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  • Digital Era Governance

    IT Corporations, the State, and e-Government

    by Patrick Dunleavy, Helen Margetts, Simon Bastow, Jane Tinkler ...
    Government information systems are big business (costing over 1 per cent of GDP a year). They are critical to all aspects of public policy and governmental operations. Governments spend billions on them - for instance, the UK alone commits £14 billion a year to public sector IT operations. Yet governments do not generally develop or run their own systems, instead relying on private sector computer ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

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  • Designing Culture

    The Technological Imagination at Work

    by Anne Balsamo ...
    The renowned cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo maintains that technology and culture are inseparable; those who engage in technological innovation are designing the cultures of the future. Designing Culture is a call for taking culture seriously in the design and development of innovative technologies. Balsamo contends that the wellspring of technological innovation is the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • How to Identify and Charter a Lean Six Sigma Project Subtitle

    Tips and Tricks Learned the Hard Way

    by Keith Johnson ...
    A book for project sponsors: -Have you been asked to “sponsor” a lean six sigma or continuous improvement project? -Are you being sent to “sponsor training”, and asked to bring ideas for potential projects in your area? -Do you have an idea for a project, and need to decide if it’s a good lean six sigma project? A book for project leaders: -Have you been asked to lead a lean six sigma or ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Computing for Ordinary Mortals

    by Robert St. Amant ...
    Computing isn't only (or even mostly) about hardware and software; it's also about the ideas behind the technology. In Computing for Ordinary Mortals, computer scientist Robert St. Amant explains this "really interesting part" of computing, introducing basic computing concepts and strategies in a way that readers without a technical background can understand and appreciate. Each of the chapters ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Quality in the Public Sector

    by Jennifer Bean, Lascelles Hussey ...
    Series series Essential Skills for the Public Sector
    Quality in the Public Sector is one of a series of books entitled “Essential Skills for the Public Sector”. It sets out ways in which those providing public sector services can clarify what is meant by quality and how quality can be achieved. It considers issues such as setting standards, measuring and monitoring quality and the cost versus the benefit of introducing quality systems. It is ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Relations between Defence and Civil Technologies

    Edited by Philip Gummett, Judith Reppy ...
    Series Book 46 - NATO Science Series D
    This book arises from a meeting held at Wiston House, Sussex, UK, in September 1987. The meeting brought together academic, governmental and industrial experts from eight countries to discuss the increasingly important sUbject of the relations between civil and defence technologies. It was primarily funded under the Advanced Research Workshops Programme of NATO's Scientific Affairs Division, and ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Working with Groupware

    Understanding and Evaluating Collaboration Technology

    by J.H. Erik Andriessen ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This publication has grown out of two frustrations. One is the experience that so many applications in the area of information and communication technology (lCT) are built without an eye to what the users can handle or need for their work, systematic user oriented evaluation of new tools is therefore limited. The video recorder provides a good general example of this phenomenon, but more ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Privatisation in Ireland

    Lessons from a European Economy

    by D. Palcic, E. Reeves ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book analyzes privatization in Ireland, a European economy that has experienced rapidly changing fortunes over the last thirty years. It examines the effects of privatization in terms of corporate performance, public finances and the distributional aspects of privatization including the impact on employment and share ownership. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Analysis and Design of Advice

    by Ivan Jureta ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Advice involves recommendations on what to think; through thought, on what to choose; and via choices, on how to act. Advice is information that moves by communication, from advisors to the recipient of advice.Ivan Jureta offers a general way to analyze advice. The analysis applies regardless of what the advice is about and from whom it comes or to whom it needs to be given, and it concentrates on ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Hidden Rules of Race

    Barriers to an Inclusive Economy

    by Andrea Flynn, Susan R. Holmberg, Dorian T. Warren, Felicia J. Wong ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity
    Why do black families own less than white families? Why does school segregation persist decades after Brown v. Board of Education? Why is it harder for black adults to vote than for white adults? Will addressing economic inequality solve racial and gender inequality as well? This book answers all of these questions and more by revealing the hidden rules of race that create barriers to inclusion ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Banking in Portugal

    by Anabela Sérgio ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explains how banking institutions in Portugal were able to maintain their strength and solubility while undergoing a demanding Program of Financial Assistance from the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission from May 2011 and May 2014. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Indigenous Peoples and Real Estate Valuation

    Edited by Robert A. Simons, Rachel M. Malmgren, Garrick Small ...
    Series Book 10 - Research Issues in Real Estate
    Sponsored by the American Real Estate Society (ARES), Indigenous Peoples and Real Estate Valuation addresses a wide variety of timely issues relating to property ownership, rights, and use, including: ancestral burial, historical record of occupancy, treaty implementation problems, eminent domain, the effects of large governmental change, financing projects under formal and informal title or deed ... Read more

    $107.09 USD