BOOKS with Alphabet C (Ca, Cb,Cc, Cd, Ce…... )

Overview: Provides a detailed case study of Ningbo, an oft neglected second-tier Chinese city, for a different perspective on urban China.Features ethnographic fieldwork for six months, including both in-depth In this book, the author seeks to understand China’s urban redevelopment from the theoretical perspective of the local entrepreneurial state. China’s rapid socio-economic transformations since 1978 have been in large part attributed to China’s state transformations. The author closely investigates Ningbo’s two downtown redevelopment projects by conducting ethnographic fieldwork and docum

Overview: Up-to-date overview of the most important methodologies, technologies, APIs and standards related to the portability and interoperability of cloud applications and services.Illustrated by use cases re.This book offers readers a quick, comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the most important methodologies, technologies, APIs and standards related to the portability and interoperability of cloud applications and services, illustrated by a number of use cases representing a variety of interoperability and portability scenarios..The lack of portability and interoperability between clo

Overview: 978-3-540-09554-5978-3-540-34858-0Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Provides a handbook-style reference to political, economic, and societal trends in Central Asia.Analyzes bilateral relations of the five countries with numerous external actors.Explores opportunities .This handbook-style edited volume discusses historical, but predominantly current political, economic, and societal trends in Central Asia comprising Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. The five countries exhibit many cultural and historical commonalities and face similar internal and external challenges. Despite different transformation paths and frequent

Overview: Most recent trends in complex systems sciences & practices from an industrial and academic perspective.Results of the “Complex Systems Design & Management” (CSDM 2019) international conference held in.This book contains all refereed papers accepted during the tenth edition of the conference that took place at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris on December 12-13, 2019...Mastering complex systems requires an integrated understanding of industrial practices as well as sophisticated theoretical techniques and tools. This explains the creation of an annual go-between forum in

Overview: The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with a survey of some of the major areas of clinical psychology. No attempt has been made to include every area relevant to clinical psychology; the choices are selective but represent the wide range of areas touched by clinical psychologists. For some years I have felt the need for a book that provides students with more of a historical introduction and context from which to view current clinical psychology than is included in most textbooks. The issues and problems of clinical psychology have been with us since the beginning of time

Overview: Provides an umbrella assessment, covering topics from regional climate impacts to policy and response, mitigation and adaptation, all in the Indian context.Includes a synthesis of recent high-impact r.This book provides a synthesis of research findings, in terms of strategic knowledge outcomes regarding emergence of recent regional climate signals, implications for impacts assessment, and mitigation and adaptation response, relevant in the Indian context. The first part discusses evidence of climate change and its underlying scientific processes across India, chiefly focusing on impa

Overview: Takes a human-centred and concept-led journey through communication theory.Brings classic theories to life by means of vibrant real-world examples.Aimed primarily at those who are new to communicationThis book takes a human-centred and concept-led journey through communication theory and is aimed primarily at those who are new to communication studies. Each chapter uses a single concept – actors, narrators, members, performers, influencers, and produsers – to explore key ideas, theories, and thinkers. The six core concepts offer unique, though related, ways of thinking about “flesh a

Overview: Presents the latest research on various topics in finance and financial economics.Introduces the results of advanced financial modeling.Presents an analysis of financial issues including specifics of .This volume continues to highlight the latest research contributions presented at the annual Wroclaw conference in Finance (Poland), covering a wide range of topics in the field. The chapters reflect the extent, diversity, and richness of research areas, and discuss both fundamental and applied finance. A detailed analysis of current financial-market problems including specifics of Poli

Overview: Promotes a national and international dialogue on the role of the higher education sector in creating cultural competence.Shares experiences, current research and emerging evidence concerning culturalThis open access book explores cultural competence in the higher education sector from multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspectives. It addresses cultural competence in terms of leadership and the role of the higher education sector in cultural competence policy and practice. Drawing on lessons learned, current research and emerging evidence, the book examines various innovativ

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Overview: The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) has established itself as a major event in this exciting and very active field of research and development. These refereed two-volume proceedings include the 123 papers accepted for presentation at the 4th ECCV, held in Cambridge, UK, in April 1996; these papers were selected from a total of 328 submissions and together give a well-balanced reflection of the state of the art in computer vision..The papers in .volume I. are grouped in sections on structure from motion; recognition; geometry and stereo; texture and features; tracking; g

Overview: summarizes a rock-based work flow for constructing carbonate reservoir models.contains descriptions and methods for describing carbonate rocks in terms that relate directly to petrophysical properties.One principal need in petroleum recovery from carbonate reservoirs is the description of the three-dimensional distribution of petrophysical properties in order to improve performance predictions by means of fluid-flow computer simulations. The book focuses on a rock based approach for the integration of geological, petrophysical, and geostatistical methods to construct a reservoir mode

Overview: Comparative Analysis of Crisis in Religion.New Insights to Religion and Society.Studies in Universal HistoryReligion is closely linked to social development as it often serves as the ideological fundament of a society and one of the foremost expressions of its culture. The articles in this volume are devoted to the study of religious crisis in Anqituity and deal with these pheonomena in the Ancient Near East, Rome, Greece, China and India.978-3-658-36988-0978-3-658-36989-7Series ISSN 2524-3780 Series E-ISSN 2524-3799

Overview: Something instructive occurred in the process of entitling the present collection. Both editor and publisher sought a simple and succinct rubric for the various pieces of work. But they rapidly and reluctantly reached the consensus that, by either intellectual or marketing criteria, the inser­ tion of the adjective "psychological" to qualify the noun "development" was a communicative necessity. Much to the chagrin of the develop­ mental psychologist, the term development still connotes-to the world at large as well as the general community of publishers, librarians, and computer arch

Overview: Impassioned consideration of what businesses should be responsible for and why.Offers a distinctly Christian perspective on the role of businesses.Aligns an entrepreneurial view with a Christian ethicThe essays collected in this book discuss the contemporary practice of corporate responsibility by applying the Christian principles of the unity of knowledge and pursuit of truth to the traditional principles of justice, human dignity and the common good, to rediscover a corporate culture that will help transform our economic system and the characteristics required to build an enduring

Overview: The editors intend that this book conveys the remarkable variety and fundamental importance of the late Helmut E. Landsberg‘s many contributions to the science of climatology and its practice over a very productive 55-year career. We thank the distinguished authors for their contributions. We also thank Corinne Preston and Charlene Mann for their invaluable word-processing assistance and preparation of camera-ready copy. Finally, we thank Joshua Holland for permission to reproduce his portrait of Landsberg, and Jeanne Moody for preparation of the index. F. Baer N. L. Canfield J. M. M

Overview: Refecting what a new generation of conservation biologists isdoing and thinking, this vital and far ranging second edition exploreswhere conservation biology is heading. It challenges many conventionsof conservation biology by exposing certain weaknesses of widelyaccepted principles. Combining contributions from both the school andthe new breed of conservation biologists, this insightful textfocuses primarily on topics the are integral to the daily activitiesof conservation biologists. Several chapters address ecosystemrestoration and biotic invasions as well as the the mechanics ofp

Overview: .This four-volume set LNCS 14699-14702 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design 2024 (CCD 2024), held as part of the 26th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2024 (HCII 2024), was held as a hybrid event in Washington DC, USA, during June/July 2024. .. ..The total of 1271 papers and 309 posters included in the HCII 2023 proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 5108 submissions... ..The CCD 2024 conference focuses a broad range of theoretical and applied issues related

Overview: Exercises cover a wide selection of basic and advanced questions and problems.Arranges problems by difficulty level, catering to both well-prepared and less-experienced students.Provides detailed and .This study guide is designed for students taking a Calculus I course. This new edition includes expanded examples, questions, and practice problems that will help students to review and sharpen their knowledge of the subject and enhance their performance in the classroom. New material covered in the second edition includes types of functions, inverse functions, combinations of functions