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

Overview: Includes supplementary material: According to Ariel Meirav, the root of some of our most noteworthy difficulties in the metaphysics of concrete entities has been the traditional tendency to focus on the horizontal dimension of wholes (i.e. relations between the parts of a whole), and to neglect the vertical dimension (i.e. relations between the whole itself and its parts). In .Wholes, Sums and Unities., Meirav formulates a critique of widely accepted mereological assumptions, presents a new conception of wholes as `Unities‘, and demonstrates the advantages of this new conception in t

Overview: Mit einem Vorwort von Staatsministerin Dorothee Bär, MdB.Alles zum Recruitment in Zeiten des Fachkräftemangels.Verzahnt Theorie, Fallbeispiele und Handlungsempfehlungen.Mit vielen Best Practices zu eiTalente werden knapp auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. Der demographische Wandel und der wirtschaftliche Aufschwung haben die Zahl der auf dem Arbeitsmarkt verfügbaren Fachkräfte stagnieren lassen – und diese Entwicklung verschärft sich, wenn die Generation der geburtenstarken Jahrgänge ab 2020 in Rente geht. Dieses Buch zeigt, was das für Unternehmen bedeutet und erklärt, wie sie sich für den Kampf

Overview: Draws on archaeology, art history, literary criticism, and continental philosophy.Emphasises individual agency and subjectivity in the study of Roman labor.Offers frameworks for thinking comparatively.This book sheds new light on labor and laboring in the Roman world. It starts with the individual laborer and works up, emphasizing their agency in navigating, transforming, and transcending the systems and structures around them. Taking advantage of the broad applicability of notions of work and labor to human lives at every rung of Roman society, the volume also offers numerous overla

Overview: Wars and Peace is a history of the way that a range of Americans have tried to conceptualize peace during five national security crises: The Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Cold War. Award-winning author David Mayers examines the intellectual foundations of U.S. foreign policy since 1861 and analyzes the way that Americans, across the political spectrum, have in times of conflict conceptualized the era that would follow hostilities. Mayers looks at this history in terms of a current problem: How should the United States fashion its policy in the post-Cold

Overview: Responds to the intense concern for and interest in identifying and measuring what matters for happy, healthy children who grow to be compassionate, responsible adults.Although innumerable organizatio.Regardless of its validity, many adults share a belief that today’s youth face an inauspicious future. Drugs, sex, violence, disintegration of the nuclear family, technology that replaces interpersonal relationships—that’s what you hear in the news. The media, through its dramatization of the dangers and risks children confront and pose, have created a well-established image of disenfra

Overview: Diese Studie beleuchtet den historischen und ideengeschichtlichen Hintergrund der seiner Geistphilosophie zugehörigen Staats- und der von ihr untrennbaren Geschichtstheorie Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegels (1770-1831), um darauf dessen Konzept des Staates und der Staatenwelt ausgehend von seinen theoretischen Grundlagen darzustellen und zu diskutieren. Methodisch kommt innerhalb eines positionsbeziehenden, aber grundsätzlich beschreibenden Konzeptes eine Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaft, respektive Historiographie, Philosophie und Politologie verbindende Herangehensweise zur Anwendung,

Overview: Includes supplementary material: Web engineering is a new discipline that addresses the pressing need for syst- atic and tool-supported approaches for the development, maintenance and te- ing of Web applications. Web engineering builds upon well-known and succe- ful software engineering principles and practices, adapting them to the special characteristics of Web applications. Even more relevant is the enrichment with methods and techniques stemming from related areas like hypertext authoring, human-computer interaction, content management, and usability engineering. The goal of the

Overview: Handbook covers up-to-date research on various topics related to quality of work life.Enhances understanding to the various quality-of-work life programs that have been instituted by many organization.Employees have personal responsibilities as well as responsibilities to their employers. They also have rights. In order to maintain their well-being, employees need opportunities to resolve conflicting obligations. Employees are often torn between the ethical obligations to fulfill both their work and non-work roles, to respect and be respected by their employers and coworkers, to be r

Overview: Maria Tamboukou links Foucauldian ideas to feminism and education. Its central argument is that the Foucauldian notion of ‘technologies of the self‘ needs to be gendered and contextualized. This argument is pursued through a genealogical analysis of autobiographical texts of women educators in the UK at the turn of the nineteenth century. This is a new theoretical approach, since Foucault‘s work has proved to be of great interest to feminist scholars but as yet, his theories have only intermittently been used in educational feminist work.978-1-349-50759-7978-0-230-51394-5

Overview: This book surveys the development of laws surrounding the crime of money laundering and the associated changes in the anti-money laundering (AML) industry. The policy of attempting to deal with crime by attacking its financial products started in the arena of drugs, but quickly moved to organised crime, terrorism, corruption and tax. Now the focus has shifted once again to organised crime and to immigration. In the wake of the failure of the ‘war on drugs‘ a huge amount of money is now being spent on a global surveillance and reporting system, and we do not know whether the system wo

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Overview: Normen und Wertvorstellungen, nach denen Menschen ihre Entscheidungen ausrichten, spielen in der klassischen Betriebswirtschaftslehre und in der unternehmerischen Praxis kaum eine Rolle. Das ist problematisch für Unternehmen, die neue Kooperationen, z.B. mit Freelancern oder in Form von Netzwerken mit anderen Unternehmen, eingehen möchten. Denn es stellt sich die Frage, wem sie vertrauen können, und es kommen Wertvorstellungen ins Spiel...Bernhard Hirsch untersucht, unter welchen Bedingungen es für ein Unternehmen sinnvoll ist, Wertvorstellungen bei Entscheidungen zu berücksichtigen,

Overview: This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.First comprehensive review of all scientifically based applications of water-filtered Infrared-A irradiation.Aiming to enh.The aim of this open access book is to provide a unique, timely, critical and comprehensive compilation of more than 30 years of robust international experimental and clinical research related to the basic science and therapeutic application of water-filtered infrared-A (wIRA) and hyperthermia in oncology, psychiatry (depression), musculoskeletal disorders, dermatology, infectiology, an

Overview: Includes supplementary material: During the past decade, significant progress in molecular and cellular te- niques has greatly advanced our understanding of the wound healing p- cess. Many of these new techniques have been utilized in the context of more classic models of wound healing. The combination of new and classic approaches has allowed scientists to make exciting discoveries in the field of tissue repair, resulting in an explosion of information about the healing p- cess. Importantly, these new findings have great relevance beyond wound healing itself. The injury repair proce

Overview: Provides one of the first studies into the causes and effects of the dramatic result of the referendum on Britain‘s membership of the EU.Traces the history of Euroscepticism in Britain before analysin.This book studies the unprecedented decision of 23 June 2016, which saw the UK electorate vote to leave the EU, turning David Cameron’s referendum gamble into a great miscalculation. It analyzes the renegotiation that preceded the vote, before examining the campaign itself so as to understand why the government’s strategy for winning foundered. It then evaluates the implications that th

Overview: Sogar unsere Helden werden älter - wie das Kino mit dem Alter umgeht..30 Essays über ältere und alte Menschen im Film und wie Autoren und Regisseure damit umgehen.Von Klassikern bis zu aktuellen KinofGraue Haare, Falten, und die Figur ist auch nicht mehr, was sie einmal war. Findet Älterwerden auf der Leinwand überhaupt statt? Anhand von 29 Filmen werden in diesem Buch die unterschiedlichen Facetten des Alters und Älterwerdens erzählt. "Das Alter" gehört nicht gerade zu den vordringlichsten Themen, betrachtet man die Filmlandschaft von Hollywood-Blockbustern bis hin zum europäischen

Overview: Lebendige und verständliche Kurzbiografie Röntgens zusammen mit einigen seiner wichtigsten Arbeiten.Gibt einen vielfältigen Ausblick auf die Zukunft der Röntgenforschung.Enthält auch weniger bekannte .Es war eine der großen Sternstunden der Menschheit, als Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923) am 8. November 1895 eine neue Sorte von Strahlung entdeckte. Er selbst nannte sie bescheiden „X-Strahlen“. Sein Name und seine Strahlen wurden weltberühmt. Am 10. Dezember 1901 erhielt Röntgen für die Entdeckung und Erforschung der nach ihm benannten Röntgenstrahlen den ersten Nobelpreis für Physi

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Overview: The book studies the social issues related to the status of women in Saudi Arabia and the extent to which Saudi Arabian women actively participate in the development of their country. It also focuses on education and work outside the home as they affect the traditional role of the Saudi woman as wife, mother and homemaker. At the same time, those factors promote the participation of women in the development of Saudi Arabia. The book examines also the quality of Saudi women‘s lives in a traditional society and the meaning of their social reality. Intensive interviews were held with 10