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

Overview: Focuses on the top earning 20% of society, rather than the top 1 or 0.1%.Addresses the role of rent in issues such as class reproduction, wealth, sources of social instability and inequality.Provides .Mihályi and Szelényi provide a timely contribution to contemporary debates about inequality of incomes and wealth, offering a careful examination of various sources of rent in contemporary societies, and considering several policy options to reduce inequality in order to preserve the meritocratic nature of liberal democracies...While .Rent-Seekers, Profits, Wages and Inequality .acknowl

Overview: 978-3-540-10263-2978-3-540-38385-7Series ISSN 0075-8434 Series E-ISSN 1617-9692

Overview: Party goals in European elections’ candidate selectionElena Frech addresses the issue of candidate (re-)selection for the European elections. Studying German parties, the author investigates both, the rules and practice of candidate selection. The study is one of the first to shed light on the goals political parties pursue when selecting candidates in the European context. First, the author provides a detailed account of the formal and informal procedures German parties use to construct the electoral lists for the European elections. Then she turns towards the individual candidates,

Overview: The first monograph that combines social epistemology and philosophy of language in reflecting on disagreement.This book offers a hitherto unexplored view of the epistemological ramifications of disagThis book examines how the semantics and metaphysics of disagreement affect the epistemology of disagreement. It thus broadens the philosophical discourse by relating the epistemological discussion of (peer) disagreement to inquiries into the nature of disagreement and disagreeing. By doing this, it paints a new picture of the epistemological situation evoked by disagreement: To the same

Overview: Essential for basic and clinical scientists.Discusses cutting-edge science in the field of regenerative biomedicine and its therapeutic applications.Written by renowned scientists in the specific fielTherapeutic applications within regenerative biomedicine has gained tremendous interest from a growing, multidisciplinary community of investigators in recent years, driven by the hope of finding cures for several diseases. .Regenerative Medicine and Cell Therapy. discusses cutting-edge science in the field of regenerative biomedicine and its therapeutic applications to various medical d

Overview: 978-3-8244-4051-1978-3-322-86199-3

Overview: Research centering on blood flow in the heart continues to hold an important position, especially since a better understanding of the subject may help reduce the incidence of coronary arterial disease and heart attacks. This book summarizes recent advances in the field; it is the product of fruitful cooperation among international scientists who met in Japan in May, 1990 to discuss the regulation of coronary blood flow.978-4-431-68369-8978-4-431-68367-4

Overview: Includes supplementary material: If you design electronics for a living, you need .Robust Electronic Design Reference Book.. Written by a working engineer, who has put over 115 electronic products into production at Sycor, IBM, and Lexmark, Robust Electronic Design Reference covers all the various aspects of designing and developing electronic devices and systems that: .-Work. .-Are safe and reliable. .-Can be manufactured, tested, repaired, and serviced. .-May be sold and used worldwide. .-Can be adapted or enhanced to meet new and changing requirements..978-1-4020-7830-9

Overview: Features the current edition of Eurocode 2: Design of concrete structures (abbreviated EN 1992 or EC 2).Maximizes understanding of real-world design challenges with clear examples and guided problems..This textbook describes the design of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures according to the latest advances both in the field of materials, concrete and steel, and in the field of structural analysis. These advances have been included in current version of Eurocode 2, which is taken as reference. All subjects are presented starting from their theoretical bases and passing to c

Overview: Provides examples and case studies about resilience and new business models.Highlights the importance of building resilient organizations to adapt to unexpected events or crises.Compiles several appro.In recent years, decision-makers from all sectors have been using ‘resilience‘ as a keyword for managing societal turbulences. But what is resilience? How can we benefit from integrating digital transformation and resilience? .In this book, some of the world‘s leading experts on resilience explore the issue and discuss possible answers to these questions. The editors of this book believ

Overview: .Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems. provides an excitingand challenging laboratory component for undergraduate digital logicand computer design courses. The more advanced topics and exercisesalso make this text useful for upper level courses in digital logic orprogrammable logic. Design engineers working in industry will want toconsider this text for a rapid introduction to PPLD technology andlogic synthesis using commercial CAD tools. ..Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems. includes two tutorials onthe Altera CAD tool environment, an overview of programmable logic,and a design li

Overview: Provides a comprehensive overview of the cruise industry in China in 2021 and a strong foresight.Focuses on the influence of COVID pandemic and the resumption of the cruise industry.Offers a perspectiThis book is an annual research report on the cruise industry in China and throughout the world in 2021, contributed by Shanghai University of Engineering and Technology and Shanghai International Cruise Economic Research Center. This volume consists of four parts to discuss general and special topics on global and China’s cruise industry covering respond to COVID-19, cruise tourism mark

Overview: This is the Proceedings of the Taniguchi International Symposium on "Relaxation of Elementary Excitations" which was held October 12-16,1979, at Susono-shi (at the foot of f1t. Fuji) in Japan. The pleasant atmosphere of the Symposium is evidenced in the picture of the participants shown on the next page. The purpose of the symposium was to provide an opportunity for a limited number of active researchers to meet and to discuss relaxation processes and related phenomena not only of excitons and phonons in solids but also electronic and vibrational excitations in molecules and biologic

Overview: This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.Presents detailed state level analysis of agricultural performance, farmers’ income and policy recommendations to strengthThis open access book provides an evidence-based roadmap for revitalising Indian agriculture while ensuring that the growth process is efficient, inclusive, and sustainable, and results in sustained growth of farmers’ incomes. The book, instead of looking for global best practices and evaluating them to assess the possibility of replicating these domestically, looks inward at the best pr

Overview: Globalization and technology have altered public fears and changed expectations of how government should make people safer. This book analyzes how Europeans and Americans perceive and regulate risk. The authors show how public fears about risk are filtered through political systems to pressure governments to insure against risk.978-1-349-38287-3978-0-230-10947-6

Overview: 978-3-531-11786-7978-3-322-94347-7

Overview: Russia played a fundamental role in the outcome of Napoleonic Wars; the wars also had an impact on almost every area of Russian life. Russia and the Napoleonic Wars brings together significant and new research from Russian and non-Russian historians and their work demonstrates the importance of this period both for Russia and for all of Europe.978-1-137-52800-1Series ISSN 2634-6699 Series E-ISSN 2634-6702

Overview: 978-3-663-12562-4978-3-663-13086-4

Overview: Cancer is the leading cause of death in many countries, and digestive cancer is one of the most common types of neoplasms. Advances in research on the management of digestive cancer therefore represent an important contribution to the welfare of humankind throughout the world. The VICC Kyoto International Symposium on Recent Advances in the Management of Digestive Cancer was held in Kyoto from March 31 to April 2, 1993 under the presidency of Dr. T. Takahashi of the Kyoto Prefectural Vniversity of Medicine. At this event, leading researchers and clinicians presented new findings and

Overview: Revision surgery. A practical approach to problems and com-plications of total hip arthroplasty. Based on the study oflong term results and operative techniques evolved over 20years experience in this field of work.978-1-4471-1790-2978-1-4471-1788-9