BOOKS with Alphabet L (La, Lb,Lc, Ld, Le…... )

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .A fundamental object of study in group theory is the lower central series of groups. Understanding its relationship with the dimension series, which consists of the subgroups determined by the augmentation powers, is a challenging task. This monograph presents an exposition of different methods for investigating this relationship. In addition to group theorists, the results are also of interest to topologists and number theorists. The approach is mainly combinatorial and homological. A novel feature is an exposition of simplicial methods for the stud

Overview: Presents a pluralistic approach of Latin American heritage.Integrates the various categories of heritage.Includes studies from global to local scale.Includes supplementary material: .Focusing on Brazil, this book approaches the term “heritage” from not only a historical and architectural point of view, but also considers its artistic, archaeological, natural, ethnological and industrial aspects. .The book is divided into four thematic sections – 1) traditions and intangible heritage, 2) archaeological heritage, 3) natural heritage and landscapes, and 4) heritage of industrial and bui

Overview: Written by a pioneer in peace and constructive conflict resolution studies.Offers an anthology of Prof. Louis Kriesberg’s major contributions to peace studies on the occasion of his 90th birthday.InclOn the occasion of his 90th birthday Louis Kriesberg provides an informative account of his career, tracing the trajectory of his discoveries, contributions, and stumbles as he sought to help the advance toward a more sustainable and just peace in the world. His work contributes to ideas and practices in several areas of conflict studies, notably intractable conflicts and their transform

Overview: .The relationships between narrative and leadership,between rhetoric and performance, between doctrine and its voicing, are crucialto party politics and are underrated by both practising politicians andscholars. This study analyses the ‘performance of leadership’ in the UK LabourParty, and what this means for a new approach to understanding politics. Themain focus of this study is the five-year leadership of Ed Miliband, 2010-2015.The fortunes of the party and the party leadership can be apprehended as aseries of performed rhetorical events. A political leader’s persona is aconstruct

Overview: Fully revised and updated 3rd edition of landmark reference work.Includes one new volume on Language, Education and Technology.Truly global coverage of language and education.Special emphasis on langu.In this third, fully revised edition, the 10 volume Encyclopedia of Language and Education offers the newest developments, including an entirely new volume of research and scholarly content, essential to the field of language teaching and learning in the age of globalization. In the selection of topics and contributors, the Encyclopedia reflects the depth of disciplinary knowledge, brea

Overview: Provides a comparative analysis of development issues in the Muslim world.Examines the irony of poverty amidst abundant natural resources in the Muslim world.Discusses the current trend of poverty in This book investigates the current level and trend of poverty in the Muslim World, including selected countries in Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, East Asia, the Pacific and South America. Authors explore themes of poverty reduction, poverty alleviation and the extent of influences on social and economic development, particularly natural resource endowments (especially mineral

Overview: .L‘integrazione del sistema di "gestione per la Qualità", con la valutazione e il miglioramento delle specifiche competenze tecnico-professionali e col monitoraggio della Qualità dei percorsi diagnostici e terapeutici non è stato e non è impegno di poco conto: non a caso essi sono annoverati tra i punti di forza e gli obiettivi strategici anche del Piano Sanitario Nazionale 2003-2005 ("Garantire e monitorare la qualità delle cure e delle tecnologie sanitarie"). La disponibilità di materiali di significato formativo in tal senso è ancora assai scarsa nel nostro mondo specialistico. E

Overview: 40 years experience of the author in very low-power circuits.Analytical approach highlighting the importance of each design parameter.Optimization for minimum power/performance ratio.Includes detailed.Electronic oscillators using an electromechanical device as a frequency reference are irreplaceable components of systems-on-chip for time-keeping, carrier frequency generation and digital clock generation. With their excellent frequency stability and very large quality factor Q, quartz crystal resonators have been the dominant solution for more than 70 years. But new possibilities are

Overview: Provides readers with detailed guidance on the analysis, modelling, planning, and design of landside accessibility at airports.The only book to address the specific challenges of landside accessibilit.This book covers the analysis, modelling, planning, and design of airport landside access modes and their systems. It elaborates on the issues and related problems of airport landside accessibility in an innovative, comprehensive and systematic way. In addition to the general concept of accessibility, the book addresses the analysis and modelling of infrastructure-related, technological

Overview: Erster umfassender Vergleich zwischen Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie und Systemtheorie.Studie zur soziologischen Theoriebildung?.Vergleichsdebatte und dialogische Synopse.Includes supplementary material: Andreas Christian Braun schafft mit seinem Vergleich der Theorien von Bruno Latour und Niklas Luhmann einen hohen Mehrwert für die soziologische Theoriebildung. Der Autor zeigt auf, dass sich beide Theoretiker von der Mikro- bis zur Makroebene zu allen Skalen des Sozialen äußern. Die Faszination der beiden Theorien macht aus, dass beide kaum unterschiedlicher sein könnten und, zumindest par

Overview: Provides a better understanding of lung cancer, the factors that make it lethal, and current research focused on developing personalized treatment plans.Addresses statistics and epidemiology of lung c.This, the second of two volumes on personalized medicine in lung cancer, touches upon the recent progress in targeted drug development based on genomics; emerging biomarkers and therapeutic targets such as EMT, cancer stem cells, and the tumor microenvironment; current personalized clinical management and radiation therapy for lung cancers; and the promise of epigenetics and next-genera

Overview: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, LCPC‘97, held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA in August 1997.The book presents 28 revised full papers together with four posters; all papers were carefully selected for presentation at the workshop and went through a thorough reviewing and revision phase afterwards. The papers are organized in topical sections on data locality, program analysis, automatic parallelization, HPF extensions and compilers, synchronization and communic

Overview: Looks at the underexamined phenomena of the ‘second city‘.Crosses linguistic and disciplinary boundaries with contributions from a variety of areas.Looks at cities and literature very much in their hi.This book brings together geographers and literary scholars in a series of engagements near the boundaries of their disciplines. In urban studies, disproportionate attention has been given to a small set of privileged ‘first’ cities. This volume problematizes the dominance of such alpha cities, offering a wide perspective on ‘second cities’ and their literature. The volume is divided in

Overview: Das Buch bietet einen kompakten anwendungsorientierten Einstieg in TEX und das dazugehörige Makropaket LATEX. Es gliedert sich in eine allgemeine Einführung, eine nach Themengebieten strukturierte Darstellung des Befehlsumfangs und der einzelnen Kommandos, sowie tabellarische Übersichten und ein umfangreiches Glossar, mit dem schnell die Syntax eines bestimmten Befehls nachgeschlagen werden kann. Damit werden sowohl die Bedürfnisse des TEX-Novizen erfüllt, als auch die Ansprüche des erfahrenen Users, der sich schnell über den Aufbau eines selten benötigten Kommandos informieren kann.

Overview: Tagung zu aktuellen Logistikthemen: Gestaltung und Management unternehmensübergreifender logistischer Ketten, Logistik-Informations- und Kommunikationssysteme..Includes supplementary material: Hohe Flexibilität gegenüber inhomogenen Kundenbedürfnissen, Kosteneffizienz und eine punktgenaue Lieferfähigkeit gelten als entscheidende Faktoren im globalen Wettbewerb. Damit kommt der Entwicklung leistungsfähiger Informationssysteme in der Logistik wachsende Bedeutung zu. Das Buch bietet eine umfassende Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten zum Entwicklungsstand und zu den Einsatzmöglichkeite

Overview: Das gesamte Prüfungswissen für den Bildungsgang Leasingfachwirt.Kompakte Übersichten erleichtern die Aneignung des Stoffes.Übungsaufgaben mit Lösungshinweisen helfen bei der SelbstkontrolleDieses Buch hilft bei der systematischen Vorbereitung auf die Abschlussprüfung zum Leasingfachwirt. Die Inhalte sind dazu übersichtlich nach Formen, Vertragsarten, weiteren rechtlichen und steuerlichen Aspekten gegliedert. Zur Festigung des Erlernten bzw. zur eigenen Kontrolle dienen die Aufgaben am Ende der Kapitel. Auch für auszubildende Bankkaufleute, die sich besonders für die Finanzierungsform

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, LCPC 2013, held in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2012. The 20 revised full papers and two keynote papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The focus of the papers is on following topics: parallel programming models, compiler analysis techniques, parallel data structures and parallel execution models, to GPGPU and other heterogeneous execution models, code generati

Overview: Provides the first English translation of Ludovico Agostini’s ‘Imaginary Republic‘.Presents a new understanding and comprehensive analysis of this important text.Broadens our understanding of EuropeanThis book offers the first English translation and comprehensive analysis (inclusive of introductory study and endnotes to the translation) of the longest and most complex Italian Renaissance utopia, Ludovico Agostini’s .Imaginary Republic.. It not only reveals the significance of a text that has been mostly forgotten; it also shows how an investigation of .Imaginary Republic. uncovers n

Overview: This book concerns the significance of the English Channel in British and French literature from the 1780s onwards: a timely subject given the intense debates in progress about the actual and desired relationships between Britain and mainland Europe. The book addresses contemporary authors who use the Channel as a focus for cultural comment, comparing their approaches to those of earlier writers, from Charlotte Smith and Chateaubriand through Hugo and Dickens to historians and travel writers of the 1950s and 1980s.978-1-4039-1928-1

Overview: Makes a contribution to a timely and topical issue: the debate surrounding the legality of Israel’s occupation of Palestine.Combines legal and political sciences discourses to build a strong argument .This book investigates the Israeli engagement with international law in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) between 1967 and 2009. Grounded in a field-based study of the military International Law Department, it examines the dynamic position and impact that international law has had in the OPT. By analysing the Israeli 2008/9 offensive in Gaza as an example of contemp