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

Overview: Provides female and non-binary perspectives on pragmatism.Presents state-of-the art research in the field.Offers insights into the future of pragmatism and feminismThis book offers a selection of the papers of the Women in Pragmatism International Conference held at the University of Barcelona in January 2020. The conference gathered women and non-binary scholars from twelve different countries. This was the first pragmatist conference organized entirely by women and non-binary persons. It has initiated a stable network of mentoring and support analogous to other women philosophers’

Overview: 978-3-540-11488-8978-3-540-39171-5Series ISSN 0075-8434 Series E-ISSN 1617-9692

Overview: This book deals with the development of private secondary schooling during the Second World War in Belgium. It focuses on how the German occupier used education to gain acceptance of the regime, and discusses the attitudes of Belgian education authorities, schools, teachers and pupils towards the German occupation. Suggesting that the occupation forced Belgian education authorities, such as the Roman Catholic Church, to take certain positions, the book explores the wartime experiences and memories of pupils and teachers. It explains that the German Culture Department was relatively w

Overview: Deckt den examensrelevanten Pflichtfachstoff im materiellen Strafrecht ab.Ausformulierte Falllösung.Klassische und aktuelle Rechtsprechung.Includes supplementary material: Der Band zu den Nichtvermögensdelikten enthält sieben „große Fälle“, die aktuellen und klassischen Entscheidungen der höchstrichterlichen Rechtsprechung nachgebildet sind und den Anforderungen im Ersten Juristischen Staatsexamen entsprechen. Auf diese Weise wird sowohl das prüfungsrelevante Wissen im strafrechtlichen Pflichtfachbereich als auch die Falllösung wiederholt und vertieft. Besonderes Augenmerk wird auf k

Overview: This book examines the achievements of William Carlos Williams in the context of the transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thorgau and Walt Whitman. The author develops a narrative of sensibilities to enrich the understanding of transcendentalism.978-1-349-12118-2978-1-349-12116-8

Overview: Eine aktuelle Studie aus dem Bereich Psychologie.Includes supplementary material: Fabian Kirsch geht im Rahmen von zwei experimentellen Studien der Frage nach, wie sich das Tragen roter Kleidung und Kleidung in der persönlichen Präferenzfarbe des Betrachters/der Betrachterin auf die Wahrnehmung verschiedener Personenaspekte, insbesondere auf die physische Attraktivität, auswirkt. Weiterhin gibt der Autor einen Überblick über die aktuelle Attraktivitäts- sowie farbpsychologische Forschung und diskutiert methodische Besonderheiten im Schnittpunkt dieser beiden Forschungszweige. Für die

Overview: Includes supplementary material: In the last years, research on Web mining has reached maturity and has broadened in scope. Two different but interrelated research threads have emerged, based on the dual nature of the Web: – The Web is a practically in?nite collection of documents: The acquisition and - ploitation of information from these documents asks for intelligent techniques for information categorization, extraction and search, as well as for adaptivity to the interests and background of the organization or person that looks for information. – The Web is a venue for doing busi

Overview: Describes the geology of a unique metallogenic province with different deposits that will be very important for the Russian economy in the future, of interest to companies and researchers.Includes new.This book describes for the first time the complexity of the Northeastern Transbaikalia province of Russia. This province is one of the largest Early Proterozoic metallogenic provinces on Earth. It comprises three extra large deposits: Cu-sandstones Udokan, Fe-Ti-V and Cu-PGE Chiney, and REE Katugin. This book is a research study and includes geological, mineralogical, and geochemical d

Overview: Proceedings of the World Congress 2009 for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering.Over 3000 scientists from all over the world discuss recent challenges in Biomedical Engineering and Medical PhysiPresent Your Research to the World! The World Congress 2009 on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering – the triennial scientific meeting of the IUPESM - is the world’s leading forum for presenting the results of current scientific work in health-related physics and technologies to an international audience. With more than 2,800 presentations it will be the biggest conference in the f

Overview: The Advanced Research Workshop entitled “Weakly Interacting Molecular Pairs: Unconventional Absorbers of Radiation in the At- sphere” was held in Abbaye de Fontevraud, France, from April 29 to May 3, 2002. The meeting involved 40 researchers from 14 countries. The goal of this meeting was to address a problem that the scienti?c community is aware of for many years. Up now, however, the so- tion for this problem is far from satisfactory. Pair e?ects are called unconventional in the title of this meeting. In speci?c spectral domains and/or geophysical conditions they are recognized to

Overview: Basierend auf aktuellen Forschungsarbeiten zur Struktur menschlicher Wertesysteme wurde die Wertesystem-Segmentierung als innovativer Ansatz zur Marktsegmentierung in die internationale Marketingforschung eingebracht. Dabei werden die komplexen Beziehungen zwischen den im Wertesystem eines Konsumenten organisierten einzelnen Werten explizit berücksichtigt.Im Rahmen einer empirischen Untersuchung im Automobilbereich zeigt Hansjörg Gaus, dass Systeme abstrakter Werte das Kaufverhalten beeinflussen und sich vor allem über intermediäre kognitive Konstrukte wie bereichsspezifische Werte,

Overview: The first open access book to take the next step in a line of research on the limitations of human capacities in the context of society.Provides insights that will inspire policy makers to take on a m.This open access book sets out to explain the reasons for the gap between “knowing” and “doing” in view of self-reliance, which is more and more often expected of citizens. In today’s society, people are expected to take responsibility for their own lives and be self-reliant. This is no easy feat. They must be on constant high alert in areas of life such as health, work and personal fin

Overview: Provides a summary of all that is known about alcohol and people’s motivation for drinking it.Presents up-to-date information regarding the relevant science in accessible language.Focuses on the lates.This book presents up-to-date scientific information about alcohol based on Cox and Klinger’s motivational model, which has been described as, “the most widely known and influential motivational model of alcohol use” (Cooper et al., 2016, p. 5).  The book, however, was written to be understandable to a broad sector of the population, allowing for an interdisciplinary readership. Those w

Overview: First book on the widespread phenomenon of the mask in pop music, with examples such as Sido or Slipknot.With illustrative examples of pop music theory (seriality, new aesthetic categories).AuthenticiPop stars are close to us. In their songs, their pictures, their stories on Instagram. What we are looking for is an authentic impression. Real feelings on real faces. But what happens when they cover their face with a mask? Permanently, as a second face. The phenomenon can be found in the mainstream as well as in the underground. The mask does not break with the ideal of authenticity. R

Overview: Einziges aktuelles Lehrbuch der Waldökologie mit Fokus auf Mitteleuropa..Enthält zahlreiche Beispiele aus der Ökosystemforschung und aus praxisnahen forstlichen Untersuchungen..Durch umfassende Berück.Dieses Lehrbuch gibt einen Überblick über das komplexe, in zahlreiche Fachdisziplinen aufgesplitterte Gebiet der Ökologie. Im Fokus steht dabei die Ökologie der Baumarten und der Wälder in Mitteleuropa, einem vegetationsgeografisch eigenständigen Naturraum, der sich von der Ostsee bis zu den Südalpen und von Ostfrankreich bis nach Polen und in die Slowakei erstreckt. Die Ausführungen zu

Overview: Multidisciplinary and multi-institutional orientation with regional focus on Mexico.Includes supplementary material: .Water resources in Mexico are threatened by scarcity, pollution and climate change. In two decades water consumption doubled, producing water stress in dry seasons and semi-arid and arid regions. Water stress rises due to physical and economic stress. In seven parts a multidisciplinary team analyzes hydrological processes in basins and their interaction with climate, soil and biota. Competing water use in agriculture, industry and domestic needs require savings, decon

Overview: Presents the proceedings of the IUPESM World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering in Prague, 2018.This book (vol. 3) presents the proceedings of the IUPESM World Congress on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics, a triennially organized joint meeting of medical physicists, biomedical engineers and adjoining health care professionals. Besides the purely scientific and technological topics, the 2018 Congress will also focus on other aspects of professional involvement in health care, such as education and training, accreditation and certification, health technolo

Overview: The development of the material in this volume began with a realization by the staff at The Cambridge-Somerville Mental Health and Retardation Center (in the Massachusetts cities of Cambridge and Somerville) that an increasing num­ ber of people were entering the mental health system with problems related to the very nature of their personalities. A significant number of these people presented issues that had not been identified previously within the spectrum of psychiatric treatment. Such issues as marital discord in­ volving impulsive and violent behavior toward spouses or children

Overview: Innen und Philosoph..Innen ebenso wie für an Grundfragen„Wert“ ist ein Grundbegriff, der im Alltag sowie in einer ganzen Reihe von Fachwissenschaften meist mit aller Selbstverständlichkeit benutzt wird: in der Moralphilosophie, der Ökonomie, der Politologie, der Soziologie, der Ethnologie und der Kulturanthropologie. Doch er ist und bleibt – wie schon Max Weber festgestellt hat – ein „Schmerzenskind“ der Kulturwissenschaften.  Dieser Essay informiert über einige Kontroversen über den Wertbegriff sowie einige begehbare Pfade in der Sumpflandschaft des Wertdiskurses. Der Text steht in

Overview: In vielen Branchen zählen Weiterempfehlungen zufriedener Kunden zu den wichtigsten Instrumenten der Akquisition von Neukunden. Dennoch liegen keine Modelle vor, die Unternehmen dabei helfen, Investitionen in die Stimulierung von Weiterempfehlungen zu rechtfertigen...Florian von Wangenheim analysiert die ökonomische Bedeutung der Weiterempfehlung aus Unternehmenssicht. Er entwickelt einen Ansatz zur Vorhersage des Weiterempfehlungsverhaltens gebundener Kunden und untersucht, welche Faktoren Abgabe und Wirkung von Weiterempfehlungen beeinflussen. Anhand der Ergebnisse zweier Studien ze