Catálogo de libros: Sociedad y ciencias sociales

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  • E-Governance and Civic Engagement
    Governments are increasingly turning to the Internet to provide public services. The move towards e-governance not only impacts the efficiency and effectiveness of public service, but also has the potential to transform the nature of government interactions with citizens. E-Governance and Civic Engagement: Factors and Determinants of E-Democracy examines how e-government facili...
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    237,42 €

  • Advanced Analytics for Green and Sustainable Economic Development
    ZongWei Luo
    Trends in green and sustainable development have and will continue to influence all major economies. Identifying the risks and opportunities associated with sustainable economic development and green analysis for sustainability warrants the use and study of advanced analytics. Advanced Analytics for Green and Sustainable Economic Development: Supply Chain Models and Financial T...
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    242,57 €

  • Technologies for Enhancing Pedagogy, Engagement and Empowerment in Education
    Although there is broad agreement that preparing global citizens for the digital age is a core responsibility of educators and schools, there is debate and uncertainty about how best to prepare students for this future. Technologies for Enhancing Pedagogy, Engagement and Empowerment in Education: Creating Learning-Friendly Environments explores how technology-based learning can...
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    229,76 €

  • Communication Technology for Students in Special Education and Gifted Programs
    Communication technology provides new opportunities for individuals with special needs, facilitating assistive communication, increasing mobility, offering a different model of engagement, and allowing new forms of exploration. However, many people learn about these new technologies haphazardly through teachers, social workers, therapists, and networks of people who have simila...
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    256,19 €

  • Open Source Mobile Learning
    Lee Chao
    The open approach has been widely used in the development of mobile applications, mobile operating systems for mobile devices, and mobile services for supporting mobile learning. In mobile learning, open source software has played an important role. Due to its stability, flexibility, security, availability, and low cost, mobile Linux and other open source products have a signif...
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    236,32 €

  • Stakeholder Adoption of E-Government Services
    The success of e-government - whether it is at the local, regional, or central level - largely depends on user acceptance of e-government, which requires a thorough understanding of stakeholder concerns. Stakeholder Adoption of E-Government Services: Driving and Resisting Factors examines the stakeholders of e-government and reveals the stages of growth or service maturity leve...
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    236,24 €

  • Computer Games as Educational and Management Tools
    Though once considered purely for their entertainment value, computer and online games have applications as learning tools in learning in a variety of different environments. Computer Games as Educational and Management Tools: Uses and Approaches considers the many uses of games and simulations, focusing specifically on their use in organizational and educational settings. Prov...
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    236,35 €

  • Terms of Inclusion
    Paulina L. Alberto / Paulina LAlberto
    In this history of black thought and racial activism in twentieth-century Brazil, Paulina Alberto demonstrates that black intellectuals, and not just elite white Brazilians, shaped discourses about race relations and the cultural and political terms of inclusion in their modern nation.Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the prolific black press of the era, and focusin...
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    57,15 €

  • Combining E-Learning and M-Learning
    David Parsons
    This volume draws together all the articles published by the International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning in its first year of publication (2009). When compared with traditional classroom learning, mobile learning (m-learning) has the distinct advantage of making content accessible and available to a number of people in a wide range of different places. Combining E-Lear...
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    236,49 €

  • Dreaming of Kaleidoscopes
    Chris Wind
    Poetry from the poet’s late teens in the 1970s to her early thirties in the 1990s-sensitive, passionate, and most of all, illuminating.   scabs and scars blowing across the snowstanding on a cliffin a silent blizzard crumblingand dreaming of kaleidoscopesall of the pieces always fit'dreaming of kaleidoscopes is a top pick of poetry and is very much worth considering.' Midwe...
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    12,03 €

  • Lynching and Spectacle
    Amy Louise Wood
    Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In Lynching and Spectacle, Amy Wood explains what it meant for white Americans to perform and witness these sadistic spectacles and how lynching played a role in establishing and affirming white supremacy. Lynching, Wood argues, overlapped with a...
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    47,56 €

  • The New Freedom
    Woodrow Wilson
    In 1912, Woodrow Wilson was the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. He campaigned against the Republican incumbent, William Howard Taft, and Taft’s predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt, who had split off from the Republican Party to form his own Progressive, or Bull Moose, Party. Much of the campaign focused on the US economy, particularly the candidates’ views of...
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    8,67 €

  • Cyber Warfare and Cyber Terrorism
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    217,45 €

  • Actor-Network Theory and Technology Innovation
    Arthur Tatnall
    About 25 years ago, the first developments of ANT (Actor-Network Theory) took place, but it wasn’t until much later that researchers began to take it seriously. In the late 1990s, ANT began to take hold in the scientific community as a new and exciting approach to socio-technical research and social theory. Actor-Network Theory and Technology Innovation: Advancements and New Co...
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    236,26 €

  • Global Media Convergence and Cultural Transformation
    Dal Yong Jin
    New media and technology are firmly embedded in our contemporary society and culture. The application of the internet and mobile communications, including online gaming, has made a huge impact on political participation, business, education, and social relations. Global Media Convergence and Cultural Transformation: Emerging Social Patterns and Characteristics aims to engage th...
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    236,76 €

  • Handbook of Research on Personal Autonomy Technologies and Disability Informatics
    Javier Pereira
    Information technologies constitute a very important contribution to the integration of a population into its environment. Unfortunately, in most cases the development of new technologies does not consider the special needs of potentially disabled users. The Handbook of Research on Personal Autonomy Technologies and Disability Informatics proposes a comprehensive description of...
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    347,74 €

  • Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing Informatics
    Andrew Chasin
    Because of the constant advances and dynamics within the nascent field of nursing informatics, many nurses struggle in practice as they continue to try and apply habitual communication practices in the new environment without any critical reflection on, and adaptation of, those practices. Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing Informatics: Concepts and Applications serves as a valu...
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    321,14 €

  • Handbook of Research on Transformative Online Education and Liberation
    Online education has the potential to utilize cutting-edge technologies in order to bring together learners, e-facilitators, and e-contents. The Handbook of Research on Transformative Online Education and Liberation: Models for Social Equality discusses the potential for transformative models to liberate online education. With a focus on the societal, social, political, economi...
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    348,20 €

  • On Being Human and When a Man Comes to Himself
    Woodrow Wilson
    Before he became the 28th President of the United States (1913-21), the 34th Governor of New Jersey (1911-13), or even the 13th President of Princeton University (1902-10), Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was a scholar and professor. In 1885, he received his Ph.D. in history and political science from Johns Hopkins University, and in 1897, he was granted tenure at Princeton Universi...
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    6,28 €

  • Race Relations at the Margins
    Jeff Forret
    'Forret... has deepened our understanding of the complexity of relations between slaves and poor whites.' -- Georgia Historical QuarterlyCovering a broad geographic scope from Virginia to South Carolina between 1820 and 1860, Jeff Forret scrutinizes relations among rural poor whites and slaves, a subject previously unexplored and certainly under-reported. Forret's findings ...
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    29,40 €

  • Handbook of Research on E-Learning Standards and Interoperability
    As the e-learning industry continues to expand and the methods and tools necessary to create and maintain content and infrastructure applications become more complicated, there is an inherent need for these applications to interoperate and exchange data in order to better support the needs of learners and educators. Handbook of Research on E-Learning Standards and Interoperabil...
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    348,32 €

  • Corporate Hacking and Technology-Driven Crime
    In an age when computer crime is growing at a exponential rate and on a global scale, industry and government leaders are increasingly reliant upon answers from the academic and IT Security fields in order to keep cyber crime in check, and be ahead of the 'cyber criminal curve.' Corporate Hacking and Technology-Driven Crime: Social Dynamics and Implications addresses various as...
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    236,22 €

  • Mobile Information Communication Technologies Adoption in Developing Countries
    The mobile technology field is expanding with innovative research and discoveries that expand to all walks of life. Mobile technology may have its greatest impact in the developing world, because it brings telecommunication to districts that had never been reached before. Mobile Information Communication Technologies Adoption in Developing Countries: Effects and Implications re...
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    236,22 €

  • Simulation and Gaming for Mathematical Education
    Angela Piu / Cesare Fregola
    Technologic and virtual development is growing, creating an environment of online gaming that can be used as an effective and motivational instrument for math didactics in education. Simulation and Gaming for Mathematical Education: Epistemology and Teaching Strategies provides leading research on ways for various learning environments to be created referring to math didactics ...
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    236,02 €

  • Technology Enhanced Learning for People with Disabilities
    One of the most meaningful application domains of technology enhanced learning (TEL) is related to the adoption of learning technologies and designs for people with disabilities. Significant research has been conducted on technology enhanced learning for people with disabilities and assistive learning technologies. Technology Enhanced Learning for People with Disabilities: Appr...
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    236,00 €

  • Virginal Mothers, Groovy Chicks & Blokey Blokes
    Donna Pendergast
    There is an expectation that teachers are, and will be, transformers of society as they prepare young people to deal with an ever-changing world. While the importance of this role has never been greater, the status and respect once enjoyed by teachers has declined over recent years. Diminishing status and negative stereotypes have in turn contributed to a growing teacher shorta...
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    35,72 €

  • Job Stress in University Staff
    Anthony H. Winefield / Anthony HWinefield / Carolyn Boyd / Judith Saebel
    'This is one of the most thorough and comprehensive studies of workplace stress among university staff ever undertaken. The authors of this book have done a great service to higher education throughout the world by their systematic research and insights. On behalf of the academic community at large, I would like to thank the authors of this remarkable book.' -- Cary L. Cooper, ...
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    54,32 €

  • Intelligent Soft Computation and Evolving Data Mining
    Leon Shyue-Lian Wang
    As the applications of data mining, the non-trivial extraction of implicit information in a data set, have expanded in recent years, so has the need for techniques that are tolerable to imprecision, uncertainty, and approximation. Intelligent Soft Computation and Evolving Data Mining: Integrating Advanced Technologies is a compendium that addresses this need. It integrates cont...
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    236,89 €

  • A Gentleman’s Cry
    Derrick Taylor
    This book is a tool to educate and impact both women and men who can learn fromtheir mistakes and allow themselves to look within when it comes to life experiences, relationships and themselves. However, throughout this time of redemption it seems I continue to battle with myself. When a true artist (whether it’s a painter, actor, musician, writer) creates a 'masterpiece'during...
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    14,27 €

  • Toward Corporate IT Standardization Management
    Robert van Wessel
    The world of corporate management benefits when organizations realize the profitability, reliability, and flexibility obtained through IT standardization. Toward Corporate IT Standardization Management: Frameworks and Solutions details the IT standards conceptual model through insightful case studies that illustrate the factors affecting the performance of business processes. B...
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    236,18 €


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