BOOKS with Alphabet G (Ga, Gb,Gc, Gd, Ge…... )

Overview: A major and authoritative new text on Chinese politics; the most uptodate and thorough introduction currently available. Written by a leading academic authority who has lived and worked in China and hOver the past 20 years change in China has been breathtaking. Reform has affected every facet of life and has left no policy and institution untouched. Now available in a substantially revised second edition covering the changes of the Sixteenth Party Congress and Tenth National People‘s Congress and other recent developments this major text by a leading academic authority, who has also

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Overview: Examines new geospatial technologies used in geography education and informal education.Demonstrates how spatial information systems are implemented in educational practice.Discusses innovative approa.This book addresses new pedagogies focusing on the use of geospatial technologies and geomedia in the classroom. Today, geospatial technologies are substantially influencing geography teaching and learning, particularly in secondary education. Web-GIS, virtual globes, storytelling, maps and apps for mobile devices are transforming the nature and design of geography curricula, instructio

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Overview: Kein anderes Politikfeld gilt als so komplex und veränderungsresistent wie die Gesundheitspolitik. Zur Vorbereitung und Begleitung von Reformmaßnahmen greifen Politiker daher immer wieder auf sachverständige Beratungsleistungen zurück. Es stellt sich jedoch die Frage, unter welchen Bedingungen gesundheitspolitische Beratung die weitere Entwicklung der Gesundheitspolitik beeinflussen kann. ..Falko Brede untersucht historische und aktuelle Beratungsprozesse in Deutschland und in Kanada, wo das Instrument der „Royal Commission“ bereits grundlegende Veränderungen in der Gesundheitspoliti

Overview: Explains the origins and implications of the Arab Spring.Analyzes the global economic crisis and its impact on the geostrategic order.Examines the potential effects of the Transatlantic Trade and InveThis book offers a fascinating overview of the challenges posed by the world’s new geostrategic order and likely future directions. It opens with an unconventional view of the Arab Spring, identifying its origins in the relative US withdrawal from the Middle East caused by both the need for military disengagement for economic reasons and the discovery of shale gas and tight oil in the he

Overview: The discovery that the same or similar peptides are present in endocrine cells and in neurons is one of the most exciting and provocative recent developments in biology. Suddenly neurophysiologists and endocrinologists have found that they have a great deal to discuss with each other. Substances originally isolated as hypothalamic hormones turn out to be abundantly present in neurons of other parts of the brain and in endocrine cells and neurons of the gut and pancreas. Similarly, substances originally isolated as gut hormones are found not only in gut endocrine cells but also in gut

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Overview: Einziges Lehrbuch im Bereich des Pflegemanagements.Grundlage für die erfolgreiche Führung von Gesundheitsbetrieben.Das Werk für die Begleitung durchs Studium und die Weiterbildung.Kompetent führen - Qualität verbessern - Leistungsfähigkeit steigern..Die Aufgaben zukünftiger Pflegemanager!...Das Gesamtlehrbuch Pflegemanagement vereinigt die Themen der erfolgreichen Bände I-III "Lehrbuch Pflegemanagement": wissenschaftlich fundiert und interdisziplinär rund um das professionelle Pflegemanagement....Themen der Organisation und des Management: ..Abrechnungssysteme ..Managementkonzepte- u

Overview: Das Buch erörtert zuerst die besondere Natur des Glases, indem - dem Herstellungsprozeß folgend - zunächst das Verhalten von Glasschmelzen betrachtet wird, um daraus die Struktur der festen Gläser abzuleiten. Je nach chemischer Zusammensetzung ergeben sich dafür charakteristische Eigenschaften, besonders bei den nichtsilicatischen, nichtoxidischen und metallischen Gläsern. Die zweite Hälfte des Buches befaßt sich mit den Eigenschaften der Gläser, die nach Möglichkeit aus den Strukturen abgeleitet werden. Dabei wird auch auf die Meßmethoden und die Einflüsse von Zusammensetzung, Tempe

Overview: The worst chemical disaster ever could be happening right now. In India and Bangladesh between forty and eighty million people are at risk of consuming too much arsenic from well water that might have already caused one hundred thousand cancer cases and thousands of deaths. Many millions elsewhere in South-East Asia and South America may soon suffer a similar fate. Venomous Earth is the story of this tragedy: the geology, the biology, the politics and the history. It starts in Ancient Greece, touches down in today‘s North America and takes in William Morris, alchemy, farming, medicin

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Overview: 978-94-010-5605-2978-94-011-3618-1Series ISSN 0169-6378

Overview: Examines not simply the process of legalization (or not) of same-sex marriage, but also the institutionalization of same-sex marriage (or same-sex marriage bans) in national politics and society.Provi.This book provides a comparative, neo-institutionalist approach to the different factors impacting state adoption of—or refusal to adopt—same-sex marriage laws. The now twenty-one countries where lesbians and gay men can legally marry include recent or longstanding democracies, republics and parliamentary monarchies, and unitary and federal states. They all reflect different positions w

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Overview: Includes supplementary material: Cancer and aging are integrally related. Cancer incidence and mortality increase with age, with most cancer diagnoses and deaths occurring in patients aged 65 and older. The aging of the Baby Boomer population, along with an overall increase in life expectancy, points to a doubling of the U.S. population over age 65 by the year 2030. This demographic shift, combined with the known association of cancer and aging, is expected to bring about a rapid growth in the older cancer-patient population. It is clear that geriatric principles must become part of