Doing literacy online : teaching, learning and playing in an electronic world

The essays in this volume provide an international perspective on persistent and emerging questions related to the use of online technologies for teaching and learning. They demonstrate that online literacy practices can be understood only when they are examined within their social, political, economic, cultural, and historical contexts.

The effect of affect in organizational settings

The study of emotion and affect on organizational settings has been steadily gaining momentum for much of the last decade. Important catalysts in this process have been the Emonet e-mail discussion group and the biannual International Conferences on Emotions and Organizational Life. The articles in this volume represent a selection of the best papers presented at the fourth Conference (which was conducted in London, England, in June, 2004), together with invited papers by some of the leading scholars in the field.
The theme of the book, "the effect of affect in organizations," was chosen to capture the centrality of emotion and affect in everyday organizational life. The opening chapter, co-authored by Howard Weiss, one of the inventors of "Affective Events Theory" (AET), sets the scene. At the heart of AET is the idea that organizational members experience daily hassles and uplifts that are reflected in their attitudes and behaviours. Following chapters flesh out the way that AET can be applied, covering a variety of constructs that relate to organizational life, including emotional intelligence, motivation, employee monitoring of web access, and emotional regulation. Other chapters deal with other aspects of emotion in organizations, such as loneliness, leader-member relationships in teams, organizational justice, negative behaviour, creativity, and organizational reactions to crisis situations. In the final chapter, Rob Briner and his colleagues round out the theme in a critical account of emotion in organizations.

E-training practices for professional organisations

E-Training Practices for Professional Organizations is an essential reference for anyone interested in the integration of e-business, e-work and e-learning processes. The book collects, for the first time, the proceedings from the 2003 IFIP eTrain Conference held in Pori, Finland.

Child labour in South Asia

This volume aims to shed light on the debate over child labor in the era of globalization by documenting the experience of Asian developing countries which have experienced rapid income and export growth. G Hearth, Deakin University, Australia. & K Sharma.

Natriuretic peptide signalling in the gills of freshwater and seawater fishes

The gills are considered major targets for cardiac natriuretic peptides with studies confirming natriuretic peptide receptor presence on vascular and sometimes epithelial tissues. Natriuretic peptide intracellular signalling is via guanylyl cyclase receptors and the cGMP pathway, and via inhibitory G-proteins linked to cyclic AMP pathways. Natriuretic peptides in the gills alter branchial blood flow and may also alter ion transport in various salinities. We present an overview of natriuretic peptide cGMP and cAMP signalling in fishes and consider the implications of the recent discovery of several CNPs and BNP in bony fishes on natriuretic peptide receptor studies.