Author: Colin Williams
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: work, welfare, implications, economies, employment, advanced, informal
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 1998-10-20
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 0415169607
ISBN-13: 9780415169608

Informal Employment in Advanced Economies challenges many of the popular myths surrounding informal economic activities. This book tackles the popular belief that informal employment is growing throughout the advanced economies; it challenges the myth that this work is undertaken mostly by marginalized groups such as the unemployed, poor and immigrants; it evaluates the dominant view that we should replace informal with formal employment through enforcement of stringent laws and regulations. Examining policy options and their consequences, the authors show that conventional regulatory and

Author: Colin Harrison
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: reading, assessment, vol, perspectives, practice, theory, assessing, international
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1998-03-10
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 0415148936
ISBN-13: 9780415148931

This book, along with its companion volume, Assessing Reading 2: Classroom Innovation, was conceived as the major outcome from an international seminar on reading assessment held in England. It focuses particularly on theoretical and methodological issues, though with a clear series of links to practices in assessment. Special attention is directed toward state and national approaches to classroom-based assessment in the USA, the UK and in Australia, at both primary and secondary levels. Chapters offer new perspectives on the theories behind the development and interpretation of reading assess

Author: Colin O. Benjamin
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: cases, theory, business, engineering
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2008-02-28
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0761835520
ISBN-13: 9780761835523

Engineering for Business features teaching materials and case studies developed for senior undergraduate courses in engineering and business and graduate-level classes in Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering and Management, and Technology Management.

Author: Colin Crouch
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: traditions, state, european, relations, industrial
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1993-03-18
List price: $72.00
ISBN-10: 0198277202
ISBN-13: 9780198277200

The behavior of trade unions, employers, and governments varies widely across the countries of western Europe. Colin Crouch tries to explain these differences and assess their significance. He considers 120 years of industrial relations history in 15 countries and ends by seeking explanations much further back in time than is usually considered necessary.

Author: Colin Moock
Publisher: O’Reilly
Keywords: guide, definitive, actionscript
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2001-05
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1565928520
ISBN-13: 9781565928527

Given its ability to deliver high-impact multimedia, Flash has become the de facto standard for multimedia web developers worldwide. Flash 5 includes a new full-fledged programming language, "ActionScript," that controls animation and multimedia, and includes all common programming constructs (such as variables, loops, conditionals, and functions). ActionScript for Flash 5 is a quantum leap from previous versions, and ActionScript: The Definitive Guide is the first book dedicated entirely to documenting and demonstrating the ActionScript programming language. ActionScript: The Definitive Gui

Author: Colin Cooke
Publisher: CRC
Keywords: physics, experimental, introduction
Number of Pages: 127
Published: 1996-05-01
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 1857285786
ISBN-13: 9781857285789

Understanding, designing and conducting experiments is at the heart of science. This text introduces the fundamental principles on which physicists should build a thorough experimental approach to their discipline.

Author: Colin Ware
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Keywords: series, interactive, technologies, kaufmann, morgan, thinking, design, visual
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-04-15
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0123708966
ISBN-13: 9780123708960

Increasingly, designers need to present information in ways that aid their audience’s thinking process. Fortunately, results from the relatively new science of human visual perception provide valuable guidance. In Visual Thinking for Design, Colin Ware takes what we now know about perception, cognition, and attention and transforms it into concrete advice that designers can directly apply. He demonstrates how designs can be considered as tools for cognition - extensions of the viewer’s brain in much the same way that a hammer is an extension of the user’s hand. Experienced pr