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

Overview: Includes cross-country analysis.Highlights the importance of housing in wealth accumulation.Charts changing homeownership trends over the last few decades.Examines whether the recent recession has had.In almost every country, wealth is predominantly constituted by housing equity, but what are the possible risks and how does wealth accumulation vary across countries? In this timely book, Rossi and Sierminska analyse the complex relationship between gender, wealth and homeownership. By providing a conceptual framework to insert homeownership and housing decisions within an economic rat

Overview: This is not a textbook nor an encyclopedia; rather, it is a collection of papers representing a variety of points of view on contemporary is­ sues, controversies, and questions about female sexual development. The editor has a point of view, not a point of view as to which of the various authors‘ positions presented in this book is correct, or even the most useful, but a point of view about the format of such a book; namely, that the definitive answers, and the experts who will provide them, are not yet identified. Therefore, many voices should be heard from different areas of expert

Overview: Im Rahmen eines Plädoyers für eine epistemologische Neuorientierung der Deutschdidaktik versucht dieses Buch (Deutsch)(Hochschul)Didaktik herrschafts- und rassismuskritisch zu reflektieren und weiterzuentwickeln. Entlang einer Auseinandersetzung mit zahlreichen Interviewäußerungen von Studierenden und theoretischen Perspektiven auf die Universität, gesellschaftliche (Herrschafts-)Verhältnisse, das Pädagogische, didaktische Gegenstände und Lehrende wird eine herrschafts- und rassismuskritisch inspirierte (Deutsch)(Hochschul)Didaktik begründet, die beständig zweierlei ist: möglich und

Overview: Publication in the field of technical sciences.Includes supplementary material: Imaging technology is an important research area and it is widely utilized in a growing number of disciplines ranging from gaming, robotics and automation to medicine. In the last decade 3D imaging became popular mainly driven by the introduction of novel 3D cameras and measuring devices. These cameras are usually limited to indoor scenes with relatively low distances. Benjamin Langmann introduces medium and long-range 2D/3D cameras to overcome these limitations. He reports measurement results for these d

Overview: A new approach for marketing to women not advocating ‘female friendly strategies‘ but a deeper approach to market segmentation and why gender marketing doesn‘t always work.Half of the population consiThis book addresses the challenges and subtleties behind marketing to women and confronts the idea that gender alone can be used as an indicator to target your market. Darroch provides practical insights into market segmentation and recommends a new approach that focuses on targeting human needs, not gender, in order to reach female customers.978-1-349-47102-7978-1-137-35817-2

Overview: An exploration of how the theme of Anti-Americanism was employed by influential sections of the West German media to oppose the modernisation of the Federal Republic of Germany during the ‘long 1950s‘. In the public battle over the future direction of Germany, America stood as a symbol of social, political and economic corruption.978-1-349-31200-9978-0-230-25141-0Series ISSN 2634-6575 Series E-ISSN 2634-6583

Overview: In this distinguished collection the deeper cognitive aspectsof writing systems are for the first time added to the perceptual andphysiological dimensions and brought into a coherent whole. The resultis a multifaceted understanding of alphabets and other scripts inwhich none of the major factors that shape those systems, and thusdistinctively reveal attributes of the human mind, are slighted. Thesystems through which language is realized on the page are compared innature and complexity with those through which language is realized assound, and are seen in their true perspective. Long

Overview: Reviews the most up-to-date research on psychopathy for a professional and researcher audience.Provides tools to recognize psychopathy and makes recommendations for working with psychopaths in various.This brief explores the research on psychopaths in various settings and in everyday life. Psychopaths are often predatory by nature but may appear normal to laypersons. Individuals working in health professions, forensic occupations, education and corporate environments are likely to encounter a person with psychopathic traits at some point in their respective careers; this brief highli

Overview: .This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, W2GIS 2024, held in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, during June 18–19, 2024...The 8 full papers and 7 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. The book also contains one invited talk. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Spatiotemporal Data Analysis, Open Data and Reproducible Research, Geospatial Technologies and Tools, Advanced Computing and GIS Applications, Transportation Applic

Overview: Broad coverage of categories from a global view.Integration of global and country analysis.A unique basis to understand the investment climate surrounding energy utilization, costs and politics.IncludWorld Energy Resources is an explanatory energy survey of the countries and major regions of the world, their geographic and economic settings, and signif­ icant inter-relationships. This book attempts to combine several interacting energy themes that encompass a historical development, energy issues and forecasts, economic geography, environmental programs, and world energy use. The mai

Overview: Presents a comprehensive introduction to the research on wave phenomena.Intertwines analysis and numerical mathematics for wave-type problems.Starts with basic topicsThis book presents the notes from the seminar on wave phenomena given in 2019 at the Mathematical Research Center in Oberwolfach..The research on wave-type problems is a fascinating and emerging field in mathematical research with many challenging applications in sciences and engineering. Profound investigations on waves require a strong interaction of several mathematical disciplines including functional analysis, parti

Overview: Aktuelle wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Beiträge.Includes supplementary material: ​Bereits 1956 weist Rottenberg darauf hin, dass die Wettbewerber in Sportligen von annähernd gleicher Größe (Stärke) sein sollten, um dem sportlichen Wettkampf die größtmögliche Attraktivität zu verleihen und das Interesse der Zuschauer sicherzustellen (Unsicherheitshypothese). Aufgrund von methodischen Einschränkungen konnte dieser Zusammenhang im Profifußball in bisherigen Studien allerdings kaum nachgewiesen werden. Im Rahmen dieser Studie werden daher erstmals die Vorteile und Stärken ökonomischer Ans

Overview: One of the first syntheses of long-term research on hydrology and erosion in tropical rainforest.A 30-year account of climate change, extreme storm and drought impacts on rainforests.Integration of geThis volume synthesizes and analyzes thirty years of hydrological research in the Danum Valley Conservation Area, a lowland dipterocarp rainforest in Sabah, Malaysia.  Ian Douglas explores the role of water in the rainforest ecosystem, setting out the ecological, climatological and geological context of present-day hydrological processes, soil erosion and stream sedimentation. He emphasi

Overview: Eine organisationssoziologische Studie deutscher UniversitätsverwaltungenAm Beispiel deutscher Universitätsverwaltungen geht Michael Borggräfe der Frage nach, wie sich Organisationen auf der Basis ihrer Organigramme analysieren lassen. Der Autor entwickelt ein systematisches, regelgeleitetes und replizierbares Verfahren zur Analyse von Organigrammen, das sich sowohl auf qualitative als auch auf quantitative Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung stützt. Dieser innovative Ansatz einer systematischen Organigrammanalyse liefert neue Einblicke in Veränderungen des Managements und der A

Overview: Comprehensive overview over this emerging research area.Key contributions from leading researchers, Zhong coined the term "web intelligence".Covers all areas of intelligent data processing in the Web This book is the first coherently written multi-author monograph on Web Intelli­ gence (WI). It offers a thorough introduction and a systematic overview of the new field. It reflects the current state of the research and development in various areas of WI, as well as theoretical and application aspects of WI and Web-based intelligent information systems and services. It highlights severa

Overview: Strategisches Design einer politischen InstitutionBei dem hier veröffentlichten Text handelt es sich um eine gekürzte Fassung meiner D- sertationsschrift, die im Wintersemester 2006 / 2007 von der Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften der Universität Lüneburg angenommen wurde. Diese Arbeit wäre ohne die Unterstützung vieler Freundinnen und Freunden sowie Kolleginnen und Kollegen nicht zustande gekommen. Dies gilt zunächst für Katja Fettelschoss, Holger Meyer und Axel Piesker, die ich schon an meiner ersten Station, der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, kennen und sc

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.978-3-642-98705-2978-3-642-99520-0

Overview: This book deals with war in three Oceanian societies. More specifi­ cally, it analyzes the following: the process of war in relation to population pressure among New Guinea‘s Maring people; exten­ sion and contraction in the headhunting activities of the Iban people of Sarawak during the nineteenth century; and the disrup­ tion resulting from the introduction of muskets in the warfare of the Maoris of New Zealand. In all of the analyses, I have viewed war as a process rather than simply as something that either does or does not occur and I have tried to see how the process relates to

Overview: Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination offers a new and challenging look at the cultural significance of the Battle of Waterloo, and the impact it had on British Romantic culture. Drawing on a range of approaches it aims to redefine the Romantic period as an age of inter- and intra-national conflict, thus overturning conventional notions of ‘The Romantic Project‘, and re-writing the period from first principles. Topics covered include: the impact of Waterloo on Romantic ideas of individual and national identity, the representation of the dead and wounded in poetry, painting and prose,

Overview: Up-to-date results.Fast track conference proceedings.State-of-the-art reportThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Annual International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2011, held in Chengdu, China, in August 2011.The 26 revised full papers and 13 invited papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers address all current trends, challenges, and state of the art solutions related to various issues in wireless networks. Topics of interests include, but not limited to, effective and efficie