Human error is an undesirable aspect of everyday life. It is often excused
on the basis that mistakes are just part of the everyday learning process.
Simply put, people make mistakes, to err is human, and people are not
perfect, except possibly…
The practice of architecture is not new. While the profession, as we recognize it
today, has only been around since the seventeenth century, there is evidence of
“designed” structures, and drawings of these, …
As authors, we wonder whether readers might be interested in knowing something of our backgrounds and the reason why we undertook to write this book. We decided to write the book after we ran workshops to train people from the helping professions who…
The use of social media in governments is growing rapidly all over the world. Social
media provides public agencies with diverse tools that facilitate their engagement
with the public. However, social media raises different privacy, security and…
TRIPP, the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme at the Indian Institute
of Technology Delhi, had earlier (in 2005) brought out, The Way Forward: Transportation Planning and Road Safety which may, in a manner of speaking, be…
This edition has been thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated with the latest
developments in ener
gy‐effective electric light sources and lighting fi xtures that
provide the optimum quality of li
ght and maximum energy effi ciency. The…
Thought is in fact a kind of algebra, as Berkeley long ago said, “in which, though a particular quantity be marked by each letter, yet to proceed right, it is not requisite that in every step each letter suggest to your thoughts that particular…
Sometimes luck beats planning. I have been fortunate in my professional career,
a career that began in 1973 as an accountant and continued into operations management
and management consulting. Without realizing it—through a series of
different…
The Shelly Cashman Series offers the fi nest textbooks in computer education. We are proud of the fact that our previous HTML books have been so well received. With each new edition of our HTML books, we have made signifi cant improvements based on…