From reed boats, papyrus, and amulets to pyramids, pharaohs, and mummies, this interactive activity book explores the fascinating lives of ancient Egyptians with more than two dozen hands-on projects. The text covers ancient Egyptian food and housing, games and toys, farming, medicine, clothing and jewelry, as well as gods, pharaohs, hieroglyphs, pyramids, temples, and mummies. Engaging projects that use easily obtainable materials and require little adult supervision build on what is taught in each section and include building a shaduf, making a 1:1,000 scale model of the Great Pyramid, cooking flatbread, recreating papyrus, mixing perfume, designing a cartouche using hieroglyphs, and making sandals in the style worn by King Tut.

Review
"Overall, Adam and Humphreys have successfully brought together a wide range of topics into a simple collection of well-written essays. Academic in nature, this encyclopedia will be useful to those who make decision support systems, as well as those who work n the development of decision support technologies." --American Reference Annual, Vol. 40 (2009)
Product Description
As effective organizational decision making is a major factor in a companys success, a coherent, comprehensive account of current available research on the core concepts of the decision support agenda, is in high demand by academicians and professionals alike.
The Encyclopedia of Decision Making and Decision Support Technologies presents a critical mass of research on the most up-to-date research on human and computer support of managerial decision making, including discussion on support of operational, tactical, and strategic decisions, human vs. computer system support structure, individual and group decision making, and multi-criteria decision making.

Over the next couple of years, politicians will have to perform a difficult policy U-turn; for, in the long term, they need flexible labour markets. That will mean abolishing job-subsidy programmes, taking away protected workers’ privileges and making it easier for businesses to restructure by laying people off. Countries such as Japan, with two-tier workforces in which an army of temporary workers with few protections toil alongside mollycoddled folk with many, will need to narrow that disparity by making the latter easier to fire.

To use memory effectively, we must do much more than shuttle information into and out of storage. Much of our use of memory is actually the action of higher-level decision making on the inputs to and the outputs from memory stores. The central premise of this volume is that the many capabilities of memory reflect not the action and interaction of multiple memory systems but rather the myriad of ways in which memory queries can be strategically devised for the task at hand and the degree to which the products of memory can be flexibly acted upon. The chapters here review research that demonstrates how we select strategies for querying memory effectively, how we successfully remember to perform intended actions, how the skillful use of encoding and retrieval strategies can moderate memory deficits and support expertise, and how we accommodate our responses and monitor our output in order to satisfy situational demands while making optimal use of the information that our memory provides us with.