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

Overview: The timing of this volume is long overdue and it will be the first comprehensive coverage of leptin physiology in the field.Includes supplementary material: The discovery of leptin by Friedman and his colleagues in 1994 was a seminal discovery in the study of metabolism, providing a new tool to study energy expenditure and appetite regulation. Early studies actively investigated many aspects of metabolism, obesity, and diabetes but it was soon evident that leptin was much more than a metabolic hormone. Today leptin, with almost 11,000 reports in the world‘s literature, is recognized

Overview: .Unter Bezugnahme auf die Neue Phänomenologie von Hermann Schmitz und auf der Grundlage eigener Konzerterfahrungen geht die Autorin erstmals dem Zusammenhang von Leib und Konzentration nach. Sie zeigt, dass Konzentration nicht bloß eine gedankliche Selbstdisziplinierung ist, sondern primär das Gewahren der eigenen Gefühlswelt erfordert. Dabei gelingt ihr ein Brückenschlag zwischen Theorie und Praxis: zum einen leistet sie einen Beitrag zur Phänomenologie der Konzentration und zur Philosophie der Emotionen, zum anderen erschließt sie professionellen Musikern und Musikpädagogen eine le

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Overview: Provides the first scholarly analysis of Arizona’s anti-immigration law, SB 1070.Brings together leading scholars in the fields of border studies and immigration.Places the Arizona law in a larger con.Arizona has one of the fastest growing communities of Latino immigrants in the United States. In response to accusations that the Federal government was hampering the immigration enforcement actions of Arizona police, state Senator Russell Pearce introduced the “Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act.” Better known as SB 1070, the policy allows police officers in Arizona

Overview: Long-Range Transport of Airborne Pollutants and Acid Rain Conference This issue of Water, Air, and Soil Pollution is devoted to the collection of papers presented at the Long-Range Transport of Airborne Pollutants and Acid Rain Con­ ference held at Albany, N.Y., April 27-30, 1981. The issue includes most of the invited papers as well as a good number of the poster papers. The conference consisted of seven plenary sessions at which the invited papers were presented. After each session the participants discussed the session topic in the poster area where the subject was further explore

Overview: Presents a comprehensive framework for leadership and organizational communication.Details a wide selection of leadership approaches.Examines in detail the empirical findings in specific industriesThis book deals with the concepts of leadership and communication in business organizations, initially on a general level and then in detail through an analysis of specific cases. First the book provides a contextual framework to explain the role and importance of the topic. The foundation is provided by selected behavioural and situational theories. Then 15 different leadership models and

Overview: The independent investigations some 70 years ago by E. G. D. Murray and colleagues in Cambridge (UK) and J,H. H. Pirie in Johannesburg (South Mrica) resulted in the first detailed descriptions of listeriosis (in both instances in small animals), together with the isolation and naming of Lis­ teria monocytogenes. These descriptions in 1926 and 1927 show the pre­ cision and care of these experimentalists, for not only did they show much skill and attention to detail but also great insight in surmising that the consumption of contaminated food was associated with the trans­ mission of l

Overview: Targets a wide readership including researchers, teachers and students with the need to develop local language tests.Illustrates local testing research and practices across linguistic cultural socio-p.This book describes language testing practices that exist in the intermediate space between large-scale standardized testing and classroom assessment, an area that is rarely addressed in language testing literature. Drawing empirical research on a variety of languages, the volume discusses local language tests’ ability to represent local contexts and values, explicitly and purposefully

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.978-3-642-90840-8

Overview: Werkanalyse und Interpretation.Exkurs: Wittgenstein und die MathematikMusik und Literatur. Sie spielen in Wittgensteins Denken ebenso eine wichtige Rolle wie Physik, Mathematik, Psychologie, Psychoanalyse und Anthropologie. Daher gehen von seinen Texten viele unterschiedliche Impulse aus. So bietet Wittengensteins Werk Ansatzpunkte von einander entgegengesetzten Standpunkten aus auf das Werk zuzugehen. Die vorliegende Monographie stellt Wittgensteins Philosophie verständlich und einführend und im Überblick erläuternd dar.978-3-476-10267-6978-3-476-03968-2Series ISSN 0558-3667 Series

Overview: This book of original contributions presents investigations of psycho­ therapautic interaction. While the methodological strategies and the­ oretical orientations of these investigations are notably diverse, the utterance-by-utterance analysis of client-therapist dialogue provides a strong commonality of interest and a particularly productive perspective from which the process of psychotherapy can be illuminated. It is hoped that the contributions selected, and the problems with which they are occupied, will make evident the rich possibilities such a perspective has to offer. It shou

Overview: .Le syndrome de détresse respiratoire aiguë est une des pathologies emblématiques de la réanimation non seulement du fait de sa fréquence et sa gravité, mais aussi parce que seule la ventilation mécanique peut sauver le patient qui en souffre. De très nombreux travaux mettant en avant des évolutions importantes dans ce domaine ont jalonné ces dernières années. Une mise au point actualisée s’avérait indispensable. Les auteurs, tous très impliqués dans les progrès de la prise en charge des patients présentant un SDRA, ont dû faire preuve d’une grande rigueur dans l’exhaustivité mais au

Overview: Das bekannte Lehrbuch vermittelt in seiner vollständig überarbeiteten Neuauflage warenkundliche Informationen über pflanzliche Rohstoffe, die wichtig für die Herstellung von Arzneimitteln sind. Studierende der Pharmazie, Chemie, Biologie und Medizin ebenso wie Apotheker, Chemiker und Ärzte erhalten nicht nur Aufschluß über die Herkunft, chemische Zusammensetzung, Qualitätsprüfung und Anwendung pflanzlicher Arzneidrogen, sondern lernen auch die aus Arzneidrogen hergestellten Arzneimittel und deren Wirkungen kennen. Angestrebt wird eine Synopsis stofflich-phytochemischer, analytisch-ph

Overview: Presenting the first large overview of this emerging perspective in agronomy.Exploring the cutting-edge of data availability and processing methods.Tests a theoretical framework for scientists to suppThe landscape is widely identified as a relevant target both by integrative policies and across the disciplines dealing with resource management and territorial planning. Landscape agronomy promotes a greater involvement of agricultural sciences into this arena by increasing the attention on the dynamics relating the farming practices to the natural resources and the temporal and spatial

Overview: Interfaces between media, whether air-water orsediment-water interfaces or organisms themselves, poseconsiderable problems to marine organisms attempting to live at theseboundaries. .In the present volume, a number of authors address various aspects ofthese two topics. Locations under scrutiny range from intertidal areasto the deep sea, while both macro-and meiofaunal organisms areinvestigated. Distribution patterns and effects of variabletemperatures, pressures, and salinities are analysed. Aspects offouling induction and prevention are also addressed. .This book is intended as a pr

Overview: L‘ouvrage donne une vue d‘ensemble de tous les aspects de la dépression, ses signes, ses causes, ses traitements, et les questions de société actuelles qu‘elles posent..Il apporte des informations spé.Héritière de l’acédie du Moyen Âge, la dépression apparaît selon les points de vue comme un mal inéluctable et nécessaire, une étape sur la voie de la maturité, une désorganisation neuronale, une distorsion du jugement, ou encore la souffrance d’une société en mutation. Malgré cette absence d’unité, chacun s’accorde à dire qu’elle atteint largement la population en Occident et particuli

Overview: Investigates what teachers know, think, believe and do in their professional contexts through ‘applied’ conversation analysis.Examines what teaching and learning means to teachers through the lens of This book explores the topic of teacher cognition, making use of sociocultural theory as a framework to understand what teachers know, think, believe and do in their professional contexts through ‘applied’ conversation analysis. The author examines what teaching and learning mean to teachers by analyzing the interactional work they do with their students, considering when and why teacher

Overview: Provides a clear explanation of the mechanism of long afterglow, with focus on tailoring of properties and structure.Discusses new applications of long afterglow phosphors in the field of bioimaging.IThis book presents the fundamental scientific principles of long afterglow phosphorescent materials and a comprehensive review of both commercialized afterglow materials and the latest advances in the development of novel long afterglow materials. It is designed to supply much needed information about inorganic and organic afterglow materials, including detailed treatment of structure, c

Overview: This book is devoted to the systematic mathematical study of the equilibrium problem of potential theory under the influence of an external field; as well as to its many-fold applications..The presentIn recent years approximation theory and the theory of orthogonal polynomials have witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of solutions of difficult and previously untouchable problems. This is due to the interaction of approximation theoretical techniques with classical potential theory (more precisely, the theory of logarithmic potentials, which is directly related to polynomials a

Overview: Discusses innovative ways to use whole genome sequencing tools in the study of aging.Introduces readers to bio-statistical approaches to deal with the complex data set generated by whole genome sequenThe release of the complete version of the human genome sequence in 2003 has paved the way for defining gene function and genetic background for phenotypic variation in humans and allowed us to study the aging process in a new light. This new volume results from that research and focuses on the genetic and epigenetic process of aging. While the interpretation of the genome data is still