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Inside the IMF
Taylor and Francis 1997; US$ 155.00In this book, Richard Harper uses the International Monetary Fund as a case study to show how thinking differently about IT systems can dramatically improve the manageability and accessibility of documents in organisations. The systems he considers uses search and retrieval applications, the use of hypertext documents and shared database applications... more...
The Connected Home
Springer 2012; US$ 43.99"The Smart Home" was published in 2003 at a time when it was thought that the smart home would have materialized by now. It was believed that technology would take on more responsibility and that life at home would be more relaxed because there would be less labor for humans. But it never became a reality -- what happened? "The Connected... more...
Organisational Change in Retail Finance
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 210.00Financial organizations, like many others, are undergoing radical change. This is affecting both their organizational processes and the technology that supports those processes. This book reports on the use of sociological ethnography in helping guide these changes, both in terms of helping better understanding and redraw work processes and through... more...
East Anglia's History
Boydell & Brewer 2002; US$ 90.00Seventeen studies from the region's best scholars illuminate a variety of issues, ranging from the Domesday herring industry by way of monasteries, memorials, wills, Gainsborough and garden history to the growing passion for natural history and science in the mid nineteenth century. They make a serious contribution to an understanding of the region,... more...
Fieldwork for Design
Springer 2007; US$ 94.99Fieldwork for Design looks at why ethnographic approaches have been turned to in the design of computing devices for the workplace, for the home and elsewhere. It presents a history of ethnography, both as it was practiced before computer science picked it up and since, most especially in the CSCW and HCI domains. It examines, further, the various... more...
ECSCW 2007
Springer 2007; US$ 129.99Presents the proceedings of the tenth European conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). This volume includes papers addressing novel interaction technologies for CSCW systems, new models and architectures for groupware systems, and studies of communication and coordination among mobile actors. more...
Developing Web Information Systems
Elsevier Science 2002; US$ 62.95Developing Web Information Systems brings together traditional system development methods that have been taught for many years on information systems and computer science courses with web/e-commerce development. It is the first book to bring together IS development and the web applications in a thorough and systematic way. There is a running case... more...
Symmetry and its Discontents
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 26.00This volume brings together a collection of essays on the history and philosophy of probability and statistics by one of the eminent scholars in these subjects. The essays weave together the history and philosophy of these subjects and document the fascination that they have exercised for more than three centuries. more...
Let Nobody Turn Us Around
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2009; US$ 38.99One of America's most prominent historians and a noted feminist bring together the most important political writings and testimonials from African-Americans over three centuries. more...
10 Common Core Essentials: Nonfiction
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 0.0010 Common Core Essentials: Nonfiction by Harper Academic has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. more...









