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Boeing Max 737's twin crashes, Volkswagen's Dieselgate scandal, worms in Cadbury's chocolates, cyanide in Tylenol, the #MeToo movement... In the past 24-48 hours, chances are you have read about a brand believed to have transgressed in some part of the world. These and other transgressions - real or perceived - plague company brands and, as in the case of the #MeToo movement, human brands, routinely and globally. And they often come with serio...

Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) is a peer-reviewed series devoted to the publication of monographs pertaining to all aspects of the history, culture, literature, religion, art, and archaeology of the Ancient Near East, from the earliest historical periods to Late Antiquity. The aim of this series is to present in-depth studies of the written and material records left by the civilizations and cultures that populated the various ...

Fusion in business, technology, and the arts can release massive value, creating whole new companies, industries, and human capabilities. This book is a global research study of 30 "innovators" and over 70 of their friends and colleagues who have collectively created billions of dollars' worth of business value, as well as new advances in the arts and sciences that bring joy to the world and can save millions of lives. Insights from the journe...

Ancient Mesopotamia became part of the Seleucid Empire in the Hellenistic Period (323-30 BCE). The cuneiform writing system, which throughout the ancient Near East had been the main medium for documentation since the fourth millennium BCE, remained in use despite the ongoing process of Hellenization. As a consequence-and unlike what we see happening elsewhere in the Seleucid Empire-a large number of sources bearing on daily life and written by...

There is to date no comprehensive treatment of eye disease texts from ancient Mesopotamia, and no English translation of this material is available. This volume is the first complete edition and commentary on Mesopotamian medicine from Nineveh dealing with diseases of the eye. This ancient work, languishing in British Museum archives since the 19th century, is preserved on several large cuneiform manuscripts from the royal library of Ashurbani...

Pilgrimage can be better understood as a particular kind of semiotic activity, that is, as a process of production, transmission, and reception of meaning through languages, texts, and discourses. Research on the topic of pilgrimage seems stalled nowadays between older interpretations concerning the "liminoid" and "communitas-like" character of this phenomenon, explorations of cultic sites conceived as "empty vessels" for competing discourses,...

Babylonian medicine is the most important corpus of ancient medicine prior to the Greeks. This volume provides a comprehensive picture of how gasrtrointestinal illness, jaundice and related fevers, as well as diarrhea were treated in ancient Mesopotamia. The editions include transliterations, straightforward translations and essential commentary, and are divided into three main sections: the standard corpus for the treatment of gastrointestina...

What is corporate governance? Why is it important? Why are companies and shareholders perpetually warring over it? What impact do these battles have on investors and non-investors alike? Shareholder and Company Governance Wars provides a window into on-going battles between shareholders and public companies on the vast range of issues considered to be "corporate governance" today, including executive compensation, dividends and financial consi...

Business Body Language is your step-by-step guide to the right body language to communicate effectively in business and professional settings. The book discusses the five business broadcast centers (face, feet/legs, arms, torso, and hands/fingers), how they interrelate, and how to coordinate body language with the spoken word so as to make the right first impression. Barbara Chatzkel provides a valuable reference on how to use professional bod...

This book provides insights into one of the most important, popular, and provocative disciplines in IT organizations today: IT Governance. There have been numerous advances in IT Governance since its inception in 1998. Numerous standards, methodologies and approaches have been born, but despite significant attention, few organizations of any size have mastered this essential discipline. The lack for large enterprise success in the domain creat...

This book sets the reader on the path to establishing a data analytics strategy which includes artificial intelligence with a common language and capabilities with usages. A capability maturity framework with enterprise infrastructure is included as also an assessment tool for measuring and managing it to higher levels of maturity.

Successful companies actively cultivate new ideas, put those ideas to work quickly and efficiently, and harvest the business value benefits of successful innovations. Innovation can be taught, and processes such as user-centered design increase the likelihood of a successful match between an innovative solution and the needs of users. In this insightful technical book Esther Baldwin and Martin Curley provide a multitude of techniques and metho...

Rich Laviano has been using his innovative team building techniques to lead teams with a special emphasis on turning around teams at IBM. His book quite naturally is about the benefit of teams, using them effectively, managing them effectively, what it takes to manage a team, and most importantly, how being a team player can lead to greater success in an organization. The book offers many case studies of professional team management, many done...

Around the world, religious communities are engaging with and responding to old and new media. In the process, religious users reshape the constellations of their own communities as well as the nature of the media. Drawing upon the case study of Amon Yitzhak and his organization, Shofar, Mediating Religion, Sanctifying Media explores the active use of electronic media to promote a more observant lifestyle amongst the "secular" and "traditional...

Foundations of MIMO in Radar and Communications provides a comprehensive overview of MIMO as it relates to radar and communications in general. The authors cover the fundamentals of the topics, making extensive use of viewgraphs, examples, and technology that address practical design issues integrated with theoretical analysis. The book is written at the level of professionals who may need an overview and a refresher on MIMO systems. Emerging ...

.Balanced focus on speech science, perception, and speech processing/engineering. .Comprehensive survey of speech production modalities and assessment/equalization techniques for increased robustness of speech systems in real-world applications. .All topics are accompanied with critical comments and original research by the authors. .The text introduces readers to closely-related subjects that rarely appear together in a single book. The bo...

The authors develop an understanding of sound beyond shallow analysis paradigms, and relax many of the constraining assumptions. They also present structured models for computational modeling in sound using weak or no supervision. Novel algorithms and a hierarchical framework are provided.

This book develops the fundamentals of surface interactions of materials in the presence of liquids, including the basics of interfacial chemistry as it relates to dispersions of particles in liquids.

The poetry of Ruan Ji has been previously translated several times, with one fully scholarly translation of both the poetry and the Fu (poetic expositions). The present translation not only provides a facing page critical Chinese text, it addresses two problems that have been ignored or not adequately treated in earlier works. First, it traces the history of the current text. The rather serious problems with this text will be, if not soluble, ...