1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455862603321

Autore

Devlin Julia <1966->

Titolo

Challenges of economic development in the Middle East and North Africa region [[electronic resource] /] / Julia C. Devlin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2010

ISBN

1-282-76024-6

9786612760242

981-279-345-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (568 p.)

Collana

World Scientific studies in international economics ; ; 8

Disciplina

338.956

Soggetti

Economic development - Middle East

Economic development - Africa, North

Electronic books.

Middle East Economic conditions 1945-

Middle East Economic policy

Africa, North Economic conditions

Africa, North Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Is MENA exceptional? -- State formation, consolidation, and development, 1960s-1980s -- Toward greater use of markets and the global economy? -- Oil, OPEC, and the challenges of surplus management -- Water scarcity and agricultural policy in the MENA region -- Building a new future : development in the post-conflict context and post-disaster recovery -- Is the MENA region "open" for business? -- Making global integration work for MENA countries -- Are market disciplines sufficient? : industrial policy and technology transfer -- The keys to the future : human capital developments in the MENA region -- Are MENA's labor markets the key to growth? -- Closing the poverty gap in MENA -- Development assistance and its effectiveness in MENA countries -- Pathways to ensure prosperity.

Sommario/riassunto

This important book surveys major economic issues in the development of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region since



World War II. It reviews the key challenges facing the region in moving towards greater market orientation and integration with the global economy. It also incorporates a discussion of tools and methods used by development practitioners and briefly examines issues of aid effectiveness. Topics covered include patterns of growth, economic reform strategies, the role of OPEC and oil in development, water scarcity and agricultural policies, population, education

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462332803321

Autore

Barker Timothy Scott

Titolo

Time and the digital [[electronic resource] ] : connecting technology, aesthetics, and a process philosophy of time / / Timothy Scott Barker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hanover, N.H., : Dartmouth College Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-54074-6

9786613853196

1-61168-301-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Interfaces, studies in visual culture

Disciplina

004.01/9

004.019

Soggetti

Human-computer interaction

Digital media - Philosophy

Space and time

Aesthetics

Technology and the arts

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-225) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Whitehead and Deleuze; Trains, Telephones, Televisions; Mediation; Time, Process, and Multi-temporality; 1 | Experimenting with Time; Convergences; Performing Digital Aesthetics; Technology as Temporalizing; 2 | Time and Process; Process; Whitehead's Time; What Is an Event?; Perceiving Events; 3 | Deleuze's Timeand Serres's Multi-



temporality; What Deleuze Reads in Bergson; The Virtual; Serres's Time and Digital "Presentness"; A Time That Moves Sideways; 4 | The Time of David Claerbout, Bill Viola, and Dan Graham

The Time of David ClaerboutThe Time of Bill Viola; The Time of Dan Graham; 5 | Events & Interactive Aesthetics; The Event and Present; The Story Is Like a River . . .; Time and T_Visionarium; Re-presenting Events; Rethinking the User: Humans and Technology; 6 | Technology, Aesthetics, & Deleuze's Virtual; Time and the Virtual; Delays and Movement; Extensions, Entanglements, and Prehension; 7 | A Unison of Becoming; The Effect of Relations; A Digital Extensive Continuum; The Digital Past; Time, Process, and Databases; 8 | Databases and Time; Multi-temporality and Frames; Organizing Temporality

Events and the ArchiveThe Database in Time; The Database and Temporal Relationships; Reterritorializing Data; Databases and the Extension of Occasions; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An original consideration of the temporal in digital art and aesthetics