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"In a world awash in data, information systems help provide structure and access to information. Since libraries build, manage, and maintain information systems, librarians and LIS students are often propelled onto the front lines of interactions between library users and technology. But what do librarians need to know to best meet their patron's needs? What exactly are information systems and how do they work?"

"This fascinating book reveals how habits are made, broken and, more than anything, manipulated. It's full of unbelievable stories, such as: The supermarket analyst who came up with a way of determining which women were pregnant before they even knew - so he could influence what they bought in his store. One day a furious father came in complaining that his 15-year-old daughter was being targeted with pregnancy products; the store apologised and considered scrapping the programme. A week later, the father returned to apologise - his daughter was, they'd discovered that morning, pregnant! Eugene, the brain-damaged patient who can't form new memories or even register what's going on."

"Contents : Introduction -- Creating the quiet period -- Financial crises -- Liquidity and secrets -- Credit booms and manias -- The timing of crises -- Economic theory without history -- Debt during crises -- The quiet period and its end -- Moral hazard and too-big-to-fail -- Bank capital -- Fat cats, crisis costs, and the paradox of financial crises -- The panic of 2007-2008 -- The theory and practice of seeing."

"Road Funds, financed from user charges; have been practiced in many countries in securing morereliable funding for rock The idea of an of budget source of funding is appealing. But they are mosteffective where they form part of a broader strategy to manage roads in a more business-like way on afee-for-service basis: the link between user charges - tariffs for road use ~ and road expenditures,reinforced by user participation in their oversight creates a sense of ownership and puts pressure onroad agencies for greater transparency, accountability, and efficiency. This is in tune with Indonesia 'smoves towards better governance and democratic accountability under decentralization. This paperdiscusses the paradigm shifts that are now taking place and considers them as the rationales behind theattempt to establish a road fund in Indonesia."

"This book discusses twelve areas of active astronomical research, ranging from the nature of dark energy to the existence or otherwise of extraterrestrial civilizations, and devotes one chapter to each topic. Although astronomers tackle each of these questions using information gleaned from all possible wavelengths and sources (and this is emphasized throughout the book), in this work the author dedicates each chapter to a particular observational method. One chapter covers X-ray telescopes for investigating black holes, while another uses infrared telescopes to learn more about planetary information."