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

Overview: Provides insight on growing areas such as sustainability, luxury, digital, trends and psychology.Offers an understanding of the structure of the fashion industry and how this differs in emerging marke.Over the past few decades emerging markets have experienced an increased share of global manufacturing service within the fashion industry, coupled with an increasing market share, particularly for women’s mid-market apparel. In order for fashion firms to succeed in these markets it is crucial to gain an understanding of the state of the industry, macro-environmental factors, traditions

Overview: If the author is ‘dead‘, if feminism is ‘post-‘, why does the figure of the woman author keep appearing as a central character in contemporary fiction? She is concerned with ownership but, equally, with loss; determined to enter the cultural field but also rejecting that field; looking for control but subject to duplicity; seeking power alongside desire. Drawing on a diverse range of contemporary authors - including Atwood, Byatt, Brookner, Coetzee, Lurie, LeGuin, Michèle Roberts, Shields, Spark, Weldon, Walker - this study explores the complexity and continuing fascination of this f

Overview: 978-3-7091-9365-5978-3-7091-9363-1Series ISSN 0071-7886

Overview: .Fast Compact Algorithms and Software for Spline Smoothing. investigates algorithmic alternatives for computing cubic smoothing splines when the amount of smoothing is determined automatically by minimizing the generalized cross-validation score. These algorithms are based on Cholesky factorization, QR factorization, or the fast Fourier transform. All algorithms are implemented in MATLAB and are compared based on speed, memory use, and accuracy. An overall best algorithm is identified, which allows very large data sets to be processed quickly on a personal computer.978-1-4614-5495-39

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book presents revised full versions of papers contributed to UK Workshops on Multi-Agent Systems, UKMAS, during 1996 and 2000..From the early days of MAS research, the UK community has been a particularly productive one with numerous key contributions. The 15 papers by internationally reputed researchers deal with various aspects of agent technology, with a certain emphasis on foundational issues in multi-agent systems.978-3-540-43962-2978-3-540-45634-6Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: As man turns his attention from the overcrowded continents of this planet and explores the spaciousness of the ocean, the applications of ocean acoustics become increasingly numerous and important. This book pro- vides an up-to-date introduction to the theory of sound propagation in the ocean, with much new material having been added throughout the second edition. It includes both ray and wave treatments and considerable attention is paid to stochastic problems such as the scattering of sound at rough surfaces and random inhomogeneties. An introductory chapter that discusses the basi

Overview: Flexibility is an ambiguous concept. This book contributes to expounding the importance of clearer concepts in the debates on economic systems, labour markets and work organization. The authors place ‘flexibility‘ in a new theoretical context as juxtaposed to ‘stability‘. Much terminological confusion and is resolved by this suggestion.978-0-230-23538-0

Overview: Covers in-depth the treatment and prevention of frailty in depth, including comorbidities.Explores the management of frailty in outpatient, hospital, rehabilitation, hospice, and other health care set.This book offers a thorough examination of frailty, covering its complexity through sections on foundational concepts, pathogenesis research, assessment methods, management strategies, care settings, its relation to other chronic conditions, and societal implications. It provides a deep understanding of frailty‘s scientific basis, advanced assessment tools, innovative management, and pr

Overview: .This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Workshop on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems, FORMATS 2003, held in Marseille, France in September 2003...The 19 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper and the abstracts of two invited talks were carefully selected from 36 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. All current aspects of formal method for modeling and analyzing timed systems are addressed; among the timed systems dealt with are timed automata, timed Petri nets, max-plus algebr

Overview: This study of the French Revolution reveals that from March 1792 to April 1793, French foreign policy was dominated not by the leaders of the French revolutionary government, but by two successive French foreign ministers, Charles-Francois Dumouriez and Pierre LeBrun.978-1-349-37213-3978-0-230-61688-2

Overview: Addresses crucial contemporary issues in international peace and justice.Covers various relevant topics, including the problems of governance in the 21st century.Showcases a range of perspectives of s.This book challenges the current thinking and strategies in the field of global peace and security. It is clear that current global public and private institutions are inadequate for the challenges we face today. These challenges cut across borders and require a more coordinated and concerted effort to find workable solutions. This book therefore begins with the question of global leade

Overview: Comprises select peer-reviewed proceedings of the conference FlexEV 2022.Enriches understanding by including contributions from leading experts across the globe.Focus on state-of-the-art research and .This volume comprises the select proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Flexible Electronics for Electric Vehicles (FlexEV 2022). It aims to provide a comprehensive and broad-spectrum picture of the state-of-the-art research and development in flexible electronics & applications, electric vehicle technology & infrastructures, materials & devices, battery management & intelligent systems.

Overview: This book investigates the use of football to create, shape and promote Spanish, Catalan and Basque national identities and explores  the utilization of soccer to foster patriotic feelings, exposing the often dark vested interests behind the propagation of national narratives through soccer.978-1-349-34707-0978-1-137-31550-2Series ISSN 2662-3404 Series E-ISSN 2662-3412

Overview: Will be used for the Certified Financial Modeler accreditation, a joint training program of the German Institute of Corporate Finance and the German Stock Exchange.Helps plug a gap across numerous dis.This book provides a comprehensive introduction to modern financial modeling using Excel, VBA, standards of financial modeling and model review.  It offers guidance on essential modeling concepts around the four core financial activities in the modern financial industry today: financial management; corporate finance; portfolio management and financial derivatives. Written in a highly pr

Overview: New approaches to the study of fungi as hosts and symbionts due to new molecular biological tools.Includes supplementary material: Mycology, the study of fungi, originated as a subdiscipline of botany and was a descrip­ tive discipline, largely neglected as an experimental science until the early years of this century. A seminal paper by Blakeslee in 1904 provided evidence for self­ incompatibility, termed "heterothallism", and stimulated interest in studies related to the control of sexual reproduction in fungi by mating-type specificities. Soon to follow was the demonstration that

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Overview: Takes on the current interest in food, food security, and food justice in both academia and popular culture.Focuses on low-income communities and disparities in their access to nutritionally-dense vs.This book argues that the factors contributing to obesity as a product of food insecurity have risen largely from the exploitation of vulnerable communities. In the past, food insecurity has been understood as primarily a matter of famine, hunger, and undernutrition. Such an understanding is no longer accurate: food insecurity is now also associated with obesity, the rates of which have

Overview: Faulkner knits connections between a DIY (do-it-yourself) value, economics, and family culture through the use of poems and images, which present four generations of women in her family and trouble “w"This book is a memoir in poetry about family stories, mother-daughter relationships, women’s work, mothering, writing, family secrets, and patterns of communication in close relationships. Faulkner knits connections between a DIY (do-it-yourself) value, economics, and family culture through the use of poems and images, which present four generations of women in her family and trouble “w

Overview: Clearly written, comprehensive instruction manual for turning research into a paper.Contains specific examples from well-written research papers in a wide variety of fields.Goes beyond formatting ruleObservations Plus Recipes It has been said that science is the orderly collection of facts about the natural world. Scientists, however, are wary of using the word ‘fact. ’ ‘Fact’ has the feeling of absoluteness and universality, whereas scientific observations are neither ab- lute nor universal. For example, ‘children have 20 deciduous [baby] teeth’ is an observation about the real worl

Overview: Karen Shelby addresses the IJzertoren Memorial, which is dedicated to the Flemish dead of the Great War, and the role the monument has played in the discussions among the various political, social and cultural ideologies of the Flemish community.978-1-349-48305-1978-1-137-39173-5