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Explorations in Information Space: Knowledge, Actor, and Firms

Oxford University Press, 2008

As humankind seeks to extend its spatiotemporal reach both on and beyond its planet, it is constantly being forced by a recalcitrant nature to renegotiate the terms of its covenant with her. In some cases, the bargaining gets tough and nature takes offence, gradually revealing her anger with the terms that humanity seeks to impose on her through...

Information Technology Policy: An International History

Oxford University Press, 2004

This book brings together a series of country-based studies to examine, in depth, the nature and extent of IT policies as they have evolved from a complex historical interaction of politics, technology, institutions, and social and cultural factors. In doing so many key questions are critically examined. Where can we find successful examples of IT...

Multidimensional Programming

Oxford University Press, 1995

This book describes a powerful language for multidimensional declarative programming called Lucid. Lucid has evolved considerably in the past ten years. The main catalyst for this metamorphosis was the discovery that Lucid is based on intensional logic, one commonly used in studying natural languages. Intensionality, and more specifically...

Basic English Usage

Oxford University Press, 1986

Not only for beginners, but also for intermediate level students. Please take into account that this book is "a shortened and simplified version" of Practical English Usage. If you want a book to carry for studying in the bus, BSE is good, but for having it in your desk, PSE is better.

An alphabetical guide to the most common...

The Oxford Guide to English Usage

Oxford University Press, 1984

Have you ever had doubts about when to hyphenate two words? Confused over whether you should disassociate or dissociate yourself from something? Do you know when to spell doggie as doggy? Is it really a rule that a preposition should never fall at the end of a sentence? Now there is a single
convenient source you can turn to with all your...

Handbook of Logic in Computer Science 5

Oxford University Press, 2001

"Oxford University Press publishes a wonderful series of books entitled Handbook of Logic in Computer Science. ... Volume 5: Logic and Algebraic Methods, has I think the best discussion of abstract data types that I have read."--he Bulletin of Mathematics Books

Logic is now widely recognized as one of the foundational...

Keeping Better Company: Corporate Governance Ten Years On

Oxford University Press, 2006

This book is about the way companies are directed and controlled, and relate to their sources of finance—what has come to be called corporate governance. The term‘company’ is better than ‘corporation’ as it reflects the human dimension; companies are collections of people, not just inanimate structures.
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Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Code-breaking Computers (Popular Science)

Oxford University Press, 2006

"An excellent, ground breaking book, highly recommended."--Books-On-Line

The American ENIAC is customarily regarded as having been the starting point of electronic computation. This book rewrites the history of computer science, arguing that in reality Colossus--the giant computer built by the British secret service during...

Computational Approaches to Morphology and Syntax (Oxford Surveys in Syntax & Morphology)

Oxford University Press, 2007

"This book should undoubtedly be of great interest to students and researchers of morphology, syntax, computational linguistics, and natural language processing. The book provides an excellent systematics overivew of the current state-of-the-art of the field. The book includes extensive descriptions of the formal characterization of...

Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age

Oxford University Press, 2007

Circuits from silk? Today's technophiles probably have no idea how much today's computer technology owes to the invention of one ingenuous textile manufacturer in nineteenth-century France. Here, master storyteller James Essinger shows through a series of remarkable and meticulously researched historical connections how the Jacquard loom...

The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture, and Communication Online

Oxford University Press, 2007

This book marks the culmination of the second stage of a two-stage project initiated in 2002. In that year, we co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication about multilingualism on the Internet (published in 2003). Our call for papers, distributed online, yielded far more proposals than we had expected, and many of...

A First Course in Logic: An Introduction to Model Theory, Proof Theory, Computability, and Complexity

Oxford University Press, 2004

'a clear and unifying treatment of fundamental concepts underlying Computer Sciences and Foundations of Mathematics' Professor Boris Zilber (Professor of Mathematical Logic, University of Oxford)

'an excellent book' Professor Dov Gabbay (King's College, London)

The ability to reason and think in a logical manner...

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