Describes the history and methodology of computer system evaluations which were examined in order to determine the best way to conduct the evaluation of PROBE, the ERIC computer retrieval search service

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Lea McKenna, a private detective, poses as a dealer at Sinbad's in order to break up the ring of thieves trying to defraud Tony Cappa's casino

Product Description: Electronic mail and message handling is a rapidly expanding field which incorporates both telecommunications and computer technologies. It combines the old technologies of telex, telegram, and analog facsimile with the new systems of Teletex, digital facsimile, and computer-based messaging...read more

Product Description: The term "Office Automation" implies much and means little. The word "Office" is usually reserved for units in an organization that have a rather general function. They are supposed to support different activities, but it is notoriously difficult to determine what an office is supposed to do...read more

Product Description: The development of computer technology, particularly the work of the Fifth Generation Computer Project of Japan, will have far-reaching international implications. The author explores the uses of the new generation computer and information systems now under development in Japan by identifying their application, assessing their impact on society, and envisioning the transition to the future...read more

Charlotte Madigan, daughter of a powerful senator, finds her glittering, pampered world of high-level politics shattered by the shocking murder of her father at the hands of his mistress and the ensuing scandal, disgrace, and desolation

Product Description: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Intelligent Decision Support in Process Environments, held in San Miniato, Italy, September 16-27, 1985

Product Description: Roger E. Walters has written a timely and helpful analysis of the recent boom in application software development, and he addresses the needs and concerns of executives responsible for obtaining and updating these systems. This nontechnical treatment sets out a step-by-step approach describing how non-data processing personnel can control and manage the development and installation of relevent new information systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: In this book, the author is attempting to make sense, as a philosopher, of the ideas of rationality put forward by economists, sociologists, and political theorists. The book intervenes in intense current debates within and among several disciplines...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Wood and Zurcher suggest that the social self--its experience and organization--reflects the great transformation of society from industrial to postindustrial. . . . Wood and Zurcher have contributed to our social psychological understanding of self-development in several ways...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Provides guidance for sales and marketing managers involved in market planning, and uses case studies to explain effective forecasting techniques. Also offers suggestions on how to select the proper equipment, and contains a glossary of statistical terms commonly used in forecasting...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book provides a broad-based approach to decision support systems (DSS) and their applications to finance and accounting. Heymann and Bloom go beyond mere description of DSS applications for particular system configurations to provide a comprehensive, technical analysis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An introduction to computing, based upon the best-selling integrated package Microsoft Works. Covers all the basics, from creating a document, changing layout, and using spreadsheets to designing a database, managing files, and reformatting copied information...read more

Product Description: Computer Power and Legal Language explores the central issues involved in the use of computers to conduct legal business. The contributors, all experts in their field, take as their starting point fundamental questions about the potential utility of computational models of linguistics, intelligence, and logic in the law: Is it possible to use computing to communicate in the manner legal experts do? Can legal language be represented in computational form? How does natural language serve as both a bridge and a major stumbling block for the communication of concepts--both among jurists and computers? In answering these and other questions regarding computers in the law, the contributors present the results of research on the cutting edge of legal informatics, expert systems, and legal language, and they introduce important new applications of computers for lawyers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes the kinds of personal information stored in computer files and the ways in which it can be abused and offers guidelines on protecting one's privacy

<p> <b>Cases and Materials on Corporations</b> has long been the choice of instructors who want a rich and challenging casebook with in-depth coverage of both public and closely held corporations. Now in its seventh edition, this traditionally organized casebook continues to prove itself to be an invaluable teaching tool. </p> <p> <b>Time and classroom tested and authored by leading thinkers in corporate law, Cases and Materials on Corporations offers:</b> </p> <ul> <li> <b>Traditional casebook pedagogy</b>—text notes, statutory material, excerpted commentary, problems, questions, and edited cases—all meticulously chosen and edited by this outstanding author team. </li> <li> <b>Richness and depth</b>—a range of thoroughly developed topics allows instructors to delve into topics with as much depth as they wish. </li> <li> <b>A strong introductory chapter that develops the underpinnings for the course</b> —the authors expertly delineate the significant characteristics of a corporation: limited liability, perpetual existence, free transferability, and centralized management. </li> <li> <b>A framework that examines corporate responsibility</b>—the authors scrutinize corporate law in the context of the corporation’s responsibilities to its own constituents and investors, as well as to society. </li> </ul> <p> <b>New to the Seventh Edition:</b> </p> <ul> <li> A number of <b>new main cases</b> that have been recently decided, including <ul> <li> <i>In re Walt Disney Co. Derivative Litigation </i> </li> <li> <i>Stone v. Ritter.</i> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p> Effectively used to teach generations of law students, <b>Cases and Materials on Corporations, Seventh Edition</b>, remains the choice for instructors who want a sophisticated, in-depth presentation of corporate law. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

Focusing largely on the works of nineteenth-century authors including Twain, Poe, Kate Chopin, and George Washington Cable, this collection reveals the contribution of Southern writers to American literature