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• Information.

  - 2006-12-01

  Cambridge University Press (CUP; New York) has published "Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age," a new book that examines the evolution of the trend toward governmental openness and how technological developments have assisted the disclosure and dissemination of information. It includes a discussion of...

  Tags: Globalization, Government, HEALTHCARE, HIPAA, privatization, Regulations, SECURITY, Strategy, University of Cambridge

• Management Of Novel Projects Under Conditions Of High Uncertainty

  BNET - 2006-10-19

  Most R&D projects are confronted with high levels of uncertainty. The management of these projects requires a different approach than the traditional network techniques would prescribe. The project management literature recognises this and offers a series of methods to master uncertainty, in order to extend the domain of application of...

  Tags: Technique, Uncertainty, University Of Cambridge, Project Management Literature, Productivity, Project Management, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Security, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Finance

• A new history of Christian worship

  - 2006-06-22

  A Sociological History of Christian Worship. Martin D. Stringer. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]40.00 (US$75.00). viii + 268 pages. ISBN 0-521-81955-5. This rather unusual book is by a social anthropologist who is Head of the Department of Theology and Religion in Birmingham University. Recognising the size of 'liturgy' as...

  Tags: Church, Manufacturing, SECURITY, University of Cambridge

• Books received/Livres recus

  - 2006-06-22

  Almond, Phil et Anthony Ferner, editors, American Multinationals in Europe. Managing Employment Relations across National Borders, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006, 346 p. Belanger, Laurent et Jean Mercier, Auteurs et textes classiques de la theorie des organisations, Quebec, Presses de l'Universite Laval PUL, 2006, 575 p B.-Turcotte, Marie-France...

  Tags: Books, Borders Books & Music, Cornell University, DES, Globalization, NETWORKING, SECURITY, Strategy, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• Homer sweet Homer.(Three British researchers uncovered the true site of Homer's Ithaca publishing book 'Odysseus Unbound')(Brief Article)

  - 2005-12-01

  Three British researchers believe they have uncovered the true site of Homer's Ithaca, featured in the ancient Greek's epic poems. Management consultant Robert Bittlestone, Professor James Diggle of Cambridge University and Professor John Underhill at Edinburgh have published their findings in a new book Odysseus Unbound....

  Tags: consultant, professor, researcher, SECURITY, Spyware, University of Cambridge

• Books received/Livres recus

  - 2005-03-22

  BROWN, Marvin T., Corporate Integrity: Rethinking Organizational Ethics and Leadership, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 272 p. BRUNET, Luc et Andre SAVOIE, La face cachee de l'organisation. Groupes, cliques et clans, Montreal, QC : Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 2003, 157 p. CHANDLER, Jr., Alfred...

  Tags: Books, Leadership, NETWORKING, SECURITY, University of Cambridge

• Hurwit, Jeffrey M.: The Acropolis in the Age of Pericles.(Book Review)

  - 2005-01-01

  Hurwit, Jeffrey M. The Acropolis in the Age of Pericles Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 330 pp., $75.00, ISBN 0-521-82040-5 Publication Date: August 2004 Students of classical antiquity have long been influenced by Plutarch's account in his writing on Pericles describing the construction of...

  Tags: ideology, imagery, scholar, SECURITY, Spyware, University of Cambridge

• Clark, Christopher, and Wolfram Kaiser, eds. Culture Wars: Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe.(Book Review)

  - 2004-01-01

  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 376 pp., $70.00, ISBN 0-521-80997-5 Publication Date: September 2003 Christopher Clark of Cambridge University and Wolfram Kaiser of the University of Portsmouth have edited and contributed to this outstanding collection of essays on the late nineteenth-century struggle between the...

  Tags: essay, Germany, SECURITY, University of Cambridge

• The Impact of Auto-ID on Retail Shelf Replenishment Policies

  BNET - 2004-01-01

  The final few metres of a retail supply chain may be the most critical. No matter how efficient the supply chain is before the retail store, inefficient backroom to shelf replenishments will lower the total supply chain performance. The motivation for this research came from realisation that there are possible...

  Tags: Supply Chain, University Of Cambridge, Auto-ID, Supply Chain Management (SCM), RFID, Enterprise Software, Software, Wireless, Security, Biometrics

• Books received

  - 2003-09-22

  BALDWIN, John R. and Petr HANEL, Innovation and Knowledge Creation in an Open Economy: Canadian Industry and International Implications, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 512 p. BERNIER, Jean, Guylaine VALLEE et Carol JOBIN, Les besoins de protection sociale des personnes en situation de travail non traditionnelle, Quebec: Gouvernement...

  Tags: Books, DES, NETWORKING, SECURITY, University of Cambridge