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

Overview: As the Cold War faded, Ambassador Hank Cohen, President George Bush‘s Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, engaged in aggressive diplomatic intervention in Africa‘s civil wars. In this revealing book Cohen tells how he and his Africa Bureau team operated in seven countries in crisis: Angola, Ethiopia, Liberia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, and Sudan. He candidly characterizes key personalities and events and provides a treasure trove of lessons learned and basic principles for practitioners of conflict resolution within states.978-1-349-41823-7978-0-333-97745-3

Overview: Bei der Implementierung digitaler Bildungsangebote spielt die Lebenswelt der Werkstatt für behinderte Menschen (WfbM) mit ihrem Selbstentwurf als „Familie“ sowie als Schutz- und Lebensraum eine entscheidende Rolle. Julia Hartung-Ziehlke betrachtet in diesem Buch die Organisationsform der WfbM vor dem Hintergrund der Implementierung digitaler Bildungsangebote. Sie prüft, wie sich die Situation, die formale Struktur sowie die Kultur der Organisation auf das Verhalten der Organisationsmitglieder und deren Einstellung gegenüber digitalen Bildungsprozessen auswirken und welche organisatio

Overview: Offers a comprehensive introduction to fluorescence sensing.Provides an in-depth description of the applications of fluorescence sensing.Presents a critical analysis of the technologies and an evaluat.This book provides systematic knowledge of basic principles in the design of fluorescence sensing and imaging techniques together with critical analysis of recent developments. Fluorescence is the most popular technique in chemical and biological sensing because of its ultimate sensitivity, high temporal and spatial resolution and versatility that enables imaging within the living cells

Overview: Provides the reader with important concepts in organizational learning and knowledge management through a case study.Proposes an interpretation grid of the innovation process that will help practition​Relying on the extensive study of a multi-national Company, this work proposes a process view of the way firms balance tensions between exploring new knowledge and exploiting old one. First, ideas are generated throughout the organization. These ideas are funneled towards specific project teams that further develop and refine them. Second, projects are assessed by the top management. Ag

Overview: Presents latest results in Intelligent Distributed computing.Written by leading experts.State-of-the-Art-bookThis book represents the combined peer-reviewed proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing -- IDC 2010 and of the Second International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems Technology and Semantics -- MASTS‘2010. Both events were held in Tangier, Morocco during September 16-18, 2010.The 33 contributions published in this book address many topics related to theory and applications of intelligent distributed computing and multi-agent systems

Overview: Provides quantitative and qualitative measures of the geometric features and imperfections of welds.Defines more restrictive acceptance criteria based on weld geometry features and imperfections with This book presents guidelines on quantitative and qualitative measures of the geometric features and imperfections of welds to ensure that it meets the fatigue strength requirements laid out in the recommendations of the IIW (International Institute of Welding). Welds that satisfy these quality criteria can be assessed in accordance with existing IIW recommendations based on nominal stre

Overview: Demonstrates the utility of laboratory-based experimental methods in dealing with dynamic tasks.Features a comprehensive evaluation model for testing the effectiveness of decision-aiding technologies..This book is about improving human decision making and performance in complex, dynamic tasks. The defining characteristics of a dynamic decision task are that there are a number of decisions required, that decisions are interdependent and that the environment in which the decision is made is transient and feedback is pervasive. Examples of dynamic tasks include the sustainable managemen

Overview: Utilises interviews with negotiators from the European Commission and WTO who have worked on trade agreements.Explores the relationship between national governments and EU institutions within trade agThis book examines how international trade can be utilised to build a sustainable future. It highlights how international trade and climate regimes can work together to put in place a Green New Deal. The potential of mega-regional trade agreements to aid climate change mitigation and power the energy transition is explored in relation to the energy section, with a particular focus on cle

Overview: Discusses information systems for intelligent systems.Presents the outcomes of the ISBM 2022 conference, held during 2 – 3 September 2022.Serves as a reference resource for researchers and practitione.This book includes selected papers presented at World Conference on Information Systems for Business Management (ISBM 2022), held in Bangkok, Thailand, during September 2–3, 2022. It covers up-to-date cutting-edge research on data science, information systems, infrastructure and computational systems, engineering systems, business information systems, and smart secure systems..978-981-1

Overview: Original research, conducted over five years and is the state of the art on the subject.Provides an in-depth analysis by the main authors, with extensive lists and studies on legal cases from internatThe book provides an overview of how international law is today constructed through diverse macro and microprocesses that expand its traditional subjects and sources, with the attribution of sovereign capacity and power to the international plane (moving the international toward the national). Simultaneously, national laws approximate laws of other nations (moving among nations or moving

Overview: Provides a thorough introduction and clear understanding of Internet of Things;.Describes a complete, hierarchal model of Internet of Things;.Includes a detailed description of various applications an.This book describes the building blocks and introductory business models for Internet of Things (IoT). The author  provide an overview of the entire IoT architecture and constituent layers, followed by  detail description of each block . Various inter-connecting technologies and sensors are discussed in context of IoT networks.  In addition to this,  concepts of Big Data and Fog Computi

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.978-3-642-47216-9978-3-642-47574-0

Overview: Provides a detailed coverage of 2D image based NPR Contains chapters written by a renowned expert in the field Aimed at to both graduate students and professional developers.Includes supplementary mat.Non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) is a combination of computer graphics and computer vision that produces renderings in various artistic, expressive or stylized ways such as painting and drawing. This book focuses on image and video based NPR, where the input is a 2D photograph or a video rather than a 3D model. 2D NPR techniques have application in areas as diverse as consumer and pro

Overview: State of the art developments in CIRP Life Cycle Engineering for SustainabilityBusiness models, which aims at determining how efficient can be a life cycle strategy from different point of view (customer, policy, environment, economics,…). End of life strategies, presenting recent approaches and technological solutions for end-of life treatments. Product development for sustainability, which aims at showing how designers integrate environmental conside- tions to improve their solutions. Product life cycle management, dealing with methods and tools to support life cycle considerations

Overview: Normalität ist neben Behinderung und Integration die bedeutsamste Kategorie des integrationspädagogischen Diskurses. Anhand einer exemplarischen Analyse der Werke von Eberwein und Feuser wird aufgezeigt, wie im Diskurs die Polarität der Kategorien Behinderung und Normalität aufgelöst und gleichzeitig Behinderung als neue Normalität produziert wird. 978-3-663-10375-2978-3-663-10374-5

Overview: Provides production-grade solutions in RavenDB that you can adapt to your own applications.Provides real-life examples followed by the solutions that can be used right away.Takes a straight-to-the-poi.Simplify your first steps with the RavenDB NoSQL Document Database. This book takes a task-oriented approach by showing common problems, potential solutions, brief explanations of how those solutions work, and the mechanisms used. Based on real-world examples, the recipes in this book will show you how to solve common problems with Raven Query Language and will highlight reasons why Rav

Overview: Industrial Crystallization Symposia have been organized by the Crystallization Research Group at the Czechoslovak Research Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, Usti nad Labem, since 1960. Over the years, the increasing popularity of the unit operation of crystallization has been clearly demonstrated by the steady increase in numbers of both the papers presented and the attendances at the meetings. The 6th Symposium (1-3 September 1975) was organized jointly with the European Federation of Chemical Engineering Working Party on Crystallization, and the 44 papers presented were arranged i

Overview: Presents recent advances in Information Systems Architecture and Technology.Contains best papers presented at the 37th International Conference on Information Systems Architecture and Technology – ISA.This four volume set of books constitutes the proceedings of the 2016 37th International Conference Information Systems Architecture and Technology (ISAT), or ISAT 2016 for short, held on September 18–20, 2016 in Karpacz, Poland. The conference was organized by the Department of Management Systems and the Department of Computer Science, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Pola

Overview: Focuses on schools in a colonial context within the emerging British Empire.Examines education reforms related to cultural and technological‘changes.Adds to recent scholarly interest in print culture,.This book documents an informal system of education that emerged in Ireland between the late 1750s and the end of the century, a system that operated largely without funding or direction by church or state. In a society as divided as eighteenth-century Ireland, it is remarkable that such a system could succeed, paving the way for the more formal reforms of Irish education that followed

Overview: Describes thermal degradation of polymers.Summarizes the correlations between external heat flux and time to ignition.Compares the ignition parameters of polymersThis book provides an overview of the initiation of combustion processes of polymeric materials. It presents physicochemical processes associated with heating as well as numerical methods for initiation parameter calculation. In addition, the book describes thermal degradation of polymers and the effect of an incident heat flux on initiation time. It then highlights the most commonly used devices for measuring the time to ig