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The Technological Fix - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Technological Fix - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The term "technological fix" should mean a fix provided by technology--a solution for all of our problems, from medicine and food production to the environment and business. Instead, technological fix has come to mean a cheap, quick fix using inappropriate technology that usually creates more problems than it solves. This collection sets out the distinction between a technological fix and a true technological solution.Bringing together scholars from a variety of disciplines, the essays trace the technological fix as it has appeared throughout the twentieth century. Addressing such "fixes" as artificial hearts, industrial agriculture and climate engineering, these essays examine our need to turn to technology for solutions to all of our problems.

DKK 482.00
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The Focus Fix - Chris Griffiths - Bog - Kogan Page Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Focus Fix - Chris Griffiths - Bog - Kogan Page Ltd - Plusbog.dk

With focus and a clear mind, we can achieve almost anything. But we are constantly subjected to a deluge of distractions, from endless notification pings to anxiety and self-doubt. The Focus Fix explores how you can reset your mindset in order to reclaim your focus and achieve incredible results. In this fascinating book, leading creativity expert Chris Griffiths and journalist Caragh Medlicott unearth scientific studies and inspiring case studies to offer practical and proven techniques that will allow you to dispel distractions and maintain your focus.This book also uncovers the numerous benefits of sustained focus: you can achieve more by doing less, improve your mental wellbeing and boost your creativity. Don''t get distracted - maximize your potential and discover the antidote to burnout with The Focus Fix.

DKK 504.00
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The Six-Month Fix - Gary Sutton - Bog - John Wiley & Sons Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Six-Month Fix - Gary Sutton - Bog - John Wiley & Sons Inc - Plusbog.dk

"If you''re the CEO of a struggling business, let''s hope we never meet. I''m Gary Sutton, a turnaround guy. When I arrive you leave. Results usually get better and fast."-from the Introduction to The Six-Month Fix Lessons on how to save a sick company from a top turnaround CEO One of the business world''s most sought-after "trauma specialists," Gary Sutton has salvaged nearly a dozen failing businesses, including everything from printing, garbage hauling, and burglar alarm companies to aerospace, satellite communications, and software firms. In The Six-Month Fix, Sutton takes readers behind the PR curtain to give them an intimate look at the situations he faced coming into several sick companies and how he fixed what ailed them. Writing in his trademark frank, funny, no-holds-barred style, he shares his war stories and the lessons he learned about what it takes to save a faltering business. Not for the faint of heart, The Six-Month Fix offers honest, straight-from-the-hip advice for managers in training for the business fight of their lives. Gary Sutton (La Jolla, CA) sits on several private boards, is a Director of WebSense (WSBN-Nasdaq), and is the author of several books.

DKK 455.00
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The Carbon Fix - - Bog - Left Coast Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Carbon Fix - - Bog - Left Coast Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Given the growing urgency to develop global responses to a changing climate, The Carbon Fix examines the social and equity dimensions of putting the world’s forests—and, necessarily, the rural people who manage and depend on them—at the center of climate policy efforts such as REDD+, intended to slow global warming. The book assesses the implications of international policy approaches that focus on forests as carbon and especially, forest carbon offsets , for rights, justice, and climate governance. Contributions from leading anthropologists and geographers analyze a growing trend towards market principles and financialization of nature in environmental governance, placing it into conceptual, critical, and historical context. The book then challenges perceptions of forest carbon initiatives through in-depth, field-based case studies assessing projects, policies, and procedures at various scales, from informed consent to international carbon auditing. While providing a mixed assessment of the potential for forest carbon initiatives to balance carbon with social goals, the authors present compelling evidence for the complexities of the carbon offset enterprise, fraught with competing interests and interpretations at multiple scales, and having unanticipated and often deleterious effects on the resources and rights of the world’s poorest peoples—especially indigenous and rural peoples. The Carbon Fix provides nuanced insights into political, economic, and ethical issues associated with climate change policy. Its case approach and fresh perspective are critical to environmental professionals, development planners, and project managers; and to students in upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental anthropology and geography, environmental and policy studies, international development, and indigenous studies.

DKK 514.00
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Science Fix - Danny Nicholson - Bog - SAGE Publications Inc - Plusbog.dk

Science Fix - Danny Nicholson - Bog - SAGE Publications Inc - Plusbog.dk

Many primary school teachers find science a difficult subject to teach. Not only do teachers need to develop their own knowledge of a complex subject, they also need to know how to bring this subject to life in the primary classroom. Science Fix is here to help! In this practical book, author Danny Nicholson: *Guides you through all areas of the primary science curriculum. *Outlines the subject knowledge you need for each area, enabling you to teach with confidence. *Includes practical advice for teaching and guidance on how to plan and deliver sequences of engaging science lessons.*Outlines activities for teaching that promote scientific thinking and help children to work as scientists. *Identifies common misconceptions, allowing you to anticipate them in planning.*Asks what working scientifically is and, importantly, what it is not.

DKK 657.00
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What is Schizophrenia and How Can We Fix It? - Glenn D. Shean - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

What is Schizophrenia and How Can We Fix It? - Glenn D. Shean - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

What is Schizophrenia and How Can We Fix It? is an attempt to present a balanced overview of research and theory on the causes and treatment of schizophrenia. This work provides a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of contemporary theory and research on schizophrenia as well as the historical background of this mental illness. It also details the diagnostic issues, epidemiology, neurobiological research and psychopharmacology.

DKK 512.00
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To Fix or To Heal - - Bog - New York University Press - Plusbog.dk

To Fix or To Heal - - Bog - New York University Press - Plusbog.dk

Do doctors fix patients? Or do they heal them? For all of modern medicine’s many successes, discontent with the quality of patient care has combined with a host of new developments, from aging populations to the resurgence of infectious diseases, which challenge medicine’s overreliance on narrowly mechanistic and technical methods of explanation and intervention, or “fixing’ patients. The need for a better balance, for more humane “healing” rationales and practices that attend to the social and environmental aspects of health and illness and the experiencing person, is more urgent than ever. Yet, in public health and bioethics, the fields best positioned to offer countervailing values and orientations, the dominant approaches largely extend and reinforce the reductionism and individualism of biomedicine.The collected essays in To Fix or To Heal do more than document the persistence of reductionist approaches and the attendant extension of medicalization to more and more aspects of our lives. The contributors also shed valuable light on why reductionism has persisted and why more holistic models, incorporating social and environmental factors, have gained so little traction. The contributors examine the moral appeal of reductionism, the larger rationalist dream of technological mastery, the growing valuation of health, and the enshrining of individual responsibility as the seemingly non-coercive means of intervention and control. This paradigm-challenging volume advances new lines of criticism of our dominant medical regime, even while proposing ways of bringing medical practice, bioethics, and public health more closely into line with their original goals. Precisely because of the centrality of the biomedical approach to our society, the contributors argue, challenging the reductionist model and its ever-widening effects is perhaps the best way to press for a much-needed renewal of our ethical and political discourse.

DKK 674.00
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The Urban Fix - Douglas Kelbaugh - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Urban Fix - Douglas Kelbaugh - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Cities are one of the most significant contributors to global climate change. The rapid speed at which urban centers use large amounts of resources adds to the global crisis and can lead to extreme local heat. The Urban Fix addresses how urban design, planning and policies can counter the threats of climate change, urban heat islands and overpopulation, helping cities take full advantage of their inherent advantages and new technologies to catalyze social, cultural and physical solutions to combat the epic, unprecedented challenges humanity faces. The book fills a conspicuous void in the international dialogue on climate change and heat islands by examining both the environmental benefits in developed countries and the population benefit in developing countries. Urban heat islands can be addressed in incremental, manageable steps, such as planting trees and painting roofs white, which provide a more concrete and proactive sense of progress for policymakers and practitioners. This book is invaluable to anyone searching for a better understanding of the impact of resilient cities in the monumental and urgent fight against climate change, and provides the tools to do so.

DKK 401.00
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The World's Greatest Fix - G. J. Leigh - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The World's Greatest Fix - G. J. Leigh - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The World''s Greatest Fix: A History of Nitrogen and Agriculture tells the story of how humans have used their ingenuity throughout history to maintain soil fertility, and to avoid famine through productive agriculture. It starts with a layman''s guide to the relevant chemistry of nitrogen and shows how the development of towns and fixed settlements meant that methods had to be found to maintain the fertility of fields exploited year after year. The way this was done, in purely empirical fashion, is described for the Chinese, the Incas, the Mayas, and the Romans. Author G. J. Leigh then examines the development of agriculture in England, including the use of field rotations. The gradual evolution of more sophisticated methods of land management is covered, emphasizing the use of fertilizers, the early development of chemistry with the realization of the modern concepts of elements and the contributions of plants and animals, and the establishment of agricultural science by Davy and Von Liebig. Leigh explains how we have arrived at our current understanding of biological nitrogen fixation through the efforts of generations of dedicated farmers and researchers. Later chapters deal with the birth of the nitrogen fixation industry and the political and economic consequences of it in Europe (First World War) and South America (guano and nitrate).The World''s Greatest Fix shows how industrial fixation has developed from a laboratory process newly discovered at the beginning of the twentieth century into the impressive and sophisticated procedure in use today. Finally, the value of industrial nitrate to help feed the current world population and the environmental consequences of nitrate pollution in waters is discussed.

DKK 470.00
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The Humanitarian Fix - Joe Cropp - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Humanitarian Fix - Joe Cropp - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book investigates how humanitarians balance the laws and principles of civilian protection with the realities of contemporary warzones, where non-state armed actors assert cultural, political and religious traditions that are often at odds with official frameworks. This book argues that humanitarian protection on the ground is driven not by official frameworks in the traditional sense, but by the relationships between the complex mix of actors involved in contemporary wars. The frameworks, in turn, act as a unifying narrative that preserves these relationships. As humanitarian practitioners navigate this complex space, they act as unofficial brokers, translating the official frameworks to align with the often-divergent agendas of non-state armed actors. In doing so, they provide an unofficial humanitarian fix for the challenges inherent in applying the official frameworks in contemporary wars. Drawing on rich ethnographic observations from the author’s time in northern Iraq, and complemented by interviews with a range of fieldworkers and humanitarian policy makers and lawyers, this book will be a compelling read for researchers and students within humanitarian and development studies, and to practitioners and policy makers who are grappling with the contradictions this book explores.

DKK 420.00
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The Myth of the Community Fix - Sarah D. (assistant Professor Of Political Science Cate - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Myth of the Community Fix - Sarah D. (assistant Professor Of Political Science Cate - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

A detailed examination of the limitations and pitfalls of pursuing the community-based reform movement in the American criminal justice system. As the extent of America''s mass incarceration crisis has come into sharper view, politicians, activists and non-profit foundations from across the political spectrum have united around "community-based" reforms. Many states are pursuing criminal justice reforms that aim to move youth out of state-run prisons and into community-based alternatives as a way of improving the lives of youth caught in the juvenile justice system. In The Myth of the Community Fix, Sarah D. Cate demonstrates that rather than a panacea, community-based juvenile justice reforms have resulted in a dangerous constellation of privatized institutions with little oversight. Focusing on case studies of three leading states for this model of reform--Texas, California, and Pennsylvania--Cate provides a comprehensive look at the alarming on-the-ground consequences of the turn towards community in an era of austerity. Although often portrayed as a break with past practices, this book documents how community-based reforms are the latest in a long line of policy prescriptions that further individualize the problem of delinquency, bolster punitiveness, and reduce democratic accountability. Through contextualizing the community-based reform movement as part of the broader shift away from the centralized provision of public goods in the United States, Cate shows why those committed to addressing the problems of mass incarceration should be wary of the community fix.

DKK 697.00
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The Quick Fix Guide to Academic Writing - Phillip C. Shon - Bog - Sage Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Quick Fix Guide to Academic Writing - Phillip C. Shon - Bog - Sage Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Whether you’re writing a paper, essay, assignment, or dissertation, this short and punchy book helps you improve your writing skills through minimal effort. Providing you with a quick set of writing rules to follow, this tried and tested guide uses a unique and easy to follow grid-based system. Packed with advice on understanding (big and little) common errors made in academic writing, it helps you identify patterns in your own writing and demonstrates how to reshape or re-evaluate them - and raise your writing game in any academic context. How-to tutorials include: - - Synthesizing and critiquing literature – and using your coding sheet to develop critical arguments - - Shaping abstracts, introductions, discussions, and conclusions – to improve the logic and structure of your writing - - Applying lessons-learned to future projects, whatever format of academic writing. - Save time and improve your grades, with this essential quick fix guide! The Student Success series are essential guides for students of all levels. From how to think critically and write great essays to planning your dream career, the Student Success series helps you study smarter and get the best from your time at university.

DKK 723.00
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To Fix a National Character - Abigail G. Mullen - Bog - Johns Hopkins University Press - Plusbog.dk

To Fix a National Character - Abigail G. Mullen - Bog - Johns Hopkins University Press - Plusbog.dk

A new history of the First Barbary War, a conflict that helped plant the seeds for the United States'' ascent to a global superpower. After the American Revolution, maritime traders of the United States lost the protection of Britain''s navy, leading privateers from the Barbary States—Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and the Sultanate of Morocco—to prey on American shipping in the Mediterranean, kidnapping and enslaving American sailors. While most European countries made treaties to circumvent this predation, this option was fiscally untenable for the young nation, and on May 14, 1801, Tripoli declared war on the United States. In To Fix a National Character , Abigail G. Mullen argues that the First Barbary War represented much more than the military defeat of an irritating minor power. The United States sought a much more ambitious goal: entrance to the Mediterranean community, as well as respect and recognition as an equal member of the European Atlantic World. Without land bases in the region, good relations with European powers were critical to the United States'' success in the war. And because the federal government was barely involved in the distant conflict, this diplomacy fell to a series of consuls and commodores whose goals, as well as diplomatic skills, varied greatly. Drawing on naval records, consular documents, and personal correspondences, Mullen focuses on the early years of the war, when Americans began to build relationships with their Mediterranean counterparts. This nuanced political and diplomatic history demonstrates that these connections represented the turning point of the war, rather than any individual battles. Though the war officially ended in 1805, whether the United States truly "won" the war is debatable: European nations continued to regard the United States as a lesser nation, and the Barbary states continued their demands for at least another decade.

DKK 434.00
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What's Wrong with the WTO and How to Fix It - Rorden Wilkinson - Bog - John Wiley and Sons Ltd - Plusbog.dk

What's Wrong with the WTO and How to Fix It - Rorden Wilkinson - Bog - John Wiley and Sons Ltd - Plusbog.dk

We need a world trade organization. We just don''t need the one that we have. By pitching unequally matched states together in chaotic bouts of negotiating the global trade governance of today offers - and has consistently offered - developed countries more of the economic opportunities they already have and developing countries very little of what they desperately need. This is an unsustainable state of affairs to which the blockages in the Doha round provide ample testimony. So far only piecemeal solutions have been offered to refine this flawed system. Radical proposals that seek to fundamentally alter trade governance or reorient its purposes around more socially progressive and egalitarian goals are thin on the ground. Yet we eschew deeper reform at our peril. In What''s Wrong with the World Trade Organization and How to Fix It Rorden Wilkinson argues that without global institutions fit for purpose, we cannot hope for the kind of fine global economic management that can put an end to major crises or promote development-for-all. Charting a different path he shows how the WTO can be transformed into an institution and a form of trade governance that fulfils its real potential and serves the needs of all.

DKK 576.00
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Fix Me Up - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Fix Me Up - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

This collection of essays focuses on two sub-genres of reality television: dating shows, like The Bachelor, Joe Millionaire, and the earlier Love Connection ; and makeover reality shows, like The Swan and Are You Hot? The Search for America''s Sexiest People . Each author explores a different aspect of one or both of these types of shows, focusing especially on the cultural interaction between the text--dating and makeover shows--and society.

DKK 429.00
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24 Deadly Sins of Software Security: Programming Flaws and How to Fix Them - John Viega - Bog - McGraw-Hill Education - Europe - Plusbog.dk

24 Deadly Sins of Software Security: Programming Flaws and How to Fix Them - John Viega - Bog - McGraw-Hill Education - Europe - Plusbog.dk

Publisher''s Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Eradicate the Most Notorious Insecure Designs and Coding Vulnerabilities Fully updated to cover the latest security issues, 24 Deadly Sins of Software Security reveals the most common design and coding errors and explains how to fix each one-or better yet, avoid them from the start. Michael Howard and David LeBlanc, who teach Microsoft employees and the world how to secure code, have partnered again with John Viega, who uncovered the original 19 deadly programming sins. They have completely revised the book to address the most recent vulnerabilities and have added five brand-new sins. This practical guide covers all platforms, languages, and types of applications. Eliminate these security flaws from your code: - SQL injection - Web server- and client-related vulnerabilities - Use of magic URLs, predictable cookies, and hidden form fields - Buffer overruns - Format string problems - Integer overflows - C++ catastrophes - Insecure exception handling - Command injection - Failure to handle errors - Information leakage - Race conditions - Poor usability - Not updating easily - Executing code with too much privilege - Failure to protect stored data - Insecure mobile code - Use of weak password-based systems - Weak random numbers - Using cryptography incorrectly - Failing to protect network traffic - Improper use of PKI - Trusting network name resolution

DKK 461.00
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Fix Your Supply Chain - Paul Husby - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Fix Your Supply Chain - Paul Husby - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Written by business leaders for business leaders, this book explores successful supply chain improvement requirements and improvement methodologies, along with their strengths and limitations. It covers the use of these techniques in a story about Twin City Manufacturing, a fictitious company based on the authors’ actual experiences. The principles put forth in this volume show how to enable and sustain long-term change. Whether you are intimately familiar with the supply chain discipline or have limited experience, the authors provide a valuable roadmap that can be applied to supply chain improvement. Drawing from their combined 70 years of experience with supply chain–related functions, they explore seven factors that can help a company become one of the few that truly achieve and maintain operational excellence. 1. Top company leadership 2. Improvement methodology 3. Continuous improvement strategy 4. The cause and the vision 5. The Sustainable Improvement Roadmap 6. Enablement of sustainability 7. Constancy of purpose Operational excellence is required to make any winning business strategy sustainable, but it is only achieved and sustained through continuous improvement, and these improvements must be real. This book will arm you with the knowledge and methods needed to identify needed change and the tools to implement them, and perhaps most importantly, give you the confidence needed to become an effective change agent.

DKK 532.00
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Fix It In Post - Jack James - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Fix It In Post - Jack James - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book provides an array of concise solutions to the wide variety of problems that are faced by postproduction artists in the post process. With an application-agnostic approach, it gives proven, step-by-step methods to solving the most frequently encountered postproduction problems. Also included is access to a free, password-protected website that features application-specific resolutions to the problems presented, with fixes for working in Apple''s Final Cut Studio suite, Avid''s Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro, as well as other applications. Lessons are enhanced through eye-catching 4 color illustrations throughout. Solutions are provided for common audio, video, digital, editorial, color, timing and compositing problems, such as, but not limited to: * automated dialogue replacement, adjusting sync, and correcting pitch * turning SD into HD (and vice-versa) and restoration of old film for video * removing duplicate frames, repairing corrupt frames, and anti-aliasing * maintaining continuity, removing soft cuts, and troubleshooting timecodes * adding vignettes, removing color casts, and legalizing color * speeding shots up or slowing shots down, and smoothing timelapse * reframing shots, sky replacement, and object addition or removal The book is presented in a "cookbook" format, allowing you to reference your exact problem in the TOC or index, go to that section, and immediately implement the solution featured.

DKK 440.00
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Pragmatic Healthcare Ethnography - Gemmae M. Fix - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Pragmatic Healthcare Ethnography - Gemmae M. Fix - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This practical and accessible textbook provides an overview of the key principles for conducting ethnography in healthcare settings. Shedding new light on healthcare delivery and experiences, ethnographic research methods provide a useful set of tools for observing how people act in the world and help us understand why people act as they do. Increasingly recognized for their explanatory power, especially around behavior and social context, ethnographic methods are an invaluable approach for understanding challenges and processes in healthcare services and delivery. This guide takes the reader step-by-step through the research process, from grant writing and study design to data collection and analysis. Each chapter, illustrated by a range of examples, introduces ethnographic concepts and techniques, considers how to apply them in pragmatic research, and includes suggestions for tips and tricks. An in-depth case study describing real-world ethnographic research in a healthcare setting follows each chapter to demonstrate both the “how to” and the value of ethnographic approaches. The case studies discuss why the researcher used ethnography, the specific approach taken, the setting for the work, and key lessons that demonstrate ethnographic principles covered in the related chapter. This is an essential text for researchers from a range of health-related backgrounds new to ethnographic methods, including students taking courses on qualitative research methods in health, implementation science, and applied anthropology.

DKK 391.00
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