BOOKS with Alphabet S (Sa, Sb,Sc, Sd, Se…... )

Overview: My curiosity and concern about the working class in America stems from childhood memories of my father, a cabinetmaker, and of my oldest brother, an autoworker, who were passionately involved in the labor movement. Perhaps because they so wanted the working class to achieve greater social and economic justice and because they insisted it was not happening, I became curious to know the reasons why. Without even being aware of it, I began to explore a possible explanation—the internal diver­ sity of the working class. In my studies of autoworkers (the prototype proletarians) in the Uni

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Overview: Provides a critical overview of secular stagnation theories from the classical economists to the most recent stagnation debate.Examines the role of income distribution in various secular stagnation thIn light of weak economic performances and rising income disparities across the developed world during the past decades, this book provides a comprehensive overview of secular stagnation theories in the history of economic thought and examines the role of income distribution in various stagnation hypotheses. By offering a historical perspective, from the classical economists to the most

Overview: Will be released in a timely manner for World Physics Year.The first expository book on Einstein‘s Papers.Beginning on the 18th of March, 1905,at approximately eight week intervals, the noted German physics journal Annalen der Physik received three hand-written manuscripts from a relatively unknown patent examiner in Bern. The patent examiner was the twenty-six year old Albert Einstein and the three papers would set the agenda for twentieth century physics. A fourth short paper was received by the journal on the 27th of September. It contained Einstein‘s derivation of the formula E=m

Overview: Provides new insights into the environmental, technical, and political aspects of shale gas production.Of interest to scientists, environmental managers and decision makers.Includes supplementary mate.This book highlights various aspects of shale gas production and discusses the associated problems, which have greatly influenced the current situation on the global gas market. It focuses on issues such as production technologies, environmental protection, and the impacts of shale gas production on human beings. Further, it investigates the role of shale gas in the development and impl

Overview: This open access book introduces readers to debates on socio-spatial theory.Covers geography beyond English-speaking contexts.Pays attention to its institutional and regional setting.This book is open.This open access book is about socio-spatial theory in, and the nature of, Nordic geography. From both historical and contemporary perspectives, the book engages with theorisations of geography in the Nordic countries. Including chapters by geographers from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, it reflects how theories about the relations between the social and the spatial have

Overview: Theoretisches Grundwissen mit vielen strukturierten Übersichten.Funktionsweise und konkrete Anwendungsbereiche.Praktisch anwendbares empirisches Wissen über SensorikDas Buch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über physikalische Grundlagen, Funktionen und Applikationen von Sensoren. Es ist nach den Aufgabenfeldern von Sensoren gegliedert und zeigt anhand typischer Einsatzbeispiele anschaulich deren Anwendung. Sensorisch erfassbare Messgrößen sind z.B. mechanische, dynamische, thermische sowie elektrische und magnetische. Weiterhin werden auch optische und akustische Sensoren in deren

Overview: Die wachsende Dynamisierung unseres Wirtschaftssystems führt zu einem zunehmenden Wissensverlust in Unternehmen, z.B. durch den Generationswechsel. Dies schwächt die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit vieler Unternehmen und verursacht erhebliche Kosten für die Wiederbeschaffung von wertvollem Know-how. Allerdings sind bisher nur wenige Organisationen auf die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen vorbereitet. ..Jörg Trojan untersucht den Status Quo der Wissensbewahrung und zeigt, wie man durch Webuntersuchungen und statistische Auswertung eine Analyse signifikanter Vorgehensmerkmale im Bereich Wissen

Overview: whether the patient is suffering? Should the ability to think and reason be considered as the most important factor? For instance, should a patient with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) who is mentally alert yet unable to move from the neck down be allowed to refuse medical treatment; and, if so, at what point in her treatment should one consider her life no longer worth living? Is there a difference between not inserting a respirator into a patient who is unable to breathe and not inserting a feeding tube into a patient who is unable to eat? In other words, where does one draw th

Overview: Examines facility location theory through game theoretical tools.Focuses on situations where the location decision is faced by several decision makers.Surveys models and methods regarding facility loc.Facility location theory develops the idea of locating one or more facilities by optimizing suitable criteria such as minimizing transportation cost, or capturing the largest market share. The contributions in this book focus an approach to facility location theory through game theoretical tools highlighting situations where a location decision is faced by several decision makers and le

Overview: Up-to-date results.Fast-track conference proceedings.State-of-the-art researchThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 38th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2012, held in Špindlerův Mlýn, Czech Republic, in January 2012. The 43 revised papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. The book also contains 11 invited talks, 10 of which are in full-paper length. The contributions are organized in topical sections named: foundations of computer science; software and Web engineering; cr

Overview: Solitons are a well-known and intriguing aspect of nonlinear behavior in a continuous system such as a fluid: a wave propagates through the medium without distortion. Liquid crystals are highly ordered systems without a rigid, long-range structure. Solitons in liquid crystals (sometimes referred to as "walls") have a wide variety of remarkable properties that are becoming important for practical applications such as electroluminescent display. This book, the first review of the subject to be published, contains not only surveys of the existing literature, but presents new results as

Overview: Includes cutting-edge techniques.Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results.Contains key implementation advice from the expertsThis book provides definitive methods to perform stable isotope probing (SIP) experiments, covering a wide spectrum of stable isotope techniques used in microbial ecology, such as methods to target and analyze labeled DNA, rRNA, mRNA, protein, and PLFA. Protocols to study stable isotope fractionation by microbial pathways, the analysis of labeled communities with Raman microscopy, Chip-SIM, as well as quantitative SIP (qSIP) and high-reso

Overview: Based on the 6th International Conference on Sodium Calcium Exchange.Includes information from internationally-known experts on sodium calcium exchange.Incorporates recent advances in research.This book reports the text of the lectures of the 6.th. International Conference on Sodium Calcium Exchange held in Lacco Ameno in the Island of Ischia in the Gulf of Naples, Italy, from October 1 to October 5, 2011. .The present book uncovers the most striking new findings on NCX that emerged since the previous Conference on Sodium Calcium Exchange, such as the structural dissection of the mol

Overview: Bietet eine praxisorientierte Unterstützung für Mediziner, Ingenieure und Ökonomen aus den Bereichen Forschung und Implantatentwicklung.Mit Fallstudien und anschaulichen Beispielen.Deckt alle relevant..Eine hervorragende Technologie garantiert noch nicht, dass sie sich als Standard durchsetzt. Die Entwicklung innovativer Implantate bildet einen hochkomplexen Prozess, der insbesondere aufgrund seines hohen finanziellen Risikos und seiner zahlreichen Barrieren von Beginn an ein systematisches Management erfordert. Dieses Buch präsentiert eine übersichtliche Zusammenfassung des Implanta

Overview: Features interviews and oral histories of students from a public university in Nevada.Lays out challenges faced by non-white and low-income students and potential policy solutions.Explores the interseIn this book, eleven recent college graduates describe in vivid detail their journeys from racially segregated, underfunded public schools to a state university, and the obstacles they encountered along the way. Chapters highlight personal accounts of poverty, violence, and bullying in childhood, the persistence of racism on the university campus and the inability of faculty and administ

Overview: Provides a quick introduction to the robotics aspect of swarm intelligence;.Outlines how swarm robotics is relevant as a key technology in robotics, transport, and medicine (nanorobotics), with many r.This book provides an introduction to Swarm Robotics, which is the application of methods from swarm intelligence to robotics. It goes on to present methods that allow readers to understand how to design large-scale robot systems by going through many example scenarios on topics such as aggregation, coordinated motion (flocking), task allocation, self-assembly, collective construction,

Overview: The subject matterofsolid state chemistry lies within the spheres ofboth physical and inorganic chemistry. In addition, there is a large overlap with solid state physics and materials engineering. However, solid state chemistry has still to be recognized by the general body ofchemists as a legitimate subfield ofchemistry. The discipline is not even well defined as to content and has many facets that make writing a textbook a formidable task. The early studies carried out in the United States by Roland Ward and his co­ workers emphasized the synthesisofnew materials and the determinat

Overview: Most recent approaches to modelling technological change and pollution.Surveys existing literature as well as adds to frontier research.Provides both theoretical and empirical perspectivesThis volume includes a selection of papers presented at the conference “Susta- able Resource Use and Economic Dynamics” (SURED), held on Monte Verita ` in Ascona, Switzerland, in June 2004. Thirty years after the publication of the famous symposium issue of the Review of Economic Studies in 1974, which started the neoclassical literature on growth theory and resource economics. The conference sought

Overview: Anvertraut und ausgeliefert: Pädagogik und sexuelle Gewalt.Herausforderungen in schulischen und sozialpädagogischen Kontexten.Sozialwissenschaftliche Systematisierung der aktuellen Debatten.Includes s.Welche Möglichkeiten der Reaktion auf sexualisierte Gewalt gibt es in pädagogischen Einrichtungen? Worin bestehen die Herausforderungen für einen angemessenen Umgang mit sexualisierter Gewalt? In ihren Beiträgen geben Sozial- und ErziehungswissenschaftlerInnen Antworten und versuchen eine Systematisierung der Debatten in disziplinärer und institutioneller Hinsicht. Der aktuelle Diskurs