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1. A Tale of Two Transformations

   Bringing Lean and Agile Software Development to Life

   By Michael K. Levine

   There are many books that seek to explain Lean and Agile software that offer theory, techniques, and examples. Michael Levine’s first book, A Tale of Two Systems, is one of the best, synthesizing Lean manufacturing and product development with agile software concepts in an engaging business novel....

   Published December 4th 2011 by Productivity Press
2. Legitimating Television

   Media Convergence and Cultural Status

   By Michael Z Newman, Elana Levine

   Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining a new level of cultural respectability in the 21st century. Once looked down upon as a "plug-in drug" offering little redeeming social or artistic value, television is now said to be in a...

   Published September 7th 2011 by Routledge
3. Prospects for an Ethics of Architecture

   By William M. Taylor, Michael P. Levine

   Bringing together the reflections of an architectural theorist and a philosopher, this book encourages philosophers and architects, scholars and designers alike, to reconsider what they do as well as what they can do in the face of challenging times. It does so by exploring the notion...

   Published February 3rd 2011 by Routledge
4. A Tale of Two Systems

   Lean and Agile Software Development for Business Leaders

   By Michael K. Levine

   This business parable reviews two different systems development projects. One project was an abject, expensive failure, while the other succeeded in creating a major new revenue stream, bringing in new customers. By reviewing the tales of these two systems, readers will develop a better...

   Published June 23rd 2009 by Productivity Press
5. The Prevention of Eating Problems and Eating Disorders

   Theory, Research, and Practice

   By Michael P. Levine, Linda Smolak

   This is the first authored volume to offer a detailed, integrated analysis of the field of eating problems and disorders with theory, research, and practical experience from community and developmental psychology, public health, psychiatry, and dietetics. The book highlights connections between the...

   Published August 2nd 2005 by Psychology Press
6. Analytic Freud

   Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

   Edited by Michael Levine

   This is a timely and stimulating collection of essays on the importance of Freudian thought for analytic philosophy, investigating its impact on mind, ethics, sexuality, religion and epistemology.Marking a clear departure from the long-standing debate over whether Freudian thought is scientific or...

   Published November 17th 1999 by Routledge
7. Preventing Eating Disorders

   A Handbook of Interventions and Special Challenges

   Edited by Niva Piran, Michael Levine, Catherine Steiner-Adair

   This comprehensive resource provides multiple prevention strategies, programs, and approaches for health and mental health workers, educators, researchers, students, and interested members of the community at large who work to prevent eating disorders and related problems....

   Published March 31st 1999 by Routledge
8. The Developmental Psychopathology of Eating Disorders

   Implications for Research, Prevention, and Treatment

   Edited by Linda Smolak, Ruth H. Striegel-Moore, Michael P. Levine

   Although eating problems--ranging from body dissatisfaction and dieting to anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa--can begin and typically have their roots in childhood, theory and research in developmental psychopathology and developmental psychology have not received substantial attention in eating...

   Published March 31st 1996 by Routledge
9. Pantheism

   A Non-Theistic Concept of Deity

   By Michael P. Levine

   Many people who do not believe in God believe that 'everything is God' - that everything is part of an all-inclusive divine unity. In Pantheism, this concept is presented as a legitimate position and its philosophical basis is examined. Michael Levine compares it to theism, and discusses the scope...

   Published July 6th 1994 by Routledge