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The right to science : then and now
That everyone has a human right to enjoy the benefits of the progress of science and its applications comes as a surprise to many. Nevertheless, this right is pertinent to numerous issues at the intersection of science and society: open access; 'dual use' science; access to ownership and dissemination of data, knowledge, methods and the affordances and applications thereof; as well as the role …
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- 9781108478250
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- xii, 324 p. ; ill
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- 342.0853 POR t
Histories of technology, the Environment and Modern Britain
Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years. It combines, for the first time, two perspectives with much to say about Britain since the industrial revolution: the histo…
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- 9781911576570
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- xii, 354 p. : B&W, ill.
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- 609.41 AGA h
Cybersecurity : public sector threats and responses
The Internet has given rise to new opportunities for the public sector to improve efficiency and better serve constituents. But with an increasing reliance on the Internet, digital tools are also exposing the public sector to new risks. This accessible primer focuses on the convergence of globalization, connectivity, and the migration of public sector functions online. It examines emerging tren…
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- 9781439846643
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- xxix, 354 p. : ill
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- 352.379 AND c
Invisible search and online search engines
Invisible Search and Online Search Engines considers the use of search engines in contemporary everyday life and the challenges this poses for media and information literacy. Looking for mediated information is mostly done online and arbitrated by the various tools and devices that people carry with them on a daily basis. Because of this, search engines have a significant impact on the structur…
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- 9780429448546
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- viii, 151 p. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 025.0425 HAI i
B C, Before Computers : on information technology from writing to the age of …
I found it a delight to read. The author is not trying to write yet another book on the history of computer developments but rather to show that those developments rely on a long history of humans creating solutions to problems that arose as they became more and more sophisticated in their treatment of concepts of information and its manipulation. In many ways it resembles a work of philosophy …
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- 9781800640313
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- 170p.: colour, ill.
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- 004.09 B r
Archaeological 3d GIS
Archaeological 3D GIS provides archaeologists with a guide to explore and understand the unprecedented opportunities for collecting, visualising, and analysing archaeological datasets in three dimensions. With platforms allowing archaeologists to link, query, and analyse in a virtual, georeferenced space information collected by different specialists, the book highlights how it is possible to r…
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- 9781003034131
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- XXI, 154 p.
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- 930.1028 DEL a
Right research : modelling sustainable research practices in the anthropocene
Educational institutions play an instrumental role in social and political change, and are responsible for the environmental and social ethics of their institutional practices. The essays in this volume critically examine scholarly research practices in the age of the Anthropocene, and ask what accountability educators and researchers have in ‘righting’ their relationship to the environment…
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- 9781783749638
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- xxiii, 560 p. ; ill
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- 304.2 MIY r
Engines of Order : A Mechanology of Algorithmic Techniques
Over the last decades, and in particular since the widespread adoption of the Internet, encounters with algorithmic procedures for ‘information retrieval’ – the activity of getting some piece of information out of a col-lection or repository of some kind – have become everyday experiences for most people in large parts of the world.
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- 9789048537419
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- 353 p.: ill.
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- 518.1 RIE e
Information and knowledge organisation in digital humanities: global perspect…
Information and Knowledge Organisation explores the role of knowledge organisation in the digital humanities. By focusing on how information is described, represented and organised in both research and practice, this work furthers the transdisciplinary nature of digital humanities. Including contributions from Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and the Middle East, the volume explores the p…
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- 9781003131816
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- xxiii, 290 p. : ill.
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- Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities
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- 658.038 GOL i
Ensuring quality education and good learning environments for students
Today, new technologies bring with them an everchanging panorama, forcing us to constantly update our knowledge. For this reason, quality education is necessary in all areas of knowledge and at all educational levels. The quality of our educational systems and the questions raised by reviewing whether our educational institutions offer quality education or not are some of the main reasons why q…
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- 9783036524450
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- x, 254 p. : ill.
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- 370 BER e
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