The quality and success of schools depend upon school leadership. Increasingly, in many countries worldwide, this belief has led to designing and implementing appropriate training and development programs for educational leaders. In an international comparative research project, current school leader training and development programs in fiftee

National economies are linked through flows of capital and goods. This book addresses those linkages, analyzes their benefits for economic development, and evaluates a country’s opportunities to reap the best possible rewards by influencing the linkages. The book focuses on the role of product characteristics in international economics and their impact on economic development. After an introduction to the topic, it analyzes the influence of product sophistication on growth, and offers alternative means of measuring product characteristics. In turn, the book provides evidence for the impact of foreign equity on the characteristics of the products that firms produce. Moreover, it presents empirical findings that prove that the quality of a country's legal and institutional framework is influenced by said country’s predisposition to trade rule-of-law-intensive goods.

We think, feel, and talk in metaphors. Why not use them for design? Feeling down? Cheer up! We use metaphors every day and often without being aware of it. Many metaphors are more than figures of speech. They reflect basic bodily experiences and help to structure our thinking and experiences of the world. Happy is Up, Sad is Down is a collection of 65 metaphors with research facts and applications in product and interaction design, information graphics, and advertising. Metaphors show how to use space and physical attributes to convey abstract concepts like time and importance, emotions and social relations, political ideas and ethical values. This book is meant to inspire designers and everyone curious about how the mind works.

Stephan Hubers großformatige Landkarten verweben objektives Ausgangsmaterial mit subjektiven Empfindungen voller poetischer, politischer, historischer und philosophischer Anspielungen. Kartografie wird bei Huber zum Kosmos einer Person und zugleich zu einer großen Erzählung über die letzten 50 Jahre. Fiktion und Realität verschwimmen zu einem sowohl kritisch verstörenden wie auch überbordend ironischen Weltbild, das mit großer Lust in eine künstlerische Form gebracht wird. Die zahlreichen Klapptafeln ermöglichen erstmalig ein genaues Studieren der groß formatigen Arbeiten. Hubers Werk wurde neben großen Museumsausstellungen auch bereits auf der documenta und der Biennale in Venedig gezeigt. Exhibition: Eres-Stiftung, Munich, Germany (16.1-28.3.2015).

Installations of Huber's work between 2000 and 2009 emphasizing gaming culture.