Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Education in a digital world Education in a digital world Neil Selwyn "The book takes a comprehensive look at digital technology use in educational settings around the world. Drawing on a wealth of theoretical and empirical work, the book tackles a number of pressing q… OL16509529W
Violence at work Violence at work Vittorio Di Martino,Duncan Chappell Provides a basis for understanding the nature of workplace violence and suggests ways of preventing it in the future. Focuses on those data, experiences and publications which best help to explain an… OL20546139W
Butterfly economics Butterfly economics Paul Ormerod "Paul Ormerod, renowned as the thinking person's economist, tears up conventional wisdom and explains why the economy is so much more than the sum of its parts. Taking in the latest scientific, socia… OL26181649W
Superhighway robbery Superhighway robbery Graeme R. Newman This book analyzes the expanding crime opportunities created by the Internet and e-commerce, and it explains how concepts of crime prevention developed in other contexts can be effectively applied in… OL2975460W
The World Is Flat The World Is Flat Thomas L. Friedman When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development at the dawn of the 21st century--the attacks of 9/11, or the convergence of tec… OL3740423W
The End of Poverty The End of Poverty Jeffrey Sachs A landmark exploration of the way out of extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizensAmong the most eagerly anticipated books of any year, this landmark exploration of prosperity and poverty dist… OL3849705W
The New Offshoring of Jobs and Global Development The New Offshoring of Jobs and Global Development Gary Gereffi Using the global value chains perspective, looks at how offshore outsourcing affects the quantity and quality of jobs in the global economy. OL5608131W