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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. What happens when an organisation's account of a person becomes more powerful than the person herself?Maya is competent. Productive. Persistent. She builds things that work, resolves conflicts other people cannot resolve, teaches, publishes, represents institutions, and keeps returning to the table.And yet, room by room, something happens.An idea succeeds under somebody else's name.Work that is visible everywhere disappears from the workload plan.A public assessment records nervousness but not twenty years of expertise.Visibility becomes representation without power.Conflict resolution becomes "intensity."A governance complaint becomes a comment about her communication style.No single moment is spectacular enough to explain what follows. No single person needs to be cruel. Nearly everyone can offer a reasonable account of what happened.That is precisely the problem.The Making of #Maya is a literary investigation of how organisations construct the people inside them. Across seven Rooms, Maya's experiences are examined by an argumentative Greek-style Chorus: Histor, the witness; Peitho, who gives the strongest reasonable defence of the institution; and Elegchos, who counts, contradicts, and refuses to let the arithmetic disappear.They argue. They interrupt one another. They are funny, infuriating, persuasive-and increasingly unable to maintain the comforting fiction that each room is merely an exception.Then the argument stops.Behind the story lies an extensive research appendix examining the organisational and psychological mechanisms staged in the Rooms: attribution and credit, cumulative career loss, evaluative threat, invisible relational labour, gendered leadership expectations, complaint systems, institutional records, epistemic injustice, and the difference between what organisations can document and what their documents cannot contain.This is not a story about villains.It is a story about reasonable people, defensible procedures, ordinary records-and the extraordinary human consequences that can emerge when they accumulate.And ultimately, it asks a quieter question: What remains of a person after everyone else has finished explaining who she is? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A modern pilgrim follows a half-erased tombstone into a real 1769 dispute over hospitality-and discovers that institutions survive only when human beings know how to carry their purpose forward.On a worn black tombstone in a cathedral in southern France, one word remains clear: VIATOR. Traveller.In 2026, Maya is walking across the Pyrenees when a closed monastery church, an unexpected welcome, and a half-erased inscription pull her away from the journey she thought she was making.The trail leads back to 1769.In the tiny University of Pau, Pierre Dejean-Lezons has spent a lifetime believing that obligations survive because societies give them law, office, money and authority. Then a dispute arrives from the mountain hospice of Sarrance: hospitality is supposed to exist there-but what happens when the institution remains and the human function inside it begins to fail?Anne de Sainte-Claire sees the problem differently. Her world is made not only from rules but from teaching, keys, stores, linen, memory and the repeated work through which one person teaches another what must still be done tomorrow.Their disagreement becomes more urgent as the institutions around them begin to change, and eventually to disappear.More than two centuries later, Maya walks the same road and discovers that the old question has never really gone away: How does an obligation survive the institution created to carry it?Inspired by a real 1769 dispute over the restoration of hospitality at Sarrance and grounded in the surviving history of Pau, Lescar and the Pyrenean Camino, VIATOR is a literary historical novel about pilgrimage, institutional memory, hidden work, and the things human beings learn to carry when the structures around them cannot carry them any longer. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Europe, 2047. The systems still work-until they have to work together.For twenty years, Iria Navarro has solved the failures that occur between institutions: the warning that reaches nobody with authority to act, the railway that cannot carry the people who need it, the emergency plan defeated by a border. At Pyrenean Transit Solutions, she helps build a new continuity industry designed to keep human movement alive through climate disruption.When crisis makes her invisible work suddenly visible, Iria becomes indispensable. Then indispensability begins to look like control.Clara made the company powerful enough to change Europe. Gabriel knows what its models cannot see. Each holds a different part of the truth-and each has reason to fear what Iria is becoming.As professional rivalry hardens into reputational doubt, private concerns acquire institutional force. Iria survives, but vindication never comes. Given one final mandate, she must attempt something more difficult than saving the system again: she must build an institution capable of acting intelligently without turning any one person into either its sovereign or its sacrifice.EPIPHANEIA is a psychologically charged near-future novel about climate resilience, organizational power and the dangerous moment when exceptional competence becomes impossible to separate from authority. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. What happens when a system can prove every fact-and still get the truth wrong?Europe, 2050.For decades, the Compact has grown better at remembering. Its shared knowledge system, HOMONOIA, brings together records, measurements, professional expertise and public data across a continent increasingly dependent on cooperation.It works.Until the small coastal community of Selas begins appearing in the official record as something its own people no longer recognize.Nothing has been fabricated. The buses ran. The water was delivered. The workers were registered. The decisions were documented. Every fact can be defended.And yet something essential has disappeared between what happened and what the system says happened.When Iria challenges the record, women whose lives have already shaped the Compact arrive from across Europe. Engineers, scientists, carers, scholars and institutional leaders discover that the problem is larger than one town-and more dangerous than a faulty algorithm. The rules deciding what counts as evidence have begun deciding what can be real.One answer is seductive: let every community own its own truth.The other is much harder.ALETHEIA is the concluding novel of the ANAKYKLOSIS series: a literary near-future novel about knowledge, power, disagreement, and the institutions human beings need in order to remain answerable to one another.Because a civilization does not have to agree about everything.But it does have to remain capable of being corrected. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. What if the most important technology for surviving the future is something we already know how to do: keep things working?In the fire summer of 2026, three women meet almost by accident.Lucia Sanz is a twenty-two-year-old agronomy student from Aragon who wants solutions that can begin before another shepherd leaves the valley. Dr Amalia Antilef, a Mapuche-Chilean-Quebecoise ecologist, has spent her career resisting the idea that knowledge can simply be lifted from one landscape and installed in another. Camille Delaunay works inside the French state, where every problem eventually becomes a category, a budget line and a measure of success.A leaking trough, an inaccessible water point, an overheated school and a railway that works perfectly on either side of a border begin to reveal the same problem: modern societies are remarkably good at funding emergencies-and much less good at sustaining the ordinary human work that prevents them.Over the next twenty-four years, the three women help build another way: one that connects livelihood, ecological limits, local knowledge, public finance, maintenance and succession.Then, in 2050, the fires return.The institutions they created are still standing. The dashboards are green. The contracts have been completed.And something essential has disappeared.To protect what they built, Camille, Amalia and Lucia must confront a harder question than climate change itself: Can care be institutionalized without the institution eventually replacing the people, knowledge and relationships it was created to preserve?EPIMELEIA is a standalone novel in the ANAKYKLOSIS series: a research-grounded work of literary systems fiction about climate resilience, female friendship, political power, Indigenous and local knowledge, and the quiet work that allows one generation to leave something usable to the next. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Majoreconomicupheavalscanhavethesortofe ectthatSchumpeterforesaw60 yearsagoascreativedestruction.Inscienceandtechnology,equivalentupheavals resultfromeitherscienti crevolutions(asobservedbyKuhn)ortheintroduction of what Christensen calls disruptive technologies. And in software engineering, there has been no technology more disruptive than outsourcing. That it should so quickly reach maturity and an unparalleled scale is truly remarkable; that it should now be called to demonstrate its sustainability in the current nancial turmoil is the challenge that will prove whether and how it will endure. Early signs under even the bleak market conditions of the last 12 months are that it will not only survive, it will rmly establish its role across the world of business. Outsourcing throws into sharp focus the entire software engineering life- cle. Topics as diverse as requirements analysis, concurrency and model-checking need to nd a composite working partnership in software engineering practice. This con uence arises from need, not dogma, and the solutions required are those that will have the right e ect on the associated activities in the world of the application: e.g., reducing the time for a transaction or making the results of a complex analysis available in real-time. While the business of outsourcing continues to be studied, the engineering innovations that make it compelling are constantly changing. It is in this milieu that this series of conferences has placed itself. 224 pp. Englisch. …

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. OIKEIOSISBook One of ANAKYKLOSISA failing component should not connect three women across Europe. But it does.Europe, 2050. The systems still work. Trains run, water flows, governments meet, power grids balance, and communities continue with ordinary life. But decades of heat, ecological pressure, ageing infrastructure and tighter margins have made one thing increasingly clear: no system is as independent as it appears.On the southern Iberian coast, Astara keeps a water system running by seeing dependencies before they become failures.In the Alps, Salven measures the narrowing space between what people need from the landscape and what the landscape can continue to give.In a German university town, Valden works with communities facing a different kind of scarcity: housing, trust, legitimacy, and the question of who should bear the cost when there is not enough for everyone.They have different expertise, different instincts, and no reason to become indispensable to one another.Then a small mechanical failure sends Astara looking beyond the usual supply chains.One favour becomes another. A repair becomes a shared standard. A contact becomes a relationship. And, almost without anyone deciding to create it, an informal network begins to form.It works.That is when the harder questions begin.Because successful cooperation creates expectations. Expectations create obligations. Standards decide who can participate. Membership creates promises. Expertise acquires authority. And the structures capable of protecting people are also capable of deciding whose needs come first.When scarcity finally forces the network to choose what and whom it can protect, Astara, Salven and Valden must confront a problem no single discipline can solve: How do you depend on other people without giving them too much power over you?OIKEIOSIS is a literary speculative novel about friendship, expertise, ecology, infrastructure and the ancient human problem hidden inside modern systems: how strangers become responsible for one another.It is a novel in ANAKYKLOSIS, a series about the patterns that return when societies are forced to decide what they owe one another. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Five first-year students inherit a program that decides who needs help. The code works. Nobody knows why. Priya, Deniz, Noor, Ola, and Mateo have ten weeks and Ballast: a student-built early-warning prototype that reads attendance, submissions, and engagement, and hands someone a list of names. Buried inside it sits a number, 0.65, the line between a quiet week and a flagged one, marked validated in pilot by people who graduated years ago.Rebuilding it will teach them to program. Trusting it is the other education, because the closer the funding demo gets, the clearer it becomes that the hardest questions were never technical. Who owns a number nobody chose? Who runs the report once this is real? And what do you owe the person a score points to, when the score belongs to someone you know? Underneath the code is a story about being seen. Universities and algorithms both turn complicated lives into records: attendance, submissions, scores, categories, histories. Ballast asks what those records can tell us, and why human judgment still matters when the technology works exactly as designed. Set in the same world as Human Parade. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In a hotter, faster 2050 Europe, three women are about to learn that a body can be perfectly described and still be wrongly judged.Mira reads bodies for a living - heat, exertion, recovery, the four-variable dance that decides who breaks and who doesn't. Noemi can't stop chasing the one result everyone else calls noise. Laia can taste a problem in an ingredient before any instrument measures it. When elite athletes at a prestigious performance institute start failing under heat for no reason the models can explain, the three of them discover that a "nutritionally equivalent" food substitution isn't behaving equivalently at all - and that the answer lives in the gap between what a standard measures and what a body actually does.Their breakthrough works. And then it gets adopted - first by hospitals, then by a fire department desperate to keep its crews safe through impossible heat. A firefighter who has never once been the problem is flagged by a system built on their own accurate science. Not wrongly. Correctly. Which is worse.ARETE asks the question its predecessor could only gesture at: once a system learns to see you perfectly, who decides what it's allowed to do with what it sees? Told through three unforgettable women - a physiologist who has stopped believing in borders, a biochemist terrified of finishing the degree meant to save her, and a chef the world keeps mistaking for a pair of hands - this is a novel about excellence, appetite, friendship, and the difference between a description and a verdict. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development | Second International Conference, SEAFOOD 2008, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2-3, 2008, Revised Papers | Kay Berkling (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2009 | Springer | EAN 9783642018558 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Lauinger, Sonia, Sonia Lauinger, Lauinger Verlag, Heinrich-Köhler-Platz 8, 76187 Karlsruhe, mail[at]lauinger-verlag[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.…

Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Majoreconomicupheavalscanhavethesortofe?ectthatSchumpeterforesaw60 yearsagoascreativedestruction.Inscienceandtechnology,equivalentupheavals resultfromeitherscienti?crevolutions(asobservedbyKuhn)ortheintroduction of what Christensen calls disruptive technologies. And in software engineering, there has been no technology more disruptive than outsourcing. That it should so quickly reach maturity and an unparalleled scale is truly remarkable; that it should now be called to demonstrate its sustainability in the current ?nancial turmoil is the challenge that will prove whether and how it will endure. Early signs under even the bleak market conditions of the last 12 months are that it will not only survive, it will ?rmly establish its role across the world of business. Outsourcing throws into sharp focus the entire software engineering life- cle. Topics as diverse as requirements analysis, concurrency and model-checking need to ?nd a composite working partnership in software engineering practice. This con?uence arises from need, not dogma, and the solutions required are those that will have the right e?ect on the associated activities in the world of the application: e.g., reducing the time for a transaction or making the results of a complex analysis available in real-time. While the business of outsourcing continues to be studied, the engineering innovations that make it compelling are constantly changing. It is in this milieu that this series of conferences has placed itself.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Every institution has its own quiet grammar of power.At a university institute housed in a converted aircraft hangar, nine ordinary weeks will connect students, professors, administrators, and technicians who barely meet-yet all move through the same unseen machinery.The first dayElin Voss asked for field robotics. A supervisor decided, without asking, that software would be more sensible. The form says one thing. The lanyard says another. Everyone calls it care.David Okafor is technically excellent, well prepared, and publicly dismantled in a code review. His "pending" result becomes a visa problem no committee designed.Jonas Reith is praised for knowing when not to step in. Later, his co-authorship exists only in a sentence nobody wrote down.Werner Poth files a safety report. Seven months later, a leg rig short-circuits and a student nearly loses a hand. The report was always in the system, but was missing the essential field.Katja Lindqvist audits thirty-one closed cases. The twenty-third one does not hold up. Correcting a record, she learns, is not the same as repairing a year.A normal world with many layers.Human Parade is a literary campus novel about the ways institutions fail people while following their own rules, filling forms, meeting minutes, informal jokes, missed deadlines, and well-meaning gestures that arrive after the door has already closed, too little, too late.The reader sees more than any single character: a rumor repeated but never sourced, a poster with a QR code, a drawer full of unactioned complaints, a photograph of a corkboard, a badge never corrected. The pattern is the antagonist.For readers who like: campus novels and literary fiction about work, power, and belongingstories that trust silence, paperwork, and small actions over melodramafiction that asks who decides what really happened and whose version becomes the recordHuman Parade is an every day novel about every day people living ordinary lives that could have been so much better if they were a little less ordinary and a little more open to who we are and our full capability. A little more supportive of all that humans can be, our full potential, if we let them. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…