Subject(s): Google (Firm) | Search engines | Internet searching Summary: Aimed at information and communication professionals, scholars and students, Google and the Digital Divide: The Biases of Online Knowledge provides invaluable insight into the significant role that search engines play in growing the digital divide between individuals, orga

Subject(s): Early childhood education | Child development Summary: "It is widely known that babies and infants will flourish in an environment that supports and promotes their learning and development. But what constitutes an appropriate environment for children under three? Drawing on recent research, this book explores the concept of an a

Subject(s): Indexing Summary: "Indexing consists of both novel and more traditional techniques. Cutting-edge indexing techniques, such as automatic indexing, ontologies, and topic maps, were developed independently of older techniques such as thesauri, but it is now recognized that these older methods also hold expertise. Indexing describe

Subject(s): Television broadcasting of news Summary: "Covering issues of ownership, control, policy, and regulation, the book is a blend of theory and history that examines the UK industry from a comparative perspective. It establishes the importance of television journalism, how it converges with other formats, and the ways in which it can

Subject(s): Electromagnetism Summary: "Balanis' new edition of Advanced Engineering and Electromagnetics features new content on the basics of Metamaterials including figures to demonstrate their properties. Several small sections have been added on Mie series scattering by a PEC sphere; wedge diffraction by a wedge with surface impedan

Subject(s): Merchant marine -- History Congresses -- Indian Ocean Region | Navigation -- History Congresses -- India | Underwater archaeology -- Congresses -- India | Indian Ocean Region -- History Congresses -- Commerce | Indian Ocean Region -- Foreign relations Congresses | Indian Ocean Region -- Antiquities Congresses | India -- History -- 324 B

Subject(s): Political participation -- Technological innovations -- United States | Communication in politics -- Technological innovations -- United States | Internet in political campaigns -- United States | Internet -- Political aspects -- United States | Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States | Internet in public administration -- Unit

Subject(s): Balance of power | Unipolarity (International relations) | International relations -- Philosophy | World politics -- 1989- | United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989- Summary: "The end of the Cold War and subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union resulted in a new unipolar international system that presented fresh challenges

Subject(s): Quality control | Process control -- Statistical methods Summary: "Completely revised and updated, A First Course in Quality Engineering: Integrating Statistical and Management Methods of Quality, Second Edition contains virtually all the information an engineer needs to function as a quality engineer. The authors not only break

Subject(s): Democracy | Democratization | Globalization Summary: "Democracy is increasingly seen as the only legitimate form of government, but few people would regard international relations as governed according to democratic principles. Can this lack of global democracy be justified? Which models of global politics should contemporary de