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Providing new insights into the role of librarianship in an age of socioeconomic, environmental, and political transformation, Global Librarianship illustrates how globally networked environments promote and increase the sharing and dissemination of ideas, information, and solutions to obstacles affecting libraries. This reference showcases methods to tailor and build collections and technologies that continually support worldwide scholarly and business communities through the utilization of digital tools and electronic media. It Illustrates breakthroughs in the organization, management, and dissemination of information to facilitate easy access to libraries anywhere in the world.
• Books in Library and Information Science Series
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The Second Edition offers a blueprint for responding effectively to customer demands and for creating the benchmarks common to world-class e-service and information-based organizations. It delivers expert guidance on designing, implementing, and evaluating a CV strategy that benefits e-service and information-based organizations. Building upon concepts, cases, and in-chapter applications, the book addresses best practices, organizational responsiveness, market orientation, and the planning and strategy issues that result in high rates of customer satisfaction. The book concludes with 18 detailed examples of companies attempting to create customer value. Each case study delivers an in-depth look at major CV themes such as responding to change, being customer oriented, service quality, e-service quality, customer loyalty, and more.
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"Sexo y carácter" aparece en mayo de 1903. El libro, proyectado en un principio como un estudio de biología, psicología y caracterología, pasa a ser una indagación esencialmente filosófica en la que Otto Weininger construye las definiciones de masculinidad y feminidad bajo el principio de que todos los seres vivos tienen una variable proporción de ambos componentes. Los sitúa además como rasgos contrapuestos -siendo lo masculino moral y positivo y lo femenino amoral y negativo- y sobre esta base analiza aspectos como la monogamia, el adulterio, la homosexualidad o la emancipación de la mujer.
Afirma, además, que el judaísmo está más cercano a la feminidad, mientras que el cristianismo refleja más rasgos masculinos. Weininger, provenía de una familia judía antisemita y había roto definitivamente con la religión de sus antepasados con el simbólico gesto de convertirse al cristianismo el mismo día en que recibió su Doctorado, en julio de 1902.
Según el filósofo, las mujeres y los judíos no poseen moralidad ni racionalidad, no merecen ni necesitan igualdad, y mucho menos libertad.
Weiniger no vivió lo suficiente para ver el éxito de su libro. Su dramático suicidio, con sólo 23 años, contribuyó a su celebridad, inspiró a numerosos imitadores y le convirtió en el paradigma del "genio trágico". Mientras, Sexo y carácter, disfrutó de una segunda edición a los pocos meses de su aparición y una década después las ediciones llegaban ya a 25 sin contar las traducciones a seis o siete idiomas. Se convirtió en el libro científico más popular de la historia y tuvo inmensa influencia en filósofos y artistas posteriores como Ludwig Wittgenstein y Edvard Munch.
Misógino y antisemita, como puede parecer al lector del siglo XXI, Sexo y carácter es la obra de un pensador excepcional y un libro fundamental para conocer las corrientes de pensamiento imperantes en su tiempo.

This reference conveniently gathers numerous formulas, analytical methods, and graphs for the design and selection of a wide variety of brakes and clutches in the automotive, aircraft, farming, and manufacturing industries. It simplifies calculations, explores a wide range of applications, and assists in the selection of parameters for specific design challenges. The book includes such topics as centrifugal, one-way, and detent clutches; friction drives with clutch capabilities; fluid clutches and brakes; antilock braking system; brake vibration; and SAE standards. The various design strategies are presented with the aid of numerous examples, 550 display equations, and about 200 figures.
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If you're like most designers and publishers who work with QuarkXPress, you've been waiting a long time for this release. In fact, you're probably one of the last people on your block to start using Mac OS X or Windows XP because you've been waiting for your most important application--QuarkXPress--to offer native support for either. Well, the wait is finally over, and here to get you up to speed on it quickly and easily is QuarkXPress 6 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide. In these pages, best-selling authors and veteran educators Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas use task-based, step-by-step instruction and loads of visual aids to provide a soup-to-nuts grounding in QuarkXPress 6, including all that's new in this ground-breaking release: project files containing multiple layouts, Synchronized Text, improved table creation, and more. Progressing from the basics of planning and designing layouts, working with text, and creating and importing graphics to more advanced topics like exporting documents as Web pages and adding hyperlinks, this indispensable reference covers it all.

If you're interested in weaving multiple images into a seamless panorama, placing text on paths and shapes, or any of the countless other things you can do with Photoshop CS' myriad new features, this is the place to get up to speed on them fast! In these pages best-selling authors and Photoshop masters Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas use task-based instruction and strong visual aids to teach you all of the Photoshop essentials: from basic color manipulation and image correction to painting, masking, using filters, importing and editing digital photos, and more. Incisive text, crystal-clear screen shots, and step-by-step instructions bring the art of digital image manipulation to your desktop. Now you can take the ball and run with it, creating your own composite masterpieces that take full advantage of Photoshop's tight integration with the other products in Adobe's Creative Suite. Armed with the tips and techniques Elaine and Peter share here, you'll be ready for any Photoshop CS project.

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