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

Overview: Mary Cappello, Louise DeSalvo, Sandra M. Gilbert, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Carole Maso, Agnes Rossi. These are some of the best-known Italian American writers today. They are part of a literary tradition with mid-twentieth century roots that began to develop, in earnest, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. During those decades, a number of Italian American women, such as Helen Barolini, began to publish books that depicted their perspectives on life through the critical lenses of gender, class, and ethnicity. At the end of the twentieth century, this literature finally blossomed into a

Overview: Mit vielen Praxisbeispielen.Komplett überarbeitet und erweitert.Auf dem aktuellen Stand der akademischen Diskussion und praktischen Anwendung.Includes supplementary material: Anhand einer Vielzahl von Praxisbeispielen macht Klaus North in diesem Lehrbuch deutlich, wie Wissensmanagement in Organisationen erfolgreich gestaltet werden kann. Wissensorientierte Unternehmensführung stellt sicher, dass das für die Erreichung der strategischen und operativen Ziele notwendige Wissen und die Kompetenz zur Verfügung stehen, genutzt, entwickelt und abgesichert werden. Mit dem Modell der „Wissens

Overview: On September 4, 1971, the office of Lewis Fielding, a psychiatrist practicing in Los Angeles, was broken into. It looked like a run of the mill drug raid. A month later, a homeless man was charged with burglary and the case was considered closed. On June 17, 1972, five men were charged with breaking and entering at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. With these two burglaries, one seemingly innocuous while the other was more serious because of the venue, the scandal known as Watergate was born. As the tale of Richard Nixon

Overview: 10 besonderen Dank schuldet, soll dem Leser ein vertieftes Verständnis der Person des Verstorbenen und seines Werkes ermöglicht werden. So stellt Kurt Georg Kiesinger aus kongenialem Geiste und Vermögen die in Arnold Bergstraesser beispielhaft gewordene Verbindung von Wissenschaft und eigenem engagierten politischen Wollen dar. Aus der Sicht langjährigen gemeinsamen Schaffens eröffnet Victor Lange den Zugang zu der nur wenig bekannten wissen­ schaftlichen Tätigkeit Arnold Bergstraessers in den Vereinigten Staaten. Ernst Fraenkel schließlich zeichnet aus der Position teilnehmenden, ve

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.978-3-662-35789-7978-3-662-36619-6

Overview: Sozialwissenschaftliche Studie?.Includes supplementary material: Der Arbeitsmarkt und der Partnermarkt sind potenzielle Möglichkeiten für Alleinerziehende, Armut zu beenden. Tanja Kraus untersucht, welche dieser armutsvermeidenden Handlungsalternativen erfolgversprechender ist. Mit Hilfe von diskreten Ereignisdatenanalysen analysiert sie auf der Datengrundlage des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) die Ressourcen und Restriktionen von Alleinerziehenden auf den beiden Teilmärkten und wägt sie gegeneinander ab. Zentrales Ergebnis ist, dass sich die beiden Wege nicht ausschließen, sonder

Overview: Fast Track conference proceeding.Unique visibility.State of the art researchThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, W2GIS 2011, held in Kyoto, Japan, in March 2011. A total of 13 full and 3 short papers plus 2 short keynote papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics including geographic information retrieval on the web, geo-spatial semantic and sensor web, location-based services, advanced GIS visualization techniques

Overview: Presents a panoramic scenario for China’s modernization drive to 2050.Includes water resource S&T roadmaps for relevant basic and strategic systems in China.Provides comprehensive consultations for th.As one of the eighteen field-specific reports comprising the comprehensive scope of the strategic general report of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, this sub-report addresses long-range planning for developing science and technology in the field of  water science. They each craft a roadmap for their sphere of development to 2050. In their entirety, the general and sub-group reports anal

Overview: Topaktuell und umfassend in der Darstellung.Ein unentbehrlicher Arbeitsbehelf für jede gründliche Auseinandersetzung mit dem neuen Gesetz.Praxisnahe Kommentierung.Das Wertpapieraufsichtsgesetz 2007 ist eines von mehreren Gesetzen, durch welche die EU-Richtlinie über Märkte für Finanzinstrumente umgesetzt wird. Ziel der MiFID ist es, mit dieser Novelle auf europäischer Ebene eine Harmonisierung der Rechtsordnungen zu erreichen, um Anlegern ein hohes Schutzniveau zu gewährleisten. Darüberhinaus soll Wertpapierfirmen die Erbringung von grenzüberschreitenden Finanzdienstleistungen erleic

Overview: Meteorology is by nature a multidisciplinary and transnational subject and COST cooperation has proved to be a flexible and suitable framework at European level for meteorological activities such as the standardisation of observation techniques and harmonised transmission of meteorological data. Although meteorology is not covered by a specific Community programme as such, various Community actions dealing with meteorology are now included in the EEC research programme on climatology (the "EPOCH" programme - 1989-92) of mechanisms of extreme and sudden concerning particularly the stu

Overview: A bold work of synthetic scholarship, .Writing Australian Unsettlement. argues that the history of Australian literature contains the rough beginnings of a new literacy. Michael Farrell reads songs, letters and visual poems by Indigenous farmers and stockmen, the unpunctuated journals of early settler women, drover tree-messages and carved clubs, and a meta-commentary on settlement from Moore River (the place escaped from in The Rabbit-Proof Fence) in order to rethink old forms. The book borrows the figure of the assemblage to suggest the active and revisable nature of Australian wri

Overview: Fast-track conference proceedings.State-of-the-art research.Up-to-date resultsThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th IFIP TC 6 International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications, WWIC 2011, held in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain, in June 2011. The 26 contributions included were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. In addition the book contains 15 invited papers. The contributions are structured in topical sections on mobility and LTE networks; performance and simulation analysis; adaptive approaches to guarantee E2E network services; energy effi

Overview: This book gives a comprehensive, theoretical account of the wave-wave interaction process responsible for high acoustic noise levels, including: a geometric description of the interaction mechanism, which provides the basis for a full-wave analysis of the source process, the inclusion of both the monogeneous and inhomogeneous components of the wave-induced pressure field in the analytical description of the source, an examination of the relative contributions of the sum and difference-frequency components of the wave interaction process, the removal of the deep-water assumption of ea

Overview: 978-3-662-00221-6978-3-662-00220-9

Overview: This book is an alternative account of special education from the cross-generational perspective of 15 mothers whose children labelled learning dis/abled (LD) attended public schools during the last four decades.978-0-230-61973-9Series ISSN 2946-241X Series E-ISSN 2946-2428

Overview: Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within the context of the home. This book studies the role, contributions and challenges faced by women healers in France, Spain, Italy and England, including medical practice among women in the Jewish and Muslim communities, from the later Middle Ages to approximately 1800.978-1-349-32869-7978-0-230-29517-9

Overview: Wages are a vital economic variable in their influence on employment and unemployment and as the main source of personal income, affecting both living standards and labour incentives. Wage determination is studied here in an international perspective, using a common theoretical framework and statistical method through the individual country chapters to reveal similarities and differences between Japan, South Korea, the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany and France.978-1-349-26281-6

Overview: This books describes the theory, application, and software of weighted gene co-expression network analysis.Serves as an introductory and comprehensive text on gene co-expression network methodology.ThHigh-throughput measurements of gene expression and genetic marker data facilitate systems biologic and systems genetic data analysis strategies. Gene co-expression networks have been used to study a variety of biological systems, bridging the gap from individual genes to biologically or clinically important emergent phenotypes.978-1-4939-0022-0978-1-4419-8819-5

Overview: Bietet breiten Überblick über "wicked problems" in der PR und Organsiationskommunikation.Analysen auf Mikro-, Meso-, Makro- und Querschnittsebene.Beiträge präsentieren verschiedene Perspektiven auf diPR und Organisationskommunikation müssen zunehmend .wicked problems., also verzwickte Probleme, lösen. Ob Digitalisierung, Künstliche Intelligenz oder andere aktuelle Entwicklungen, sie stellen die PR und Organisationskommunikation vor knifflige oder verzwickte Probleme: Für diese kann es keine einfachen Lösungen geben, weil sie sich dynamisch entwickeln und nicht zentral geregelt werden

Overview: The formative ideas for this symposium originated in 1978 at the IAU Symposium No. 83 on "Mass Loss and Evolution of O-type Stars" held at Qualicum Beach, Vancouver Island, Canada - WR stars generally figure prominently in O-star meetings and vice versa! Following general appro­ val by the IAU Executive Committee the initial ideas were cemented at a subsequent meeting, IAU Colloquium No. 59 on "The Effects of Mass Loss on Stellar Evolution", held at Miramare, Trieste, Italy in 1980, which was attended by the ma,jority of the present Scientific Organising Committee and at which meetin