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Outspoken: Free Speech Stories

University of California Press, 2003

"America's national obsession with asserting, and quelling, free-speech comes alive in this collection of profiles of First Amendment firebrands.Ê.Ê.Ê. The author goes beyond the usual polarized corners of political correctness.Ê.Ê.Ê.Êher nuanced treatment of all sides of the debate makes this a...

Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics

Harvard Business School, 1989

A magnificent work that is bound to have immense influence on the ways economists think about dynamic systems for many years to come. My own guess is that this book will eventually acquire the stature, say, of Hicks's Value and Capital or Samuelson's Foundations.
--Thomas J. Sargent, Hoover Institution

The...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures: East and Southeast Asia

Macmillan Technical, 1993

This project began in 1987 with the goal of assembling a basic reference source that provides accurate, clear, and concise descriptions of the cultures of the world. We wanted to be as comprehensive and authoritative as possible: comprehensive, by providing descriptions of all the cultures of each region of the world or by describing a...

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...

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...

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...

Time Management for System Administrators

O'Reilly, 2005

Time is a precious commodity, especially if you're a system administrator. No other job pulls people in so many directions at once. Users interrupt you constantly with requests, preventing you from getting anything done. Your managers want you to get long-term projects done but flood you with requests for quick-fixes that...

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,...

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