Stick and Feel System Design

Stick and Feel System Design
Author: J. C. Gibson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1997
Genre: Aerodynamics
ISBN:

Since the earliest days of manned flight, designers have to sought to assist the pilot in the performance of tasks by using stick and feel systems to bring these tasks within the bounds of human physical capabilities. This volume describes stick and feel systems in two parts. Part one describes the technologies which have been developed throughout the history of 20th Century aviation. Part two describes how modern systems dynamics interact with the human pilot. It is hoped that the design lessons and approaches outlined in this volume will contribute to a better understanding and appreciation of the importance of force-feel system design in aircraft/rotorcraft flight control.

Making the Declaration Work

Making the Declaration Work
Author: Claire Charters
Publisher: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2009
Genre: Law
ISBN:

"The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is a culmination of a centuries-long struggle by indigenous peoples for justice. It is an important new addition to UN human rights instruments in that it promotes equality for the world's indigenous peoples and recognizes their collective rights."--Back cover.

Liquid Modernity

Liquid Modernity
Author: Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2013-07-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 074565701X

In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and un-reachability of global systemic structure coupled with the unstructured and under-defined, fluid state of the immediate setting of life-politics and human togetherness, call for the rethinking of the concepts and cognitive frames used to narrate human individual experience and their joint history. This book is dedicated to this task. Bauman selects five of the basic concepts which have served to make sense of shared human life - emancipation, individuality, time/space, work and community - and traces their successive incarnations and changes of meaning. Liquid Modernity concludes the analysis undertaken in Bauman's two previous books Globalization: The Human Consequences and In Search of Politics. Together these volumes form a brilliant analysis of the changing conditions of social and political life by one of the most original thinkers writing today.

Problem-Driven Political Economy Analysis

Problem-Driven Political Economy Analysis
Author: Verena Fritz
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2014-01-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1464801223

This volume presents eight good practice examples of problem-driven political economy analysis conducted at the World Bank, and reflect what the Bank has so far been able to achieve in mainstreaming this approach into its operations and policy dialogue.

Purity and Danger

Purity and Danger
Author: Professor Mary Douglas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136489274

Purity and Danger is acknowledged as a modern masterpiece of anthropology. It is widely cited in non-anthropological works and gave rise to a body of application, rebuttal and development within anthropology. In 1995 the book was included among the Times Literary Supplement's hundred most influential non-fiction works since WWII. Incorporating the philosophy of religion and science and a generally holistic approach to classification, Douglas demonstrates the relevance of anthropological enquiries to an audience outside her immediate academic circle. She offers an approach to understanding rules of purity by examining what is considered unclean in various cultures. She sheds light on the symbolism of what is considered clean and dirty in relation to order in secular and religious, modern and primitive life.

The Many Faces of Corruption

The Many Faces of Corruption
Author: J. Edgardo Campos
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2007-04-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821367269

Corruption... How can policymakers and practitioners better comprehend the many forms and shapes that this socialpandemic takes? From the delivery of essential drugs, the reduction in teacher absenteeism, the containment of illegal logging, the construction of roads, the provision of water andelectricity, the international trade in oil and gas, the conduct of public budgeting and procurement, and the management of public revenues, corruption shows its many faces. 'The Many Faces of Corruption' attempts to bring greater clarity to the often murky manifestations of this virulent and debilitating social disease. It explores the use of prototype road maps to identify corruption vulnerabilities, suggests corresponding 'warning signals,' and proposes operationally useful remedial measures in each of several selected sectors and for a selected sampleof cross cutting public sector functions that are particularlyprone to corruption and that are critical to sector performance.Numerous technical experts have come together in this effort to develop an operationally useful approach to diagnosing and tackling corruption. 'The Many Faces of Corruption' is an invaluable reference for policymakers, practitioners, andresearchers engaged in the business of development.

Law as a Social System

Law as a Social System
Author: Niklas Luhmann
Publisher: Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2004
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780198262381

However, unlike conventional legal theory, this volume seeks to provide an answer in terms of a general social theory: a methodology that answers this question in a manner applicable not only to law, but also to all the other complex and highly differentiated systems within modern society, such as politics, the economy, religion, the media, and education. This truly sociological approach offers profound insights into the relationships between law and all of these other social systems.

Task Force Report

Task Force Report
Author: United States. President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice
Publisher:
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1967
Genre: Crime
ISBN: