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

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.978-3-662-27968-7978-3-662-29476-5

Overview: Draws on rich and nuanced ethnographic data completed by scholar with local roots in Sri Lanka.Provides unique insights on rural women’s use of sorcery to resolve domestic problems.Unsettles misconcep.Drawing on extensive research from a 14-month ethnographic study, this book delves into the intricate lives of married women in a rural Sinhala village in Sri Lanka. It explores their efforts to uphold community expectations while employing innovative and strategic approaches to navigate ruptures within their marital journeys. The chapters progress by dissecting the pivotal gender roles

Overview: This work employs Husserl‘s concept of responsibility as a guidingclue for the clarification of the self-understanding of phenomenologyas a `rigorous science‘. Originally an appeal for radicalaccountability and ultimate foundation in the field of philosophicaltheory, Husserl‘s concept of responsibility culminated finally in aphilosophy of human self-renewal. This philosophical telos of ultimateself-responsibility, which was also fuelled by a striving towardscultural reform, was realised for Husserl in a transcendental field oftransparent self-evidence, linguistic univocity and transh

Overview: Explains the counter-intuitive relationship between women‘s employment and childbirth.Provides policy solutions for helping women combine employment and family.Provides an employment relations perspec.This book discusses the relationship between women‘s labour force participation and fertility rates in developed nations. It shows a positive relationship between women‘s workforce participation and childbirth. It theorises a new approach to explaining this ‘fertility paradox‘ that looks at institutional factors influencing gender equality in developed nations. The book analyses a range

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .This volume contains the refereed joint proceedings of two initiatives that have been devoted to the formal foundations of complex systems: the workshops WS-FM:FASOCC 2014 and WS-FM/BEAT 2015. . The 11th International Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods: Formal Aspects of Services-Oriented and Cloud Computing, WS-FM 2014, took place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in September 2014. The 12th International Workshop on Web Services, Formal Methods, and Behavioral Types, WS-FM 2015, took place in Madrid, Spain, in September 2015. . The total of 8

Overview: Contributes to the continuing‘legal and historical struggle for equal pay in Australia.Analyses and recounts campaigns, cases and debates.Takes law, history and women’s and gender studies into consideThis book ​makes a major contribution to the continuing legal and historical struggle for equal pay in Australia, with international references, including Canada, the UK and US. It takes law, history and women’s and gender studies to analyse and recount campaigns, cases and debates. Industrial bodies federally and around Australia have grappled with this issue from the early-twentieth ce

Overview: 978-3-531-03192-7978-3-322-87644-7

Overview: Focuses on Werner Sombart, a less-known scholar of modern capitalism.Shows how Sombart‘s ideas contrast with those of Max Weber.Offers close analysis of Sombart‘s key writingsThis book illuminates the work of Werner Sombart, a key contemporary of Max Weber, showing how his writing and thinking laid the groundwork for concepts of modern capitalism...Although the notion of the ‘spirit’ of modern capitalism is most associated with Weber, it was Sombart who first used this phrase, with Weber focusing mainly on socioeconomics while Sombart continued to develop his ideas around modern capi

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.978-3-642-98744-1978-3-642-99559-0

Overview: Die wichtigsten Wärmeübertragungsformen Schritt für Schritt erklärt.Anschauliche Anwendungsbeispiele, auch zum Download aus dem Internet.Für Studium und Praxis gleichermaßen geeignet.Includes suppleme.Das Buch vermittelt wie kein anderes die Grundlagen der Wärmeübertragung. Es versetzt den Leser in die Lage, Wärmeübertrager auszulegen sowie Wärmeübertragungsaufgaben aller Art zu analysieren und praktische Lösungen dafür zu finden. Auf ausgedehnte theoretische Herleitungen wird verzichtet, stattdessen werden die wesentlichen Zusammenhänge anhand zahlreicher Beispiele aus dem Ingenieur

Overview: In determining the response of offshore structures, it is of utmost importance to determine, in the most correct manner, all factors which contribute to the total force acting on these structures. Applying the Morison formula (Morison et. al. , 1950) to calculate forces on offshore slender structures, uncertainties related to the understanding of the wave climate, the hydrodynamic force coefficients and the kinematics of ocean waves represent the most important contributions to the uncertainties in the prediction of the total forces on these structures (Haver and Gudmestad, 1992). Tr

Overview: Ein Klassiker der Grundausbildung für jeden ElektroingenieurDas Buch behandelt zunächst den Aufbau der Materie, insbesondere der kristallinen Festkörper. Danach erfolgt eine Beschreibung und physikalische Deutung der elektrischen und magnetischen Eigenschaften der Werkstoffe insbesondere im Hinblick auf Anwendungen in passiven Bauelementen und Sensoren. Die Behandlung der Werkstoffverarbeitung und -prüfung beschränkt sich auf die im Rahmen der Ingenieurausbildung notwendigen Grundkenntnisse. Mit der vollständigen Neubearbeitung stehen der Lehre nun mit der 9. Auflage die "Werkstoffe

Overview: 978-3-642-47272-5978-3-642-47686-0

Overview: J ÜRGEN AscHOFF "Very bad habit! Very bad habit!" Captain Giles to Joseph Conrad who had taken a siesta. -Conrad: The Shadow Line On the Multiplicity of Rest-Activity Cycles: Some Historical and Conceptual Notes According to its title this book tries to answer the profound question of why we nap-and why Captain Giles was wrong in blaming Conrad for having napped. However, in this volume the term nap is not used in the narrower sense of an afternoon siesta; instead, emphasis is placed on the recurrent alternation between states of alertness and drowsiness, i. e. , on rest-activity cyc

Overview: Contributes the first edited collection that focuses on women and action sports.Offers original theoretical, methodological and empirical insights.Examines the multiple workings of power within actionYoung,white men have dominated action sports for many years, yet women have refusedto accept positions on the margins of these unique sporting cultures.Developing in a different context to many traditional sports, girls and womenhave adopted highly proactive approaches and developed unique strategies tonegotiate space alongside their male peers in the waves, skate parks andcityscapes, on

Overview: Erstes Werk zu psychologischen Wirkmechanismen von Content-Marketing und dessen Controlling.Fundierte Übertragung der Werbewirkungsforschung auf Content-Marketing.Neuartiges Controlling-Framework für .Content-Marketing ist inzwischen eine fest etablierte Disziplin des Onlinemarketings. Wie aber wirkt Content-Marketing genau? Welche Konsequenzen ergeben sich für die strategische Content-Planung und wie sieht ein valides Content-Marketing-Controlling aus? .Dieses Buch geht über die üblichen Tipps zur Umsetzung von Content-Marketing hinaus, indem es nach der grundlegenden Wirkung von Co

Overview: Freizeit - Politik - Zukunft: Wie sich Jugendliche in Brandenburg ihre Zukunft vorstellen.Fortführung der Studien zu Jugendlichen in Brandenburg.Empirische Untersuchung.Die Jugendberichterstattung in den Tagesmedien zeichnet oft ein bedrückendes Bild: Die Jugend konsumiert exzessiv Medien und Drogen, Extremismus und Gewalt sind an der Tagesordnung, soziales Engagement ist nicht mehr zeitgemäß..Stimmt dieses Bild? Mit der 1991 begonnenen Zeitreihenstudie „Jugend in Brandenburg“ werden die Lebenssituation und die Einstellungen von Jugendlichen nunmehr zum achten Mal wissenschaftlich be

Overview: Filled with practical advice, this book covers the basics including differentiating between the various thesis formats, preparing the proposal, writing the literature review, choosing a methodology, cThe Teaching Writing series publishes user-friendly writing guides penned by authors with publishing records in their subject matter. Blair’s practical book gives graduate students the tools they need to successfully plan, write, and defend their thesis or dissertation. Each chapter addresses a rite of passage common to most graduate programs: selecting a methodology, conducting a litera

Overview: Inventive papers which shed new light on 18th Century empiricism as a constitutive moment of European science.Constructive dialog between experienced scholars and up-and-coming researchers?.An interna.This book begins with an observation: At the time when empiricism arose and slowly established itself, the word itself had not yet been coined. Hence the central question of this volume: What does it mean to conduct empirical science in early modern Europe? How can we catch the elusive figure of the empiricist?.Our answer focuses on the practices established by representative scholars.

Overview: This book considers philosophy to be more than mere reflection.Through philosophy, humankind can give meaning to the world. In part,this book re-evaluates the philosophy of Leo Apostel, who dedicatedhis life to the investigation of the use of philosophy in everydaylife. But it is also a presentation of international research carriedout along the lines of the worldviews project. The contributionsaddress not only professional philosophers, but also students,teachers, academics and everyone interested in the relationshipbetween philosophy and the world.978-94-010-5981-7978-94-011-4708-8