Organizing Knowledge
Organizing Knowledge

Author: Jennifer Rowley

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 135191328X

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The fourth edition of this standard student text, Organizing Knowledge, incorporates extensive revisions reflecting the increasing shift towards a networked and digital information environment, and its impact on documents, information, knowledge, users and managers. Offering a broad-based overview of the approaches and tools used in the structuring and dissemination of knowledge, it is written in an accessible style and well illustrated with figures and examples. The book has been structured into three parts and twelve chapters and has been thoroughly updated throughout. Part I discusses the nature, structuring and description of knowledge. Part II, with its five chapters, lies at the core of the book focusing as it does on access to information. Part III explores different types of knowledge organization systems and considers some of the management issues associated with such systems. Each chapter includes learning objectives, a chapter summary and a list of references for further reading. This is a key introductory text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of information management.

Organizing Knowledge
Organizing Knowledge

Author: J. E. Rowley

Publisher: Gower Publishing Company, Limited

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13:

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Part 1, Information basics, explores the nature of information and knowledge and their incorporation into documents. Part 2, Records, focuses specifically on electronic databases for accessing print or electronic media. Part 3, Access, explores the range of tools for accessing information resources and covers interfaces, indexing and searching languages, classification, thesauri and catalogue and bibliographic access points. Finally, Part 4, Systems, describes the contexts through which knowledge can be organized and retrieved, including OPACs, the Internet, CD-ROMs, online search sevices and printed indexes and documents.

Education, Education, Education
Education, Education, Education

Author: E. C. Wragg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-01-22

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1134309163

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When New Labour came into office in 1997, its commitment to 'Education, Education, Education' captured the imagination of the public. This collection of hilarious articles from 1998 to 2003 presents the real state of education during this period.

Gambling
Gambling

Author: Mike Atherton

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Published: 2007-09-06

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1444718754

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Gambling is a fascinating account of gambling through history, from Greek mythology and the ancient role of lots, dice and cards, to the high profile cricket and football match throwing and 'super casinos' of today. Mike Atherton explores this controversial and captivating phenomenon and the way that many present day sports provide the most popular focus for gambling, why so many of today's sportsmen become fervent gamblers and how in some cases this has led to corruption, addiction and ruined reputations. With recent high profile incidents involving the likes of Mohammad Amir and Joey Barton, gambling in sport is a topic that remains at the top of the sporting agenda. Scandalous cases such as the Cronje and Grobbelar incidents are analysed in detail, as well as an investigation into why such a high proportion of the of the world's population have always sought out risk, and how this trend has encompassed all social classes and cultures.

Mystic Meg's Lucky Numbers
Mystic Meg's Lucky Numbers

Author: Mystic Meg

Publisher: Sphere

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 9780751518757

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Having become an institution on BBC1's National Lottery Live, Mystic Meg explains the secret meaning of numbers one to 49. Using magic numbers and squares, runes and I Ching, Meg calulates readers' personal hot six lottery numbers and which days will be lucky for them. She looks at which numbers appear on the lottery most frequently and which ones seldom occur, and interviews UK and worldwide winners who reveal how they picked their lucky six. Meg shows how readers can calculate their personal lucky numbers based on date of birth, name and starsign, how this number can reveal personality and destiny, and which numbers will work for readers in the years leading up to the millenium.

The Mammoth Book of Unexplained Phenomena
The Mammoth Book of Unexplained Phenomena

Author: Roy Bainton

Publisher: Robinson

Published: 2013-01-17

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 1780337965

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New mysteries, as well as variations on recurring ones, continue to surface on a weekly basis around the globe, from showers of frogs over Hungary to birds falling to earth in Arkansas. This compendious round-up of unexplained phenomena examines everything from the experiments being done with the Large Hadron Collider to classic maritime mysteries involving inexplicably missing crews, via UFOs, mediums, cryptozoology, panics, paranoia and a universe proving stranger in fact than we'd imagined.

The Brahma Kumaris as a ‘Reflexive Tradition’
The Brahma Kumaris as a ‘Reflexive Tradition’

Author: John Walliss

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-22

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1351742450

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This title was first published in 2002. Drawing on primary research on the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, a millenarian New Religious Movement of Indian origin, this book examines the status of tradition in the contemporary world through a critical engagement with the recent social theory of Anthony Giddens on the emergence of a post-traditional society. Wallis examines both the ways in which forms of tradition not only persist but also flourish in the contemporary world and also the manner in which such traditions are drawn on and (re)created by individuals in their ongoing construction of self-identity. Illuminating some of the difficulties encountered when social theory is applied to 'the real world', this book also offers a way of theorising about the status of contemporary religiosity that does not refer directly to the notion of secularisation.

Wish It Wasn't M.E.
Wish It Wasn't M.E.

Author: Michelle Flatt

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-05-28

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1483636976

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I hope that if you have Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) (or know someone who has) you will find this book useful. M.E. can affect different people in different ways. Some people are able to carry on with a normal life as long as they pace themselves, others are housebound or even bedridden. This book is about my story, how I developed M.E. and how I have tried to search for an answer and treatment for the symptoms I experience.

Sheepwrecked
Sheepwrecked

Author: Jackie Ellis

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2008-09-25

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1407073451

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This journey through the changing seasons at Rowfoot Farm - tupping time in the autumn, winters as wet, bleak and cold here in Cumbria as elsewhere, lambing and the glories of spring, a bucolic, bee-filled Eden Valley summer with its many shows and fairs - will reveal much that you need to know about the countryside, its quirky customs and ways, and most likely a great deal that you don't. They no longer burn witches (not because they're lily-livered, it's just that getting the necessary timber from sustainable forests is a real chore). You'll find nothing here about welly-wanging either. Jackie doesn't wang her wellies, she just gets them muddy. You won't need to, of course, as this book will ensure you experience rural life vicariously and very cleanly. Along the way, Jackie bumps into friends old and new, peeps back over her shoulder every now and then to recall times past, oh and it wouldn't be her if she didn't have the occasional impassioned rant or take the odd pop at the establishment, but rest assured she's quite gentle with them. So join Jackie (and Katie the Lurcher, Blossom the Cob and Rowfoot's many other residents, four- and two-legged) as she recounts the occasional pitfall and many pleasures of running a small farm in one of the most beautiful parts of England.