The Unheroic Art of Managing Engineers is not about charisma, vision, or swooping in with last-minute genius. It's about the real work of managing brilliant, stubborn, system-obsessed engineers-and doing it without losing your mind.John Huber, PE, PMP, draws on decades of experience in compliance-driven, high-stakes industries to show what engineering management actually looks like on the ground. With dry humor and practical stories, he explains how to:

A wide-ranging examination of how policies, parties, and labor strength affect inequality in post-industrial societies.Not all countries are unequal in the same ways or to the same degree. In Challenging Inequality, Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens analyze different patterns of increasing income inequality in post-industrial societies since the 1980s, assessing the policies and social structures best able to mitigate against the worst effects of market in...

Although inequality in Latin America ranks among the worst in the world, it has notably declined over the last decade, offset by improvements in health care and education, enhanced programs for social assistance, and increases in the minimum wage.In Democracy and the Left, Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens argue that the resurgence of democracy in Latin America is key to this change. In addition to directly affecting public policy, democratic institutions enable left-lean...

Following the success of their Locus Award–winning anthology The New Space Opera, editors Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan up the ante with The New Space Opera 2, in which more of the most beloved names in science fiction spin stunning tales of interstellar adventure and wonder. Authors include:Neal AsherJohn BarnesCory DoctorowJohn KesselJay LakeJohn MeaneyElizabeth MoonGarth NixMike ResnickJustina RobsonKristine Kathryn RuschJohn ScalziBruce SterlingPeter Wat...

An intimate portrait of John F. Kennedy, Jr., from his closest friend with 16 pages of color photosFrom the iconic image of a little boy saluting his father’s casket to his tragic death at age thirty- eight, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was never far from the public eye. Now the friend who John was flying to see the night he died reveals the private man behind the public myth. Billy and John shared summers in Hyannisport and formed a bond in the Kennedy compound that last...

Christian Zionism—a movement based on the belief that support of Israel, and Israeli ownership of and residence in Jerusalem, is a prerequisite for Christ’s return—has been a significant substratum within theologies and ecclesiologies of many churches in the US and Europe for centuries. Since the 1970s, US-based Christian Zionism organizations, encouraged by and collaborating with the Israeli government, have used a significant amount of resources to spread the movement into other regions ...

Der Angriffskrieg Russlands auf die Ukraine und die nachfolgenden Sanktionspakete haben den gesamten Außenhandel nachhaltig verändert. Daneben haben die Sanktionsdurchsetzungsgesetze I und II zur Gründung einer neuen Behörde geführt, der weitgehende Eingriffsbefugnisse im Bereich der Finanzsanktionen zustehen. Hierdurch hat das Außenwirtschaftsrecht für alle Wirtschaftsakteure in einem bisher nicht gekannten Ausmaß an Dynamik und Komplexität gewonnen.Auf welche neue Regelungen sich...

The Year Book of Surgery brings you abstracts of the articles that reported the year's breakthrough developments in general surgery, carefully selected from more than 500 journals worldwide. Expert commentaries evaluate the clinical importance of each article and discuss its application to your practice. The Year Book of Surgery is published annually in June, and includes topics such as: General Surgery; Trauma; Burns; Critical Care; Transplantation; Surgical Infections; Would Healing; Onc...

The superfamily Chalcidoidea (the jewel wasps) are part of the insect order Hymenoptera. The superfamily comprises more than 27,000 known species, with an estimated total diversity of more than 500,000 species, meaning that the vast majority have yet to be discovered and described. Most of the species are parasitoids, attacking the egg, larval stage or pupal stage of their host, though many other life cycles are known including gall associates and fig pollinators. This landmark volume has ...

Archaeological discoveries indicate that early man, even in a primitive state, made tools to produce and control sound. Music has evolved right along with us. From the perspective of Western (European) culture, all known older, more advanced forms of music developed in the East. The first civilizations of Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Nile had music with well-developed applications, as did the Greeks and Romans, who follow them in our history books. The geographical regions now do...

Besinnung auf das wirklich Wichtige im LebenDie 5 fundamentalen Lebensweisheiten – verdichtet aus der Weisheitsessenz von über 200 älteren Menschen aus ganz verschiedenen religiösen, geistigen und sozialen Milieus.Gibt es das Geheimnis eines geglückten Lebens? Unzählige Bücher beschäftigen sich mit dieser Frage, die meisten von ihnen basieren allerdings eher auf Spekulation und den persönlichen Erfahrungen ihrer Autoren. Im Gegensatz dazu präsentiert Bestse...

The sixteen stories and two screenplays that make up Volume One of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death & Robots.Featuring bestselling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher.Stories and screenplays by Alastair Reynolds, Alberto Mielgo, Claudine Griggs, David W. Amendola, Joe Lansdale, John Scalzi, Ken Liu, Kirsten Cross, Marko Kloos, Michael Swanwick, Peter F. Hamilton, Steven Lew...