Planning today is more important than ever. Both acquisition and allocation of resources are increasingly difficult for arts organizations as a result of emerging technologies, reduced arts education, aging donors, and the advent of new forms of entertainment. It is essential for arts organizations to take a coherent approach to these issues to remain vibrant over time. In fact, most arts organizations do periodically attempt some kind of planning exercise. But a review of hundreds of such...

In this clear-minded but sobering book, Michael M. Kaiser assesses the current state of arts institutions—orchestras; opera, ballet, modern dance, and theater companies; and even museums. According to Kaiser, new developments in the twenty-first century, including the Internet explosion, the death of the recording industry, the near-death of subscriptions, economic instability, the focus on STEM education in schools, the introduction of movie-theater opera, the erosion of newspapers, the t...

Spanning a corporate dynasty's rise and fall, "Inheritance Lost - Heritage Transformed" charts Henry M. Kaiser's odyssey through legacy and self-discovery. Caught between past grandeur and future dreams, he confronts generational burdens with resilience.

A fascinating comparison of the work of Heinrich von Kleist and Herman Melville.Figures of Simplicity explores a unique constellation of figures from philosophy and literature-Heinrich von Kleist, Herman Melville, G. W. Leibniz, and Alexander Baumgarten-in an attempt to recover alternative conceptions of aesthetics and dimensions of thinking lost in the disciplinary narration of aesthetics after Kant. This is done primarily by tracing a variety of "simpletons" that...

The US Gulf of Mexico is one of the largest and most prolific offshore hydrocarbon basins in the world with thousands of structures installed in the region and tens of thousands of wells drilled. Over the past decade, a significant number of structures in shallow water have been decommissioned, as operators can no longer "kick the decommissioning can" down the road. This has opened up new markets and additional regulatory oversight with far-reaching implications. This book describes future...

Published continuously since 1972, Agricultural Product Prices has become the standard textbook and reference work for students in agricultural and applied economics, buyers and sellers of commodities, and policymakers, clearly explaining conceptual and empirical models applicable to agricultural product markets. The new fifth edition uses up-to-date information and models to explain the behavior of agricultural product prices. To...

This book contains best-selected research papers presented at ICTCS 2025: Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies. The conference is organized in Jaipur, India during 15–17 December 2025. This book covers state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to ICT and effective strategies for its implementation for engineering and managerial applications. This book contains papers mainly focused on ICT for computation, algorit...

This book contains best-selected research papers presented at ICTCS 2025: Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies. The conference is organized in Jaipur, India during 15–17 December 2025. This book covers state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to ICT and effective strategies for its implementation for engineering and managerial applications. This book contains papers mainly focused on ICT for computation, algorit...

This CCIS post conference volume constitutes the proceedings of First Global Conference on Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, AAIDS 2024, in London, UK, April 2024.The 30 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 147 submissions. They were focused on topical sections as follows: Advanced Computing and Statistics; Data Science and Hybrid AI Systems.

This book contains best selected research papers presented at ICTCS 2025: Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies. The conference is organized in Jaipur, India during 15 – 17 December 2025. The book covers state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to ICT and effective strategies for its implementation for engineering and managerial applications. This book contains papers mainly focused on ICT for computation, algori...

This book provides an insightful review and methodological contribution about future healthcare system. It also provides a space for creating and designing techniques for effective sensing, processing, and analysis of patient health situations based on bio-signal processing. Additionally, it discusses novel methods and algorithms which are needed to overcome limitations in current rhythmic bio-signals models. It also discusses solutions and systems needed to efficiently evaluate and proces...

The Ends of Critique re-examines the stakes of critique in the 21st century. In view of increasingly complex socio-political realities and shifts in a fully globalized world, the roles and manners of critique also change. The volume offers an unprecedented re-examination of critique under those conditions of global entanglement and asymmetrical relations from a diversity of scholarly perspectives within the humanities. All contributions move the notion of critique into more divers...