BOOKS with Alphabet P (Pa, Pb,Pc, Pd, Pe…... )

Overview: Aktuelle sozialwissenschaftliche Beiträge.Nachhaltige Entwicklung aus kritisch-emanzipatorischer Perspektive.Gesellschaftliche Naturverhältnisse.Includes supplementary material: Ausgehend von der Frage, wie die vielfältigen Beziehungen zwischen Natur und Gesellschaft durch Politik gestaltet werden, behandelt dieser Band Themen wie Agrobiodiversität, Geschlechterverhältnisse, widerständige Praktiken und Alternativen in den Politikfeldern Ländliche Entwicklung und Agro-Gentechnik. Die inhaltliche Klammer bildet ein kritisch-emanzipatorisches Nachhaltigkeitsverständnis, mit dem die Gest

Overview: Is the first book to cover the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress.Deals with a pragmatic non-Islamist party’s use of religious terms and symbols.Provides insight into how a religious political Muslim party funThis book analyses and discusses the use of Islamic terms and symbols in the political party Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC). It is based on interviews with the leading members of the party and on analyses of the party’s official documents. It describes the history of Muslims in Sri Lanka, presents the analytical framework used, and discusses the official documents and narratives of par

Overview: This book describes a series of laboratory experiments (witha total of 167 independent subjects) on forecastingbehavior. In all experiments, the time series to beforecasted was generated by an abstract econometricmodelinvolving two or three artificial exogenous variables. Thisdesignprovides an optimal background for rationalexpectations and least-squareslearning. As expected, thesehypotheses do not explain observed forecasting behaviorsatisfactorily. Some phenomena related to this lackofrationality are studied: Concentration on changes ratherthan levels,underestimation of changes and

Overview: Offers an authoritative guide to the impact of COVID-19 on mobility and transportation in cities.Includes case studies from California that illustrate lessons applicable to other metropolitan areas.Pr.This book brings together reports of original empirical studies which explore the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban mobility and transportation and the associated policy responses. Focusing on the California region, the book draws on this local experience to formulate general lessons for other regions and metropolitan areas. . The book examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has had

Overview: Translation of German textbook "Polymere", winner of the Chemical Industry in Germany’s 2015 literature prize.Comprehensive and modern textbook, combining physical-chemical concepts with the chemistry.Awarded the Literature Prize of the VCI..This comprehensive textbook describes the synthesis, characterization and technical and engineering applications of polymers. Polymers are unique molecules and have properties different from any other class of materials.  We encounter them in everyday life, not only in the form of the well-known, large-volume plastics such as PE or PP or the many

Overview: Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany.Self-contained introduction.Provides a clear explanation of experimental and theoretical backgroun.How much knowledge can we gain about a physical system and to what degree can we control it? In quantum optical systems, such as ion traps or neutral atoms in cavities, single particles and their correlations can now be probed in a way that is fundamentally limited only by the laws of quantum mechanics. In contrast, quantum many-body systems pose entirely new challenges due to the enorm

Overview: Thoroughly revised and updated second edition.Written by specialists unsurpassed in reputation and accomplishments.Includes new therapies that are currently being used or tested.Includes supplementary.Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Second Edition .provides an essential reference with an emphasis on the unique pediatric issues of IBD.  Chapters focus on complications of IBD specific to children and adolescents. Treatment recommendations are based on the latest clinical research available. The textbook also presents sections dedicated to the aspects of participation in clinical

Overview: Umfangreiches Lexikon mit allen wichtigen Themen und Begriffen des Europarechts.Unter der Mitarbeit von fast 60 Autoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis.Hervorragend erläuterte Artikel zu allen StichwortenDie Idee zu diesem Buch ist vor fast drei Jahren entstanden. Die Umsetzung des Projekts hat sich als anspruchsvoll und schwierig erwiesen. Umso mehr freuen wir uns jetzt das Praxiswörterbuch präsentieren zu können.Das hinter dem Praxiswörterbuch Europarecht stehende Konzept beruht darauf, dass heutzutage bereits jede/r mit dem Europarecht in der juristischen Praxis konfrontiert ist. Die

Overview: After putting down this weighty (in all senses of the word) collection, the reader, be she or he physician or social scientist, will (or at least should) feel uncomfortable about her or his taken-for-granted commonsense (therefore cultural) understanding of medicine. The editors and their collaborators show the medical leviathan, warts and all, for what it is: changing, pluralistic, problematic, powerful, provocative. What medicine proclaims itself to be - unified, scientific, biological and not social, non-judgmental - it is shown not to resemble very much. Those matters about which

Overview: Violence against women in plays bywomen has earned little mention. This revolutionary collection fills that gap, focusing on plays by American women dramatists, written in the last thirty years, that deal with different forms of gender violence. Each author discusses specific manifestations of violence in carefully selected plays: psychological, familial, war-time, and social injustice. This book encompasses the theatrical devices used to represent violence on the stage in an age of virtual, immediate reality as much as the problematics of gender violence in modern society.978-1-349-

Overview: Die Gründung wachstumsorientierter Unternehmen beruht auf der Zusammenarbeit mehrerer Akteure. Gründer stehen damit vor der Herausforderung, leistungsfähige Interaktionsprozesse sowohl innerhalb eines Gründerteams als auch mit ihrer Umgebung aufzubauen. Anhand einer empirischen Untersuchung zeigt Bernhard Doll, wie Prototyping als iterativer Entwicklungs- und Lernprozess die Qualität sozialer Interaktionsprozesse bei Gründerteams, wie z.B. die Kommunikation, Koordination und Kohäsion, nachhaltig beeinflussen kann, damit diese schneller zum Erfolg kommen.978-3-8349-1943-4978-3-8349-83

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.978-3-663-00918-4978-3-663-02831-4

Overview: Provides the first substantial study of the role that punishing the criminal corpse played in seventeenth and eighteenth century English penal policy.Analyses the development of attitudes, legislativeThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. .This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons why they were advocated, and the decision, enshrined in the Murder Act of 1752, to make two post-execution punishments, dissection and gibbeting, an integral part of sentences for murder. It traces the origins of t

Overview: Provides a wider and more compelling account of democracy than the one found in mainstream contemporary political theory.Tackles political issues which are at the heart of contemporary theoretical deb.The aim of this book is to provide a fresh, wider, and more compelling account of democracy than the one we usually find in conventional contemporary political theory. Telling the story of democracy as a broad societal project rather than as merely a political regime, Frega delivers an account more in tune with our everyday experience and ordinary intuitions, bringing back into politica

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Overview: Die Rechnungslegung für öffentliche Unternehmen und Gebietskörperschaften sowie für private Unternehmen unterliegt einem permanenten Wandel. Dies betrifft nicht nur die internationale Rechnungslegung, auch eine umfassende HGB-Reform steht unmittelbar bevor. .In der Festschrift zu Ehren des 65. Geburtstags von Prof. Dr. Hannes Streim werden diese aktuellen Entwicklungen aufgegriffen, diskutiert und kritisch gewürdigt. Darüber hinaus enthält der Band Beiträge zur Subprime-Hypothekenkrise, Rechnungslegung von Fraktionen des Deutschen Bundestags, Ermittlung der Kosten eines Studienplatze

Overview: Agile and classic project management from practice for practice.Project management toolbox with numerous templates, checklists and exercises.Short and understandable formulations for students and expe.In the 2nd edition, this book conveys updated content and, in addition to classic project management, now also agile project management in a practical manner and serves as a toolbox for projects. .To this end, the most important terms and phases of project management are first explained in a standard-compliant manner. .Then this book deals with cross-project cross-sectional topics and p

Overview: Questions the limits of Western-centric theorizing in international education.Examines how education can democratise by mobilising international theoretical resources from non-Western countries and laThis book explores pedagogical concepts, metaphors and images of non-white, non-western researchers and research students on the inter/nationalization of education. Specifically, this book draws on the intellectual resources of China and India to explore the pedagogical dynamics and dimensions of the localization/globalization of education with non-Western characteristics. It introduces

Overview: Combines a general overview of Chinese anti-poverty measures and specific conditions.Builds a more comprehensive Chinese anti-poverty theoretical system.Offers more effective solutions to poverty probThis study systematically investigates the development process, major characteristics and weak links of China‘s poverty alleviation experience and conducts a comparative analysis of poverty alleviation cases. It also accurately presents the internal logic and core elements of China‘s poverty alleviation theory and taking the Chinese experience of poverty alleviation refines the "Two Thre

Overview: One of the first detailed books on WPF for .NET 3.5.Goes deep into the core of the technology in 1000 pages of content-rich explanation.Written by Matthew MacDonald, author of two highly successful bo.The Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation provides the foundation for building applications and high–quality user experiences in Windows Vista. WPF blends application user interface, documents, and media content to provide richer control, design, and development of the visual aspects of Windows programs...Author .Matthew MacDonald. shows you how WPF really works. His no–nonsense, pr