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

Overview: Is the most up-to-date and authoritative account of schooling in post-apartheid South Africa.Brings together thirty leading South African scholars of education.Offers an interdisciplinary review with .This volume brings together many of South Africa’s leading scholars of education and covers the full range of South African schooling: from financing and policy reform to in-depth discussions of literacy, numeracy, teacher development and curriculum change. The book moves beyond a historical analysis and provides an inside view of the questions South African scholars are now grappling w

Overview: Complements courses covering silicon device physics, mode of components, characterization, and fabrication.Enables comprehensive, self-study in semiconductors, aimed at practicing engineers or universThis book is one of a series of five volumes forming an integrated, self-study course on silicon device physics, modes of operation, characterization, and fabrication. The series is based on many years of the author’s experience in academic and industrial teaching of semiconductors. The books are suitable for both class-teaching and self-study. The authors have designed the content to en

Overview: Provides a developing country perspective on the internationalization of Science, Technology, and Innovation Diplomacy.Highlights the significance of international cooperation at bilateral, regional, .This book provides a developing country perspective on the internationalization of science and the role of Science, Technology and Innovation Diplomacy (STID) in leveraging scientific cooperation for sustainable development. In articles by individuals from government departments and academic & research institutions in nine developing countries, it provides a conceptual understanding of

Overview: When is a war not a war?Under what circumstances is humanitarian intervention by the international community justified?In what circumstances can a state legitimately put at risk the lives of members of its armed forces?These are some of the questions raised through the essays contained inSome Corner of a Foreign Field .The authors consider the main ethical and political arguments surrounding the subject of intervention, and, between them, cover a wide range of areas, coming to focus on international institutions and international law, domestic and political viewpoints, humanitarian c

Overview: This book is the first time the voices of children, families, teachers, school leaders, and community members come together to address bullying in US K-12 schools through cultural responsiveness..The The importance of Boske and Osanloo’s approach to identifying the crisis of bullying in our society lives within the personal stories shared in this book. Readers are reminded that victims of bullying are our own friends, neighbors and classmates, and those at every level in the community are challenged to be part of the solution. The hatred carried out by those who bully impacts all of

Overview: Reports from the front of soft computing in the internet industry.Including an original contribution by Lotfi A. Zadeh on Web Intelligence, World Knowledge and Fuzzy Logic.Addresses important topics o.Search engines, with Google at the top, have become the most heavily used online service, with millions of searches performed every day and many remarkable capabilities. .Soft Computing for Information Processing and Analysis. includes reports from the front of soft computing in the internet industry and imparts knowledge and understanding of the significance of the field‘s accomplishme

Overview: New theory and current empirics on single parents.Perspective on differences within a disadvantaged group.Relevance for life course policyThis book analyses theoretically and empirically why some single mothers are less disadvantaged than others. It argues that single parenthood is associated with different risks, depending on the stage in the life course at which it is experienced and on the institutional protection provided at the respective stage of the life course..978-3-658-40080-4978-3-658-40081-1

Overview: Presents the everyday life of a sick person diagnosed with colon cancer.Connects the personal experience with sociological literature.Provides first-hand materials for academics or professionals in thThis is the story of a professor of Medical Sociology, diagnosed with colon cancer. He undergoes the appropriate medical treatment. Passing through that trajectory, he realizes that things happen that he never read about in the professional literature. During his illness and rehabilitation he scribbles down notes about what is happening to him, what he is observing and what things do not

Overview: 978-3-540-11581-6978-3-540-39328-3Series ISSN 0075-8450 Series E-ISSN 1616-6361

Overview: Nominated as an outstanding contribution by the University of Tokyo‘s Physics Department in 2014.Describes the search for long-lived massive particles based on a disappearing-track signature.Covers a .In this book, the anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking (AMSB) model is explored by searching for charged winos with their subsequent decays collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). .The author develops a new method, called “re-tracking,” to detect charged winos that decay before reaching the Semiconductor Tracker (SCT) detector. Because the nominal tracki

Overview: An engaging study of a great national institution. Essays explore the changing roles of museums and the perceived public role of a museum of science and technology. Illuminates the ways in which we think about the collecting and display of objects and the often difficult relations between the state, business and industry, and museum funding.978-1-137-34932-3978-0-230-28314-5

Overview: A survey of the whole of South African history from pre-colonial times to 1999, suitable for serious students of the subject. It handles all major topics, with special focus on the dramatic changes that have occured since 1990.978-0-312-23376-1978-0-230-28754-9

Overview: Discusses varying hypotheses about CSCs to the overall development of CNS tumors.Covers basic neuroscience, translational research aspects, and also includes recent SCS-specific treatment and strategi.This volume presents the most current reviews on how cancer stem cells (CSCs) hypothesis dictates that the continued proliferation of a tumor is dependent on a sub-population of self-renewing and asymmetrically dividing neoplastic stem cells that supply a largely differentiated tumor. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the characteristics of CSCs, their role in central ner

Overview: This two-volume book unveils trends, strengths, weaknesses and overall dynamics and implications of social entrepreneurship in the Middle East region, whilst identifying both opportunities and threats facing social entrepreneurship and supplements through a wealth of insights and examples inspired from practice and current applications.978-1-137-39536-8

Overview: Shakespeare has been misread for centuries as having modern ideas about sex and gender.This book shows how in the Restoration and Eighteenth century, Shakespeare‘s plays and other Renaissance texts were adapted to make them conform to these modern ideas.Through readings of Shakespearean texts, including King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, and Othello, and other Renaissance drama, the book reveals a sexual world before heterosexuality. Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature Before Heterosexuality shows how revisions and criticism of Renaissance drama contributed to the emergence of heter

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .Das vorliegende Buch ist ein einführender Text in die nicht-kooperative Spieltheorie, der insbesondere für Studenten geeignet ist, die Freude an präziser Modellierung haben. Neben den Grundlagen der Normalform- und Extensivformspiele werden Themen aus der Verhandlungstheorie, der Theorie der Wiederholten Spiele und der Evolutionären Spieltheorie behandelt. Diese Gebiete werden ausführlich unter Einbeziehung neuester Forschungsresultate dargestellt. Daneben werden auch Grundlagen der Experimentellen Spieltheorie gelegt. Viele der theoretischen Resulta

Overview: Explains the assessment of the university as an organization.Examines whether existing HRM practices and policies in HEIs in India drive motivation.Concludes by highlighting the impact of the National.This book explores the practices and policies of human resource management (HRM) in higher education institutions (HEI), while also analyzing the governance and structural challenges. It explains the assessment of university as an organization, outlining the distinction between universities and firms from an HRM point of view by analysing various objectives, parameters and outcomes.  Th

Overview: Includes his major journal publications plus commentaries in the papers by the editors..Includes a complete bibliography.Electronic version is freely available on SpringerLink.For almost fifty years, Richard M. Dudley has been extremely influential in the development of several areas of Probability. His work on Gaussian processes led to the understanding of the basic fact that their sample boundedness and continuity should be characterized in terms of proper measures of complexity of their parameter spaces equipped with the intrinsic covariance metric. His sufficient condition for sa

Overview: Discusses recent developments in semigroup algebras and their applications.Presents cutting edge results with rigorous mathematical approach.Valuable to students and researchers working in areas of seThis book is a collection of selected papers presented at the International Conference on Semigroups and Applications, held at the Cochin University of Science and Technology, India, from December 9–12, 2019. This book discusses the recent developments in semigroups theory, category theory and the applications of these in various areas of research, including structure theory of semigroup

Overview: Accessible introduction to nineteenthcentury British society and culture. Maps the cultural changes that took place during this period of extraordinary transformationThe massive transformation of British society in the course of the nineteenth century is a commonplace of historical description. The transition from an industrialising but still predominantly agricultural society, with many of its traditional, vertically organised forms of social organisation still intact, to a predominantly urban, class-divided and recognisably modern society remains one of the striking transformations