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

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Overview: Brings big geopolitical issues to life through the narrative of a particular region and its people.Distinctive - few trade books about China concentrate on its environmental challenges.Timeliness - Ch.Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River. is an incisive look at the possible fates of China and the planet. Will the Nujiang River continue to flow? Will Tibetan girls from subsistence farming families learn to read and write? Can China and the United States come together to lead action on climate change? Far-reaching in its history and scope, this unique book shows us the real-world con

Overview: This pioneering book reveals how nationalism in Ninteenth-century Greece helped women to develop an alternative vision of female politics, history, and citizenship. Shedding new light on women‘s ideas and beliefs the author brings to life the story of the ideas that formed our societies and individual identities.978-0-230-23445-1Series ISSN 2633-5964 Series E-ISSN 2633-5972

Overview: Includes supplementary material: 978-3-540-26004-2978-3-540-31964-1Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Includes supplementary material: . ..This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Web- and Database-Related Workshops held during the NetObjectDays international conference NODe 2002, in Erfurt, Germany, in October 2002...The 19 revised full papers presented together with 3 keynote papers were carefully selected during 2 rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on advanced Web-services, UDDI extensions, description and classification of Web services, applications based on Web-services, indexing and accessing, Web and X

Overview: Kompakte Einführung in das Screen- und Interfacedesign für Webanwendungen.Praxisorientierte Aufgaben mit ausführlichen Lösungen zu jedem Kapitel.Berücksichtigt Prüfungsanforderungen der Ausbildungs- u.Dieser Band der „Bibliothek der Mediengestaltung“ behandelt die Konzeption und Gestaltung von Webanwendungen mit Fokus auf Screen- und Interfacedesign für mobile Endgeräte.  .Für diese Bibliothek wurden die Themen des Kompendiums der Mediengestaltung neu strukturiert, vollständig überarbeitet und in ein handliches Format gebracht. Leitlinien waren hierbei die Anpassung an die Entwicklun

Overview: Demonstrates the ongoing impact of Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea on literature, culture, politics, and the arts.Connects Wide Sargasso Sea to contemporary life through interviews, brief memoir, photog.This book revisits Jean Rhys’s ground-breaking 1966 novel to explore its cultural and artistic influence in the areas of not only literature and literary criticism, but fashion design, visual art, and the theatre as well. Building on symposia that were held in London and New York in 2016 in honour of the novel’s half-century, this collection demonstrates just how timely Rhys’s insights

Overview: Numerous step-by-step tutorials help the reader to learn quickly.Problems included at the end of each chapter.Includes complete examples of how to structure most common legal questions.This book is the first in-depth guide to applying the philosophy, theory, and methods of decision analysis to creating and executing winning legal strategies. With  explanations that progress from introductory to advanced and practice problems at the end of each chapter, this is a book the reader will want to use and refer to for years to come. Practicing decision analysts, operations research and mana

Overview: The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with a series of work­ ed examples in X -ray spectrometry and X -ray diffractometry, in such a way that each example can be treated either as a posed question, i. e. one to which the reader must himself provide an answer, or as a guide to the method of treating a similar problem. The latter, of course, also pro­ vides a check on the answer produced by the reader. Although much basic theory can be derived by study of this work the first intention of the book is not to provide a source of basic theoretical knowledge in X -ray analy­ sis

Overview: A collection of lectures on a variety of modern subjects in wave scattering, including fundamental issues in mesoscopic physics and radiative transfer, recent hot topics such as random lasers, liquid crystals, lefthanded materials and time-reversal, as well as modern applications in imaging and communication. .There is a strong emphasis on the interdisciplinary aspects of wave propagation, including light and microwaves, acoustic and elastic waves, propagating in a variety of "complex" materials (liquid crystals, media with gain, natural media, magneto-optical media, photonic and pho

Overview: Mit Blick auf Gedichte und ihre Autoren ist Andreas F. Kelletat ein ausgewiesener Kenner. In diesem Band liegt endlich eine Auswahl seiner Schriften über Lyrik und Lyriker vor. Philologisch präzise Interpretationen und strukturalistisch-hermeneutische Einzelanalysen zu Texten von Erich Arendt, Volker Braun oder Richard Pietraß stehen neben Beiträgen zu Lyrikübersetzungen von Peter Rühmkorf und Manfred Peter Hein. Kelletat diskutiert zudem grundsätzliche Fragen wie jene, ob ins Deutsche übersetzte Gedichte als Fakten der deutschen Literatur behandelt werden müssen. Kennzeichnend für s

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Overview: Wordsworth and Coleridge: Promising Losses  assembles essays spanning the last thirty years, including a selection of Peter Larkin‘s original verse, with the concept of promise and loss serving as the uniting narrative thread. 978-1-349-34089-7978-1-137-01094-0Series ISSN 2691-1256 Series E-ISSN 2634-5218

Overview: In the past forensic psychiatry has been a sub-speciality of general psychiatry without its own, separate identity. However, since the mid-1980s there has been a growing in­ terest in the application of community care principles to mentally disordered offenders. A new set of attitudes have developed which have enabled the mentally disordered offender to emerge from relative institutional obscurity to a much higher profile in the community. Although numerically small in relation to the general psychiatric population, forensic patients tend to attract the public‘ s attention by virtue

Overview: Provides a unique compendium of odd astronomical and cosmological theories, covering lesser known but equally entertaining stories.Offers a lighthearted, easy-to-understand look into the history of asFrom unicorns on the Moon to UFOs piloted by Martian bees, this book chronicles some of the strangest ideas that have been put forward – and have actually been .believed in .-- about our universe. Drawn from tales dating from the Middle Ages to the present, this collection of stories takes readers on an imaginative and wild ride through the ages and minds of some of the wackiest, tackies

Overview: Wirtschaftsstandort Deutschland:Die Globalisierung als Megatrend wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung verschärft den internationalen Standortwettbewerb. Längst rivalisieren nicht mehr nur Unternehmen um Marktanteile, Kapital oder die „besten Köpfe“. Auch ganze Volkswirtschaften stehen in Konkurrenz. Der vorliegende Sammelband zeichnet ein detailreiches Profil des Wirtschaftsstandortes Deutschland in seinen Stärken und Schwächen. Die wichtigsten internationalen Standort-Rankings werden vorgestellt und mit Blick auf die.Positionierung Deutschlands ausgewertet. International vergleichende Analy

Overview: Schafft ein theoretisch und wissenschaftlich basiertes Verständnis für Werteorientierung und macht damit den Ursprung, Sinn, Nutzen und Umfang des Konzepts klar.Gibt viele praxisorientierte Tipps zur .Dieses Fachbuch gewährt einen ganzheitlichen Blick auf das Thema der werteorientierten Führung, indem es die wichtige Brücke zwischen dem Verständnis aus der Theorie und dem Anwenden in der Praxis schlägt. Anhand theoretisch fundierter Beiträge von Experten wird ein systematisches Verständnis erarbeitet: Was sind Werte generell und was bedeuten sie im unternehmerischen Kontext? Was bede

Overview: Over 17 years of SAP project experience available in a compact form.A useful and efficient reference book.With clear illustrations of workflow processes and example screenshots from the SAP system.Mor.It is now possible to gain competitive advantages based on consolidated R/3 system implementations. One of the most important optimisation aspects is a more consistent process integration in order to bring about fast, secure and cost effective business processes. This approach inevitably leads to Workflow Management and for SAP users to SAP.® . WebFlow.®.. This book introduces the topic

Overview: Überblick über die Auswirkungen der Kriminalitätsprobleme der Gegenwart.Analyse der Verflechtungen der kriminellen Organisationen.Anzeichen für Verfolgungsprobleme und deren UrsachenIn diesem .essential. wird versucht folgende Fragen zu beantworten,Zusammenhänge aufzuzeigen und damit auch Forderungen nach einerverbesserten Strafverfolgung zu begründen: Was verbirgt sich nun hinterder Wirtschaftskriminalität und Organisierter Kriminalität? Wie sehendie auf nationaler und internationaler Ebene verübten Tathandlungen aus,welchen Umfang haben sie und wo liegen die Probleme für dieStrafve

Overview: This book is a study of the ‘mothers‘ of the mystery genre. Traditionally the invention of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, but they had formidable women rivals, whose work has been until recently largely forgotten. The purpose of this book is to ‘cherchez les femmes‘, in a project of rediscovery.978-1-349-32311-1978-0-230-28940-6Series ISSN 2947-8340 Series E-ISSN 2947-8359