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

Overview: Presents a comprehensive review of data that shows how different environmental crises are converging to a global environmental collapse.Provides an interdisciplinary framework to interpret the current.This book intends to be an alert to the fact that the curve measuring environmental costs against the economic benefits of capitalism has irreversibly entered into a negative phase. The prospect of an environmental collapse has been evidenced by the sciences and the humanities since the 1960s. Today, it imposes its urgency. This collapse differs from past civilizations in that it is nei

Overview: Die Entwicklung des Controlling ist - in Theorie und Praxis - stark an die Entwicklung des Aufgabenfelds von Controllern geknüpft. Die Verbindung erweist sich als so eng, dass sie noch heute akademischen Kontroversen Platz gibt (vgl. etwa die Diskussion zwischen Horvath und mir). Dies legt die Vermutung nahe, dass Aufgaben und Aufgabenwahmehmung einer intensiven empirischen Erforschung unterzogen sein müssten. Diese Vermutung kann aber nur sehr eingeschränkt bestätigt werden. Es fehlt zwar nicht an diversen deskriptiven Studien; ihr Theoriegehalt ist aber - von wenigen Ausnahmen abge

Overview: First book to place contemporary culture wars in a historical and psychological context.Explains how specific defense mechanisms shape our political investments.Shows how political parties form and ma.This book argues that whenever we are talking about cancel culture, identity politics, political correctness, antisemitism, conspiracy theories, or the alt-Right, we are dealing with a culture war, which often pits two sides against each other in a split world of good and evil. These political representations rely on a set of unconscious processes best understand through psychoanalysis.

Overview: Provides up-to-date basic cellular physiology knowledge of physical exercise.Describes the pathophysiology and the appropriateness of exercise activities for patients with diabetes mellitus.Includes a.This new edition discusses classical aspects of cellular physiology and the metabolism of physical exercise, as well as novel topics like exercise in transplantation and exercise in beta-cell failure, which mark the frontiers of research in sport-related sciences and research. The team of authors together with the editor are world-renowned experts in the field of physiology and metaboli

Overview: .This book constitutes selected papers from the Second International Conference on Cyber Warfare, Security and Space Research, SpacSec 2024, held in Jaipur, India, on February 22–23, 2024...The 27 papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 333 submissions. These papers focus on various domains of Cyber warfare and Space computing, including emerging research and applications in the field... .978-3-031-73493-9978-3-031-73494-6Series ISSN 1865-0929 Series E-ISSN 1865-0937

Overview: Up-to-date – including recent developments in Brazilian corruption scandals.Examines the challenges, conditions and opportunities for corporate social responsibility in Latin America, with a particulaThis book examines the practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Latin America, with a particular focus on Brazil. Drawing on historical developments and theoretical reflections alike, it introduces readers to the state of the art in Brazilian CSR. The authors present a range of regulatory and entrepreneurial frameworks that form the basis for business and CSR activities in Br

Overview: Erste deutschsprachige Publikation zum Thema.Historisierende Studie.Materialreiche Analysen.Includes supplementary material: In Zeiten hoher Forderungen nach Optimierung und Leistungssteigerung scheint der Mensch im 21. Jahrhundert erneut in der Krise. Als Seismograf und Motor kritischer, kultureller Selbstbeschreibung wird in diesem Zusammenhang die TV-Serie auf ihr Einwirken auf gesellschaftliche Selbstverständigungsdiskurse untersucht. Mit Analysen zu Serien wie u.a. .Orphan Black. und .Continuum. oder auch .Dark Angel. und .The Six Million Dollar Man .arbeitet das Buch Kybernetik

Overview: Integrates scientific work from Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia.Presents up-to-date research on character building in health professions education.Covers student motivation, collective leaThis book is a collection of the best scientific research presented during the First International Conference of Indonesian Medical and Health Professions Education (INA-MHPE Conference 2022) hosted by the Departments of Medicine, Health Professions Education, and Bioethics in the Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing at the Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Indonesia. The confe

Overview: Leading industry experts share their views on IT security.Provides a blueprint for modern corporate IT security strategies.Includes best practices and experiences from national and international corpo.This book provides a practical and strategic perspective on IT and cyber security for corporations and other businesses. Leading experts from industry, politics and research discuss the status quo and future prospects of corporate cyber security. They answer questions such as: How much will IT security cost? Who will provide IT security? Can security even be fun? .The book claims that d

Overview: Includes cutting-edge methods and protocols.Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results.Contains key notes and implementation advice from the experts.Includes supplementary materia.Cytochromes P450 (CYPs) comprise a large superfamily of proteins that are of central importance in the detoxification or activation of a tremendous number of natural and synthetic hydrophobic xenobiotics, including many therapeutic drugs, chemical carcinogens and environmental pollutants. CYPs are important in mediating interactions between an organism and its chemical environment and i

Overview: .This nine-volume set LNCS 14104 – 14112. .constitutes the refereed workshop proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2023, held at Athens, Greece, during July 3–6, 2023..The 350 full papers and 29 short papers and 2 PHD showcase papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 876 submissions. These nine-volumes includes the proceedings of the following workshops:. .Advances in Artificial Intelligence Learning Technologies: Blended Learning, STEM, Computational Thinking and Coding (AAILT

Overview: A book that develops an understanding of practices at the very centre of language education - the classroom. It is written for postgraduate students in Applied Linguistics and Education, and practitioners, whether in TESOL or other language teaching, In Part 1 the author explores key concepts in unpacking the complexity of classroom life. In Part 2 existing research and practice are examined through a series of research case studies. Part 3 provides a template for research activity and suggestions for projects and methodologies, and Part 4 collects resources for readers keen to follo

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Workshop on Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing, CASC 2023, which took place in Havana, Cuba, during August 28-September 1, 2023..The 22 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. They focus on the theory of symbolic computation and its implementation in computer algebra systems as well as all other areas of scientific computing with regard to their benefit from or use of computer algebra methods and software. .978-3-031-41723-8978-3-031-41724-5Series ISSN 03

Overview: Presents a mix of essential basic science concepts that provide a good rationale for common pathways involved in the pathogenesis of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.Explores the controversies surr.Over the past few decades, cardiovascular disease and diabetes have emerged as major public health problems, both as distinct clinical entities and as comorbid conditions. As a result, the fields of vascular biology and endocrinology are working more closely now than ever before. With chapters by renowned experts, .Cardiovascular Endocrinology: Shared Pathways and Clinical Crossroads. e

Overview: This is the only monograph to consider the entire thirty-year career, publications, and influence of Britain‘s first female poet laureate. It outlines her impact on trends in contemporary poetry and establishes what we mean by ‘Duffyesque’ concerns and techniques. Discussions of her writing and activities prove how she has championed the relevance of poetry to all areas of contemporary culture and to the life of every human being. Individual chapters discuss the lyrics of ‘love, loss, and longing’; the socially motivated poems about the 1980s; the female-centred volumes and poems; th

Overview: Covers a topic of current interest and fast-moving research.Features some of the most internationally well-known and respected scientists in the field of crop omics.Written for a wide audience, includ.Plant development and productivity are negatively regulated by various environmental stresses. Abiotic stress factors such as heat, cold, drought, and salinity represent key elements limiting agricultural productivity worldwide. Thus, developing crop plants with the ability to tolerate abiotic stresses is a critical need which demands modern novel strategies for the thorough understandi

Overview: The sixteen-volume set comprising the LNCS volumes 11205-11220 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2018, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2018..The 776 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 2439 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on learning for vision; computational photography; human analysis; human sensing; stereo and reconstruction; optimization; matching and recognition; video attention; and poster sessions..978-3-030-01245-8978-3-030-01246-5Series ISSN 0302-9743 Se

Overview: Presents research works in the field of cyber intelligence and information retrieval.Gathers the outcomes of the CIIR 2021, held in Kolkata, India.Offers a reference guide for researchers and practiti.This book gathers a collection of high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented at International Conference on Cyber Intelligence and Information Retrieval (CIIR 2021), held at Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata, India during 20–21 May 2021. The book covers research papers in the field of privacy and security in the cloud, data loss prevention and recovery, high-perfo

Overview: Individuelle Lösungsansätze durch Praxisbeispiele.Gesteigerte Authentizität und Management- und Führungsqualität.Wertvollere Beziehungen im privaten und beruflichen UmfeldWer Höchstleistung erreichen will, muss sich mit den eigenen Ängsten und mit dem eigenen Selbst auseinandersetzen. Dies gilt insbesondere für Führungspersonen. Diejenigen, die sich von ihren Ängsten befreit haben, steigern ihre Management- und Führungsqualitäten. Dadurch sind sie nicht nur erfolgreicher, sondern gleichzeitig auch freier in ihrem beruflichen und privaten Leben. In diesem Buch erfahren Leserinnen und

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .During the last decade of the twentieth century, computer vision made considerable progress towards the consolidation of its fundaments, in particular regarding the treatment of geometry for the evaluation of stereo image pairs and of multi-view image recordings. Scientists thus began to look at basic computer vision solutions - irrespective of the well-perceived need to perfection these further - as components which should be explored in a larger context...This volume is a post-event proceedings volume and contains selected papers based on the prese