Authors:Peter Bishop and Andy Hines,  Andy Hine,
Publisher: Social Technologie
Keywords: foresight, strategic, guidelines, future, thinking
Number of Pages: 253
Published: 2007-02-28
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 097893170X
ISBN-13: 9780978931704

Thinking about the Future distills the expertise of three dozen senior foresight professionals into a set of essential guidelines for carrying out successful strategic foresight. Presented in a highly scannable yet personable style, each guideline includes an explanation and rationale, key steps, a case example, and resources for further study. The 115 guidelines are organized into six sequential categories that mirror the phases of a strategic foresight activity, namely Framing, Scanning, Forecasting, Visioning, Planning, and Acting. Executives will find both the guidelines and the framework

Author: Peter Bishop
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Keywords: objekt, books, reaktion, bridge
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-07-25
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 1861893469
ISBN-13: 9781861893468

Whether a humble string of planks swaying across a trickling stream or the soaring towers of the Golden Gate Bridge, bridges are one of man’s great engineering feats. Now in Bridge, Peter Bishop provides a comprehensive historical account of their role in the advancement of human culture. From ancient Roman arches to the rail bridge of Lhasa to the suspension bridge over Niagara Falls, Bishop traverses the full span of the globe to examine numerous incarnations and their diverse architectural styles. The book tackles a wide range of issues, including the design and construction of “mega-s

Authors:Graham Bradshaw, Tom Bishop, Peter Holbrook,
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: shakespeare, montaigne, revisited, section, special, international, yearbook, shakespearean
Number of Pages: 405
Published: 2006-11-27
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 075465589X
ISBN-13: 9780754655893

In this issue of "The Shakespearean International Yearbook", the special section treats "Shakespeare and Montaigne Revisited." The essays in this section demonstrate and consider various approaches to the interrelated questions of Montaigne’s and Shakespeare’s use of skepticism, of their reading, and of the philosophical contexts of their work. The guest editor for the section is Peter Holbrook, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Queensland. Dr Holbrook is the author of "Literature and Degree in Renaissance England: Nashe, Bourgeois Tragedy, Shakespeare" and co-editor

Authors:Peter Newman, Andy Thornley,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: planning, systems, projects, national, international, europe, urban, competition
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1996-09-20
List price: $230.00
ISBN-10: 0415111781
ISBN-13: 9780415111782

Urban Planning in Europe is the first book to comprehensively analyze the influences on urban planning in Europe. Urban planning is undergoing a period of transformation across Europe and the book identifies the international, national and local forces causing this change. It encompasses all countries in western and eastern Europe, providing a comprehensive guide to the planning systems of each country.

Authors:Peter J. H. Ball, Andy R. Peters,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: cattle, reproduction
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2004-11-05
List price: $84.99
ISBN-10: 1405115459
ISBN-13: 9781405115452

Cattle play a fundamental role in animal agriculture throughout the world. They not only provide us with a vital food source, but they also provide us with fertilizer and fuel. Keeping reproduction levels at an optimum level is therefore essential, but this is often a complicated process, especially with modern, high yielding cows. Written in a practical and user-friendly style, this book aims to help the reader understand cattle reproduction by explaining the underlying physiology of the reproductive process and the role and importance of pharmacology and technology, and showing how managemen

Authors:Peter Gray, Andy Miller, Jim Noakes,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: techniques, policy, development, practical, support, behaviour, schools, teacher, challenging
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1994-08-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0415099749
ISBN-13: 9780415099745

The contributors bring together their wealth of experience and ideas in the management of difficult behaviour to provide teachers with the practical advice and reassurance necessary to cope with difficult and disruptive pupils.

Authors:Andy Wigley, Daniel Moth, Peter Foot,
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Keywords: handbook, development, mobile, microsoft
Number of Pages: 688
Published: 2007-05-30
List price: $69.99
ISBN-10: 0735623589
ISBN-13: 9780735623583

Learn the essentials for developing mobile applications for any device. Focusing on proven techniques and practices, this guide addresses the real-world needs of experienced Microsoft Windows® mobile developers. Users are growing increasingly dependent on mobile devices, and with innovations that make it easy to manage data synchronization, this proliferation will continue. Developers need to respond to this evolution with more than simple adaptations of the user interface--they need to implement mobile solutions for most of their applications. From expert authors with years