Institutional logics, the underlying governing principles of a corporation, strongly influence organizational decision making. Any shift in institutional logics results in a similar shift in attention to alternative problems and solutions and in new determinants for executive decisions. Examining changes in institutional logics in higher-education publishing, this book links cultural analysis with organizational decision making to develop a theory of attention and explain how executives concentrate on certain market characteristics to the exclusion of others.
Analyzing both qualitative and quantitative data from the 1950s to the 1990s, the author shows how higher education publishing moved from a culture of independent domestic publishers focused on creating markets for books based on personal, relational networks to a culture of international conglomerates that create markets from corporate hierarchies. This book offers broader lessons beyond publishing—its theory is applicable to explaining institutional changes in organizational leadership, strategy, and structure occurring in all professional services industries.

Middle Platonism explained how a transcendent principle could relate to the material world by positing an intermediary, modeled after the Stoic active cause, that mediated the supreme principle s influence to the world while preserving its transcendence. Having similar concerns as Middle Platonism, Hellenistic Jewish sapientialism, early Christianity, and Gnosticism appropriated this intermediary doctrine as a means for understanding their relationship to God and to the cosmos. However, these traditions vary in their adaptation of this teaching due to their distinctive understanding of creation and humanity's place therein. The Jewish writings of Philo of Alexandria and Wisdom of Solomon espouse a holistic ontology, combining a Platonic appreciation for noetic reality with an ultimately positive view of creation and its place in human fulfillment. The early Christians texts of 1 Cor 8:6, Col 1:15-20, Heb 1:2-3, and the prologue of John provide an eschatological twist to this ontology when the intermediary figure finds final expression in Jesus Christ. Contrarily, Poimandres (CH 1) and the Apocryphon of John, both associated with the traditional rubric "Gnosticism", draw from Platonism to describe how creation is antithetical to human nature and its transcendent source.

To say that technology is male comes as no surprise, but the claim that its history is a short one strikes a new note. Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945 maps the historical process through which men laid claims to technology as their exclusive terrain. It also explores how women contested this ascendancy of the male discourse and engineered alternative plots. From the moral gymnasium of the shop floor to the staging grounds of World's Fairs, engineers, inventors, social scientists, activists, and novelists emplotted and questioned technology as our modern male myth. Oldenziel recounts the history of technology - both as intellectual construct and material practice - by analyzing these struggles. Drawing on a broad range of sources, she explains why male machines rather than female fabrics have become the modern markers of technology. She shows how technology developed as a narrative production of modern manliness, allowing women little room for negotiation

A complete overhaul of the highly successful 1995 book 'MMIC Design', this text promises much to graduate students and engineers in high frequency electronics. The author team combines academic research and applications input from industry. Prominence is given in all chapters to practical applications of the components and technologies covered, whilst there are entirely new chapters on transceivers, multilayer techniques, CPW millimetre-wave ICs and integrated antennas.

Chemical Engineering Magazine is the world’s leading publication covering all aspects of the engineering technology used by the chemical process industries (CPI). Published for more than 100 years, Chemical Engineering provides you with a timely mix of technical news reporting and practical, expert information on all aspects of the chemical engineering practice.

For over 122 years, Fire Engineering magazine has provided training, education, and management information for fire and emergency services personnel worldwide. Articles are written by experts in the fire service and focus on lessons-learned.
Feature articles cover real-life situations such as collapse void search, confined space rescue, high-angle rescue, and extrication. Regular magazine departments focus on education and management issues.

Chemical Engineering Magazine is the world’s leading publication covering all aspects of the engineering technology used by the chemical process industries (CPI). Published for more than 100 years, Chemical Engineering provides you with a timely mix of technical news reporting and practical, expert information on all aspects of the chemical engineering practice.

Chemical Engineering Magazine is the world’s leading publication covering all aspects of the engineering technology used by the chemical process industries (CPI). Published for more than 100 years, Chemical Engineering provides you with a timely mix of technical news reporting and practical, expert information on all aspects of the chemical engineering practice.

Chemical Engineering Magazine is the world’s leading publication covering all aspects of the engineering technology used by the chemical process industries (CPI). Published for more than 100 years, Chemical Engineering provides you with a timely mix of technical news reporting and practical, expert information on all aspects of the chemical engineering practice.

Food Engineering has been covering the food and beverage industry since 1928. Published 12 times per year, this magazine reports on the latest trends, products, technologies and issues affecting manufacturing in the food and beverage industry.

Food Engineering is written exclusively for the operations & manufacturing management team. The articles are a blend of processing technology updates, worldwide food manufacturing trends, and case histories on successful in-plant applications. Food Engineering also brings you coverage on flexible manufacturing, advanced information exchange, and the changing role of the food engineer.

This collection includes summaries of presentations given at the NAE Symposium in March 2001. Topics include flight at the leading edge, civil systems, wireless communications, and technology and the human body.
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Hardbound. Great loss of human life, structural damage, and social and economic upheaval occur repeatedly due to such natural hazards as earthquakes, typhoons, hurricanes, landslides, floods and tsunamis. Both the US and Taiwan, along with many other countries, have a history of such occurrences and a common need to reduce their effects.
This volume includes papers from the fourth symposium workshop, held jointly between the US and Taiwan to discuss research and its application to multiple hazard mitigation. The workshop, Urban Disaster Mitigation, The Role of Engineering and Technology, discussed lessons learned from recent natural disasters; assessed results of Taiwan's multiple hazards research program and potential application to the US; and proposed further studies on subjects of mutual concern.
Topics include recent scientific findings obtained in various natural hazard areas and assessment of actual and potential damage from earthquakes.

Hardbound. This present volume contains the text of all contributions (oral and posters), except for the four invited papers, which were presented at the 3rd International Symposium on High Pressure Chemical Engineering on October 7-9, 1996. The symposium was divided into three major sections, namely
- Chemical reaction engineering
- Separation processes and phase equilibria
- Plant, apparatus, machinery, measurements, control.

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As the instructor of "Practical Object-Oriented Programming" (a 5-week course that uses Dylan that teaches object/functional application in the software domain), I chose _Dylan Programming_ as the text book. It is well-suited to the methodology of teaching programming: the chapters can be comprehended by people with no programming background (I had two such students), yet the material is stimulating so that even experienced programmers find it useful. Married with the Functional Developer (a Dylan IDE), _Dylan Programming_ makes teaching, or learning, Dylan quick and easy.
I have three points where I find the book wanting: organization, exactness/correctness, and completeness.
I found the book's organization a bit puzzling: especially when it came to control structures. In my teaching sessions, I needed to move forward 11.1-11.5 (skipping parts of 11.3 and all of 11.4) before I covered chapter 4 (classes). Also, interspersing the airport example seemed random at times, particularly in the second half of the book. I chose to skip those chapters (for teaching purposes).