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

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Overview: Universal subject-matter with implications for scholars in philosophy, psychology, music and healthcare.Heavily based on recent studies undertaken in the field of health by the author.Empirical approa.In this book, perspectives in psychology, aesthetics, history and philosophy are drawn upon to survey the value given to sad music by human societies throughout history and today. Why do we love listening to music that makes us cry? This mystery has puzzled philosophers for centuries and tends to defy traditional models of emotions. Sandra Garrido presents empirical research that illumi

Overview: This book explores how Medieval and Early Modern writers reconstructed, and also how readers read, the contradictory meanings of "Lady" Wisdom.978-1-349-53330-5978-0-230-61246-4Series ISSN 2945-5936 Series E-ISSN 2945-5944

Overview: Presents the state of the art of the impact assessment of recycled hazardous waste materials on surface and ground waters.Topics include chemodynamics, toxicology, modeling and information systems.The state of the art of the impact assessment of recycled hazardous waste materials on surface and ground waters is presented. The topics include chemodynamics, toxicology, modeling and information systems...Due to the wealth of information on this topic, the texts of T. Kassim (ed.): Environmental Impact Assessment of Recycled Wastes on Surface and Ground Waters are published in three sepa

Overview: Eckrich and McClure provide a greater understanding of what a family business really is and how they differ from other companies and work environments. Designed to provide insight into the family and its behavior and to integrate the non-family employee into its unique structure.978-0-230-11114-1978-0-230-11622-1Series ISSN 2947-3985 Series E-ISSN 2947-3993

Overview: The fate of seriously ill newborns has captured the atten­ tion of the public, of national and state legislators, and of powerful interest groups. For the most part, the debate has been cast in the narrowest possible terms: "discrimination against the handicapped"; "physician authority"; "family autonomy." We believe that something much more profound is happening: the debate over the care of sick and dying babies appears to be both a manifestation of great changes in our feelings about infants, children, and families, and a reflection of deep and abiding attitudes toward the newborn,

Overview: Draws from multidisciplinary perspectives and scholarship.Addresses social and societal factors, rather than pathologies or deficits in individuals.Emphasizes positive aspects of women‘s mental health​This book focuses on the social and societal context of women‘s mental health. Drawing from multidisciplinary perspectives and scholarship, it pays particular attention to how women‘s mental health is experienced at the personal level, yet it is influenced by their relationships and interacts with the larger societal context (such as prevailing gender equality policies, income distribut

Overview: Explores the dynamics of leadership from philosophical, ethical and historical perspectives.Analyses the evolution and shortcoming of the current western leadership paradigm.Shows how to apply theory .Contrary to popular conceptions that ethical failures in leadership are correlated with economic downturns and other stressful market conditions, this book argues that such transgressions are an intrinsic element of leadership, as it is defined under the current prevailing paradigm..In recent years the crisis of failures in ethical leadership across organizations, particularly corporati

Overview: Includes examples and exercisesGrowing energy demand and environmental consciousness have re-evoked human interest in wind energy. As a result, wind is the fastest growing energy source in the world today. Policy frame works and action plans have already been for- lated at various corners for meeting at least 20 per cent of the global energy - mand with new-renewables by 2010, among which wind is going to be the major player. In view of the rapid growth of wind industry, Universities, all around the world, have given due emphasis to wind energy technology in their undergraduate and g

Overview: Histories of the Turks were a central means through which English authors engaged in intellectual and cultural terms with the Ottoman Empire, its advance into Europe following the capture of Constantinople (1454), and its continuing central European power up to the treaty of Karlowitz (1699). Writing the Ottomans examines historical writing on the Turks in England from 1480-1700. It explores the evolution of this discourse from its continental roots, and its development in response to moments of military crisis such as the Long War of 1593-1606 and the War of the Holy League 1683-169

Overview: Einziges Werkstoff-Lehrbuch für Wirtschaftsingenieure.Klare Struktur, sehr verständliche Sprache, kompakte Darstellung.Zahlreiche praktische Beispiele und Aufgaben.Das Buch schlägt eine Brücke zwischen dem werkstoffkundlichen Fachwissen und den typischen Aufgaben von Wirtschaftsingenieuren. .Besondere Eignung des Buches für Wirtschaftsingenieure ist gegeben durch: .- Sehr breites Spektrum von Werkstoffen, für viele Zweige der Technik .- Gut strukturierte Darstellung verschiedener Werkstoffgruppen.- Neben technischer auch wirtschaftliche Betrachtung von Werkstoffen.- Viele Anwendungsb

Overview: 978-3-528-05244-7978-3-322-86811-4Series ISSN 2522-0519 Series E-ISSN 2522-0527

Overview: Praxisnahe Tipps und Tricks für den Umgang mit zahlungsunwilligen Patienten.Berücksichtigt wirtschaftliche Aspekte sowie standes- und berufsrechtliche Vorschriften.Beleuchtet die Vor- und Nachteile de.Ärzte, Zahnärzte und andere Selbstständige in Heilberufen beklagen sich immer häufiger über unbezahlte Patientenrechnungen. Während andere Unternehmer offene Forderungen schnell und effektiv durchsetzen können, müssen Ärzte zahlreiche standes- und berufsrechtliche Vorschriften beachten. Besondere Probleme bereitet in diesem Zusammenhang die ärztliche Schweigepflicht..Das Buch bietet wer

Overview: Diese Neubearbeitung des Standardwerkes von Ernst Heyer (1912 - 1987) trägt aktuellen Erfordernissen Rechnung, indem sowohl die Physik der Atmosphäre als auch die praktischen Anwendungen von Meteorologie und Klimatologie verstärkt herausgearbeitet werden.978-3-663-11872-5

Overview: Discusses the relationship between fiscal policy and distributional issues.Features case studies from key OECD nations.Contributes to understanding of key public spending debates.This book provides a historical understanding of current debates over tax reform and offers a comparative framework for discussing the relationship between fiscal policy and the distribution of income and wealth. Topics covered include the evolution of income taxation since World War II; the turn toward value added taxation; the relationship between tax reform and the construction of welfare states; the impa

Overview: Multinationals have global reach in their search for profits; women, even more than men, are confined to their immediate community in their search for jobs. This book examines the interaction between multinationals and women in UK, Ireland, France and Germany, looking at inward investment by US and Japanese multinationals, as well as outward investment by European multinationals.978-0-333-46706-0978-1-349-19908-2

Overview: Focuses on latest research in sustainable technologies in water resources.Includes case studies on different aspects of water management and assessment.Presents the select contribution from the internThis book contains selected peer-reviewed papers presented in the International Conference .Down To Earth 2019., and is focused on .Water Security and Sustainability.. The topics covered in this book include sustainability of water resources, geospatial modelling and hydro-informatics, extreme hydrology (drought and flood), adaptation to climate-change impacts, vulnerability-risk-reliabi

Overview: Why Multimodal Literacy Matters brings together the contemporary trends of intergenerational learning programs and multimodal literacy in a format that is both theoretically rigorous and grounded in pLiteracy research has focused increasingly on the social, cultural, and material remaking of human communication. Such research has generated new knowledge about the diverse and interconnected modes and media through which people can and do make meaning and opened up definitions of literacy to include image, gaze, gesture, print, speech, and music. And yet, despite all of the attention t

Overview: Erste systematische Erfassung und Evaluation.Strukturanalysen und Kommunikatorbefragungen.Die gesamte Studie ist vergleichend angelegtBesonders in Zeiten von Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrisen besitzen Boulevardmedien die wichtige Funktionen, das Interesse für Wirtschaftsthemen zu wecken und komplexe Zusammenhänge allgemeinverständlich zu vermitteln. Die Autoren der Studie untersuchen vergleichend, mit welchen redaktionellen Konzepten und Ressourcen vier deutsche Boulevardblätter und ihre Websites diese Aufgaben erfüllen. Anhand von Strukturanalysen und Kommunikatorbefragungen wird der St

Overview: In April 1995, WINLAB (the Wireless Infonnation Network Lab­ oratory at Rutgers University) hosted the Fifth WINLAB Workshop on Third Generation Wireless Infonnation Networks. This workshop brings together a select group of experts interested in the future of Personal Communications, Mobile Computing and other services supported by wireless communications. As a sequel to Kluwer books on previous WINLAB workshops,l this volume assembles written versions of presentations of the Fifth Workshop. The last few years have been exciting for the field of wireless communications. The second ge