BOOKS with Alphabet B (Ba, Bb,Bc, Bd, Be…... )

Overview: Seit dem Winter 1956/57 sind die Größenverhältnisse in der deutschen Energiewirtschaft in Bewegung geraten. Das auslösende Ereignis für diese Entwicklungsänderung war die Suezkrise; die Ursachen jedoch sind sehr vielfältig und komplex. Besonders seit der Jahreswende 1957/58 sind die bis dahin aufgestellten Energieprognosen für die in der OEEC zusammenge­ schlossenen Länder, für die Montan-Union und für Westdeutschland in ihrem Wert als Richtschnur der Investitionstätigkeit in der Energiewirtschaft und der Energiepolitik der Regierungen zweifelhaft geworden. Man kann folgende Hauptgrü

Overview: Boardroom Secrets focuses on the, processes, and behaviours for a board of directors to ensure good governance. The book focuses on behavioral aspects of governance such as how to evaluate and process information provided to the board, how to critically question without de-motivating, and how to balance interests of different stakeholders.978-1-349-31171-2978-0-230-24829-8

Overview: Mit Beiträgen von Asfa-Wossen Asserate, Ernst Peter Fischer, Wolfgang Frühwald, Heike Gfrereis, Eckhard Henscheid, Wolfgang Kraushaar u. v. a..Von ästhetischer bis zu wirtschaftlicher Bildung, von FerFakten, Meinungen, Denkanstöße zu allen Formen und Facetten der Bildung. Rund 80 bekannte Persönlichkeiten aus unterschiedlichen Bereichen des öffentlichen Lebens, aus Medien, Wissenschaften und der Wirtschaft erläutern ihre Vorstellungen zum Thema Bildung. Dargestellt werden die Erscheinungsformen, Instrumente, Ziele, Voraussetzungen, Orte, Institutionen und Akteure der Bildung. Histori

Overview: Mit bekannten Redensarten durch die Welt der Wirtschaft im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung.Zeigt mit einem Augenzwinkern, wie Unternehmensführung erfolgreich gelingen kann.Für Manager aus allen Branchen.Entdecken Sie in diesem Buch passende Sprichwörter und Redensarten für die Unternehmensführung.In seinem Buch „Beim Lahmen lernt man Hinken“ führt Holm Landrock mit einem Augenzwinkern und einer ganzen Menge bekannter Redensarten durch die Welt der Wirtschaft im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung. Über viele Jahrhunderte hat der Volksmund eine Unmenge von Sprichwörtern geschaffen, welche die

Overview: Serves as a guide on how to successfully establish leadership in project and network management.Presents a rich set of tools and methods that make the book valuable across disciplines.Offers a coherenThis book introduces readers to essential facilitation techniques for leadership in the contexts of project and network management. It provides method-based messages, a facilitator curriculum, and a veritable arsenal of 50 carefully selected and ‘reality-tested‘ tools for facilitation in non-hierarchical contexts. As such, readers will benefit just as much from learning by doing as from

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the International Workshop on Brain-inspired Computing, BrainComp 2013, held in Cetraro, Italy, in July 2013. The 16 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and cover topics such as brain structure and function as a neuroscience perspective, computational models and brain-inspired computing, HPC and visualization for human brain simulations.978-3-319-12083-6978-3-319-12084-3Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Provides an extensive exploration of constant width bodies.Offers ample exercises that help readers understand specific topics within convex geometry.Gives instructors a wealth of material to use in aThis is the first comprehensive monograph to thoroughly investigate constant width bodies, which is a classic area of interest within convex geometry. It examines bodies of constant width from several points of view, and, in doing so, shows surprising connections between various areas of mathematics. Concise explanations and detailed proofs demonstrate the many interesting properties and

Overview: Presents an exploration of the relatively new subject of business ethics and governance relationships as they affect minority shareholders.Helps improving the ethical conduct towards minority sharehol“Morten: And what are we going to do, when you have made liberal-minded and high-minded men of us? Dr. Stockman: Then you shall drive all the wolves out of the country, my boys!” (Ibsen, An Enemy of the People, Act V) The theoretical and empirical research of this book describes how the traditional safeguards of the rights of minority shareholders have failed in their duty and how those

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Overview: 978-1-349-04926-4Series ISSN 2947-0331 Series E-ISSN 2947-034X

Overview: 978-3-409-14009-6978-3-322-90583-3

Overview: Highlights values and lifestyles that are threatened by climate change.Identifies ethical tradeoffs in individual and collective actions and policies that worsen climate change.Analyzes the climate ch.Changes in earth’s atmosphere, oceans, soil, weather patterns, and ecosystems are well documented by countless scientific disciplines. These manifestations of climate change harm public health. Given their goals and social responsibilities, influential health organizations recognize health impacts compounded by geography, social values, social determinants of health, health behaviors, a

Overview: 978-3-7643-2661-6978-3-0348-6134-2

Overview: Why do consumers pay a premium price for a brand? Is it better quality, the look and feel, or is it the brand‘s social standing? Author Nigel Hollis believes the answer to all those questions is "yes." Yet the vast majority of brands today trade on past equity and transient buzz. And marketers focus on plan execution rather than creating meaningful differentiation rooted in the brand experience. This lack of meaning is creating a market full of commodities rather than products that instill loyalty. But loyalty (i.e., repeat business) is the key to long term success, and that requires

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Blended Learning, ICBL 2022, held in Hong Kong, China, in August 2022.. The 31 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The conference theme of ICBL 2022 is Blended Learning: Engaging Students in the New Era. The papers are organized in topical sections named: Game-based Learning and Augmented Learning Environment; Computer Supported Collaborative Learning; Enriching Learning Experience with Blended and Online Learning; Content Development and Practi

Overview: Bietet Einblicke in Briefpoststrategien in Europa.Entwickelt konkrete strategische Handlungsstrategien für Postgesellschaften.Richtet sich an Führungskräfte der Logistikbranche sowie Dozenten und StudDer europäische Briefmarkt befindet sich im Umbruch: Nachdem über Jahrhunderte hinweg die staatlich garantierten Postmonopole ein profitables Auskommen sicherten, steht die Zukunft im Zeichen der Liberalisierung. Gleichzeitig sehen sich die Postgesellschaften mit einer zunehmenden Bedrohung durch elektronische Kommunikationsmedien konfrontiert – allen voran Internet und E-Mail. Diese dop

Overview: Zinserträge aus dem Kreditgeschäft stellen in der Erfolgsrechnung der Banken einen zentralen Bestandteil dar. In letzter Zeit stiegen die festzustellenden Insolvenzen von Unternehmen drastisch an. Die daraus resultierenden Kreditausfälle beeinträchtigen die Erträge der Banken in erheblichem Ausmaß. Christine Bernhofer analysiert das Kreditausfallrisiko nicht bei einzelnen Kreditnehmern, sondern vielmehr das Ausfallrisiko, das sich bei verflochtenen Wirtschaftseinheiten, wie z.B. Konzernen ergibt. Die Kreditvergabe erfolgt demnach an mehrere Kreditnehmer, die unter dem Risikoaspekt zu

Overview: Presents elementary probability theory with interesting and well-chosen applications that illustrate the theory.Main results in elementary probability, random variables, random vectors and the centralThe main intended audience for this book is undergraduate students in pure and applied sciences, especially those in engineering. Chapters 2 to 4 cover the probability theory they generally need in their training. Although the treatment of the subject is surely su?cient for non-mathematicians, I intentionally avoided getting too much into detail. For instance, topics such as mixed type r

Overview: Explores the potential of entrepreneurship as solution to Africa’s stunted economic development.Presents a Quintuple Helix Model of entrepreneurial ecosystems development.A valuable guideline for forwAfrica suffers from two main diseases: poor management and a lack of vibrant entrepreneurial activity. The continent has the raw materials, the people, and the potential to be developed, and yet there remain barriers that prevent it from bettering itself. .To promote entrepreneurship as an engine of economic development and growth, the author has developed a Quintuple Helix Model which a

Overview: A useful reference to some of the most important aspects of systemic therapy resistance.Allows those who are interested in breast cancer therapy to get a jump-start on critical issues in breast cancer.In Breast Cancer Chemosensitivity, a group of world leading experts review critical aspects of resistance to systemic therapy in breast cancer patients. Beginning with a clinical overview of the problem Breast Cancer Chemosensitivity moves on to focus on the latest findings of molecular mechanisms of drug resistance. These include in-depth discussions on multidrug resistance by P-glycop