Michael Fox

Miles Kemp

Every year, a bevy of new phones, games, televisions, and electronic reading devices ride into our lives on a tidal wave of interactive hype. These i-products, while handy, primarily confine their interactivity to the surfaces of screens. Not exactly the kind of "world-changing" transformation we've been promised. In Interactive Architecture, authors Michael Fox and Miles Kemp introduce us to a brave new world where design pioneers are busy creating environments that not only facilitate interaction between people, but also actively participate in their own right. These spacesable to reconfigure themselves in response to human stimuliwill literally change our worlds by addressing our ever-evolving individual, social, and environmental needs. In other words, it's time to stop asking what architecture is and start asking what it can do. Interactive Architecture is a processes-oriented guide to creating dynamic spaces and objects capable of performing a range of pragmatic and humanistic functions. These complex physical interactions are made possible by the creative fusion of embedded computation (intelligence) with a physical, tangible counterpart (kinetics). A uniquely twenty-first century toolbox and skill setvirtual and physical modeling, sensor technology, CNC fabrication, prototyping, and roboticsnecessitates collaboration across many diverse scientific and art-based communities. Interactive Architecture includes contributions from the worlds of architecture, industrial design, computer programming, engineering, and physical computing. These remarkable projects run the gamut in size and complexity. Fullscale built examples include a house in Colorado that programs itself by observing the lifestyle of the inhabitants, and then learns to anticipate and accommodate their needs. Interactive Architecture examines this vanguard movement from all sides, including its sociological and psychological implications as well as its potentiallybeneficial environmental impact.

Interactive Architecture

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The Even More Complete Chess Addict

Paolo Messina

What you get with this book? Purchasing the book gives you access to a Q&A course on product management with Michael Fox and Paolo Messina. In this video course the authors respond to 17 questions asked by product managers and aspiring product managers. You also get a $50 coupon for Artificial Intelligence Product management courses on Innodemia. Who Is the Book for ? The book is for product managers in the 0-5 years range when they are starting or transitioning from one position to another. The book is also useful to those who are preparing interviews as it shows real life examples that are usually not covered in product management books. During the review phase of the book, several product executives found it an excellent resource to remind themselves of practical scenarios and skills around product management. Therefore any product manager can take their words not ours. We also believe that product owners and product marketers will benefit from this book because a lot of their everyday operations overlap with those of product managers. Additionally we have created an entire section of the book on the interface between product and marketing. Why did we write this book on product management ? The position of product management is usually very idealized and a lot of material covers fancy aspects of this job (or the way to pass an interview). We wanted to help those who are getting into the field or are migrating from one position to another with real, effective and straight to the point. This book can help product managers accelerate their transition, have more situational awareness and achieve a satisfactory level of proficiency. What you find in this book The book is designed around practical situations. Particularly we describe the interaction with many stakeholders such as engineers, marketers, sales personnel, support, operations and peers. This is a wealth of practical know how that is at the center of your day to day life as product manager. Additionally the books dwells a lot around the psycho behavior of customers and users and how you can leverage this to design products, experiences and flows that satisfy your users'' needs. The book also explains how product managers should factor the business context in their approach to the various situations described. For example the nature of the business, consumers or business to business. The business model, service, royalty, one time purchase, etc. Finally the book covers several areas at the interface of product management and marketing with a particular emphasis around digital marketing. How is this book different ? Either you are a professional already working or still a student, todays'' life is hectic and people''s attention span is diminishing by the day. This is why the book is condensed in simple yet thorough and direct tips that allow you to get real advice without spending weeks in reading. The book is structured around the idea that if we provide you with a context, and example and a recipe to solve that example you can then more easily apply the concept and develop the right mindset to execute product management, product design and product research tasks more effectively and with higher personal satisfaction. Our goal is for you to become situationally aware and to know you are not the first one nor are you are alone when facing complex situations where multiple stakeholders have divergent requests and where trade offs are unclear or ambiguous. The video course, which is a companion to this book, contains many additional sections,an example: A Framework for Product Managers Strategy versus Tactics: Coca Cola Colossal Failure Strategy versus Tactics: The SAAS Launch Lessons When Execs Who Don''t Know What They Want How To Thrive Managing Small Product Lines How to Break in Product Management Essentials for non tech product manager and...other 9 chapters

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101 Tips For Effective Product Managers

Alan Snitow

Deborah Kaufman

Out of sight of most Americans, global corporations like Nestlé, Suez, and Veolia are rapidly buying up our local water sources—lakes, streams, and springs—and taking control of public water services. In their drive to privatize and commodify water, they have manipulated and bought politicians, clinched backroom deals, and subverted the democratic process by trying to deny citizens a voice in fundamental decisions about their most essential public resource. The authors' PBS documentary Thirst showed how communities around the world are resisting the privatization and commodification of water. Thirst, the book, picks up where the documentary left off, revealing the emergence of controversial new water wars in the United States and showing how communities here are fighting this battle, often against companies headquartered overseas. Read a review...http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/18/RVGS9OHPKT1.DTL

Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water

Thirst

Tomorrowchild - a look into our world if just a few things were inadvertently changed. Join Bobby Timmons and his friends as they explore their own faults and find hidden strengths. Explore the inner working of the mind, where it is possible to reach into another's mind with a simple touch. Then discover what happens when the government finds out. Will the friendships formed be torn apart? How will minor changes in the timeline affect the world we live in? Can one person really make that much difference? The past will change!

Tommorrowchild

Mickey Burns took pride in his dead-end job: It wasn't everybody who got to say they worked for the Queens District Attorney's Office. So what if it was a dead-end job. At least he got to work on his stand-up comedy routine. Unfortunately he had another hobby. . . gambling. And now he had to come up with twenty-five thousand dollars to pay off his bookie. That was about as low as Mickey Burns could go, until his best friend was arrested for the murder of a cop. Jack Moran, once a great cop and now hip deep in the bottle, asked Mickey for a favor, a favor he was willing to pay for. So what if it was illegal? Mickey could use the money to pay off his gambling debts. Mickey's investigation leads behind the shiny facade of a police shield to the seamy underbelly of law enforcement—a place where pay-offs and rip-offs are as much a part of the job as handcuffs and Miranda warnings. They soon find out how scarce friends become once they cross the thin blue line. Luck to Lose blurs the line between cops, prosecutors and criminals until the only thing that can be trusted is a man's word.

Luck to Lose

Carlos Martinez (Journalist)

Jojo Farrell

For the last decade, Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution has captured international attention. Poverty, inequality and unemployment have all dropped, whilst health, education and living standards have seen a commensurate rise. VENEZUELA SPEAKS! is a collection of interviews with activists and participants from across the spectrum of the country's social movements. From community media to land reform, cooperatives to communal councils, the labour movement to the Afro-Venezuelan network, this essential document of contemporary Venezuela sheds light on the count

Voices from the Grassroots

Venezuela Speaks!

Karakter And Ideology In The Book Of Ester

Manish Sharma

It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the Bible in the medieval world. For the Anglo-Saxons, literary culture emerged from sustained and intensive biblical study. Further, at least to judge from the Old English texts which survive, the Old Testament was the primary influence, both in terms of content and modes of interpretation. Though the Old Testament was only partially translated into Old English, recent studies have shown how completely interconnected Anglo-Latin and Old English literary traditions are. Old English Literature and the Old Testament considers the importance of the Old Testament from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, from comparative to intertextual and historical. Though the essays focus on individual works, authors, or trends, including the Interrogationes Sigewulfi, Genesis A, and Daniel, each ultimately speaks to the vernacular corpus as a whole, suggesting approaches and methodologies for further study.

Old English Literature and the Old Testament

Recent technological developments in biology, computation, cybernetics, engineering, industrial design, materials, and robotics allow architecture to evolve beyond static functionality and become an active participant—with the capacity to perceive, react to, and connect—with humans and the natural world. The first process-based guide by Michael Fox and Miles Kemp introduced interactive architecture in 2009, and the past few years have seen its prototypical potential unleashed, manifest in the eighteen inventive projects featured in this follow-up, the latest in our Architecture Briefs series. Interactive Architecture: Adaptive World illustrates how structures can process information, make observations, and utilize tools to translate natural systems and create seamlessly integrated environments, from data-driven light installations, responsive sculptures, and performative materials, to smart highways, dynamic spaces, kinetic facades, and adaptive buildings. Ambitious projects from around the world, including Abu Dhabi, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Sochi, and Zurich, are illuminated by photographs, diagrams, and renderings.

Adaptive World

Out of sight of most Americans, global corporations likeNestlé, Suez, and Veolia are rapidly buying up our local watersources—lakes, streams, and springs—and taking controlof public water services. In their drive to privatize and commodifywater, they have manipulated and bought politicians, clinchedbackroom deals, and subverted the democratic process by trying todeny citizens a voice in fundamental decisions about their mostessential public resource. The authors' PBS documentary Thirst showed howcommunities around the world are resisting the privatization andcommodification of water. Thirst, the book,picks up where the documentary left off, revealing the emergence ofcontroversial new water wars in the United States and showing howcommunities here are fighting this battle, often against companiesheadquartered overseas. Read areview...http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/18/RVGS9OHPKT1.DTL

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