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Handbook of Research on Virtual Workplaces and the New Nature of Business Practices

IGI Global, 2008

At one time, the office was a physical place, and employees congregated in the same location to work together on projects. The advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web, however, not only made the unthinkable possible, it forever changed the way persons view both the office and work. The Handbook of Research on Virtual Workplaces and the New...

After the Genome: A Language for Our Biotechnological Future (Studies in Rhetoric & Religion)

Baylor University Press, 2013

Biotechnological advancements during the last half-century have forced humanity to come to grips with the possibility of a post-human future. The ever-evolving opinions about how society should anticipate this biotechnological frontier demand a language that will describe our new future and discuss its ethics. After the Genome brings...

Composition in Convergence : The Impact of New Media on Writing Assessment

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005

This book attempts to explore what these tensions are as writing
assessment and computer technology converge on classroom
space. However, I can make no promises that this examination of
the issues can resolve the tensions. Perhaps no amount of study can
resolve the tensions that exist. The difficulties span political,...

Second Life For Dummies (Computer/Tech)

For Dummies, 2008

You’ve heard all about Second Life. Maybe you’ve already jumped with both feet—and gotten stuck. Or maybe you’re a Second Life veteran who wants to build something or run a business. Fear not! Second Life For Dummies is hear to hold your hand, pat your back, and cheer you on through this new and enchanting reality....

Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes

MIT Press, 2009

Today government agencies not only have official Web sites but also sponsor moderated chats, blogs, digital video clips, online tutorials, videogames, and virtual tours of national landmarks. Sophisticated online marketing campaigns target citizens with messages from the government—even as officials make news with digital gaffes involving...

Islamic Leviathan: Islam and the Making of State Power (Religion and Global Politics)

Oxford University Press, 2001

Over the course of the past two decades Islamism has exercised a growing influence on politics in Muslim countries from Morocco to Malaysia. In some instances this trend has led to regime change as in Iran and Sudan, but more often, it has ensconced Islamic norms, symbols, and rhetoric in the public sphere, and in the process,...

Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes) (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 74)

De Gruyter, 2019

This multiauthored volume, as well as bringing into clearer focus the notion of drama and oratory as important media of public inquiry and critique, aims to generate significant attention to the unified intentions of the dramatist and the orator to establish favourable conditions of internal stability in democratic Athens. We hope that readers...

Rhetoric and Sociolinguistics in Times of Global Crisis

Information Science Publishing, 2021

"The purpose of this book is also to bridge the gap to initiate a discussion on understanding how rhetoric and sociolinguistics could create critical awareness for individuals, societies and learning environments during crisis times"--...

Don't Get Burned on EBay: How to Avoid Scams and Escape Bad Deals

O'Reilly, 2006

Lots of books tell you how to buy and sell on eBay. But what if something goes horribly awry? Do you have to chalk it up to a "lesson learned," lick your wounds and move on? Not a chance. Don't Get Burned on eBay offers relevant lessons based on real-life stories posted on eBay's Answer...

A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

The essays in A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism explore rhetoric as a practical art of deliberation and judgment, best taught and learned through concrete examples of argument, interpretation, and criticism. Historically and in our own time scholars have shown that rhetoric can very well be theorized in the strong sense that...

Latino Language and Literacy in Ethnolinguistic Chicago

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

This volume--along with its companion Ethnolinguistic Chicago: Language and Literacy in the City's Neighborhoods--fills an important gap in research on Chicago and, more generally, on language use in globalized metropolitan areas. Often cited as a quintessential American city, Chicago is, and always has been, a city of immigrants. It...

The Distance Education Evolution: Issues and Case Studies

Information Science Publishing, 2003

The Distance Education Evolution: Case Studies addresses issues regarding the development and design of online courses, and the implementation and evaluation of an online learning program. Several chapters include design strategies for online courses that range from the specific to the universal. Many authors address pedagogical issues from both a...

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