding the genetic base for Musa, including, exploiting current collections of germplasm and collecting and evaluating wild Musa species and landracesCovers methods for improving fertility, resistance and other traits in CavendishReviews the range of conventional and modern molecular techniques for breeding new banana varieties

Explores the broader economic, political and environmental context in which management of tropical forests needs to operateParticular focus on management structures and techniques to achieve sustainable forest management (SFM) on the groundIncludes case studies of practical experience of managing tropical forests in South America, West Africa and Southeast Asia

A history of the development of world maps during the later medieval period in the centuries leading up to Columbus's journey.In the two centuries before Columbus, mapmaking was transformed. The World Map, 1300–1492 investigates this important, transitional period of mapmaking. Beginning with a 1436 atlas of ten maps produced by Venetian Andrea Bianco, Evelyn Edson uses maps of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to examine how the discoveries of mission...

This book was developed to help you to understand and overcome financial, social and economic problems. This new math will lead you to take the control back of your life in very important areas. This book`s focus is, a new philosophy developed by the author known as Democratic Game and System Objective Theory and a new Math called Lirian Mathematics. This book will resume in simple words and in an entirely new math, how to understand our reality environment. It was written with a lot of de...

"O que você aprendeu com suas próprias experiências e com os aconselhamentos para pais? O que eu deveria ter feito de maneira diferente? Tenho filhos pequenos. Se seus filhos fossem pequenos novamente, o que você faria?" Essas palavras explodiram do coração ardente de um pai sentado na minha frente. Seus olhos imploravam por ajuda. Ele estava sofrendo o terrível, vazio e mortal sentimento que um pai tem quando seu filho se desvia. Sentia que tinha falhado como pai. E as palavras deste pai ...