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Like the Land of Oz, cyberspace was originally the invention of a writer, the science-fiction novelist William Gibson. While Oz remains the domain of a wizard and a little girl from Kansas, however, cyberspace has leapt off the page to become a subject of wide public interest and debate. As both a dream and a reality, it has sparked renewed discussion about the social and economic assumptions underlying our present means of communication, as well as the role of technology in our lives. By the beginning of 1995, there was a growing consensus that cyberspace had become a region that could significantly affect the structure of our economies, the development of our communities, and the protection of our rights as free citizens.1.2 NOVELSGibson's cyberspace, as described in his book Neuromancer (1984) and several later novels, was an artificial environment created by computers. Unlike a motion picture, which presents moving images on a flat surface, a cyberspatial environment would convey realistic detail in three dimensions and to all five senses. It would also allow for a degree of face-to-face intimacy between people in remote places. In one of Gibson's novels, for instance, a woman "meets" a mysterious financier outside a cathedral in Barcelona, Spain, though in fact she is sitting alone in an office in Brussels. Research continues into ways of realizing this type of cyberspatial experience, which has come to be known as virtual reality. By 1994 virtual reality machines had begun to appear in amusement parks and shopping malls, though a full experience of Gibson's vision has so far been frustrated by the crude state of the technology and by the physical disorientation, bordering on nausea, that some machines provoke. Moreover, users of virtual reality devices are usually communicating not with others but only with the computer.1.3 CYBERSPACE AND NETWORKSCyberspace as a present reality has come to be associated primarily with networks of computers linked through telephone lines. The biggest and most familiar of these, the Internet, was developed in the 1970s to assist U.S. military and academic research. As recently as 1990, the Internet was almost unknown to the general public. By the end of 1995, however, the network had absorbed millions of users with no affiliations to defence institutions or universities. The volume of exchanges between these users, who numbered at least 20 million-30 million in 1995, surpassed 30 terabytes per month, or enough information to fill 30 million books of 700 pages each. For many of those involved in these exchanges--and for millions more who have no experience of computer networks--cyberspace and the Internet have become nearly synonymous terms.1.4 HYBRID MEDIUMThe Internet is a hybrid medium, combining aspects of the printing press, the telephone, the public bulletin board, and the private letter. It also permits crude radio and television transmission without the physical plant required by conventional broadcasting. Indeed, some commentators have predicted that the Internet or a successor network will eventually absorb the functions of television, telephone, and conventional publishing. They speak of an "information superhighway," a term coined in 1992 by then senator Al Gore, Jr., to refer to a unified, interactive system of electronic communication. The prospect of such a system, with the capacity to deliver an unprecedented range of informational services to the home, school, or office, has provoked a flurry of strategic alliances between major commercial interests in the telephone, software-programming, and entertainment industries. By 1995 the business world was beginning to regard the largely non-commercial Internet as the electronic equivalent of China: a huge, ever-growing, and virtually untapped market.

2011 POLITICS, ORGANISATIONS, PSYCHOANALYSIS, POETRY. - This book brings together a condensed explanation of how the year 2011 will bring a struggle for pre-eminence in many societies, and how public laws will be necessary to regulate it. The people of any country must not hope too much of any government. The best society will be that in which tyranny and caprice of power are prevented and in which men are free to create diverse and spontaneous institutions within the framework of law. Included is Sigmund Freud's formulated method of psychoanalysis and for comparative reasons the thoughts and concepts of some other great philosophers. Also, how organisations and fiscal businesses will serve the people. Inserted are some of the author's own poems which may be of significant symbolism.

A guide to designing and developing the 'front-end' for systems applications, including the standards and guidelines for the Graphical User Interface (GUI) and the Human Computer Interface (HCI), through which users communicate with the computer system and the database. Also, dialogue styles in which a user is provided with a hierarchically organised set of choices pointing to and interacting with visible elements.

In order to make it easier to read and to be used as a working manual, this version of the Change Management book is printed in large fonts and larger-clearer diagrams.The Concept of Change Management has traditionally been concerned with finding effective solutions to specific operational problems. This book deals with new, better methods, techniques, and tools for processing the required changes.Change Management personnel have gradually come to realise that their tasks should include the designing of systems that predict and prevent future problems. Substantial effort has therefore been devoted in recommending a rational methodology for the management of changes.

MORAL PHILOSOPY:The terms ethics and morality are closely related. We now often refer to ethical judgments or ethical principles where it once would have been more common to speak of moral judgments or moral principles. These applications are an extension of the meaning of ethics.Strictly speaking, however, the term refers not to morality itself but to the field of study, or branch of inquiry, that has morality as its subject matter. In this sense, ethics is equivalent to moral philosophy. Although ethics has always been viewed as a branch of philosophy, its all-embracing practical nature links it with many other areas of study, including anthropology, biology, medicine, economics, history, politics, psychology, sociology, and theology.

I.T. RISK MANAGEMENT.A risk is an uncertain event, which may have an adverse effect on the project's objectives. This book explains a proven risk management methodology, which should be very effective in the quest for identifying risks throughout the project lifecycle. It describes the processes, which commence by identifying the enterprise's most important and risky projects, as these must be given priority. The book is, essentially, dealing with a method that permits the collection of knowledge and experience from those involved.

Psychology From Conception To Senility.The psychology of child culture, Pre-natal, post-natal and all the other stages of development; from conception to death in old age.The book concentrates on the upbringing of children and offers guidance in establishing the right relationship between the child and the parents. It deals with the pre-natal and post-natal influences and expands into the realms of continuous development of the human personality.Remembering that human personality with all its complex characteristics never stops developing; from the foetus stage, to birth, growing up and to dying in old age.

CELEBRATING SIXTY YEARS OF COMPOSING POETRYIt was sixty years ago when I wrote my first four lines of a poem in English. This was called The Fireplace. I was thirteen years of age and a second year student of The English School in my hometown Morphou, Cyprus.The composition of poetry is an art where words construct sentences, verses using metaphors and symbols, which in turn are based on imagination, facts, and life experiences.A poem does not have to rhyme and yet it can be a stanza, a canto to a loved one, an ode to a hero, a sarcastic remark to emphasise the importance of a point made, an elegy composed to explain feelings arranged as a work of art.What prose can explain in three hundred pages, a poem (as a masterpiece) can express in one single page; with more meaning, using larger-than-life pictures describing timeless classic scenes, memorable events and bringing immortality to life itself.

For us Greeks, 'POIESIS', (poetry) means the creation of anything, in this case structurally using words with specific meaning. The composition of poetry is, therefore, an art where words construct sentences, verses using metaphors and symbols, which in turn are based on imagination, facts, and life experiences.A poem does not have to rhyme and yet it can be a stanza, a canto to a loved one, an ode to a hero, a sarcastic remark to emphasise the importance of a point made, an elegy composed to explain feelings arranged as a work of art.The poems included in this collection have endured time and kept the promise of including all that is described above. The subjects chosen, show such versatility that the reader will require time to read the elevated expression of thoughts and feelings.

It is believed that the subject of philosophy; being wise, offering advice, guidance and in general, counselling people in modern times has become a profession in its own right. With this in mind, this book hopes to address an important alternative in understanding the homo-sapiens' behaviour and the personal discomforts in living as an individual and in groups, whatever the choice may be.The content of this book will still be of importance to the reader and without any compromising, a training tool for the behaviourist. There is no doubt that this subject is deep and vast. Backed by recent social events and political debating, philosophy in its plentiful branches can only be helpful in preparing people to obtain an acceptable style of living and a harmonious mode of interacting with society.The book concentrates on the historical established concepts and didactics of philosophers through the ages, from the Hellenic rhetoric, to recent European schools of ideas. All the teachings of philosophers and sophists explain the right of a person to live as a politis (citizen) in a near enough democratic state. The right to integrate and in doing so to live as an entity with his/her own attributes and behaviour within a society. In doing so, philosophers have debated the morals, norms, laws, beliefs, religions and logically enough what can be an acceptable pattern of attitudes within the parameters of social tolerance.Philosophers through the aeons have advised and counselled on the upbringing of children and offered guidance in establishing the right relationship between the child, the parents and the state. More recently, analytical philosophies such as the neo-Freudian and Jungian schools established the methods of treating people, based on the classical idealism, with Socrates probably being the father of the method of question and answer. Sophocles, through his surviving tragedies, is certainly the major contributor to the psycho-analytical Oedipus and Electra complexes and perhaps the biggest influence on Freud and his successors. Modern philosophical concepts have grown into such a vast amount of schools of ideas that patients and clients are often confused as to what they should follow. Institutions with therapy as a profession in mind, offer qualifications for so many types of therapies; Counselling, Psychotherapy, Hypnotherapy, Cognitive, Behavioural, Rogerian, Adlerian, Jungian psychotherapy, Freudian psycho-analysis, Psycho-dynamic, Eclectic, Client-centred, Psycho-drama, Group Therapy, Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Medical Psychology, Transactional Analysis, Developmental Psychology, Analytical... Branches of philosophy (just as much as Social Philosophy and Political Philosophy) maintain closer links with the constitution of the individual and groups of people living together, simply because a human being all along bears with himself/herself the philosophy of the environment they live in; the beliefs and the philosophy established through the ages. What a better way to treat a human being, other than the use of the logic as taught by the traditional philosopher and as followed by the individual seeking assistance with the understanding of his/her nature?Philosophical thoughts have been with us since the times of the olden. As such, this book includes the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Burke, Hegel, Bentham, Mill, Marx and the other philosophers in contemporary therapies. The logic expressed by these and other philosophers can only assist in the understanding of human behaviour and in cases where necessary, the way in which philosophy can contribute to the treatment of the individual.

Epistemology (ἐπιστήμη, episteme = science: the knowledge of, understanding - and λόγος, logos = the logical study of) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature, scope and the application of scientific knowledge (specific/natural sciences and social studies). Generally speaking, epistemology is also referred to as the 'theory of knowledge'. It questions what knowledge is and how it can be acquired and/or applied. To this extent, knowledge is pertinent to any given subject or entity. Much of the debate in this field has focused on the philosophical analysis of the nature of knowledge and how it relates to connected notions such as truth, belief, and justification. It has also been established that this theory of the method and the grounds of knowledge, is that branch of metaphysics which deals with the nature and validity of knowledge. 1.2 PHILOSOPHYThe subject of philosophy is for the use of reason and argument in the search for truth and the nature of reality, especially of the causes and nature of things and of the principles governing existence, perception, human behaviour, and the material universe.Philosophical activities can also be directed at understanding and clarifying the concepts, methods, and doctrines of other disciplines, or at reasoning itself and the concepts, methods, and doctrines of such general notions as truth, possibility, knowledge (epistemology), necessity, existence (ontology and metaphysics), and proof. Philosophy has many different areas, classified according to the subject-matter of the problems being addressed; thus, philosophy of mind is concerned with questions such as: 'How do the mental interact with the physical?'Philosophy of mathematics with questions such as 'what constitutes a proof?'Of religion ('does God exist?')Of science ('what constitutes good evidence for a hypothesis?')Of ethics; of politics; and indeed of any other discipline. The first philosophers were also the first scientists, people who asked questions about the physical world and who attempted to answer them by observation and reasoning rather than by appealing to magic or to a God of some kind. These people, known as the pre-Socratics, were the precursors of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, the three great philosophers who set the agenda for many of the philosophical questions debated today. Philosophy regularly gives birth to new disciplines as one group of the questions it is trying to answer become amenable to study by the physical sciences. Psychology, for example, is a discipline that is still in the process of separating itself from philosophy. Great advances in scientific thinking have usually been accompanied by great advances in philosophical thinking. For example, Galileo's work on the mechanics of planetary motion in the late 16th century was a motivating force in Descartes' work on knowledge and justification, while the physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) paid tribute to Hume as one of the philosophers whose work inspired his theory of relativity.In the 20th century, the principal schools of philosophy are continental philosophy and logico-analytic philosophy. Within these principal schools, however, there are major divisions according to sides taken in the various great disputes of philosophy. For example, until fairly recently it was a matter of great concern whether someone was a dualist or a monist--whether they believed that there are two different sorts of substance (the physical and the mental), or only one sort--either the physical (materialism) or the mental.There are also major disputes about whether or not there are such things as 'innate ideas', concepts that are inborn rather than acquired through experience, and whether we can make sense of a world that is independent of us and our minds (realism) or whether the mind is in fact more fundamental than some extra-mental reality (idealism)

In reading this book on Child Psychotherapy, thereader must take into consideration the influencesattributed to childhood. Childhood is after all a veryinfluential phase in the human life-cycle, whichstretches roughly from infancy to puberty or to thelegal age of majority. Because children can bedistinguished from adults by certain biological andcognitive characteristics, childhood is perceived asseparate from adulthood, and the transition isnormally accompanied by a significant change insocial and legal status and marked by rites ofpassage and initiation. The social significance,experience, and duration of childhood areextremely variable, both historically andgeographically. For example, before the 20thcentury, children in Europe generally workedalongside their extended family in factory, field, ormine. In many developing countries, children stillwork alongside their parents, marry and have children at an age when their coevals elsewhere are required to remain in school.

Sexuality is a vast subject covering many fields of study. Genitality, with which it is usually confused, is only small part of it, yet sex books and sex education tend to deal almost entirely with sexuality. This book describes sexuality as a new perspective on love, emotion and relationships. The contents play such an important part in sex for every member of the family. By studying and discussing human and sometimes animal sexuality from infancy onwards, this book will offer a better understanding of sex and its many diverse situations, starting with the mythological comprehension of Eros (the god of love), including sex as a biological and physiological subject, extending into the psychology of sex and concluding with the realm of idealistic child rearing. In religion, morality, social customs and artistic themes, sex is and has always been an immensely powerful factor. In fact, sex pervades every culture in the world.

CELEBRATING FIFTY-FIVE YEARS OF COMPOSING POETRY.In this volume Andreas Sofroniou has selected over two hundred of his poems. The verses included in these three hundred pages of the Tree Spirit book have endured time and kept the promise of embracing the philosophical simplicity of the subjects chosen.This collection of poems shows such versatility that the reader will require time to read the elevated expression of thoughts and feelings.The author maintains that 'POIESIS', (Poetry) means creation. In this anthology words are used metaphorically, symbolically and with specific meaning. The composition of poetry is an art, where words construct sentences; verses which are based on imagination, facts, and life experiences.A poem does not have to rhyme and yet it can be a stanza, a canto to a loved one, an ode to a hero, a sarcastic remark to emphasise the importance of a point made, an elegy composed to explain feelings arranged as a work of art.

This book, CONCEPTS OF SOCIAL SCIENTISTS AND GREAT THINKERS, encompasses nine titles of different subjects and their issues, namely:PSYCHOLOGY, CONCEPTS OF BEHAVIOUR,PSYCHOLOGY OF CHILD CULTURE,PSYCHOTHERAPY, CONCEPTS OF TREATMENT,FREUDIAN ANALYSIS,JUNGIAN SYNTHESIS,SOCIOLOGY, CONCEPTS OF GROUP BEHAVIOUR,PHILOLOGY, CONCEPTS OF EUROPEAN LITERATURE,SOCIAL SCIENCES, CONCEPTS OF BRANCHES AND RELATIONSHIPS,PHILOSOPHY FOR HUMAN BEHAVIOUR.As such, the author attempts to bring together the concepts and thoughts of social scientists and the values of philosophical endeavours.

The LOGICAL ANALYSIS OF I.T. CHANGES may have many responsibilities, but the most important of all is the ability to identify and positively execute plans to manage the changes threatening the objectives. Through a process of structured interviews and plans the Logical Analysis is used to highlight the specific requests for changes, which may turn into risks. During the interviews the analysis is used to capture the key changes from the interviewees.The Logical Analysis provides a life-cycle process, which commences by identifying the most important changes, which may become threats to a project. These are given priority, support and management expertise. Once the prioritisation exercise is completed, the participating people are notified and subsequently interviewed to bring out and capture any possible changes they may have.Within this programme, projects are prioritised to ensure that those most critical to the programme's success are given priority to scarce resources.

Management is the science used for the application of quantitative techniques to business decision-making. Business Management covers the whole range of decision-making by management, for example, information technology, operations research, production management, marketing, personnel management, and cost accounting. Management methods operate by forming a quantitative representation of a business problem that is by putting a numerical value on the factors involved. This modelling process enables the major elements of the decision to be identified and considered in relation to the whole problem. Alternative solutions can be put forward, evaluated and an optimum solution found. There is always a need to balance the quantitative approach with behavioural considerations, keeping in mind that business decisions involve people. Whilst experience can be used to suggest how people might react in the future, conditions change and consequently people's future reactions are not always predictable.

This tome consists of three books which deal with Social Sciences, Philology and their various branches pertaining to the study of human society and social relationships. The disciplines encompassed are: anthropology, demography, economics, geography, political science, psychology, sociology, philology, epistemology, and philosophy. In the case of philology, the book includes the literary contributions of the main European countries from the ancient times through to the current geographical and political divisions. The countries included in the write-up are: Portugal, Spain, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, and Greece. Also included in this write-up are the subjects of history, education, and law, as these disciplines are regarded by many as social sciences.

Ethos takes account of the character, sentiment, manners, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution and the predominant characteristics of a racial culture. In rhetoric, this is the speakers' or writer's character or emotions, articulated in the attempt to persuade an audience. Ethos is distinguished from pathos, which is the emotion the speaker or writer hopes to induce in the audience. The two concepts were well known in a broader sense by ancient Classical authors, who used pathos when referring to the violent emotions and ethos to mean the calmer ones. Ethology deals with the behaviour in a natural environment and investigates the development of systems of morals; now more generally, the science of human character. Ethology is particularly concerned with the animal's interactions with others of the same species and the function of behaviour and how the evolution of behaviour has been influenced by natural selection.

There can be little doubt that Systems, Risks, Changes, the Internet, Information Technology in general, is and will be increasingly important in the years ahead. This book has been designed for the business person, for the student and the systems professional who needs an overview regarding the logical analysis in Information Technology and the systems involved. The book explores the fundamental aspects of operational computing, the development of new information systems, and the structured methodologies used. Systems Analysis is discussed according to their structure and the book focuses on further developments in information technology and their planning. In writing the book, the author is mostly concerned with the logical analysis and the managing of systems and people, the risks involved and the changes required in multi-national corporations, software houses, government departments, the European Union, and academia.

In writing the book, the author is mostly concerned with the logical analysis and the managing of systems and people in multi-national corporations, software houses, government departments, the European Union, and academia.There can be little doubt that Information System, the Internet, and Information Technology in general, is, and will be increasingly important in the years ahead.The book explores the fundamental aspects of operational computing, the development of new information systems, and the structured methodologies used. Systems Analysis is discussed according to their structure and the book focuses on further developments in information technology and their planning.

There can be little doubt that information systems and computing in general will become increasingly important in the years ahead. This book is, therefore, aiming to fill a gap in the current business and tutorial literature. The 'MANAGE THAT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROJECT' book has been designed for the business person, for the student and the computer professional who needs a detailed overview of projects and the systems involved. The book explores the fundamental aspects of operational computing and the development of new information systems. Current systems are discussed according to their structure and the book focuses on further developments in information technology, and their planning.

The world of computing got smaller in 1993 in terms of both new ultra-small computing systems and the downsizing of giant computer corporations. Yet for all its shrinkage, the computing industry also reached out in a big way. The new, small computers were equipped with wireless networking systems, and home and office computers were offered the promise of networking with other computers worldwide on a data superhighway.Today, computing is affecting work and leisure alike, increasingly involved in factory and business operations, networking, defence, medicine, education and the domestic environment. Computers and their systems are influencing attitudes to privacy, employment and other social issues.To this effect, the reader must remember that the construction of a system is as complex as a house built in a swamp. It does, therefore, require careful planning and design. Just as a house must have an architect's plan, so does a system. It must have requirements, system objectives and a blueprint.

Followers of Stoicism offer for consideration various metaphysical systems, united chiefly by their ethical implications. All variants on the pantheistic theme that the world constitutes a single, organically unified and benevolent whole, in which apparent evil results only from our limited view. Their philosophy had at its core the beliefs that virtue is based on: Knowledge; Reason and Harmony.The changes of circumstances were viewed with evenness of mind: pleasure, pain, and even death were irrelevant to true happiness. In time, the idea that only the accomplished wise man (the philosopher) could attain virtue was challenged, and Stoicism became more relevant to the reality of politics and statesmen.The Stoic belief in the brotherhood of man helped philosophy to make a real impact in later Republican Rome; upon such men as the young Cato (whose suicide brought him a martyr's fame), Brutus, and Cicero. Its disciples included Seneca, tutor and adviser to Nero and the emperor Marcus Aurelius.

This book on DEFINE THAT SYSTEM has been designed for the business person, for the student and the computer professional who needs a detailed overview of Project Management, Information Technology and the Risks threatening the systems involved. The book explores the fundamental aspects of operational computing, the development of new information systems, the choice of packages and the structured methodologies used. Current systems are discussed according to their structure and the book focuses on further developments in information technology, the management of projects and their planning. In writing the book, the author is mostly concerned with the development and the managing of systems and people in multinational corporations, software houses, government departments, the European Union Commissions and academia.

This book describes Philology and its associated subjects of literature, linguistic and other arts. It explains Philology as part of all other human activities; reflecting the ancient, classical, ecclesiastical, medieval and modern concepts, including the current social and economic conditions. Also, the philological class stratification as it appears in life; among the primitive civilisations and modern European literature.It includes the literary contributions of the main European countries from the ancient times through to the current geographical and political divisions. The countries included are: Portugal, Spain, France, Britain, Germany, Italy and Greece.Further elaborations include the class distinctions in philology, literature, linguistics, comedies, opera, ballads and dramas of modern times. It explains the historical and comparative philological term as used in linguistics studies; the ways in which specific languages have developed and the ways in which languages in general can change.

PLATO'S EPISTEMOLOGY:Plato's writings on Epistemology, (or the theory of knowledge), have a central place in his works. They are an astonishing achievement, spanning, a vast array of topics and problems, and overlapping with many more: they are the product of an immensely fertile mind. Many philosophers in the past have been deeply influenced by them, and many still continue to be.Andreas Sofroniou has concentrated on what he considers to be the most important epistemological passages in Plato. He has kept an eye throughout on Plato's discussion of particular philosophical problems concerned with knowledge such as the distinction between knowledge and belief, whether or not they are incompatible, how one arrives at them - and what their objects are, and he has shown how Plato's views on them appear to have developed.The condensed texts in this book are taken from six books: the Meno, Phaedo, Republic, Parmenides, Theaetetus (Plato's major work on epistemology), and Sophist.

This book is intended to provide details and guidance as an Information Technology and Management Workshop. The writing of this book is based on readers' requests for an objective tutorial and workshop for the I.T. Systems, Programs, Project Management, and perhaps as a Computing Encyclopaedia.As a book, or manual for training, the material documented herein will include; Pre-workshop Activities, Project Management Principles, Integration of Methodologies, Aid to Participants' Presentations, Project Management Requirements, Interfaces of Tools, and Post-workshop Coaching.The large size of this book allows it to be divided into seven sections, which cover the Background of Computing, I.T. Workshop, Procedures for Systems Development, Logical Analysis of Systems, Risks Management, Management of Changes, and Business on Internet.

The I.T. Risks Logical analysis allows the capture of collective knowledge and expertise from those involved on the project, in a form that facilitates the communication of Events, Assessments and the pro-active management of risks. This method can be applied to any type of project, or programme.In essence, this is the mechanism by which the functions of programmes and projects are held together as a result of the principles operating within the I.T. risk analysis methodology.This is the systematic approach to the varied Events, their Assessments, and the consequential risks relating to or consisting of a system. Methodical in procedures and plans, these are addressed to those involved and deliberating within the parameters of their systems development responsibilities.