This book describes the origins of early regionalism in the Iberian Peninsula by describing the emergence of Catalonia as a distinct society and kingdom. It provides a political history of the region from the earliest times to 1035. It argues that politic...
This text presents an historical examination of political fact-checking, highlighting how this is part of a larger phenomenon of online scrutiny that manifests itself in multiple forms. Reflecting the long history of ?fake facts? in America, the book disc...
All the Facts presents a history of the role of information in the United States since 1870, when the nation began a nearly 150-year period of economic prosperity and technological and scientific transformations. James Cortada argues that citizens and...
Before the Computer fully explores the data processing industry in the United States from its nineteenth-century inception down to the period when the computer became its primary tool. As James Cortada describes what was once called the "office appliance...
Before the Computer fully explores the data processing industry in the United States from its nineteenth-century inception down to the period when the computer became its primary tool. As James Cortada describes what was once called the "office appliance...
This book discusses the evolution of management as a profession over the past two decades and how it continues to evolve. It goes on to describe the new style of management and makes recommendations for what todayâs and tomorrowâ...
A collection of essays which provide an historical perspective on knowledge workers. The articles show how knowledge workers evolved from manufacturing and agricultural jobs whilst providing an insight into their future role. The essays are written by...
This book makes the startling case that North Americans were getting on the "information highway" as early as the 1700's, and have been using it as a critical building block of their social, economic, and political world ever since. By the...