Knowledge Workers in the Information Society (McKercher Catherine)(Pevná vazba)

Knowledge Workers in the Information Society (McKercher Catherine)(Pevná vazba)

Knowledge Workers in the Information Society addresses the changing nature of work, workers, and their organizations in the media, information, and knowledge industries. These knowledge workers include journalists, broadcasters, librarians, filmmakers and animators, government workers, and

Knowledge is Beautiful (McCandless David)(Pevná vazba)

In this mind-blowing follow-up to the bestselling Information is Beautiful, the king of infographics David McCandless uses spectacular visuals to reveal unexpected insights into how the world really

Edemocracy & Egovernment: Stages of a Democratic Knowledge Society (Meier Andreas)(Pevná vazba)

This textbook reviews and systematically presents the use of the Internet in public administration and politics. Further, it employs a process-oriented layer model to define the opportunities for exchange and participation for all stakeholder groups, covering the following topics: eAssistance,

Friending the Past: The Sense of History in the Digital Age (Liu Alan)(Pevná vazba)

Can today's society, increasingly captivated by a constant flow of information, share a sense of history? How did our media-making forebears balance the tension between the present and the absent, the individual and the collective, the static and the dynamic--and how do our current digital networks

Management Information Systems (Oz Effy)(Pevná vazba)

The coverage in this edition of 'Management Information Systems' reflects the latest advances in MIS tools and trends. A wide selection of hands-on practice exercises at the end of every chapter stimulates business problem-solving skills, and a supporting website provides interactive learning

Spatial Information Technology for Sustainable Development Goals (Kumar Dilip)(Pevná vazba)

This textbook aims to develop a scientific knowledge base on spatial information technology to communicate the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) among students, researchers, professionals and laymen. The book improves understanding of the spatial database and explains how to

Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War (Xu)(Pevná vazba)

During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single largest group of support labor came not from imperial colonies, however, but from China. Xu Guoqi tells the remarkable story of the 140,000 Chinese men recruited for the Allied

The University and the Global Knowledge Society (Frank David John)(Paperback)

How the university went global and became the heart of the information ageThe university is experiencing an unprecedented level of success today, as more universities in more countries educate more students in more fields. At the same time, the university has become central to a knowledge society

Society in the Digital Age: An Interactionist Perspective (Housley William)(Pevná vazba)

In Digital Society: An Interactionist Perspective, William Housley explores the ways interactionist thinking contributes to our understanding of current trends and topics within digital sociology. Drawing on a range of aligned approaches, concepts and empirical studies, he explores how notions of

Innovations and Advances in Computer, Information, Systems(Pevná vazba)

Mistaken for a Bear (Ardagh Philip)(Pevná vazba)

In the melting pot of London in 1839, two young dock workers chase a tiger on the loose - a dangerous splash of colour in a world of soot and

Advances in Life Sciences(Pevná vazba)

Provides state-of-the-art information and highlights the current developments in life sciences. This text encompasses topics on viruses to crop plants, comprising seventeen reviews and six original articles. For the benefit of graduate and postgraduate students and researchers, a chapter on the use

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society (Sarat Austin)(Pevná vazba)

This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics and Society contains two sections, focusing on the interaction between law and religion, together with the ways in which the law simultaneously enhances and inhibits projects of social

Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge (Bittel Carla)(Pevná vazba)

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Death Comes to the Rectory (Lloyd Catherine)(Pevná vazba)

Ants: Workers of the World (Spicer Rice Eleanor)(Pevná vazba)

Nature's most successful insects captured in remarkable macrophotography In Ants, photographer Eduard Florin Niga brings us incredibly close to the most numerous animals on Earth, whose ability to organize colonies, communicate among themselves, and solve complex problems has made them an object

Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway: Conceptualizing Knowledge (Ohrvik Ane)(Pevná vazba)

Traces conceptual ideas of knowledge in Norway from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuriesAssesses how magic and medicine were viewed as practical and sacred in early modern Europe Utilises a wide range of early modern manuscripts from 1650 -1850, known as Black

The Ungovernable Society: A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism (Chamayou)(Paperback)

Rebellion was in the air. Workers were on strike, students were demonstrating on campuses, discipline was breaking down. No relation of domination was left untouched - the relation between the sexes, the racial order, the hierarchies of class, relationships in families, workplaces and colleges. The

Remote Sympathy (Chidgey Catherine)(Pevná vazba)

A novel of devastating beauty set in Buchenwald during the Second World

The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters (Nichols Tom)(Pevná vazba)

Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone

Knowledge and Technology Transfer for Plant Pathology (Hardwick Nigel)(Pevná vazba)

This book contains fuller versions of the papers and posters presented in the Knowledge and Technology Transfer and Teaching Plant Pathology sessions at the 9th International Congress of Plant Pathology held in Turin, Italy in 2008. Communication is an essential area for plant pathologists and it

In the New England Fashion (Kelly Catherine E.)(Paperback)

In the first half of the nineteenth century, rural New England society underwent a radical transformation as the traditional household economy gave way to an encroaching market culture. Drawing on a wide array of diaries, letters, and published writings by women in this society, Catherine E. Kelly

Looking for the Masters in Ricardo's Golden Shoes (Balet Catherine)(Pevná vazba)

One summer a few years ago, photographer Catherine Balet and her friend, the stylist Ricardo Martinez Paz, were at the Arles Photography Festival in the South of France. Balet, who had often been amused by Ricardo's resemblance to Picasso decided to recreate Robert Doisneau's famous image of the

African American Women's Health and Social Issues (Collins Catherine Fisher)(Pevná vazba)

Written by a team of experts that includes doctors, nurses, social workers, psychologists, and chemists, this handbook focuses on the diseases that pose the greatest threat to African American women today. Topics include African American women and heart disease, sickle cell, breast cancer,