Learn IT - Books tags rhetoric

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...

Socially Responsible IT Management

Digital Press, 2002

"A recommended read for all IT professionals and a must read for those in management."Tom Molnar, business systems analyst

"The combination of practicality, ease of implementation, and positive return on investment is what makes this book work so well. The easy-to-implement action steps makes dealing with these ten social...

The St. Martin's Guide to Writing

St Martin Press, 2015

Whether you have years of experience as a teacher or are new to the classroom, you and your students can count on The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing to provide the support you need in first-year composition, with a rhetoric, an array of engaging readings, a research manual, and a handbook, all in a single book...

Independence in Central America and Chiapas, 1770–1823

University of Oklahoma Press, 2019

Central America was the only part of the far-reaching Spanish Empire in continental America not to experience destructive independence wars in the period between 1810 and 1824. The essays in this volume draw on new historical research to explain why, and to delve into what did happen during the independence period in Central...

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...

The Archaeology of Athens

Yale University Press, 2001

The city of Athens has played a leading role in the development of European civilization. When we look back through time to the origins of so many of the institutions and activities which thrive or are valued today, we are led to ancient Greece and, most often, to Athens in the Classical period (480–323 B.C.). Time and again...

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...

Network: Theorizing Knowledge Work in Telecommunications

Cambridge University Press, 2008

How does a telecommunications company function when its right hand often doesn't know what its left hand is doing? How do rapidly expanding, interdisciplinary organizations hold together and perform their knowledge work? In this book, Clay Spinuzzi draws on two warring theories of work activity - activity theory and actor-network theory - to...

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....

Digital Convergence - Libraries of the Future

Springer, 2007

Clay tablets have been used to keep records from the earliest times. However, they were used for archives rather than libraries and consisted mainly of administrative records.Private and personal libraries containing books first appeared in Greece in the 5th century BC.The Royal Library of Alexandria was founded in the 3rd century BC and was...

Improving Research through User Engagement (Improving Learning)

Routledge, 2011

There are increasing calls for social science researchers to work more closely with research users. References to engaging users in and with research are now common in research funding requirements, national research strategies and large-scale research programmes. User engagement has therefore become part of the rhetoric of educational and...

God's Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 (Imagining the Americas)

Oxford University Press, 2011

When the U.S. liberated the Philippines from Spanish rule in 1898, the exploit was hailed at home as a great moral victory, an instance of Uncle Sam freeing an oppressed country from colonial tyranny. The next move, however, was hotly contested: should the U.S. annex the archipelago? The disputants did agree on one point: that the United...

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