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

Overview: Presents the work of a top anthropologist-writer in the field.Appeals to interdisciplinary interests in Anthropology, African Studies as well as ethnography writing, literature, and sociology.Expands This book emerges from the author‘s 35 years of research and thought about the Songhay people of Niger. This ethnographic novel follows the life of Omar Dia, the oldest son of a West African sorcerer. When his father falls ill and dies, the great sorcerer vomits a small metal chain onto his chest. Following the path of his ancestors, Omar swallows the chain, becoming his father‘s success

Overview: Sheds new light on theories of personal identity.Provides systematic treatment of the theories of resurrection.Highlights significance of historically overlooked figures such as the Late Scholastics.This book provides a new account of the emergence of the philosophy of personal identity in the early modern period. Reflection on personal identity is often thought to have begun in earnest with John Locke’s famous consciousness-based account, published in the 2.nd. Edition of the .Essay. in 1694. The present work argues that we ought to understand modern notions of personal identity, in

Overview: TV Drama in Transition reflects upon changing dramatic forms on television in the context of broad cultural shifts over the past two decades. Analyses of a wide range of series (from Heartbeat to Middlemarch and Our Friends in the North; from NYPD Blue to Twin Peaks to The X-Files) are interspersed with accounts of new technologies, viewing dispositions and the political economy of culture. This book is generally concerned as much with the condition of culture in the 1980s and 1990s, as specifically with TV drama.978-0-333-67754-4978-1-349-25623-5

Overview: The only book sofar that covers such a long period.Integration of information only available in specialized journals and reports mainly written in German and French, and to a limited extent in English.This book deals with the early history of agriculture in a defined part of Western Europe: the loess belt west of the river Rhine. It is a well-illustrated book that integrates existing and new information, starting with the first farmers and ending when food production was no longer the chief source of livelihood for the entire population. The loess belt was chosen because it is a regi

Overview: Provides the only comprehensive overview of the history of Dutch mathematics education.Presents the history of Dutch mathematics education in an accessible and engaging way.Analyses the impact of the .This book describes and analyses the history of Dutch mathematics education from the point of view of the changing motivations behind the teaching of mathematics over a 200 year period. During the course of the 19th century, mathematics in the Netherlands developed from a topic for practitioners into a school topic that was taught to almost all pupils of secondary education.  As mathema

Overview: Globalization and changes to statehood challenge our understanding of space and territory. This book argues that we must understand that both the modern state and globalisation are based on a cartographic reality of space. In consequence, claims that globalization represents a spatial challenge to state territory are deeply problematic.978-1-349-36873-0978-0-230-30413-0

Overview: Interdisciplinary approach to the concept of talent.First contribution that summarizes and reconciles the most recent advancements in the definition of human capital and its relationship with the concTo date, research into urban economics, regional science and economic geography has predominantly focused on the firm and industry as the key units of analysis in order to understand economic development; however, the past few decades have seen a growing interest in the role played by talent in the knowledge economy. This book provides an essential overview of the skills revolution. It p

Overview: Erste ausführliche und umfassende moderne Darstellung der Thermodynamik.Mit zahlreichen ausgearbeiteten Übungsaufgaben am Ende jeden Kapitels.Mit weiterführenden Beispielen und Anwendungen zu jedem Ka.Dieses in sich abgeschlossene Lehrbuch enthält eine moderne und ausführliche Darstellung der Grundlagen der phänomenologischen Thermodynamik. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf der großen Zahl aktueller Beispiele und Anwendungen aus allen Bereichen der Naturwissenschaften wie Chemie, Physik, chemische Verfahrenstechnik, Biologie, nachhaltige Energietechnik, Geophysik, Astrophysik, Umweltchemie,

Overview: Judith Shklar called for a radical shift in political theory, toward a view of the history of ideas through the lens of exile. Hess takes this lens and applies it to Shklar‘s own life and theoretical work.978-1-349-44110-5978-1-137-03251-5

Overview: Discusses clinical and reproductive applications in veterinary medicine.Highlights the mechanisms for therapeutic properties of MSCs.Reviews the stem cell-based tissue engineering in veterinary mediciThis book reviews the potential therapeutic and reproductive applications of mesenchymal stem cells in veterinary regenerative and reproductive medicine. The systemic approach focuses on musculoskeletal structures like cartilage, bone, muscle, tendon, ligaments and nervous tissues. It also focuses on other body systems like gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, urogenital, respiratory and in

Overview: During the week of August 31 - September 4, 1998, a conference in honour of Vladimir Maz‘ya was held in Rostock as a satellite meeting of the World Congress of Mathematicians. It was sponsored by the German Research Founda­ tion (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and the Ministry of Education and Cul­ tural Affairs of the land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. During his forty year career Maz‘ya contributed to so many areas of mathematical analysis that such a broad topic of the conference as "Functional Analysis, Partial Differential Equations and Applications" sounds quite nat~al. The confere

Overview: Investigates the main social background that has allowed for such radical changes in B2B businesses..Focuses on qualitative research combined with contemporary data rather than statistical analysis, e.One of the first of its kind, this book examines the digitalization of Chinese businesses both theoretically and practically. Taking a fresh and unique approach, the authors seek to adopt individual theories for each empirical case explored and investigate the dramatic digital transformation that Chinese firms have undergone in recent years. With a particular focus on social networks, t

Overview: The existence of so many strangely puzzling, even contradictory, aspects of ‘time‘ is due, I think, to the fact that we obtain our ideas about temporal succession from more than one source - from inner experience, on the one side, and from the physical world on the other. ‘Time‘ is thus a composite notion and as soon as we distinguish clearly between the ideas deriving from the different sources it becomes apparent that there is not just one time-concept but several. Perhaps they should be called variants, but in any case they need to be seen as distinct. In this book I shall aim at

Overview: Integrates current neuropsychological knowledge with research coming from cognitive and neuroscientific research.Presents information derived from recent developments in the fields of functional and s.It has been 15 years since the original publication of Neuropsychology of Attention. At the time of its publication, attention was a construct that had long been of theoretical interest in the field of psychology and was receiving increased research by cognitive scientists. Yet, attention was typically viewed as a nuisance variable; a factor that needed to be accounted for when assessin

Overview: This selection of documents - for the most part never before translated into English - traces the process of modernization which took place in Russia between 1856 and 1881. Political, social and economic developments are dealt with in thematic sections and the documents also show the growth of the revolutionary movement and conservative attempts to quell it. The great flowering of Russian literature and art during the quarter-century is also reflected. The documents are accompanied by individual commentaries and an extensive guide to further reading, whilst the volume is prefaced by

Overview: Takes archaeological interpretation to the individual or micro level of society.Gives a bottom up view of history through the material culture.Will be of interest to lecturers and professors with clas.Generally individuals in history are known for a particular reason - they somehow influenced history. Very little is known about the ordinary person who lived in the past. But historical archaeologists - through their interpretation of the material culture and historic record - can study the past on an individual level. This brings archaeological interpretation from a micro to a macro l

Overview: Outlines the five global economic trends that must be addressed by any holistic and meaningful policy for a sustainable future.Empowers readers to question promises of more economic growth and income .Energy drives the economy, economics informs policy, and policy affects social outcomes. Since the oil crises of the 1970s, pundits have debated the validity of this sequence, but most economists and politicians still ignore it. Thus, they delude the public about the underlying influence of energy costs and constraints on economic policies that address such pressing contemporary issues

Overview: Highlights inter-disciplinary collaboration between engineering, health sciences, humanities, and social sciences.Presents micro-approach based on the social relationship and the situations of the locThis open access book deals with global sanitation, where SDG 6.2 sets a target of enabling access to sanitation services for all, but has not yet been achieved in low- and middle-income countries. The transition from the United Nations MDGs to the SDGs requires more consideration based on the socio-cultural aspects of global sanitation. In other words, equitable sanitation for those in

Overview: Provides empirical data on news media audiences, specifically social media users.Focuses on Eastern Europe and the resurgence of illiberal nationalism.Supplies reccomendations for journalists and medi.This open access book provides the first systematic analysis of the role of the media in the rise of illiberalism, based on an original theoretical framework and extensive empirical research in Eastern Europe – a region that serves as a key battleground in the global advance of illiberalism. Liberal democracies across the world are facing a range of challenges, from the growing influenc

Overview: This book investigates the development of contemporary Iranian civil society and the role of public intellectuals, looking in particular at how different reformist public intellectuals used civil society to craft their vision of Iran‘s socio-political future.978-1-137-40111-3