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The many exciting roads to bread glory and the best ways to enjoy it from a powerhouse couple who threw in their corporate jobs to realise their bakery dream.

Short essays on the absurdities within U.S. culture, from the author's column in the New York times.

Enterprise software systems are notoriously antiquated and hard to use. While consumer-driven applications have evolved to be more user-centric, enterprise software systems—including ERP, CRM, supply chain management, network management, project management, BI, and domain-specific information management in fields such as accounting, HR, and legal—have remained rooted in an HCI mindset the rest of the industry left behind a decade ago. Why do enterprise product management, development, and design teams persist in producing clunky overpriced software systems that frustrate enterprise users accustomed to the elegant UI of “free” consumer apps and that incur huge hidden costs in lost productivity and training and support time? Legacy inertia, organizational silos, and risk aversion—all have combined to make the code bases of mature enterprises a mess of “spaghetti” code and stateless protocols. Usability, learnability, and efficiency are no longer optional in enterprise software. Jeff Noble and Russell Wilson show project managers, UX designers, usability evaluators, software engineers, software testers, and requirements analysts how to do a technical analysis of a legacy system and put together a plan to wrap the system’s business logic inside a common API and then overhaul the code base with UI design and feature updates and migrate it to SaaS and mobile platforms. The authors teach you how to design and ship user-centered enterprise software by integrating your separate project management, development, and design teams into a super team making seamless pass-offs under a single plan and UX methodology. Noble and Wilson walk you through the steps for applying to enterprise software design the methods of the agile UX life cycle process that have become standard in the consumer sector—contextual analysis, user groups identification and prioritization, interview and observational user research, requirements extraction, user personas, mental models, prototyping, usability testing, iterative interaction design, and rapid UX evaluation. Designing Enterprise Software shows you how to: perform a technical analysis of your legacy system design, evolve, and migrate your user-centered enterprise software integrate your project management, development, and design teams in an agile UX life cycle use essential user-centric tools, such as contextual analysis, observational user research, prototyping, usability testing, and iterative interaction design What you’ll learn Readers of this book will learn practical tips from experts on how to: explain the critical value of design in enterprise software to all corporate stakeholders perform a technical analysis of your legacy system design, evolve, and migrate your user-centered enterprise software integrate your project management, development, and design teams in an agile UX life cycle deploy user-centric design tools, such as contextual analysis, observational user research, prototyping, usability testing, and iterative interaction design Who this book is for This book is for UX designers, usability practitioners and evaluators, project managers, software engineers, software testers, and requirements analysts.

The many exciting roads to bread glory and the best ways to enjoy it from a powerhouse couple who threw in their corporate jobs to realise their bakery dream. Baker Bleu The Book is a cookbook of sorts. At least, it has 70-plus delicious, inventive recipes for anyone who wants to emulate the best bread and Roman-style sourdough pizza bases in Melbourne. And those who are sandwich fiends (like Neil Perry), or who aspire to resourcefulness with leftover bread, or use croissant dough to make simple filled pastries at home (and prudently leave the whole croissant palaver to the experts). Or just crave the bakery's now cultish vegan challah (born of the fact its first low-grade food licence did not allow them to work with eggs). But there is more to it too. It's also a story of what's possible when you wake up one day and decide there's more to life than the soulless corporate grind. And you sign on with pluck and ambition to bake it till you make it.

A new Germany has come of age, as democratic, sophisticated, affluent, and modern as any other western nation. This remarkable transition in little more than a generation is the central theme of Germany Transformed. Here all the old stereotypes and conclusions are challenged and new research is marshalled to provide a model for an advanced democratic republic. Kendall Baker, Russell Dalton, and Kai Hildebrandt, working with massive national election returns from 1953 onward, explain the Old Politics of the postwar period, which was based on the "economic miracle" and the security needs of West Germany, and the shift in the past decade to the New Politics, which emphasizes affluence, leisure, the quality of life, and international accommodation. But more than elections are examined. Rather, the authors delineate the transvaluation of the German civic culture as democracy became embedded in the nation's institutions, political ways, party structures, and citizen interest in governance. By the 1970s the quiescent German of Prussia, the Empire, and the 1930s had become the active and aware democratic westerner. This is among the most important books about West Germany written since the late 1950s, when the nation, devastated by war and rebuilding its economy and political life, was still struggling with the possibilities of democracy. It is a political history, recounted in enormous detail and with methodological precision, that will change perceptions about Germany and align them with realities. Germany is now an integrated part of a democratic western community of nations, and an understanding of its true condition not only illuminates better the staunch European identity but also is bound to have an impact on American policy.

"Animal Farm" is the most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories. Its account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, can fairly be said to have become a universal drama. Orwell is one of the very few modern satirists comparable to Jonathan Swift in power, artistry, and moral authority; in animal farm his spare prose and the logic of his dark comedy brilliantly highlight his stark message. Taking as his starting point the betrayed promise of the Russian Revolution, Orwell lays out a vision that, in its bitter wisdom, gives us the clearest understanding we possess of the possible consequences of our social and political acts.

Avalanche dynamics equations are used to estimate flow heights, velocities, specific thrust pressure, maximum specific weight of avalanche debris, and runout distance for 12 avalanche case studies from the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Suggestions are made for using this engineering approach for avalanche zoning and land use planning.