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

Overview: 978-3-642-93746-0978-3-642-94146-7

Overview: Major revision to the history of the Johnstown flood.Shows how a catastrophic event from the late 1800’s can be reconstructed and analyzed using modern scientific methods.Critically reviews a state-of.Science now reveals the true cause of the dam breach flood that destroyed Johnstown in 1889.  The tragic loss of more than 2200 lives was preventable; the initial investigation of the flood was hijacked, delayed, and distorted by powerful members of the industrial elite. This book bridges the gap between history and science, reexamining eyewitness accounts of the flood and historic docu

Overview: Presents a comprehensive overview on digital transformation of procurement.Discusses potentials and use cases for AI, robotics and machine learning for optimal purchasing decisions.Embarks upon settin.This book shows how digital transformation has the power to revolutionize the way procurement operates, and discusses how especially buyer decisions are empowered through artificial intelligence. Depending on a company’s strategy all desired outcomes are possible, including doubling savings, innovation, sustainability, quality, speed, and halve the risk. .Jumpstart to Digital Procuremen

Overview: Tells how the Catholic Church came to clarify the role of Israel in salvation history..Demonstrates the importance of Jules Isaac in French Jewish history..Explains how Isaac set in motion the train o.This book presents the backstory of how the Catholic Church came to clarify and embrace the role of Israel in salvation history, at the behest of an unlikely personality: Jules Isaac. This embrace put to an end the tradition, more than fifteen centuries old, of anti-Jewish rhetoric that had served as taproot to racial varieties of anti-Semitism.  Prior to Isaac’s thought and activism, t

Overview: Ronald L. Cohen Justice is a central moral standard in social life. It is invoked in judging individual persons and in judging the basic structure of societies. It has been described as akin to a "human hunger or thirst" (Pascal, Pensees, cited in Hirschman, 1982, p. 91), "more powerful than any physical hunger, and endlessly resilient" (Pitkin, 1981, p. 349). The most prominent contemporary theory of justice proceeds from the claim that justice is "the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is systems of thought" (Rawls, 1971, p. 3). However, as the following chapters demonst

Overview: 978-3-322-99645-9978-3-322-99644-2

Overview: The analysis of justice between generations proposed in this book is based first of all on a critical reading of Rawls‘ theory of justice, but it also pays attention to the existential and cultural context of our intuitions about intergenerational equity. Although the desire for justice supplies an independent reason for action, the unprecedented character of the context in which that reason must operate necessarily raises the question of its psychological support: we want justice for future people, but what interest do we have in their welfare in the first place? I have tried to cap

Overview: Japan is imagined routinely in American discourse as a supernatural entity. Gothic tales from these two cultures have been exchanged, consumed, and adapted. Here, Blouin examines a prevalent tendency within the United States-Japan cultural relationship to project anxiety outward only to find shadowy outlines of the self abroad.978-1-137-30522-0

Overview: Frühe politische Sozialisation.Includes supplementary material: Befassen sich schon junge Kinder mit Politik – und wenn ja, welche Themen finden sie besonders interessant? Lena Haug beschäftigt sich in einer empirischen Studie mit dem politischen Interesse von Kindern im Alter von vier bis zehn Jahren. Dazu untersucht sie Zeichnungen zu Zukunftsvorstellungen von 230 Kindern verschiedener Grundschulen und Kindergärten. Sie zeigt, dass auch Kinder dieses Alters sich bereits für politische Themen wie etwa Krieg, Umweltprobleme und Armut interessieren. Dabei wird deutlich, dass die Kinde

Overview: Build and deploy interactive web applications using Java..Server Faces in a Java Enterprise Edition environment..This book is about using JavaServer Faces to create and deploy interactive applications delivered to end users via a browser interface. JavaServer Faces is the component-based technology enabling easy development of such applications, especially applications of the type commonly needed in enterprise environments. .JavaServerFaces: Introduction by Example. is a to-the-point, 250-page introduction to an important technology that every Java Enterprise Edition programmer shoul

Overview: BERMUDO alone of the many Spanish theorists and composers of the 16th century seems to have written anything specifically for New World use. All the more fitting is it, then, to have completed this monograph in a part of the Spanish Indies that was stirring every Andalusian‘s imagination during the days when he was first sending his books across the Atlantic. In every way his was a remarkable personality. He was the first to compose and publish any organ music in Spain. As if the publication of such music in staff-notation were not enough he also published the first Spanish keyboard

Overview: Depicts how Newtonianism informed the development of the Spanish colonies in the New World.Presents unprecedented textual evidence to characterise the circulation of science in the Americas.Examines tThis book presents the process of circulation and adoption of Newtonianism in the Viceroyalty of New Granada (modern-day Colombia) in the eighteenth century by examining José Celestino Mutis’s lectures at the Colegio del Rosario between the 1760s and 1770s. Mostly famous for his botanical activities as director of the botanical expedition, Mutis lectured the first course of mathematics e

Overview: 978-1-349-81765-8

Overview: Aktuelle Daten zur Bedeutung außerschulischen Lernens für Heranwachsende.Lernen und Bildung sind wieder stärker in den Blickpunkt der öffentlichen Debatte gerückt. Insbesondere die Frage nach der Qualität schulischer Lernprozesse hat breite Resonanz gefunden. Informelle Lernprozesse, die außerhalb dieser Institution stattfinden, im Kindes- und Jugendalter aber an der Tagesordnung sind, blieben bislang eher unberücksichtigt..Vor diesem Hintergrund geht die vorliegende Untersuchung der Frage nach, welche Bedeutung außerschulische Lernerfahrungen für die Bildung Heranwachsender haben. I

Overview: In this book, seven internationally renowned experts on Japanese and Asian history have come together to investigate, with innovative methodological approaches, various aspects of the Japanese experience during and after the First World War.978-1-137-54674-6

Overview: 978-3-476-03420-5

Overview: Applies just war theory to a range of 20th and 21st century American literary works on the experience of war.Each chapter analyses different authors’ fictive and non-fictive accounts of war.Centers th.This book questions when, why, and how it is just for a people to go to war, or to refrain from warring, in a post-9/11 world. To do so, it explores Just War Theory (JWT) in relationship to recent American accounts of the experience of war. The book analyses the .jus ad bellum .criteria of just war—right intention, legitimate authority, just cause, probability of success, and last resor

Overview: .Java is an exciting new object-oriented technology. Hardware for supporting objects and other features of Java such as multithreading, dynamic linking and loading is the focus of this book. The impact of Java‘s features on micro-architectural resources and issues in the design of Java-specific architectures are interesting topics that require the immediate attention of the research community. While Java has become an important part of desktop applications, it is now being used widely in high-end server markets, and will soon be widespread in low-end embedded computing...Java Microar

Overview: 978-3-642-47096-7978-3-642-47334-0Series ISSN 0374-1222

Overview: Fasst die positiven Auswirkungen einer Just Culture für Mitarbeitende und die Organisation zusammen.Bietet ein neues Konzept zur Einführung einer Just Culture im ärztlichen Bereich eines Krankenhauses.In den letzten Jahrzehnten gab es im medizinischen Sektor beeindruckende Fortschritte, doch die Förderung einer fortschrittlichen Organisationskultur, entscheidend für Teamkooperation, wurde vernachlässigt. Diese Vernachlässigung belastet nicht nur das Personal, sondern beeinträchtigt auch die Patientenversorgung und die wirtschaftliche Gesundheit von Krankenhäusern. Vertrauensvolle Tea