Efficiencies Of Slowness

Author : Rachel Anderson-Rabel
Publisher : Stanford University
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:zn707mp3731

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Efficiencies of Slowness by Rachel Anderson-Rabel Pdf

This project focuses on the process and performance of three contemporary collective creation groups: Goat Island, Elevator Repair Service, and Nature Theater of Oklahoma. I draw processual and aesthetic connections between collective creation methodologies and the consequences of those methodologies in performance, claiming that processes leave footprints that are ultimately visible to audiences, though their visibility requires new ways of seeing. Taking into account an American genealogy of collective creation, I outline the footprints of method through the images of everyday employment, instances of untrained bodies enacting danced gesture, and the speeds and velocities that characterize the work of these three contemporary groups. Through these aesthetics we can locate evidence of methodological principles that constitute a politics. In the work of Goat Island, Elevator Repair Service, and Nature Theater of Oklahoma, this politics does not play out through the ideological content of performance, but is embedded within collaborative acts of making.

Author : Maggie Berg,Barbara Seeber
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781442645561

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Slow Professor by Maggie Berg,Barbara Seeber Pdf

In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopting the principles of the Slow movement in academic life can counter the erosion of humanistic education.

Author : Carl Honore
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781409133049

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In Praise of Slow by Carl Honore Pdf

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - OVER 1/2 MILLION COPIES SOLD 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH NEW PREFACE Across the western world more and more people are slowing down. Slower is better: better work, better productivity, better exercise, better sex, better food. DON'T HURRY, BE HAPPY. Almost everyone complains about the hectic pace of their lives. These days, our culture teaches that faster is better. But in the race to keep up, everything suffers - our work, diet and health, our relationships and sex lives. International bestselling author Carl Honoré uncovers a movement that challenges the cult of speed. In this entertaining and hands-on investigation, he takes us on a tour of the emerging Slow movement: from a Tantric sex workshop in London to a meditation room for Tokyo executives, from a SuperSlow exercise studio in New York, to Italy, the home of the Slow Food, Slow Cities and Slow Sex movements. There has never been a better time to embrace the healing power of living slow.

Author : Paul Breeze
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128129050

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Piston Engine-Based Power Plants by Paul Breeze Pdf

Piston Engine-Based Power Plants presents Breeze's most up-to-date discussion and clear and concise analysis of this resource, aimed at those working and researching in the area. Various engine types including Diesel and Stirling are discussed, with consideration of economic factors and important planning considerations, such as the size and speed of the plant. Breeze also evaluates the emissions which piston engines can create and considers ways of planning for and controlling those. Explores various types of engines used to power automotive power plants such as internal combustion, spark-ignition and dual-fuel Discusses the engine cycles, size and speed Evaluates emissions and considers the various economic factors involved

Author : Bruce Edmond Berger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924088879097

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A Measurement of the Semileptonic Branching Fraction Β(−B0->D®+l-−v) at CLEO by Bruce Edmond Berger Pdf

Author : Ricardo Filipe Sereno Póvoa,João Carlos da Palma Goes,Nuno Cavaco Gomes Horta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319952079

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A New Family of CMOS Cascode-Free Amplifiers with High Energy-Efficiency and Improved Gain by Ricardo Filipe Sereno Póvoa,João Carlos da Palma Goes,Nuno Cavaco Gomes Horta Pdf

This book addresses the need for energy-efficient amplifiers, providing gain enhancement strategies, suitable to run in parallel with lower supply voltages, by introducing a new family of single-stage cascode-free amplifiers, with proper design, optimization, fabrication and experimental evaluation. The authors describe several topologies, using the UMC 130 nm CMOS technology node with standard-VT devices, for proof-of-concept, achieving results far beyond what is achievable with a classic single-stage folded-cascode amplifier. Readers will learn about a new family of circuits with a broad range of applications, together with the familiarization with a state-of-the-art electronic design automation methodology used to explore the design space of the proposed circuit family.

Author : Christine Louise Hohlbaum
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-27
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781429986687

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The Power of Slow by Christine Louise Hohlbaum Pdf

Overwhelmed by electronic gadgets? Buried under an avalanche of e-mails? Juggling too many tasks and responsibilities? Desperately in need of a deep breath and a time-out? For all of us who answer yes to any of these questions, help is on the way. Getting to the heart of our hassled and over-scheduled existence, Christine Louise Hohlbaum cheerfully investigates 101 ways to increase our quality of life and productivity by reevaluating how we perceive and use time. Everyone has their own personal bank account of time, and while we cannot control time itself, we can manage the activities with which we fill the time we have available to us. The Power of Slow gives readers practical, concise directions to change the relationship they have with time and debunks the myths of multitasking, speed, and urgency as the only ways to efficiency. Tips include: · When working on a project on your computer, close all the windows, with the exception of the one you need to do your job. · Learn to say no in a polite and constructive way to favors, invitations, and requests. · Manage your own expectations, as well as those of others, by clearly stating what is possible in the time frame given. · Declare gadget-free zones (both geographical and temporal) to really enjoy your leisure time. · Know when your plate is full. · Make commitments to difficult tasks in five-minute increments and gradually increase the increments. · Save your most favorite or the easiest tasks for last to avoid procrastination. The Power of Slow will help readers identify areas in need of improvement and show them how to become more efficient and less frazzled at work and at home---and live a better, more balanced life.

Author : Rachel Anderson-Rabel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:743207958

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Efficiencies of Slowness by Rachel Anderson-Rabel Pdf

This project focuses on the process and performance of three contemporary collective creation groups: Goat Island, Elevator Repair Service, and Nature Theater of Oklahoma. I draw processual and aesthetic connections between collective creation methodologies and the consequences of those methodologies in performance, claiming that processes leave footprints that are ultimately visible to audiences, though their visibility requires new ways of seeing. Taking into account an American genealogy of collective creation, I outline the footprints of method through the images of everyday employment, instances of untrained bodies enacting danced gesture, and the speeds and velocities that characterize the work of these three contemporary groups. Through these aesthetics we can locate evidence of methodological principles that constitute a politics. In the work of Goat Island, Elevator Repair Service, and Nature Theater of Oklahoma, this politics does not play out through the ideological content of performance, but is embedded within collaborative acts of making.

Author : Donald Anderson Laird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Psychology, Applied
ISBN : CORNELL:31924014061398

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Increasing Personal Efficiency by Donald Anderson Laird Pdf

Author : Chris Rumford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317968122

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Citizens and borderwork in contemporary Europe by Chris Rumford Pdf

The extent to which ordinary people can construct, shift, and dismantle borders is seriously neglected in the existing literature. The book explores the ability of citizens to participate in the making of borders, and the empowerment that can result from this bordering and debordering activity. ‘Borderwork’ is the name given to the ways in which ordinary people can make and unmake borders. Borderwork is no longer only the business of nation-states, it is also the business of citizens (and indeed non-citizens). This study of ‘borderwork’ extends the recent interest in forms of bordering which do not necessarily occur at the state’s external borders. However, the changing nature of borders cannot be reduced to a shift from the edges to the interior of a polity. To date little research has been conducted on the role of ordinary people in envisioning, constructing, maintaining, shifting, and erasing borders; creating borders which facilitate mobility for some while creating barriers to mobility for others; appropriating the political resources which bordering offers; contesting the legitimacy of or undermining the borders imposed by others. This book makes an original contribution to the literature and stands to set the agenda for a new dimension of border studies. This book was published as a special issue of Space and Polity.

Author : Isabelle Stengers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781509521845

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Another Science is Possible by Isabelle Stengers Pdf

Like fast food, fast science is quickly prepared, not particularly good, and it clogs up the system. Efforts to tackle our most pressing issues have been stymied by conflict within the scientific community and mixed messages symptomatic of a rushed approach. What is more, scientific research is being shaped by the bubbles and crashes associated with economic speculation and the market. A focus on conformism, competitiveness, opportunism and flexibility has made it extremely difficult to present cases of failure to the public, for fear that it will lose confidence in science altogether. In this bold new book, distinguished philosopher Isabelle Stengers shows that research is deeply intertwined with broader social interests, which means that science cannot race ahead in isolation but must learn instead to slow down. Stengers offers a path to an alternative science, arguing that researchers should stop seeing themselves as the 'thinking, rational brain of humanity' and refuse to allow their expertise to be used to shut down the concerns of the public, or to spread the belief that scientific progress is inevitable and will resolve all of society's problems. Rather, science must engage openly and honestly with an intelligent public and be clear about the kind of knowledge it is capable of producing. This timely and accessible book will be of great interest to students, scholars and policymakers in a wide range of fields, as well anyone concerned with the role of science and its future.

Author : Susan Clark,Woden Teachout
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781603584135

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Slow Democracy by Susan Clark,Woden Teachout Pdf

Reconnecting with the sources of decisions that affect us, and with the processes of democracy itself, is at the heart of 21st-century sustainable communities. Slow Democracy chronicles the ways in which ordinary people have mobilized to find local solutions to local problems. It invites us to bring the advantages of "slow" to our community decision making. Just as slow food encourages chefs and eaters to become more intimately involved with the production of local food, slow democracy encourages us to govern ourselves locally with processes that are inclusive, deliberative, and citizen powered. Susan Clark and Woden Teachout outline the qualities of real, local decision making and show us the range of ways that communities are breathing new life into participatory democracy around the country. We meet residents who seize back control of their municipal water systems from global corporations, parents who find unique solutions to seemingly divisive school-redistricting issues, and a host of other citizens across the nation who have designed local decision-making systems to solve the problems unique to their area in ways that work best for their communities. Though rooted in the direct participation that defined our nation's early days, slow democracy is not a romantic vision for reigniting the ways of old. Rather, the strategies outlined here are uniquely suited to 21st-century technologies and culture.If our future holds an increased focus on local food, local energy, and local economy, then surely we will need to improve our skills at local governance as well.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Appropriations, Committee on
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433019658370

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Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Bill, 1917 by United States. Congress. House. Appropriations, Committee on Pdf

Author : dehyun sohn,Hee-Jung Jang,Timothy Jung
Publisher : Springer
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319148540

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Go Slow and Curvy by dehyun sohn,Hee-Jung Jang,Timothy Jung Pdf

This book introduces readers to the concepts of sustainability and philosophy of slowness for the management of public entities such as cities or regions. While many urban communities face economic challenges that clearly show the limitations of growth and ever-increasing speed, this book explores an alternative, thought-provoking standpoint in five chapters. The first chapter explains the importance and essence of slowness, smallness and sustainability for public organizations, while the second addresses the concept of “slow life” in an emotional society. Chapter three examines the issue of “slow management” and presents arguments for the value of small businesses as the true foundation of the economy. Chapter four rounds out the coverage with a focus on agriculture. Finally, in chapter five, the authors discuss the overall benefits of a “slow and curvy” management style in order to provide happiness, economic and social sustainability.

Author : Robert E. Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Cells
ISBN : IND:30000121316271

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Syverton Memorial Symposium: Analytic Cell Culture by Robert E. Stevenson Pdf