Barkcloth or tapa, a cloth made from the inner bark of trees, was widely used in place of woven cloth in the Pacific islands until the 19th century. A ubiquitous material, it was integral to the lives of islanders and used for clothing, furnishings and ritual artefacts. Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth takes a new approach to the study of the history of this region through its barkcloth heritage, focusing on the plants themselves and surviving objects in historic collections. This ...

Barkcloth or tapa, a cloth made from the inner bark of trees, was widely used in place of woven cloth in the Pacific islands until the 19th century. A ubiquitous material, it was integral to the lives of islanders and used for clothing, furnishings and ritual artefacts. Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth takes a new approach to the study of the history of this region through its barkcloth heritage, focusing on the plants themselves and surviving objects in historic collections. This ...

Summary Blockchain technology has come a long way since the initial vision published by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. Big buzz words like "bitcoin," "blockchain," and "cryptocurrency" are everywhere. Companies and governments have started to use blockchain technology in earnest and will increasingly do so for the foreseeable future. This book takes an in-depth look at blockchain technology and how users can take advantage of its potential.

Since its initial conception, blockchain has encompasse...

This is the universal module, that is a key component of both, ITIL 4 Managing Professional and ITIL 4 Strategic Leader streams.

It is aimed at managers of all levels involved in shaping direction and strategy or developing a continually improving team. It provides individuals with the practical skills necessary to create a 'learning and improving' IT organization, with a strong and effective strategic direction.

The module covers the influence and impact of Agile and Lean ways of working, an...

Open Agile Architectureâ„¢, a standard of The Open Group, offers an approach to architect at scale with agility. It provides guidance and best practices for Enterprise Architects seeking to transition into Agile and Digital contexts.

Empowering an Enterprise to Succeed with its Digital-Agile Transformation

Agile teams drive the enterprise’s Digital Transformation by inventing new business models, delivering superior customer experiences, developing digital products, and architecting highly...

ITIL® 4 Leader Digital and IT Strategy (DITS) Courseware. ITIL® 4 DITS Is one of the two Strategic Leader (ITIL SL) modules.

This module will concentrate on the alignment of digital business strategy with IT strategy. The module also incorporates how disruption from new technologies are impacting businesses in every industry and how company leaders are responding.

The ITIL® 4 Leader: Digital and IT Strategy (DITS) module guide how the strategy should impact the design, delivery, and suppor...

Do you negotiate about responsibilities, strategic decisions, mergers and takeovers or your salary? Or do you negotiate with children and adolescents? Or are you involved in government negotiations? We all negotiate. Every single day. Often without even realising it. Surprisingly our negotiations continuously succeed or fail for the same reasons.How well do you negotiate? This book gives you four Keys to make your negotiations more intelligent and increase your nq®. It teaches you to bend ev...

Forum Theory suggests that Science and Learning are served by a National Assembly. Researchers can vote annually, while a National Academy may form a Senate. The Assembly improves governance, the forum itself, and research integrity.

Researchers in science and learning can simply create their National Assembly. They can set up a foundation, give rules of operation, recruit members, organise elections and have a constitutional meeting. With sufficiently large membership the operating costs ca...

This book is a representation of poems that were written from the author's heart. They speak from the many social problems that surface and exist throughout the world. Although these issues have permeated from place to place, there is still hope. There are joys in life, but there are also sorrows. Sometimes these sorrows are of the very day kind- sad, but survivable. Other sorrows affect us so profoundly, so significantly and indelibly that we instinctively know life will never be the same. W...

The city of The Hague has a special relationship with Peace and Justice. This booklet links up many centuries of legal developments in The Hague at national and international level with what can still be seen on our city’s streets today. We have chosen a continuous storyline in which legal ‘fun facts’ and developments are clearly elucidated without any unnecessary legalese, commencing at the time when torture was still the norm, and ending with the fight against cybercrime.

The book als...