Learn IT - Books tags psychology

A Brief History of Computing

Springer, 2008

The history of computing has its origins at the outset of civilization. As towns and communities evolved there was a need for increasingly sophisticated calculations. This book traces the evolution of computation, from early civilisations 3000 B.C. to the latest key developments in modern times.

This useful and lively text provides a...

Handbook of Psychology in Legal Contexts

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

The second edition of this popular international handbook highlights the developing relationship between psychology and the law. Consisting of all-new material and drawing on the work of practitioners and academics from the UK, Europe, North America and elsewhere, this volume looks not only at the more traditional elements of psychology and the law...

Beyond the Desktop Metaphor: Designing Integrated Digital Work Environments

MIT Press, 2007

The computer's metaphorical desktop, with its onscreen windows and hierarchy of folders, is the only digital work environment most users and designers have ever known. Yet empirical studies show that the traditional desktop design does not provide sufficient support for today's real-life tasks involving collaboration, multitasking, multiple roles,...

Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

Two crackerjack science journalists from NPR look at why some things (and some people!) drive us crazy

It happens everywhere?offices, schools, even your own backyard. Plus, seemingly anything can trigger it?cell phones, sirens, bad music, constant distractions, your boss, or even your spouse. We all know certain things get...

Cognition in A Digital World

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002

Massive changes are occurring in society regarding the delivery of information
to individuals and the way individuals process this information. These
changes happen at work, at home, and in schools; the Internet and the
World Wide Web (WWW) are changing people’s working lives, leisure
time, work settings, and educational...

FileMaker Pro 8.5 Bible

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

FileMaker Pro 8.5 Bible provides step-by-step procedures for using virtually all FileMaker Pro features and performing all tasks. This best-selling volume has been updated to reflect Version 8.5, the latest version of FileMaker Pro workgroup database. Applicable to both the Mac and Windows versions of FileMaker Pro, this...

The Essential Handbook of Treatment and Prevention of Alcohol Problems

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

The last three decades have seen an explosion of social, psychological and clinical research to identify effective strategies to prevent and treat alcohol-related problems. This “Essential Handbook” contains an updated selection of reviews of “what works” drawn from the critically acclaimed International...

Mind Design II: Philosophy, Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence

MIT Press, 1997

"Ming Design II is a welcome update of its predecessor, itself a useful compendium on the philosophy of cognitive science. This new volume retains the intellectual foundations, and some discussions of classical AI built on them, while adding connectionism, situated AI, and dynamic systems theory as extra storeys. Which of these is...

Applied Bayesian Statistics: With R and OpenBUGS Examples (Springer Texts in Statistics)

Springer, 2013

This book is based on over a dozen years teaching a Bayesian Statistics course. The material presented here has been used by students of different levels and disciplines, including advanced undergraduates studying Mathematics and Statistics and students in graduate programs in Statistics, Biostatistics, Engineering, Economics,...

Misbehavior in Organizations: Theory, Research, and Management (Applied Psychology Series)

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

Ideas for new constructs come from different sources. The idea for Organizational
Misbehavior (OMB) came from a surprise at being caught off guard. The incident
was recorded in Vardi’s personal file and is quoted from there. It happened
during the fall term of 1990 when he taught a course in an Executive MBA program
at...

Managing Knowledge for Sustained Competitive Advantage: Designing Strategies for Effective Human Resource Management

Pfeiffer, 2003

Knowledge management is a topic of steadily increasing interest to today's organizations. To date, however, the field of industrial/organizational psychology has not yet applied its unique knowledge and expertise to the problem of competing through knowledge. This volume addresses the problem by presenting a framework— derived from the...

Artificial Intelligence in Education (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications)

IOS Press, 2005

The 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED-2005) is being held July 18–22, 2005, in Amsterdam, the beautiful Dutch city near the sea. AIED-2005 is the latest in an on-going series of biennial conferences in AIED dating back to the mid-1980’s when the field emerged from a synthesis of artificial...

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