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  • Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800

    by George Buchanan; William Frederick Poole ...
    "Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800" is a significant work that explores the early abolitionist sentiments and arguments against slavery. Authored by George Buchanan and William Frederick Poole, the book delves into the philosophical, moral, and religious objections to slavery that emerged prior to the 19th century. It highlights the contributions of various thinkers and activists who laid ... Read more

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  • Dangerous Ways

    by George Buchanan ...
    "To venture to the road meant entering a dangerous world in which high-handed and overbearing vans and hard uncompromising lorries thundered past the narrow pavement that we had to walk on. The road, though our neighbour, was not a being we felt kin to. A short way from our gate, it had the rumble of artillery." In August 1947, on the author's sixth birthday, he and his mother arrived from England ... Read more

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  • Designing for Digital Reading

    by Jennifer Pearson, George Buchanan, Harold Thimbleby ...
    Series series Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
    Reading is a complex human activity that has evolved, and co-evolved, with technology over thousands of years. Mass printing in the fifteenth century firmly established what we know as the modern book, with its physical format of covers and paper pages, and now-standard features such as page numbers, footnotes, and diagrams. Today, electronic documents are enabling paperless reading supported by ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

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  • Information Architecture

    For the Web and Beyond

    by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, Jorge Arango ...
    Information architecture (IA) is far more challenging—and necessary—than ever. With the glut of information available today, anything your organization wants to share should be easy to find, navigate, and understand. But the experience you provide has to be familiar and coherent across multiple interaction channels, from the Web to smartphones, smartwatches, and beyond.To guide you through this ... Read more

    $36.79 USD

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  • IT Architectures and Middleware: Strategies for Building Large, Integrated Systems

    Strategies for Building Large, Integrated Systems

    by Chris Britton, Peter Bye ...
    The challenges of designing, building, and maintaining large-scale, distributed enterprise systems are truly daunting. Written by and for IT professionals, IT Architectures and Middleware, Second Edition, will help you rise above the conflicts of new business objectives, new technologies, and vendor wars, allowing you to think clearly and productively about the particular challenges you face.This ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Wiring the Brain for Reading

    Brain-Based Strategies for Teaching Literacy

    by Marilee B. Sprenger ...
    Using the latest neuroscience research to enhance literacy instructionWiring the Brain for Reading introduces teachers to aspects of the brain's functions that are essential to language and reading development. Marilee Sprenger, a specialist in learning and the brain, provides practical, brain friendly, strategies for teaching essential skills like phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, ... Read more

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  • Reframing Information Architecture

    Edited by Andrea Resmini ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Information architecture has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s and earlier conceptions of the world and the internet being different and separate have given way to a much more complex scenario in the present day. In the post-digital world that we now inhabit the digital and the physical blend easily and our activities and usage of information takes place through multiple contexts and via ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • eHealth, Care and Quality of Life

    Edited by Antonio Gaddi, Antonio Gaddi, Marco Manca, Fabio Capello ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The debate over eHealth is alive as never before. Supporters suggest that it will result in dramatic innovations in healthcare, including a giant leap towards patient-centered care, new opportunities to improve effectiveness, and enhanced wellness and quality of life. In addition, the growing market value of investments in health IT suggests that eHealth can offer at least a partial cure for the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Researching Serendipity in Digital Information Environments

    by Lori McCay-Peet, Elaine G. Toms, Gary Marchionini ...
    Series series Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
    Chance, luck, and good fortune are the usual go-to descriptors of serendipity, a phenomenon aptly often coupled with famous anecdotes of accidental discoveries in engineering and science in modern history such as penicillin, Teflon, and Post-it notes. Serendipity, however, is evident in many fields of research, in organizations, in everyday life—and there is more to it than luck implies. While the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2017

    17th International Conference, Trieste, Italy, July 3-6, 2017, Proceedings, Part VI

    Edited by Osvaldo Gervasi, Beniamino Murgante, Sanjay Misra, Giuseppe Borruso, Carmelo M. Torre, Ana Maria A.C. Rocha, David Taniar, Bernady O. Apduhan, Elena Stankova, Alfredo Cuzzocrea ...
    Series Book 6 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    The six-volume set LNCS 10404-10409 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2017, held in Trieste, Italy, in July 2017.The 313 full papers and 12 short papers included in the 6-volume proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 1052 submissions. Apart from the general tracks, ICCSA 2017 included 43 ... Read more

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  • Risks and Security of Internet and Systems

    12th International Conference, CRiSIS 2017, Dinard, France, September 19-21, 2017, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Nora Cuppens, Frédéric Cuppens, Jean-Louis Lanet, Axel Legay, Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the revised selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Risk and Security of Internet and Systems, CRISIS 2017, held in Dinard, France, in September 2017.The 12 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. They cover diverse research themes, ranging from classic topics, such as vulnerability ... Read more

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  • Laura's List

    by Beverly Darnall ...
    Laura's List presents the First Lady's published list of recommended books, and builds on her public commitment to books and learning. Parents need basic tools to give their children opportunities to grow, and here is an easy-to-understand guide to great reading for kids-from a highly visible source, Laura Bush.Mrs. Bush's own background and dedication to reading gives rise to this collection and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD