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: international perspectives : from telecommuting to the virtual organisation
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| Author | Jackson , Paul J. | |
| Call Number | HD2336.3.T45 1998 | |
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Teleworking has long been proclaimed as a revolution in working practices for the 21st century. Teleworking: International Perspectives offers an up-to-date, groundbreaking and comprehensive assessment in light of the rapidly changing contexts of the globalization of markets and the proliferation of new technologies. Based upon papers presented at a conference at Brunel University, which was sponsored by BT and the European Commission, the book features contributions from a range of international and interdisciplinary perspectives. As well as an original analysis of the theoretical context of the post-industrial and postmodern world, the book also contains detailed empirical studies examining teleworking in a number of different countries. Contributors explore many of the main issues in teleworking drawing on insights from business, economics, sociology and information systems. These include conceptualizing teleworking; the management of spatial, temporal and cultural boundaries; and the possibility of the virtual organization.
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Satellite newsgathering
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Higgins , Jonathan
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| Call Number | TK5104.H54 2007 | |
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An ideal introduction for anyone working, or interested, in satellite newsgathering (SNG). SNG is the process that delivers 'live' and 'breaking' news to the viewer/listener as it happens. The focus of this book is the use of satellite uplinks for newsgathering (for both television and radio news reporting). Jonathan Higgins provides an insight into the technical and operational considerations in specifying and operating SNG systems around the world, the satisfaction faced in doing so successfully and the problems occasionally encountered. Jonathan Higgins is ideally placed to tackle this subject, having been deeply involved in the development of both truck-based and 'flyaway' SNG uplinks over the last decade and, in particular, DSNG uplinks for BBC News.
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The mind at night : the new science of how and why we dream
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Rock , Andrea
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| Call Number | QP426.R63 2004 | |
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This exceptionally lucid and engaging work of science writing explicates breakthroughs in the study of the dreaming mind from the 1950s to the present day. Rock, an award-winning medical and science reporter, proves a crisp and thorough storyteller as she portrays the professional tensions among scientific innovators and delineates theoretical controversies (in which the legacy of Freud looms large). She frequently cites interviews with neuroscientists and psychologists, bringing out the drama of their intellectual struggles. Opening with the discovery of the REM phase of sleep by a lowly University of Chicago graduate student. Rock charts the subsequent explosion in dream research investigations into the roles of different parts of the brain in dreaming, theories of animal dreaming and the evolutionary history of dreaming, the nature of memory, and the neurological relationships among dreaming, mental illness and consciousness itself. Examples of dreams are kept to a relevant minimum, but many statistics of interest are reported. In Rock's concluding chapters, a seamlessly narrated account of a period of sustained scientific focus on the dreaming mind eases into a broader discussion of the function of dreaming in the context of contemporary scientific findings and beliefs. Here Rock discourages simplistic dream-symbol decoding in favor of a more complex approach enlightened by present-day theories.
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