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

Overview: This tells the story of the development of the private equity industry in Germany. It is the first comprehensive history of the private equity industry for any country, revealing the vicissitudes of private equity investing, warts and all. It is an engaging chronicle for anyone interested in the industry or the modern German economy.978-1-349-35942-4978-0-230-30866-4

Overview: Analysiert die Entwicklung von 12 postkommunistischen Ländern.Präsentiert ein innovatives Instrumentarium an Konzepten.Deutsche Übersetzung der englischen OriginalausgabeIn 120 Thesen entwickelt das Buch einen konzeptionellen Rahmen mit einer Typologie post-kommunistischer Regime und einer detaillierten Darstellung von idealtypischen Akteuren und den politischen, wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Phänomenen in diesen Regimen. Befreit von den impliziten Annahmen der Mainstream-Demokratisierungstheorie liefert die neue Terminologie ein leicht verwendbares Instrumentarium eindeutiger Ausdru

Overview: .All the most common and popular uses of Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 have been brought together in one volume. Each section provides a useful guide to techniques, a summary of the tools used and several step-by-step projects to clearly demonstrate each effect. There‘s also a wealth of tips and tricks to help you get the most out of this latest version of Elements. We‘ve searched forums, looked in magazines, spoken to users and asked the experts at Adobe, to find out exactly what are the Most Wanted ways to use this versatile application. Everyone from ethusiastic amateurs, hobbyist ph

Overview: Pro .NET Performance teaches .NET developers to measure the performance of their applications..You will see how Windows and the CLR affect your application, and improve your code’s performance guided .Maximizing the performance of your algorithms and applications is extremely important and can give you a competitive advantage, a lower cost of ownership, and happier users. .Pro .NET Performance. explains the internals of Windows, the CLR, and the physical hardware that affect the performance of your applications, and gives you the knowledge and tools to measure how your code performs

Overview: Comprehensive reference work on ethical issues in pandemics.Written by renowned authors.Provides concrete guidance on how to put complex ethical issues into practice.Pandemics such as Covid-19, Ebola, SARS, and influenza, as well as the necessary measures for their research, prevention, and treatment, raise a number of ethical issues that confront science, the medical profession, and health policy..This overview volume, written by renowned experts from medicine, the humanities, and the social sciences, addresses the central ethical issues in pandemics. Focusing on the disciplines of

Overview: Die .Psychiatrische Pharmakotherapie. von Benkert/Hippius ist inzwischen für jeden Arzt unentbehrlich geworden. Wieder haben die Autoren die für die Praxis relevanten Daten aktualisiert und auf das Wesentliche konzentriert. Praxiserpobte Empfehlungen werden genauso wie Warnungen vor Nebenwirkungen und Risiken besonders herausgestellt. Die Verfasser weisen ausdrücklich und kritisch auf Psychopharmaka hin, die sie für entbehrlich halten. Als weitere Hilfestellung für den praktischen Umgang mit Psychopharmaka enthält die fünfte Auflage Abschnitte zur modernen Klassifikation psychiatrisc

Overview: ‘This book will rightfully head many a reading list...‘C.Allen, British Book News Power in Africa casts a fresh look at contemporary Black African politics. It reviews the merits and failings of existing interpretations of Africa‘s post-colonial society and offers a new approach to its understanding. It has two main aims. First, to present a comparative conceptual framework which places Africa‘s politics within its appropriate historical context. Second, to offer an explanation of what is actually happening in Africa - beyond the clichs of a dark continent perennially in crisis.978-1

Overview: This book contains an analysis of the economic problems encountered in Mongolia during the transition from a centrally planned to a market economy, when poverty increased dramatically, unemployment rose sharply, health and education indicators deteriorated, and the economic and social position of women declined. Yet there is considerable potential in Mongolia for a broadly based acceleration of output, particularly if priority is given to the nomadic livestock sector and to grass-roots development at the provincial level. The book contains many policy suggestions intended to promote

Overview: Includes supplementary material: 978-3-540-20609-5978-3-540-24582-7Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Offers a balanced presentation of technical and clinical topics.Covers a wide range of oncological applications in a concise and clear style.Written by experts with extensive experience in the use of .In this book, experts from premier institutions across the world with extensive experience in the field clearly and succinctly describe the current and anticipated uses of PET/MRI in oncology. The book also includes detailed presentations of the MRI and PET technologies as they apply to the combined PET/MRI scanners. The applications of PET/MRI in a wide range of oncological settings ar

Overview: In a spectacular meeting CERN celebrated its most important findings..The articles written on that occasion address not only the past but also the future of particle physics.The discoveries of neutral currents and of the W and Z bosons marked a watershed in the history of CERN. They established the validity of the electroweak theory and convinced physicists of the importance of renormalizable non-Abelian gauge theories of fundamental interactions. The articles collected in this book have been written by distinguished physicists who contributed in a crucial way to these developments.

Overview: Wie leistungsfähig ist der Föderalismus?Der deutsche Föderalismus steht im Zentrum einer Kontroverse. Die einen loben seine Machtaufteilung und Integrationsleistung. Die anderen werten ihn wegen des mächtigen Bundesrats als Hauptursache von politischem Immobilismus, mangelnder Effizienz und unzureichender demokratischer Zurechenbarkeit. Dieses Buch prüft, inwieweit der deutsche Föderalismus die ihm zugeschriebenen Mängel aufweist. Hierzu wird die Quasi-Laborsituation des ersten Jahrzehnts nach der Vereinigung Deutschlands, das besonders hohe Anforderungen an staatliche Problemlösung

Overview: 978-3-540-35982-1Series ISSN 0075-8450 Series E-ISSN 1616-6361

Overview: 978-3-642-98662-8978-3-642-99477-7

Overview: Die Frage nach der Tauglichkeit dessen, was in der Politischen Wissenschaft und in der politischen Praxis Nation genannt wird, bildete den Ausgangspunkt für diese Arbeit. Als Deutscher kommt man weder an einer bestimmten Vergangenheit vorbei, die eine moralische Hypothek hinterlassen hat, noch an einer Gegenwart, die durch das Stich­ wort Teilung gekennzeichnet ist. Nimmt man (als "Betroffener" sozusagen) sich der vorbelasteten Sache Nation - weder apologetisch, noch affirmativ, noch anklagend, sondern analytisch - an, so verwundert, daß die Fragwürdigkeit der Nation in einem theoret

Overview: PISA - der LändervergleichDas schlechte Abschneiden der deutschen Schülerinnen und Schüler in der internationalen Vergleichsstudie PISA hat eine weitreichende Diskussion über das deutsche Bildungssystem ausgelöst, die durch den Vergleich der Schülerleistungen in den Ländern der Bundesrepublik Deutschland noch verstärkt wurde. Der nun vorliegende Bericht ergänzt, differenziert und vertieft insbesondere die Ergebnisse des nationalen Vergleichs. Neben fachlichen Leistungen, die differenziert nach Anforderungen, Inhaltsbereichen und Lehrplanpassung dargestellt werden, bezieht der Länderv

Overview: `The book is an excellent example of the application of modern econometric techniques to Chinese data, some of which was especially collected for the research. The results throw new light on aspects of industrial sector reform in China. The book deserves wide attention from those interested in the economic reforms in China, especially those interested in the implications of the reforms for industrial sector efficiency and productivity growth.‘ - Christopher Findlay, University of Adelaide As the rural township, village and private enterprises are becoming more and more significant in

Overview: Represents a comprehensive survey of plasmonics and nanoplasmonics.Tutorial-like style chapters, written by leading researchers in the field.Includes chapters on next-generation plasmonics.Includes su.This book deals with all aspects of plasmonics, basics, applications and advanced developments. Plasmonics is an emerging field of research dedicated to the resonant interaction of light with metals. The light/matter interaction is strongly enhanced at a nanometer scale which sparks a keen interest of a wide scientific community and offers promising applications in pharmacology, solar e

Overview: 978-3-211-81818-3978-3-7091-8770-8Series ISSN 0300-9556

Overview: Reviews proteinkinase inhibitors.Exploits kinase inhibitors for cancer treatment.Offers an authoritative perspective from industry and academia.This book reviews the principles of design and examples of successful implementation of proteinkinase inhibitors (PKI), and offers a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the history and latest developments in the field. Chapters written by experts from industry and academia cover the function, structure and topology of Proteinkinases, molecular modelling, disclose how to achieve high level of selectivity for kinase inhibitors, and expl