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Civic entrepreneurship lies at the heart of the Arab Spring. From the iconic image of an occupied Tahrir Square to scenes of dancing protesters in Syria and politically conscious hip hop in Tunisia, people across the Middle East and North Africa continue to collaborate and experiment their way out of years of dictatorship and political stagnation. The Future of the Arab Spring examines the spirit of civic entrepreneurship that brought once untouchable dictators to their knees and continues to shape the region's political, artistic, and technology sectors. Through interviews with some of the region's leading civic entrepreneurs, including political activists, artists, and technologists, Maryam Jamshidi broadens popular understandings of recent events in this misunderstood region of the world.
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Features first-hand interviews with some of the most important political, cultural, and economic players on the ground in Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia, and other Arab Spring countries
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Offers a window into a region often misunderstood in the United States
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Illuminates the potential for positive, grassroots change in the social, political, and economic systems of Arab countries
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Moving From Windows To Linux (Networking Series)Most computer users utilize the Windows operating system. Today, however, many experienced computer users are either moving to Linux or would like the option. One factor holding many people back is the fear of learning a new operating system and applications. This book uses a friendly, step-by-step style to walk the user through the... | | Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
This book addresses charts, graphs, maps, diagrams, and tables used in all areas; however, its major focus is on their uses for operational purposes.
To many people, information graphics are the images frequently used in presentations at formal meetings or the stylized charts and graphs used in newspapers and magazines.
... | | The Description Logic Handbook: Theory, Implementation and Applications
Since the publication of the first edition of The Description Logic Handbook
in 2003, the interest in Description Logics (DL) has steadily increased. This
applies both to the number of active DL researchers working on DL theory
and implementations of reasoning services, and to the number of applications
based on DL technology. One... |
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