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

Overview: Adopts a human ecosystem framework in its in-depth examination of the ageing population in a post-socialist state.Provides rich empirical research to the larger macro understanding of the consequencesThis book is about ageing in Bulgaria. How do Bulgaria’s elderly—abandoned by the state and left behind by their adult children and grandchildren—adapt to their continuously shifting environment and a state of perpetual uncertainty? Drawing on dozens of interviews with older people in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia as well as a village in the Bulgarian Balkans, Iossifova unravels how the drama

Overview: Tourist art may be a billion dollar business. Nevertheless, such art is despised. What is worse, the "bad" culture is seen as driving out the "good. " Commer­ cialization is assumed to destroy traditional arts and crafts, replacing them with junk. The process is seen as demeaning to artists in the traditional societies, who are seduced into a type of whoredom: unfeeling production of false beauty for money. The arts remain problematic for the social sciences. Sociology textbooks treat the arts as subordinate reflections of social forces, norms, or groups. An­ thropology textbooks con

Overview: In the 1930s, a Pareto vogue emerged in the English-speaking world. In Italy, however, the Paretian episode was already well established, with many Italian economists investigating the relationship between economics and sociology based on Pareto‘s contributions. This is a study of the Paretian school and its ‘fiscal sociology‘.978-0-230-59626-9

Overview: Proceedings of 2012 Conference of the EPFL-UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development.Includes supplementary material: .Whilst scientific research can be crucial in guiding innovation and development throughout the world, it can be too detached from real world applications, particularly in developing and emerging countries. .Technologies for Sustainable Development. brings together the best 20 papers from the 2012 Conference of the EPFL-UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development with the aim to explore and discuss ways to link scientific research with development practices to ass

Overview: This text originated as a lecture delivered November 20, 1984, at Queen‘s University, in the undergraduate colloquium series established to honour Professors A. J. Coleman and H. W. Ellis and to acknowledge their long-lasting interest in the quality of teaching undergraduate students. In another colloquium lecture, my colleague Morris Orzech, who had consulted the latest edition of the Guinness Book oj Records, reminded me very gently that the most "innumerate" people of the world are of a certain tribe in Mato Grosso, Brazil. They do not even have a word to express the number "two"

Overview: This collection attends to western women‘s struggles within Roman Catholicism by examining how women throughout the centuries have attempted to reconcile their unruliness with their Catholic backgrounds or conversions.978-1-349-36966-9978-0-230-60930-3

Overview: Charts the history of Dutch dominance in the high-speed flower markets.Explains high-speed operations, circular business models, and the use of digital technologies.Presents experiences from the high-.Why do the Dutch continue to play a central role in the global production, sales, and distribution of flowers? What are the origin and history of the bulb and flower industry in the Netherlands? ..How are Artificial Intelligence (AI), complex algorithms, and modern distribution systems ensuring that fresh flowers reach their destination on time? ..This very entertaining and informative

Overview: Only book to cover the use of sociotechnical principles and practice in IS and organisational designSociotechnical principles are now widely used around the world in both information systems and organisational design. First established in the 1940s to examine the effect of mechanised, mass-production systems on workers in the coal mining industry, they are now an important tool for ensuring that people and technology work together to optimal effect within an organisation. One of their main aims is the development of organisations where small groups work independently, handling sets o

Overview: Citing the massive horrors of the Nazi death camps and the domestic violence behind a woman‘s suicide, Adrienne Rich challenges a fellow poet: ‘would it relieve you to decide/Poetry doesn‘t make this happen?‘ In this provocative reassessment of the modern American love lyric, Barbara L. Estrin chronicles the return of three major American poets (Wallace Stevens in the late forties and fifties, Robert Lowell in the Seventies, and Adrienne Rich in the nineties) to the mid-century catastrophes that gave rise to such thorny questions. Through close readings of individual poems (and drawi

Overview: Includes supplementary material: 978-3-540-37557-9Series ISSN 1615-1844 Series E-ISSN 1616-9522

Overview: Concise and easy-to-read style that avoids complicated, time-consuming study.How to avoid unwise investments and recognize real opportunities.Illuminating primer on understanding stocks, bonds, and muI met Bob Doroghazi when he dropped the first draft of his manuscript of The Physician’s Guide to Investing: A Practical Approach to Building Wealth at my office. I will have to admit I was a bit skeptical: a physician writing a book on investments? During that first meeting with Bob, it became evident that he had been a successful physician and a successful investor, so I agreed to take

Overview: Contains some of the highest level contributions to Logic.Is the first book promoting Mathematical Philosophy as an interdisciplinary field.Is a collection of articles applying methods of logic -- or area and in applications to linguistics, formal epistemology, and the study of norms. The second contains papers on non-classical and many-valued logics, with an eye on applications in computer science and through it to engineering. The third concerns the logic of belief management,whichis likewise closely connected with recent work in computer science but also links directly with episte

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Overview: Gives a detailed discussion of 10 specific projects.Discusses a range of fundamental statistical concepts.Provides R codesThe first half of the book is aimed at quantitative research workers in biology, medicine, ecology and genetics. The book as a whole is aimed at graduate students in statistics, biostatistics, and other quantitative disciplines. Ten detailed examples show how the author approaches real-world statistical problems in a principled way that allows for adequate compromise and flexibility. The need to accommodate correlations associated with space, time and other relati

Overview: This research aims to uncover new insights into minority housing strategies and their impact on densely populated urban areas. The study assumes that as space becomes scarce, inter and intra groups interactions in the urban space motivate people to maximize the utility of the resources at their disposal. This ‘stretch’ of the built environment provides them with critical selective advantages and a sense of security and belonging. .Based on two neighbourhoods in London, it contributes to our understanding of housing decisions in the context of illegality and shows the capacity of a gi

Overview: Presents case studies on implementing research to evaluate teacher practice in innovative learning environments.Discusses insights from successes and failures when co-designing research with school le.This book presents and discusses the results of the ‘Plans to Pedagogy’ (P2P) project that was implemented across 13 diverse Australian and New Zealand schools, each with a unique school context and specific learning environment issue. The project employed a participatory approach, where academic researchers partnered with school leaders and staff in each school to co-design, implement,

Overview: Consists of papers presented at ACCES 2023.Highlights the recent advances made in the area of Electrical Engineering.Serves as a reference for researchers and practitioners in academia and industryThis book gathers outstanding papers presented at the 18th Annual Conference of China Electrotechnical Society, organized by China Electrotechnical Society (CES), held in Nanchang, China, from September 15 to 17, 2023. It covers topics such as electrical technology, power systems, electromagnetic emission technology, and electrical equipment. It introduces the innovative solutions that comb

Overview: Focuses on Jiddu Krishnamurti’s innovative method of dialogue.Brings Krishnamurti’s thought into extensive dialogue with philosophical and religious traditions.Covers the principle of the transformati.This book explores dialogue as a transformative form of philosophical practice by unveiling the method behind the unique dialogue developed by mystic and thinker Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986). While Krishnamurti himself generally rejected the cultivation of systems and techniques, Shai Tubali argues that there are easily identifiable patterns through which Krishnamurti strove to realiz

Overview: Recent empirical-psychological research on ayahuasca tourists in PeruThis book covers the psychedelic ayahuasca tourism in Peru, with its facet-rich psychological, pharmacological, anthropological, and sociological aspects. The reader gets an interdisciplinary insight into the historical development and the current state of ayahuasca research. Findings from three empirical studies are presented, which the author has won in a 4-year field research: How do common standards develop in this particular form of psycho-spiritual tourism? Why are people from developed nations and urban centr

Overview: During the presidency of George Bush (1989-93), the proliferation of nuclear chemical and biological weapons, and the ballistic missiles capable of delivering them, rose greatly in significance as issues on the American security agenda. In the missile field, this became evident by the efforts of certain elements in the executive branch and several congressmen to improve domestic and international implementation of the Missile Technology Control Regime. The Politics of Ballistic Missile Nonproliferation examines the political, bureaucratic and systemic issues that interacted to determ