Michael J. O'Neill

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Texas

Most Fortune 1000 companies still struggle with workspace planning and design issues. They invest millions of dollars each year with the expectation that new buildings and major renovations will help transform their culture, support innovation, strengthen desired behaviors and increase organizational effectiveness. And let's not forget reducing costs. But there is rarely any actual measurement of the success of a new workplace against specific business or design goals (apart from cost savings). Even less often is there any ongoing measurement program to assess and improve the quality of the workplace. Measuring Workplace Performance, Second Edition explores a fundamentally new way of thinking about how organizations behave and change and what this means for planning and measuring the success of the facilities that house them. This is not a planning guide or a step by step design "cookbook." Rather, author Michael O'Neill presents a thought-provoking "biological" model for thinking about organizations and workplaces, describes the tools to gather information and analyze success, and presents plenty of scientific case studies with "hard" performance and financial metrics. O'Neill addresses issues such as: What are the effects of adding flexibility into facility and workplace design, in terms of improving employee and organizational performance? How do we measure the performance of facilities in terms of supporting desired behaviors (like communication, collaboration), efficient business processes and other concrete performance/financial improvements? Using real-world case studies across a variety of industries, O'Neill shows the types of performance measures that leading-edge companies use as well as the improvements they attain by incorporating flexibility and control into their workspaces. He uses the data from these studies to create models showing credible links between specific design features, and behavioral and business process outcomes. The book provides insights and observations from these case studies that can be applied to understanding your own situation.

Measuring Workplace Performance

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Michael R. Overcash

Dhiraj Pal

Theory and Practice

Design of Land Treatment Systems for Industrial Wastes

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Warping of book and cover spine has a small hole, no tears, stains or missing pages

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Selective Mexican American Bibliography

Peter O'Neill

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Environmental Chemistry

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Chinelo Okparanta

Warpin, but no tears, stains or missing pages, minor wear of cover edges

A moving debut story collection centered on Nigerian women, as they build lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, the struggle to stay and the mandate to leave, and the burden and strength of love.

Happiness, Like Water

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Science Publishers Incorporated Staff

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Biotechnology and Biodiversity in Agriculture-Forestry

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Book 2: Dicotyledons

Tropical Crops

D. T. Pham

Computers have been employed for some time in engineering design mainly as numerical or graphical tools to assist analysis and draughting. The advent of the technology of artificial intelligence and expert systems has enabled computers to be applied to less deterministic design tasks which require symbolic manipulation and reasoning, instead of only routine number processing. This book presents recent examples of such applications, focusing on mechanical and manufacturing design. The term 'design' is interpreted here in its wider sense to include creative activities such as planning. The book covers a wide spectrum of design operations ranging from component and product design through to process, tooling and systems design. Its aim is to expose researchers, engineers and engineering designers to several developments in the emerging field of intelligent CAD and to alert them of the possibilites and opportunities in this exciting field.

Artificial Intelligence in Design

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Homer W. Parker

Air Pollution

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Kathy K. Peterson

Mild warping bottom right, no damage, no missing pages

The Environmental Challenges

Oil Shale

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Henry Petroski

Adventures in Engineering

Leave it to Henry Petroski to explain soil mechanics by way of a game of "rock, scissors, paper" and to clarify the fundamental principles of engineering through the spokes of a Ferris wheel. This new collection of informative and diverting essays picks up where "The Pencil, The Evolution of Useful Things" and "Engineers of Dreams" left off, elucidating the role of engineers in shaping our environment in countless ways, big and small.

Remaking the World

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Phil Patton

The Strange Mutations of the World's Most Famous Automobile

The in-depth history of a mass produced, affordable car that began in 1930's Germany and took over the world to became an icon The BUG story is of Nazi propaganda, brilliant innovations in automotive design, and of its strange and startling transformations into cultural icons as varied as Ken Kesey's magic bus, 'Herbie' in Disney's The Love Bug, and Charlie Manson's dune buggy... The Volkswagen was a project dear to Adolph Hitler's heart, and in his first public appearance as Chancellor, he promised a 'real car for the German people', a mass-produced car that would be as affordable as a motorcycle. But after the war, the Bug moved beyond Germany with a revolutionary advertising campaign and a huge potential market, becoming a phenomenal success. Phil Patton tells the fascinating story of how the Bug was designed and developed in the 1930s by the legendary German automotive designer, Ferdinand Porsche, and how it became an icon, wholly removed from its Nazi past. And in 1998, executives from Germany unveiled the New Beetle, whose only assembly plant is in Mexico. Patton shows how a whole new strategy was devised for the company - selling cars is show business.

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Pat Parks

The Railroad That Died at Sea

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Anthony Pugh

Introduction to Tensegrity

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Lewis J. Pinson

A systems approach to electro-optics, serving both as an advanced college textbook and as a professional reference to principles, techniques, and applications. Introduces fundamentals of geometric and physical optics, optical radiation, and laser electro-optical modulation. In addtion to coverage of basics, it surveys techniques used to analyze electro-optical devices and systems, and detect optical radiation. Numerous exercises, examples and problems illustrate the application of theory and techniques to a variety of areas including detector arrays and imaging tubes, electro-optical sensors, and optical signal processing.

Electro-Optics

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Peter S. Prescott

Encounters with Contemporary Books

Soundings

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Ajay Pratap

An Ethnohistory of Shifting Cultivation in Eastern India

This Study Is The First Ever Comprehensive Attempt In India To Tackle The Archaeology Of Shifting Cultivation. It Will Be Of Interest To Archaeologists, Anthropologists, Historians, Agricultural Scientists, Administrators And Policy Planners.

The Hoe and the Axe

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J. W. Purseglove

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Dicotyledons

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Berkeley Rice

An Inside Story of the Military-Industrial Complex

The C-5A Scandal

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Michael G. Royston

Manual, pollution prevention, pollution control and management of the human environment - includes graphs, statistical tables.

Pollution Prevention Pays

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Clyde H. Reeves

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Funding Clean Water

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Wayne D. Rasmussen

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Seventy-Five Years of Cooperative Extension

Taking the University to the People

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L. L. Regel

Theory, Experiments, and Technology

There has been considerable interest recently in microgravity physics and the effects of gravitation on crystal growth, alloy solidification, and other processes in space manufacturing. Regel' [1] has provided an extensive but not exhaustive bibliography on micro gravity physics and materials science in space, in which the major aspects are discussed along with the state of the art and future research prospects. The literature survey in [1] covered a period of about 10 years, including some publications appearing in 1983 that reflected not only theoretical and experi mental studies completed by 1983 but also a list of experiments to be carried out in the next few years. In particular, the closing part of the survey [1] enumerated ex periments planned under the Intercosmos program and by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the flight of Spacelab-l and D-l in 1985 and under the Eureka programs. Some of the space experiments planned in 1983 have now been com pleted, and the results have been published. It is therefore desirable to survey again research on materials science in space for the last few years and extend the literature survey begun in [1]. The literature listing on materials science in space begun in [1] is supplemented (there were 1061 citations in [1]) by recent publications (beginning with 1982).

Materials Processing in Space

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Thomas A. Rumney

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A Scholarly Guide and Bibliography

Agricultural geography is defined as the study of the geographical and locational attributes, patterns, and processes of crop and animal farming, and related subjects such as farm land, farm-associated human geographers, environmental issues, and theoretical works on the location of agricultural activities. The study of agricultural geography has produced a large amount of literature. This volume records and presents, in an organized manner, as much as possible of this literature. The entries of this compendium are written in a wide array of languages, including English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Russian and others in order to provide the widest coverage possible. The entries include atlases, books, book chapters, scholarly articles from professional journals, conference proceedings, doctoral dissertations, and master's theses. Over 12,000 entries have been recorded here, with the hope that such references will encourage and support the work of students, faculty, and other users.

The Study of Agricultural Geography

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