2013: THE END OF DAYS OR A NEW BEGINNING examines all the popular myths, prophecies, and predictions concerning 2012, including the Mayan teachings of time acceleration and global awakening on a consciousness level. It also takes an in-depth look at lesser-known predictions and prophecies, and at the more scientific and reality-based challenges we will face.

As an added value, the book describes and provides contact information for national organizations that support service-learning and resources that are useful in helping students make postcollege service and career choices. Service-Learning in Higher Education is an invaluable resource for all campus professionals - including faculty members, student affairs practitioners, and senior academic leaders who are interested in advancing the goals of student learning and development while simultaneously making a unique contribution to the community.

More Than Sixty Course Syllabi That Bring the New Complexity of Graphic Design to Light All graphic designers teach, yet not all graphic designers are teachers. Teaching is a special skill requiring talent, instinct, passion, and organization. But while talent, instinct, and passion are inherent, organization must be acquired and can usually be found in a syllabus. Teaching Graphic Design, Second Edition, contains syllabi that are for all practicing designers and design educators who want to enhance their teaching skills and learn how experienced instructors and professors teach varied tools and impart the knowledge needed to be a designer in the current environment. This second edition is newly revised to include more than thirty new syllabi by a wide range of professional teachers and teaching professionals who address the most current concerns of the graphic design industry, including product, strategic, entrepreneurial, and data design as well as the classic image, type, and layout disciplines. Some of the new syllabi included are: Expressive Typography Designer as Image Maker Emerging Media Production Branding Corporate Design Graphic Design and Visual Culture Impact! Design for Social Change And many more Beginning with first through fourth year of undergraduate courses and ending with a sampling of graduate school course options, Teaching Graphic Design, Second Edition, is the most comprehensive collection of courses for graphic designers of all levels.

The government reform expert and acclaimed author of The Solution Revolution presents a roadmap for navigating the digital government era. In October 2013, HealthCare.gov went live—and promptly crashed. Poor website design was getting in the way of government operations, and the need for digital excellence in public institutions was suddenly crystal clear. Hundreds of the tech industry’s best and brightest dedicated themselves to redesigning the government’s industrial-era frameworks as fully digital systems. But to take Washington into the 21st century, we have to start by imagining a new kind of government. Imagine prison systems that use digital technology to return nonviolent offenders promptly and securely into society. Imagine a veteran’s health care system built around delivering a personalized customer experience for every Vet. We now have the digital tools—such as cloud computing, mobile devices, and analytics—to stage a real transformation. Delivering on Digital provides the handbook to make it happen. A leading authority on government reform, William D. Eggers knows how we can use tech-savvy teams, strong leadership, and innovative practices to reduce the risks and truly achieve a digitally transformed government.

This book is a practical guide to eoereadinge the culture of organizations and to understanding the implications of culture for organizational effectiveness.Beginning with an explanation of the theories of organizational culture, the book provides guidance on collecting information, leading students through qualitative research methods of observation, interviewing, and analyzing written texts. Students come away equipped to apply cultural insights to fostering diversity, supporting organizational change, making leadership more dynamic, understanding the link between ethics and culture, and achieving personal growth.

The Handbook of Human-Machine Interaction features 20 original chapters and a conclusion focusing on human-machine interaction (HMI) from analysis, design and evaluation perspectives. It offers a comprehensive range of principles, methods, techniques and tools to provide the reader with a clear knowledge of the current academic and industry practice and debate that define the field. The text considers physical, cognitive, social and emotional aspects and is illustrated by key application domains such as aerospace, automotive, medicine and defence. Above all, this volume is designed as a research guide that will both inform readers on the basics of human-machine interaction from academic and industrial perspectives and also provide a view ahead at the means through which human-centered designers, including engineers and human factors specialists, will attempt to design and develop human-machine systems.

The Aspiring Thinker’s Guide to Critical Thinking introduces concepts and strategies for developing essential reasoning skills and intellectual character. As students advance in their academic studies and encounter new situations in their lives, they must learn to differentiate fact from fiction and make decisions based in good reasoning. They must learn to be clear, accurate, relevant, logical, and fair when expressing ideas. This book lays out a clear framework for guiding this development and encouraging lifelong intellectual curiosity. As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.

A Note from the Author: 2012 TWO PATHS shows that the "apocalyptic" outcome of 3-31-13 and the state of the world are fundamentally intertwined. If you are not interested in reading about the prophecies of 2012/2013 AND ideas on solving the county's problems, this book is not intended for you. It contains radical liberal ideas on solving the nation's problems and is meant to empower the common American. If you desire to gain information specifically on the prophesied events of 2012 and 2013 only, please read the new version of this book "2012/2013 TWO PATHS: End of Days or A New Beginning? A Guide to Navigating the Corridor Between Maya Dates 12-21-12: The Great Galactic Alignment and 3-31-13: Easter 2013; Judgment Day. It is the EXACT same book, but a shorter version (it does not include chapters on controversial issues and radical ideas meant to solve issues plaguing the nation). The new version is available from Amazon, Kindle, and soon through other sources. Its listing on Amazon is in close proximity to this listing. Book Description: On December 21, 2012, Earth will complete a rare procession cycle that occurs only once every 25,800 years! TWO PATHS shows that the Maya intentionally ended their Long Count calendar on this date, signifying a pivotal point for all of humanity and warn of a reoccurring 5,125 year cycle of worldwide destruction. Burtenshaw closely analyzes prophecies from many sources and proposes intriguing interpretations presented in no other book regarding predictions that foretold of apocalyptic events which are now occurring or set to transpire in 2012 and 2013, including predictions of dates singled out by the Maya: 12-21-12 and 3-31-13. He provides recent statements from the Maya Council of 440 Elders, who state that Judgment Day will not occur on 12-21-12, but 3-31-13, when three-quarters of the human race will be exterminated, unless we drastically alter our current course of action. He links recent declarations given by the Maya Council, who state that "three days of darkness" will occur on 3-31-13, with end of days predictions of "The Three Days of Darkness" recorded by many prophets throughout history. Scientists state that we have now reached a tipping point-a point of no return-where the damage that we are inflicting upon Earth may soon become irreversible. This declaration is echoed by ultimatums from the Maya Council of Elders, who inform us that we must once again live in harmony with the planet, or face devastating consequences. The economy has crumbled before our eyes! Seven years ago, economists predicted that the national debt would double in five years and triple in ten! People are losing their jobs, homes, and all hope. If something radical is not done soon, the country will go bankrupt! Burtenshaw shows that problems plaguing our country actually have logical solutions, if we decide to support common good over individual greed! Two Paths lays out a concrete plan to fix the economy, save the planet, and recapture control of the forces that direct this great nation. This book shows that the first step in solving the world's problems, must be enacting a plan for the "People's Bailout" by distributing a $100,000 housing allowance to every adult citizen. This plan would eliminate mortgage and rent payments for the average American, forever, and in retrospect, could be implemented for free! This book's statistics show that had we implemented this plan five years ago, over two-thirds of our country's homes would now be paid off, the national debt would have decreased dramatically, and the economy would have flourished! The strategies contained here will awaken the American spirit, enabling the people of this great nation to regain control of the government, economy, environment, and ultimately, our fate on Earth. Once upon a time, the USA was a superpower of ideas that changed people's lives. Join the fight, and together we can make it back to that place in the sun!

The idea of routines has been one of the most productive in organization studies. Finally we have a broad, deep, and authoritative survey of the exciting research it has inspired. Paul S. Adler, University of Southern California, US This cutting-edge, multidisciplinary Handbook comprises specially commissioned contributions surveying state-of-the-art research on the concept of organizational routines. An authoritative overview of the concept of organizational routines and its contributions to our understanding of organizations is presented. To identify those contributions, the role of organizational routines in such processes as organizational learning, performance feedback, and organizational memory is discussed. To identify how the concept can contribute to different disciplinary fields, the expert authors review applications across a range of fields including political science, sociology, and accounting. Two chapters on research methods provide expert advice on the endeavour of experimental studies and empirical field studies of organizational routines. Overall, this Handbook contains articles that identify the role of organizational routines in processes underlying the stability and change of organizations, show how the concept has been applied in different disciplinary fields, and discuss methods for carrying out empirical research using the organizational routines concept. Because of the importance issues such as the stability and change of organizations have in organization theory and strategy, this Handbook will appeal to scholars and students in business and management, in particular in organization theory, organization behaviour, and strategic management.