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

Overview: This book surveys the changing role of senior civil servants in Western Europe and explores whether they have kept their central role in government decision-making. Looking at these issues in comparative perspective, the contributors provide an insight into the causes and consequences of the changing role of officials.978-0-230-28876-8Series ISSN 2946-9309 Series E-ISSN 2946-9317

Overview: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Studie.Includes supplementary material: MarioZimmermann präsentiert einen Meilenstein in der Forschung über ein meisttransaktionsbegleitend eingesetztes Bewertungsgutachten: die „FairnessOpinion“. Dessendurch die Praxis formulierten vielschichtigen Funktionen werden von ihmübersichtlich und trennscharf dargestellt. ImAnschluss analysiert er diese Funktionen theoretisch fundiert mittels einerinnovativen Methodik und leitet konkrete Handlungs- und Gestaltungsempfehlungenfür Standardsetzer, beauftragende Verwaltungsorgane, Aktionäre,Wirtschaftsprüfer und Ric

Overview: Comprehensive textbook on the specific aspects of neuropathology for forensic pathologists and specialists in associated fields.Abundantly illustrated with a wealth of figures, graphs and tables.Pract.Incorporating the most recent literature and state-of-the-art methods, this practical work and atlas covers the entire domain of neuropathology for forensic pathologists as well as for specialists in associated fields. Its concise, direct style provides the reader with succinct and easy-to-find answers to forensic, pathological, pathophysiological, biomechanical, and molecular biology p

Overview: Immer häufiger werden englische Begriffe in den deutschen Sprachgebrauch eingegliedert und zu schnell übernommen. Dies führt nicht selten zum Verlust des eigentlichen Sinngehalts und einer hieraus resultierenden mißbräuchlichen Verwendung des gewählten Begriffs. Dieses kleine Wörterbuch soll all denen eine Arbeitshilfe sein, die sich im englisch- und deutschsprachigen Raum mit Design auseinandersetzen. Es hilft, ein effizienteres Arbeiten zu ermöglichen, eine überregionale Zusammenarbeit zu erleichtern und Kommunikationsprobleme zu vermeiden. Das Buch enthält eine Zusammenstellung vo

Overview: Presents state-of-the-art advancements in the field of modular function theory.Provides a self-contained overview of the topic.Includes open problems, extensive bibliographic references, and suggestioThis monograph provides a concise introduction to the main results and methods of the fixed point theory in modular function spaces. Modular function spaces are natural generalizations of both function and sequence variants of many important spaces like Lebesgue, Orlicz, Musielak-Orlicz, Lorentz, Orlicz-Lorentz, Calderon-Lozanovskii spaces, and others. In most cases, particularly in appl

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Overview: Publication in the field of economic sciences.Includes supplementary material: ​This book investigates how foreign subsidiaries of multinational corporations expand their presence and functional scope into foreign territories. It thereby focuses on how cross-border subsidiary mandates are obtained and how they develop over time. Multiple case-studies based on in-depth interviews with HQ and subsidiary management suggest that subsidiary internationalization represents a select MNC phenomenon and that associated foreign market mandates are only of temporary nature. Foreign subsidiaries

Overview: Provides comprehensive descriptions of the main advances in fiber electronics.Summarizes the fabrication strategies for various fiber devices with high-performance properties.Highlights the unique advThis book highlights the main advances in fiber electronics, like fiber-shaped solar cells, batteries, supercapacitors, sensors, light-emitting devices, memristors and communication devices from the standpoints of material synthesis, structure design and property enhancement. It focuses on revealing the separation and transport mechanisms of charges, establishing transport equations for

Overview: State-of-the-art device designs are illustrated among the book‘s many figures..More than 500 up-to-date references and 76 problems for students make the book useful both as a research reference and asFerroelectric memories have changed in 10 short years from academic curiosities of the university research labs to commercial devices in large-scale production. This is the first text on ferroelectric memories that is not just an edited collection of papers by different authors. Intended for applied physicists, electrical engineers, materials scientists and ceramists, it includes ferroel

Overview: Provides a much needed overview of the field.Draws heavily on the authors’ practical experience, providing lessons learnt.Includes supplementary material: .This book looks at why ethnographic approaches have been turned to in the design of computing devices for the workplace, for the home and elsewhere. It presents a history of ethnography, both as it was practiced before computer science picked it up and since, most especially in the CSCW and HCI domains. It examines, further, the various ethnographic or ‘fieldwork’ frameworks currently popular, explaining and examining what each cl

Overview: Explores the nature of social reform, the future of capitalism, and the feasibility of socialist, communitarian economic structures.Argues that social reform movements and organizations were overlappiThis book explores the intersections between nineteenth-century social reform movements in the United States. Delving into the little-known history of women who joined income-sharing communities during the 1840s, this book uses four community case studies to examine social activism within communal environments. In a period when women faced legal and social restrictions ranging from cover

Overview: Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists explores representations of monstrous women in mid-Victorian literature, tracing anxious male responses to the feminist movement of the era. It argues that Victorian patriarchy was a fluid theory and set of practices through which Victorian men attempted unsuccessfully to fix gender definitions and their own positions of power. In Victorian novels written by men, the thorough instability of contemporary conceptions of both masculinity and femininity is revealed, as an entire society struggled with new forms of self-awarenes

Overview: Mit generationsspezifischen Handlungsempfehlungen für die Verbesserung des Finanz-Know-howsDie Autoren zeigen in diesem .essential., dass die finanzielle Bildung ein wichtiger Aspekt der finanziellen Freiheit ist. Anhand einer empirischen Studie mit den Generationen Baby Boomer und Y werden deren Unterschiede in Bezug auf ihren Umgang mit finanzieller Bildung und finanziellen Angelegenheiten sowie ihrer Einstellung zur finanziellen Freiheit im Allgemeinen sowie ihrer zukunftsorientierten Absicherung erläutert. Die Studie, basierend auf einer Online-Befragung, liefert das eindeutige E

Overview: Bridges the gap between theory and practice by strengthening the research-teaching nexus.Showcases the partnerships between a primary school and its key stakeholders such as government bodies, universThis edited book tells the story of the multifaceted efforts devoted by a “future school” in Singapore—The Nan Chiau Primary School—in shaping future learning. It documents the various measures implemented by one primary school to improve student learning outcomes in a technology-rich teaching and learning environment. With the current interest in Singapore’s “Masterplan for ICT (informa

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Overview: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Studie.Includes supplementary material: Auswirkungen von Führungswechseln im Vordergrund. In diesem Zusammenhang wird u.a. ein umgekehrt u-förmiger Zusammenhang zwischen der Häufigkeit von Führungswechseln und dem Grad der Zunahme der Internationalisierung unterstellt. Die entsprechenden Hypothesen werden im empirischen Teil mittels einer Längsschnittanalyse überprüft. Diese wird an einer Stichprobe großer deutscher Industrieunternehmen über die Zeit von 1990 bis 2012 hinweg durchgeführt.978-3-658-13430-3978-3-658-13431-0Series ISSN 2512-5494 Series E-ISS

Overview: In sehr vielen Gesellschaften und nicht nur in der Bundesrepublik ist in den letzten Jahren die Diskussion um die Verwirklichung von mehr sozialer Gleichheit und Gerechtigkeit vermehrt ins Zentrum der öffentlichen und politischen Auseinander­ setzung gerückt. Zwei grundsätzlich verschiedene Auffassungen stehen sich in dieser Auseinandersetzung gegenüber. Die eine vertritt das meritokratische Ideal der Chan­ cengleichheit, nach dem die ungleiche Teilhabe einzelner Menschen an den Gütern einer Gesellschaft so lange nicht problematisch ist, als die Vergabe unterschiedlicher Belohnungen

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Overview: Contains current and forthcoming research on the development of interaction design principles.Discusses the possibilities, and challenges for design interaction to reflect user needs and to accommodatIn 1969 Herbert Simon wrote a book, The Science of the Artificial, in which he argued that cognitive science should have its area of application in the design of devices. He proposed the foundation of a science of the artificial related with cognitive science in the sense in which we have traditionally understood the relationship between the engineering disciplines and the basic sciences