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Overview: Presents a new paradigm of.knowledge and action with respect to urban waterfronts.Describes an integrated and.creative planning approach in which waterfront regeneration is a key urban.Discusses exper.This book presents a new paradigm of knowledge and action withrespect to urban waterfronts and the “fluid city paradigm,”explaining its methodological framework and describing an integrated andcreative planning approach in which waterfront regeneration is pursued as a keyurban-renewal strategy. It focuses especially on the WATERFRONT project (“WaterAnd Territorial policiEs for integRati

Overview: Explores the myths that underlie Western holidays.Takes an interdisciplinary approach that combines insights from history, depth psychology, archaeology, art history, sociology, and anthropology.Revea.Every year we celebrate a cycle of seasonal holidays. The ancient Greeks called this cycle “The Dance of the Horae,” after the mythical divinities who represented the seasons. What myths sit at the foundation of our own holiday celebrations? This interdisciplinary book explores the myths and symbols that underlie our major seasonal holidays and give them their meaning. Arthur George als

Overview: Most comprehensive source of information on Japanese macaques ever published.Emphasizes understanding of intraspecific variations in morphology, genetic structure, physiology, ecology, and behaviors.IJapanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) have been studied by primatologists since 1948, and considerable knowledge of the primate has been accumulated to elucidate the adaptation of the species over time and to distinct environments in Japan. The Japanese macaque is especially suited to intragenera and interpopulation comparative studies of behavior, physiology, and morphology, and to socioec

Overview: Explores the latest evidence-based technologies and policies for sustainable agri-food systems.Highlights solutions for addressing issues of climate change and sustainability.Covers agri-horticulturalThis edited volume covers all major topics related to agri-food transformation towards sustainability in this era of climate change. The topics cover field crops, horticultural crops, livestock sector, nutritional aspects, application of latest field-based technologies, and agriculture related policies and institutions..Some of the key topics are: Innovations for Reconfiguring Food Syste

Overview: No other book covers the universal generating function for the analysis of multi-state systems.Includes supplementary material: .Many real systems are composed of multi-state components with different performance levels and several failure modes. These affect the whole system‘s performance...Most books on reliability theory cover binary models that allow a system only to function perfectly or fail completely..."The Universal Generating Function in Reliability Analysis and Optimization" is the first book that gives a comprehensive description of the universal generating function techn

Overview: 978-3-642-88515-0978-3-642-88514-3

Overview: Critically explores the nature and depth of our contemporary cultural crisis: its lack of traditional orientation and moral understanding.Prime among the issues at stake are the meaning and significan.The Latin root of the English word culture ties together both worship and the tilling of the soil. In each case, the focus is the same: a rightly-directed culture produces either a bountiful harvest or falls short of the mark, materially or spiritually. This volume critically explores the nature and depth of our contemporary cultural crisis: its lack of traditional orientation and moral

Overview: Präzise, sicher, universell.Umfassendes Wissen schnell verfügbar.Sicherheit für die tägliche Arbeit.Know-how führender Herausgeber und Autoren.Includes supplementary material: 978-3-642-62949-5978-3-642-56417-8

Overview: explains Russia‘s diplomatic future.explores Russia‘s place in the world.sheds light on geopolitical realignment.This book explores the seemingly unstoppable turn away from Europe and towards Asian powers, notably China, on the part of the Russian state in the early 21st century. Ongoing global changes, the growing complexity of international interactions and internal political dynamics in Russia have led to what has become known in Russian official and expert discourse as the “Asian turn” or “turn to the East”. The monograph systemically analyzes all key directions of Russia‘s Asian

Overview: This book argues that there has been a common European Union (EU) foreign policy towards six countries of Eastern Europe - Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia - and analyses why the EU has agreed to the policy. The objective of the EU‘s policy is to support the transformation of Eastern Europe and thus ensure security and stability. The most important instrument that the EU has used to reach this objective has been the prospect of enlargement.978-0-230-37574-1

Overview: .Teacher Evaluation: Guide to Professional Practice. isorganized around four dominant, interrelated core issues: professionalstandards, a guide to applying the Joint Committee‘s .Standards.,ten alternative models for the evaluation of teacher performance, andan analysis of these selected models. The book draws heavily onresearch and development conducted by the Federally funded nationalCenter for Research on Educational Accountability and TeacherEvaluation (CREATE). The reader will come to grasp the essence ofsound teacher evaluation and will be able to apply its principles,facts, id

Overview: 978-94-017-6729-3978-94-017-6822-1

Overview: A book concerning the Japanese identity in which the author theorizes that the national mentality is a dichotomy between the "equestrian" and the "peasant". He draws on Japanese and European classical literature, on the history of warfare and on studies of law and business management.978-0-333-44353-8978-1-349-20242-3

Overview: Provides broad and cohesive introduction to knowledge organization.Serves as launching pad for further research.Recognized expert in the field.Includes supplementary material: The Elements of Knowledge Organization is a unique and original work introducing the fundamental concepts related to the field of Knowledge Organization (KO). There is no other book like it currently available. The author begins the book with a comprehensive discussion of “knowledge” and its associated theories. He then presents a thorough discussion of the philosophical underpinnings of knowledge organization.

Overview: Comprehensive overview of key policy issues relevant for the European Central Bank.Written by experts in the field.Combines academic insights and policy issues.Includes supplementary material: Coming at a critical juncture for the euro, the book takes stock of the ECB‘s experience during its first ten years and discusses the way ahead. The articles are written by well-known experts in the field and provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of relevant policy issues, including the ECB’s communication and its monetary strategy and instruments.978-3-642-42746-6978-3-642-14237-6

Overview: Gives a comprehensive analysis of theories explaining spatial disparities.The first attempt to let readers see spatial disparity research as political discourse.Reveals the political bias and analytic.This work aims to provide unique insights into the multidisciplinary research on spatial disparities from an unconventional point of view. It breaks with the conventional narrative that tends to interpret this theoretical tradition as a series of factual contributions to a better understanding of the issue. Instead, related theories are investigated in their political, economic, and soc

Overview: This book highlights the ruin‘s prolific resurgence in Latin American cultural life at the turn of the millennium and sharply reveals a stirring creative drive by artists and intellectuals toward ethical reflection and change in the midst of ruinous devastation.978-0-230-62327-9Series ISSN 1554-4028 Series E-ISSN 2634-520X

Overview: THE JAN PALFIJN SYMPOSIA In 1979 the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Jan Palfijn Hospital in Merksem, Antwerp, celebrated its 25th Anniver­ sary. To mark the occasion, the first symposium was organized, the theme chosen being hysteroscopy. Thanks to the cooperation of specialists from both within and outside Belgium the event attracted such a large attendance that it was decided to follow up this first venture with others. In the light of the experience gained from the first symposium, we established the Jan Palfijn Foundation for Gynaecological and Obstetrical Didact

Overview: Questions if it is possible to forecast convergence trends in science, technology, markets and industries.Discusses the triggers, drivers and consequences of convergence.Presents an idealized time ser.The blurring of boundaries between hitherto distinct scientific disciplines, technologies or markets is a common and powerful phenomenon. Subjects of this convergence often change consumer behaviours, favouring products and platforms with multiple functions. .The Anticipation of Converging Industries .provides a detailed focus on the triggers, drivers and consequences of convergence to

Overview: Includes supplementary material: Since the fundamental work of Walras (1874), markets have received particular attention by economists because they lead to an efficient allocation of goods and services. However, the proper functioning of markets rests on certain assumptions. For instance, the good or ser­ vice which is to be traded must be clearly defined. This elementary requirement is often violated in reality, in particular when services are concerned. Consider the example of railway workers who are hired to lay tracks. A labour contract which stipulates a fixed wage and defines t