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

Overview: Fully updated and revised new edition.Focuses on both the bariatric and metabolic bases of therapies and outcomes.Written by experts in the field.Morbid obesity is an epidemic as more than 2/3 of the United States population is obese and as such, has a high burden of weight-related co-morbid diseases.  Bariatric surgery has proven to be effective and durable for treatment of severe obesity.  Technological advances including applications of laparoscopy and endolumenal techniques have rapidly advanced this field.  Data and outcomes examining treatments have also improved and as provide

Overview: Brings together a collection of essays identifying the key conceptual issues on toleration by leading experts in this area of scholarly research.Presents a clear and authoritative exposition of the ba.The .Palgrave Handbook of Toleration. aims to provide a comprehensive presentation of toleration as the foundational idea associated with engagement with diversity. This handbook is intended to provide an authoritative exposition of contemporary accounts of toleration, the central justifications used to advance it, a presentation of the different concepts most commonly associated with i

Overview: Summarizes the basic and practical aspects of virtual orthopedic assessment.Shares insights into data security, patient confidentiality and medico-legal issues.Written by leading experts, it includes Filling a gap in literature, this concise and practical book presents the principles of virtual orthopedic assessment and shares insights into the use of technology for distance patient-physician communication. Offering expert know-how and best practices, it equips readers with essential information on how to best remotely manage the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of patients..The bo

Overview: The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies and Power interprets a wide variety of the most interesting Irish novels of the last ten years of the century from a perspective that focuses on the regulated sexual and constructed gendered body. The demarcating line of identity-the perennial Irish problem-can be gauged at the basic level of sexual and gender identity in contrast to or in alliance with political, social, religious or cultural norms. All mechanisms that have gone into controlling the body-gender regulation, violence, desire, religious taboos-can all

Overview: Controlling turbulence is an important issue for a number of technological applications. Several methods to modulate turbulence are currently being investigated.All of them are based on the introduction of some sort of perturbation into the flow field which affect turbulence coherent structures responsible for turbulence transfer mechanisms.The scope of the book is to describe several aspects of turbulence structure and modulation and to explain and discuss the most promising techniques in detail.978-3-211-83339-1978-3-7091-2574-8Series ISSN 0254-1971 Series E-ISSN 2309-3706

Overview: First book to offer a source-based analysis of the history of the OECD.Places the history of the OECD within twentieth-century history, most importantly decolonization and the Cold War.Essential readi.This book explores the history of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and its place within capitalist development. Since 1948, the OECD and its forerunner, the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) worked on almost every subject of interest to national governments ranging from economic growth to education (PISA rankings), statistics, to the

Overview: The author is among the original scientists who discovered the technique for detecting nuclear particles *.The only non-technical book on this topic.A serendipitous discovery in nuclear physics has led to a useful tool in materials science. In the late 1950s, scientists at General Electric (among them the author) discovered that when mica is exposed to energetic charged particles (such as are emitted in radioactive decay or occur in cosmic rays), the particles leave latent tracks in the material. When such a material is chemically etched, the tracks are revealed as narrow, deep pits,

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.978-3-662-23000-8978-3-662-24960-4

Overview: Incorporates research from an international range of scholars doing work in East and South-East Asia, South Asia, Europe, Australia, and North America.Identifies key emerging issues and challenges for.This handbook addresses the issues and challenges of the delivery of social work education in the contemporary world. It provides an authoritative overview of the key debates, switching the lens away from a Western-centric focus to engage with a much broader audience in countries that are in the process of modernization and professionalization, alongside those where social work educatio

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .Cinema both reflects life and contours life—that is its psychological power. And for decades, clinicians and educators have recognized the value of this power, using it to respectively heal in therapy and educate in the classroom. The Cinematic Mirror for Psychology and Life Coaching mines the illustrative value of cinema, offering therapists and life coaches access to ideas that can motivate and enlighten clients...Although many movie guides exist, this volume complements the available literature by adding positive psychology, mental health, and wel

Overview: Comprehensive analysis on the need to amend the post-Lisbon EU Treaties.Gives the reader a clear and complete understanding on the way in which the EU primary law is able to face the present and futur.The book contains a collection of high-quality academic and expert contributions dealing with the central question of whether the Lisbon Treaty needs further revision. Due to the difficulties European Union actors have encountered in implementing the Lisbon Treaty’s reform and the inadequacies of the current legal framework brought to light by post-Lisbon practice, the volume focuses on

Overview: Discusses processes of change and transition across different areas and levels of mathematics education.Provides an overview of the state of research on transitions from both individual and institutioThis book examines the kinds of transitions that have been studied in mathematics education research. It defines transition as a process of change, and describes learning in an educational context as a transition process. The book focuses on research in the area of mathematics education, and starts out with a literature review, describing the epistemological, cognitive, institutional and

Overview: Examines sustainability potential along the entire value chain.Takes into account legal framework conditions and requirements.Shows how you can incorporate ESG criteria into corporate governance.This book shows how managers at all levels of the company can master the challenges of sustainable corporate management with confidence. Concrete action plans are presented for this purpose.. .Climate change and the finite nature of natural resources are already taking their toll worldwide. A rethink towards ecological sustainability is not only urgently needed at a global level. The orientat

Overview: Addresses wind power systems on both control strategies and topologies.Studies comprehensively wind power system models, dynamic characteristics, and performance improvement.Provides a large number of.The book focuses on wind power generation systems. The control strategies have been addressed not only on ideal grid conditions but also on non-ideal grid conditions, which are more common in practice, such as kinds of asymmetrical grid conditions and weak grid conditions. This is achieved by providing in-depth study on a number of major topics such as mathematical models, modeling meth

Overview: The only book to comprehensively introduce Pylons (http://pylonshq.org/), one of the Python language‘s three key web frameworks.Authored by Pylons project co-founder and prominent Python community thoSpurred by the enormous popularity of Ruby on Rails, web frameworks have revolutionized the way developers of all programming languages tackle the often complex task of web application development. Some of the most exciting activity in this area can be seen in the Python community, one of the wildly popular frameworks to enter the fray being Pylons (http://www.PylonsHQ.com). Co-founder a

Overview: Looks at the framing of death and related themes through new popular culture forms such as manga, anime and computer games and their ontologies.Conducts a philosophical investigation of the connectionThis book focuses on the theme of the transgression of life and death boundaries through its representation in Japanese contemporary visual media, more specifically in the manga .Fullmetal Alchemist., the animated film .Journey to Agartha., and the computer game .Shadow of the Colossus.. By addressing how the theme was constructed by three different media and what these texts say about i

Overview: Explores Brexit‘s implications for East Asia, and in particular China.Outlines potential economic outcomes of European change for Asia.Explores politics and alliances between Asia and EuropeThis book is the first comprehensive exploration of the impact Brexit might have on both Britain’s and the EU’s role in a rising East Asia. From the internationalization of the renminbi to Hong Kong‘s fraught political status quo, and from former British colonies exploring their place in the world to America‘s place in East Asia in the Trump era, the EU plays an influential role in Asia today. How

Overview: Standard reference book with selected data from the field of physics and chemistry.Includes supplementary material: Zeolites and zeolite-like became important because of their ion exchange capacities and their outstanding catalytic properties. Millions of tons of zeolites have been produced in the past years for the oil refining industry alone and, in even greater quantities, as ion-exchanging softening agents for detergents. Numerous other applications, e.g. in environmental protection, farming, gas separation, medicine, and pharmacy, are known, making zeolites almost a necessity of

Overview: The papers in this volume were peer-reviewed and carefully selected.Much information in this series is published in advance of journal publication.The contributors in this volume are world-renowned exThis volume contains the proceedings of the IFIPTM 2008, the Joint iTrust and PST Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management and Security, held in Trondheim, Norway from June 18 to June 20, 2008. IFIPTM 2008 provides a truly global platform for the reporting of research, development, policy and practice in the interdependent areas of Privacy, Security, and Trust. Following the traditions i

Overview: Based on cutting-edge neuroscience research using on neuroimaging, physiological and behavioural tests..Written by a renowned and well-published expert in the field.Goes beyond the research findings t.This book presents the latest neuroscience research on mindfulness meditation and provides guidance on how to apply these findings to our work, relationships, health, education and daily lives. Presenting cutting-edge research on the neurological and cognitive changes associated with its practice Tang aims to explain how it reaps positive effects and subsequently, how best to undertake