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Cari koleksi dengan cepat sesuai kebutuhan Anda.This fascinating interdisciplinary study reveals connections between architecture, cosmology and mysticism. Samer Akkach demonstrates how space ordering in premodern Islamic architecture reflects the transcendental, and the sublime. The book features many new translations a number from unpublished sources, and several illustrations. Referencing a wide range of mystical texts, and with a special…
Now nearing its 60th printing in eng and translated into nineteen languages, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world. Porter introduces his three generic strategies - lowest cost, differentiation, and focuswhich bring structure to the task of strategic positioning. He shows how competitive advantage ca…
Much of contemporary public finance can be described as being either Wicksellian or Edgeworthian in character. In the former, fiscal phenomena arise through complex processes of exchange; in the latter, they arise through acts of choice by some maximizing agent. This chapter traces these alternative orientations in the history of thought as far back as the Cameralists, compares these writers wi…
Choosing a career as a government employee can be very rewarding. But before you begin your job, you will find you must take a Civil Service exam. Civil Service exams require that candidates score well on all parts of the exam, but the math section can be especially daunting if it has been a long time since you have used your math skills. By making the commitment to practice for the math sectio…
This opening chapter begins with an overview of the issues and questions addressed in the remainder of this book, the contents of which reflect the wide diversity of eye-movement research. We then provide the reader with an up-to-date impression of the most significant developments in the area, based on findings from a survey of eye-movement researchers and database searches. We find that the m…
Eugenics, a vision of human betterment, with real scientific and then social-policy potential for enhancing the evolutionary future of our species, is buried within a demonization of language and misunderstanding. Critical to the linguistic and semantic morass that surrounds this paralysis of understanding are the spectral memories of the German and European perpetration of the Holocaust.