Milieus of Creativity: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Spatiality of Creativity Book: Milieus of Creativity is the second volume in the book series Knowledge and Space. This book deals with spatial disparities of knowledge and the impact of environments, space and contexts on the production and application of knowledge. The contributions in this volume focus on the role of places, environments, and spatial contexts for the emergence and perpetuation of creativity.

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Social psychology Book: Social life is full of mysteries that many of us wonder about. Most people express their curiosity by reading the daily paper or chatting with their friends about the latest fads, scandals, and public outrages. Social psychologists go a step farther in their detective work, applying the systematic methods of scientific inquiry. Social psychology is the scientific study of how people�s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by other people.

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Social Computing and Virtual Communities Book: Growing more quickly than we can study or come to fully understand it, social computing is much more than the next thing. Whether it is due more to technology-driven convenience or to the basic human need to find kindred connection, online communication and communities are changing the way we live.

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Careers with a conscience: how to make corporate social responsibility part of your job Book: Careers with a Conscience is the ultimate guide for finding jobs that involve corporate social responsibilityCSR. Whether it involves a new kind of attention to the environment, human rights, working conditions, or corporate transparency, a lot of companies are looking beyond the bottom line and creating positions for CSR professionals. CSR is popping up in all industries and in all sizes of companies, from entrepreneurial startups to Fortune 1000 giants. Careers with a Conscience will give you the lowdown on CSR job opportunitiesand where to find them.

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Improving Health and Social Cohesion through Education Book: This report addresses challenges in assessing the social outcomes of learning by providing a synthesis of the existing evidence, original data analyses and policy discussions. The report finds that education has the potential to promote health as well as civic and social engagement.

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Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience Book: From the creators of Yahoo!'s Design Pattern Library, Designing Social Interfaces provides you with more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, along with salient advice for many of the common challenges you'll face when starting a social website. Designing sites that foster user interaction and community-building is a valuable skill for web developers and designers today, but it's not that easy to understand the nuances of the social web. Now you have help.
Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone share hard-won insights into what works, what doesn't, and why. You'll learn how to balance opposing factions and grow healthy online communities by co-creating them with your users.

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Contemporary Japan: History, Politics, and Social Change since the 1980s Book: Change since the 1980s presents a comprehensive examination of the causes of the Japanese economic bubble in the late 1980s and the socio-political consequences of the recent financial collapse.

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An Historical Geography of Europe Book: The central theme of this book is the changing spatial pattern of human activities during the last 2,500 years of Europe's history. Professor Pounds argues that three factors have determined the locations of human activities: the environment, the attitudes and forms of social organization of the many different peoples of Europe and lastly, the levels of technology. Within the broad framework of the interrelationships of environment, society and technology, several important themes pursued from the fifth century BC to the early twentieth century: settlement and agriculture, the growth of cities, the development of manufacturing and the role of trade. Underlying each of these themes are the discussions of political organization and population. Although the book is based in part of Professor Pound's magisterial three volumes An Historical Geography of Europe (1977, 1980, 1985), it was written especially for students and readers interested in a general survey of the subject.

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Social Media Marketing An Hour a Day Book: Building on the personal empowerment and liberation that the Internet offers, consumers are actively connecting with each other and talking about everything from cars and health to scrapbooking techniques and pool chemicals. In the process, they are either reinforcing marketing efforts or beating marketers at their own game by directly sharing their own experiences and thoughts on the Social Web. In Part I, you�ll gain an understanding of not only the growing consumer attraction to social media but also the causes of consumer frustration with traditional media. These trends � each significant in their own right � amplify each other when combined. I�ll end with a working definition of social media and a framework to understand how to apply social media to your business or organization.

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WORKING ABROAD THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO OVERSEAS EMPLOYMENT 29TH EDITION Book: The ability to earn significant salaries overseas, together with the chance to avoid UK taxes, sounds like Utopia. However, the expatriate worker is faced with a new set of problems. Many of these will be outside the work assignment itself and will involve his or her family and social life. Working abroad requires a substantial adjustment in attitudes towards work and life in general. The ability to adapt to the new environment is absolutely essential, together with a willingness to make the best of things as they are in the new surroundings. Attempting to change that environment to your own country�s way of life is doomed to failure and will cause the resentment of the host country.

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