Global pressure or national identity: Strategic challenges for Russian business schools

Global Challenges for Identity Policies

The Technology, Work and Globalization series was developed to provide policy makers, workers, managers, academics and students with a deeper understanding of the complex interlinks and influences between technological developments, including information and communication technologies, work organizations and patterns of globalization. The mission of the series is to disseminate rich knowledge b...

Nnecting Schools to Global Networks : Curriculum Option or National Imperative ?

Chris Bigum is Senior Lecturet Faculty of Education, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoia. He is curcntly intercsted in working on: education in postnodem conditions, non-lineat dynanics, self-oryenising systems, cyberspace, the Nintendo generation. His hobbies include bodysu rting, swin ming, photography, attending electronic salons and apprenilce parenting. v NNECTING SCHOOLS TO GLOBAL NETWORK...

Strategic Business Challenges in Cloud Systems

For the past few years, the evolution of cloud computing has been potentially becoming one of the major advances in the history of computing. But is cloud computing the saviour of business? Does it signal the demise of the corporate IT functionality entirely? However, if cloud computing has to achieve its potential, there is a need to have a clear understanding of various issues involved, both ...

asthma control challenges: global and national perspectives

"Russian nervousness": neurasthenia and national identity in nineteenth-century Russia.

"Nothing dies so hard as a word", wrote Harry Quilter in 1892, "-particularly a word nobody understands."' At the end of the nineteenth century, one such word-first uttered in America, but soon reverberating across the Western world-was "neurasthenia". Popularized by the American neurologist George M Beard, this vaguely defined nervous disorder seemed to crop up everywhere, from medical journal...