The only comprehensive guide to every Internet topic-from ActiveX to XBRL.
The definitive, three-volume Internet Encyclopedia covers every aspect of the Internet for professionals. This up-to-date compendium offers a broad perspective on the Internet as a business tool, an IT platform, and a medium for communications and commerce. It presents leading-edge theory and recent developments as described by global experts from such prestigious institutions as Stanford University and Harvard University, and such leading corporations as Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. Available in print or in subscription-based online format, it's the only resource that offers complete, up-to-the-moment coverage of fast-moving Internet technology.
Key features include:
* Detailed cross-referencing and extensive references to additional reading
* More than 200 articles vigorously peer-reviewed by more than 800 academics and practitioners from around the world
* More than 1,000 illustrations and tables for in-depth understanding of complex subjects
* Eleven major subject categories that address key issues in design, utilization, and management of Internet-based systems
A formidable and influential work, Language and Death sheds a highly original light on issues central to Continental philosophy, literary theory, deconstruction, hermeneutics, and speech-act theory. Focusing especially on the incompatible philosophical systems of Hegel and Heidegger within the space of negativity, Giorgio Agamben offers a rigorous reading of numerous philosophical and poetic works to examine how these issues have been traditionally explored. Agamben argues that the human being is not just “speaking” and “mortal” but irreducibly “social” and “ethical.” Giorgio Agamben teaches philosophy at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and at the University of Macerata in Italy. He is the author of Means without End (2000), Stanzas (1993), and The Coming Community (1993), all published by the University of Minnesota Press. Karen E. Pinkus is professor of French and Italian at the University of Southern California. Michael Hardt is professor of literature and romance studies at Duke University.
This course addresses some of the eternal questions that man has grappled with since the beginning of time. What is good? What is bad? Why is justice important? Why is it better to be good and just than it is to be bad and unjust? Most human beings have the faculty to discern between right and wrong, good and bad behavior, and to make judgments over what is just and what is unjust. But why are ethics important to us? This course looks at our history as ethical beings. We’ll travel into the very heart of mankind’s greatest philosophical dilemmas—to the origins of our moral values and the problem of ethics.
International Economics: Theory and Policy (6th Edition) by Paul R. Krugman and Maurice Obstfeld
For anybody - but especially students - interested in exploring the subject of international economics, this is the book to start with. It is illuminating (as it is always the case with Krugman's writings) on otherwise technical concepts as comparative advantage, trade policy and exchange rate determinants, but it is also entertaining, with its "reality checks".
Taught by George T. Geis
University of California at Los Angeles
Ph.D., University of Southern California; MBA, University of California at Los Angeles
In our tightly wired world, business executives make decisions under pressure. Almost always, these decisions must be made with less than complete information.
This course is about how to effectively use data
that is currently available (or can be obtained within a reasonable time frame and cost) to improve business decision-making.
Quantitative methods such as statistical analysis never eliminate the vital role that seasoned business intuition plays. Nevertheless, analytical techniques are a central part of many decisions.
