BOOKS with Alphabet R (Ra, Rb,Rc, Rd, Re…... )

Overview: Although everybody is familiar with the dodo bird, very few people know its history. Yet this history is compelling when read as a fable of the negative impact of humans on Earth‘s ecosystems. The author describes the complexity of the factors involved in animal extinction. Although we think of ourselves as more ecologically aware than our ancestors, we are propelling extinction to alarming rates.978-1-4419-3180-1978-0-387-21683-6

Overview: In this year of bicentennial celebration, there will no doubt take place several cultural analyses of the American tradition. This is only as it should be, for without an extensive, broad-based inquiry into where we have come from, we shall surely not foresee where we might go. Nonetheless, most cultural analyses of the American context suffer from a common fault - the lack of a different context to use for purposes of comparison. True, American values and ideals were partly inherited from the European tradition. But that tradition is in many ways an inadequate mode of comparison. Wi

Overview: Provides a systematic assessment of the state of the art in studies of regime effectiveness as well as a sophisticated analysis of the range of techniques available for the conduct of research in thisThis volume has a long and distinguished pedigree. It is the product of an effort to devise clear and unambiguous methods for demonstrating that international regimes make a difference stretching back at least to the early 1990s. What has transpired in the meantime is the development of a suite of useful techniques of analysis rather than the creation of a single, correct methodology for

Overview: Describes advances in understanding of various phytoconstituents for the management of lifestyle diseases.Includes relevant key topics, good quality illustrations, chemical structures, attractive flow.Emergence of lifestyle diseases, e.g., type II diabetes, cancers, obesity, cardiovascular disorders, liver cirrhosis, etc., are exponentially increasing day by day. Modern drifts toward the utilization of herbal medicines in different healthcare aspects necessitate (demand) the replacement of synthetic molecules with phytoconstituents because of their biocompatibility, biodegradability,

Overview: This, the second and final volume of Reactions of Coordinated Ligands, describes the chemistry of ligands bound through non-carbon atoms, and of coordinated carbon dioxide. As before, emphasis is on the underlying mechanisms, which provide a unity of understanding for superficially disparate processes. The wide range of topics covered illustrates well both the versatility and the usefulness of coordination chemistry in the controlled activation of ligands. Looking to the future, carbon dioxide is the feedstock of last resort. The homogeneous reduction of dinitrogen to ammonia now see

Overview: That residues of pesticide and other contaminants in the total environment are of concern to everyone everywhere is attested by the reception accorded previous volumes of "Residue Reviews" and by the gratifying enthusiasm, sincerity, and efforts shown by all the in­ dividuals from whom manuscripts have been solicited. Despite much propaganda to the contrary, there can never be any serious question that pest-control chemicals and food-additive chemicals are essential to adequate food production, manufacture, marketing, and storage, yet without continuing surveillance and intelligent c

Overview: State-of-the-art research reports spatial development, spatial planning, spatial research, regional policy and sectoral spatial policies in Germany and Central and Eastern Europe.Includes supplementarPreface – Introduction 1 Sebastian Lentz With “Restructuring Eastern Germany” ? ve spatial research institutes have - troduced the ? rst volume of the German Annual for Spatial Research and Policy. Four of these institutes belong to the Leibniz Association: The Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (ARL) in Hannover, the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) in Leipzig, the

Overview: Water resources, both in terms of water quality and water quantity, are of critical importance in planning for sustainable development in Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in other parts of the world. This NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW), entitled "Risk Assessment as a Tool for Water Resources Decision-Making in Central Asia", was conducted on September 23-25, 2002 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The ARW addressed methods and approaches by which risk assessment methodology that has been developed in the United States, Europe and elsewhere can be applied to environmental and wate

Overview: Die zentralen Gattungen und Autoren.Theorie des Realismus.Mit ausführlichen Literaturhinweisen und einer detaillierten InhaltsübersichtFontane urteilte: "Der Realismus ist die künstlerische Wiedergabe des Lebens". Lässt sich die deutschsprachige Literatur von 1848 bis zur Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert mit diesem Satz charakterisieren? Von den frühen Leipziger ‘Grenzboten‘ bis zur späten Auseinandersetzung mit der jungen Moderne wird die Realismus-Debatte neu aufgerollt. Die bedeutenden Romane und Novellen, Dramen und Gedichte rücken vor den kulturgeschichtlichen Hintergrund. Ein profunde

Overview: Analyses the conceptual and textual features that make up popularization discourse.Focusses on the doing and the being of popularization discourse.Acts as a guide for those working with or on populariThis open access book focuses on the textual features, or ‘strategies’, which form popularization discourse. In popularization discourse, research findings from academia are re-presented to make them noteworthy to society and influential for everyday life. Popularization involves recontextualization, or reimagination of findings in an everyday and newsworthy context, and reformulation, t

Overview: Reviews RF, microwave, and microelectronics assembly process, quality control, and failure analysis.Bridges the gap between low cost commercial and hi-res RF/Microwave packaging technologies.Engages i.This book presents the latest developments in packaging for high-frequency electronics. It is a companion volume to “RF and Microwave Microelectronics Packaging” (2010) and covers the latest developments in thermal management, electrical/RF/thermal-mechanical designs and simulations, packaging and processing methods, and other RF and microwave packaging topics. Chapters provide detailed

Overview: Romantic Dharma maps the emergence of Buddhism into European consciousness during the first half of the nineteenth century, probes the shared ethical and intellectual commitments embedded in Buddhist and Romantic thought, and proposes potential ways by which those insights translate into contemporary critical and pedagogical practices.978-0-230-11989-5Series ISSN 2691-1256 Series E-ISSN 2634-5218

Overview: Discuses key issues on internationalization of higher education.Explores emerging populations of mobile international students for developing innovative.Offers critical reflections on the intersection.This book explores emerging populations of mobile international students in order to consider innovative and inclusive approaches for a more equitable and socially just higher education for new generations of international students. It offers critical reflections on the intersections of race, place, and space at universities hosting international students across multiple geographic and

Overview: Systematische Untersuchung von religiösen Ritualen für die Gesellschaftstheorie.Konzepte zur Analyse des Zusammenhangs von religiösen Ritualen und sozialer Ordnung.Open Access - Umfassend und präziseIn diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die Bedeutung von religiösen Ritualen für die soziale Ordnung systematisch untersucht. Dazu werden Konzepte des Zusammenhangs von Ritualen mit verschiedenen Ebenen des Sozialen erarbeitet: Interaktion, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft.978-3-658-27593-8978-3-658-27594-5Series ISSN 2627-8537 Series E-ISSN 2627-8545

Overview: New perspectives and analyses of key European policies through their past successes and failures, present challenges such as the global financial crisis and future developments. This book captures a critical turning point in the functioning of European policies and highlights the necessity of quick adjustments for critical new global developments.978-1-349-45539-3978-1-137-30706-4

Overview: Celebrates Raymond Smullyan, a mathematician, philosopher, musician, and inventor of logic puzzles, who has made a lasting impact on the study of mathematical logic.Is the first book honoring Raymond .This book collects, for the first time in one volume, contributions honoring Professor Raymond Smullyan’s work on self-reference. It serves not only as a tribute to one of the great thinkers in logic, but also as a celebration of self-reference in general, to be enjoyed by all lovers of this field. Raymond Smullyan, mathematician, philosopher, musician and inventor of logic puzzles, mad

Overview: Leicht verständlicher Leitfaden für Patienten.Kompetenter Rat einer Ärztin und gleichzeitig Betroffenen.Hilfen zur Selbstmotivation: Checklisten (z.B. zur Beurteilung des Arztes), Aufgabenstellungen, Dieses Buch bietet rheumakranken Menschen neben verläßlichen medizinischen Informationen über ihre Krankheit und die vorhandenen Therapieangebote noch einiges mehr: - konkrete Anregungen, wie sie sich im Alltag ein Maximum an Selbständigkeit erhalten können, und - Rat und Lebenshilfe für den Umgang mit den emotionalen Problemen, mit denen ihre chronische Erkrankung sie ständig konfrontie

Overview: Since the turn of the millennium, the British media has been awash with stories of bankers and financiers caught engaging in acts of corporate wrongdoing and financial skullduggery. But just how different are these crimes to those committed in the past? And, is the threat of financial fraud greater today than in bygone years?In this book, Matthew Hollow begins answering these questions by providing an in-depth historical overview of some of the most significant frauds that took place in the British financial sector between 1919 and 1939. Using extensive archival evidence, he reveals

Overview: Practical presentation covers both the bootstrap and permutations along with the program code necessary to put them to work.Detailed coverage of classification, estimation, experimental design, hypoth.".…the author has packaged an excellent and modern set of topics around the development and use of quantitative models.... If you need to learn about resampling, this book would be a good place to start.." Technometrics (Review of the Second Edition)..This thoroughly revised and expanded third edition is a practical guide to data analysis using the bootstrap, cross-validation, and permu

Overview: Obwohl die Unternehmenszielsetzung der Marktwertmaximierung auf theoretische Konzepte aus den 1930er Jahren zurückgeht, haben sich betriebswirtschaftliche Literatur und Unternehmenspraxis erst in den letzten Jahren verstärkt mit dem Thema Wertorientierung befasst. Zentrale Performance-Maßstäbe im Rahmen der wertorientierten Unternehmensführung sind die so genannten Residualgewinne...Christoph Hesselmann analysiert, inwieweit sich Residualgewinne zur Unternehmensbewertung eignen. Er stellt fest, dass eine Unternehmensbewertung unter Ausnutzung einfacher Zusammenhänge erfolgen kann, un