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

Overview: Comprehensively considers how Steven Spielberg puts his films together.Examines Spielberg’s technique in never-before-seen detail and clearly illustrates how he makes his narratives more effective andThis book reveals how Spielberg utilises stylistic strategies that are both unique and innovative when considered within the context of the classical Hollywood system. James Mairata identifies two distinct systems at work in Spielberg‘s application of style. One is the use of deep space compositions and staging, a form that was commonly seen in Hollywood cinema until the rise of the ‘New

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2018, held in Qingdao, China, in November 2018..The 60 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The theme of the 2018 conference is: Social Robotics and AI. In addition to the technical sessions, ICSR 2018 included 2 workshops:.Smart Sensing Systems: Towards Safe Navigation and Social Human-Robot Interaction of Service Robots..978-3-030-05203-4978-3-030-05204-1Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: 978-0-333-11345-5978-1-349-00937-4Series ISSN 2947-0374 Series E-ISSN 2947-0382

Overview: This text is concerned with the Production/Operations function in small businesses. While the POM function is a key area of management in any business it is of paramount importance in a smaller firm. Small Business: Production/Operations Management addresses the essential managerial tasks within the POM area. It features a review of small business problems and discusses the responsibilities embodied in the POM task - production/operations processes, the choice of process and the compromises involved in that choice. In addition Terry Hill addresses the key issues of capacity, purchasi

Overview: Includes unique illustrations.Covers all aspects of expandable stents.First text devoted solely to this topic.Includes supplementary material: .Self-expandable stents were initially placed for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases but now play an integral role in the relief of benign and malignant obstruction of the gastrointestinal tract and biliary system.  .Self-Expandable Stents in the Gastrointestinal Tract. will familiarize the reader with the indications, techniques, and outcome following placement of expandable metal stents within the gastrointestinal tract. The volume cov

Overview: Covers both practical issues of geotechnical engineering with academic/research inputs.Serves as a useful reference resource for graduate and postgraduate students of civil engineering.Comprises selec.This book comprises select proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference 2020 (IGC2020) focusing on recent developments in the field of transportation geotechnics, scour and erosion, offshore geotechnics, and environmental geotechnology. The contents are useful to academicians, researchers, practitioners and policymakers to understand and tackle the challenges in an efficient manner

Overview: Provides the first book-length study of the history of sociology in Germany written in English..Situates the course of German sociology in its historical, economic, political, and cultural contexts..P.This open access book traces the development of sociology in Germany from the late 19.th. century to the present day, providing a concise overview of the main actors, institutional processes, theories, methods, topics and controversies. Throughout the book, the author relates the discipline’s history to its historical, economic, political and cultural contexts. The book begins with soci

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management, STM 2014, held in Wroclaw, Poland, in September 2014, in conjunction with the 19th European Symposium Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2014. The 11 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions and cover topics as access control, data protection, digital rights, security and trust policies, security and trust in social networks.978-3-319-11850-5978-3-319-11851-2Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: 978-90-481-8247-3978-94-017-2952-9

Overview: Explores survival picture of special community and macroscopic overview of social space in contemporary Chinese cities.Combines the background of globalization and the Chinese context of new urbanizat.This book examines the settlement space of special communities in China on the community scale from an interdisciplinary approach that combines perspectives from urban planning and sociology. Using the framework of integration response, it theoretically and empirically explores the approaches these communities adopt to survive and evolve. Empirically, this discussion centers on four par

Overview: This book analyses post-migration social networks via the notion of superdiversity. Approaching diversity as relational and complexly configured through multiple migration-related differentiations, it challenges us to rethink how we talk about and classify migrant networks. Based on research in two cities of migration -  London and Toronto -  the author investigates how we can use a superdiversity lens to discuss migrant networks in urban contexts. Focusing on the personal networks of Pacific Islanders and New Zealand Māori, she sheds light on the sociality practices of relatively sm

Overview: Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.Presents an analysis of the world’s leading limit on sterile neutrinos mixing with muon neutrinos.Offers the mo.This thesis highlights data from MINOS, a long-baseline accelerator neutrino experiment, and details one of the most sensitive searches for the sterile neutrino ever made. Further, it presents a new analysis paradigm to enable this measurement and a comprehensive study of the myriad systematic uncertainties involved in a search for a few-percent effect, while also rigorously investigati

Overview: This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.Provides examples of exclusion from countries that are typically not discusses in literature on the development of Western.This open access book examines disenfranchisement and voting barriers in ten self-governing and aspiring liberal democracies worldwide, before and after the introduction of so-called universal suffrage. Focusing on economic voting restrictions implemented through constitutional provisions and laws, it explores the various disqualifications that prevent people from voting. The notions of

Overview: Erfahren Sie alle wichtigen Erfolgsfaktoren von mobilen Marketingstrategien in Social Networks: von der Konzeption über die Umsetzung bis hin zu Erfolgsmessung und rechtlichen Aspekten.Erhalten Sie enIn diesem Buch erläutern ausgewiesene Digital-Profis, wie Unternehmen ihre Kunden zielsicher mobil in Sozialen Netzwerken erreichen und daraus den größtmöglichen Profit ziehen können. Denn: Mobile Geräte wie Smartphones, Tablets, Phablets oder Smartwatches sind zu ständigen Begleitern geworden und besetzen jeden denkbaren Nutzungskontext. Insbesondere Social Networks werden intensiv auf

Overview: Provides a critical review of the sustainable livelihood approach.Looks at SLA in practice and not just in theory.Explores some of the central challenges of putting SLA into practice.Suggests how SLA . .We all view the ubiquitous term ‘sustainability’ as a worthwhile goal. But how can we apply the principles of sustainability in the real world, at the sharp end of communities in developing nations where income insecurity is the troubled norm? This volume provides some practical answers, explaining the precepts of the ‘sustainable livelihood approach’ (SLA) through the case study of a

Overview: Ein leicht verständlicher Einstieg in Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie, Statistik und AnwendungenDiese Starthilfe vermittelt in kompakter Form grundlegende Begriffe, Methoden und Rechentechniken der Stochastik. Anhand von Beispielen werden vielfältige Anwendungsmöglichkeiten aufgezeigt. Nach einer Einführung in die beschreibende Statistik mit Methoden der Datenaufbereitung werden mit Hilfe der Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie die Grundlagen für statistische Entscheidungsverfahren entwickelt. Der Leser erfährt, wie man Teststatistiken, Punkt- und Intervallschätzungen für unbekannte Parameter sowi

Overview: 978-3-540-56853-7978-3-642-95711-6Series ISSN 0937-7433 Series E-ISSN 2512-5214

Overview: Recent decades have seen a degradation of the environmental quality in semi-enclosed seas, which are particularly sensitive to population pressures due to their naturally low flushing rates related to their geometry. The North Sea, Baltic Sea and the Black Sea are amongst the most seriously threatened seas in the Euro-Asian region. Each semi-enclosed sea has a distinct pattern of circulation, transport, mixing, associated with the particular geometry, topography, boundary processes, interior stratification, atmospheric forcing, ice fonnation, straits / sill controls, and the specific

Overview: Explores investment opportunities for impact investors and social enterprises.Identifies the value of impact investing in emerging countries.Examines hybrid organizations in Nigeria as success storiesThis book explores how social enterprises and impact investors use inter-organizational partnerships to pursue contemporary socio-economic interests in emerging countries. It looks at the ways in which enterprises and investors collaborate to create hybrid organizations by matching social and commercial focus: a solid business orientation and social mission combined to create social valu

Overview: Revised and updated second edition, includes a new chapter on the development of mountainous regions in Croatia.Focuses on the problems experienced by populations in mountain regions in Southeastern E.This second edition of the book .Sustainable Development of Mountain Regions: Southeastern Europe. integrates the scientific results and expertise of the researchers from the countries in Southeastern Europe. The book consists of updated information for the topics observed in first edition and several new chapters with analysis of some problems in the mountain regions of four new for th