lap lambert academic publishing okt 2009 (616 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book is the first full treatment of the life and cinema of American film director Paul Thomas Anderson. Beginning with his entry into filmmaking, this work spans each of his first four feature films ¿ Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love - and follows his rise to the pinnacle of the indie circuit. As a major filmmaker in the studio independent filmmaking scene of the 1990s, Anderson has proven himself to be an exceptional storyteller and technician in the art of cinema. This work examines the continuity and similarities that exist in each of Anderson¿s films ¿ his themes, his vision of life and his depiction of the self. It focuses primarily on how the filmmaker uses structural elements ¿ e.g. cinematography, music, lighting, dialogue and tone ¿ as methods of communicating his vision. A must-have for anyone interested in his work, and a great read for those who like independent cinema!Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Paper was invented in China about 2000 years ago. Since then it has spread worldwide, affecting the lives of billions of people. The value of paper has been based on its usability: paper made it possible to deliver information from one place to another, from the past to the future. Paper today has a very similar function in society to what it had a thousand years ago: it is used to distribute and store information. However, during the last ten years, ICT has developed and spread quickly in the developed countries and competition over information distribution has increased. This book provides a new viewpoint and method for projecting the long-term consumption of magazine paper. It is probable that earlier econometric models, which project paper consumption, will be proven too historically oriented and therefore will not be able to predict the future consumption. Therefore, new projection models are needed. The impact of this new media on information distribution, consumer behaviour and thereby the whole medium of print can be very significant in the long term and change the whole industry structure around the medium permanently.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 108 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In today''s world, there is a growing interest in graduate employment and how to enhance graduates'' employability. It is widely accepted that tertiary education is an important instrument of economic competitiveness in a global economy that is knowledge driven. People vary in the amount skills and knowledge they have available to spend in the work place and education is an important predictor of occupational success. Using the more recent career paradigm of the boundaryless career, this book therefore provides a view on the influence of aspects of the learning experience on the boundaryless career success of young applied science graduates. Concepts derived from Eby et al. (2003) and Vermeulen and Schmidt (2008) are used to analyze graduates between the ages of 20-29. This analysis helps to create more insight in the early career success of the workforce and is particularly interesting for professionals in Education and Human Resource Management fields, or anyone else who may be considering utilizing the learning experience of students for career enhancing efforts.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Though marriage and close family ties are the backbone of selection in U.S. immigration law, families are the least studied area in immigration research. This is because of assumptions that immigrants assimilate completely into U.S. culture, especially after they marry and have children there. However, recent studies show that immigrants, especially those of Latin American, Asian and African descent, are retaining their original cultural values and even passing them on to their children. In fact, it appears cultural values are retained as far as the third generation in immigrant groups. This book examines the strength of African culture in African immigrant families in the United States. Specifically, the book discusses the challenges African fathers face in raising children in the United States, the conflicts cultural values and norms cause in their families, and how intercultural communication can help fathers and children manage conflict. The book also discusses ways immigrant families can have better ommunication and better understand the different cultural perspectives that exist in their families.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book explores the mother-daughter relationships and examines the cultural differences of Chinese immigrants in the United States. An in-depth analysis of three novels by Amy Tan forms the basis of this book. The aspects of diaspora that is looked at are the problems faced by the female Chinese diaspora in trying to adopt and adjust to their new environment and accepting the new culture. It also looks at the relationships among the Chinese diaspora to determine the cultural barrier that is created due to the different environment and culture in China and the United States. This book enables readers to understand the difficulties faced by the Chinese diaspora in their everyday struggle of trying to adapt in a new culture. A diasporic community not only has to struggle within them in order to adapt their way of thinking and culture to the new environment but also has to work hard to be accepted by the society that they are in. Through this book, readers will be more aware of the challenges that a society is imposing on a diasporic community on the whole.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In the wake of the adoption of the SADC Code on Social Security of 2004 and the imminent adoption of the SADC Protocol on the Facilitation of Movement of Persons of 2005, it is imperative that coordination of social security is prioritised in the SADC. currently, people who move from one country to the other loose their social security rights as they cross borders, more so for the workers who would have contributed to the social security systems in their countries of origin or their host countries. They loose their insurance periods, which are crucial in the determinations of entitlement to social security benefits, as well as their social security benefits accrued in the countries where the person crossing the border would have worked. This Monograph, therefore, outlines some of the issues which should be addressed at the very early stages of coordinating social security in the SADC and it suggets priority areas for setting afoot the proposed coordination. It suggests that long-term benefits including old age, invalidity and survivors'' pensions should take a lead. Lessons are drawn from the European Union particularly on how coordination works.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In 1993, a dispute arose in the French literary press concerning the merits of the two French translations of Virginia Woolf''s 'The Waves', a translation by Marguerite Yourcenar, and a second version by Cécile Wajsbrot. Kathleen Shields explains that a critic had accused Wajsbrot of having rendered Woolf incomprehensible to the French reader. This is connected to the fact that, according to feminist translation scholars, the deletion of significant elements in key texts by women writers is a recurrent tendency. This, together with the latest trends in translation studies since the 1980''s, prompted a comparison of two French translations of 'To the Lighthouse', a key text by a writer who has iconic status within modernism and feminism. We took as the basis for the analysis the paradigm proposed by Massardier-Kenney (1997) in order to answer the following questions: are any of these translation strategies implemented by the French translators How does its use or non-use affect the translation product How effective are these in order to translate Woolf This analysis should be of interest to researchers in translation studies and, particularly, those who study feminist translation.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Myocardial infarction is the single most common cause of death in the United States. The best assessments of standard risk factors still fail to identify most incident cases. Few studies have examined unconventional risk factors such as religion and its influence on myocardial infarction. According to Emile Durkheim, religion has life- preserving functions that impact health and well- being. Both religion and the incidence of myocardial infarction have been found to have a significant impact on the lives of the elderly. The elderly report that religion is of significant importance in their lives, and their rapidly growing population will inevitably contribute to the increasing incidence of this disease. This book is the first to examine the association between religion and the incidence of myocardial infarction among the elderly population in New Haven, Connecticut. Results from this work would help physicians and health organizations tailor appropriate treatment plans for the elderly, given that religion affects health by influencing attribution of symptoms, healthcare-seeking behavior, and compliance with medical regimens.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book investigates how state laws and institutions may contribute to global warming. The hypothesis generally forwarded here is that state laws and institutions can have an enormous impact on the carbon dioxide emissions resulting from a state''s energy generation decisions. Public service commissions have an immense amount of power over the generation decisions of electric utilities. However, this power is not always equal among PUCs, nor always used in the same manner throughout the United States. State laws and institutions provide the basis from which public utility commissions regulate electricity generation in ways that inadvertently affect climate change. Therefore, differences in these laws and institutions can and do impact each state''s contribution to the amount of carbon dioxide emitted annually. Three separate studies are used to investigate the importance of laws and institutions in shaping a state''s carbon emissions profile. The research findings indicate that some state laws and institutions have made a significant difference in halting states'' carbon dioxide emissions, and without a doubt political determinants play a role in a state''s emissions profile.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The aim of the study is identify the main determining factor when consumers decide to go for a mortgage loan. No previous study has been carried out in this field and therefore results obtained out of the project will be communicated to the Barclays Bank, where I belong. This paper presents an analysis of customer choice criteria in the home loans market in the following markets of UK, US and Mauritius. In particular, the study investigates the relative importance of choice criteria according to consumers and also analyses differences in the importance of choice criteria with respect to a number of demographic and related factors. Analysis of the date obtained from the survey carried out on a random population of 300 respondents from the telephone directory shows that choosing a home loan institution on the basis of professional advice is the most frequently cited choice criterion on the UK, followed by brand loyalty for the US market and finally for the Mauritian market, the most important factor comes to pricing. The analysis was done by focusing on the three main elements in terms of Focus, Differentiation and Cost Leadership.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The objective of this work was to find for the Museum of the Hudson Highlands an advanced management system that would overcome the Museum''s organizational and communication problems. The assignment resulted with three alternative management systems that can be also applicable by libraries or small organizations. The study shows the increasing role of technology in business and enlightens facilities management functions in business organizations. The work discus how business management has developed in the past years and how important for that was technology revolution. This book emphasizes complexity of facilities manager role in business organizations.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Previous study shows that value-to-price ratios (V/P) predict future stock returns. This empirical regularity is consistent with the notion that stock prices converge to fundamental values over time for mispriced securities. However, the existing evidence on price convergence is indirect and incomplete. This book examines the extent to which price convergence to fundamental value explains the success of V/P trading strategy. In addition, evidence is provided to show the effects of analyst forecast, price momentum and earnings announcement in the convergence process. An ex ante model is developed to predict what types of stocks are likely to exhibit the tendency of price convergence to fundamental value. The analysis should help shed some light on the debate on capital market efficiency, and should be useful to anyone who may be interested in equity valuation, fundamental analysis and stock trading strategies.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Enterprises financing is a core issue in all economies as the access to any financing source asks for the preliminary study of financial performances. Information provided by analyzing financial performances is at the basis of decisions taken by investors, shareholders, banks and crediting institutions, insurance societies and even contracting authorities that grant non-reimbursable funds. The enterprises studied in this monograph are acting in the building sector, for which we tried to achieve an aggregate index of financial performance. Modelling the financial performance offers the possibility of ordering of enterprises acting in the building sector, in accordance with their financial performance, based on the financial-accountancy data in previous years, but also financial performance prevision for an enterprise in the case in which we can make a prevision as real as possible of the financial rates that constitute the model variables. The analysis should be especially useful to professionals in Finance and Financial modelling fields, to practitioners in the enterprises or anyone else who may be interested in the enterprise financial performance analysis.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book discusses a study that explores spirituality and its potential impact on health conditions of persons with diabetes. For people who have diabetes, spirituality may be significant as a part of their management of the disease. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether persons with diabetes in Eastern North Carolina who use spirituality as a coping mechanism have better health conditions. The objectives of this study were: To study the impact of the use of spirituality used as a coping mechanism on health conditions of persons with diabetes in Eastern North Carolina; To study other explanatory variables that may potentially influence health conditions in persons with diabetes; and Disseminate beneficial knowledge of diabetes management to current and future persons with diabetes, their family members, and health care providers in an effort to provide better health outcomes for persons with diabetes.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Participatory Budgeting is an experience of direct democracy inspired by the Paris Commune. It promotes the participation of people in local decisions. Notwithstanding that the participation is restricted to the government budget, its tremendous social importance comes from the process of educating people about how they can be active members in the social collective they are part of. This expanded engagement in social activity develops the participants themselves in two ways. First, it develops their awareness and understanding of the entire social environment they are presently part of, far beyond only budgetary matters. This understanding of their subordination and of the block that capitalism imposes on their human goal of self development then serves to motivate them to end their subordination, and to do with the system of capitalism that subordination is an essential part of. Second, this activity begins to develop the social and technical skills necessary for self-governance in a nonhierarchical society. Activity such as participatory budgeting thus can serve as the foundation for both the desire and ability to create a different future.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Indonesian organizations today increasingly demand rigorous qualifications from the PR practitioners. However, old misperceptions about PR being a glamorous job that does not require much intelligence still exist. Consequently, physical attractiveness and youth are often regarded as requirements more important than education and experience for PR practitioners. Moreover, many Indonesian organizations still limit the public relations practitioner''s role to that of a technician, and only in times of crisis would these organizations seek strategic public relations. This book explains the history of PR in Indonesia and analyzes its status and the various perceptions Indonesians have toward the field. This study used quantitative online surveys as well as qualitative online and face-to-face interviews as research methods. Although based on the author''s Master''s thesis in 2003, this book contains valuable information that is still accurate today and will be useful to PR practitioners and scholars in Indonesia and worldwide.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Modeling land degradation & food import This research develops a soil conservation model for smallholder farmers who apply little or no fertilizer. Empirical results drawn from northern Tanzania imply that ignoring the fertility mining problem in model specification leads to overestimation of profits for farms that apply little or no fertilizer. Wheat cultivation in the Hanang wheat complex, northern Tanzania erodes an average of 11 mm of soil each year. The rate of soil fertility mining averaged 22.2 kg of nitrogen/ton of wheat. Consequently, wheat yields in HWC have been decreasing. Part II of this research examined the international trade for foods with uncertain quality attributes. It is shown that enforcement is the most effective instrument for reducing importation of poor quality foods. This implies, for the government of Tanzania to check the current upward trend of importation of poor quality foods, it needs to increase its current efforts of enforcing the quality of imported foods.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -There has been a strong interest worldwide in the effort to protect the environment in development. Public parks and landscape designs have become more important in human life especially in the urbanised area. However, as more public parks and green spaces developed, the more input and cost required in managing these landscapes. Therefore, a new mindset in landscape management must be set out, which could minimise the overall cost of managing without compromising on the purpose and the function of the landscape. The objective of the book is to explore public perception and preferences towards different form of shrubs so that a less managed but acceptable design can be suggested in a landscape. It will list out recommendations towards appropriate planting scheme of shrubs and the contexts that may benefit in reducing the overall cost of landscape management. The book should be beneficial for those who involve in the design and management of parks and landscape. The content can also be as a references in the academic outdoor-based curriculum, includes landscape architecture, park management, amenity studies, recreation design, outdoor facilities management etc.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book provides a comprehensive overview of corporate payout behavior of Japanese and European firms for the period 1980-2006, examines the substitution hypothesis of share repurchase in these regions, provides alternative measures of transitory earnings and examines the effect of transitory earnings on share repurchase decisions. It analyzes two questions- first, whether managers prefer share repurchases over dividends in Japan and Europe and second, whether transitory earnings drive share repurchases decisions in these two regions.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Brazilian ethanol fuel program (Proalcool) is the world¿s largest biomass to energy program. The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of the Brazilian experience with ethanol as a substitute for gasoline and analyse its future prospects in both Brazil and the world market. Initiated in 1975 as a response to the first oil crisis and the resulting sharp increase in worldwide oil prices, the program has experienced prolonged periods of both splendour and gloom. Early success was followed by a period during which the program came under intense criticism on economic grounds due to low oil prices and high ethanol production costs. On the verge of collapsing, Proalcool was only lately revived due to a multiplicity of socioeconomic and environmental reasons. In recent years there has been renewed global interest in biofuels and a rapid expansion of biofuels markets. This book will therefore be of great help to policymakers, academics and business people curious to learn how was Brazil able to create the competitive assets that made Proalcool a success in terms of developing institutional and technological capabilities for using a renewable fuel in large scale.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Restoration of degraded images has become an important and effective tool for many technological applications like space imaging, medical imaging and many other post-processing techniques. Most of the image restoration techniques model the degradation phenomena, usually blur and noise, and then obtain an approximation of the image. Whereas, in realistic situation, one has to estimate both the true image and the blur from the degraded image characteristics in the absence of any a priori information about the blurring system. The objective of this book is to present new punctual kriging based image restoration approaches using machine-learning techniques. To achieve this objective, this book concentrates on the restoration of images corrupted with Gaussian noise by making good tradeoffs between two contradicting properties; smoothness versus edge preservation. This book makes the following contributions: Quantitative analysis of the at hand punctual kriging based image restoration techniques, applications of artificial neural networks are discussed for image denoising. Furthermore, hybrid techniques for image restoration are presented in this book.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Current Semantic Web reasoning systems do not scale to the requirements of their promising and interesting applications such as analyzing data from millions of mobile devices, dealing with terabytes of scientific data, and content management in enterprises with thousands of knowledge workers. Therefore, a novel approach is required that goes beyond the current paradigms strictly based on logic: a possible approach is Stream Reasoning, an unexplored yet potentially high impact research area, arising from the application of certain results obtained by the Data Streams community to the Semantic Web and reasoning domains. Aim of this book is to present C-SPARQL, a new language that builds on top of SPARQL adding support for RDF streams and SQL-like aggregates, which represent a first step toward Stream Reasoning and a new paradigm of reasoning.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Cardiovascular diseases are an important cause of mortality worldwide. They are an entity of diseases of the heart and vasculature, mainly caused by atherosclerosis. In atherosclerosis, cholesterol accumulates in the vessel wall, mainly in the form of low-density lipoprotein (LDL). High-density lipoprotein (HDL) protects against atherosclerosis, as HDL particles accept cellular cholesterol and transport it to the liver for excretion in a process called reverse cholesterol transport (RCT). Phospholipid transfer protein (PLTP) and cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) are two key lipid transfer proteins responsible for the remodeling of HDL particles. The aim of this thesis was to clarify the role of PLTP and CETP in RCT. The results indicate that both PLTP and CETP can remodel HDL as a cholesterol acceptor, which affects the removal of cholesterol from foam cells. This thesis is useful to anyone interested in lipid metabolism. It gives the reader a basic knowledge about the development of atherosclerosis and factors affecting that. It is also useful to professionals giving also a deeper insight to the world of lipid metabolism.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Since Einstein's general theory of relativity for gravity is a frame independent theory, it has the freedom of choosing an orthonormal frame. I can use a gauge condition to select a preferred orthonormal frame for some gravitational systems. The gauge condition selects a special orthonormal frame (SOF). This special orthonormal frame has application in particular to a positive energy proof and energy localization for a gravitational system. The gauge condition is related to the solution of the Dirac equation; by solving the Dirac equation we can determine a special orthonormal frame. However, in curved spacetime the solution of Dirac equation is highly nontrivial.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Environmental degradation has become a worlwide concern. This kind of problem may affect the governability and the sustainability of a society. It is important to have reliable data and research results in which informed decisions can be based on. This book focus just on one kind of environmental problem: land cover change in a river watershed due to urban development. The study area is located in Northeast Mexico in San Juan River watershed where Monterrey metropolitan area is found. A computer model (Soil and Water Assessment Tool, SWAT) was used to relate physical characteristics such as soil type, rainfall and land cover type with the water balance of the watershed.This work, and the previous research in which is based, can show that there is a systematic way to assess this kind of problems. It also describes the data collection and analysis experience. It should be useful to students and professionals that may be considering the use of GIS technology applied to watershed hydrology analysis.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Geographic Information Systems (GIS) use technology to predict areas of high crime. GIS has been shown to reduce crime in large cities, but at a substantial cost. Demographic factors such as, employment rate, population density, educational level, and community involvement influence GIS effectiveness. Since so many factors influence GIS, it is necessary to have guidelines to determine whether measures other than GIS might be more cost effective. GIS are effective when law enforcement agencies have exhausted traditional crime fighting methods and are seeking innovative solutions to proactively reduce crime. One way GIS allows law enforcement agencies to more effectively use existing resources is by pinpointing statistically high crime areas, thus creating more time for improving community service. Overall, GIS will result in a lower crime rate, while developing a stronger community relationship with local law enforcement. GIS is an effective crime prevention method that eventually must be implemented in cities worldwide.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 52 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Due to the importance of controlling the X- ray (package) beam in the diagnostic field, and the high prices of the control kids and devices for both engineer and the medical physicist, and due to the importance of recognizing the presence or absence of an X-ray beam, the researcher found it necessary to search for tools not to measure but to work as indications of the presence of X-ray beam and to know whether or not the X-ray tube has generated the X-ray. The designed device was very simple in its construction. It is composed of a wooden box lined from inside with phosphoric plates in all sides except two sides which are lined with two plane mirrors, in order to increase reflection of light inside the wooden box. The light emitted from the phosphoric plates affects a photo resistance, which works as an electric switch, and can be in connection state when there is light or in disconnection state when there is no light (Dark). This photo cell is connected to an electronic warning circuit which makes a sound when there is light from the phosphoric plate, which indicates the presence of X-ray beam,The design unit called CMRS. .Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Human waste disposal in backcountry areas is understudied. This study measured Clostridium perfringens in beach sediments of Prince William Sound, Alaska to detect fecal contamination resulting from intertidal disposal. Analysis involved holding times that exceeded 8 hours. Experimentally contaminated sediments and sediments from urban and backcountry locations did not decay when stored for 49 to 101 days regardless of the storage and sampling treatment. Fecal contamination was not detected in sediments while campers practiced intertidal disposal. Additionally, C. perfringens concentrations at beach campsites did not correlate with human impacts or a site¿s accessibility. Three urban locations had C. perfringens concentrations greater than Prince William Sound, Resurrection Bay, and beaches sampled during intertidal disposal. The lack of detectable fecal contamination during periods of use and at heavily impacted areas suggests that intertidal disposal of wastes may be a safe method for small groups (Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Shorttitle The electromagnetic waves transmit from the transmission tower. The electric field is induced around the tower. This electric field penetrates inside the human beings. The magnitude od the incident electric field is decreased inside the body due to the absorption of energy. The tissues and cells of the human body absorbs the energy. This amount of energy is explained by the help of specific absorption rate. By the help of this specific absorption rate (SAR), the harmful frequencies of the electromagnetic waves may be declared.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Today information technology began to offer us new dimensions in the creation, storage and distribution of information, however 'new media' has been presented to society -by the popular press- mainly as a miracle for (direct) marketing. The book 'De-constructing the Digital Revolution', explores how a new popular term ¿digital revolution¿ has been emerged, transformed and vacuumed to satisfy rising demands for a new Utopia, right at the turn of the second millenium. The author Genco Gulan deconstruct the term, and bring examples with an interdisciplinary approach from; visual art, politics, popular culture, history and even genetics. Gulan tries to present how an anti-systemic term 'revolution' could became systemic. The book De-constructing the Digital Revolution conclude that the developments in new technology should not only be sought regarding to its material(ist) reflections but also in its power for de-materialization. Hence a possible change (the next evolution) rather should be sought within in its own dynamics, through a new (electronic) theory.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.