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How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

By: Cliff Kuang,Robert Fabricant

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How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

By: Cliff Kuang,Robert Fabricant

AMAZON BEST BOOKS OF 2019 PICK FORTUNE WRITERS AND EDITORS' RECOMMENDED BOOKS OF 2019 PICK "User Friendly is a tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly research, professional experience and revelations from intrepid firsthand reporting." —EDWARD TENNER, The New York Times Book Review In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need. Spanning over a century of sweeping changes, from women’s rights to the Great Depression to World War II to the rise of the digital era, this book unpacks the ways in which the world has been—and continues to be—remade according to the principles of the once-obscure discipline of user-experience design. In this essential text, Kuang and Fabricant map the hidden rules of the designed world and shed light on how those rules have caused our world to change—an underappreciated but essential history that’s pieced together for the first time. Combining the expertise and insight of a leading journalist and a pioneering designer, User Friendly provides a definitive, thoughtful, and practical perspective on a topic that has rapidly gone from arcane to urgent to inescapable. In User Friendly, Kuang and Fabricant tell the whole story for the first time—and you’ll never interact with technology the same way again.

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0374713154

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How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

By: Cliff Kuang,Robert Fabricant

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A New Direction for China's Defense Industry

By: Evan S. Medeiros,Roger Cliff,Keith Crane,James C. Mulvenon

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A New Direction for China's Defense Industry

By: Evan S. Medeiros,Roger Cliff,Keith Crane,James C. Mulvenon

Since the early 1980s, a prominent and consistent conclusion drawn from research on China's defense-industrial complex has been that China's defense-production capabilities are rife with weaknesses and limitations. This study argues for an alternative approach: From the vantage point of 2005, it is time to shift the focus of current research to the gradual improvements in and the future potential of China's defense-industrial complex. The study found that China's defense sectors are designing and producing a wide range of increasingly advanced weapons that, in the short term, are relevant to a possible conflict over Taiwan but also to China's long-term military presence in Asia. Part of a larger RAND Project AIR FORCE study on Chinese military modernization, this study examines the current and future capabilities of China's defense industry. The goals of this study are to 1.

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331

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Rand Corporation

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0833040790

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9780833040794

The Languages of East and Southeast Asia

An Introduction

By: Cliff Goddard

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The Languages of East and Southeast Asia

An Introduction

By: Cliff Goddard

This book introduces readers to the remarkable linguistic diversity of East and Southeast Asia. It combines serious but accessible treatments of diverse areas not usually found in a single volume: for example, word origins, cultural key words, tones and sounds, language families and typology, key syntactic structures, writing systems, communicative style. Written with great clarity and an eye for interesting examples, the book is a textbook for students of linguistics, Asian languages, and Asian studies.

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0199273111

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9780199273119

Oil and Water

Being Han in Xinjiang

By: Tom Cliff

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Oil and Water

Being Han in Xinjiang

By: Tom Cliff

Xinjiang is, like Tibet, one of China s autonomous regions. Despite the overwhelming attention scholars and activists have given to Tibet, Xinjiang has garnered relatively little attention. Never a quiescent place, however, it has seen one uprising after another, most recently in violent flare-ups over the cultural repression and economic exclusion of the local Muslim Uyghurs. Oil and Water, by anthropologist and photographer Tom Cliff, is the first book to turn the lens onto Han Chinese settlers. Using ethnographic vignettes, life histories, and arresting photographs, Cliff shows how large-scale social and institutional structures, historical narratives, and national political imperatives have shaped the lives of ordinary Han settlers in Xinjiang. The book weaves together the individual threads of life histories to show what it means to be Han in this frontier zone. Along the way, Cliff makes a number of surprising points: for example, that the Communist Party is in fact more concerned with stability among the Han in frontier regions than Uyghur cooperation itself; or that the frontier is simultaneously seen as backward and ahead in that it is the testing ground for policies and practices that may later be put to use in the core. Most important, by shifting the focus away from often-studied state actions and Uyghur reactions and onto the daily experience of diverse Han settlers, Oil and Water provides the first behind the scenes look into the colonial enterprise that China has tried to hide from the world since it took power sixty years ago.

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University of Chicago Press

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022636013X

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9780226360133

Inorganic Ternary Thin Films: Anaysis of Optical Properties

By: Cliff Orori Mosiori

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Inorganic Ternary Thin Films: Anaysis of Optical Properties

By: Cliff Orori Mosiori

Thin films can be used to fabricate optoelectronic devices. Technology is currently focusing on ternary thin film composition because of their structure, inter-band transitions and other optical properties that can be maximized. This book discusses in detail the optical characteristics of ternary thin films and further investigates the behavior of Iron Zinc Sulphide, Lead Silver Sulphide, Copper Silver Sulphide, Copper Zinc Sulphide and Cadmium Zinc Sulphide. Thin films are of fundamental importance in modern technology.

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Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)

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3954893460

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9783954893461

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A New Direction for China's Defense Industry

A New Direction for China's Defense Industry

The Languages of East and Southeast Asia

The Languages of East and Southeast Asia

Oil and Water

Oil and Water

Inorganic Ternary Thin Films: Anaysis of Optical Properties

Inorganic Ternary Thin Films: Anaysis of Optical Properties

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