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Improving working memory in learning and intellectual disabilities
The last forty years of research have demonstrated that working memory (WM) is a key concept for understanding higher-order cognition. To give an example, WM is involved in reading comprehension, problem solving and reasoning, but also in a number of everyday life activities. It has a clear role in the case of atypical development too. For instance, numerous studies have shown an impairment in …
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- 9782889198979
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- 158p.: ill.
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- 370.15 IMP i
Regulating transitions from school to work : an institutional ethnography of …
How are activation programs for the young unemployed implemented? How do grassroot-level bureaucrats deal with competing rationalities and demands for action? Transition policies increasingly aim at promoting self-regulation and constructing employable subjects. Stephan Dahmen explores the practical regulation of biographical transitions in activation programs for the young unemployed by focusi…
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- 9783839457061
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- 310 p.
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- 370 DAH r
Rational cybersecurity for business : the security leaders' guide to business…
Use the guidance in this comprehensive field guide to gain the support of your top executives for aligning a rational cybersecurity plan with your business. You will learn how to improve working relationships with stakeholders in complex digital businesses, IT, and development environments. You will know how to prioritize your security program, and motivate and retain your team. Misalignment…
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- 9781484259528
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- xxvi, 333p. : ill.
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- 005.8 BLU r
Motivation in organisations: searching for a meaningful work-life balance
Motivation in Organisations: Searching for a Meaningful Work-Life Balance extends the current motivation models in business education to include motives of human behaviour that have been neglected for decades. It debunks some of the myths about human motivation (self-interest as the dominant factor, amorality and non-spirituality) and explains why this approach to teaching business is erroneous…
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- 9780429317293
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- xxii, 232p.: ill.
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- Humanistic management
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- 658.314 GUI m
Social media and democracy : the state of the field, prospects for reform
Over the last five years, widespread concern about the effects of social media on democracy has led to an explosion in research from different disciplines and corners of academia. This book is the first of its kind to take stock of this emerging multi-disciplinary field by synthesizing what we know, identifying what we do not know and obstacles to future research, and charting a course for the …
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- 9781108890960
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- xvii, 345p. : ill.
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- 302.231 SOC s
Where truth lies : digital culture and documentary media after 9/11
"This boldly original book traces the evolution of documentary film and photography as they migrated onto digital platforms during the first decades of the twenty-first century. Kris Fallon examines the emergence of several key media forms—social networking and crowdsourcing, video games and virtual environments, big data and data visualization—and demonstrates the formative influence of po…
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- 9780520972117
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- XVI, 228 p.
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- 302.2310973 FAL w
Canada's labour market training system
How does the current labour market training system function and whose interests does it serve? In this introductory textbook, Bob Barnetson wades into the debate between workers and employers, and governments and economists to investigate the ways in which labour power is produced and reproduced in Canadian society. After sifting through the facts and interpretations of social scientists and go…
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- 9781771992428
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 190 pages).
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- Open paths to enriched learning
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- 331.120971 BAR c
Electronic Iran - the cultural politics of an online evolution
Electronic Iran introduces the concept of the Iranian Internet, a framework that captures interlinked, transnational networks of virtual and offline spaces. Taking her cues from early Internet ethnographies that stress the importance of treating the Internet as both a site and product of cultural production, accounts in media studies that highlight the continuities between old and new media, an…
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- 9780813561943
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- 168 p.
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- 006.754 AKH e
The internet myth: from the internet imaginary to network ideologies
‘The Internet is broken and Paolo Bory knows how we got here. In a powerful book based on original research, Bory carefully documents the myths, imaginaries, and ideologies that shaped the material and cultural history of the Internet. As important as this book is to understand our shattered digital world, it is essential for those who would fix it.’ — Vincent Mosco, author of The Smart C…
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- 9781912656752
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- xiii, 169p.: ill
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- 004.678 BOR i
Professional social work in Australia
This is an unchanged republication of the first historical account of the social work profession in Australia. It traces the development of social work education and professional social work in the larger, more industrialised societies overseas before the same developments began in Australia in the late 1920s, and it notes the part played by overseas influence in the subsequent 30-odd years. Th…
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- 9781921934278
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- xvii, 241 p. tables. 25 cm.
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- 361.320994 LAW p
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