Fourteen international academics and researchers contribute 11 chapters exploring the impact of the Internet on civil society. Key topics addressed include how the Internet compares qualitatively to t
User Generated Content (UGC) is heterogeneous, distributed, and unstructured, presenting unique problems for data analysis. This edited book presents the latest techniques extracting knowledge and min
This ground-breaking collection features the diverse voices, experiences, and scholarship of cross-cultural women of American Indian, Asian American, Black/African American and Hispanic descent at var
Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education presents a strong and coherent rationale for improving learning for diverse students from a range of socio-economic, ethnic/racial and
This book seeks to reassess the role of Europe in the end of the Cold War and the process of German unification.Much of the existing literature on the end of the Cold War has focused primarily on the
Stimulated by the publication of The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris, Parenting and the Child's World was conceived around the notion that there are multiple sources of influence on children'
We are now accustomed to conceive of science as an instrumental activity, producing numbers, measurements and graphs by means of sophisticated devices. This book investigates the historical process th
