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

Overview: Die Beiträge des Buches versuchen aus interdisziplinärer Sicht die Hintergründe der Attentate vom 11. September zu beleuchten, die radikalen Gruppen innerhalb des Islam zu differenzieren und die religiösen, politischen, sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Bedingungen des Vorderen Orients wie die Auswirkungen der Attentate zu beschreiben. Dabei zeigt sich, dass der 11. September nur der vorläufige Höhepunkt einer langen Entwicklung ist, die die westliche Welt von der östlichen Welt entfremdet hat und wie lange schon Afghanistan Spielball unterschiedlicher Interessen ist.978-3-8100-3418-2978

Overview: Provides a personal view of the life of the Nobel Price laureat Walter Kohn.Includes supplementary material: .This is not a science book, nor even a book about science, although most of the contributors are scientists. It is a book of personal stories about Walter Kohn, a theoretical physicist and winner of half of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Walter Kohn originated and/or refined a number of very important theoretical approaches and concepts in solid-state physics. He is known in particular for Density-Functional Theory. This book represents a kind of "oral history" about him,

Overview: Explores water service provisions of urban poor in the cities of Africa.Discusses urban water management and the “production of thirst” among the urban poor.Focus on water access and service provision.This book explores water service provisions of the urban poor in the cities of Africa with particular emphasis on Kenya and its capital city of Nairobi. In particular the book addresses the insecurity of tenure, and how the colonial segregation of land continues to shape water access and service provision even today in Nairobi. The book seeks to understand how urban water management ent

Overview: Präsentiert unterschiedliche Perspektiven aus verschiedenen Fachdisziplinen.Bietet historische und länderübergreifende Vergleiche.Umfassender Überblick und kontextuelle EinordnungIn diesem Sammelband werden die Wahlwerbespots zur Bundestagswahl 2017 in Deutschland erstmalig aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven verschiedener Fachdisziplinen wie der Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, der Politikwissenschaft sowie der Pädagogik ausführlich analysiert. Dabei werden die Themen, Personen, Dimensionen des Politischen, Darstellungsformen, Erzähl- und Inszenierungsstrategien, normative Asp

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Overview: Covers the widespread problem of windup in stable, unstable, SISO and MIMO systems.Gives the reader a systematic coverage which is also capable of dealing with other issues such as directionality in M.Actuator saturation is probably the most frequent nonlinearity encountered in control applications and causes "controller" windup and "plant" windup calling for distinct remedies...Peter Hippe presents antiwindup solutions for stable and unstable single-input-single-output and multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The solutions use only standard tools for the investigation of l

Overview: Serves as a primer on health insurance.Offers an integrated perspective on health insurance.Provides a policy-oriented approach to health insurance.Proposes specific policies to improve health insuran.This informative volume synthesizes the literatures on health economics, risk management, and health services into a concise guide to the financial and social basics of health insurance with an eye to its wide-scale upgrade. Its scope takes in concepts of health capital, strengths and limitations of insurance models, the effectiveness of coverage and services, and the roles of healthcar

Overview: Provides an in-depth analysis of the phenomenon of migration and identity.Uncovers the history and lived experience of Indian migrants in parts of northern Italy.Explores the topic of generational chaThis book examines the migration of Indians (mainly from the Punjab region in north India) to parts of northern Italy, especially the Emilia-Romagna region. It analyzes the mobility patterns of migrants who occupy a niche in the labour market and unpacks the forward and backward linkages that migrants imagine, experience, and endure, not only in the context of the materiality of liveliho

Overview: An analysis of a scandal involving a doctor accused of allowing a number of women to develop cervical cancer from carcinoma in situ as part of an experiment he had been conducting since the 1960s into conservative treatment of the disease, to more broadly explore dramatic changes in medical history in the second half of the twentieth century..978-1-349-58915-9978-0-230-25110-6Series ISSN 2946-9643 Series E-ISSN 2946-9651

Overview: Up-to-date results.Fast-track conference proceedings.State-of-the-art research.This book contains the carefully selected and reviewed papers presented at three satellite events that were held in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2010, in Hong Kong, China, in December 2010. .The collection comprises a total of 40 contributions that originate from the First International Symposium on Web Intelligent Systems and Services (WISS 2010), from the First International Workshop on Cloud Information Systems Engineering (CISE 2010) an

Overview: Serves as a good reference source for practicing engineers and university students in the wastewater engineering.Provides operational and maintenance guidelines biological wastewater treatment reactorThis textbook offers a complete comprehensive coverage of wastewater engineering from pollutant classification, design of collection systems and treatment systems including operational guidelines for the treatment plants. Apart from the primary and conventional secondary wastewater treatment, this book covers the details and design of advanced biological treatment systems such as sequenc

Overview: Offers a historical overview of water policy, and an assessment of the current policy atmosphere.Expert contributors explore water supply and demand, and explain the entire spectrum of relevant issues.This book deals with water policy in Israel. It offers a detailed examination of the main sources of Israel’s water, its principle consumers, the gap between supply and demand, and the complex, contentious work of analyzing and devising the nation’s water management and use policies. .Water Policy in Israel is arranged in five broad sections: The dynamics of moving from one policy era t

Overview: Steigende Kommunikationsflut, wachsende Kommunikationskonkurrenz und nachlassendes Informationsinteresse der Konsumenten bewirken eine zunehmende Zersplitterung der Kommunikationswirkungen. Die Folge ist Rückgang der Werbeeffizienz. Die integrierte Kommunikation gilt als strategischer Schlüsselfaktor, um dieser Entwicklung entgegenzuwirken. Durch eine formale und inhaltliche Abstimmung der Kommunikation für Marken und Unternehmen sollen die bei den Konsumenten erzeugten Eindrücke für ein Angebot vereinheitlicht und verstärkt werden...Franz-Rudolf Esch entwickelt ein verhaltenswissens

Overview: Includes supplementary material: After some time of early experience Web Services are moving themselves from a new highly fragmented technology to a piece of nowadays infrastructures which promise to address various current challenges. These include especially classical issues of integration and data in a heterogeneous environment. The Web Service technology provides an open and technology-agnostic interface, and furthermore propels new usage paradigms in distributed computing infrastructures like Grid Services. Successful adoption of Web Service technology relies on the de?nition of

Overview: 978-3-540-34025-6978-3-540-34026-3Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: This book explores the development of familial discourse within a chronological frame, commencing with the More family and concluding with the Cavendish group. It explores the way in which the support of family groups enabled women to participate in literary production, whilst closeting them within a form of writing that encompassed style or theme.978-1-349-54085-3978-0-230-59294-0Series ISSN 2634-5919 Series E-ISSN 2634-5927

Overview: Provides the latest research on women as leaders.Provides a framework for viewing the common constraints of women in leadership roles.Reviews the special benefits of women as leaders.Covers a wide ran. .This empowering volume presents current empirical findings and rich personal insights into the evolving challenges women face in attaining—and thriving in—leadership positions. Contributors add new voices to emerging and familiar topics, including leadership styles and traits, growth and learning experiences within career paths, mentoring and entrepreneurial aspects of leadership, and

Overview: Welche Rolle Wissensressourcen bei Standortverlagerungen spielen solltenWie wirken sich Standortentscheidungen auf die Wissens- und Innovationspotenziale von Unternehmen, Regionen bzw. Gesellschaften aus? Diese Frage wird bisher völlig vernachlässigt. Dieses Buch betrachtet erstmalig das Phänomen internationaler Verlagerungen im Kontext der heutigen Informations- und Wissensgesellschaft und der damit verbundenen Abhängigkeit von Bildung und Kompetenz. Die Autoren vermitteln dem Leser anhand vielschichtiger ökonomischer und soziologischer Facetten die Grundlagen, Risiken und Potenzial

Overview: Fast-track-conference proceedings.Unique visibility.State-of-the-art researchThe 2010 International Conference on Web Information Systems and Mining (WISM 2010) was held October 23–24, 2010 in Sanya, China. WISM 2010 received 603 submissions from 20 countries and regions. After rigorous reviews, 54 hi- quality papers were selected for publication in the WISM 2010 proceedings. The acceptance rate was 9%. The aim of WISM 2010 was to bring together researchers working in many different areas of Web information systems and Web mining to foster the exchange of new ideas and promote intern