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

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Overview: Much has been written of the ‘success‘ of the early missions to Japan during the decades immediately following the arrival of the first Jesuits in 1549. The subsequent ‘failure‘ of the faith to put down roots strong enough to survive this initial wave of enthusiasm is discussed with equal alacrity. The papers in this volume, born of a Conference marking the centenary of the Japan Society of London, represent an attempt to reassess the contact between Christianity and Japan in terms of a symbiotic relationship, a dialogue in which the impact of Japan on the imported religion is viewed

Overview: The design of this book is based on teaching the ]SP (Jackson Structured Pro­ gramming) methodology to undergaduates and postgraduates over a period of a number of years. I am grateful for the comments and feedback that have been provided by students who have taken these courses. The aim of the book is to provide readers with an understanding of the concepts behind the ]SP methodology in order that they may apply it for themselves; simply using the notation is not sufficient, it must be used appropriately. The answer to the question "Why is this wrong?" can lead to a greater understa

Overview: 978-3-531-11422-4978-3-322-85776-7

Overview: Encourages the audience to read Bruner’s original works by providing background information and some conceptual tools to understand his ideas.Provides a historical background of Bruner‘s work and locaJerome S. Bruner (1915- ) is one of the best known and most influential psychologists of the twentieth century. He has made significant contributions to cognitive psychology and educational theory.This book presents a brief introduction to Jerome Bruner’s educational ideas and details their influences on our educational discourse and practice. It examines Bruner’s ideas in the context of

Overview: 978-3-662-37253-1978-3-662-37979-0

Overview: Eine medienwissenschaftliche Untersuchung eines TransformationskontextesDas Buch befasst sich mit der Rolle von Medien in einem politischen Ausnahmezustand. Bettina Haasen hat in Burundi Journalistinnen und Journalisten zu ihrem beruflichen Rollenselbstverständnis befragt und diese Aussagen unter Berücksichtigung ihrer sozialen Herkunft und den Zielen der internationalen Medienentwicklungszusammenarbeit (MEZ) kritisch in den Blick genommen. Mit dem gescheiterten Putsch im Jahr 2015 hat das Mediensystem in Burundi einen grundlegenden Wandel erlebt: Medienhäuser wurden vollständig zers

Overview: Provides a theoretically-rich treatment of Japan’s historical new media contexts.Focuses on films that are widely known and easily accessible.Emphasizes the importance of global film culture to the co.This book explores the rich complexity of Japan’s film history by tracing how cinema has been continually reshaped through its dynamic engagement within a shifting media ecology. Focusing on techniques that draw attention to the interval between frames on the filmstrip, something that is generally obscured in narrative film, Lee uncovers a chief mechanism by which, from its earliest per

Overview: THE PROBLEM OF THE INTERPRETATION OF HAMANN Johann Georg Hamann is an intriguing but poorly known figure in the contemporary intellectual world. Yet this is the man whom Kierkegaard saluted as "Emperor!", whose writings were to have been arranged for publication by none other than Goethe himself, and whom Dilthey numbered among the primordial figures in the rise of modern historical consciousness. There are reasons for the persistence of this general ignorance. Hamann is deep. And, in addition, there is his forbidding style. The readers of Kierkegaard and Dilthey, two other giants wh

Overview: There is no similar book, except for the previous editions, which this third edition replaces.This is fully revised, with contributions from new authors and an entirely new biostatistics chapter.Many .There has been a dramatic increase in theoretical and practical studies on insect natural enemies over the last decades. The appeal of insect predators and, in particular, parasitoids, as research animals derives from the relative ease with which many species may be cultured and experimented on in the laboratory, the simple life-cycles of most parasitoid species, and the increasing dema

Overview: Eine rekonstruktiv-praxeologische Perspektive auf professionelles HandelnAusgehend von einem rekonstruktiven Forschungsansatz geht Kevin Stützel den Handlungsweisen von Pädagoginnen und Pädagogen im Bereich der Sozialen Arbeit mit rechten Jugendlichen auf den Grund. Der Autor analysiert Gruppendiskussionen mit Team-Gruppen, die überwiegend in der aufsuchenden Jugendarbeit tätig sind, wobei er die Analyse um Bildinterpretationen ergänzt. Auf der Grundlage der empirischen Ergebnisse diskutiert er rekonstruktiv-praxeologische Perspektiven auf professionelles Handeln und präsentiert prax

Overview: Presents the first-ever English translation of Jost Bürgi‘s Arithmetische und Geometrische Progreß Tabulen.Includes full-color, high-resolution scans of 23 pages of text and 58 tables from an original.This monograph presents a groundbreaking scholarly treatment of the German mathematician Jost Bürgi’s original work on logarithms, Arithmetische und Geometrische Progreß Tabulen.  It provides the first-ever English translation of Bürgi’s text and illuminates his role in the development of the conception of logarithms, for which John Napier is traditionally given priority.  High-resoluti

Overview: Zusammenführung kriminologischer und sozialpädagogischer Perspektiven.Erstes Lehrbuch zum Thema für das Studium ‘Soziale Arbeit‘.Auch zur Orientierung für Fachkräfte im Sozialwesen und in der Exekutiv.Das ‘Lehrbuch Jugendkriminalität‘ vermittelt einen Überblick zentraler Aspekte des aktuellen theoretischen und empirischen Wissens zu Jugendkriminalität. Den Ausgangspunkt bildet eine sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektive, indem Jugendkriminalität als diskursive Konstruktion in den Blick genommen wird. An ihr sind verschiedenste Akteure beteiligt (Öffentlichkeit, Polizei, Sozialpädagogen,

Overview: This SpringerBrief explains how to create a Rails web application with JRuby, a 100% Java implementation for Ruby. This brief demonstrates how Oracle® WebLogic servers and JBoss® application servers deploy the JRuby application, how JRuby runs on the Java® Virtual Machine, and how JRuby is the basis for popular websites including LinkedIn, Oracle Mix, and Mingle. The Oracle® database and Oracle® MySQL database are used as the basis for the JRuby Rails application. Chapters also cover enabling Flash, developing the JRuby application using Ruby syntax, and deploying applications throug

Overview: Provides novel descriptions of Hendrix’s popular music, linking him to broader contextual and historical questions of the countercultural 1960s and black-transnational political-cultures.Centers HendrThis book, on Jimi Hendrix’s life, times, visual-cultural prominence, and popular music, with a particular emphasis on Hendrix’s relationships to the cultural politics of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and nation. Hendrix, an itinerant “Gypsy” and “Voodoo child” whose racialized “freak” visual image continues to internationally circulate, exploited the exoticism of his race,

Overview: Explains the underlying causes behind Japanese economic stagnation.Offers a cautionary tale for other Asian economies.Brings practical policy-making experience together with theoretical insightsThis book examines the struggles of the Japanese economy over the last 30 years, analyzing in detail the formation of the huge economic bubble in the 1980s, its collapse at the beginning of the 1990s, and subsequent two decade long economic stagnation and chronic deflation, with the aim of identifying the mechanism of such processes and drawing lessons for future economic policy management. Th

Overview: This book is an attempt to explain Japanese regional structure and associated dynamism in terms of urban systems. It is extremely effective to use the urban systems approach to explain the regional changes in today‘s Japan, which is undergoing changes wrought by economic globalization and the information revolution. This is because the transformation into a service economy has become the key component of the economic activities of cities, linkages are being mutually strengthened, and regional development is being determined by the interdependency of cities. Readers hoping to gain an

Overview: Spannende Einblicke in die Entstehung einer modernen Schutzimpfung.Grundstein zur Ausrottung der Pocken.Klassiker der Medizingeschichte aus aktueller Perspektive kommentiert.Includes supplementary mat.Wolfgang U. Eckart, Direktor des Instituts für Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin an der Universität Heidelberg, kommentiert aus heutiger Sicht die hier wiedergegebene erste deutsche Übersetzung von Edward Jenners Werk "An inquiry into the causes and effects of the Variolae Vaccinae". Sie erschien 1799 unter dem Titel „Eduard Jenners Untersuchungen über die Ursachen und Wirkungen der Kuhp

Overview: Grundlagen und professionelle Programmierfähigkeiten in Java anhand der Spieleprogrammierung lernen..Includes supplementary material: Spielen macht nicht nur einfach Spaß – über das Spiel entwickelt der „homo ludens“ (lat. der spielende Mensch) seine Fähigkeiten..Dieser Kurs nutzt den Spieltrieb um Programmieren zu lehren und zeigt wie spannend, kreativ und gesellig es sein kann. Als Programmiersprache dient hierzu Java in der aktuellen Version 1.6. Zuerst werden einige Grundlagen des Programmierens besprochen. Die treibende Kraft zum Erlernen der Sprache ist die Entwicklung von unte

Overview: Updated edition with new content on modular development, new APIs, and an example using the Scene Builder tool.Filled with fun and practical code examples that you can modify and drop into your own pr.Create media-rich client applications using JavaFX 9 and the Java 9 platform. Learn to create GUI-based applications for mobile devices, desktop PCs, and even the web. Incorporate media such as audio and video into your applications. Interface with hardware devices such as Arduino and Leap Motion. Respond to gesture control through devices such as the Leap Motion Controller. Take advant