The Worlding Project

Author : Christopher Leigh Connery,Rob Wilson
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1556436807

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The Worlding Project by Christopher Leigh Connery,Rob Wilson Pdf

Globalization discourse now presumes that the “world space” is entirely at the mercy of market norms and forms promulgated by reactionary U.S. policies. An academic but accessible set of studies, this wide range of essays by noted scholars challenges this paradigm with diverse and strong arguments. Taking on topics that range from the medieval Mediterranean to contemporary Jamaican music, from Hong Kong martial arts cinema to Taiwanese politics, writers such as David Palumbo-Liu, Meaghan Morris, James Clifford, and others use innovative cultural studies to challenge the globalization narrative with a new and trenchant tactic called “worlding.” The book posits that world literature, cultural studies, and disciplinary practices must be “worlded” into expressions from disparate critical angles of vision, multiple frameworks, and field practices as yet emerging or unidentified. This opens up a major rethinking of historical “givens” from Rob Wilson’s reinvention of “The White Surfer Dude” to Sharon Kinoshita’s “Deprovincializing the Middle Ages.” Building on the work of cultural critics like Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, and Kenneth Burke, The Worlding Project is an important manifesto that aims to redefine the aesthetics and politics of postcolonial globalization withalternative forms and frames of global becoming.

Author : Hashim Sarkis,Roi Salgueiro Barrio,Gabriel Kozlowski
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262043960

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The World as an Architectural Project by Hashim Sarkis,Roi Salgueiro Barrio,Gabriel Kozlowski Pdf

Architects imagine the planet: fifty speculative world-scale projects from Patrick Geddes, Alison and Peter Smithson, Kiyonori Kikutake, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Luc Deleu, and others. The world's growing vulnerability to planet-sized risks invites action on a global scale. The World as an Architectural Project shows how for more than a century architects have imagined the future of the planet through world-scale projects. With fifty speculative projects by Patrick Geddes, Alison and Peter Smithson, Kiyonori Kikutake, Saverio Muratori, Takis Zenetos, Sergio Bernardes, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Luc Deleu, and many others, documented in text and images, this ambitious and wide-ranging book is the first compilation of its kind. Interestingly, architects begin to address the world as a project long before the advent of contemporary globalism and its assorted anxieties. The Spanish urban theorist and entrepreneur Arturo Soria y Mata, for example, in 1882 envisions a system that connects the entire planet in a linear urban network. In 1927, Buckminster Fuller's “World Town Plan—4D Tower” proposes to solve global housing problems with mobile structures delivered and installed by a Zeppelin. And Joyce Hsiang and Bimal Mendis visualize the conditions of a worldwide “City of Seven Billion” in a 2015–2019 project. Rather than indulging the cliché of the megalomaniac architect, this volume presents a discipline reflecting on its own responsibilities.

Author : Elizabeth Harrin
Publisher : BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1780171714

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Shortcuts to Success by Elizabeth Harrin Pdf

This highly accessible book gives advice to project managers who need to get up to speed quickly. It includes hints and tips on managing budget, time, scope and people. This updated edition reflects changes to working practices such as the use of social media and collaboration tools. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 CMI MANAGEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR.

Author : Richard Perrin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470260838

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Real World Project Management by Richard Perrin Pdf

If you're a project manager, you need this guide to fill in the gaps in the PM canon. The Project Management Institute's Body of Knowledge, fails to fully explain certain PM tools and how they work, among other failures. Real-World Project Management fills in those major gaps with irreverence, wit, and wisdom. For any kind of project you’re managing, this book presents the high-quality tools and tactics you need to succeed.

Author : Mary Koller,Margaret Legowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Geography
ISBN : MINN:31951D00274559Y

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The World Map Project by Mary Koller,Margaret Legowski Pdf

This handbook can be used by anyone with an interest in mapmaking. The step-by-step guide shows how to draw, plan, and color a one-of-a-kind world map. There is a list of materials, supplies, worksheets, and a trouble-shooting appendix for special situations. The guide also provides a variety of enrichment activities to promote continued involvement with the world map. The activities stress cooperative problem-solving for participants of all ages. There are three parts in the guide: (1) "How to Make Your World Map"; (2) "How to Use Your World Map"; and (3) "Resources for Making Your World Map." An appendix containing directional material and a bibliography is also included. (EH)

Author : Robert K. Wysocki,James P Lewis
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780465011490

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The World Class Project Manager by Robert K. Wysocki,James P Lewis Pdf

Effective project management is becoming a critical mission skill for individuals and organizations in every industry. Faster product life cycles, the widespread adoption of cross-functional teams, and the increasing demands of customers are all contributing to the growing need for professional managers who know how to marshal resources, make decisions, and ensure the smooth flow of projects from idea to launch. In The World Class Project Manager, Robert Wysocki and James Lewis offer a highly practical handbook for anyone who aspires to achieve superior project-manager skills. Featuring self-assessment tools, showcasing best practices from the field, and drawing on their own extensive experience in training project managers around the world, the authors provide a comprehensive program for crafting a career development plan and putting it into action.

Author : Shantayanan Devarajan,Lyn Squire
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Economic development projects
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Reviving Project Appraisal at the World Bank by Shantayanan Devarajan,Lyn Squire Pdf

Author : Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501374791

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Mexican Literature as World Literature by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Pdf

Mexican Literature as World Literature is a landmark collection that, for the first time, studies the major interventions of Mexican literature of all genres in world literary circuits from the 16th century forward. This collection features a range of essays in dialogue with major theorists and critics of the concept of world literature. Authors show how the arrival of Spanish conquerors and priests, the work of enlightenment naturalists, the rise of Mexican academies, the culture of the Mexican Revolution, and Mexican neoliberalism have played major roles in the formation of world literary structures. The book features major scholars in Mexican literary studies engaging in the ways in which modernism, counterculture, and extinction have been essential to Mexico's world literary pursuit, as well as studies of the work of some of Mexico's most important authors: Sor Juana, Carlos Fuentes, Octavio Paz, and Juan Rulfo, among others. These essays expand and enrich the understanding of Mexican literature as world literature, showing the many significant ways in which Mexico has been a center for world literary circuits.

Author : Yuri Shevchuk
Publisher : STRATA Publishing House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9785907127685

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THE COLLAPSE OF THE "HUMANITY" PROJECT The World in 2050 by Yuri Shevchuk Pdf

The writer tells about the current state of the environment and the deep reasons of ecological crisis, gives the forecasts of development of an environmental disaster in various regions, the countries and continents for the future thirty years.

Author : Brogan Graham,Bojan Mandaric,Caleb Daniloff
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781623366292

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November Project: The Book by Brogan Graham,Bojan Mandaric,Caleb Daniloff Pdf

November Project: The Book is the story of how two irreverent, way-outside-the-box fitness fanatics are flipping the fitness industry on its head and literally making the world a better place, one city at a time. No facility. No machines. Just two dudes and a tribe of thousands. Welcome to November Project’s world takeover. What started 4 years ago as a simple monthlong workout pact between two former Northeastern University oarsmen in Boston has grown into an international fitness phenomenon. November Project espouses free, public, all-weather, outdoor group sweats that turn strangers into friends and connect everyone to the city in which they live. It’s been described as everything from flashmob fitness to “the fight club of running clubs” and a cult. But November Project prides itself on defying categories. In November Project: The Book, Brogan Graham (a.k.a. BG) and Bojan Mandaric, in their own spicy, big-hearted words, chronicle, along with tribe member and writer Caleb Daniloff, their fitness movement’s genesis, evolution, operations, membership, “secret sauce,” and future—and along the way, show you how you can get fit and societally engaged. The book also includes illustrated workouts; the keys to meaningful civic engagement; information on using your city as a gym; advice on starting an NP tribe; tips on growing, sustaining, and invigorating membership through social media; and thoughts on the collective power of community.

Author : Prashant Palvia,Jaideep Ghosh,Tim Jacks,Alexander Serenko,Aykut Hamit Turan
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811208652

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World It Project, The: Global Issues In Information Technology by Prashant Palvia,Jaideep Ghosh,Tim Jacks,Alexander Serenko,Aykut Hamit Turan Pdf

Understanding the key IT issues facing firms within their surrounding contexts is critical for the firm, government, and their international counterparts.In response to the dominant and pervasive bias in Information Systems (IS) research towards American and Western views, the World IT Project was launched and is the largest study of its kind in the field. This book captures the organizational, technological, and individual issues of IT employees across 37 countries.The book enables management and staff to formulate business and IT-related policies and strategies. Likewise, it allows policymakers, governments and vendors to address important issues at the national level as well as to respond to the needs of partners and stakeholders in other countries. It also offers current and future academic scholars a grounded understanding of the international IT environment and provides a sound foundation to launch many international IT studies.

Author : Brian Falkner
Publisher : Ember
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780375871887

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The Project by Brian Falkner Pdf

Brian Falkner delivers in this sci-fi thriller with a Da Vinci Code twist! It begins with a book. The most boring book in the world. A book so boring no one could ever read it—the perfect place to hide a dangerous secret. When best friends Luke and Tommy volunteer to help move books from their library's basement to higher ground during a quick-rising flood, they discover the only surviving copy of the world's most boring book: Leonardo's River, lost for over a hundred years. Mysteriously connected to Leonardo da Vinci, the book is worth millions, so Luke and Tommy return that night to steal it. Unfortunately, they're not the only ones with that plan. . . . Brian Falkner, author of The Assault, Brain Jack, and The Tomorrow Code, weaves another page-turning thriller full of heart-pounding action--this time, with a secret from Leonardo da Vinci that could determine the fate of history. Hand this to a reluctant boy reader or any reader who loves action and mystery. "Falkner delivers a thriller that melds humor, danger and history. . . . The result is an entertaining mystery with plenty of enjoyable twists and turns." —Publishers Weekly "[The Project] reads like an action movie, with plenty of chases, explosions, and by-a-hair escapes." —School Library Journal

Author : Ayesha Vawda
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Economic development projects
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Economic Analysis of World Bank Education Projects and Project Outcomes by Ayesha Vawda Pdf

Outcomes on World Bank education projects are better when the quality of project appraisal is good.

Author : Darren Dalcher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000480788

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Rethinking Project Management for a Dynamic and Digital World by Darren Dalcher Pdf

Although project management is a newly recognised profession, it deals with a number of significant challenges. We seem to operate in an unprecedented environment, rife with change, innovation and turbulence. Moreover, projects by their very nature tend to push boundaries, encourage novelty and demand engagement with the uncertain and the unknown. Indeed, projects reflect our organised impulse to constantly amend, shape, improve and refine our context. So how can future projects overcome the challenges? Rethinking Project Management for a Dynamic and Digital World makes a powerful and original statement equipping project leaders and managers with new approaches and frameworks for an increasingly demanding world where the traditional methods, models and mindsets no longer suffice. The book explores new trends, promising ideas and novel concepts and distils the fundamentals for marshalling a world concerned with people, communities and value by deploying innovation, rethinking purpose and acting responsibly. An increasingly borderless, upwardly mobile and entrepreneurial society requires a revamped and revitalised project perspective that is more dynamic, adaptive and reflective. This volume brings together some of the best writing by leading authorities on many key topics, including benchmarking, lean quality, communicating, teams and teamwork, followership, organising for project work, project frameworks, agile working, project portfolios, strategic initiatives, strategic alignment, trust, entrepreneurship, putting people first, social processes, positive organisations, rethinking progress, the hacker paradigm, community, stewardship and knowledge management. The collection thus offers an invaluable new resource for informed managers looking to engage with the latest thinking and research and for researchers seeking to reflect on how the discipline is changing.

Author : Charles Carpenter
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781411618107

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Real World Project Management by Charles Carpenter Pdf

Real world Project Management is a no-nonsense project management resource. From the time the project is assigned to you to completion you will be in control with the right tools and proven and tried methodology. Charles Carpenter is a project management professional with years of real experience. His commitment to you is that the content of this book is immediately useable and applicable to every project you manage. You won't find yourself sifting through the mounds of useless information you will find in other project books written by egotists trying to prove how smart they are.