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Project Success and Quality Balancing the Iron Triangle

Project Success and Quality Balancing the Iron Triangle

Projects are inherently risky since they involve some level of uncertainty doing something new in the target environment but the percentage of projects seen as a success is still disappointingly low especially for IT projects. The ‘Iron Triangle’ of time/cost/quality suggests that all three aspects are equal but with quantitative methods for monitoring project performance the focus is primarily on managing cost and time. This book seeks to redress the balance explaining the rationale and benefits of focusing more on quality (fitness for purpose and conformance to requirements) before detailing a range of tools and techniques to support rebalancing the management of projects programmes and portfolios. It shows how managing project quality actively can reduce costs through minimising wastage and reduce delays through avoiding rework leading to improved project success rates and customer satisfaction. | Project Success and Quality Balancing the Iron Triangle

GBP 36.99
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Iron Shipbuilding on the Thames 1832–1915 An Economic and Business History

Iron Shipbuilding on the Thames 1832–1915 An Economic and Business History

This title was first published in 2000. 'Little better documented than King Arthur or Robin Hood' complained one historian in 1998 describing the lack of information on Thames shipbuilding. This study of iron shipbuilding on the capital's river fills this noticeable gap. A. J. Arnold examines the initial domination of the iron shipbuilding trade by Thames firms from the launch of the first iron vessel on the river in 1832 to the end of serious Thames-side shipbuilding in 1915. For the first time the factors that caused the industry's demise are explored fully together with an analysis of the effect it had on its locality. Extending existing series of data the book includes information on annual shipbuilding tonnage and the number of vessels constructed and further looks at tonnage built for foreign citizens companies and navies and for the British Admirality. This broader and deeper statistical survey is supplemented with less systematic documentation such as memorabilia and business records to arrive at the most complete picture yet of a once pre-eminent British industry. A. J. Arnold is Professor of Accounting and Business History at the University of Essex. | Iron Shipbuilding on the Thames 1832–1915 An Economic and Business History

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Ancestor Worship and the Elite in Late Iron Age Scandinavia A Grave Matter

Ancestor Worship and the Elite in Late Iron Age Scandinavia A Grave Matter

Ancestor worship is often assumed by contemporary European audiences to be an outdated and primitive tradition with little relevance to our societies past and present. This book questions that assumption and seeks to determine whether ancestor ideology was an integral part of religion in Viking Age and early medieval Scandinavia. The concept is examined from a broad socio-anthropological perspective which is used to structure a set of case studies which analyse the cults of specific individuals in Old Norse literature. The situation of gods in Old Norse religion has been almost exclusively addressed in isolation from these socio-anthropological perspectives. The public gravemound cults of deceased rulers are discussed conventionally as cases of sacral kingship and more recently religious ruler ideology; both are seen as having divine associations in Old Norse scholarship. Building on the anthropological framework this study introduces the concept of ‘superior ancestors’ employed in social anthropology to denote a form of political ancestor worship used to regulate social structure deliberately. It suggests that Old Norse ruler ideology was based on conventional and widely recognised religious practices revolving around kinship and ancestors and that the gods were perceived as human ancestors belonging to elite families. | Ancestor Worship and the Elite in Late Iron Age Scandinavia A Grave Matter

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Political Financing in Developing Countries A Case from Ghana

Political Financing in Developing Countries A Case from Ghana

This book argues that to fully grasp the decision-making of politicians and political actors in developing countries we must first understand how politicians finance their campaigns for office—and to whom they are indebted and expected to repay. Political Financing in Developing Countries focuses on Ghana in depth a country often held up as an example of a successful two-party democracy with regular party changes in government. However it is unlikely that candidates and political parties are wealthy enough to finance the increasing costs of campaigns and constituent demands and successful democratic outcomes could be masking a system that actually hinders development progress. Drawing on nearly 200 interviews and extensive fieldwork this book posits that political funds are extracted by an iron square of politicians bureaucrats construction contractors and political-party chairs which rigs the procurement of local-development projects to generate kickbacks. The iron square remains robust across party changes in government due to reciprocity obligations that minimize contractors’ income risks. Ultimately this web of kickbacks diminishes the quality of development by reducing the funds available for projects and distorting incentives to monitor projects. To break this iron square the book recommends replacing sealed-bid procurement—a best practice that ignores on-the-ground realities—with a system that accounts for income stabilization and social obligations. Overall the book argues that scholars of development should advance research on political finance to identify and then alleviate the games that decision makers must play to survive in the political sphere. Political Financing in Developing Countries will be an important and timely resource for scholars across development studies politics economics and African Studies. | Political Financing in Developing Countries A Case from Ghana

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A Short History of the Steam Engine

A Short History of the Steam Engine

First published in 1938 this volume details the steam engine as the most dynamic factor in the Industrial Revolution freeing humanity from their age-long dependence upon the power of water wind and animals or of their own muscles. Itself the offspring of coal and iron it made possible the sinking of deeper mines and the casting and forging of greater quantities of iron from which machines were constructed to be powered by steam in the factories of the rapidly growing industrial areas. Soon the mass-produced goods from these mills were transported by steam locomotives and steamships all over the world. This was the Age of Steam. Even today steam turbines still drive the dynamos of our electric power stations whether fuelled by coal oil or nuclear energy. Much has been written about the steam engine but this book first produced by the late Dr. H. W. Dickinson just before the second World War is still the best short account. It describes developments from the pioneering efforts of Savery and Newcomen through the achievements of Watt and Trevethick down to Parsons and modern times. | A Short History of the Steam Engine

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Running the Show The Essential Guide to Being a First Assistant Director

Running the Show The Essential Guide to Being a First Assistant Director

Whether it's a crew of two hundred shooting a cast of thousands on horseback or a crew of twelve filming one person in a room each and every successful movie production requires a strong First Assistant Director (AD) at its helm. In this new and updated edition veteran First AD Liz Gill walks you through the entire filmmaking process through the perspective of the First AD from pre-production shoot wrap and everything in between. This book provides invaluable insight into working as a First Assistant Director featuring tricks-of-the-trade for breaking down a script creating a schedule and organizing test shoots alongside how to use turnaround time weather cover split days overtime and continuous days to balance a challenging schedule and get the most from the cast crew and the shoot. This new edition has been fully updated and expanded throughout to provide up-to-date coverage on new equipment and software health and safety considerations and the implications of VFX. This is the essential guide to becoming a successful First Assistant Director ideal for professional and aspiring AD’s seeking to further their career students of directing and production looking to gain a better understanding of how this department works and anyone interested in film and TV production. The accompanying eResources provide an expanded selection of sample call sheets report templates checklists and other useful documents. | Running the Show The Essential Guide to Being a First Assistant Director

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Socioeconomic Evaluation of Megaprojects Dealing with uncertainties

Socioeconomic Evaluation of Megaprojects Dealing with uncertainties

The governance and evaluation of ‘megaprojects’ – that is large-scale complex high-stakes infrastructure projects usually commissioned by governments and delivered through partnerships between public and private organisations – is receiving increased attention. However megaproject evaluation has hitherto largely adopted a linear-rationalist perspective to explain the frequent failure of such projects to meet the ‘iron triangle’ of performance criteria: delivering on time within budget and according to specifications. This approach recommends greater control and accountability to remedy megaproject ‘pathologies’. Drawing on empirical examples mainly from the transport sector and radioactive waste disposal this book offers new perspectives to megaproject evaluation. Comprising contributions from leading experts in project evaluation and appraisal this collection opens up new avenues by suggesting two ways of improving megaproject evaluation: 1) approaches that go beyond the dominant linearrationalist notion of policy processes and emphasise instead the objective of opening up appraisal processes in order to enhance learning and reflexivity; and 2) approaches that extend evaluative criteria beyond the ‘iron triangle’ to cover the various socioeconomic impacts and preconditions for project success. This volume will be of great relevance to scholars and practitioners with an interest in megaprojects energy and climate policy radioactive waste management urban design and project planning and management. | Socioeconomic Evaluation of Megaprojects Dealing with uncertainties

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Directing for Community Theatre

Directing for Community Theatre

Directing for Community Theatre is a primer for the amateur director working in community theatre. With an emphasis on preparedness this book gives the amateur director the tools and techniques needed to effectively work on a community theatre production. Covering play analysis blocking staging communication and working with actors designers and other theatre personnel this how-to book is designed to have the community theatre director up and running quickly with full knowledge of how to direct a show. The book also contains sample forms and guidelines including acting analysis character analysis rehearsal schedule audition form prop list and blocking pans. Directing for Community Theatre is written for the community theatre participant who is interested or already cast in the role of the director.

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Representing the Middle East and Africa in Social Studies Education Teacher Discourse and Otherness

Representing the Middle East and Africa in Social Studies Education Teacher Discourse and Otherness

Representing the Middle East and Africa in Social Studies Education examines the lived classroom experiences of six social studies teachers and the relevance of their discourse in framing the knowledge students receive about populations in the Middle East and Africa. With a focus on the socialization processes of schooling this book deconstructs the classroom experience and investigates the ways in which a macro-societal phenomenon—otherness—is reified in micro-societal interactions. Through the methodological lens of Critical Discourse Analysis this work illuminates the importance of teachers’ language in challenging and reinforcing portrayals that cast the diverse populations of the Middle East and Africa in the role of the other. | Representing the Middle East and Africa in Social Studies Education Teacher Discourse and Otherness

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The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance brings together a selection of particularly memorable performances beginning with Nell Gwyn in a 1668 staging of Secret Love and moving chronologically towards the final performance of John Philip Kemble's controversial adaptation of Thomas Otway's Venice Presever'd in October 1795. This volume contains a wealth of contextual materials including contemporary reviews portraits advertisements and cast lists. By privileging event over publication this collection aims to encourage an understanding of performance that emphasizes the immediacy - and changeability - of the theatrical repertoire during the long eighteenth century. Offering an invaluable insight into the performance culture of the time The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance is a unique much-needed resource for students of theatre.

GBP 32.99
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To Die Gallantly The Battle Of The Atlantic

To Die Gallantly The Battle Of The Atlantic

German U-boats known as iron coffins terrorized Allied ships during World War II and were responsible for thousands of deaths. This volume published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic brings together historians from both sides of the ocean to discuss this important campaign. As well as offering new insights into both familiar and more neglected aspects the book reflects the human dimension of the conflict paying tribute to the whole spectrum of personnel involved - planners and strategists spies and code-breakers naval officers and crews merchant sailors and civilians. | To Die Gallantly The Battle Of The Atlantic

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Grey Wolf- Mustafa Kemal An Intimate Study of a Dictator

Grey Wolf- Mustafa Kemal An Intimate Study of a Dictator

Mustafa Kemal was known both as a vicious dictator and the iron-willed creator of modern Turkey however little was known about him and he was viewed as an enigma by many. Originally published in 1932 Armstrong delves into Kemal’s career and personal life in great detail showing how he moved between revolutionary soldier and politician whilst also discussing his love of women drinking and gambling to present a clear picture of the infamous ruler. This title will be of interest to students of History and Middle-Eastern Studies. | Grey Wolf- Mustafa Kemal An Intimate Study of a Dictator

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Promoting Resilience Responding to Adversity Vulnerability and Loss

Promoting Resilience Responding to Adversity Vulnerability and Loss

Promoting Resilience offers a fresh perspective that views resilience through a sociological lens emphasizing the significance of loss issues and highlighting a range of practice implications across a wide range of fields. Drawing on the expertise of a wide range of contributors the book provides a solid foundation for developing a fuller and more holistic picture of the many challenges associated with promoting resilience. Chapters present a range of sociological perspectives that cast light on trauma and vulnerability. Combining theoretical richness with practical insights chapter authors bring a sociological lens to enrich understanding of loss and adversity. This volume offers a bedrock of understanding for students clinicians and researchers who want to extend and deepen their knowledge of the sociological aspects of overcoming life challenges. | Promoting Resilience Responding to Adversity Vulnerability and Loss

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Consulting to Chaos An Approach to Patient-Centred Reflective Practice

Consulting to Chaos An Approach to Patient-Centred Reflective Practice

In clinical work an awareness of patients' subjective experiences particularly their perceptions of interpersonal relationships is indispensable. The aim of this book is to improve care and treatment planning by describing a structured approach to eliciting patients' core relationship patterns. These patterns consist of the roles and scenarios into which they repeatedly cast themselves and others with whom they interact. Maladaptive patterns in which vicious cycles and self-fulfilling prophecies of misperception misunderstanding or provocation escalate cause pain and havoc in personal relationships and can adversely affect both professionals' decisions and the overall delivery of treatment. This book shows how to use vital information that is often not made available to treatment teams in order to understand such potential pitfalls rather than succumb to them. | Consulting to Chaos An Approach to Patient-Centred Reflective Practice

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Security Policy Reorientation in Peripheral Europe A Comparative-Perspectivist Approach

Security Policy Reorientation in Peripheral Europe A Comparative-Perspectivist Approach

This title was first published in 2002. This rich comparative analysis looks at security policy reorientation in four European states located at the periphery of the European continent. During the post-Cold War period Greece Bulgaria Sweden and Finland conducted a security policy that was heavily influenced by their close proximity to the iron curtain . Probing this transition during a decisive phase of the post-Cold War reconstitution of the wider European security order the author analyzes national security policy making from the standpoints of three international relations traditions - realism institutionalism and political anthropology. This engaging work is invaluable for students scholars and policy analysts working in the field of international relations and European politics. | Security Policy Reorientation in Peripheral Europe A Comparative-Perspectivist Approach

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Revival: Genre and Void (2003) Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir

Revival: Genre and Void (2003) Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir

This book was first published in 2003: Developing a reading of some of Beauvoir's and Sartre's most influential writings in philosophy Max Deutscher explores contemporary philosophy in the light of the phenomenological tradition within which Being and Nothingness and The Second Sex occurred as striking events operating on the border of the modern and the post-modern. Deutscher traces the shifts of genre that produce their gendered philosophies and responds in terms of contemporary experience to the mood and the arguments of their works. Drawing upon the writings of two contemporary critics in particular - Michele Le D“uff and Luce Irigaray - Deutscher reworks this part of philosophy's history in order to advance thinking in contemporary philosophy generate renewed philosophical reflection on consciousness freedom and one's relation to others and to return a look still cast in our direction from an earlier time. | Revival: Genre and Void (2003) Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir

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Passion and Control: Dutch Architectural Culture of the Eighteenth Century

Passion and Control: Dutch Architectural Culture of the Eighteenth Century

Passion and Control explores Dutch architectural culture of the eighteenth century revealing the central importance of architecture to society in this period and redefining long-established paradigms of early modern architectural history. Architecture was a passion for many of the men and women in this book; wealthy patrons burgomasters princes and scientists were all in turn infected with architectural mania. It was a passion shared with artists architects and builders and a vast cast of Dutch society who contributed to a complex web of architectural discourse and who influenced building practice. The author presents a rich tapestry of sources to reconstruct the cultural context and meaning of these buildings as they were perceived by contemporaries including representations in texts drawings and prints and builds on recent research by cultural historians on consumerism material culture and luxury print culture and the public sphere and the history of ideas and mentalities. | Passion and Control: Dutch Architectural Culture of the Eighteenth Century

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Children Childhood and Musical Theater

Children Childhood and Musical Theater

Bringing together scholars from musicology literature childhood studies and theater this volume examines the ways in which children's musicals tap into adult nostalgia for childhood while appealing to the needs and consumer potential of the child. The contributors take up a wide range of musicals including works inspired by the books of children's authors such as Roald Dahl P. L. Travers and Francis Hodgson Burnett; created by Rodgers and Hammerstein Lionel Bart and other leading lights of musical theater; or conceived for a cast made up entirely of children. The collection examines musicals that propagate or complicate normative attitudes regarding what childhood is or should be. It also considers the child performer in movie musicals as well as in professional and amateur stage musicals. This far-ranging collection highlights the special place that musical theater occupies in the imaginations and lives of children as well as adults. The collection comes at a time of increased importance of musical theater in the lives of children and young adults. | Children Childhood and Musical Theater

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Domination Migration and Non-Citizens

Domination Migration and Non-Citizens

Does the concept of domination cast new light on issues that arise in the context of migration and citizenship? If citizenship is a status that provides protection from domination understood as subjection to arbitrary interference are non-citizens - whether outside or inside the state - necessarily subject to domination by virtue of being non-citizens? Does domination provide a useful basis for considering the harms that migrants suffer? If non-domination is a value to be promoted in politics what are the implications for the treatment of migrants and resident non-citizens? This book addresses issues of migration and citizenship within the frame of freedom in terms of domination understood as being subject to the threat of arbitrary interference. Coming from a variety of perspectives the chapters examine the issues of migration controls differential resident statuses including temporary workers refugees and long-term residents and the conditions for access to citizenship in the light of these concerns. This book was published as a special issue of the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. | Domination Migration and Non-Citizens

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Early Race Filmmaking in America

Early Race Filmmaking in America

The early years of the twentieth century were a formative time in the long history of struggle for black representation. More than any other medium movies reflected the tremendous changes occurring in American society. Unfortunately since they drew heavily on the nineteenth-century theatrical conventions of blackface minstrelsy and the Uncle Tom Show traditions early pictures persisted in casting blacks in demeaning and outrageous caricatures that marginalized and burlesqued them and emphasized their comic or servile behavior. By contrast race films—that is movies that were black-cast black-oriented and viewed primarily by black audiences in segregated theaters—attempted to counter the crude stereotyping and regressive representations by presenting more authentic racial portrayals. This volume examines race filmmaking from numerous perspectives. By reanimating a critical but neglected period of early cinema—the years between the turn-of-the-century and 1930 the end of the silent film era—it provides a fascinating look at the efforts of early race film pioneers and offers a vibrant portrait of race and racial representation in American film and culture. | Early Race Filmmaking in America

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Successfully Teaching and Managing Children with ADHD A Resource for SENCOs and Teachers

Successfully Teaching and Managing Children with ADHD A Resource for SENCOs and Teachers

Written by one of the UK's leading experts in ADHD O’Regan’s Successfully Teaching and Managing Children with ADHD is an invaluable resource offering practical and effective strategies for managing the difficult and often disruptive symptoms of ADHD in the classroom setting. Alongside the accessible and user-friendly resources that have made the first edition so valued this second edition offers: A greater number of case studies addressing the key issues surrounding ADHD in education Up-to-date information and advice regarding medication and behavioural strategies Specific advice on recognising and managing ADHD in girls and adults Chapters in this book explore topics such as recognising and managing ADHD behaviour; working with parents of children with ADHD; whole school approaches to ADHD; and professional development for teachers and assistants. With accompanying assessment and management resources including the CAST (Child ADHD Screening Tool) this is an essential tool for teachers SENCOs behavioural management staff and senior leaders. | Successfully Teaching and Managing Children with ADHD A Resource for SENCOs and Teachers

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