This wide-ranging introductory text looks at the virtual community of cyberspace and analyzes its relationship to the real one as lived out in today's societies. Such issues as race, gender, power, economics and ethics in cyberspace are discussed by the leading experts on the subject of the Internet, grouped under four main sections: identity; social order and control; community structure and dynamics; and collective action. The book displays how the idea of community is being challenged and rewritten by the increasing power and range of cyberspace. As new societies and relationships are...

Here you can learn how to avoid bidding contracts that prove to be impossible to make.
Bidding depends to some extent on the agreed system, but underpinning those methods are standards that are common around the globe: the Golden Rules.
The authors combine experience from both sides of the Atlantic and whether you play Acol, Standard American or a Strong Club System, this book offers plenty for you. THE GOLDEN RULES OF CONSTRUCTIVE BIDDING follows the pattern of previous books in this series giving examples of when to use the rule and when not to do so.