BOOKS with Alphabet N (Na, Nb,Nc, Nd, Ne…... )

Overview: .This book provides the first comparative analysis of the three major streams of contemporary narrative psychology as they have been developed in North America, Europe, and Australia and New Zealand. Interrogating the historical and cultural conditions in which this important movement in psychology has emerged, the book presents clear, well-structured comparisons and critique of the key theories of narrative psychology pioneered across the globe. Examples include Dan McAdams in the US and his followers, who have developed a distinctive approach to self and identity as a life story ov

Overview: Includes supplementary material: In NHG-Standaarden voor de praktijkassistente zijn de NHG-Standaarden voor de huisartsen toegankelijk gemaakt voor praktijkassistentes. Als zodanig is het boek een belangrijk naslagwerk. Meer kennis van de NHG-Standaarden zorgt er immers voor dat huisartsen en praktijkassistentes sneller op één lijn zitten. Met als uiteindelijk doel: het verbeteren van de kwaliteit van de zorg voor patiënten.978-90-368-0485-1

Overview: This field-defining book offers an interpretation of the recent figurations of neo-Victorianism published over the last ten years. Using a range of critical and cultural viewpoints, it highlights the problematic nature of this ‘new‘ genre and its relationship to re-interpretative critical perspectives on the nineteenth century.978-1-349-31685-4978-0-230-28169-1

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking, NEW2AN 2008, held in St. Petersburg, Russia in September 3-5, 2008 in conjunction with the First ruSMART 2008. The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 60 submissions. The NEW2AN papers are organized in topical sections on wireless networks, multi-hop wireless networks, cross-layer design, teletraffic theory, multimedia communications, heterogeneous networks, network security. The ruS

Overview: Presents recent mathematical methods for optimal control problems and their applications.Provides rigorous mathematical results.Offers several hints on numerical methods and on the construction of effThis work presents recent mathematical methods in the area of optimal control with a particular emphasis on the computational aspects and applications. Optimal control theory concerns the determination of control strategies for complex dynamical systems, in order to optimize some measure of their performance. Started in the 60‘s under the pressure of the "space race" between the US and t

Overview: First analysis of the VoIP Telecommunications Market Network-based framework of interconnection savings.Innovative n-player model of interconnection, including long distance and termination fees.ContaThis book provides a game theoretic model of interaction among VoIP telecommunications providers regarding their willingness to enter peering agreements with one another. The author shows that the incentive to peer is generally based on savings from otherwise payable long distance fees. At the same time, termination fees can have a countering and dominant effect, resulting in an environm

Overview: Includes supplementary material: Leading researchers and innovators describe in step-by-step detail the latest techniques that promise to significantly impact the practice of proteomics, as well as its success in developing novel clinical agents. The methods span the entire spectrum of top-down and bottom-up approaches, including microarrays, gels, chromatography, and affinity separations, and address every aspect of the human proteome, both quantitatively and qualitatively. The techniques of protein detection utilized are diverse and range from fluorescence and resonance light scatt

Overview: 978-3-642-45925-2978-3-642-45923-8Series ISSN 0085-140X Series E-ISSN 2197-4195

Overview: th This two-volume set constitutes the Proceedings of the 16 International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2009), held in Bangkok, Thailand, during December 1–5, 2009. ICONIP is a world-renowned international conference that is held annually in the Asia-Pacific region. This prestigious event is sponsored by the Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA), and it has provided an annual forum for international researchers to exchange the latest ideas and advances in neural networks and related discipline. The School of Information Technology (SIT) at King Mongkut’s

Overview: Der erste Ratgeber für „grünes“ Controlling.Praxisorientierter Leitfaden für „grünes“ Controlling im Unternehmen.Kompakte Anleitung für die Umsetzung in Unternehmen?.Includes supplementary material: So gelingt das nachhaltige Wirtschaften: Dieses Buch bietet Entscheidern eine praxisorientierte Einführung in die Konzepte und Methoden. Schritt für Schritt wird erläutert, wie die Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie in Unternehmen integriert wird und mit welchen Instrumenten das Controlling diesen Prozess begleitet. Die verschiedenen Controlling-Werkzeuge werden im Detail thematisiert, ebenso wie b

Overview: Intended readership broad.Draws on multiple disciplines, e.g., mechanics, applied mathematics, engineering, and physics.Unique monograph to address the topic of dynamic contact problems in thermoelastIn this work, methods of analysis and models of contacting systems dynamics, including heat generation and wear exhibited by such systems, are presented. It should be emphasised that the methods and mathematical models of contacting systems exhibited by rigid/elastic bodies and heat/wear processes have been so far applied separately. Tribological processes occurring on a contact surface

Overview: The Sixth Annual Conference of the Center for Nonlinear Studies at the Los Alamos National Laboratory was held May 5-9, 1986, on the topic "Nonlinearity in Condensed Matter: Lessons from the Past and Prospects for the Future. " As conference organizers, we felt that the study of non­ linear phenomena in condensed matter had matured to the point where it made sense to take stock of the numerous lessons to be learned from a variety of contexts where nonlinearity plays a fundamental role and to evaluate the prospects for the growth of this general discipline. The successful 1978 Oxford

Overview: Reviews the history of neoliberalism.Presents cultural forms of neoliberalism in education, work, medicine, the organization of urban space, and electronic communication.Identifies problematic aspects.This provocative monograph defines the elusive concept of neoliberal psychology, focusing on its form, content, and cultural contexts and establishing it as a core feature of modern society. Its cross-cultural analysis examines the reality of neoliberal psychology in the globalized world, asserting that neoliberalism influences individuals’ sense of self, identity, and—regardless of cou

Overview: Lawrence Freedman One of the major bonuses of the collapse of communism in Europe is that it may never again be necessary to enter into a sterile debate about whether it is better to be "red" or "dead." This appeared as the ultimate question in the great nuclear debate of the early 1980s. When put so starkly the answer appeared obvious­ better to live and struggle in a totalitarian system than to destroy totalitarian and democratic systems alike. There were a number of points to be made against this. Communist regimes had demonstrated the possibility of being both red and dead while

Overview: 978-1-4899-0377-8978-1-4899-0375-4

Overview: Demonstrates how Asian countries are developing their own museology and museums, which are not simple copies of European or North American models.Uses carefully chosen examples to describe museums andThis book presents up-to-date information about museums and museology in present-day Asia, focusing on Japan, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Thailand..Asian countries today have developed or are developing their own museology and museums, which are not simple copies of European or North American models. This book provides readers with carefully chosen examples of museum activities—for example, e

Overview: Presents a brighter future where everyone can enjoy quality of life in a sustainable manner.Provides fresh insights into the challenges of and pathways to a “platinum society” that will serve as a mod.This book presents the "New Vision 2050," which adds the concept of the “platinum society” to the “Vision 2050”..The 20th century was a century in which energy led the development of material civilization, resulting in deletion of resources, global warming and climate change. What form should sustainable material and energy take to protect the Earth? The "Vision 2050" was established 20

Overview: Showcases how the European cooperative banks have continued to evolve amid a new competitive scenario that resulted from the Great Crisis in Europe in 2009.Outlines recent regulatory constraints that .This edited volume showcases how the European cooperative banks have continued to evolve amid a new competitive scenario that resulted from the Global Financial Crisis started in Europe in 2008. The cooperative banking paradigm has been put under an unprecedented pressure as a consequence of factors such as the exceptionally low interest rates set by the European Central Bank, low profi

Overview: Investigates the basic theoretical framework and conducts a logical analysis of China’s new supply-side economics.Proposes a strategic path to remedy the plight of China’s economic development.The firThis book investigates the basic theoretical framework and conducts a logical analysis of China’s new supply-side economics, while also providing a strategic path to remedy the plight of China’s economic development. From the perspective of connotation, theory and methods, China’s structural reform differs both from that proposed by the Western supply-side school or supply-side economics

Overview: Aufgrund der veränderten Wettbewerbsbedingungen für Kreditinstitute gelten Fusionen vielfach als Weg, um durch eine vergrößerte Marktmacht dem Wettbewerbsdruck zu begegnen. Diese Strategie bietet sich jedoch nur für wenige Kreditinstitute an...Jan Grasshoff zeigt, wie Finanzintermediäre sich mithilfe von Nischenstrategien von Mitbewerbern am Markt absetzen und sich einen dauerhaften Wettbewerbsvorteil sichern können. Der Akzent liegt auf der Erschließung neuer Teilmärkte, der Nutzung technologischer Entwicklungen und dem Einsatz neuartiger Zielgruppenkonzepte. Der Autor grenzt versch