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Naked Employee, The: How Technology Is Compromising Workplace Privacy

AMACOM, 2003

Most people would be startled to know the many ways in which their employers are capable of intruding on privacy. Huge technological advances are steadily shrinking workers’ personal space, and it’s up to individuals to know which parts of their daily lives may fall under the corporate magnifying glass.

Corporations have the...

Responsible Management of Information Systems

Idea Group Publishing, 2004

This book discusses the question of how information systems can be used and managed in a responsible manner. Normative problems such as intellectual property, privacy, power distribution, etc., are at the heart of many of the problems faced by users and managers of information systems. Responsible Management of Information Systems...

Global Tourism, Third Edition

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004

Pressure on national and local governments to rapidly develop their tourism potential to meet demand and produce benefits, makes it more essential than ever to plan carefully and consider the human and environmental impacts of tourism development. That is why, as Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization, I am pleased to see the serious...

Handbook of Sensor Networks: Algorithms and Architectures (Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing)

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

The State Of The Art Of Sensor Networks

Written by an international team of recognized experts in sensor networks from prestigious organizations such as Motorola, Fujitsu, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University, and the University of Illinois, Handbook of Sensor Networks: Algorithms and Architectures...

Introduction to Statistics Through Resampling Methods and Microsoft Office Excel

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

INTENDED FOR CLASS USE OR SELF-STUDY, this text aspires to introduce statistical
methodology to a wide audience, simply and intuitively, through
resampling from the data at hand.

The resampling methods—permutations and the bootstrap—are easy to
learn and easy to apply. They require no mathematics beyond...

Making Sense of Motherhood: A Narrative Approach

Cambridge University Press, 2005

Becoming a mother changes lives in many ways, and this book explores how women try to make sense of, and narrate their experiences of, first-time motherhood in industrialized society. It charts the social, cultural and moral contours of contemporary motherhood and engages with sociological and feminist debates on how selves are constituted,...

Global Brand Strategy: Unlocking Brand Potential Across Countries, Cultures & Markets

Kogan Page, 2003

In Global Brand Strategy, Sicco van Gelder tackles this central issue head on. He shows how both global and local brand management need to agree on a common basis for their brand strategy and planning. Drawing on his extensive experience, he has created a unique framework—the Global Brand Proposition Model—which enables them...

Modeling the Internet and the Web: Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

The World Wide Web is growing in size at a remarkable rate. It is a huge evolving system and its data are rife with uncertainties. Probability and statistics are the fundamental mathematical tools that enable us to model, reason and infer meaningful results from such data. Modelling the Internet and the Web covers the...

Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers

Course Technology PTR, 2004

We believe that the computer revolution has left most of you behind. Steve Jobs had similar thoughts when he founded Apple Computer and set out to build “computers for the rest of us.” The idea was to enable people who were not computer experts—like artists, educators, and children—to take advantage of the power of...

Networked Information Technologies: Diffusion and Adoption

Springer, 2004

Software systems that used to be relatively autonomous entities such as e.g. accounting systems, order-entry systems etc. are now interlinked in large networks comprising extensive information infrastructures. What earlier used to be stand-alone proprietary systems are now for the most part replaced by more or less standardized interdependent...

Encyclopedia Of Human Computer Interaction

Idea Group Publishing, 2005

Human computer interaction (HCI) evolved as a recognized discipline that attracts innovation and creativity. For the last 25 years, it inspired new solutions, especially for the benefit of the user as a human being, making the user the focal point that technology should serve rather than the other way around. The advent of the Internet, combined...

The Rise and Decline of the State

Cambridge University Press, 1999

The state, which since the middle of the seventeenth century has been the most important and most characteristic of all moderninstitutions, is in decline. From Western Europe to Africa, either voluntarily or involuntarily, many existing states are either combining into larger communities or falling apart. Regardless of whether they fall apart or...

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