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

Overview: Drinking alcohol can be immensely pleasurable and life-enhancing. On the other hand, it can be associated with danger and risk. This book explores some of the implications of this dichotomy, which creates many policy and practice dilemmas, by a detailed exploration of the place of drinking in women‘s lives. Interviews and case-studies show women‘s drinking practices to be constructive and autonomous responses to the social and material contexts of their lives.978-0-333-66590-9978-0-333-99268-5

Overview: Written for experienced Windows XP users.Provides quick "walkthroughs" for all new features.Complete "where am I" guide for the experienced user new to Vista.Windows Vista: Beyond the Manual. is a comprehensive guide to installing, configuring, exploiting, and using the richest Microsoft client operating system on the market. It guides you through the complexities of configuring and running a successful Windows Vista client computer. It also takes an in-depth look at the wealth of features and functions comprising the various flavors of the software...Windows Vista provides a range o

Overview: Arguing that property and power are central to understanding the position of women in farming and using comparative examples, this book considers the transfer of land between men, the changed role of women in the dairy industry in the nineteenth century, women in farming organisations, women in agricultural education programmes, and the role of the state in shaping the lives of farm women. The common themes of power and property underpin all the chapters.978-0-333-98371-3

Overview: 978-3-642-53032-6

Overview: Bridges fields of migration, conflict, and women’s studies.Brings together state-of-the-art academic and practitioner discourse.Covers the key areas of concern.In-depth knowledge presented and drawn f.An estimated 35 million people worldwide are displaced by conflict, and most of them are women and children. During their time away from their homes and communities, these women and their children are subjected to a horrifying array of misfortune, including privations of every kind, sexual assaults, disease, imprisonment, unwanted pregnancies, severe psychological trauma, and, upon retu

Overview: 978-3-7908-0504-8978-3-662-41491-0

Overview: This book brings together experts on national history writing from all five continents to discuss the role of history in the making of national identities in a transnational and comparative way. The institutionalization and professionalisation of history writing is analysed in the context of history‘s increasing nationalization.978-1-137-42812-7978-0-230-22305-9

Overview: Werewolf Histories is the first academic book in English to address European werewolf history and folklore from antiquity to the twentieth century. It covers the most important werewolf territories, ranging from Scandinavia to Germany, France and Italy, and from Croatia to Estonia.978-1-349-58049-1978-1-137-52634-2Series ISSN 2731-5630 Series E-ISSN 2731-5649

Overview: vierfarbige Abbildungen.übersichtliche, klare Beschreibung der Methoden.mit Erfahrungsbericht eines Patienten.Wiederherstellungsoperationen nach starker Gewichtsabnahme..Nach einer drastischen Gewichtsabnahme stehen die meisten Betroffenen vor demselben Problem. Die überflüssigen Pfunde sind zwar weg aber die äußere Hülle ist viel zu groß. Diese Haut-Weichteil-Überschüsse nach Gewichtsabnahme stellen bei den meisten ein funktionelles Problem mit Krankheitswert dar. Erst nachgeordnet stehen oft die ästhetischen Ansprüche. Unangenehmes Schwitzen, Rötungen, Wundscheuern und Pilzinfektio

Overview: Realitätstauglicher Stufenplan zur Selbstfindung?, der im Arbeitsleben wirklich funktioniert.Gangbare Wege aus Karrierefallen und echte Orientierungshilfen in beruflichen Sinnkrisen.Analyse, Aufruf un.Dieses Buch bringt das Wesentliche auf den Punkt: Höchstleistungen bringt, wer entsprechend seinen Stärken und Talenten … im Unternehmen den für ihn besten Platz einnimmt. Gudrun Happich zeigt ganz praxisnah, wie dieser Platz gefunden werden kann..Wolfgang Grupp, Inhaber von Trigema.In ihrem neuen Buch zeigt Gudrun Happich, dass Leistung und Leidenschaft sich nicht ausschließen. Viel In

Overview: Includes supplementary material: WorkshopTheme The ease and speed with which business transactions can be carried out over the Web has been a key driving force in the rapid growth of electronic commerce. In addition, customer interactions, including personalized content, e-mail c- paigns, and online feedback provide new channels of communication that were not previously available or were very ine?cient. The Web presents a key driving force in the rapid growth of electronic c- merceandanewchannelforcontentproviders.Knowledgeaboutthecustomeris fundamental for the establishment of viabl

Overview: Wavelets are a recently developed tool for the analysis and synthesis of functions; their simplicity, versatility and precision makes them valuable in many branches of applied mathematics. The book begins with an introduction to the theory of wavelets and limits itself to the detailed construction of various orthonormal bases of wavelets. A second part centers on a criterion for the L2-boundedness of singular integral operators: the T(b)-theorem. It contains a full proof of that theorem. It contains a full proof of that theorem, and a few of the most striking applications (mostly to

Overview: Presents a new look at the life of Nobel laureate William B. Shockley.Introduces never-before-published personal correspondence and private writings.Written by one of the last remaining scholars to ha.This book takes a fresh look at the work, thoughts, and life of 1956 Nobel Prize winner William B. Shockley. It reconstructs Shockley’s upbringing, his patriotic achievements during World War II, his contribution to semiconductor physics – culminating with the epoch-making invention of the transistor – and his views on the social issues of his time. ..The author’s unparalleled access to

Overview: 978-1-349-04702-4

Overview: Explains and exemplifies the application of complex-systems theory to understanding real and pressing societal problems, such as financial crises, pandemics, war and terrorism, human mobility and migr.Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict social behaviour. As a system made up of many interacting agents – people, groups, institutions and governments, as well as physical and technological structures such as roads and computer networks – society can be regarded as a comp

Overview: Presents a general overview of Electromagnetic interferences (EMI) and describe the measurement and characterization methods associated with them, in keeping with the latest research.Introduces classi.This book consists of the identification, characterization, and modeling of electromagnetic interferences in substations for the deployment of wireless sensor networks. The authors present in chapter 3 the measurement setup to record sequences of impulsive noise samples in the ISM band of interest. The setup can measure substation impulsive noise, in wide band, with enough samples per t

Overview: Fast-track conference proceedings.State-of-the-art research.Up-to-date resultsThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Processing, ICIP 2012, held in Bangalore, India, in August 2012. The 75 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 380 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on wireless networks; image processing; pattern recognition and classification; computer architecture and distributed computing; software engineering, information technology and optimization techniques; data

Overview: Offers approaches to efficiently manage and wisely use wetlands to promote their sustainable development..Discusses both academic and practical aspects.Presents the highlights of the 10th INTECOL Inte.This volume explores major wetland ecosystem services, such as climate cooling and water quality improvement, and discusses the recent wetland conservation and restoration activities in China and neighboring countries. The role of wetlands in either cooling or warming the climate is analyzed as the net balance between carbon sequestration and emissions of methane and nitrous oxide. Wetl

Overview: Die Grundfragen unserer Gesellschaft neu diskutiert.Impulse aus Wissenschaft, Politik und Praxis.Denken in Alternativen: fundiert, diskursiv und meinungsstark! ?.Includes supplementary material: .Die Kritik am Projekt eines gemeinsamen Europas wächst. Die Krise des Euro fiel mit dem Aufstieg von eurokritischen und rechtspopulistischen Parteien zusammen. Statt europäischer Solidarität sprechen Beobachter in Zeiten der Krise von Renationalisierung. Wo sind die geografischen Grenzen Europas? Wie lässt sich das Demokratiedefizit der Europäischen Union überwinden? Wie kann Europa ökonomis

Overview: Einziges deutschsprachiges Lehrbuch zum Thema Wirkstoffentwicklung.Durchgehend vierfarbig, verständlich geschrieben und mit zahlreichen Computergrafiken anschaulich illustriert.Topaktuell, gegenüber d.Dieses für den deutschen Raum einzigartige Lehrbuch richtet sich an Studenten der Pharmazie, Chemie und Biowissenschaften, aber auch an Quereinsteiger in Forschungs- und Entwicklungsabteilungen der Pharmazeutischen Industrie. Die zweite Auflage ist komplett überarbeitet. Zahlreiche aktuelle Entwicklungen vor allem im methodischen Bereich sind zum Teil in neuen Kapiteln aufgegriffen, vie