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

Overview: Analyzing contemporary Chinese literature, film, and television, Shen shows the significance of nationalism for the mass imagination in post-socialist China. Chapters move from the intellectual idealism of the 1980s, through the post-Tiananmen transition, to the national cinema of the 1990s, and finally to the Internet literature of today.978-1-349-50510-4978-1-137-49627-0Series ISSN 2945-7254 Series E-ISSN 2945-7262

Overview: Beispiele aus der SchweizWie sieht die gegenwärtige Praxis der Schulsozialarbeit aus? In diesem Band werden Forschungsergebnisse aus Evaluationen von Schulsozialarbeit in der deutschsprachigen Schweiz dargestellt und im Rahmen von Sekundäranalysen vertieft ausgewertet. Einführend wird gezeigt, wie sich die Praxis der Schulsozialarbeit gegenwärtig im Spiegel von Evaluationen gestaltet. Explizit vertiefend werden Sekundäranalysen auf der Grundlage intergrierter Datensätze verschiedener Evaluationen durchgeführt und Fragen zu zukünftigen Evaluationsdesigns diskutiert.978-3-531-17323-897

Overview: Re-imagines the Biblical vision of water.Explores the importance of spiritually grounded engagement with systematic injustice.Draws on Indigenous, African, and Christian traditions.This book offers resources for re-imagining the biblical vision of water for a time quickly emerging as “the century of water wars.” It takes its urgency from the author’s 5-year activist engagement with a grass-roots-led social movement, pushing back on Detroit water shutoffs as global climate crises intensify.  Concerned with both white supremacist “biopolitics” and continuing settler colonial reliance o

Overview: Offers an unprecedented first-hand account of the Department of Defense’s POW/MIA accounting program.Brings expert insights from an insider into the Cold War and its aftermath.Frames contemporary US-RThis book is an insider’s account of the search for missing American servicemen who became trapped in the Soviet Union and the US government’s efforts to free them or discover their fates. The book, which is based on years of  work as a consultant to the US government, includes archive research that took place in Russia and four other republics of the Soviet Union as the USSR broke apart

Overview: This textbook is intended for students who wish to obtain an introduction to the theory of partial di?erential equations (PDEs, for short), in particular, those of elliptic type. Thus, it does not o?er a comprehensive overview of the whole ?eld of PDEs, but tries to lead the reader to the most important methods and central results in the case of elliptic PDEs. The guiding qu- tion is how one can ?nd a solution of such a PDE. Such a solution will, of course, depend on given constraints and, in turn, if the constraints are of the appropriate type, be uniquely determined by them. We sha

Overview: Stoddard uses the Anglophone Caribbean and Ireland to examine the complex inflections of women and race as articulated in-between the colonial discursive and material formations of the eighteenth century and those of the (post)colonial twentieth century, as structured by the defined spaces of the colonizers‘ estates.978-1-349-29546-3978-1-137-04268-2Series ISSN 2945-7491 Series E-ISSN 2945-7505

Overview: Up-to-date reviews.Written by leading experts.Peer-reviewed contributionsWith one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. The present volume includes reviews on plant physiology, biochemistry, genetics and genomics, forests, and ecosystems.978-3-030-36329-1978-3-030-36327-7Series ISSN 0340-4773 Series E-ISSN 2197-8492

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Overview: Das Sozialwesen im FokusDie Studie trägt zur Aufhellung eines gesellschaftspolitischen Dunkelfeldes bei, das eine immer größere Bedeutung erlangt hat. Der Autor diskutiert die Erklärungsansätze und Funktionsbestimmungen, die sich in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Literatur mit dem Dienstleistungsphänomen und der Organisation Sozialer Dienste befassen und entwickelt einen Definitionsvorschlag, der verschiedene Handlungsebenen unterscheidet und zwischen personenbezogener Dienstleistung ("interaktives Dienstleistungsgeschehen"), Sozialen Dienstleistungen ("fachliche Dienstleistungserbring

Overview: One-stop source of optimized information.Forefront of pulmonary function research.Comprehensive view of the different roles of pulmonary functionThe book discusses new concepts and findings in the field of pulmonary function. This function is notably associated with spirometry and gas exchange at the lungs. The technique of spirometry, its clinical meaning, and reference values have all been refined over decades of its use. Although spirometry remains ancillary in diagnosis-making, it seems hardly replaceable in monitoring of lung disease progression and treatment efficacy. Pulmonary

Overview: Moves beyond the paradigms of Church and State or Religion and Politics to discuss a new theoretical framework.Contributes significantly to an under-theorised element of political science.Makes argumeThis book introduces political science of religion – a coherent approach to the study of the political role of religion grounded in political science. In this framework, religion is viewed as a political ideology providing legitimation for power and motivating political attitudes and behaviors of the public. Religious organizations are political actors negotiating the political system in

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Provable Security, ProvSec 2009, held in Guangzhou, China, November 11-13, 2009. The 19 revised full papers and two invited talks presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on encryption, digital signature, cryptographic protocols and reduction and privacy.978-3-642-04641-4978-3-642-04642-1Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Die Probleme der betrieblichen Personalpolitik, der Eingliederung des Menschen in die Betriebsorganisation und der Mitbestimmung sind von mir seit etwa zwei Jahrzehnten in einer Reihe von Einzeluntersuchungen behandelt worden. Diesen Arbeiten liegt die Konzeption einer personalen Unternehmenstheorie zugrunde. Da aber in jedem Auf­ satz in der Regel nur ein Teilaspekt behandelt wird und außerdem die Veröffentlichun­ gen sich auf eine Reihe von Zeitschriften und Sammelwerken verteilen, ist es für den interessierten Leser schwierig, sich einen Gesamtüberblick zu verschaffen. Einer Anre­

Overview: Tells the fascinating and informative story of how physics affects our food and the practice of cooking.Appeals to all those who enjoy cooking and would like to know more about the science behind it.I.Do you know why honey drips whereas ketchup refuses to budge in the bottle? Or what kettles have in common with power stations, or how to cook with radar?.This delightful and accessible book provides a smorgasbord and a whirlwind tour of the multitude of physical phenomena that occur in a kitchen: from the diffusion of nutrients during cooking to how an extractor fan works, how smells d

Overview: 978-3-540-28938-8978-3-540-32066-1Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Presents a non-conventional approach to multivariate image-structured data.Includes supplementary material: We offer here a non-conventional approach to muhivariate ima- structured data for which the basis is well tested but the analytical ramifi­ cations are still unfolding. Although we do not formally pursue them, there are several parallels with the nature of neural networks. We employ a systematic set of statistical heuristics for modeling multivariate image data in a quasi-perceptual manner. When the human eye perceives a scene, the elements of the scene are segregated heuristic

Overview: Halfway between history and philosophy, this book deals with the historical forms that have permitted the understanding of human suffering from the Renaissance to the present. Representation, sympathy, imitation, coherence and narrativity are but a few of the rhetorical recourses that men and women have employed in order to feel our pain.978-1-349-54260-4978-1-137-28423-5

Overview: Includes cutting-edge techniques.Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results.Contains key implementation advice from the expertsThis detailed volume explores newly-developed methods in PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) research, methods currently applied to other ncRNAs involved in nuclear regulation which can be used to study piRNAs, and piRNA methods applied in non-classical organisms. It also includes several bioinformatic and biophysical methods related to piRNA studies, consistent with the increasing importance of high-throughput sequencing and computational met

Overview: Teaches how to take full control of setup, startup, and runtime of your web app.Shows how implicit framework magic is replaced with explicit and concise code.Helps turns pro developers into productionBuild production-grade web apps from scratch – without using frameworks – with Kotlin on the Java platform. You’ll learn how to use and compose libraries, how to choose between different libraries, and the benefits of explicit and straight-forward code, vs. the implicit magic, conventions, and inversion of control you often see in frameworks..The book teaches the Kotlin language by build

Overview: Provides a snapshot of a popular emerging topic.Presents new research and contextual literature review.Suitable for researchers and mixed-level classesThis book is the first volume of a two-volume monograph devoted to the study of limit and ergodic theorems for regularly and singularly perturbed Markov chains, semi-Markov processes, and multi-alternating regenerative processes with semi-Markov modulation. .The first volume presents necessary and sufficient conditions for weak convergence for first-rare-event times and convergence in the topology J for first-rare-event processes defin