Looking at how groups of people work together using the information contained within virtual environments, this book shows how to improve these systems in terms of the coordination of collaborative work. It offers an overview of practical issues involved in designing & using Inhabited Information Spaces. ...

Morsink asserts that all people have human rights simply by virtue of being born into the human family & that we can know these rights without the aid of experts. He shows how the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights grew out of Enlightenment principles honed by a shared revulsion at the horrors of the Holocaust. ...

Presents the research findings in modern technological developments based on synthetic chemicals that are highly toxic to the human environment. This book

Includes:: various types of appropriate energy technologies suitable for cooking, heating, lighting, transportation, & industrial usage.

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Film adaptation of a stage play based on the Scopes ' Monkey trial' of 1925. When Tennessee schoolteacher Bertram T. Cates (Dick York) is put on trial for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution, the prosecuting counsel appointed is fundamentalist politician Matthew Harrison Brady (Fredric March). While Brady stirs the town up into a religious fervour against Cates, the liberal Henry Drummond (Spencer Tracy) earns the wrath of the townsfolk by defending the teacher. Cynical journalist E.K. Hornbeck (Gene Kelly) is sent to cover the trial, which takes place in a sweltering courtroom where passions run as high as the temperature. ...