BOOKS with Alphabet W (Wa, Wb,Wc, We…)

Overview: There has been growing concern and debate over the impact of social and economic change upon young people and the consequences of this for welfare practice. Within social policy, working with young people has become increasingly important. This book brings together a series of specially commissioned essays which direct attention to both the realities of youth work and the structuring of youth policy. In an area of welfare where the boundaries of responsibility and control are shaped by the competing interest of government, central and local, and a historically powerful voluntary sect

Overview: Über die Anfänge und Entwicklung der Frauen- und GeschlechterforschungDie Frauen, die als erste Generation - nach einzelnen Vorläuferinnen - sozialwissenschaftliche Professuren an Universitäten erreicht haben, beschreiben mit autobiographischen Texten ihre Wege in die Soziologie und in die Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung. In kritischer Auseinandersetzung.mit der Soziologie und weiteren Sozialwissenschaften sind sie Begründerinnen und wesentliche Vertreterinnen der Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung in den Sozialwissenschaften in Deutschland.geworden. Dieser Band bietet einen Einstie

Overview: Goes deeply into the linguistic issues of Information Retrieval.Creates a firm theoretical foundation for future Information Retrieval research.Explains that the study of language and meaning is impor“The more narrowly we examine language, the sharper becomes the con?ict - tween it and our requirement. (For the crystalline purity of logic was, of course, not a result of investigation; it was a requirement. ) The con?ict becomes intolerable; the requirement is now in danger of becoming empty. —We have got onto slippery ice where there is no friction and so in a certain sense the condi

Overview: VORWORT Microsoft Works ist eines der interessantesten Programme für DOS-kompatible Personal Computer. W orks ist ein integriertes Softwarepaket, das alle Programme in sich vereint, die man von einem integrierten Softwarepaket erwartet: Textverarbeitung, Tabellenkalkulation einschließlich Diagrammer­ stellung, Datenbankverwaltung und Datenkommunikation -und das zu einem Preis, den sich die meisten Anwender leisten können. Ein leistungsstarkes, aus­ gereiftes Produkt für die neue Generation von Computern und Anwendern. Works bietet Möglichkeiten, wie sie in dieser Preiskategorie wohl

Overview: Examines how contemporary women writers address their Victorian counterparts.Questions how women writers of neo-Victorian works differ in their approach to the erotic from male writers.Addresses histo.Women Writing the Neo-Victorian Novel: Erotic “Victorians”. focuses on the work of British, Irish, and Commonwealth women writers such as A.S. Byatt, Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, Helen Humphreys, Margaret Atwood, and Ahdaf Soueif, among others, and their attempts to re-envision the erotic. Kathleen Renk argues that women writers of the neo-Victorian novel are far more philosophical in t

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.978-3-642-98241-5978-3-642-99052-6

Overview: What health professionals should know about medical history.Written by a distinguished leader in medical education and highly respected author of over 23 medical books.Stories that put today‘s medicalIfyou wantto understandtoday,you have to search yesterday. Pearl S. Buck (1892 1973) I begin this book with a premise: If there is a human endeavor that is richer in tradition, culture, and idiosyncrasies than medicine, I don‘t know what it is. What you are about to read presents some of these treasures tales of the epic scientific discoveries as well as some behind the scenes medical an

Overview: This collection of work studies the often neglected writers of the second half of the twelfth century in England. At this time three languages competed for recognition and prestige and carved out their own spaces, while an English-speaking populace was ruled by a French-speaking aristocracy and administered by a Latin-speaking and writing clergy.978-1-137-08855-0Series ISSN 2945-5936 Series E-ISSN 2945-5944

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Overview: Includes supplementary material: Since the start of the International Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution (WCW) in 1996, it has served as the premiere meeting for researchers and practitioners to exchange results and visions on all aspects of content caching, distribution, and delivery. Building on the success of the previous WCW meetings, WCW 2004 extended its scope and covered interesting research and deployment areas relating to content services as they move through the Internet. This year, WCW was held in Beijing, China. Although it was the first time that WCW was he

Overview: The only book currently available to provide a synthesis of the history of women in England, Wales and Scotland during the early modern era. Draws on past and present research to examine the ways in wAlthough in its infancy, the history of women in Wales and Scotland before and during the Reformation is now thriving. A longer tradition of historical studies has shed light on many areas of women‘s experience in England. Drawing on this historiography, Christine Peters examines the significance of contrasting social, economic and religious conditions in shaping the lives of women in Br

Overview: Through detailed studies, this collection of writings by academics and activists explores the emergence of contemporary lesbian and butch/femme relationships and communities throughout Asia and their location within the context of nationalist struggles, religious fundamentalism, state gender regimes and global queer movements.978-0-230-61748-3978-0-230-60412-4Series ISSN 2752-3209 Series E-ISSN 2752-3217

Overview: This book offers a socio-spatial analysis of a refugee camp in southwestern Uganda. Based on qualitative research with a multi-method approach the author shows how refugees are central actors in the operation and becoming of a camp. Not only do they crucially contribute to its social, micro-economic, and material realization but they also incrementally rearrange the camp space by acts of constant adaptation in order to make it work for its inhabitants. By means of social interaction, infrastructuring, translation, movement and material improvisation they navigate daily life in the se

Overview: This book examines women‘s experiences in Britain during the Second World War, drawing on women‘s own memories and archival sources. It explores the myths and silences surrounding women‘s contribution to the war effort. Part of the text is devoted to women‘s experience of paid employment and how their sexuality became a contentious workplace issue. This theme is continued in the accounting for the sexuality of women on other spaces and places and how women re-negotiated their femininity, and thus their own ‘war experiences‘.978-1-4039-1413-2

Overview: Writing Catholic Women examines the interplay of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, and sexuality through the lens of Catholicism in a wide range of works by women writers, forging interdisciplinary connections among women‘s studies, religion, and late twentieth-century literature. Discussing a diverse group of authors, Jeana DelRosso posits that the girlhood narratives of such writers constitute highly charged sites of their differing gestures toward Catholicism and argues that an understanding of the ways in which women write about religion from different cultural and racial con

Overview: Ein inspirierender 360-Grad Blick auf die Entwicklung und das Management von Marken.Erweitert das Verständnis für das Phänomen Marke und dafür, wie Marken ihre Wirkung entfalten können.Eine kritische Dieses Buch regt an, neu, anders und tiefer über das Markenmachen nachzudenken. Jürgen Häusler hat sich über zwanzig Jahre seines Berufslebens mit Fragen rund um die Entwicklung und Führung von Marken beschäftigt: Wie lautet das Erfolg bringende Nutzenversprechen einer Marke? Wie schafft man es, eine Marke als echtes Original zu entwickeln und über die Zeit lebendig zu halten? Wie geht m

Overview: Demonstrates that postfeminism, far from being a spent force, remains a structuring need in representations of women’s history on television.Offers a new perspective to debates on representations of w. ..“In this insightful book, Cat Mahoney offers a fascinating analysis of contemporary TV dramas such as Home Fires, Land Girls and The Bletchley Circle. Developing the idea that history is told through the preoccupations of the present, she argues compellingly that these are postfeminist dramas which work through troubling ideas about heteronormative romance, domesticity, beauty and wh

Overview: This book is designed to help the reader better understand the conduct of war by focusing on the ‘how‘ not the ‘why‘ of warfare. It examines a number of crucial dimensions of contemporary armed conflict such as: the strategies, operations, tactics, doctrines and weapons of conventional and low-intensity war; military geography; the cultural underpinnings of strategies and tactics; arms resupply, security assistance, and foreign intervention.978-0-312-24012-7978-1-137-07926-8

Overview: In einer qualitativen Längsschnittstudie untersucht Simone Jablonski Veränderungen beim mündlichen Argumentieren von potenziell mathematisch begabten Kindern. Dazu entwickelt sie ein Analyseschema, das die Kategorien Struktur, Inhalt, Gültigkeit, Schlussweise und Eigenständigkeit berücksichtigt. Mithilfe aufgabenbasierter Interviews aus dem Bereich der Arithmetik werden 37 Kinder der Klassenstufen 3 bis 6 über anderthalb Jahre wiederholt befragt. Die Analyse der dabei entstandenen Argumentationsprodukte ergibt sechs verschiedene Argumentationstypen, die die Veränderungen beim Argumen

Overview: Ein neuer Band aus der Reihe Springer Essentials.Linguistischen Charakteristika in Blog-Texten - alles Wissenswerte kompakt zusammengefasst.Includes supplementary material: Christoph Moss und Jill-Catrin Heurich betrachten das Phänomen, dass die Verfasser von Blogs eine eigene Sprache mit spezifischen Darstellungsformen entwickeln, in einer empirischen Untersuchung. Dazu werden Weblog-Texte, journalistische Kommentare in Onlinemedien sowie Corporate Blogs auf ihre sprachlichen Charakteristika untersucht. Weblogs haben ihren Platz im Kommunikationskanon gefunden. Sie sind aufgrund ihr