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Innovation --- Modernization --- New technology --- Novel foods --- New products --- design --- Prepared foods --- Processed foods
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On January 4th, 2011, the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 became law. The acronym refers to the Government Performance and Results Act. When GPRA 1993 was enacted, it was regarded as a watershed for the federal government. For the first time, Congress established requirements in statute for most agencies to set goals, measure performance, and report the information to Congress for potential use. Agencies submitted this information in three major products: multi-year strategic plans, annual plans, and annual reports. This book provides an overview and background on GPRA 1993 and its modernization changes in 2010.
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If you are determined to encourage creativity and provide a collaborative environment that will bring out the best in people, you will want this book by your side at all times. Bill Moggridge, Director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Make Space is an articulate account about the importance of space; how we think about it, build it and thrive in it. James P. Hackett, President and CEO, Steelcase An inspiring guidebook filled with ways to alter space to fuel creative work and foster collaboration. Based on the work at the Stanford University d.school and its Environments Collaborative Initiative, Make Space is a tool that shows how space can be intentionally manipulated to ignite creativity. Appropriate for designers charged with creating new spaces or anyone interested in revamping an existing space, this guide offers novel and non-obvious strategies for changing surroundings specifically to enhance the ways in which teams and individuals communicate, work, play--and innovate. Inside are: Tools--tips on how to build everything from furniture, to wall treatments, and rigging Situations--scenarios, and layouts for sparking creative activities Insights--bite-sized lessons designed to shortcut your learning curve Space Studies--candid stories with lessons on creating spaces for making, learning, imagining, and connecting Design Template--a framework for understanding, planning, and building collaborative environments Make Space is a new and dynamic resource for activating creativity, communication and innovation across institutions, corporations, teams, and schools alike. Filled with tips and instructions that can be approached from a wide variety of angles, Make Space is a ready resource for empowering anyone to take control of an environment.
Innovation --- Modernisation --- Modernization --- groupe --- groups --- design --- Ergonomie --- ergonomics --- Bâtiment --- Buildings --- Architectural design. --- Architecture --- Work environment --- Psychological aspects. --- Architectuur --- Design ; psychologische aspecten --- 72.012/013 --- 72.017 --- Ruimte --- Environmental psychology --- Design --- Structural design --- Architectonisch ontwerp --- Architectuurontwerp --- Ruimte (architectuur) --- Human factors --- Architectural design --- Psychological aspects --- Economic production --- Organization theory --- architecture [discipline] --- creativity --- space [composition concept] --- workplace --- collaboration --- Créativité
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A meditation on the nature of betrayal, the constraints of identity, and the power of narrative, the lyric monologues in Troy, Unincorporated offer a retelling, or refraction, of Chaucer's tragedy Troilus and Criseyde. The tale's unrooted characters now find themselves adrift in the industrialized farmlands, strip malls, and half-tenanted "historic" downtowns of south-central Wisconsin, including the real, and literally unincorporated, town of Troy. Allusive and often humorous, they retain an affinity with Chaucer, especially in terms of their roles: Troilus, the good courtly lover, suffers from the weeps, or, in more modern terms, depression. Pandarus, the hard-working catalyst who brings the lovers together in Chaucer's poem, is here a car mechanic. Chaucer's narrator tells a story he didn't author, claiming no power to change the course of events, and the narrator and characters in Troy, Unincorporated struggle against a similar predicament. Aware of themselves as literary constructs, they are paradoxically driven by the desire to be autonomous creatures-tale tellers rather than tales told. Thus, though Troy, Unincorporated follows Chaucer's plot-Criseyde falls in love with Diomedes after leaving Troy to live with her father, who has broken his hip, and Troilus dies of a drug overdose-it moves beyond Troilus's death to posit a possible fate for Criseyde on this "litel spot of erthe."
American literature. --- Poetry. --- Poems --- Poetry --- Verses (Poetry) --- Literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Philosophy --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Troy (Walworth County, Wis. : Town) --- poetry, creative writing, literature, poetics, trojan war, troy, troilus and criseyde, chaucer, betrayal, identity, tragedy, modernization, car mechanic, wisconsin, depression, romance, lovers, drugs, overdose, autonomy, agency, individuality, lyric monologues, retelling, adaptation, farming, strip malls, storytelling, aging parents, despair, hopelessness, futility, free will, determinism.
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Les articles rassemblés dans cet ouvrage sont le fruit d'un colloque multidisciplinaire, dont l'ambition était de s'interroger sur la notion de "progrès", mise à mal par la postmodernité et perçue de façon plurielle, dans un monde de plus en plus globalisé. L'idéologie du progrès, centrée autour de l'essor des sciences et des techniques - comprenant le développement économique et social, l'affirmation d'un certain nombre de libertés et de droits fondamentaux -, est, en effet, fréquemment remise en question, tout comme sa volonté universaliste. Pour comprendre cette situation, il a semblé utile de retracer son évolution, d'en dégager les valeurs et de comprendre les reproches dont elle fait l'objet. Les contributions d'auteurs d'Amérique du Sud, d'Asie et d'Afrique permettent également d'entrevoir le sens qu'est donné à l'idée de "progrès" dans des contextes non occidentaux.
Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Science and civilization --- Technological innovations --- Postmodernism --- Science --- Sciences et civilisation --- Innovations --- Postmodernisme --- Sciences --- Congresses --- Philosophy --- Congrès --- Philosophie --- Changement technologique --- technological changes --- Innovation --- Modernisation --- Modernization --- Valeur sociale --- Social values --- Valeur économique --- economic value --- Valeur culturelle --- Cultural values --- Progrès scientifique et technique --- world --- AA / International- internationaal --- BPB1301 --- 203 --- 330.00 --- 331.04 --- 338.043 --- 301 --- Sociografie. Algemene beschrijving van de gemeenschappen (Sociologie). --- Economische en sociale theorieën: algemeenheden. --- Langdurige bewegingen. --- Technologische vooruitgang. Automatisering. Computers. Werkgelegenheid en informatica. --- Social sciences Sociology and anthropology --- bio-éthique --- Philosophie et sciences --- Technologie --- Congrès --- Culture --- Congresses. --- Sociografie. Algemene beschrijving van de gemeenschappen (Sociologie) --- Economische en sociale theorieën: algemeenheden --- Langdurige bewegingen --- Technologische vooruitgang. Automatisering. Computers. Werkgelegenheid en informatica --- Progrès scientifique et technique.
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This book, the first of its kind, provides a sweeping critical history of social theories about war and peace from Hobbes to the present. Distinguished social theorists Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl present both a broad intellectual history and an original argument as they trace the development of thinking about war over more than 350 years--from the premodern era to the period of German idealism and the Scottish and French enlightenments, and then from the birth of sociology in the nineteenth century through the twentieth century. While focusing on social thought, the book draws on many disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, and political science. Joas and Knöbl demonstrate the profound difficulties most social thinkers--including liberals, socialists, and those intellectuals who could be regarded as the first sociologists--had in coming to terms with the phenomenon of war, the most obvious form of large-scale social violence. With only a few exceptions, these thinkers, who believed deeply in social progress, were unable to account for war because they regarded it as marginal or archaic, and on the verge of disappearing. This overly optimistic picture of the modern world persisted in social theory even in the twentieth century, as most sociologists and social theorists either ignored war and violence in their theoretical work or tried to explain it away. The failure of the social sciences and especially sociology to understand war, Joas and Knöbl argue, must be seen as one of the greatest weaknesses of disciplines that claim to give a convincing diagnosis of our times.
Sociology --- War and society. --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Society and war --- War --- Civilians in war --- Sociology, Military --- History --- Social aspects --- American sociology. --- Auguste Comte. --- Carl Schmitt. --- Carl von Clausewitz. --- First World War. --- Germany. --- Hans Speier. --- Herbert Spencer. --- Immanuel Kant. --- James Mill. --- Jean-Jacques Rousseau. --- Jeremy Bentham. --- John Stuart Mill. --- Marxism. --- Michael Doyle. --- Michel Foucault. --- Montesquieu. --- Napoleonic Wars. --- Otto Hintze. --- Roger Caillois. --- Thomas Hobbes. --- United States. --- Werner Sombart. --- capitalism. --- democracy. --- democratic peace. --- democratization. --- empire building. --- failed states. --- free trade. --- historical sociology. --- intellectuals. --- international relations. --- liberalism. --- marketization. --- militarism. --- military sociology. --- modernity. --- modernization theory. --- new wars. --- peace. --- political migrs. --- progressive optimism. --- social change. --- social progress. --- social theory. --- social thought. --- sociology. --- state decline. --- total war. --- violence. --- virtue. --- war.
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This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Why Australia Prospered is a fascinating historical examination of how Australia cultivated and sustained economic growth and success. Beginning with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth century, Ian McLean argues that Australia's remarkable prosperity across nearly two centuries was reached and maintained by several shifting factors. These included imperial policies, favorable demographic characteristics, natural resource abundance, institutional adaptability and innovation, and growth-enhancing policy responses to major economic shocks, such as war, depression, and resource discoveries. Natural resource abundance in Australia played a prominent role in some periods and faded during others, but overall, and contrary to the conventional view of economists, it was a blessing rather than a curse. McLean shows that Australia's location was not a hindrance when the international economy was centered in the North Atlantic, and became a positive influence following Asia's modernization. Participation in the world trading system, when it flourished, brought significant benefits, and during the interwar period when it did not, Australia's protection of domestic manufacturing did not significantly stall growth. McLean also considers how the country's notorious origins as a convict settlement positively influenced early productivity levels, and how British imperial policies enhanced prosperity during the colonial period. He looks at Australia's recent resource-based prosperity in historical perspective, and reveals striking elements of continuity that have underpinned the evolution of the country's economy since the nineteenth century.
Economic development --- Economics. --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Australia --- New Holland --- Osṭralyah --- Usṭralyah --- Australie --- Avstralii︠a︡ --- Nova Hollandia --- Commonwealth of Australia --- Australiese Gemenebes --- أستراليا --- Usturāliyā --- كومنولث الأسترالي --- Kūmunwālth al-Usturālī --- Аўстралія --- Aŭstralii︠a︡ --- Australija --- Австралийски съюз --- Avstraliĭski sŭi︠u︡z --- Австралийският съюз --- Avstraliĭskii︠a︡t sŭi︠u︡z --- Mancomunitat d'Austràlia --- Awstralya --- Komonwelt sa Awstralya --- Australské společenství --- Australien --- Aŭstralio --- Komunejo de Aŭstralio --- Komunaĵo de Aŭstralio --- Austraalia --- Austraalia Ühendus --- Αυστραλία --- Aystralia --- Κοινοπολιτεία της Αυστραλίας --- Koinopoliteia tēs Aystralias --- אוסטרליה --- קהיליית אוסטרליה --- Ḳehiliyat Osṭralyah --- ʻAukekulelia --- Ausztrália --- Ausztrál Államszövetség --- Ástralía --- Samveldið Ástralía --- Negara Persemakmuran Australia --- Persemakmuran Australia --- Austrālijas Savienība --- Australijos Sandrauga --- Австралија --- Avstralija --- Комонвелтот на Австралија --- Komonveltot na Avstralija --- Државна заедница Австралија --- Državna zaednica Avstralija --- Aostralia --- Komanwel Australia --- Awstralja --- Ahitereiria --- Whakaminenga o Ahitereiria --- Австралия --- Австралийский Союз --- Avstraliĭskiĭ Soi︠u︡z --- Mancomunidad de Australia --- Awstralia --- Cymanwlad Awstralia --- Australian Government --- Government of Australia --- Economic policy --- オーストラリア --- Ōsutoraria --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- E-books --- IMPERIALISM -- 325.9 --- 19TH-20TH CENTURY -- 325.9 --- AUSTRALIA -- 325.3 --- PROSPERITY -- 325.3 --- NATURAL RESOURCES -- 325.3 --- GROWTH ENHANCING POLICY -- 325.3 --- IMPERIALISM -- 325.3 --- 19TH-20TH CENTURY -- 325.3 --- GROWTH ENHANCING POLICY -- 325.9 --- Австралийски съюз --- Австралийският съюз --- Австралийский Союз --- Aboriginal economy. --- Aboriginals. --- Asian industrialization. --- Australia. --- Australian colonies. --- Australian economy. --- Australian history. --- Britain. --- British government. --- China. --- European settlement. --- European settlers. --- First World War. --- GDP. --- India. --- Korean War. --- Second World War. --- agriculture. --- ancient lineage. --- capital flows. --- civilian consumption. --- domestic manufacturing. --- domestic savings. --- drought. --- economic fortunes. --- economic growth. --- economic miracles. --- economic prosperity. --- energy sources. --- farming. --- financial outlays. --- foreign investment. --- free immigrants. --- gold rushes. --- growth economics. --- import process. --- income level. --- industrialization. --- institutional innovation. --- international economic order. --- labor force. --- living standards. --- manufacturing. --- market-oriented approach. --- mineral production. --- mining. --- modernization. --- national prosperity. --- pastoral development. --- per capita income. --- policy reforms. --- political institutions. --- poor countries. --- postwar economic environment. --- poverty. --- productivity. --- prosperity. --- rich economies. --- rich economy. --- shifting basis. --- war outbreak. --- wool boom. --- wool industry. --- world depression. --- world energy. --- world trading system. --- History of Oceania with Australia --- anno 1800-1999 --- anno 1700-1799
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As China continues to transform itself, many assume that the nation will eventually move beyond communism and adopt a Western-style democracy. But could China develop a unique form of government based on its own distinct traditions? Jiang Qing--China's most original, provocative, and controversial Confucian political thinker--says yes. In this book, he sets out a vision for a Confucian constitutional order that offers a compelling alternative to both the status quo in China and to a Western-style liberal democracy. A Confucian Constitutional Order is the most detailed and systematic work on Confucian constitutionalism to date. Jiang argues against the democratic view that the consent of the people is the main source of political legitimacy. Instead, he presents a comprehensive way to achieve humane authority based on three sources of political legitimacy, and he derives and defends a proposal for a tricameral legislature that would best represent the Confucian political ideal. He also puts forward proposals for an institution that would curb the power of parliamentarians and for a symbolic monarch who would embody the historical and transgenerational identity of the state. In the latter section of the book, four leading liberal and socialist Chinese critics--Joseph Chan, Chenyang Li, Wang Shaoguang, and Bai Tongdong--critically evaluate Jiang's theories and Jiang gives detailed responses to their views. A Confucian Constitutional Order provides a new standard for evaluating political progress in China and enriches the dialogue of possibilities available to this rapidly evolving nation. This book will fascinate students and scholars of Chinese politics, and is essential reading for anyone concerned about China's political future.
Confucianism and state --- State and Confucianism --- State, The --- Jiang, Qing, --- Chiang, Chʻing, --- 蒋庆, --- 蔣慶, --- Political and social views. --- China --- Politics and government --- Philosophy. --- S12/0216 --- S12/0242 --- S06/0260 --- S06/0255 --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Political philosophy --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Contemporary Chinese philosophy --- China: Politics and government--The Chinese model --- China: Politics and government--Political theory: modern (and/or under Western influence) --- Academy. --- China. --- Confucian constitutionalism. --- Confucian debaters. --- Confucian political ideal. --- Confucian politics. --- Confucian way. --- Confucianism. --- Gongyang Commentary. --- Gongyang school. --- House of Ru. --- Huang Zongxi. --- Jiang Qing. --- Mencius. --- Taliban-style theocracy. --- Way of the Humane Authority. --- Western constitutionalism. --- Western liberal thinkers. --- Western-style democracy. --- Xunzi. --- anthropocentric heaven. --- capitalist modernization. --- civility. --- communism. --- critics. --- heavenХarthШumanity triad. --- historical legitimacy. --- humane authority. --- legislation. --- legitimacy. --- liberal democracy. --- metaphysical position. --- morality. --- neo-Confucians. --- parliamentarians. --- pluralism. --- pluralistic society. --- policy making. --- political institutions. --- political legitimacy. --- political order. --- political power. --- political reality. --- popular will. --- privatization. --- scholar-officials. --- self-cultivation. --- social conflict. --- social welfare. --- sovereignty. --- symbolic monarch. --- symbolic power. --- trans-generational identity. --- transcendent heaven. --- transcendent values. --- tricameral parliament. --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- China (Republic : 1949- )
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