This highly practical book is essential reading for anyone wanting to know about the many ways to get a job and build a career in the EU public administration.

This 2024 edition has been fully updated to take account of major developments such as the new format of EPSO competitions, the increased availability of internal competitions, and important trends in the types of jobs and career pathways available.

Working for the EU: How to Get In 2024 explains:

• The wide range of positions in th...

Example projects with Node-RED, MQTT, WinCC SCADA, Blynk, and ThingSpeak

This comprehensive guide unlocks the power of Modbus TCP/IP communication with Arduino. From the basics of the Modbus protocol right up to full implementation in Arduino projects, the book walks you through the complete process with lucid explanations and practical examples.

Learn how to set up Modbus TCP/IP communication with Arduino for seamless data exchange between devices over a network. Explore different Modbus fun...

Toolkit Mediation is the practical guide for mediators, providing practical tools, useful models, and checklists for mediators in practice and is applicable to all styles and methods of mediation. It is a manual for how mediation can be used by various professionals for their own purposes. Managers, mediators, negotiators, trainers, coaches, consultants, lawyers, judges and other professionals can all benefit from using mediation techniques. This practical handbook contains an overview of the...

In a time where boundaries blur and responsibilities shift, executives are faced with the challenge of developing a new and adaptive form of leadership.

Drawing on many years of experience, five senior executive coaches present seven perspectives to further develop your executive leadership and enhance your effectiveness. Each chapter contains practical examples, theoretical frameworks, useful methodologies, and reflective questions. The last chapter provides a self-test and guidance on findi...

In the first book to map out what AI brings to graphic design – and to identity design in particular – author Melani De Luca shares the experiences of designers in the field and pinpoints coherent working methods, practical approaches, and ethical structures. Balancing between playful writing, using the voice of AI persona Steve, and rigorous academic inquiry, she offers a replicable conceptual framework that advances methodology and practice in graphic design, integrating AI and machine ...

Awards shape careers, make research visible, and create role models. They provide evidence of prestige and credit and play a key role in evaluating individual scientists. Nevertheless, the understanding of prize cultures in science has remained surprisingly superficial. This book explores the prize cultures of the most famous scientific award worldwide: the Nobel Prize. It contributes to modern approaches in history and sociology of science that focus on the social context of scientific pract...

The book outlines a dramatic history of the failed liberalization of Japanese private law during the Meiji era. Once Japan overthrew the shogunate and fully opened up to contact with the world, modernization of the backward country and its fragmented customary legal system became a crucial objective of the new ruling elites. The initiated codification of law included the drafting of the first Civil Code, designed to revolutionize the traditional societal ties in Japan. The legal project, seem...

'Bodies beyond Binaries' advances the historiographical debate around the body in colonial and postcolonial Asia. Opening new research avenues that go beyond the binaries that have sometimes permeated previous scholarly contributions, this book explores not just the direct colonial encounter, but also wider global interconnections and flows involved in the making of knowledge, cultural constructions, and ‘techniques’ of the body.

Throughout the volume, critical concepts such as gender, s...