BOOKS with Alphabet U (Ua, Ub,Uc, Ud, Ue…... )

Overview: Diego Garcia is a pivotal US base for all Middle East operations. This book describes its evolution from a secret US-UK bilateral deal in 1966 and the deportation of the native population in the 70s to its new role in Guantánamo-style ‘renditions‘ and the impact of miltary construction on its environment.978-1-349-38028-2978-0-230-62296-8

Overview: Makes the case for a new form of international organization.Integrates deep understandings of European and Chinese political aims and perspectives.Analyzes relevant issues and conflicts within the Sin.This book provides an in-depth analysis of the relations between China and the EU, tracing the development of this complex, yet intriguing, relationship between two substantially different actors. To uncover a deeper understanding of this unlikely partnership, the authors analyze the partnership through the prism of contending norms and worldviews. The China-EU strategic partnership has

Overview: Provides a strong theoretical framework for understanding intergroup conflict.Explores the role that self and group categorization play in conflict and peace.Contains applications for social identity This volume brings together perspectives on social identityand peace psychology to explore the role that categorization plays in both conflictand peace-building. To do so, it draws leading scholars from across the worldin a comprehensive exploration of social identity theory and its application tosome of the world’s most pressing problems, such as intrastate conflict,uprising in the midd

Overview: The author examines in detail the organization of the U.S. intelligence community, its attempts to monitor and predict the development of Soviet forces from the early days of the cold war, and how these attempts affected American policy and weapons production.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable p

Overview: This book surveys the Ukrainian-EU relationship in light of the legacies of more than two hundred years of direct Russian rule. It examines interrelationships between identities, loyalties and political/cultural orientations, reviews policies, and identifies salient forces and trends.978-0-230-28703-7Series ISSN 2947-5007 Series E-ISSN 2947-5015

Overview: Sozialwissenschaftliche Studie.Includes supplementary material: Sowohl Forschung als auch Praxis zu Unternehmenskommunikation und Public Relations (PR) gehen auf Beziehungen zwischen Unternehmen bislang kaum ein, obwohl die Vernetzung in zahlreichen Märkten voranschreitet und Firmen vor neue Herausforderungen stellt. Die Unternehmenskommunikation kann dabei nicht nur Vertrieb und Marketing unterstützen, sondern – je nach Beziehungstyp und -situation – konstitutiven Charakter aufweisen, d. h. unmittelbar den Aufbau und Erhalt von Beziehungen berühren. Auf Basis der PR- und Interorgani

Overview: Presents cutting-edge knowledge of attocecond science and femtochemistry, going from atoms to proteins.Describes the most advanced techniques for imaging electrons and atoms in action.Interfaces the l.This book illustrates advanced technologies for imaging electrons and atoms in action in various forms of matter, from atoms and diatoms to protein molecules and condensed matter. The technologies that are described employ ultrafast pulsed lasers, X-ray free electron lasers, and pulsed electron guns, with pulse durations from femtoseconds, suitable to visualize atoms in action, to attos

Overview: Describes hardware platform development for IR-UWB based WBAN communication.Discusses power efficient medium access control (MAC) protocol design for IR-UWB based WBAN applications.Includes feasibilit.This book explores the design of ultra wideband (UWB) technology for wireless body-area networks (WBAN).  The authors describe a novel implementation of WBAN sensor nodes that use UWB for data transmission and narrow band for data reception, enabling low power sensor nodes, with high data rate capability.  The discussion also includes power efficient, medium access control (MAC) protoco

Overview: Nachschlagewerk zu Gesundheit und Krankheit von Kindern und Jugendlichen.Umfassend, verständlich und übersichtlich (Marginalien zur Schnellsuche).Sachliche Bewertung von schulmedizinischen und naturheFieber, Bauchkrämpfe, Ernährung, Fernsehsucht, Homöopathie, Impfungen, Kortison, Reiseapotheke, Schulangst – das ist nur eine kleine Auswahl aus mehr als 1000 Stichworten dieses Lexikons. Die beiden Autoren der Freiburger und Wiener Universitäts-Kinderklinik erläutern in verständlicher Sprache für Eltern und Erzieher die Begriffe zur normalen Entwicklung der Kinder, wichtige Krankheiten

Overview: Für den Menschen stellen Calcium und Phosphor Nährstoffe dar, deren Zufuhr lebensnotwendig ist. Der Phosphor übt mehr Funktionen im Körper aus als irgendein anderes Element. In Verbindung mit Calcium bildet er den Hydroxyl­ apatit, der Knochen und Zähnen Festigkeit und Struktur verleiht. 86% des Phosphors und 99% des Calciums liegen in diesen harten Geweben vor. Der restliche Phosphor befindet sich, wie auch der Calciumrest, in den Körper­ flüssigkeiten und in jeder Zelle, mit deren Funktion und Stoffwechsel sie verbun­ den sind. (Übersichtsdarstellungen über die Physiologie von Ca u

Overview: Kurze, leicht verständliche und zugleich theoretisch konsistente Einführung in Unternehmen.Ermöglicht den Einstieg ohne Vorkenntnisse.Verknüpfung von theoretischen Konzepten mit praktischen Beispielen.An Unternehmen gibt es im täglichen Leben kein Vorbeikommen. Sie sind für uns Arbeitgeber, Dienstleister, Investitionsgelegenheit oder Gegenstand von Kritik. Dieses Buch interessiert sich dafür, wie Unternehmen funktionieren und warum sie so funktionieren, wie sie funktionieren. Was unterscheidet also Unternehmen von allen sonstigen Organisationstypen, wie etwa Verwaltungen, Schulen ode

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Overview: 978-3-642-82024-3978-3-642-82023-6Series ISSN 1431-9942

Overview: Explores the history and cutting-edge research behind an incredible astrophysical discovery.Interspersed with explanatory tutorials.Features illustrative figures to help readers visualize key concepts.The birth of a completely new branch of observational astronomy is a rare and exciting occurrence. For a long time, our theories about gravitational waves—proposed by Albert Einstein and others more than a hundred years ago—could never be fully proven, since we lacked the proper technology to do it...That all changed when, on September 14, 2015, instruments at the LIGO Observatory detec

Overview: Provides a unique perspective on online learning, focused on what academics are constructing as curriculum.Captures in detail the complex work involved in university curriculum making.Opens original iIn a context in which explicit attention to the curriculum has been sidelined in universities’ strategy, this book makes an argument for why curriculum matters, both in understanding the effects of unbundled online learning and more broadly. It takes up two particular curriculum issues which are amplified in an unbundled context: differences in the formulation of curriculum between disci

Overview: Includes supplementary material: Subject of the book is Uranium and its migration in aquatic environments. The following subjects are emphasised: Uranium mining, Phosphate mining, mine closure and remediation, Uranium in groundwater and in bedrock, biogeochemistry of Uranium, environmental behavior, and modeling. Particular results from the leading edge of international research are presented.978-3-662-51847-2978-3-540-87746-2

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Overview: Discusses the latest achievements concerning space policy and development in Africa.Presents lessons learned from multiple experiences in Nigeria and South Africa.Provides an extensive survey of civil.This book showcases Nigerian and South African experiences on space politics, policy and strategy vis-à-vis their development and security aspirations, while contributing to the broader African and the Global-South perspectives on the subject. Space policy in developing countries such as Nigeria and South Africa is motivated by utilitarian promises that space and the attendant technolog

Overview: Unique treatment of the application of geographical analysis and cartographic technique to understanding different geographies.Trans-disciplinary approach to the mapping of non-physical and non-human This book collects revised versions of papers first delivered at the “Understanding Different Geographies Symposium” held in Puchberg am Schneeberg, Austria in 2011.  The Symposium focussed on “Communicating Meaning with [Geo]Graphic Artefacts”.  The general topics of the chapters cover: .- Exploring geographic knowledge .- Maps in exhibition spaces .- Information and exhibition design w