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

Overview: The first time that we, the editors of this volume, met, a chance remark by one of us, newly returned from fieldwork in Fiji, quickly led to an animated discussion of our experiences doing anthropological research with children. Following that occasion, we began to seek each other out in order to continue such conversations, because we had found no other opportunity to discuss these significant events. We knew our experiences were rich sources of cross-cultural data and stimuli to rethinking anthro­ pological theory and methods. A cursory review of the literature on fieldwork reveale

Overview: 978-3-540-16459-3978-3-540-39796-0Series ISSN 0075-8434 Series E-ISSN 1617-9692

Overview: Presents a comprehensive study of over 3 decades of research, 200,000+ km of travel, and dozens of interviews with leaders and residents of all walks of life across the China.Addresses the historical,.This open access book explores the historical, cultural and philosophical contexts that have made anti-poverty the core of Chinese society since Liberation in 1949, and why poverty alleviation measures evolved from the simplistic aid of the 1950s to Xi Jinping’s precision poverty alleviation and its goal of eliminating absolute poverty by 2020. The book also addresses the implications o

Overview: First book to focus entirely on methods and techniques for crowd simulation.Crowd simulation is in demand in many applications including, security, defence, entertainment and the movie industry.Research into the methods and techniques used in simulating crowds is now reaching maturity, but until now there is no book that focuses on this important topic...Prior approaches have been application-specific focusing on different aspects of collective behaviour and using different modelling techniques. Thalmann and Musse have identified two broader areas of crowd simulations, firstly focusi

Overview: 978-3-476-04082-4Series ISSN 0558-3667 Series E-ISSN 2512-5222

Overview: The first book to provide a clear evidence-based understanding of creative teaching and how motivated teaching/training professionals can design and facilitate quality learning (e.g., face-to-face, onThis book contains an evidence-based pedagogic guide to enable any motivated teaching/training professional to be able to teach effectively and creatively. It firstly summarises the extensive research field on human psychological functioning relating to learning and how this can be fully utilised in the design and facilitation of quality learning experiences. It then demonstrates what cr

Overview: Die Beiträge dieses Buches vermitteln einen Überblick über aktuelle Konzepte, Entwicklungen und Probleme im Bereich der Kommunikation und Kooperation von CAD-Systemen und -Benutzern sowie der Integration von CA-Systemen in industriellen Prozeßketten. Schwerpunkte sind dabei Konzepte und Forschungsergebnisse zum rechnergestützten kooperativen Arbeiten in CAD sowie zu Produktdatenmodellierung und -management als wesentliche Voraussetzungen für die Integration von CA-Prozessen. In diesem Kontext werden die Bedeutung des internationalen Produktmodellierungsstandards STEP sowie dessen Fäh

Overview: Almost two decades ago, Drs. Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman de­ veloped the concept of the Type A coronary-prone behavior pattern and pioneered research in the area. Since then, much effort has been devoted to investigating both medical and psychosocial implications of this phenomenon by an impressive array of biomedical and behavioral scientists. On the basis of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute‘s (NHLBI) recent Congressional mandate concerning disease prevention and control, the Division of Heart and Vascular Diseases undertook an intensive review of the existing liter

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Overview: Includes supplementary material: The intense fervor of a Mississippi Methodist preacher, the meticulous reasoning of an Oxford logician, the dogged persistence of a head longshoreman, the unflagging humor of a Rabelaisian satirist. To have met Paul Ramsey at a lecture in a medical university; a heady conference at Hastings-on­ Hudson; a congressional hearing; deliberations at a church assembly; or a bull session in some coffee shop was to be confronted with a gentleman of unforgettable energy, insight, and delight. In many roles--as a young instructor in religious studies at Princeto

Overview: Situates urban land development in the pluralistic model of Chinese urbanization and broader political economic processes.Develops a dual-track political ecology framework to examine state–peasantry iThis book examines the nature and internal dynamics of China’s urban construction land (UCL) development, drawing insights from the recently developed theory of regional political ecology. Based on the author’s original research, it identifies two different types of UCL development in China, namely top-down, formal development in the legal and regulated domain, and spontaneous and inform

Overview: Provides an updated, theoretically founded, practical tool for all professionals in welfare work.Compiles complex theoretical discussions into a distinctive, transparent resource for researchers and s.This book analyses the legitimacy deficits in democratic welfare work using Habermas’ theories of communicative action, law and  morality. Based on their underlying intersubjective perspectives, legitimacy problems can be identified and corrected, e.g. lack of confidence, dignity, respect, broken expectations, ignorance or mistrust of its administration. In modern societies with their m

Overview: Presents an interfacing of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and tropical cyclones in Southern Africa.Draws selected case studies from Malawi.Tropical cyclones in Southern Africa, also known as hurricanes or typhoons in other regions of the world, is a hot subject for academic research. This focus has been magnified by the need to consider tropical cyclones in the context of other global development agendas, that includes the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its inseparable 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),

Overview: Summarizes the non-thermal processing techniques of citrus juice.Describes recent trends in quantification of citrus juice.Presents the pharmacological attributes of citrus juice.This book provides a comprehensive overview of current scientific research on citrus juice and by-product technologies. It covers various aspects of citrus and its processing, encompassing biochemistry, advanced juice processing technology, and health considerations. The book also delves into testing methodologies for various chemicals, phytochemicals, and bitter compounds. Furthermore, it presents innovativ

Overview: Provides step-by-step instructions in flap design and harvesting techniques.Includes numerous helpful color photos to accompany the instructions.Presents the anatomy of each area in drawings and surgiThis textbook, containing a plethora of illustrations and pictures, will serve as an atlas and as a superb guide to the use of cutaneous flaps in head and neck reconstruction. Each chapter depicts, in a layered manner, the anatomy of a particular donor site from which flaps are derived and used in head and neck defects, providing systematic steps in understanding the topographical anatom

Overview: Brings together researcher and practitioner experiences of COVID-19 related impacts.Assesses the pandemic-altered marketing and advertising strategies for performances and streaming content.Discusses .The global COVID-19 pandemic, the resulting lockdown imposed in many countries, as well as related safety measures taken by governments and authorities, have posed significant challenges to classical music culture. However, they may also have had a stimulating effect on music festivals and opera houses’ streaming offerings. This book brings together experts from the fields of musicology

Overview: Leading medical specialists critically review for the general practitioner the latest techniques for the clinical management of diabetic neuropathy. These authoritative contributors focus on the practical aspects of diabetic neuropathy and describe in detail the treatments that are currently available or expected to become available in the near future. They also include concise discussions of the causes of diabetic neuropathy and highlight the relatively unknown features of neuropathy that can significantly impact a patient‘s life. Comprehensive, up-to-date bibliographies at the end

Overview: Current vision systems are designed to perform in normal weather condition. However, no one can escape from severe weather conditions. Bad weather reduces scene contrast and visibility, which results in degradation in the performance of various computer vision algorithms such as object tracking, segmentation and recognition. Thus, current vision systems must include some mechanisms that enable them to perform up to the mark in bad weather conditions such as rain and fog. Rain causes the spatial and temporal intensity variations in images or video frames. These intensity changes are d

Overview: Einblicke in die lokale Diversität von CSR in Deutschland.Viele Impulse zur Weiterentwicklung von CSR-Kompetenzen.Mit Praxisbeispielen vieler Hochschulen und Unternehmen.Dieses Buch liefert Ihnen Managementwissen zur Corporate Social Responsibility.Dieses Buch beschreibt die Entwicklungen im Bundesland Rheinland-Pfalz im Bereich Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Die Herausgeber beleuchten dieses Thema aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln. Die Beiträge in diesem Buch arbeiten die Erfahrungen und das Fachwissen von zahlreichen rheinland-pfälzischen CSR-Experten aus folgenden Bereich

Overview: Shakespeare was not a citizen of London. But the language of his plays is shot through with the concerns of London ‘freemen‘ and their wives, the diverse commercial class that nevertheless excluded adult immigrants from country towns and northern Europe alike. This book combines London historiography, close reading, and recent theories of citizen subjectivity to demonstrate for the first time that Shakespeare‘s plays embody citizen and alien identities despite their aristocratic settings. Through three chapters, the book points out where the city shadows the country scenes of the maj