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Overview: The first book to focus on global cases of phantom attackers as one type of social panics .Written in a lively style for students, scholars and a general audience interested in true crime and media ho.This book provides an accessible overview of one particular type of social panic: that of the phantom attacker. Such panics are characterised by outbreaks of sensational claims of attacks by mysterious figures that seem to emerge from nowhere, attack their innocent human and animal victims, only to vanish without a trace. Taking the recent wave of needle-spiking reports in Europe as a s

Overview: Termingeschäfte - dieser Begriff löst beim deutschen Publikum, seien es Anleger, Investoren oder sonstige mit solchen Geschäften befaßte Personen, bestimmte Assozia­ tionen aus. Die Versierteren werden den Begriff mit den vielfältigen Anlagemöglichkei­ ten an der Deutschen Terminbörse (DTB) in Verbindung bringen, die sich seit mehreren Jahren eines ständig wachsenden Zuspruchs erfreut. Für die weniger versierten Anleger dagegen sind derzeit - leider immer noch - Termingeschäfte ein "Buch mit sieben Siegeln". Darüber hinaus erfolgt beim Begriff Termingeschäfte die Assoziation im deuts

Overview: Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.978-3-662-23085-5978-3-662-25052-5

Overview: Organisatorische Anpassungs- und Innovationsfähigkeit wird in einer stetig komplexer und dynamischer werdenden Umwelt zur notwendigen Bedingung für langfristige Wettbewerbsfähigkeit. Um einen Reorganisationsprozess erfolgreich durchzuführen, ist es erforderlich, das Verhalten der Mitarbeiter in Unternehmen zu verstehen und aktiv für die Reorganisation zu nutzen. Heino Freudenberg analysiert Bedingungen, Ausprägungen und Konsequenzen strategischen Verhaltens bei Reorganisationen. Mit Hilfe eines eigenen Verhaltensmodells und einer umfassenden empirischen Erhebung entwickelt der Autor

Overview: Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War is the first book to read Shakespeare‘s drama through the lens of Cold War politics. The book uses the Cold War experience of dissenting artists in theatre and film to highlight the coded religio-political subtexts in Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth and The Winter‘s Tale.978-1-349-49415-6978-1-137-43895-9Series ISSN 2731-3204 Series E-ISSN 2731-3212

Overview: Cutting-edge research Leading scientists in the field.Includes supplementary material: This collection of articles on oxidative stress in clinical practice surveys essential current research in what is a rapidly evolving field. As well as giving the reader a mechanistic overview of how oxidative stress affects cardiovascular disease, it analyzes the potential of a number of therapeutic options that target these pathways. Understanding the complexity of the cellular redox system could lead to the development of better targeted interventions that facilitate patient recovery. Even as la

Overview: Vermittlung der Methodik und Anwendbarkeit der Spieltheorie anhand vornehmlich ökonomischer Beispiele.Abstrakte Begründung und anschauliche Illustrierung der Spielformen, vollständig abgerundete DarstIn einem strategischen Spiel gibt es stets mehrere autonom entscheidende Akteure, die ihre individuellen Interessen verfolgen. Jede soziale Konfliktsituation mit opportunistisch handelnden Individuen erweist sich daher als strategisches Spiel. In diesem Lehrbuch werden strategische Spiele exakt beschrieben und das individuell rationale Entscheidungsverhalten aller Beteiligten determinier

Overview: Looking beyond the materialistic boundary of the conventional development paradigm, this book identifies our spiritual underdevelopment which is being reflected as self-centeredness and greed, as the root cause of conventional development‘s failure to alleviate poverty and inequality, achieve sustainability and deliver happiness to humanity.978-1-349-48012-8978-1-137-38276-4

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Overview: .Social Judgment and Intergroup Relations: Essays in Honor of. .Muzafer Sherif. is a stimulating collection which paints a crisp and fascinating picture of social psychology during its decades of growth into a mature science. With his important contributions in the study of social norms, attitudes, self concept, group relations, and other areas, Muzafer Sherif was a key figure in the discipline. Each essay in this book illustrates the lasting influence of Muzafer Sherif‘s seminal work in social psychology.978-1-4612-7698-2978-1-4612-2860-8

Overview: Presents a wealth of applications for techniques demonstrated within the text.Chapters are written in gradually increasing difficulty making it ideal for self-study.For each method of proof a prototypSemilinear elliptic equations are of fundamental importance for the study of geometry, physics, mechanics, engineering and life sciences. The variational approach to these equations has experienced spectacular success in recent years, reaching a high level of complexity and refinement, with a multitude of applications. Additionally, some of the simplest variational methods are evolving a

Overview: Provides an account of the intersection of stardom with issues of gender, sexuality, racial and national identity, transnational cinema flows, and genre.Identifies Scarlett Johansson as an emblematic .Screening Scarlett Johansson: Gender, Genre, Stardom. provides an account of Johansson’s persona, work and stardom, extending from her breakout roles in independent cinema, to contemporary blockbusters, to her self-parodying work in science-fiction. .Screening Scarlett Johansson. is more than an account of Johansson’s career; it positions Johansson as a point of reference for interrogat

Overview: Promotes a deeper understanding into the discursive practices and constructs of modern motherhood in the UK.Presents a feminist post-structuralist analysis of experiences of mothers that have attended.This book explores the reflections and experiences of mothers of children aged 0-3 years that have attended universal parenting courses. .. ..Simmons considers the factors that motivated mothers to attend a universal parenting course and explore the wider experiences of early modern motherhood in the UK. She investigates participants‘ perceptions of benefits of attending a parenting cou

Overview: Highlights sustainable innovations in the textile wet or chemical processing sector.Discusses eco-friendly innovations for textile wet processes and applications of enzymes in textiles.Includes intereThis book brings out the innovations in textile wet or chemical processing to alleviate the environmental impacts arising from this sector. The major challenge in the textiles and fashion sector is that it requires a massive sustainable innovation to mitigate the huge environmental impacts arising from chemical or wet processing. This book also discusses innovations in eco-friendly metho

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book constitutes the proceedings of the second International Conference on Smart Cities, Smart-CT 2017, held in Málaga, Spain, in June 2017..The 16 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. The topics covered include studies and tools to improve road traffic, energy consumption, logistics, frameworks to provide new services and take decisions in a holistic way, driving assistance, electric vehicles, public transport, and surveys on smart city concepts..978-3-319-59512-2978-3-319-59513-9Series ISSN 0

Overview: From the point of view of non-classical logics, Heyting‘s implication is the smallest implication for which the deduction theorem holds. This book studies properties of logical systems having some of the classical connectives and implication in the neighbourhood of Heyt­ ing‘s implication. I have not included anything on entailment, al­ though it belongs to this neighbourhood, mainly because of the appearance of the Anderson-Belnap book on entailment. In the later chapters of this book, I have included material that might be of interest to the intuitionist mathematician. Originally,

Overview: Presents the first legal analysis of Canadian space policy and law?.Shows a multi-methodological project that is theoretically grounded but highly practical.Offers a comprehensive resource for understSpace is no longer the domain of national space agencies. Today, a significant majority of space activities are carried out by non-governmental entities, resulting in the accelerated evolution of space technologies and their applications. This operational shift from public to private does not mean, however, that governments are no longer relevant in this era of New Space. On the contrary

Overview: Presents an elaborated conceptual analysis on school leadership.Is the first book that provides a meta-analysis of school leadership effects, including studies based on indirect effect models.ProvidesThis highly detailed study maps four decades of evolution of the concept of what constitutes effective school leadership. It analyses the theoretical background to these developments and advocates the utility of thinking of a ‘lean’ form of school leadership that is comparable to the concept of ‘meta-control’. A wide-ranging survey of the empirical research literature on leadership effec

Overview: Fast-track conference proceedings.State-of-the-art research.Up-to-date resultsThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, SPICE 2012, held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in May 2012.The 21 revised full papers presented and 14 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on organizational process improvement; SPI in small and very small enterprises; process models; SPI in automotive software and security; SPI i

Overview: Hierarchical design methods were originally introduced for thedesign of digital ICs, and they appeared to provide for significantadvances in design productivity, Time-to-Market, and first-time rightdesign. These concepts have gained increasing importance in thesemiconductor industry in recent years. In the course of time, thesupportive quality of hierarchical methods and their advantages wereconfirmed. .System Level Hardware/Software Co-design: An IndustrialApproach. demonstrates the applicability of hierarchical methods tohardware / software codesign, and mixed analogue / digital de