This book was written to scratch my own itch: the book I wanted to teach out of for my graduate infovis course did not exist. The itch grew through the years of teaching my own course at UBC seven times, co-teaching a course at Stanford in 2001, and helping with the design of an early visualization course at Stanford in 1996 as a teaching assistant. I was dissatisfied with teaching primarily fr...

book social media are reading communities primarily developed as online social networks. this study aims to find precise criteria and indicators for evaluation of book social network and examine and rank the most popular book social networks. the sample population included 10 english and two persian book/reading social networks publicly available on the web. a checklist containing 9 main criter...

This book is based on the eular on-line course on rheumatic diseases and it would constitute a good reading material for anyone intending to do the course. It covers 1437 pages and is divided into seven sections: introductory aspects of rheumatic disease, inflammatory arthropathies, connective tissue diseases and vasculitis, cartilage and bone disease, regional and generalized pain syndromes, m...