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

Overview: Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight.978-1-349-46083-0978-1-137-33008-6Series ISSN 2634-6478 Series E-ISSN 2634-6486

Overview: Erfolgreiche Strategie bei Wirtschaftlichkeitsprüfungen.Includes supplementary material: .Regresse und Honorarkürzungen als Dank für den zahnärztlichen Dienst am Patienten? ..Die Wirtschaftlichkeitsprüfung ist und bleibt ein Ärgernis für den Zahnarzt - gleichwohl ist sie seit Jahrzehnten notwendiges Kontrollinstrument und wesentliches Element im System der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung. Denn Patienten haben keinen Anspruch auf die bestmögliche zahnärztliche Versorgung; umgekehrt dürfen Zahnärzte zu Lasten der Krankenkassen nur die "medizinisch notwendige" Behandlung erbringen. Wir

Overview: Women and Scientific Employment combines rich empirical data and theoretical discussion on the ‘problem‘ of women‘s representation in scientific education and employment. A distinction is made throughout between ‘quantitative feminization‘ and ‘vertical feminization‘ - a distinction which is frequently confused in policy on women and the sciences. Comparisons are made with the USA and France, revealing considerable similarity with the UK. The case is put for the different scientific disciplines to be examined separately, both empirically and theoretically.978-1-349-40047-8978-0-333-9

Overview: Contains examples of mechanisms and strategies to reduce gender bias in STEM.Includes practices and initiatives from higher education institutions worldwide.Provides a cross-regional experience in Lat.This open access book addresses challenges related to women in STEM in higher education, presenting research, experiences, studies, and good practices associated with the engagement, access, and retention of women in the STEM disciplines. It also discusses strategies implemented by universities and policymakers to reduce the existing gender gap in these areas. The chapters provide an ov

Overview: 978-0-412-71980-6978-1-4899-6822-7

Overview: This book offers both theoretical perspectives and detailed examples which provide the analytical frameworks chosen by the Middle Eastern women themselves to explain the strategies they have chosen for liberation. The studies deal with Islam and its impact on personal and public lives of women in the region as well as their political struggles for liberation both internally and internationally.978-1-349-22588-0Series ISSN 2947-0501 Series E-ISSN 2947-051X

Overview: 978-3-7091-7522-4978-3-7091-7521-7

Overview: 978-3-531-11952-6978-3-322-86412-3

Overview: Bilingualer Sachfachunterricht an Real- und GesamtschulenAnke Wegner untersucht die Perspektive der Akteure des Unterrichts in Bezug auf Fragen des Lehrens und Lernens im realschulischen bilingualen Sachfachunterricht. Mit Blick auf das unterrichtliche Handeln der SchülerInnen und LehrerInnen werden ihre Sichtweisen auf fachliches und sprachliches Lehren und Lernen sowie auf die Gestaltung des Unterrichts rekonstruiert. Dabei werden u.a. Aspekte der hermeneutischen und didaktischen Kompetenz der SchülerInnen und LehrerInnen sowie die Diskrepanz ihrer Perspektiven aufgezeigt. Im Rückb

Overview: War termination reflects a civil-military bargain and affects relevant decisions made by political leaders. For the leader embroiled in protracted war, this risk dictates whether he or she will commit more resources to the fight or else cut the state‘s losses and get out.978-1-137-52797-4

Overview: This sweeping, exhaustively researched history is the first comprehensive account of the Peace of Westphalia in English. Bringing together the latest scholarship with an engaging narrative, it retraces the historical origins of the Peace, exploring its political-intellectual underpinnings and placing it in a broad global and chronological context.978-1-137-53893-2978-1-137-33333-9

Overview: Over the past several decades, consumer interest in the fine vintage wines produced by small "boutique" vintners across the United States has grown to rival that of many European estates. This attention continues to intensify, especially for the truly good wines that are reasonably priced. Consumers are, however, unforgiving­ especially wine enthusiasts. Second-class wines do not succeed just because a vintner is new. The methods and controls essential to vintners in the production and marketing of top-grade wines have advanced. This second edition of Winemaking has updated and, in s

Overview: .This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2005, held in New York, NY, USA, in November 2005...The 30 revised full papers and 20 revised short papers presented together with 18 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 259 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Web mining, Web information retrieval, metadata management, ontology and semantic Web, XML, Web service method, Web service structure, collaborative methodology, P2P, ubiquitous and mobile, document retrieval applic

Overview: Highlights various challenges and opportunities for water management and cooperation in South Asia.Illustrates socio-economic, infrastructural, environmental and institutional aspects of water managemThis book highlights various challenges and opportunities for water management and cooperation in South Asia. In light of increasing urbanization and development in the region and related pressure on water resources, the contributions investigate water conflictual and cooperative attitudes and gestures between countries and regions; analyse management trade-offs between nature, agricultu

Overview: This book uses a computable general equilibrium framework to eval­ uate recent value-added tax reform proposals in the European Union from a welfare point of view. After the publication of the "White Paper" (1985) on the completion of the internal European market, an intense and heated debate about tax impediments to free trade set in. According to the original plans of the Commission of the European Union, not only physical border controls but also fiscal frontiers within the European Union would have been abolished on New Year‘s Day 1993. With respect to value­ added taxation this

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.978-3-642-47194-0978-3-642-47530-6

Overview: 978-3-528-05563-9978-3-322-88903-4

Overview: Discusses the beginnings and legacy of the conference series The International Conferences of Women Engineers.Demonstrates a leadership and vision of women in male-dominated STEM professions.Contains .This book discusses the legacy of the conference series The International Conferences of Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES), which spans the second half of the Twentieth Century and the beginning of the twenty-first. The book first discusses how, at a time when there were few women engineers and scientists, a group of women organized a conference, in June 1964 in New York, which att

Overview: 978-3-322-88895-2978-3-322-88894-5

Overview: 978-3-540-11207-5978-3-642-81754-0Series ISSN 0342-4103