In this eloquent first-person account of a family drama that changed the face of American business, the man who transformed IBM into the world's largest computer company reflects on his lifelong partnership with his father--and how their management style and shared dedication to excellence united to create a unique corporate culture that became the blueprint for the entire technology boom.In the course of sixty years Thomas J. Watson Sr. and his son, Thomas J. Watson Jr., together ...

With the government trying to bring more work into primary care, the creation of the GP With a Special Interest and the newer salaried posts, doctors may feel bewildered by the sheer choice facing them. Becoming involved in academia, education, writing, secondary care work, outside agency work, wanting to be a partner, salaried or work flexible hours — how do you negotiate these many choices? This useful guide aims to help, highlighting the options available for newly qualified GPs helping...

This unique volume brings together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars as well as Czech and Slovak decisionmakers who were personally involved in the events leading up to the separation of Czechoslovakia. Asking whether the dissolution was inevitable, the contributors bring a range of different approaches and perspectives to bear on the twin problems of democratic transitions in multinational societies and ethnic separatism and its origins. The blend of analysis and insider experiences ...

Questo libretto di Pëtr Kropotkin (1842-1921), uno dei più importanti teorici del pensiero anarchico, affronta una questione cruciale per la filosofia morale: perché fare il bene? Perché non seguire piuttosto il nostro egoismo? Per il filosofo russo un contributo alla comprensione di questa domanda può giungere, più che dalla morale corrente e dalla religione, che hanno un carattere ideologico, dalla osservazione del mondo animale.“L’uguaglianza nei rapporti umani e la solidarietà ...

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 ...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the distribution of public money and its political and societal implications. Drawing on evidence from central and eastern Europe, it offers an innovative insight into public responses to various strategies of public spending. Given that public expenditures are funded mainly from tax revenues, it also assesses public attitudes to politically motivated allocations of funds. The book seeks to identify how people evaluate the material benefits of...

This book brings together the work of researchers in Eastern and Western Europe, who analyze competitiveness, social exclusion and sustainability from a range of perspectives. It examines the key challenges faced by the EU in its efforts to establish a socially inclusive and greener path to growth and develops policy recommendations to simultaneously achieve the EU 2020 agenda’s long-term goals and address the current economic crisis in Europe.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference on High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering, HPCSE 2019, held in Karolinka, Czech Republic, in May 2019.The 9 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions. The conference provides an international forum for exchanging ideas among researchers involved in scientific and parallel computing, including theory and applicati...

The book explores the interplay between utopianism and modernity in Central and Eastern Europe, emphasizing the evolution of political imagination in the region. It provides several case studies mapping the ideological landscape of Central and Eastern Europe, illustrating the dynamics of imported ideologies, local traditions, and evolving societal norms. The volume covers issues such as socialism, nationalism, European integration, the rule of law, and populism as the main political powers...

Das Lexikon erörtert zentrale Begrifflichkeiten im Themenfeld der Inklusion. Expertinnen und Experten geben Antworten auf Fragen zu Bedeutung und Inhalt wesentlicher Stichworte im Diskurs von Inklusion. Kompetenz, Barrierefreiheit, Inklusion, Koedukation, Kybernetik, Partizipation, Resilienz, Schulbegleitung/Schulassistenz, Sprachbehinderung, Segregation, Trisomie 21, Vielfalt – diese und weitere zentrale Begriffe im Kontext von Inklusion werden von Expertinnen und Experten des jeweiligen ...

The book provides a comprehensive overview of current knowledge about "wattles", a large clade of over 1000 species of trees and shrubs in the genus Acacia, most of which are native to Australia. It examines the biology, ecology, evolution, and biogeography of wattles in their native ranges, including the evolutionary forces that have driven past speciation and adaptation to diverse environments, the conservation status, uses and human perceptions of these species. It considers the differe...

The book covers the topic of experimental instrumentation at the turn of the 20th century. The authors introduce the role of instruments in the process of establishing psychology as a science. They concentrate on identifying historical devices and problems with rediscovering their functionality. The core of the book consists of a categorized list of instruments with a description of their purpose and mechanical design. The categorization covers recording and time measuring devices, instrum...