BOOKS with Alphabet   M (Ma,Mb,Mc, Md,Me…)

Overview: Grundlegender Überblick zu einem zentralen Forschungsfeld.Wissenschaftliche Verortung des Phänomens der Medienkultur.Verständlich geschrieben und mit Beispielen veranschaulicht.Der Band erklärt die Entstehung, Entwicklung und inhaltliche Breite der Medienkulturwissenschaft. Deren Felder werden ebenso demonstriert wie Forschungsfragen entworfen. Ein spezielles Augenmerk liegt auf interdisziplinären Verhältnissen, etwa zur Kommunikations- und Literaturwissenschaft. Zudem wird aus dieser Perspektive die Historie von Einzelmedien vorgestellt und ausgewählte Phänomene mit der medienkultur

Overview: Examines the quality assessment movement in a world of globalized academic scholarship.Discusses the reasons for the emergence of publication indexes as measures of productivity, and analyzes alternatThis book examines the quality assessment movement in academic scholarship, as globalization prompts a search for global measures of university services and output.  It gauges productivity in terms of universal publication metrics, and considers ranking and research productivity from a comparative perspective. The book considers the use of the “impact factor” as a gauge of publication va

Overview: Radar technology is increasingly being used to monitor theenvironment. This monograph provides a review of polarimetric radartechniques for remote sensing. .The first four chapters cover the basics of mathematical, statisticalmodelling as well as physical modelling based on radiowave scatteringtheory. The subsequent eight chapters summarize applications ofpolarimetric radar monitoring for various types of earth environments,including vegetation and oceans. The last two chapters provide asummary of Western as well as former Soviet Union knowledge and theoutlook. .This monograph is of

Overview: During the last decades the knowledge of the magnetic properties of the d transition elements and of their metallic alloys and compounds has increased widely. The improvement of preparation techniques for well-defined substances, the development of sophisticated measuring methods and above all the drive to obtain more insight in the origin of magnetic interactions in solids have resulted in the publication of many specific magnetic properties for an abundance of all kinds of metallic materials. The data assembled in this booklet are selected from the comprehensive compilation of magn

Overview: This study arose out ofthe old question of what actually determines vegetation structure and distributions. Is climate the overriding control, as one would suppose from reading the more geographically oriented literature? Or is climate only incidental, as suggested by more site and/ or taxon-oriented writers? The question might be phrased more realistically: How much does climate control vegetation processes, structures, and distributions? It seemed to me, as an ambitious doctoral student, that one way to attempt an answer might be to try to predict world vegetation from climate alon

Overview: Offers a thorough review of retinal pathology, and emerging techniques for restoring retina function.Discusses the pathology of age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and retinitis pi.This book discusses the pathology of the retina, and reviews current research on the use of cell replacement therapy and short peptides to restore functional activity in retinal neurons. As the book describes, pathologies of the retina, including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and retinitis pigmentosa, present a long-standing challenge in the practice of clinica

Overview: 978-3-540-07140-2978-3-540-37422-0Series ISSN 0075-8434 Series E-ISSN 1617-9692

Overview: Aims to restore Marx‘s idea of socialism..Attempts to clarify misinterpretation of Marx‘s idea of socialism..Provides a scholarly challenge to opportunistic study of Marx.This book aims to restore Marx’s original emancipatory idea of socialism, conceived as an association of free individuals centered on working people’s self- emancipation after the demise of capitalism. Marxist scholar Paresh Chattopadhyay argues that, Marx’s (and Engels’s) ideas have been deliberately warped with misinterpretation not only by those who resent these ideas but more consequentially by those who have co

Overview: Written by experts in the multidisciplinary fields of sexual health.Provide a comprehensive, state-of-the art review.Richly illustrated with photographs and illustrations.This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of the intersection of male and female reproductive and sexual health.  The text comprehensively discusses the evaluation and management of physical, genetic, and psychological causes of male and female sexual dysfunction. Discussion of treatment focuses on current medical and surgical psychosexual therapies in both the male and female. The book highlights

Overview: Combines a rigorous mathematical description of electromagnetic models with numerous examples related to real engineering applications.Includes a chapter devoted to nonlinear magnetics, paying particuThe book represents a basic support for a master course in electromagnetism oriented to numerical simulation. The main goal of the book is that the reader knows the boundary-value problems of partial differential equations that should be solved in order to perform computer simulation of electromagnetic processes. Moreover it includes a part devoted to electric circuit theory based on ord

Overview: Comprehensive overview on the molecular basis of fragile X syndrome.First book to cover all models used to investigate fragile X syndrome.Includes state-of-of the art approaches like epigenetics.IncluIntroduction.-Probing Astrocyte Function in Fragile X Syndrome.- Neural Stem Cells.- Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein (FMRP) and the Spinal Sensory System.– The Role of the Postsynaptic Density in the Pathology of the Fragile X Syndrome.- Behavior in a Drosophila model of Fragile X.- Molecular and Genetic Analysis of the Drosophila Model of Fragile X Syndrome.- Fragile X Mental Retar

Overview: Designers of wireless networks face a problem which ismultidimensional in nature, where issues of multiaccess, radiopropagation, antennas, mobility and teletraffic all need to beunderstood and simultaneously addressed in order to create a properlyfunctioning system. This book does not merely concentrate on one ofthese issues but takes a broader view, and presents a mix of papersaddressing systems and networking issues. ..Multiaccess, Mobility and Teletraffic: Advances in WirelessNetworks. addresses fundamental theoretical issues about futurewireless networks, such as capacity improve

Overview: The book contains comparative legal analysis, a study of the dynamics of criminalization and an in-depth analysis of the trade-off and tensions between memory and oblivion, punishment and forgiveness,This book examines the criminalisation of denials of genocide and of other mass atrocities in Europe and discusses the implications of protecting institutional historical memory through criminal law..The analysis highlights the tensions with free speech, investigating the relationship between criminal law and historical memory. The book paves the way for a broader discussion about fake n

Overview: Drawing on a wide range of drama from across the seventeenth century, including works by Marlowe, Heywood, Jonson, Brome, Davenant, Dryden and Behn, this book situates voyage drama in its historical and intellectual context between the individual act of reading in early modern England and the communal act of modern sightseeing.978-1-349-44221-8978-1-137-03536-3Series ISSN 2634-5919 Series E-ISSN 2634-5927

Overview: "Um auf eine gerechte und multikulturelle Zukunft hoffen zu können, brauchen wir enonn viel Phantasie. " (George Lipsitz 1993)1 ,,Medien- und Fremdenfeindlichkeit" betrifft eines unserer zentralen gesell­ schaftlichen und politischen Probleme. Es rückt uns weiter brennend auf den Leib: In den Tagen, in denen ich dieses Vorwort schreibe (Ende März, An­ fang April 1997) melden die Nachrichten zwei tödliche Brandanschläge auf Ausländerunterkünfte in Den Haag und in Krefeld. Die deutschen Behörden sehen zur maßlosen Empörung türkischer Politiker und türkischer Medien keine Anzeichen für

Overview: An effective synthesis of existing work while breaking new ground in the African American religious and secular response to race-based medicine.Connects recent medical research to older ideas about raThis book observes the idea of race as a false representation for the cause of disease. Race-based medicine, an emerging field in pharmacology, aims to create a specialty market based on racial groups. Within this market, the drug BiDil set a precedent in this area of medicine targeting African Americans as its first racial group. Consequently, selecting African Americans as a “starter g

Overview: Examines the impact of meat consumption on the environment.Covers new technologies that are being developed to create alternatives to meat.Explores plant-based meats, cultured (lab-grown) meats, micro.Reducing the amount of meat in our diet would have major environmental benefits, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, deforestation, and biodiversity loss.  Moreover, it would have wide-ranging ethical benefits by decreasing the huge number of livestock animals confined and killed each year for food. For consumers, there may also be health benefits from a meat-less di

Overview: Describes migrants’ lived experience of domestic space.Provides a multi-sited approach to migrants’ housing.This book is available open access and free to read online.This book is open access, which mThis open access book provides insight into the domestic space of people with an immigrant or refugee background. It selects and compares a whole spectrum of dwelling conditions with ethnographic material covering a variety of national backgrounds – Latin America, North and West Africa, Eastern Europe, South Asia – and an equally broad range of housing, household and legal arrangements.

Overview: 978-94-010-4334-2978-94-011-0780-8

Overview: Comprehensive text, the first ever on the subject of Children’s and Young People’s Geographies.Authoritative figures from the field have working together as volume editors.Will be continuously updatedGeographies of children and young people is a rapidly emerging sub-discipline within human geography. There is now a critical mass of established academic work, key names within academia, growing numbers of graduate students and expanding numbers of university level taught courses. There are also professional training programmes at national scales and in international contexts that work