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

Overview: A comparative study discussing religious instruction in state schools.Describes the diversity between states and analyses the legislative basis of religious instruction in the various countries.Europe is going through a sort of "social revolution" with the influence of the church and religious instruction in state schools being open to discussion. Critics claim that providing religious instruction in state schools violates the constitutional separation of church and state. And yet, despite an alleged separation of church and state, in most countries, the church continues to play a co

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Overview: Erste Überblickspublikation auf dem Markt.Antwort auf die Verunsicherung durch die AfDSchule kommt eine Schlüsselfunktion in der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Rechtsextremismus zu. In ihrem bildungspolitischen Auftrag kann Schule nicht neutral sein. Sie hat die Aufgabe, pluralistische, demokratische und menschenrechtsorientierte Haltungen und Werte zu vermitteln. Dieser Band gibt einen Überblick über das Thema Rechtsextremismus und Schule sowie Verweise auf praktische Handlungsperspektiven. Neben einer Bestandsaufnahme schulischer Ansätze zur Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema Rechtsextre

Overview: Enhances the understanding of modern plate tectonics through the study of rocks of different ages from different parts of the Earth.Includes practical training and case study showing how to use magnetThis book offers a collection of papers presented in the International Conference on Geomagnetism, Paleomagnetism and Rock Magnetism held in Kazan (Russia) in October 2017. Papers in this book are dedicated to the study of the geomagnetic field through most of the Earth‘s history as well as planetary and meteorite magnetism, and magnetic signatures of terrestrial impact craters. Recent s

Overview: First book to be devoted specifically to ureteral imaging.Covers all currently used imaging techniques, both new and traditional.Includes high-quality informative images.Owing to its central position in the retroperitoneal and pelvic cavity, the ureter is rapidly affected by a variety of pathological processes. Furthermore, any disease involving the ureter can also have an effect on the kidneys. For several decades, the diagnosis of diseases affecting the ureter was based on intravenous excretory urography and techniques of direct opacification. However, the diagnostic strategy has b

Overview: Provides an account of sociolinguistic practice amongst urban adolescents.Focuses on the use of linguistic variation as a meaning-making tool in the enactment of identity.Explores the extent to which .This book examines how urban adolescents attending a non-mainstream learning centre in the UK use language and other semiotic practices to enact identities in their day-to-day lives. Combining variationist sociolinguistics and ethnographically-informed interactional sociolinguistics, this detailed and highly reflexive account provides rich descriptions and discussions of the linguistic

Overview: Written for graduate students and industry professionals who need a hands-on introduction to runtime verification.Includes lots of exercises which enable readers to build their own runtime verificatio.This book provides a hands-on introduction to runtime verification which guides the reader from zero to sufficient practical knowledge required to consider and apply it in industry. It starts with almost no assumptions on the knowledge of the reader and provides exercises throughout the book through which the reader builds their own runtime verification tool. All that is required are ba

Overview: The only transnational book on L1 education.Includes contributions by a range of scholars from different countries.Uniquely brings together the fields of curriculum inquiry & L1 education.This book brings together a range of scholars from 10 different countries to address the contemporary state of play in national standard language education – i.e. the L1 subjects. It seeks to understand the field from within a comparative-historical and transnational frame. Four thematic threads are woven through the volume: educationalisation; globalisation; pluriculturalism; and technologization.

Overview: Addresses how various societies and subcultures use ritual to connect effectively with other-than-human beings.Uses global case studies across a diversity of contexts.Examines both indigenous cultures.Within the social sciences, other-than-human being’s agency has often been denied and interbeings relationships have not been fully addressed. However, many indigenous worldviews and Western contemporary spiritual practices are shaping a very different reality, with various attempts to share the world with non-human beings, animate or inanimate, creating forms of relationships to “the l

Overview: A concise how-to for treating retinal and optic nerve conditions with stem cell therapies.All original work from Dr. Jeffrey N. Weiss.Based on results from 11 years of treat approximately 600 patientsThis is a concise how-to of successfully treating previously deemed "untreatable" retinal and optic nerve conditions with stem cell therapies. Based on the results of 11 years of experience treating approximately 600 patients, this text will serve as a template for others to develop similar stem cell based treatments in their specialty. Author, Jeffrey N. Weiss, MD is specifically poised

Overview: Offers understanding and insight into how to define, establish, and maintain personal safety to minimize risks of negative encounters with psychopaths.Details causes of psychopathy and the links betwe.This brief offers understanding and insight into how to define, establish, and maintain personal safety to minimize risks of negative encounters with psychopaths. The author, through a behavioral science research lens sprinkled with autobiographical anecdotes, details causes of psychopathy, links between crime and psychopathy, and focuses particular attention on strategies and preventat

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Overview: Features expert analysis from the leading researchers in the field of socio-spatial polarisation and uneven development.Combines critical geographical thought and spatial studies perspectives with plaDespite the emphasis of the European Regional Policy on territorial cohesion, regional disparities have been increasing within Europe in the past years. The metropolitan areas in almost all countries are considerably growing while regions outside of agglomerations are stagnating or even declining. Against this background this book aims to provide an understanding of the underlying proces

Overview: Nachfolgewerk zum erfolgreichen "Seniorenspielbuch".Ein Fundus von über 200 Spielideen.Ideal und hilfreich für die Pflege und Selbstpflege.Gut strukturiert, einfach umsetzbare Übungen.Includes supplem.Nach dem erfolgreichen Werk "Seniorenspielbuch - Reaktivierung Dementer in Pflege und Betreuung" widmet sich Ursula Stöhr diesmal dem wichtigen Thema Ressourcen in der Pflege. In der Hinführung und dem umfangreichen Hauptteil der erprobten Spiele mit Variationen und Erlebnisberichten werden nach Kategorien geordnet viele Beispiele der Ressourcenaktivierung beschrieben. Damit können Pfle

Overview: Latest research on Information Engineering.Results of the 2011 2nd World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE 2011) held at 17-19 June 2011 (Part and 20-22 September 2011 (Pa.CSIE 2011 is an international scientific Congress for distinguished scholars engaged in scientific, engineering and technological research, dedicated to build a platform for exploring and discussing the future of Computer Science and Information Engineering with existing and potential application scenarios. The congress has been held twice, in Los Angeles, USA for the first and in Chang

Overview: That residues of pesticide and other "foreign" chemicals in food­ stuffs are of concern to everyone everywhere is amply 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 seriou~ question that pest-control chemicals and food-additive chemicals are essential to adequate food production, manufacture, marketing, and storage, yet without continuing surveillance and intellige

Overview: Die Bedingungen erfolgreicher RegierungskommunikationWäre Barack Obama auch in Schweden erfolgreich? Hätte Tony Blair auch als Regierungschef in Deutschland New Deals mit Arbeitssuchenden durchsetzen können, während Gerhard Schröder als Bundeskanzler daran scheiterte? Die vorliegende Untersuchung verfolgt das Ziel zu klären, inwieweit Regierungskommunikation in sozialpolitischen Diskursen von dem jeweiligen institutionellen Kontext moderner Demokratien abhängt, vor dem sie geschieht. Sie erfolgt auf der Basis eines eigenen Modells zur Kontextualisierung von Regierungskommunikation, m

Overview: First book on the use of random finite sets (RFS) and finite set statistics (FISST) in robotics.Focuses on a critical area of autonomous robotic research - the representation of the environment and itThe monograph written by John Mullane, Ba-Ngu Vo, Martin Adams and Ba-Tuong Vo is devoted to the field of autonomous robot systems, which have been receiving a great deal of attention by the research community in the latest few years. The contents are focused on the problem of representing the environment and its uncertainty in terms of feature based maps. Random Finite Sets are adopted

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .This book assists the reader in determining storm risks, focussing on sandy coasts and cliff coasts in the context of expected sea level rise from littoral transformation and climate change. It examines storm impacts through matrixes concerning physical parameters, socio-economic activities, ecological and historic resources, and it presents the Coastline Risk to Storms Index as a single numerical measure of the risk for a given area..The methodology is described and tested against two coastal areas: one in the Caribbean Sea (Cartagena, Colombia) and

Overview: Design guidelines for reliability, maintainability, and software quality.Checklists for design reviews.More than 100 practice oriented examples.Based on over 30 years of industrial and academic experiThe large interest granted to this book made a 4th edition necessary. The structure of the book is unchanged, with its main part in Chapters 1 - 8 and self contained appendices Al - A5 on management aspects and A6 -A8 on basic probability theory, stochastic processes & statistics. Such a structure allows rapid access to practical results and a comprehensive introduction to the mathematic