BOOKS with Alphabet T (Ta, Tb,Tc, Td, Te…... )

Overview: Chapters written by experts in their respective fields.Richly illustrated with photos and illustrations.The only bariatric surgery textbook developed by and for the ASMBSDeveloped by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS), The ASMBS Textbook of Bariatric Surgery provides a comprehensive guide of information dealing with the ever evolving field of bariatric surgery. Volume 1: Bariatric Surgery covers the basic considerations for bariatric surgery, the currently accepted procedures, outcomes of bariatric surgery including long-term weight loss, improvement and

Overview: The advent of multicore processors has renewed interest in the idea of incorporating transactions into the programming model used to write parallel programs. This approach, known as transactional memory, offers an alternative, and hopefully better, way to coordinate concurrent threads. The ACI (atomicity, consistency, isolation) properties of transactions provide a foundation to ensure that concurrent reads and writes of shared data do not produce inconsistent or incorrect results. At a higher level, a computation wrapped in a transaction executes atomically - either it completes suc

Overview: First book to gather the current research exclusively on the differences within family business models in an exhaustive way.Complements our A Family Business Publication series, offering a similar lev.This handbook is the definitive source of research on the differences among family firms. It provides a timely and thorough investigation of the variant strategies and behaviors undertaken by family firms today, taking a closer look at different configurations of family involvement and how they influence outcomes and success. While studies on differences between family and non-family fi

Overview: Focuses on the theory of expressive performance and its software implementation using Rubato.Explains author‘s theory of musical performance.Second volume of "The Topos of Music".This is the second volume of the second edition of the now classic book “The Topos of Music”. The author explains his theory of musical performance, developed in the language of differential geometry, introducing performance vector fields that generalize tempo and intonation. The author also shows how Rubato, a software platform for composition, analysis, and performance, allows an experimental evaluation of

Overview: Presents a complete and updated phytosociological study of the Maltese vegetation.Discusses vegetation dynamism with the most relevant dynamic series.Correspondence between N2000 habitats and recogniz.This book discusses the remarkable plant diversity of the Maltese Archipelago...Despite its relatively small area and long-term human exploitation, many different plant communities occur in this territory. The book presents phytosociological investigations, together with taxonomical studies, which have been conducted over more than forty years, highlighting the unique features of this c

Overview: This book is more comprehensive than any previous books on geometric studies of urban layouts.In fact, it would have been hard to conceive a book like this before Google Maps.It includes more cities fThis book presents a compendium of the urban layout maps of 2-mile square downtown areas of more than one hundred cities in developed and developing countries—all drawn at the same scale using high-resolution satellite images of Google Maps. The book also presents analytic studies using metric geometrical, topological (or network), and fractal measures of these maps. These analytic studi

Overview: Examines the optical works of Giambattista Della Porta, a natural philosopher during the Scientific Revolution.Explores the science and technology of early modern optics.Features an in-depth analysis .This volume contains essays that examine the optical works of .GiambattistaDella Porta., an Italian natural philosopher during the Scientific Revolution. Coverage also explores the science and technology of early modern optics...Della Porta‘s groundbreaking book, .Magia Naturalis. (Natural Magic), includes a prototype of the camera. Yet, because of his obsession with magic, Della Porta‘

Overview: Provides innovative and diverse perspectives on future leadership trends.Examines an empirically driven investigation of future leadership challenges.Represents the views of a unique sample of outstan.This book examines the challenges andsocial, economic and corporate trends that future leaders will need to deal with,as well as the technical, social and communication skills they will require in order to succeed. This assessment of future leadership overviews the need for a solid base of technical and social skills such as advanced communication and intercultural awareness, all while

Overview: The first sustained English-language study dedicated to the monstrous-feminine in contemporary Japanese popular culture.Engages both thinkers who provide important insights into negative delineations .This book explores the monstrous-feminine in Japanese popular culture, produced from the late years of the 1980s through to the new millennium. Raechel Dumas examines the role of female monsters in selected works of fiction, .manga., film, and video games, offering a trans-genre, trans-media analysis of this enduring trope. The book focuses on several iterations of the monstrous-feminin

Overview: Offers a detailed introduction to and comprehensive description of X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy.Serves as both a textbook for students and a valuable reference resource for researchers.Provides easy-.This book provides a comprehensive introduction to X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy. The first part discusses the basic theoretical and observational topics related to black hole astrophysics; the optics and the detectors employed in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy; and past, present, and future X-ray and gamma-ray missions. The second part then describes data reduction and analysis, the sta

Overview: Provides an overview of the fluid aspects of the climate system.Includes basic aspects as well as recent research developments.Readers will gain a deeper insight into the fluid mechanics underlying clThis volume provides an overview of the fluid aspects of the climate system, focusing on basic aspects as well as recent research developments. It will bring together contributions from diverse fields of the physical, mathematical and engineering sciences. The volume will be useful to doctorate students, postdocs and researchers working on different aspects of atmospheric, oceanic and en

Overview: Acknowledgments chapter 1 The Roots of Earth Sciences 1 Classical Scientific Thought 1 The Copernican Revolution 2 From Physics and Philosophy to Geology 4 The Age of the Earth 6 chapter 2 The Earth in the Context of Our Solar System 9 The Origins of the Solar System The Elements of the Solar System The Planets Circling the Sun chapter 3 The Formation of Earth and Moon 21 Similarities and Differences 21 Exploring the Moon chapter 4 The Interior of the Earth and the Role of Seismology Seismic Waves 28 The Earth’s Interior 36 chapter 5 Rotation and Shape, Gravity and Tides 41 Describin

Overview: Provides a new theoretical framework for “future-fit” career wellbeing in a digital work--life space.Brings together a group of top scholars and practitioners who share their creative ideas, research .This volume offers a new conceptualization of career wellbeing by viewing the construct as an individual’s long-term contentment with their career outcomes, career achievements, career changes and their sustainable employability amidst the complexities of the contemporary and emerging future digital-driven work environment. In support of this view of career wellbeing, the volume .constr

Overview: A state-of-the-art summary from leading laboratories around the world of ourcurrent knowledge of the molecular biology, the physiology, and the pharmacology of the P2 receptors. Theauthoritative contributions cover the major aspects of these receptors,describing the relationships between physiological and pharmacological effects of ATP and other nucleotides and the various cloned P2 receptors, as well as providing an historical perspective and discussing current issues of nomenclature. They also illuminate how P2 receptor structures contribute to their function, including the physica

Overview: Presents a novel analysis of the scholarly and scientific debate about the precautionary principle.Sets out a comprehensive overview of the basic theoretical starting points for a sound ethics of risk.Christian Munthe undertakes an innovative, in-depth philosophical analysis of what the idea of a precautionary principle is and should be about. A novel theory of the ethics of imposing risks is developed and used as a foundation for defending the idea of precaution in environmental and technological policy making against its critics, while at the same time avoiding a number of identifi

Overview: Internationalization and globalization are major forces for companies to change their organizational structures and processes fundamentally. To master the associated problems, profound and well planned procedures are indispensable, a task which is referred to as change management, and which has to take into account both structural and dynamic aspects. Especially interventions in the area of human resource management lead to manifold repercussions—intended and unintended, enhancing or interfering with the original intentions. Birgitte Snabe investigates in her dissertation if and to w

Overview: First book which includes all aspects of laparoscopy in abdominal emergency surgery.High level of the book for graduates, upper and lower undergraduates.Illustrations and film clips of each chapter coThis is the first time a book about laparoscopy in emergency abdominal surgery has been published. Numerous articles have been published in specific surgical journals, but, until now, there has not been a book that collates all the aspects of this little-known field. The aim of this volume is to achieve a complete and easy presentation of all the implications associated with laparoscopy

Overview: .Le rôle fondamental de l’angiogenèse dans la croissance et la dissémination tumorale est connu depuis maintenant plus de 30 ans. Nous disposons depuis peu de médicaments anti-angiogéniques efficaces sur de nombreuses tumeurs. Leur utilisation requiert une bonne connaissance de leur mode d’action, leurs effets secondaires, leurs indications et leur place dans la stratégie thérapeutique. Cet ouvrage est donc divisé en trois points: - Il est d‘abord rappelé le rôle important de l’angiogenèse tumorale, les moyens disponibles pour l’évaluer sur des prélèvements histologiques, ses modalit

Overview: Provides an overview of key concepts, debates, and historical precedence within digital governance.Uses case studies to demonstrate how new legal protections for data spread in the European Union.DiscThis book considers contested responsibilities between the public and private sectors over the use of online data, detailing exactly how digital human rights evolved in specific European states and gradually became a part of the European Union framework of legal protections. The author uniquely examines why and how European lawmakers linked digital data protection to fundamental human ri

Overview: This study is based upon the concept of nations with history and nations without history which was advanced in 1848/1849 in the pages of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, a Cologne based German newspaper under the editorship of Karl Marx. This theory is presented in this study as a model of opposites ; historic nations and non-historic nations, respec­ tively revolutionary nations and counter-revolutionary national groups which Engels and Marx associated with the philosophy of Hegel. As Marx and Engels saw it, Hegel had taught that nature and history abounded in opposites, and this was be