BOOKS with Alphabet I (Ia, Ib,Ic, Id, Ie…... )

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .Recent economic transformations in the world economy are progressing in two divergent directions – international production fragmentation and industrial agglomeration. Based on extensive data analysis and using models of interdependencies between key economies, this book analyses innovation systems that cross national borders. It is shown that technological complexity is an important factor in the formation of highly specific production networks, and why, for a number of production systems, fragmentation and clustering are two sides of the same coin.

Overview: Opposing a binary perspective that consolidates ethnicity, religion, and nationalism into separate spheres, this book demonstrates that neither nationalism nor religion can be studied in isolation in the Middle East. Religious interpretation, like other systems of meaning-production, is affected by its historical and political contexts, and the processes of interpretation and religious translation bleed into the institutional discourses and processes of nation-building. This book calls into question the foundational epistemologies of the nation-state by centering on the pivotal and i

Overview: Comprehensive overview of properties, replication, evolution, emergence and epidemiology of the influenzas viruses, especially those having zoonotic potential.Extensive description of the diseases, thThis book provides salient information on all aspects of influenza/flu viruses affecting animals and humans. It specifically reviews the properties and replication of influenza viruses; their evolution and emergence; epidemiology; role of migratory birds in disease transmission; clinical signs in humans, animals and poultry; pathogenesis and pathogenicity; public health importance and po

Overview: A large number of family businesses operate in the luxury fashion sector which shows their importance as a source of growth, development and social and economic stability. This book analyses how a strategy of innovation in terms of products and processes can offer a competitive advantage to family businesses operating in the luxury fashion sector.978-1-137-49866-3

Overview: This volume contains articles accepted for presentation during The Intelli­ gent Information Systems Symposium IIS‘2001 which was held in Zakopane, Poland, on June 18-22, 200l. This is tenth, in the order, symposium orga­ nized by the Institute of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences and devoted to new trends in (broadly understood) Artificial Intelligence. The idea of organizing such meetings dates back to 1992. Our main in­ tention guided the first, rather small-audience, workshop in the series was to resume the results gained in Polish scientific centers as well as contr

Overview: Der Erfolg einer undifferenzierten Marktbearbeitung wird in Wissenschaft und Praxis zunehmend in Frage gestellt; statt dessen wird eine stärkere "Einzelkundenorientierung" gefordert. Dieser Trend zur Individualisierung konkretisiert sich in Konzepten, die den einzelnen Kunden mit seinen individuellen Bedürfnissen und Wünschen in den Mittelpunkt rücken. Volker G. Hildebrand untersucht das Phänomen der Individualisierung und identifiziert das Relationship Marketing und das Customized Marketing als relevante Teilkonzepte der kundenindividuellen Marktbearbeitung. Seine empirische Analyse

Overview: Presents the latest research, innovative ideas, challenges, and computational intelligence solutions in sustainable computing.Places strong emphasis on real-world applications.Includes novel, in-depth.This unique book dicusses the latest research, innovative ideas, challenges and computational intelligence (CI) solutions in sustainable computing. It presents novel, in-depth fundamental research on achieving a sustainable lifestyle for society, either from a methodological or from an application perspective...Sustainable computing has expanded to become a significant research area cov

Overview: Provides a systematic framework of organizational culture and cultural differences.Offers a complex and holistic approach to the management of knowledge sharing.Discusses key findings and underlines t.This book provides a systematic view of current and future research perspectives on intercultural knowledge sharing and offers a model for the growth of organizational knowledge in the digital age. The author puts forward multidisciplinary and multi-paradigmatic approaches to offer an updated view on the best practices towards international management. With insights on the opportunities

Overview: Gunter Duecks Kultkolumne "ß-Inside" aus dem Informatik Spektrum.Ideales Lesevergnügen für Professionals aus IT und Management.Grundlegende Einsichten für neue Business-Modelle.Includes supplementary Der vorliegende Band versammelt die als Kultkolumnen gefeierten Beiträge der Beta-Inside-Kolumne aus dem Informatik-Spektrum von 2013 bis 2017. Frühere Kolumnen der Jahre 1999 bis 2013  erschienen bereits in drei Bänden. Gunter Dueck betrachtet die Digitalisierung und Globalisierung und ihre Auswirkungen auf IT, Managementkulturen und Geschäftsmodelle. Mit unüblichen Perspektivwechseln u

Overview: Praxisbezogener Leitfaden sowie Entscheidungshilfe zur Einführung von innovativen Lernkonzepten.Praxiserprobte Lösungen, die rasch und wirtschaftlich umgesetzt werden können.Zahlreiche illustrative Gr.Die aktuellen Entwicklungen in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (Globalisierung, E-Business, Web 2.0) haben zwingend auch den Bedarf nach innovativen Lernkonzepten zur Folge. Dabei wird Wissensvermittlung und Qualifikation mit E-Learning zunehmend in die Eigenverantwortung der Lernenden verlagert, wodurch der Bedarf nach Kompetenzentwicklung wächst. Darunter wird die Fähigkeit verstanden, Pr

Overview: This book explores the interplay of ICT and language learning within the context of technological and social change, from the printing press to the mobile phone. It considers how technological advances, through their impact on communication, language and education, affect not only how languages are learnt, but also what kind of language is learnt.978-1-349-35490-0978-0-230-59132-5

Overview: Examines the perspectives of countries that traditionally import transnational education.Spans a wide geographical area, including rarely discussed countries such as Nepal.Discusses the impact of tranThis book explores the impacts of transnational education (TNE) from the perspectives of institutions and countries that primarily act as hosts. The authors describe and analyse TNE across a wide geographical area comprised of both established and emerging TNE host countries, from Europe to Southeast Asia to less-discussed countries such as Nepal and Uzbekistan. Complementing the 2018 vo

Overview: Summarizes all new research results since release of the book "Incompatibility in Angiosperms" by the same author in 1977.Includes supplementary material: Advances in plant cell molecular biology have considerably increased our understanding of pollen-pistil barriers, particularly those operated by incompatibility mechanisms, and, at the same time, demonstrated the complexity and diversity of rejection systems once considered to be relatively simple. This book reviews the impressive knowledge acquired in the last century on the biology, particularly the inheritance and population gen

Overview: Includes three new chapters.Based on interviews with key Filipino Muslim and non-Muslim educators and policy makers.Grounded in ethnographic research in the Philippines, and historical research in U.SThis book theorizes a philosophical framework for educational policy and practice in the southern Philippines where decades of religious and political conflict between a minority Muslim community and the Philippine state has plagued the educational and economic development of the region. It offers a critical historical and ethnographic analysis of a century of failed attempts under succe

Overview: Presents state-of-the-art chapters on all aspects of intelligent computing.Covers both the theory and applications for the latest technologies and methodologies.Includes the proceedings of the Computi.This book focuses on the core areas of computing and their applications in the real world. Presenting papers from the Computing Conference 2020 covers a diverse range of research areas, describing various detailed techniques that have been developed and implemented..The Computing Conference 2020, which provided a venue for academic and industry practitioners to share new ideas and devel

Overview: This book provides an excellent handbook to the Islamic movements in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya and fills a major gap in the scholarship on Islam and the Arab West.978-0-312-16087-6978-1-349-61373-1

Overview: Is highly topical and offers a multi-regional focus.Advances the dialogue between (bio) archaeologists, literary scientists, and social anthropologists.Takes a diachronic approach; examining cases fro.In the present as in the past, the dead have been deployed to promote visions of identity, as well as ostensibly wider human values. Through a series of case studies from ancient Egypt through prehistoric, historic, and present-day Europe, this book discusses what is constant and what is locally and historically specific in our ways of interacting with the remains of the dead, their obj

Overview: In order to do business effectively in contemporary South Asia, it is necessary to understand the culture, the ethos, and the region‘s new trading communities. In tracing the modern-day evolution of business communities in India, this book uses social history to systematically document and understand India‘s new entrepreneurial groups.978-1-349-30173-7978-0-230-59412-8

Overview: Eine wirtschaftswissenschaftliche StudieDie Studie gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über die Diffusion und Erfolgsfaktoren seit den Anfängen der Windkraftindustrie in den 1970er-Jahren bis heute und fokussiert sich insbesondere auf die technologischen Innovationssysteme der Länder Brasilien, China, Dänemark, Deutschland und der USA. Der evolutorische Prozess der Technologieentwicklung und die Formierung neuer Industriestrukturen werden aufgezeigt und so das Opportunitätsfenster für Catch-Up identifiziert. Aktuell gibt es kein vergleichbares Opus zur weltweiten Industriedynamik auf di

Overview: Provides a comprehensive picture of Israeli and Middle Eastern security.Examines Israeli and Middle Eastern security in an enhanced and revised securitization framework.Sheds new light on securitizati.This book is the first comprehensive, book-length analysis of Israel and securitization processes. It develops an original analytical framework to ameliorate the theoretical understanding of the audience component during the securitization process, drawing upon insights from both securitization theory, political psychology, and IR theory. This gives us significant new insights into why