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The Promise of Technology in Schools: The Next 20 Years (Scarecrow Education Book)

How can educators survive in the whirlwind restructuring and reform caused by the digital age? Will the impact of information technology improve learning, and how? The Promise of Technology in Schools answers these questions, by surveying ...

Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology

Looks at the full history of green technology--from its very beginnings to what scientists and engineers hope to see in the future.

The Technology Revolution: The Not-for-dummies Guide to the Impact, Perils, And Promise of the Inter...

Prior to the commercialization and privatization of the Internet in the early 1990s, the subject of technology, not unlike its use, was something that engaged and concerned a very small number of individuals and a relatively small number of...

Pathways to Institutional Improvement with Information Technology in Educational Management

This volume presents findings and insights from contemporary thinking and research about alternative and new ways that computerised information systems might be designed and used to support the improvement of educational institutions. Many ...

Wireless Sensor Networks: Technology, Protocols, and Applications

Infrastructure for Homeland Security Environments Wireless Sensor Networks helps readers discover the emerging field of low-cost standards-based sensors that promise a high order of spatial and temporal resolution and accuracy in an ever-in...

Engineering Project: Its Nature, Ethics, and Promise

By Gene Moriarity. ISBN 10: 0271032553. ISBN 13: 9780271032559. Used condition. Paperback published 2008 by Penn State U. Press.

Nuclear Power: Promise or Peril? (Pro/Con)

Supports the national curriculum standards Time, Continuity, and Change; Individuals, Groups, and Institutions; Power, Authority, and Governance; Science Technology and Society; and Civic Ideals and Practices as outlined by the National Co...

Forest Sustainability: The History, the Challenge, the Promise (Forest History Society Issues Series...

Edition: 1st, Paperback, Forest History Society

Techno-Nationalism and Techno-Globalism: Conflict and Cooperation (Integrating National Economies : ...

"We should be grateful to Ostry and Nelson for giving clarity and balance to interrelated subjects too often dominated by passion and muddle." Keith Pavitt, University of SussexSylvia Ostry is chair of the Centre for International Studies,...

Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Agent Technology, and Collaborative Applications (Advances in I...

Cutting-edge developments in artificial intelligence are now driving applications that are only hinting at the level of value they will soon contribute to organizations, consumers, and societies across all domains. Distributed Artificial In...

Spice Science and Technology (Food Science & Technology) (Food Science and Technology)

<P>Offers concise coverage of spices and herbs from basic science to the most recent developments in spice functions and applications. Introduces a new patterning theory of extensive spice use in various types of food preparations.</P>

Handbook of Sputter Deposition Technology: Principles, Technology and Applications (Materials Scienc...

A concise but comprehensive overview of a technology currently being widely used in the microelectronics industry for the production of silicon integrated circuits. Recently interest has increased in cathodic sputtering since novel materia...

Technology in Context: Technology Assessment for Managers (Routledge Studies in the Management of Te...

Technology in Context is a comprehensive and accessible analysis of technology assessment which defines and describes its role in the strategic management of firms. Subjects covered include: * the fundamental concepts required for the manag...

Applications of Toxicogenomic Technologies to Predictive Toxicology and Risk Assessment

Applications of Toxicogenomic Technologies to Predictive Toxicology and Risk Assessment

USING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY by WILLIAMS

The Williams, Using Information Technology, 8th edition utilizes a practical, applied approach to technology. This text is user-focused and has been highly updated including topics, pictures and examples. The Williams text contains less th...

Children, Technology and Culture: The Impacts of Technologies in Children's Everyday Lives (Future o...

Childhood is increasingly saturated by technology: from television to the Internet, video games to 'video nasties', camcorders to personal computers. Children, Technology and Culture looks at the interplay of children and technology which p...

TOMORROW'S TECHNOLOGY & YOU COMPLETE by BEEKMAN

<P style="MARGIN: 0px">Completely updated, <B><I>Tomorrow&rsquo;s Technology and You, Ninth Edition</I> </B>provides you with an understanding of information technology so you can successfully navigate change and advance into the future. <...

Management of Technology : Managing Effectively in Technology-Intensive Organizations

* Presents assessment methods for organization and management processes.<br> * Provides special tools and techniques for managing and organizing R&D, new product, and project-oriented challenges.<br> * Includes real-world case studies.

The Engineering Project: Its Nature, Ethics, and Promise

We all live our daily lives surrounded by the products of technology that make what we do simpler, faster, and more efficient. These are benefits we often just take for granted. But at the same time, as these products disburden us of unwant...

TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE WIRELESS FUTURE by TAFAZOLLI

ISBN: 0470012358, ISBN13: 9780470012352, Used, Excellent Condition Used

Technology and Gender : Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China by BRAY

In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in China, Francesca Bray inserts women into the history of technology and adds technology to the history of women. Bray takes issue with the Orientalist image that traditional Chi...

Tools of Empire : Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century by HEADRICK

ISBN: 0195028325, ISBN13: 9780195028324, Used, Excellent Condition Used

Ethics in an Age of Technology, Volume II by BARBOUR

The Gifford Lectures have challenged our greatest thinkers to relate the worlds of religion, philosophy, and science. Now Ian Barbour has joined ranks with such Gifford lecturers as William James, Carl Jung, and Reinhold Neibuhr. In 1989 B...

INTRO.TO PROCESS TECHNOLOGY by THOMAS

Appropriate for individuals who are just beginning employment as process technicians, Introduction to Process Technology, 3E explores the development of process technology as well as the science and technology, equipment, systems, operatio...

Sound Technology and American Cinema by LASTRA

ISBN: 0231115172, ISBN13: 9780231115179, Used, Excellent Condition Used

E-Commerce Basics : Technology Foundations and Business Applications by DAVIS

ISBN: 0201748401, ISBN13: 9780201748406, Used, Excellent Condition Used

Information Technology Inside and Outside / With CD by CYGANSKI

ISBN: 0130114960, ISBN13: 9780130114969, Used, Excellent Condition Used

Women, Technology and Myth of Progress by LEONARD

This book explores reproductive, household, and office technology in order to challenge popular notions of technology as progressive for women. It argues that technology gives its benefits differentially, depending on such critical social ...

MATHEMATICS FOR MACHINE TECHNOLOGY by SMITH

The new edition of this best-selling text has been reviewed and revised to clarify and update an understanding of mathematical concepts necessary for success in the machine trades and manufacturing fields. Mathematics for Machine Technolog...

MATHEMATICS FOR MACHINE TECHNOLOGY by SMITH

The new edition of this best-selling text has been reviewed and revised to clarify and update an understanding of mathematical concepts necessary for success in the machine trades and manufacturing fields. Mathematics for Machine Technolog...