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Sports, Society, and Technology: Bodies, Practices, and Knowledge Production
Sports, Society, and Technology: Bodies, Practices, and Knowledge Production
Sports, Society, and Technology: Bodies, Practices, and Knowledge Production addresses the complex entanglements of science, technology, and sporting cultures. The collection explores themes around human and non-human actants, knowledge formations and processes, and the materiality and multiplicity of bodies through an...
Making Sense of Motherhood: A Narrative Approach
Making Sense of Motherhood: A Narrative Approach
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,...
Point-Based Graphics (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling)
Point-Based Graphics (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling)
This book will present the latest research results in point-based computer graphics. After an overview of the key issues, affordable 3D scanning devices will be discussed and new concepts for the mathematical representation of point-sampled shapes will be presented. Then the authors will describe methods for high-performance and high-quality...
Explorations in Information Space: Knowledge, Actor, and Firms
Explorations in Information Space: Knowledge, Actor, and Firms
As humankind seeks to extend its spatiotemporal reach both on and beyond its planet, it is constantly being forced by a recalcitrant nature to renegotiate the terms of its covenant with her. In some cases, the bargaining gets tough and nature takes offence, gradually revealing her anger with the terms that humanity seeks to impose on her through...
Promoting Sustainable Electricity in Europe: Challenging the Path Dependence of Dominant Energy Systems
Promoting Sustainable Electricity in Europe: Challenging the Path Dependence of Dominant Energy Systems
This is a timely and comparative assessment of initiatives to promote renewable electricity sources (RES) in eight European countries. Carried out by the ProSus research programme at the University of Oslo in cooperation with leading research institutions in each country, the study focuses on the promotional schemes used to foster RES in Austria,...
Sufis in Western Society: Global Networking and Locality (Routledge Sufi)
Sufis in Western Society: Global Networking and Locality (Routledge Sufi)

In recent years Sufism has undergone something of a revival as a spiritual alternative to other manifestations of Islam. This book investigates the development of Sufism in Western societies, with a regional focus on North America and Europe. Exploring a number of issues relating to the dynamic tensions between religious globalization processes...

Intelligent Infrastructures (Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering)
Intelligent Infrastructures (Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering)

Society heavily depends on infrastructure systems, such as road-traffic networks, water networks, electricity networks, etc. Infrastructure systems are hereby considered to be large-scale, networked systems, that almost everybody uses on a daily basis, and that are so vital that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on...

Interactive Collaborative Information Systems (Studies in Computational Intelligence)
Interactive Collaborative Information Systems (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

The increasing complexity of our world demands new perspectives on the role of technology in human decision making. We need new technology to cope with the increasingly complex and information-rich nature of our modern society. This is particularly true for critical environments such as crisis management and traffic management, where humans...

Engineering Information Security: The Application of Systems Engineering Concepts to Achieve Information Assurance
Engineering Information Security: The Application of Systems Engineering Concepts to Achieve Information Assurance

Information security is the act of protecting information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction. This book discusses why information security is needed and how security problems can have widespread impacts. It covers the complete security lifecycle of products and services, starting with...

The Manager's Guide to Competitive Intelligence
The Manager's Guide to Competitive Intelligence
In The Managers Guide to Competitive Intelligence, McGonagle and Vella offer comprehensive guidelines for CI managers to achieve their goals. They cover the responsibilities and duties, and give strategic direction for managers trying to find their way in this important, but often overlooked, discipline....Get this book and read every...
The Lost Boyz: A Dark Side of Graffiti
The Lost Boyz: A Dark Side of Graffiti

At age 14, author Justin Rollins went from being a bullied child to the leader of The Warriorz, a group of London street kids involved in graffiti tagging and other crimes, including a series of violent encounters. Eventually given a substantial custodial sentence for an attack with a meat cleaver in the London Underground, Rollins became...

Digital Futures: Living in a dot.com World
Digital Futures: Living in a dot.com World
Beyond the hype about dot-coms, WAP phones and dot-com entrepreneurs, what impacts will e-commerce have on society? How will it affect jobs and local communities? What will it mean for energy use, transport and the future shape of our cities? How can we ensure that everyone enjoys the benefits of the new digital technologies?

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