Information Everywhere

Information Everywhere
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2010-08-16
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0756666309

Perfect for the Internet generation, Information Everywhere (formerly published as Look Now: The World in Facts, Stats, and Graphics) provides readers with a new way of exploring, reading, seeing, and understanding the world around them by combining facts, figures and statistics with illustrations and photographs to present complex information in a simple format. From skyscrapers scaled to show the population density of cities to a pyramid chart showing the youngest and oldest populations by country, the visual representations will entrance readers as they learn more about the world around them. Whether it's sweeping general data (How much cash is there in the world? How many people are there on the planet? How do teenagers spend their time?) or fun facts (What are your chances of being killed by a coconut? How does a cocoa bean become a chocolate bar? What countries celebrate what holidays?), Look Now will keep kids coming back for more. Supports Common Core State Standards.

Information Everywhere

Information Everywhere
Author:
Publisher: DK Children
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Almanacs, Children's
ISBN: 9781465402578

See the world as you've never seen it before! With clever illustrations, incredible photographs, and jaw-dropping facts and figures, Information Everywhereoffers childrens a new way to explore and learn about the world around them. Each page is crammed with up-to-the-minute facts, stats, and graphics to give a fascinating snapshot of our planet and what makes it tick. If you've got a question, Information Everywhere has an answer.

Content Everywhere

Content Everywhere
Author: Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Publisher: Rosenfeld Media
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012-12-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 193382090X

Care about content? Better copy isn't enough. As devices and channels multiply—and as users expect to relate, share, and shift information quickly—we need content that can go more places, more easily. Content Everywhere will help you stop creating fixed, single-purpose content and start making it more future-ready, flexible, reusable, manageable, and meaningful wherever it needs to go.

Theory Of Information: Fundamentality, Diversity And Unification

Theory Of Information: Fundamentality, Diversity And Unification
Author: Mark Burgin
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 689
Release: 2009-12-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9814469726

This unique volume presents a new approach — the general theory of information — to scientific understanding of information phenomena. Based on a thorough analysis of information processes in nature, technology, and society, as well as on the main directions in information theory, this theory synthesizes existing directions into a unified system. The book explains how this theory opens new kinds of possibilities for information technology, information sciences, computer science, knowledge engineering, psychology, linguistics, social sciences, and education.The book also gives a broad introduction to the main mathematically-based directions in information theory. The general theory of information provides a unified context for existing directions in information studies, making it possible to elaborate on a comprehensive definition of information; explain relations between information, data, and knowledge; and demonstrate how different mathematical models of information and information processes are related.Explanation of information essence and functioning is given, as well as answers to the following questions:

Advances in Computing and Information - ICCI '90

Advances in Computing and Information - ICCI '90
Author: Selim G. Akl
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 550
Release: 1990
Genre: Coding theory
ISBN: 9783540535041

This volume contains selected and invited papers presented at the International Conference on Computing and Information, ICCI '90, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, May 23-26, 1990. ICCI conferences provide an international forum for presenting new results in research, development and applications in computing and information. Their primary goal is to promote an interchange of ideas and cooperation between practitioners and theorists in the interdisciplinary fields of computing, communication and information theory. The four main topic areas of ICCI '90 are: - Information and coding theory, statistics and probability, - Foundations of computer science, theory of algorithms and programming, - Concurrency, parallelism, communications, networking, computer architecture and VLSI, - Data and software engineering, databases, expert systems, information systems, decision making, and AI methodologies.

Job Aids and Performance Support

Job Aids and Performance Support
Author: Allison Rossett
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2012-06-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118429613

Job Aids and Performance Support in the Workplace gives us everything we’ve ever wanted to know about these invaluable tools and techniques! Allison Rossett and Lisa Schafer have created a comprehensive, pragmatic, and very readable guide. The authors don’t exaggerate when they claim it’s ‘knowledge everywhere.’

The Philosophy of Law and Legal Science

The Philosophy of Law and Legal Science
Author: V.P. Salnikov
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2018-10-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 152751787X

The book explores a variety of problems connected to philosophy and philosophy of law. It discusses the problem of monism-pluralism in philosophy and philosophy of law, criticizes philosophy of post-positivism and postmodernism, and investigates dialectics as a universal global methodological basis of scientific cognition and philosophy of law. The volume also pays particular attention to contemporary legal education, offering potential solutions to problems in this field. The book is the result of a range of sociological studies conducted both in Russia and abroad concerning the legal process and legal consciousness.

Business and Professional Communication

Business and Professional Communication
Author: Kelly Quintanilla Miller
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2023-02-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1071825275

Professional success requires excellent communication skills. Organized around the transition from student to professional life, Business and Professional Communication, Fifth Edition gives readers the tools they need to move from interview candidate to team member to leader. Coverage of new communication technology and social media, and an emphasis on building skills for business writing and business presentations, including the effective use of visual aids, will help students to understand the role of communication in successfully handling situations like job interviewing, providing feedback to supervisors, and working in teams.