BOOKS with Alphabet F (Fa, Fb,Fc, Fd, Fe…... )

Overview: While radiology only reveals one aspect of the entire ana­ tomical picture, a certain diagnostic precision can be at­ tained by skillfully combining different techniques. The re­ sulting images often uncover the hidden reality. This near perfection is most clearly seen - and is also most essential - in the study of the breast. One must remember that in the western world, one woman in fifteen develops breast can­ cer. It follows that the key to effective treatment is early and precise diagnosis. An understanding of the various breast tissues and of benign pathology is also indispensab

Overview: Includes supplementary material: 978-3-540-23167-7978-3-540-30206-3Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Thoroughly describes the coming collision as a growing, demanding population faces the depletion of earth’s natural resources.Offers practical recommendations and develops proposals to improve resourcThe editors of Factor X explore and analyze this trajectory, predicting scarcities of non-renewable materials such as metals, limited availability of ecological capacities and shortages arising from geographic concentrations of materials. They argue that what is needed is a radical change in the ways we use nature’s resources to produce goods and services and generate well-being. The goa

Overview: Forschungsmethoden: kompakt, verständlich, unterhaltsam.Lernen auf der Überholspur: Fast-track-Spalte zum schnellen Wiederholen.Lernfreundliche Didaktik: Fallbeispiele, Definitionen, Tipps für die Pra.Quantitative und qualitative Methoden sind das Fundament aller Sozialwissenschaften und deshalb allgegenwärtig im Studium. Vielen fällt die »Methodik« nicht leicht, insbesondere wenn unter Zeit- und Erfolgsdruck gelernt werden muss. Aber halt: Jeder kann die Forschungsmethoden verstehen! Dieses Buch bietet einen leichten Einstieg und einen verständlichen Gesamtüberblick über alle wichti

Overview: As financial positions expand, the economy becomes more vulnerable to adverse and unexpected developments taking place outside the six to seven year business cycle. Over 50 years ago Nikolai Kondratieff developed the theory of "The Long Waves in Economic Life", which incorporated an extended cycle of innovation and upward thrust, and changed our understanding of business cycles in financial settings.Financial Cycles concentrates on two areas that have thus far been omitted from mainstream economics. The first is the impact of the longer term financial cycle; the second is the beginni

Overview: Offers a unique collection of interesting research and survey articles on modern aspects of elementary and analytic number theory.Collects several contributions which highlight Wolfgang Schwarz’s mathThis book collects more than thirty contributions in memory of Wolfgang Schwarz, most of which were presented at the seventh International Conference on Elementary and Analytic Number Theory (ELAZ), held July 2014 in Hildesheim, Germany. Ranging from the theory of arithmetical functions to diophantine problems, to analytic aspects of zeta-functions, the various research and survey articl

Overview: Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.978-3-663-00520-9978-3-663-02433-0

Overview: China and India have both received a great amount of focus from the foreign investors. However, there are acute differences in the implementation of the economic reforms; China made rapid progress in the manufacture of high technology products, whilst India progressed in the development of high technology. This book explores the contrasts between China and India in attracting, utilizing and related issues and discusses the challenges faced by the foreign investors.978-1-349-52094-7978-0-230-55488-7

Overview: Offers a unique criminological analysis into the phenomenon of selling of illicit medicines online.Draws on over two years of empirically-grounded fieldwork to support conclusions.Pushes forward debat.This book provides a timely criminological investigation into the rapidly growing sale of fake medicines online. Some estimates suggest that the fake medicine trade has now overtaken marijuana and prostitution as the world‘s largest market for criminal traffickers. This increase has been particularly apparent in the context of various evolutionary phases in information and communication

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Overview: 978-3-540-56590-1978-3-642-78163-6Series ISSN 0071-7932

Overview: Stated and proved properties of fractional Brownian fields.Efficient statistical inference of fractional parameters.Efficient simulation algorithm of fractional fieldsThis book focuses mainly on fractional Brownian fields and their extensions. It has been used to teach graduate students at Grenoble and Toulouse‘s Universities. It is as self-contained as possible and contains numerous exercises, with solutions in an appendix. After a foreword by Stéphane Jaffard, a long first chapter is devoted to classical results from stochastic fields and fractal analysis. A central notion througho

Overview: Financial crises have occurred throughout history, resulting inthe loss of national and international public and personal wealth,creating political uncertainty and shaking the foundations of thenational, regional and international economic and social order. Thisbook provides answers to the basic questions of what could have causedsome of the more recent regional financial crises, what their keycharacteristics were, how they could have been prevented, what lessonsnational governments, central bankers and the International MonetaryFund (IMF) have learned and how such crises could be pr

Overview: .Fulfilling the Export Potential of Small and Medium Firms.addresses the question, `How can economic policy contribute to astrong export performance by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) indeveloping countries?‘ In today‘s increasingly integrated worldeconomy, such a performance can make a significant difference to thegrowth, employment creation and income distribution of many developingcountries. The study uses information from specifically designedsurveys of SME exporters in Japan, Indonesia, Korea and Colombia,together with a range of evidence from other sources, to ascertainwhat

Overview: Includes supplementary material: 978-3-540-41413-1978-3-540-44450-3Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: 978-1-349-06665-0978-1-349-06663-6

Overview: Geflüchtete im Zentrum der Migrationsforschung.Untersuchung von Bildungs- und Integrationsprozessen.Interdisziplinäre ZugängeIm Fokus dieses Sammelbandes steht die Auseinandersetzung mit methodologischen und methodischen Herausforderungen von Forschungen im Kontext von Flucht und Migration. Die Suche nach kritischen Forschungszugängen, die zu einer Überwindung der Reproduktion rechtlich-politischer und diskursiver Zuschreibungen sowie ihrer ethnisierenden und homogenisierenden Kategorien beitragen, ist das gemeinsame zentrale Anliegen der Beiträge. Versammelt werden Erfahrungen und R

Overview: The present volume articulates a state of concern with the destabilising and the growth retarding effects of current world finance relations. Emphasis laid in this volume on finance is justified, not only in terms of its dominance over real activities in the world economy but also with its influence on the pace of economic reforms in the debt-ridden countries.A large number of essays in this volume deals with the recent pattern of capital flows in the world economy. The latter has been of a high priority in the agenda for research in economics in recent times, especially with tendenc

Overview: Good design is a crucial factor in both the performance of a product and its cost of manufacture. As such, the teaching of design skills is becoming an increasingly important aspect of engineering degree courses. Form, Structure and Mechanism, written for the engineering undergraduate studying a design course, draws on the engineering theory taught in the early part of the degree and shows how it can be applied to challenging and realistic design problems.

Overview: Presents a philosophical analysis of relativism deeply informed by anthropological experience.Skilfully combines philosophical argument with relevant first-person experience.Advances an intimate underThis book tackles the difficult task of defending relativism in the age of science. It succeeds where others have failed by combining the rigor of analytic philosophy with the first-hand insights of anthropological experience. Typically, an anthropologist’s work on relativism offers rich examples of cultural diversity, but lacks philosophical rigor, while a philosopher’s work on relativi