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Why are some countries rich while others are poor? Why are some well governed while others experience frequent conflict? And how do you measure a country's true success anyways? Social scientists ha……続きを見る

The ubiquitous nature of mobile and pervasive computing has begun to reshape and complicate our notions of space, time, and identity. In this collection, over thirty internationally recognized contr……続きを見る

Few librarians build more than one library in their careers and renovating or building a whole new library is a very expensive investment. Thus, new or refurbished structures need to be fresh and up……続きを見る

This book introduces you to professional photography and composition principles, tricks and techniques of iphoneography, photosharing, and more. Do you have a smartphone with you right now? If you d……続きを見る

In the last decade library collections have rapidly evolved from a predominance of print books and journals to an ever growing mix of digital and print resources. Library patrons are predominately s……続きを見る

Emerging as a discipline in the first half of the twentieth century, the information sciences study how people, groups, organizations, and governments create, share, disseminate, manage, search, acc……続きを見る

The relationship between information and the nation-state is typically portrayed as a face-off involving repressive state power and democratic flows: Twitter and the Arab Spring, Google in China, Wi……続きを見る

Dieses Lehrbuch vermittelt fundierte theoretische und praktische Kenntnisse, die für ein effizientes und selbstständiges Arbeiten in den Digital Humanities notwendig sind. Das Ziel ist ein allgemein……続きを見る

Managing ebook Metadata in Academic Libraries: Taming the Tiger tackles the topic of ebooks in academic libraries, a trend that has been welcomed by students, faculty, researchers, and library staff……続きを見る

For over 200 years the Library of Congress has served as our national library. Since its establishment in 1800, thirteen librarians have served as the institution's head librarian. Sadly, little is ……続きを見る

Ausgehend von der Theorie und den Protokollen der Quantenkryptografie werden anhand der derzeitigen technischen Möglichkeiten die erreichbaren Servicequalitäten vorgestellt. In einer ausgiebigen Dis……続きを見る

Eigene dreidimensionale Objekte entwerfen und sich diese schnell und preisgünstig in Kunststoff, Metall oder Keramik herstellen zu lassen – solche Möglichkeiten wären vor wenigen Jahren noch kaum vo……続きを見る

Das Buch unterzieht den aktuellen Stand der Sicherungsverfahren im Online-Banking einer kritischen Analyse. Neben den verschiedenen PIN/TAN-Verfahren und HBCI werden im Ausblick auch andere Systeme ……続きを見る

Dokumentenlogistik ist ein oftmals unterschätzter Bereich unternehmerischer Abläufe im Dienstleistungsgewerbe: die Leistungsfähigkeit des Back Office ist nahezu unsichtbar, aber umso reichhaltiger. ……続きを見る

The Mindful Librarian: Connecting the Practice of Mindfulness to Librarianship explores mindfulness, approaching it in such a way as to relate specifically to the many roles or challenges librarians……続きを見る

This enlightening new book in the Practical Guides for Librarians series presents the practicalities of developing, implementing, and evaluating use-driven acquisition (UDA) in academic and special ……続きを見る

Nina Rubach untersucht das Konzept der Open Innovation, welches die Einbeziehung externer Personen in den Innovationsprozess des Unternehmens bezeichnet. Anhand zahlreicher Experteninterviews unters……続きを見る

In ihrer Abschlussarbeit Albatross Books - Ein Pionier des modernen Taschenbuchs, hat sich Charmaine Gamisch mit dem Hamburger Verlagshaus Albatross Books beschäftigt. Durch vergleichende Analysen m……続きを見る

Find the Information You Need! is designed for the person who suspects that Google and Facebook aren’t always giving them the best results for their specific information needs. Created for anyone wh……続きを見る

Everyone knows that New York maintains one of the great library systems in the world - the two lions that guard the 42nd street library among the most important icons in the city. Less well known ar……続きを見る

The digital revolution is changing the world in ecologically unsustainable ways: (1) it increases the economic and political power of the elites controlling and interpreting the data; (2) it is base……続きを見る

The world-class National Palace Museum (NPM) in Taiwan possesses a repository of the largest collection of Chinese cultural treasures of outstanding quality. Through implementing a two-organizationa……続きを見る

Architecture and Adaptation discusses architectural projects that use computational technology to adapt to changing conditions and human needs. Topics include kinetic and transformable structures, d……続きを見る

El texto, los ojos lectores y la brújula de un conductor, ése es el cañamazo de un club de lectura. Explicitar el rol que ejerce cada uno de esos actores en esa obra en movimiento que es un club de ……続きを見る

Se trata de un estudio que cuenta con tres partes claramente diferenciadas: Una primera parte en la que se ha desarrollado un investigación sobre la edición electrónica universitaria en el ámbito in……続きを見る

La transformación experimentada por la industria editorial y los sistemas de información y comunicación en los últimos años, con una intensa migración de lo analógico a lo digital, nos obliga a repe……続きを見る

A wide range of special librarians from banking, finance, and government provide descriptive accounts of their respective collections in this comprehensive volume. They provide an introduction to so……続きを見る

As retail businesses migrate to the digital realm, internal information theft incidents continue to threaten on-line and off-line retail operations. The evolving propagation of internal information ……続きを見る

Public Knowledge: Access and Benefits, edited by the late Miriam A. Drake together with Donald T. Hawkins, is the first book in years to explore trends and issues for researchers and organizations t……続きを見る

The purpose of this book is to introduce two recent topics in mathematical physics and probability theory: the Schramm–Loewner evolution (SLE) and interacting particle systems related to random matr……続きを見る