BOOKS with Alphabet J (Ja, Jb,Jc, Jd, Je…... )

Overview: 978-3-662-33532-1978-3-662-33930-5

Overview: 978-3-662-32035-8978-3-662-32862-0

Overview: This study investigates the nexus between giving, belonging and Jewishness in South Africa. Charitable interactions are as much manifestations of inequalities as an expression of the giving individual’s desire to alleviate them. Structuring aspects like class, race, economics, and post-apartheid politics are at the basis of this study. At the same time, though, it is individual agency reproducing inequalities and making sense of the ambiguity of the charitable interaction. In the context of the Jewish community in South Africa this analysis shows how the community’s organisations, pr

Overview: Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.Offers a detailed overview of supercooled liquids and glassy systems.Explains every facet of the jamming paradigm and i.The work described in this book originates from a major effort to develop a fundamental theory of the glass and the jamming transitions. .The first chapters guide the reader through the phenomenology of supercooled liquids and structural glasses and provide the tools to analyze the most frequently used models able to predict the complex behavior of such systems. A fundamental outcome is

Overview: Represents the first ever book-length study of Joyce’s non-fiction.Provides a new perspective on the novels by taking other writings into consideration.Brings together key Joyce scholars/experts on JoThis book presents a fundamental shift in the way we approach, discuss, and evaluate Joyce’s non-fictional writings. Rather than simply proposing or applying new methodologies, it historicises and reconceives the critical assumptions that have shaped scholarly approaches to these works for over half a century, showing that non-fiction as a categorical distinction, no matter how sensible

Overview: Includes coverage of police violence and the issues surrounding ethnicity.By the author of The Problem of Political Authority, the winner of the 2013 PROSE award for philosophy.Argues that prosecutors.America’s legal system harbors serious, widespread injustices. Many defendants are sent to prison for nonviolent offenses, including many victimless crimes. Convicts often serve draconian sentences in crowded prisons rife with abuse. Almost all defendants are convicted without trial because prosecutors threaten defendants with drastically higher sentences if they request a trial. Most A

Overview: Explores risk factors and prevention efforts related to juvenile crime.Explains current theories of juvenile crime.Examines the trends in juvenile crime.This brief explores the current theories, trends, risk factors, and intervention efforts related to juvenile crime. Although arrest rates for juveniles in the US have declined over the last two decades, the amount of severe crimes warrants increased examination as the US reports higher rates than most other developed countries. The authors examine individual, family, and environmental risk and protective factors for juvenile crime, w

Overview: 978-3-642-93752-1978-3-642-94152-8

Overview: Bioethics is a discipline still not fully explored in spite of its rather remark­ able expansion and sophistication during the past two decades. The prolifer­ ation of courses in bioethics at educational institutions of every description gives testimony to an intense academic interest in its concerns. The media have catapulted the dilemmas of bioethics out of the laboratory and library into public view arid discussion with a steady report of the so-called ‘mira­ cles of modern medicine‘ and the moral perplexities which frequently accom­ pany them. The published work of philosophers,

Overview: 978-3-662-29824-4978-3-662-29968-5

Overview: Raumordnungen in Familie und Schule‘Raum‘ ist ein Begriff, der nicht nur einen Ort oder einen Behälter beschreibt, sondern der auf Positionierungen und Anordnungen verweist. Wie Jugendliche sich ins Verhältnis zu Familie und Schule setzen und welche Bedeutung institutionelle schulkulturelle Verortungen in diesem Zusammenhang haben, ist die zentrale Frage dieser Studie. Dabei werden zwei exklusive Schulkulturen mit Blick auf die in ihnen entstehenden Gestaltungsspielräume analysiert. Daneben wird auch betrachtet, wie sich Jugendliche im Verhältnis zur Schule und vor dem Hintergrund ih

Overview: Junge, unverbrauchte und innovative Sichtweise sowie Forschungs- und Arbeitsansätze zum Thema "Türkei".Die wachsende Bedeutung der Türkei global und in Bezug auf Deutschland/Europa hin gesehen.Forum f​Der vorliegende Band schafft ein interdisziplinäres Forum für die gegenwartsbezogene Türkeiforschung in Deutschland. Er präsentiert Forschungsergebnisse von NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen, die sich durch einen frischen Blick auf die Türkei, methodische Vielfalt sowie interdisziplinäre Ansätze auszeichnen. Der Band trägt so zu einem besseren Verständnis von Gesellschaft, Politik, Wirtscha

Overview: Zur Dreiecksbeziehung zwischen Profession, Partizipation und Technik im Internet-JournalismusÜber das Thema „Journalismus im Internet“, dem dieser Band gewidmet ist, wird gegenwärtig viel geschrieben. Besonders oft geschieht dies natürlich im Journal- mus und im Internet selbst. Dort kommt es zumeist auf Kürze und Geschwind- keit an. Ein Twitter-Beitrag, der maximal 140 Zeichen lang sein darf, ist in Sek- denschnelle getippt und veröffentlicht. Dieses Buch ist genau das Gegenteil dazu: Es hat nicht nur viele Seiten, sondern auch eine lange Vorgeschichte. Vom Proje- antrag bis zum Abs

Overview: provides persuasive and accessible insights into legal and philosophical treatments of the many issues raised by the concept of justice in McDonagh’s work.explores the thematic and structural concerns. .This book interrogates the various manifestations of rival systems of justice in the plays and films of Martin McDonagh, in analysis informed by the critical writings of Michael J. Sandel, Steven Pinker, Julia Kristeva, and in particular Amartya Sen on violence, justice, equality and the law. In McDonagh’s works, failures to investigate adequately criminal actions are matched by multi

Overview: 978-3-8100-1150-3978-3-322-97278-1

Overview: This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.Explores Japan’s engagement with peacekeeping in a comprehensive and detailed fashion.Offers a historical, legal, and poli.This open access book examines why Japan discontinued its quarter-century history of troop contribution to UN Peacekeeping Operations (1992–2017). Japan had deployed its troops as UN peacekeepers since 1992, albeit under a constitutional limit on weapons use. Japan’s peacekeepers began to focus on engineering work as its strength, while also trying to relax the constraints on weapons us

Overview: Presents the defining new and much-anticipated feature in Java 9 that all Java programmers will need and want to learn.Covers a feature essential to using Java for connected devices and the Internet oDevelop modular applications using the Java Platform Module System, the single most anticipated feature in Java 9. You will improve maintainability and performance of your Java applications by deploying only modules that are needed and encapsulating their implementation details. .Until now Java has been monolithic. Using any one part of Java has meant incorporating the entirety of the ru

Overview: Suggests new ideas to address the interpretation of probability.Original approach and new perspectives.Clarifies the multi fold nature of probability by means of a purely mathematical approach.IncludeThe problem of probability interpretation was long overlooked before exploding in the 20th century, when the frequentist and subjectivist schools formalized two conflicting conceptions of probability. Beyond the radical followers of the two schools, a circle of pluralist thinkers tends to reconcile the opposing concepts. The author uses two theorems in order to prove that the various int

Overview: Orientierungswissen für die Friedensdiskussion.Aktueller Beitrag zur Friedensdebatte.Umfassend und systematischDas Konzept des Just Policing beinhaltet zwei Dimensionen, die in diesem Band näher in den Blick genommen werden: Zum einen grenzt es die polizeiliche von der militärischen Gewalt ab; zum anderen bezieht sich Just Policing nicht nur auf Polizeikräfte im Allgemeinen, sondern explizit auf gerechte Polizeikräfte. Vor diesem Hintergrund diskutieren die Beiträge, wo die zentralen Unterschiede zwischen polizeilicher und militärischer Gewaltanwendung liegen und welche Gerechtigkeit

Overview: 978-1-349-08372-5Series ISSN 2633-5964 Series E-ISSN 2633-5972