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• Essinger, James. Jacquard's web; how a hand loom led to the birth of the Information Age

  - 2007-11-01

  ESSINGER, James. Jacquard's web; how a hand loom led to the birth of the Information Age. Oxford University Press. 302p. illus. bibliog, index, c2004. 978-0-19-280578-2. $16.95. A This piquantly titled book indeed speaks to a great truth unknown to nearly everyone except the super-techies of the computer world: the...

  Tags: computer, Leadership, Manufacturing, MARKETING, PRODUCTIVITY, University of Oxford, Web

• Today's Students and Travelers Demand Easy, Portable Foreign Language Reference

  - 2007-10-09

  To: FEATURES EDITORSContact: Claudia Dizenzo of Oxford University Press, +1-212-726- 6147, claudia.dizenzo@oup.com NEW YORK, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For students of any foreign language, a good dictionary is the essential tool for study at any level. But today's students are accustomed to Google and Wikis for fast answers, and lugging...

  Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, University of Oxford, Wiki

• disgo lite - The Concise Oxford English Dictionary and your desktop on an intelligent and secure USB Key.

  - 2007-01-29

  M2 PRESSWIRE-29 January 2007-Clever-Stuff Limited: disgo lite - The Concise Oxford English Dictionary and your desktop on an intelligent and secure USB KeyC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:29012007 London, UK : Clever-Stuff Limited, a leading digital consumer product specialist has entered into...

  Tags: computer, desktop, FINANCE, PRODUCTIVITY, University of Oxford, USB

• The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration

  - 2006-06-22

  The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration. Bruce M. Metzger and Bart D. Ehrman. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]49.00. xvii + 366 pages. ISBN 0-19-516667-1. This title, which originates with OUP New York, was first published in 1964 and last re-issued in 1992. What we have...

  Tags: manuscript, PRODUCTIVITY, University of Oxford

• Crow bar

  - 2005-04-01

  New Caledonian crows Corvus moneduloides are famous for poking twigs under bark or into crevices to dislodge grubs. Only one other species of bird, the wood-pecker finch, uses an object for probing--a cactus spine. But are these cases of nature or of nurture? Does such resourcefulness come naturally to the...

  Tags: Manufacturing, PRODUCTIVITY, species, University of Oxford

• A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic.(Book Review)

  - 2005-03-22

  A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic. By John Ferling. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 558. $30.00.) Questions about the establishment of the American Union are the focal point of this traditionally fashioned political history of...

  Tags: Leadership, PRODUCTIVITY, Republican, Strategy, University of Oxford

• Victorian trousers left in personal 'time capsule'

  - 2004-10-22

  LONDON AFP — Workers renovating a British theatre have uncovered a personal time capsule left the last time the building was spruced up, containing a letter and, more curiously, a pair of Victorian trousers. The note, written on March 6, 1901 by a man identifying himself as Frank Morrill,...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, museum, PRODUCTIVITY, spokeswoman, University of Oxford

• Solution crystal clear to student

  - 2004-10-07

  Bright spark Emma Rann, 20, who stepped into a student enterprise programme at the last minute, has won praise from a firm for designing gear that will play an important part in its expansion. Emma, of Chester-le-Street, studies mechanical engineering at Oxford University. She spent her summer break...

  Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, University of Oxford

• Elastic Beams and Frames. Second Edition.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

  - 2003-11-01

  John D. Renton. Horwood Publishing Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex PO20 3QL, England. Distributed by IPG, 814 N. Franklin St., Chicago, IL 60610. 414 pages. 2002. ISBN 1-898563-86-1 paperback. $44.95. A faculty member at the University of Oxford, john D. Renton approaches the basic theory...

  Tags: England, PRODUCTIVITY, University of Oxford

• Low-cost tooling developed.

  - 2003-02-05

  Feb 04, 2003 (Manufacturers' Monthly - ABIX via COMTEX) Oxford University, in association with the Ford Motor Company, is conducting metal-moulding research. A breakthrough technology, known as sprayform tool process, has been developed. It enables the fabrication of tools and dies in a sufficiently...

  Tags: Ford Motor Co., Manufacturing, PRODUCTIVITY, tool, University of Oxford