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Information Systems Development for Decentralized Organizations

Proceedings of the IFIP working conference on information systems development for decentralized organizations, 1995

By: Arne Soelvberg,John Krogstie,Anne Helga Seltveit

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Information Systems Development for Decentralized Organizations

Proceedings of the IFIP working conference on information systems development for decentralized organizations, 1995

By: Arne Soelvberg,John Krogstie,Anne Helga Seltveit

TC8 is one of IFIP's most active committees. This book focusses on information systems support for organisations looking particularly at business process reengineering, co-operation between organisations and support for improved work flow in organisations. These are topical subjects and will appeal to both business and research communities.

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Springer

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0387348719

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9780387348711

The Alkaloids

By: John Edwin Saxton

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The Alkaloids

By: John Edwin Saxton

Annotation. Specialist Periodical Reports provide systematic and detailed review coverage of progress in the major areas of chemical research. Written by experts in their specialist fields the series creates a unique service for the active research chemist, supplying regular critical in-depth accounts of progress in particular areas of chemistry. For over 80 years the Royal Society of Chemistry and its predecessor, the Chemical Society, have been publishing reports charting developments in chemistry, which originally took the form of Annual Reports. However, by 1967 the whole spectrum of chemistry could no longer be contained within one volume and the series Specialist Periodical Reports was born. The Annual Reports themselves still existed but were divided into two, and subsequently three, volumes covering Inorganic, Organic and Physical Chemistry. For more general coverage of the highlights in chemistry they remain a 'must'. Since that time the SPR series has altered according to the fluctuating degree of activity in various fields of chemistry. Some titles have remained unchanged, while others have altered their emphasis along with their titles; some have been combined under a new name whereas others have had to be discontinued.

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305

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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0851862675

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9780851862675

Parish Church Treasures

The Nation's Greatest Art Collection

By: John Goodall

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Parish Church Treasures

The Nation's Greatest Art Collection

By: John Goodall

An enthralling guide to the largely unrecognised treasures of England's remarkable Parish Churches, 'the supreme treasury of English vernacular art and memory'. Our parish churches constitute a living patrimony without precise European parallel. Their cultural riches are astonishing, not only for their quality and quantity, but also their diversity and interest. Fine art and architecture here combine unpredictably with the functional, the curious and the naïve, from prehistory to the present day, to form an unsung national museum which presents its contents in an everyday setting without curators or formal displays. Because church treasures usually remain in the buildings they were created for, properly interpreted they tell from thousands of local perspectives the history of the nation, its people and their changing religious observance. John Goodall's weekly series in Country Life has celebrated particular objects in or around churches that are of outstanding artistic, social or historical importance, to underline both the intrinsic interest of parish churches and the insights that they and their contents offer into English history of every period. Parish Church Treasures incorporates and significantly expands this material to tell afresh the remarkable history of the parish church. It celebrates the special character of churches as places to visit whilst providing an authoritative and up-to-date history at a time when the use and upkeep of these buildings and the care of their contents is highly contentious.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472917642

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9781472917645

The Enduring South

Subcultural Persistence in Mass Society

By: John Shelton Reed

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The Enduring South

Subcultural Persistence in Mass Society

By: John Shelton Reed

First published in 1972, The Enduring South challenges the conventional wisdom that economic development, urbanization, and the end of racial segregation spelled the end of a distinctive Southern culture. In this new edition, John Reed updates the public opinion data to the 1980s and reinforces the book's original conclusions: Southerners are different and are likely to stay that way.

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UNC Press Books

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0807841625

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9780807841624

Proceedings at the Dedication of the Haverhill Public Library, November 11th, 1875 and Report of the Trustees to the City of Haverhill, January 1, 1876

By: John Greenleaf Whittier

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Proceedings at the Dedication of the Haverhill Public Library, November 11th, 1875 and Report of the Trustees to the City of Haverhill, January 1, 1876

By: John Greenleaf Whittier

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385501830

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9783385501836

The Neighborhood in the Internet

Design Research Projects in Community Informatics

By: John M. Carroll

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The Neighborhood in the Internet

Design Research Projects in Community Informatics

By: John M. Carroll

Today, "community" seems to be everywhere. At home, at work, and online, the vague but comforting idea of the community pervades every area of life. But have we lost the ability truly to understand what it means? The Neighborhood in the Internet investigates social and civic effects of community networks on local community, and how community network designs are appropriated and extended by community members. Carroll uses his conceptual model of "community" to re-examine the Blacksburg Electronic Village – the first Web-based community network – applying it to attempts to sustain and enrich contemporary communities through information technology. The book provides an analysis of the role of community in contemporary paradigms for work and other activity mediated by the Internet. It brings to the fore a series of design experiments investigating new approaches to community networking and addresses the future trajectory and importance of community networks. This book will be of interest to students of sociology, community psychology, human-computer interaction, information science, and computer-supported collaborative work.

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Routledge

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1317571517

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9781317571513

Special Needs in the Early Years

Supporting collaboration, communication and co-ordination

By: Sue Roffey,John Parry

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Special Needs in the Early Years

Supporting collaboration, communication and co-ordination

By: Sue Roffey,John Parry

This highly popular and accessible text contains a wealth of information about how early years staff can work effectively with professionals and parents to help identify and meet a range of special educational needs. This book aims to explore the most effective ways of supporting the child and implementing that support across the child’s day to day life. Now in its third edition Special Needs in the Early Years is fully updated to reflect current policy, and topics covered include: Early identification Effective communication with parents and carers An exploration of the legal context How to implement joint planning for identified needs A consideration of the issues affecting collaboration With case-studies, checklists, suggestions for good practice and cartoons to illustrate and enrich the text throughout, this book is structured to be easily accessible and invaluable for those who are in training to work in the early years sector. It will also be of interest to students on foundation and undergraduate students on Early Childhood Education and childcare courses as well as more experienced practitioners.

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144

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Routledge

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1136466290

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9781136466298

Religion and Society in the Diocese of St Davids 1485-2011

By: John Morgan-Guy

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Religion and Society in the Diocese of St Davids 1485-2011

By: John Morgan-Guy

During the medieval and early modern periods the Welsh diocese of St Davids was one of the largest in the country and the most remote. As this collection makes clear, this combination of factors resulted in a religious life which was less regulated and controlled by the institutional forces of both Church and State. Addressing key ideas in the development of popular religious culture and the stubborn continuity of long-lasting religious practices into the modern era, the volume shows how the diocese was also a locus for continuing major religious controversies, especially in the nineteenth century. Presenting a fresh view of the Diocese of St Davids since the Reformation, this is the first new account of religion and society in over a century. It is, moreover, not one which is written primarily from an institutional perspective but from that of wider society. As well as a chronological treatment, giving an overview of the history of religion in the diocese, chapters address key themes, including a study of religious revivals which originated within the borders of the diocese; consideration of popular and elite education, including the contribution of Bishop Burgess's pioneering institution at Lampeter (the first degree awarding institution in England and Wales after Oxford and Cambridge); the relationship of the Church to the revival of Welsh cultural identity; and new reflections on the agitation and realisation of disestablishment of the Church as it affected Wales. As such, this pioneering study has much to offer all those with an interest, not only in Welsh history, but ecclesiastical history more broadly.

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1317067835

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9781317067832

Myth and Materiality

By: John Wadell

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Myth and Materiality

By: John Wadell

The aim of this book is to promote the thesis that myth may illuminate archaeology and that on occasion archaeology may shed light on myth. Medieval Irish literature is rich in mythic themes and some of these are used as a starting point. Some myths are of great antiquity and some were invented by contemporary authors. It is a challenging source, first explored in the author's earlier work Archaeology and Celtic Myth and this work will elaborate on some of the themes pursued there and introduce some new ones. Combining literary and archaeological evidence, chapters deal with the construction of the past, illustrating how the Irish medieval world invented aspects of the past; the abuses of myth presented in later literature; the evidence for the survival of pagan beliefs and practices well into medieval times in Ireland; evidence to illustrate the key elements of the institution of sacral kingship, a consideration of sacred trees; mythology of the underworld and its archaeological expressions; and the equine aspects of the myths attached to the Irish goddess Macha (linked to Navan Fort) and her Welsh counterpart Rhiannon. John Waddell brings a lifetime's experience of studying Irish history, Bronze Age archaeology and Celtic mythology in this personal and lively exploration of mythology and its archaeological expression.

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193

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Oxbow Books

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178570978X

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9781785709784

A cultural history of chess-players

Minds, machines, and monsters

By: John Sharples

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A cultural history of chess-players

Minds, machines, and monsters

By: John Sharples

This inquiry concerns the cultural history of the chess-player. It takes as its premise the idea that the chess-player has become a fragmented collection of images, underpinned by challenges to, and confirmations of, chess’s status as an intellectually-superior and socially-useful game, particularly since the medieval period. Yet, the chess-player is an understudied figure. No previous work has shone a light on the chess-player itself. Increasingly, chess-histories have retreated into tidy consensus. This work aspires to a novel reading of the figure as both a flickering beacon of reason and a sign of monstrosity. To this end, this book, utilising a wide range of sources, including newspapers, periodicals, detective novels, science-fiction, and comic-books, is underpinned by the idea that the chess-player is a pluralistic subject used to articulate a number of anxieties pertaining to themes of mind, machine, and monster.

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Manchester University Press

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1526120550

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9781526120557

The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis

By: John Scott,Peter J. Carrington

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The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis

By: John Scott,Peter J. Carrington

This sparkling Handbook offers an unrivalled resource for those engaged in the cutting edge field of social network analysis. Systematically, it introduces readers to the key concepts, substantive topics, central methods and prime debates. Among the specific areas covered are: Network theory Interdisciplinary applications Online networks Corporate networks Lobbying networks Deviant networks Measuring devices Key Methodologies Software applications. The result is a peerless resource for teachers and students which offers a critical survey of the origins, basic issues and major debates. The Handbook provides a one-stop guide that will be used by readers for decades to come.

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SAGE Publications

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1847873952

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9781847873958

The Age of Sharing

By: Nicholas A. John

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The Age of Sharing

By: Nicholas A. John

Sharing is central to how we live today: it is what we do online; it is a model of economic behaviour; and it is also a type of therapeutic talk. Sharing embodies positive values such as empathy, communication, fairness, openness and equality. The Age of Sharing shows how and when sharing became caring, and explains how its meanings have changed in the digital age. But the word sharing also camouflages commercial or even exploitative relations. Websites say they share data with advertisers, although in reality they sell it, while parts of the sharing economy look a great deal like rental services. Ultimately, it is argued, practices described as sharing and critiques of those practices have common roots. Consequently, the metaphor of sharing now constructs significant swathes of our social practices and provides the grounds for critiquing them; it is a mode of participation in the capitalist order as well as a way of resisting it. Drawing on nineteenth-century literature, Alcoholics Anonymous, the American counterculture, reality TV, hackers, Airbnb, Facebook and more, The Age of Sharing offers a rich account of a complex contemporary keyword. It will appeal to students and scholars of the internet, digital culture and linguistics.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509512276

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9781509512270

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Information Systems Development for Decentralized Organizations

Information Systems Development for Decentralized Organizations

The Alkaloids

The Alkaloids

Parish Church Treasures

Parish Church Treasures

The Enduring South

The Enduring South

Proceedings at the Dedication of the Haverhill Public Library, November 11th, 1875 and Report of the Trustees to the City of Haverhill, January 1, 1876

Proceedings at the Dedication of the Haverhill Public Library, November 11th, 1875 and Report of the Trustees to the City of Haverhill, January 1, 1876

The Neighborhood in the Internet

The Neighborhood in the Internet

Special Needs in the Early Years

Special Needs in the Early Years

Religion and Society in the Diocese of St Davids 1485-2011

Religion and Society in the Diocese of St Davids 1485-2011

Myth and Materiality

Myth and Materiality

A cultural history of chess-players

A cultural history of chess-players

The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis

The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis

The Age of Sharing

The Age of Sharing

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