Crc Press: 6180 books
Educational Game Design Fundamentals
A journey to creating intrinsically motivating learning experiences
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Can we learn through play? Can we really play while learning?
Of course! But how?!
We all learn and educate others in our own unique ways. Successful educational games adapt to the particular learning needs of their players and facilitate the learning objectives of their designers.
Educational...
Six Simple Twists
The Pleat Pattern Approach to Origami Tessellation Design
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Get Started with Tessellation FoldingSix Simple Twists: The Pleat Pattern Approach to Origami Tessellation Design explains the process of designing an origami pattern. It answers the questions "how is a tessellation folded" and "what are the further possibilities."The author introduces an innovative pleat pattern technique of origami design that is
by Mano Paul
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
As the global leader in information security education and certification, (ISC)2 has a proven track record of educating and certifying information security professionals. Its newest certification, the Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) is a testament to the organization's ongoing commitment to information and software security
by Tamara Munzner
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Learn How to Design Effective Visualization SystemsVisualization Analysis and Design provides a systematic, comprehensive framework for thinking about visualization in terms of principles and design choices. The book features a unified approach encompassing information visualization techniques for abstract data, scientific visualization techniques
Human Factors Methods
A Practical Guide for Engineering and Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This second edition of Human Factors Methods: A Practical Guide for Engineering and Design now presents 107 design and evaluation methods as well as numerous refinements to those that featured in the original. The book has been carefully designed to act as an ergonomics methods manual, aiding both...
by George Galanis, Robert Sottilare
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Defense forces have always invested a great deal of their resources in training. In recent times, changes in the complexity and intensity of operations have reaffirmed the importance of ensuring that warfighters are adequately prepared for the environments in which they are required to work. The emergence...
Ghosts in the Machine
Rethinking Learning Work and Culture in Air Traffic Control
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
This book provides a socio-cultural analysis of the ways in which air traffic controllers formally and informally learn about their work and the active role that organisational cultures play in shaping interpretation and meaning. In particular, it describes the significant role that organizational...
Mental Models
Design of User Interaction and Interfaces for Domestic Energy Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
There is a resurgence of interest in mental models due to advances in our understanding of how they can be used to help design and due to the development of practical methods to elicit them. This book brings both areas together with a focus on reducing domestic energy consumption. The book focuses...
Managing Supply Chains on the Silk Road
Strategy, Performance, and Risk
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Historically important trade routes for goods of all kinds for more than 3000 years, the Silk Road has once again come to prominence. Managing Supply Chains on the Silk Road: Strategy, Performance, and Risk present emerging supply chain practices from the Silk Road regions that include China, Hong...
by W. Brian Arthur
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
A new view of the economy as an evolving, complex system has been pioneered at the Santa Fe Institute over the last ten years, This volume is a collection of articles that shape and define this view?a view of the economy as emerging from the interactions of individual agents whose behavior constantly...
Sustainability
A Way to Abundance
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
The book describes mechanisms whereby the Earth naturally thrives towards energy and resources abundance and how unsustainable industrial practices alter this trend.
Introduces the concept of earth energy and associates this to the conditions of the biosphere and emphasizes the possibilities...
Pre-Accident Investigations
Better Questions - An Applied Approach to Operational Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Pre-Accident Investigations: Better Questions - An Applied Approach to Operational Learning challenges safety and reliability professionals to get better answers by asking better questions. A provocative examination of human performance and safety management, the book delivers a thought-provoking...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Collecting fares through "smart cards" is becoming standard in most advanced public transport networks of major cities around the world. Travellers value their convenience and operators the reduced money handling fees. Electronic tickets also make it easier to integrate fare systems, to...
Restructured Electrical Power Systems
Operation: Trading, and Volatility
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
An examination of key issues in electric utilities restructuring. It covers: electric utility markets in and out of the USA; the Open Access Same-time Information System; tagging transactions; trading energy; hedging tools for managing risks in various markets; pricing volatility, risk and forecasting;...