Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data (Thylstrup Nanna Bonde)(Paperback)

Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data (Thylstrup Nanna Bonde)(Paperback)

Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate terms relevant to critical studies of big data, from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability. This pathbreaking work offers an interdisciplinary perspective on big data, interrogating key terms. Scholars from a range of disciplines

Keywords for Disability Studies (Adams Rachel)(Paperback)

A new vocabulary for Disability Studies Keywords for Disability Studies aims to broaden and define the conceptual framework of disability studies for readers and practitioners in the field and beyond. The volume engages some of the most pressing debates of our time, such as prenatal testing,

Head First Data Analysis: A Learner's Guide to Big Numbers, Statistics, and Good Decisions (Milton Michael)(Paperback)

Today, interpreting data is a critical decision-making factor for businesses and organizations. If your job requires you to manage and analyze all kinds of data, turn to Head First Data Analysis, where you'll quickly learn how to collect and organize data, sort the distractions from the truth, find

Big Data For Dummies (Nugent Alan)(Paperback)

Find the right big data solution for your business or organization Big data management is one of the major challenges facing business, industry, and not-for-profit organizations. Data sets such as customer transactions for a mega-retailer, weather patterns monitored by meteorologists, or social

Statistics for Big Data for Dummies (Anderson Alan)(Paperback)

The fast and easy way to make sense of statistics for big data Does the subject of data analysis make you dizzy? You've come to the right place! Statistics For Big Data For Dummies breaks this often-overwhelming subject down into easily digestible parts, offering new and aspiring data analysts the

Software Architecture for Big Data and the Cloud (Mistrik Ivan)(Paperback)

Software Architecture for Big Data and the Cloud is designed to be a single resource that brings together research on how software architectures can solve the challenges imposed by building big data software systems. The challenges of big data on the software architecture can relate to scale,

Science Fiction for Survival - An Archive for Mars(Paperback / softback)

Keywords for Environmental Studies (Adamson Joni)(Paperback)

A new vocabulary for Environmental Studies Understandings of 'nature' have expanded and changed, but the word has not lost importance at any level of discourse: it continues to hold a key place in conversations surrounding thought, ethics, and aesthetics. Nowhere is this more evident than in the

A Big Girl's Revenge (Moore Michel)(Paperback)

Life is great for thick-boned Keisha Jackson. With a good education, well-paying job, and a promising future, she has everything a young woman could ask for, including high self-esteem. But after a chance meeting with Rico, the neighborhood 'bad boy,' her fairy tale life is quickly dismantled

Archives 101 (Hamill Lois)(Paperback)

Archives 101 is a guidebook for people who care for historical records, photographs, and collections but do not have the appropriate professional training. Lois Hamill provides practical, step-by-step guidance for managing all facets of archival collections, from acquisition, arrangement, and

National Archives History Toolkit for Primary Schools (Horrie Clare (The National Archives UK))(Paperback / softback)

The Existential Leader: An Authentic Leader for Our Uncertain Times (Hanaway Monica)(Paperback)

The Existential Leader: An Authentic Leader For Our Uncertain Times invites us to reconsider our preconceptions about leadership, introducing a new model more in line with our uncertain times: existential leadership. Monica Hanaway presents an illuminating overview of existential thinking and

Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything (Bond Becky)(Paperback)

Lessons from the groundbreaking grassroots campaign that helped launch a new political revolution Rules for Revolutionaries is a bold challenge to the political establishment and the 'rules' that govern campaign strategy. It tells the story of a breakthrough experiment conducted on the fringes of

University Challenge: Critical Issues for Teaching and Learning (Harland Tony)(Paperback)

University Challenge: Critical Issues for Teaching and Learning offers a nuanced and critical reading of university teaching, particularly the pressures under which academics in neoliberal, mass higher education must operate. It provides exciting thinking about slow pedagogies, powerful knowledge,

Expert Humans: Critical Leadership Skills for a Disrupted World (Jenkins Michael)(Paperback)

Expert Humans: Critical Leadership Skills for a Disrupted World examines the critical leadership concepts of Altruism, Compassion and Empathy (ACE) and their application to the great disruptors of today: sustainability, global health, inequality, digital transformation and erosion of trust - from

Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition (Burgett Bruce)(Paperback)

A timely, wide-ranging, expanded, and updated vocabulary for American Cultural Studies Since its initial publication, scholars and students alike have turned to Keywords for American Cultural Studies as an invaluable resource for understanding key terms and debates in the fields of American studies

Keywords for Children's Literature, Second Edition (Nel Philip)(Paperback)

An updated vocabulary for children's literature and culture Over the past decade, there has been a proliferation of exciting new work across many areas of children's literature and culture. Mapping this vibrant scholarship, the Second Edition of Keywords for Children's Literature presents original

Education for Critical Consciousness (Freire Paulo)(Paperback)

Famous for his advocacy of 'critical pedagogy', Paulo Freire was Latin America's foremost educationalist, a thinker and writer whose work and ideas continue to exert enormous influence in education throughout the world today. Education for Critical Consciousness is the main statement of Freire's

The Professional Teacher in Further Education (Appleyard Keith)(Paperback)

This essential text provides an accessible and up to date critical analysis of professionalism for student teachers and practitioners within the Further Education (FE) sector. Professional values, knowledge, understanding and skills form the core of the standards against which teachers are measured

Spectrum Critical Thinking for Math, Grade 2 (Spectrum)(Paperback)

Too Big to Ignore: The Business Case for Big Data (Simon Phil)(Paperback)

Residents in Boston, Massachusetts are automatically reporting potholes and road hazards via their smartphones. Progressive Insurance tracks real-time customer driving patterns and uses that information to offer rates truly commensurate with individual safety. Google accurately predicts local flu

Enabling Critical Pedagogy in Higher Education (Seal Mike)(Paperback)

An introduction to critical pedagogy for all those working within higher education.Critical Pedagogy is an approach that is fundamentally democratic, informal, non-hierarchical, determined by participants, privileges the oppressed and their perspectives and is committed to action. Higher education

Information: Keywords (Kennerly Michele)(Paperback)

For decades, we have been told we live in the 'information age'--a time when disruptive technological advancement has reshaped the categories and social uses of knowledge and when quantitative assessment is increasingly privileged. Such methodologies and concepts of information are usually

Keywords for Comics Studies (Fawaz Ramzi)(Paperback)

Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies Across more than fifty original essays, Keywords for Comics Studies provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art. The