Electronic Books

Total Books: 1201 - 1220 /1629

Sirius : Brightest Diamond in the Night Sky

Sirius - A Diamond in the Night will tell two stories. The first and most obvious is why the star known as Sirius has been ...

Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origins

This is the best book we have about the methodology to conduct research on the second generation or the children of immigrants ...

Smart Homes and Health Telematics : 6th International Conference, ICOST 2008 Ames, IA, USA, June 28-July 2, 2008 Proceedings

The book is organized in topical sections on assistive technology to improve quality of life for older adults and their caregivers; ...

Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons

This book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic ...

Social Capital and Health

As interest in social capital has grown over the past decade—particularly in public health —so has the lack of consensus ...

Social Capital in the Knowledge Economy

It is possible that there once was a time when scholars used to sit isolated with their cogitations in their attics, emerging ...

Social Cash Transfer in Turkey Toward Market Citizenship

This book asks whether cash-transfer programs for very low-income households promote social and economic citizenship and, ...

Social Change and Psychosocial Adaptation in the Pacific Islands

The Pacific Island and Oceanic nations arehometo indigenous cultures that are thousands of years old. The indigenous people ...

Social Choice and Strategic Decisions

Social choices, about expenditures on government programs, or about public policy more broadly, or indeed from any conceivable ...

Social Competence in Children

Social competence is essential to the mental and physical well-being of all humans, no matter their age. Yet as many as one ...

Social Computing with Artificial Intelligence

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the application of artificial intelligence in social computing, from fundamental ...

Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction

Social computing concerns the study of social behavior and context based on computational systems. Behavioral modeling reproduces ...

Social Customer Relationship Management : Fundamentals, Applications, Technologies / Rainer Alt , Olaf Reinhold

Presents analytic and operational software tools that offer features for enhancing and streamlining interactions with customers. ...

Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class New Voting Patterns

This book carefully explores the relationship between social democracy and its working-class electorate in Western Europe. ...

Social Determinants of Health in Non-communicable Diseases Case Studies from Japan

This book is the first compilation that reviews a wide range of social determinants of health (SDHs) for non-communicable ...

Social Development in the World Bank Essays in Honor of Michael M. Cernea

This book honors the work of Michael Cernea, who was the World Bank’s first professional sociologist, by taking on and ...

Social Dimensions Of Information And Communication Technology Policy : Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Human Choice and Computers (HCC8), IFIP TC 9, Pretoria, South Africa, September 25-26, 2008

The scope of the book includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications ...

Social Dynamics in Swiss Society

Using longitudinal data from the Swiss Household Panel to zoom in on continuity and change in the life course, this open ...

Social Engineering: How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulative Communication

From the phone phreaks of the 1970s to Anonymous, how how hackers deploy persuasion, helpfulness, manipulation, and deception ...

Social Exclusion in Later Life Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives

Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent ...

Total Books: 1201 - 1220 /1629