Michael Wade: 13 books
Louisiana Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, volume 2, highlights the significant historical contributions of some of Louisiana’s most noteworthy and also overlooked women from the eighteenth century to the present. This volume underscores the cultural, social, and political distinctiveness of the state...
Inventing Hebrews
Design and Purpose in Ancient Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Inventing Hebrews examines a perennial topic in the study of the Letter to the Hebrews, its structure and purpose. Michael Wade Martin and Jason A. Whitlark undertake at thorough synthesis of the ancient theory of invention and arrangement, providing a new account of Hebrews' design. The key to the...
Digital Vortex
How Today's Market Leaders Can Beat Disruptive Competitors at Their Own Game
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
WINNER OF THE 2017 AXIOM BEST BUSINESS BOOK AWARD
“Digital disruption” sounds like another business buzzword—until it happens to your company. Seemingly out of nowhere, startups and other tech-savvy disruptors attack. Your customers bolt for the door and revenues stall. Senior executives...
Orchestrating Transformation
How to Deliver Winning Performance with a Connected Approach to Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
Company leaders feel the urgency to transform their organizations in the face of digital disruption. New rivals are digitizing whatever can be digitized to attack incumbents’ value chains, gaining market share, eroding margins, and wreaking havoc to the competitive landscape in virtually every...
Captain Niblick
The World's Worst Golf Skipper
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
The ancient oaks of one of England's major forests had just about seen it all - wars, droughts, fires, floods, you name it, they've survived it. But how would they cope with a maverick golf club skipper, one Captain Mashie Niblick, intent on demolishing old dogmas and bringing in his New Model Army...
Adaptation in Metapopulations
How Interaction Changes Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
All organisms live in clusters, but such fractured local populations, or demes, nonetheless maintain connectivity with one another by some amount of gene flow between them. Most such metapopulations occur naturally, like clusters of amphibians in vernal ponds or baboon troops spread across the African...
by Neil Clarke, Juliette Wade, Robert Brice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.
Our April 2017 issue (#127) contains:
Original stories by Robert Brice ("Conglomerate"),...
Subversion, Conversion, Development
Cross-Cultural Knowledge Exchange and the Politics of Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Explorations of design, use, and reuse of information technology in diverse historical and cultural contexts.
This book explores alternative cultural encounters with and around information technologies. These encounters are alternative because they counter dominant, Western-oriented notions...
by David A. Sugden, Michael G. Wade
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Sugden and Wade, leading authors in this area, comprehensively cover motor development and motor impairment, drawing on sources in medicine and health-related studies, motor learning and developmental psychology. A theme that runs through the book is that movement outcomes are a complex transaction...
by Sheree N. Alexander, Mariella I. Arredondo, Tabetha Bernstein-Danis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
This volume examines the school-to-prison pipeline, a concept that has received growing attention over the past 10–15 years in the United States. The “pipeline” refers to a number of interrelated concepts and activities that most often include the criminalization of students and student behavior,...
Applied Akka Patterns
A Hands-On Guide to Designing Distributed Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
When it comes to big data processing, we can no longer ignore concurrency or try to add it in after the fact. Fortunately, the solution is not a new paradigm of development, but rather an old one. With this hands-on guide, Java and Scala developers will learn how to embrace concurrent and distributed...
The Criminalization of States
The Relationship between States and Organized Crime
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
This volume examines the relationship between states and organized crime. It seeks to add to the theoretical literature for analyzing the criminalization of the state. The volume also explores the nature of organized crime in countries throughout the Americas from Central America to the Southern Cone.
Building People
Social-Emotional Learning for Kids, Families, Schools, and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Building People: Social-Emotional Learning for Kids, Families, Schools and Communities brings together a dozen wide-ranging perspectives on social-emotional learning (SEL) to present a comprehensive picture of the SEL landscape in schools and communities and provide action steps for educators, families,...