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

Overview: With the U.S. war in Afghanistan in its twelfth year, axioms regarding the American national will in war not being able to tolerate anything other than quick and costless adventures have been found useless in understanding why the U.S. continues to persist in that endeavor. This book answers complex questions about modern US intervention abroad.978-1-349-49073-8978-1-137-41014-6

Overview: Aktueller Überblick der Standardeingriffe an der Wirbelsäule aus orthopädischer und unfallchirurgischer Sicht978-3-642-63330-0978-3-642-57707-9

Overview: Zweifacher Blickwinkel (aus Theorie und Praxis) auf aktuelle Themen in der Wirtschaftsförderung.Schwerpunkte wurden durch Befragungen bei Wirtschaftsförderer ermittelt.Spricht gezielt Wirtschaftsförde.Der Sammelband behandelt zentrale Herausforderungen der Wirtschaftsförderung im Umgang mit Krisen und Katastrophen. Hierbei stehen nicht nur verschiedene Krisen und deren Auswirkungen im Fokus, sondern es werden auch die Krisenprävention, das Krisenmanagement bzw. die Krisenrehabilitation betrachtet. Einleitend werden zwei große empirische Übersichtsstudien zur Lage der Wirtschaftsförde

Overview: In this highly acclaimed study, Billie Melman recovers the unwritten history of the European experience of the Middle-East during the colonial era. She focuses on the evolution of Orientalism and the reconstruction - through contact with other cultures - of gender and class.Beginning with the eighteenth century Billie Melman describes the many ways in which women looked at oriental people and places and developed a discourse which presented a challenge to hegemonic notions on the exotic and ‘different‘. Through her examination of the writings of famous feminist writers, travellers, e

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Overview: Includes supplementary material: .The two-volume set LNCS 10569 and LNCS 10570 constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2017, held in Puschino, Russia, in October 2017...The 49 full papers and 24 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 195 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics such as microblog data analysis, social network data analysis, data mining, pattern mining, event detection, cloud computing, query processing, spatial and temporal data, graph theory, crowdsourcing and

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.978-3-662-05497-0

Overview: 978-3-409-14060-7978-3-322-86410-9

Overview: Advances a new interpretation of William Morris’s utopianism through an analysis of his political writings.Examines the relationship between Morris’s utopianism and first-wave feminism, pastoralism, rThis book offers a new interpretation of William Morris’s utopianism as a strategic extension of his political writing. Morris’s utopian writing, alongside his journalism and public lectures, constituted part of a sustained counter-hegemonic project that intervened both into the life-world of the fin de siècle socialist movement, as well as the dominant literary cultures of his day. Owen

Overview: Incorporates history on two popular topics: the American Civil War and Abraham Lincoln.Emphasizes the reality of Whitman’s economic situation as a “working-class” writer in contrast to his contemporar.Walt Whitman: A Literary Life. highlights two major influences on Whitman’s poetry and life: the American Civil War and his economic condition. Linda Wagner-Martin performs a close reading of many of Whitman’s poems, particularly his Civil War work (in .Drum-Taps.) and those poems written during the last twenty years of his life. Wagner-Martin’s study also emphasizes the near-poverty th

Overview: Provides insight into women’s contributions to the field of infrastructure and what the issues are with respect to improving the grades across the infrastructure categories as enumerated in the ASCE R.Thestatus of America’s infrastructure is graded every four years by the AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and reports are provided on the variouscategories. In this book, prominent women engineers discuss many of the eighteen infrastructure categoriesfrom the 2021 ASCE Infrastructure Report Card providing background, analysisof the issues facing the category and projections for

Overview: Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in ScopeWhy do some westerners seem to have a better relationship with Indigenous people than others? Using a narrative research methodology, the author explores978-94-6209-680-6

Overview: Discusses the acquisition of program behavior data to be visualized.Demonstrates the integration of multiple 2D and 3D dynamic views within a 3D scene.Presents the network messaging capabilities to shWriting Virtual Environments for Software Visualization book describes the software for a networked, 3D multi-user virtual environment that allows users to create and share remotely visualizations of program behavior. Collaborative virtual environments such as World of Warcraft or Second Life are a popular way to share interactive internet experiences, but they are complex and difficult

Overview: 978-3-7908-0391-4978-3-642-46897-1Series ISSN 1431-2034

Overview: Large areas of crops are now grown under water-stressedconditions on non-irrigated and and under limited irrigation insemi-arid and arid regions. In the future, this area of water-stressedcrops will increase as a result of increasing competition from otherwater users, declining ground water levels, and the bringing intoproduction of fragile lands that have low water-holding capacity, suchas sandy desert soils. Consequently, strategies and practices toincrease total yields and efficient water use must be improved. Afterthe introductory material and keynotes, the book is divided into f

Overview: Wissensmanagement und Wissensarbeit avancieren am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts zu den zentralen Produktionsfaktoren der Wertschöpfung. Wissen ist nicht nur die wichtigste Ressource, sondern auch das zentrale Produkt vieler Unternehmen. Mehr und mehr Unternehmen versuchen aus diesem Grund, ihren wertvollsten Besitz professionell zu organisieren, so wie sie dies mit ihren Finanzen oder ihrem Personal tun. Oliver Vopel analysiert die Einflußgrößen dieser Kernkompetenz moderner Organisationen. Am Beispiel des Investment Banking wird gezeigt, welche Chancen und Risiken damit verbunden sind -

Overview: Increasingly, teams are working together when they are not in the same location, even though there are many challenges to doing so successfully. Here we review the latest insights into these matters, guided by a framework that we have developed during two decades of research on this topic. This framework organizes a series of factors that we have found to differentiate between successful and unsuccessful distributed collaborations. We then review the kinds of technology options that are available today, focusing more on types of technologies rather than specific instances. We describ

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Overview: 978-3-663-19551-1978-3-663-19573-3