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International Investment for Sustainable Development: Balancing Rights and Rewards
International Investment for Sustainable Development: Balancing Rights and Rewards
This book is the culmination of the International Sustainable and Ethical Investment Rules Project, a collaboration of researchers from the following five non-governmental organization (NGO) think-tanks:
  • African Centre for Technology Studies, Nairobi, Kenya;
  • Fundacion ECOS, Punta del Este, Uruguay;
  • ...
The New Accountability: Environmental Responsibility across Borders
The New Accountability: Environmental Responsibility across Borders
In contemporary debates about democratic governance, the concept of accountability is hard to avoid. At least from a European perspective, recent innovations in political and administrative decision-making have multiplied opportunities for citizens to hold to account those who exercise governmental authority. Or so we are told. Whether busy...
Modernity and Technology
Modernity and Technology
Review
"An interesting and well-integrated collection..." -- Peter Beech, First Monday

Reconstruction (2004 4#2)
Modernity and Technology succeeds in opening up a much needed dialog, and in inspiring curiosity for scholars on both sides.
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Creativity Across Domains: Faces of the Muse
Creativity Across Domains: Faces of the Muse
Creativity Across Domains: Faces of the Muse sorts through the sometimes-confusing theoretical diversity that domain specificity has spawned. It also brings together writers who have studied creative thinkers in different areas, such as the various arts, sciences, and communication/leadership. Each contributor explains what is known about the...
Online Communication: Linking Technology, Identity, and Culture
Online Communication: Linking Technology, Identity, and Culture
Online Communication provides an introduction to both the technologies of the Internet Age and their social implications. This innovative and timely textbook brings together current work in communication, political science, philosophy, popular culture, history, economics, and the humanities to present an examination of the theoretical and...
Constructing Measures: An Item Response Modeling Approach
Constructing Measures: An Item Response Modeling Approach
Constructing Measures introduces a way to understand the advantages and disadvantages of measurement instruments, how to use such instruments, and how to apply these methods to develop new instruments or adapt old ones. The book is organized around the steps taken while constructing an instrument. It opens with a summary of the...
Assessing Children's Well-Being: A Handbook of Measures
Assessing Children's Well-Being: A Handbook of Measures
The emphasis on collaborative management of children's health has led to the involvement of multiple disciplines in pediatric health care. This shift has resulted in an increasing focus on the assessment of children's functioning across multiple domains. The Task Force on Pediatric Education (1978) noted several decades ago that the types of...
Creativity in the Classroom: Schools of Curious Delight
Creativity in the Classroom: Schools of Curious Delight
Creativity in the Classroom: Schools of Curious Delight is a book about creativity written specifically for teachers. It was designed for a graduate course that helps teachers incorporate important aspects of creativity in the daily activities of classroom life. Teachers who understand the creative process...
Current Issues in School Leadership
Current Issues in School Leadership
What is an "issue"? An issue derives from tension, or cognitive dissonance. Research or law may be reasonably clear on something but different collections of people—a community, a pressure group, political blocs, academicians—take a position contrary to the research or current practice. Or, there may be insufficient research...
Internet Strategy: The Road to Web Services Solutions
Internet Strategy: The Road to Web Services Solutions
Internet Strategy: The Road to Web Services Solutions reminds readers that several attempts have been made to convince the world that DOT.COM was developed to take over businesses, and the traditional way of creating businesses and running organizations would be condemned to the past. One of those attempts led to the Application Service Provision...
Leadership for the Common Good: Tackling Public Problems in a Shared-Power World
Leadership for the Common Good: Tackling Public Problems in a Shared-Power World
Intuition and experience teach us that no one is really 'in charge' of anything complex or important. Barbara Crosby and John Bryson have developed this idea into a vividly positive image of the leader's role. 'Shared-power,' as they describe, dissect, and show how to work with it, transforms the very definition of leadership for the twenty-first...
Hack I.T.: Security Through Penetration Testing
Hack I.T.: Security Through Penetration Testing
Penetration testing--in which professional, "white hat" hackers attempt to break through an organization's security defenses--has become a key defense weapon in today's information systems security arsenal. Through penetration testing, I.T. and security professionals can take action to prevent true "black hat" hackers from...
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