BOOKS with Alphabet H (Ha, Hb,Hc, Hd, He…... )

Overview: Reflects the growing role of the East in shaping our global future.The comprehensive and authoritative reference on higher education in emerging Asia.Includes extensive data on the extraordinary dynam.This survey provides unprecedented scope and detail of analysis on higher education in the Asia-Pacific region. In this era of global integration, convergence and comparison, the balance of power in worldwide higher education is shifting. In less than two decades the Asia-Pacific region has come to possess the largest and fastest growing higher education sector on Earth. The countries o

Overview: Complete reference for the study of carbon nanotubes (CNT), covering fundamentals, composites and applications.Special focus on life cycle analysis of CNT and toxicity aspects.Addresses risks associat.This Handbook covers the fundamentals of carbon nanotubes (CNT), their composites with different polymeric materials (both natural and synthetic) and their potential advanced applications. Three different parts dedicated to each of these aspects are provided, with chapters written by worldwide experts in the field. It provides in-depth information about this material serving as a refere

Overview: Arguably the single most successful scientific instrument ever built, the Hubble Space telescope continues to dazzle. In recent months it has discovered the most distant known galaxy and the most massive known star, and has been at the front lines of all the most pressing questions in astrophysics: the age of the Universe, the nature of gamma-ray bursters, the discovery of extrasolar planets. In .The Discovery Machine., the authors of the widely acclaimed Hubble: A New Window to the Universe bring you an exciting, detailed, gorgeously illustrated account of Hubble‘s breathtaking new

Overview: Schilderung des epochalen Veränderungsprozesses in der Energiewirtschaft.Vom monopolistischen Versorgungs- zum digitalen Energiedienstleistungsunternehmen.Prägnanter Überblick über profitable BetätiguDas Buch begleitet den Übergang von der analogen zur digitalen Energiewirtschaft und gibt dem Leser wertvolle Impulse für die Erschließung neuer, lukrativer Betätigungsfelder. Autoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis liefern ausgewählte Antworten auf die enormen Herausforderungen angesichts von Digitalisierung und Dezentralisierung im Energiesektor. Insofern soll das Buch Mut machen, die digi

Overview: Gives a comprehensive account of the topic of smart cities.Uses a human-driven approach to urban transformation.Reflects on the relation between planning and design as a strategy to link urban processWithin the most recent discussion on smart cities and the way this vision is affecting urban changes and dynamics, this book explores the interplay between planning and design both at the level of the design and planning domains’ theories and practices..Urban transformation is widely recognized as a complex phenomenon, rich in uncertainty. It is the unpredictable consequence of complex i

Overview: Uses new data sources to provide a comprehensive analysis of the housing market in Africa.Investigates the political economy surrounding the housing market.Puts forward measures for policy makers to hThis open access book utilizes new data to thoroughly analyze the main factors currently shaping the African housing market. Some of these factors include the supply and demand for housing finance, land tenure security issues, construction cost conundrum, infrastructure provision, and low-cost housing alternatives. Through detailed analysis, the authors investigate the political economy

Overview: Reveals the relations of political and economic power that underlie the artistic arrangement of bodies in choreography.Brings together ethnographic and discursive approaches to the study of concert daThis book argues that contemporary dance, imagined to have a global belonging, is vitiated by euro-white constructions of risk and currency that remain at its core. Differently, the book reimagines contemporary dance along a “South-South” axis, as a poly-centric, justice-oriented, aesthetic-temporal category, with intersectional understandings of difference as a central organizing princi

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.978-3-642-47148-3978-3-642-47438-5

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Hybrid Learning, ICHL 2015, held in Wuhan, China, in July 2015. .The 35 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 104 submissions. The selected papers cover various aspects on experiences in hybrid learning, computer supported collaborative learning, improved flexibility of learning processes, learning styles and behaviours, and pedagogical and other issues.978-3-319-20620-2978-3-319-20621-9Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: The book provides an accessible discussion of America‘s weight gain. It provides a variety of surprising reasons for the country‘s (and world‘s) weight gain (relating to the growth in world trade free.America’s emerging “fat war” threatens to pit a shrinking population of trim Americans against an expanding population of heavy Americans in raging policy debates over “fat taxes” and “fat bans.”  These “fat policies” would be designed to constrain what people eat and drink – and theoretically crimp the growth in Americans’ waistlines and in the country’s healthcare costs..Richard McKen

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Overview: Most comprehensive coverage of properties, characterization and processing of advanced magnetic materials and magnetic nanostructures.Treats such timely topics as nanostructured magnetic materials; prIn December 2002, the world‘s first commercial magneticlevitation super-train went into operation in Shanghai. The train isheld just above the rails by magnetic levitation (maglev) and cantravel at a speed of 400 km/hr, completing the 30km journey from thecity to the airport in minutes. Now consumers are enjoying 50 GB harddrives compared to 0.5 GB hard drives ten years ago. Achievements

Overview: The series, Hormones in Health and Disease, was launched in 1993 to provide a scientific platform for investigators engaged in research on the biological actions of hormones and to anticipate relevance for their findings in clinical applications. The first volume of the series was dedicated to the discussion and understanding of molecular mechanisms by which steroid hormones influence target cells in normal and pathological conditions. With the diversity of information and the vast amount of literature on steroid hormone physiology, a more thorough treatment of Hormones and Cancer wa

Overview: Wissenschaftskommunikation aus verschiedenen Perspektiven beleuchtet.Zahlreiche Best-Practice-Beispiele.Umfassender Überblick.Includes supplementary material: Der Band bietet einen Überblick über die Wissenschaftskommunikation unter vielen Perspektiven: Ausgehend von den politischen, ökonomischen und sozialen Rahmenbedingungen, unter denen Wissenschaft und Wissenschaftskommunikation stattfinden, werden die institutionellen Akteure auf nationaler und internationaler Ebene sowie Best-practice-Beispiele vorgestellt. Thematisiert werden ebenso die Perspektive der Wissenschaftskommunikati

Overview: This book represents a major revision of my earlier work, Theories of Motivation: From Mechanism to Cognition. A number of shortcomings in the p,revious book became increasingly evident to me. First of all, there were serious omissions. Second, there has been much new knowl­ edge since the inception of the prior book, so that it was becoming out­ dated. And finally, I was dissatisfied with some of the writing, feeling that parts of the book were needlessly complex and that certain topics did not deserve the space that they were allotted. A revision, therefore, was initiated. I attemp

Overview: Gibt Leser*innen einen umfassenden Überblick über die entscheidenden Praxisfragen.Zugeschnitten auf Prakter*innen mit einem zugleich hohen wissenschaftlichen Anspruch.Präsentiert Beiträge renommierterDieses Handbuch behandelt alle aktuellen Praxisfragen der Sicherheitswirtschaft u.a. aus rechtlicher, betriebswirtschaftlicher und technischer Sicht. Im Fokus des Handbuchs stehen zudem Öffentlich-Private Sicherheitskooperationen, also die Beauftragung der Sicherheitswirtschaft mit Sicherheitsdienstleistungen durch die öffentliche Hand (Luftsicherheitsdienste, ÖPNV-Dienste etc.). Das dur

Overview: 978-3-476-01284-5978-3-476-03581-3

Overview: Explores the hygrothermal behaviour of building components and materials exposed to the climate.Examines the environmental impacts of the construction industry and buildings.Written by respected exper.This book presents recent research in the area of construction pathology, hygrothermal behaviour of buildings, service life and diagnostic techniques, and highlights the latest developments in building physics, hygrothermal behaviour, durability and numerical models applied to building materials analysis. Discussing the state of the art in the field, and covering topics relevant to vari

Overview: Die von Naturkatastrophen, insbesondere Hochwasser, verursachten Schäden haben in den letzten Jahrzehnten - zum einen auf Grund der gestiegenen Anzahl entsprechender Ereignisse, zum anderen als Folge einer erhöhten Vulnerabilität - stark zugenommen. Daher ist ein verstärktes Engagement in den Bereichen des Katastrophenschutzes und der -hilfe erforderlich, die weitgehend als öffentliche Güter zur Verfügung gestellt werden. Angesichts beschränkter staatlicher Mittel ist eine umfassende Überprüfung des Verwaltungshandelns auch in diesem Aufgabenfeld angezeigt..Verena Adam analysiert, in