The Google Generation examines original and secondary research evidence from international sources to determine whether there is a younger generation of learners who are adopting different styles of information search behaviour from older generations as a function of their patterns of use of online technologies. The book addresses the questions: might the widespread availability and use of search engines, such as Google, give rise to a different type of scholar who seeks out and utilises online information sources and thereby develops a different orientation to learning from older generations...

The first comprehensive modern history of this region by a single author in any language. Begining with the early history of the area under the Romans, it goes on to look at the devlopment of agriculture, the growth of cities, economic growth based on the textile industry and the cultural flowering of the thirteenth century, followed by economic depression and the place of Flanders under the Burgundian State. As well as looking at urban tensions, trade and government, the author examines other issues such as labour struggles, the rivalry between language groups, and the popular manners and...

This is the first in a two-volume study of the medieval city. It traces the slow regeneration of urban life in the early-medieval period, showing where and how an urban tradition had survived from late antiquity, and when and why new urban communities began to form where there was no continuity.