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

Overview: Makes a significant contribution to a neglected but crucial issue.Fills a lacuna in the literature by providing a comparative approach on women’s homelessness.Provides students, teachers, academics, pThis book marks a critical contribution in assessing and extending the evidence base on the causes and consequences of women’s homelessness. Drawing together work from Europe’s leading homelessness scholars, it presents a multidisciplinary and comparative analysis of this acute social problem, including its relationship with domestic violence, lone parenthood, motherhood, health and well

Overview: Uses new research to recognise and celebrate the roles of six important British women activists who made a substantial contribution to the development of women‘s education . Employs innovative methodo.Women and Education, 1800-1980. examines and celebrates the lives, aims, and achievements of six British women educational activists within nineteenth- and twentieth-century history: Elizabeth Hamilton, Sarah Austin, Jane Chessar, Mary Dendy, Shena Simon and Margaret Cole..Employing a biographical approach, Jane Martin and Joyce Goodman adopt existing feminist and historical models to e

Overview: If you’re the kind of reader who usually skips the Preface (I am), you can certainly do that. It’s probably valuable, though, for me to spend a little time describing the structure of this book to orient you to the way the argument unfolds. My intention was to try to find the best possible blend of theory and practice. I believe there are plenty of excellent books describing the theoretical underpinnings of qualitative research in education (Denzin & Lincoln, 1994, 2000; Eisner, 1998; Guba & Lincoln, 1989; Lincoln & Guba, 1985). A number of those books are cited here, and their argum

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Overview: Collection of original and influential papers by Walter Gautschi on a wide range of relevant topics and techniques.Includes historical essays on Euler and Christoffel, as well as biographical essays o.Walter Gautschi has written extensively on topics ranging from special functions, quadrature and orthogonal polynomials to difference and differential equations, software implementations, and the history of mathematics. He is world renowned for his pioneering work in numerical analysis and constructive orthogonal polynomials, including a definitive textbook in the former, and a monograp

Overview: 978-3-663-18760-8978-3-663-19007-3

Overview: This is the first monographical account on wind-wave coupling that extends current models to a non-uniform ocean..At the same time the book represents a synthesis of "western" and "eastern" theoreticaThe study of sea waves has always been in the focus of mankind‘s atten­ tion. This is attributed not only to a desire to understand the behaviour in seas and oceans, but also, it has some practical necessity. Developing up-to­ date wind wave numerical methods requires detailed mathematical modelling, starting with wave generation, development, propagation and transformation on the surfac

Overview: 978-1-4757-8394-0978-0-306-46986-2Series ISSN 0893-3405

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Overview: 978-3-663-04149-8978-3-663-05595-2

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Overview: Features first-person narratives from women currently holding leadership positions in psychiatry.Includes comprehensive and specific advice about successfully pursuing a career in academic psychiatry..This text comprises of sixteen first-person narratives from some of the most influential women in psychiatry about why they went into the field, what they attribute to success, and how they overcame their challenges. The second part of this text analyzes the themes brought to light in the narrative and discusses strategies for success.  Though several of the chapters target issues that

Overview: In The Woman‘s Place is in the Boardroom the authors put the business case for more women on company boards. In the next book they explained how to achieve it. Here the authors discuss the role women directors can play in the reform of corporate governance systems following recent financial, crises in leadership, governance and the economy.978-1-349-32256-5978-0-230-30688-2

Overview: A cutting edge look at the experience of worker representation in the employment relations of workplace health and safety. Examining the extent to which existing arrangements deliver results, this book reflects on whether the effectiveness of worker representation is eroded or enhanced by current regulatory and organizational constructs.978-1-349-30338-0978-0-230-25052-9

Overview: Das erste umfassende Handbuch zu W.G. Sebald.Mit internationalen Beiträgerinnen und BeiträgernTrotz seines schmalen Œuvres wurde kein deutschsprachiger Autor der Gegenwartsliteratur international so intensiv und kontrovers diskutiert wie W.G. Sebald, der fünfzehn Jahre nach seinem Tod bereits zum kanonischen Autor geworden ist. Die Beiträge namhafter Sebald-Forscher erschließen in diesem Handbuch die verschiedenen Facetten und Ebenen des gesamten literarischen und essayistischen Werks. Sebalds Themen (Trauma und Erinnerung, die Naturgeschichte der Zerstörung, Holocaust, Heimat) werde

Overview: In einer sich herauskristallisierenden Wissensgesellschaft gewinnt die Wissensarbeit zunehmend an Bedeutung. Um das Wissen des Einzelnen gemeinsam und gezielt nutzen zu können, muss es vernetzt sein. ..Im vorliegenden Band werden die strukturellen Eigenarten von Wissensnetzwerken aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven durchleuchtet. Die Palette reicht dabei von konzeptionellen Beiträgen bis zu Fallstudien. Thematisch decken die Autoren ein breites Spektrum ab - beginnend mit der Rolle von Wissensnetzwerken vor dem Hintergrund gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen über die Vernetzung von Wisse

Overview: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Studie.Includes supplementary material: Frank Wernitz entwickelt auf der Grundlage des Stakeholderansatzes ein holistisches Marketingkonzept, das die Berücksichtigung und Priorisierung der Stakeholderansprüche in einem konsistenten Managementansatz vereinigt. Am Beispiel der Ressortforschung zeigt der Autor, wie Wissenschaftsmarketing in einem wenig marketingaffinen Kontext zur Erhöhung der Effektivität und Effizienz beiträgt und welche Voraussetzungen dafür erfüllt werden müssen. Die theoretischen Grundlagen des Wissenschaftsmarketing als Konzeption des

Overview: Leading scholars in the field offer new ways of looking at Wittgenstein‘s papers as well as clear, comprehensive and original philosophical interpretations of them. The volume includes two texts by Wittgenstein previously unpublished in English.978-0-230-27494-5Series ISSN 2634-5994 Series E-ISSN 2634-6001

Overview: 978-3-663-01068-5978-3-663-02981-6

Overview: The tenth volume of Water-in-Plants Bibl iography includes papers in al I fields of plant water relations research which appeared during the year 1984 - from theoreti­ cal considerations about the state of water in cel Is and its membrane transport to drought resistance of plants or physiological significance of irrigation. In addition to papers devoted entirely to plant water relations, papers on other topics are in­ cluded if they contain data on plant hydration level, water vapour efflux, rate of water uptake or water transport, etc., or if they contain valuable methodological in­