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The book provides a comprehensive overview on information visualization and visual exploration. The top-down view on the problem illustrated with numerous examples based on real data and settings will help people from these domains to get a sound knowledge about key challenges, concepts and methodologies in this regard.

Technology-enabled Mathematics Education explores how teachers of mathematics are using digital technologies to enhance student engagement in classrooms, from the early years through to the senior years of school.

In this companion, an international range of contributors examine with the cultural formation of cyberpunk from micro-level analyses of example texts to macro-level debates of movements, providing readers with a snapshot of cyberpunk culture and also cyberpunk as culture.

MicroComputed Tomography has become a gold standard for studying 3D microscopic structures nondestructively, and the author presents a sufficient amount of fundamental material so that those new to the field can develop a relative understanding of how to design their own microCT studies.

The research is clear: online learning works best when faculty build regular, positive, and interactive relationships with students. A strategy that helps forge such a relationship is the use of videos. Student satisfaction and course engagement levels also increase with the use of instructor-generated videos - the subject of this book.

Explores the experiences of Muslim students in colleges and universities, and addresses the even less studied domain of the experiences of Muslim students who hold multiple marginalized identities - such as race, ethnicity, and LGBTQ status - as well as the intersection of those identities that may create multiple burdens of discrimination.

Explores the experiences of Muslim students in colleges and universities, and addresses the even less studied domain of the experiences of Muslim students who hold multiple marginalized identities - such as race, ethnicity, and LGBTQ status - as well as the intersection of those identities that may create multiple burdens of discrimination.

Focusing on the range of potential alternative career choices, this highly practical book offers tools and prompts for readers who are considering whether to choose an alt-ac career path; seeking specific alt-ac positions; or encountering alt-ac career challenges.

Originally published in 1993, this book contains 3 studies on Africa: Algeria, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. The studies underline the difficulties which Africa has faced in initiating its technological transformation. Adverse conditions and poor infrastructure have made the continent much more vulnerable to both external and internal disturbances and as a result many countries have not had the opportunity to make a real beginning towards their transformation.

Originally published in 1993, this book contains 4 studies on Asia: Bangladesh, India, South Korea and Sri Lanka. The studies reflect 4 different patterns of technological transformation. The sources used draw upon research in development economics, economic history, technology and studies in general and country studies in particular.

Originally published in 1993, this book contains 3 studies from Latin America: Mexico, Puerto Rico and Venezuela. These studies bring out sharply the processes at work in Latin America between 1950 and 1980, which were responsible for the crisis that the continent faced in the 1980s.

Queering the Museum develops a queer analysis of the ways in which museums construct themselves, their core business, and their publics through the, often unconscious, use of inherited ways of knowing and doing.

Offers an updated synthesis of conversation work across disciplines and grade levels; highlights the most recent classroom-based research and theory on classroom conversation; answers questions that have emerged during work with teachers and administrators; and presents new classroom strategies and practices for fostering classroom conversations.

Combines what we know from the science of happiness with what we know about effective literacy instruction. By examining characters in the books they read, children develop empathy for others and come to understand that we all struggle and we all love. Literacy learning is full of opportunities for students to learn tools to live a happy life.

The CAFE system has changed the way teachers assess, teach, and track student information, and positively impacted the way students learn. This updated, second edition demonstrates that reading instruction is not about the setting, the basal, or the book level. Rather, effective reading instruction is based on what the student needs in the moment.

Originally published in 1992 this book charts a global restructuring of telecommunications industries worldwide. It examines the impact of new technology for consequences of change in trade and government policies.

Originally published in 1985, in the deteriorating climate of East-West relations technology transfer became vitally important. This book reviews the state of technology transfer to the East in the 1980s and considers the place of Western technology in the Eastern economies. It also discusses the strategic goals of Western technology embargoes.

Originally published in 1990 this book provides an authoritative and detailed account of the initiatives of US state governments with science and technology programs designed to foster economic growth.

Originally published in 1993 this book presents the findings of 14 teams involved in a research initiative to examine the initiation and resonse to innovation in firms. It draws together the many strands which were discovered to influence the succesful generation and adoption of new technologies.

Originally published in 1999, this volume contains a systematic collection of both theoretical and applied studies on user information systems for road users. Te book contains European, American and Asian contributions and shows the analytical wealth of recent studies in this field.

This book, originally published in 1991, develops the debate about evolutionary theories of economic and technological change and draws on the concepts of evolutionary biology, nonequilibrium thermodynamics, systems and organization theory.

This book explores the place of art in the modern world. Engaging with a broad range of theory, the author draws on the thought of Max Weber to offer an account of art¿s widespread appeal in terms of its constituting a self-contained value-sphere of meaning, which provides a feeling of salvation from the senseless routines of modern life.