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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book introduces the reader into the field of automata theory and logic. It studies fundamental properties like complementation and determinisation of automata on infinite words and trees, and presents their applications for logics used in program verification. The presentation of such concepts some of which are 50 years old or more is given in a modern style and is accompanied by many exercises. The book can be used for self-study or as a basis for a graduate course on automata and logic, presupposing knowledge on finite automata and regular languages of finite words only. 440 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Keine Angst vor der Geburt: dieser Ratgeber begleitet werdende Eltern durch die Schwangerschaft und bereitet sie optimal auf die Geburt vor.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Der Natur auf der Spur - Geologie zum Erleben & AnfassenOb zum weißen Gold in Bad Frankenhausen, zu 375.000 Jahren Menschheitsgeschichte in Bilzingsleben, nach Tilleda und Rastenberg oder in die faszinierende Welt der Gesteine am Rathsfeld - der Nationale GeoPark Kyffhäuser bietet auf kleinstem Raum spannende Entdeckungstouren. Erleben Sie Streifzüge durch Wälder, Auen, Salzwiesen und den Gipskarstgürtel sowie vielfältige Attraktionen in einer einzigartigen Landschaft, darunter das Kyffhäuser-Denkmal, die Barbarossahöhle und das Besucherbergwerk in Sondershausen.Lassen Sie sich zu einer Zeitreise über etwa 450 Millionen Jahre Erdgeschichte entführen und entdecken Sie den GeoPark Kyffhäuser.Wenn Sie Interesse an Geowissenschaften, Gesteinen und deren Nutzung haben oder mehr über die Entstehung der Landschaft im Kontext von Klima, Erosion und Tektonik erfahren möchten, laden wir Sie ein, den Geopark zu erleben. Mit diesem Geo-Reiseführer möchten wir Ihnen praktische und detaillierte Informationen bereitstellen und Sie in die vielfältigen Themen rund um den Geopark einführen. So können Sie die Vielgestaltigkeit der Natur in Verbindung mit den geowissenschaftlichen Gegebenheiten sowie deren Verknüpfung mit Kulturgütern und montanindustrieller Nutzung erfassen.Kommen Sie und staunen Sie über beeindruckende Naturphänomene und historische Stätten, wo Natur und Kultur ein unvergleichliches Erlebnis bieten.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book argues that Aristotle'saporia on time inthe Physics figures both as anaporiain the subjective sense of a mental state of perplexity and in the objective, textual sense of a contrast between opposing views.First the book seeks to precisely identify what constitutes Aristotle'saporiai(or aporetic contrasts) on time and then to assess them from the viewpoint of Aristotle's five chapters on time as well as the book ofPhysicsas a whole. By such a procedure the claims in theaporiaican, on the one hand, be assessed to find out to what extent they should be accepted, rejected or somehow modified and, on the other, how theaporiaifunction as a means to provoke new thought and insight in regard to the precise nature of Aristotle's understanding of time. 94 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This open access book focuses on the distinctive experiences of freelance and self-employed live performers in the UK's live entertainment industries It provides an in-depth account of their working lives during COVID-19, showing how their experiences of the pandemic provide insight into the different types of precarity shaping what it means to be a live performer.A growing body of academic research has focused on the meaning, experience, and nature of precarity for those working in the cultural and creative sector, highlighting the problem of socio-economic precarity. This book demonstrates how a constant struggle for recognition also shapes the contours and lived experiences of live performance work. It emphasizes how, combined with affective and socio-economic forms of precarity, this recognitive precarity creates a distinctive and challenging set of working conditions.Drawing on original data generated through a national survey of self-employed and freelance performers across the live entertainment industries, combined with insights derived from a series of in-depth semi-structured interviews, this book presents an empirically rich insight into the struggles and opportunities presented by the multiple forms of precarity that the pandemic brought to the fore. It gives voice to a precarious workforce that remains integral to one of the UK's most economically buoyant sectors but whose experiences are often marginalized in academic research, and in policy and practice. It will, therefore, offer a unique insight for both students and scholars of work and employment, and for those working in the cultural and creative sector, into the distinctive nature of work as a freelance or self-employed live performer. 133 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This Open Access book explores sustainability transitions with a focus on their influence on the relationships between cores and peripheries, the rural and the urban, and the large and the small-scale. The societal changes induced by sustainability transitions are expected to assemble as a variegated and heterogeneous process reproduced by different spatial contexts and scales. Hence, the practical solutions and impacts of processes framed as sustainability transitions are expected to vary between different localities in terms of their natural, material, or human resources, the heritage of the development, their power and market relations, virtual and physical connections as well as shifting individual rationalities - within and across certain socio-economic spaces. To highlight these socio-spatial processes, their alignments, frictions and contradictions for sustainability transitions, this book and its contributions call for an increased engagement in the scalar aspects of sustainability transitions and their governance. The authors argue that rescaling follows from two observations on the extant literature concerning sustainability transitions. Firstly there is a call for a stronger engagement of sustainability transitions research with questions of place and relocalization practices, their embedded power relations, but also questions on small-scale trajectories for the territorial and economic materializations in terms of production and market reach as an alternative to the large-scale dominance of resource exploitation and use. Secondly there is a call for increased attention to the relational processes and ontological framing that reproduce mobilities and scalar shifts in governance arrangements. 299 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This open access book takes a human-focused multidisciplinary look at the ways in which autonomous technology shapes experience, affecting human lives and ways of working in settings ranging from the arts, design, and service to maritime and industry. The book focuses on the humane, observing how technology can be designed and implemented in an ethical, human-centered way. Chapters in this book highlight factors that impinge on the humane and ethical, such as challenging questions of intellectual property rights, roles of humans, biases, and the uptake of other deviant human traits. Through delving into a range of dimensions and contexts from culture, the arts and design, to service, heavy industry and maritime, the contributors demonstrate that artificial intelligence and its related autonomous systems need to be understood holistically, as a system of systems, that should be working for the benefit of human present and future. 349 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This Palgrave Pivot offers insight into the factors that influence, motivate and inform young men s online experiences. In Australia and globally recent media and public discourse has expressed strong concerns about the gender-based harms arising from young men s online behaviours these concerns have prompted renewed scrutiny on boys and masculinity and produced a sense of urgency around addressing these online harms. They have provided a strong warrant for research that seeks to better understand how young men are navigating their online worlds. This book presents findings from a qualitative study of 117 young men in Australia. In foregrounding a diversity of young men s voices, the book responds to calls for more nuance and care in how we debate the gendered impact of social media on young men s lives. As such we highlight the tensions and complexities in how young men navigate negative and positive online experiences including their critical engagement with harmful content. Against this backdrop, the book presents a case for fostering young men s critical digital dispositions towards more gender just engagements online. It provides a conceptual framework and series of activities for fostering these dispositions. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in critical masculinity studies, sociology, psychology, public health, and media and internet studies, as well as practitioners who work with young men. 132 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Digital transformation and AI more adequately defined as Data-Based Systems DS will create new jobs and lead to disruptions. Will digital transformation and Data-Based Systems DS lead to a massive reduction of paid professional tasks for humans This book offers a critical and comprehensive discussion of the impact of digital transformation on human jobs from an ethical perspective. It presents an ethically sound and concrete model to address this pressing issue for societies worldwide: the Society-, Entrepreneurship-, Research-Time-Model (SERT). 183 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores how crowdfunding can effectively promote environmental sustainability and circular economy practices in businesses, emphasizing its role in providing crucial financial resources. The importance of financial resources in businesses represents an essential enabler for implementing and scaling sustainable solutions. The book is composed of six chapters, which analyze some key aspects, such as how crowdfunding has been used to develop circular products, success factors for environmental crowdfunding campaigns, the issue of greenwashing in crowdfunding campaigns.By offering a comprehensive and critical analysis of the main issues at stake, this volume provides valuable insights for scholars and students of sustainable business and green finance. The present work also highlights how crowdfunding can help companies to integrate strategies to improve product environmental performance, engage in environmental marketing, and consider alternative business models. Overall, this book is essential to better understand how innovative funding solutions can overcome financial barriers and foster impactful environmental projects. 172 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book brings together a collection of essays on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of the first man on the moon - a time when tourist journeys to the moon, now a real possibility, were no more than a fantasy. Divided into four sections, illustrating different perceptions of the moon, the common aim of the essays in this book is to examine how mankind's interest in the moon has been represented in Literature and the Arts, an objective underpinned by the desire to exploit the relationship between the so-called two cultures-the Humanities and Science-as C.P. Snow perceived them in his pioneering work (1959). The plethora of ways in which our companion satellite has been portrayed has led the authors of the essays to draw upon research from the history of science as well as from literary, cultural and artistic studies. In addition to analysing the impact on literature and music, of our arrival on the moon, whether real or imaginary, these studies also examine how writers along the centuries have appropriated the moon as a metaphor in order to project latent conflict, criticise the society or politics of their day, reflect upon scientific or technological discoveries or fantasise about journeys, encounters or imaginary realities. 140 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book presents the importance ofrestorative justice in today's energy transition across the world. It emphasizes the importance of a fair, equitable and inclusive shift towards a low-carbon economy. It recognizes climate change as the primary global challenge and advocates for an urgent and comprehensive energy transition where restorative justice is centrally utilised. Restorative justice focuses on identifying harm, assigning responsibility, protecting those affected, repairing damage, preventing future occurrences and providing a crucial foundation for seeking justice. It encompasses various forms of harm (economic, environmental, and social) and includes all stakeholders, including individuals, communities, and the environment. By providing a secure and structured platform for dialogue, restorative justice allows for diverse perspectives, challenging conversations and action for a just and sustainable world. 112 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Women around the world face substantial barriers to reporting their victimization, and in some contexts,the classical criminal justice response to violence can be muted, corrupted, or even inappropriate. This bookdiscusses the strategies and efforts of advocates and activists to support survivors of intimate partner violence in isolated, rural, tribal and poor communities. It asks questions such as:how do you create safe space for survivors of intimate violence in places where people tend to know each other And how do you create safe space for survivors in places with few resources or where tribal identity is key to mental health Drawing on research from theCaribbean, Central America, and New Zealand, this book speaks to criminologists, social workers and those working withvictim advocacy communities, on college campuses, and to policymakers who serve rural or tribal areas. 101 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This Open Access textbook, endorsed by UK Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS), covers the effects impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Cancer care and how health care professionals and people with a cancer diagnosis have been affected. It discusses current research covering COVID and Cancer and considers the different impacts on patients with solid tumours and those with a haematological malignancy. The authors critically appraise how technology has been used to combat the pandemic as well as impacts on patient management and their well-being, education of health care professionals as well as the delivery of oncology cancer treatments. They also examine the ongoing psychological effects on patients, health care professionals and provide an analysis of the effects of the pandemic on the charitable sector in cancer care. Importantly this book provides both a UK and a European perspective on the above as well as looking forward to appraise the long-term effect of the pandemic on cancer care, both positive and negative. 165 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This open access book overviews cutting-edge research on thermocapillary convection driven by temperature dependence of surface tension. A notable feature of the book is that it is concerned with a series of experiments performed under microgravity in the Japanese experimental module Kibo aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Also described are related topics such as onboard experimental apparatus, executing procedures, international collaborations, preceding terrestrial studies, and their many outcomes. Further, it presents insights into applications of capillarity to microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), micro-total analysis systems (µTAS), material processing, and future human space exploration, where surface tension must play a major role instead of gravity.Intended as a pedagogical introduction for readers who are not familiar with this subject, the book also skillfully reviews fundamental physics and analysis of thermocapillary convection, describing phenomenology and theory of surface tension, analysis of a transition threshold to unsteady flows, and computational methods for flow and temperature fields. It is thus a valuable resource for graduate students, young researchers, and engineers who are interested in related topics, and enables them to quickly catch up with the latest research from basic to applied to thermofluid dynamics subject matter to microgravity science and technology. 396 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This open access edited volume is based on the premise that entanglements between current societal, political, technological, ecological, and cultural transformations cannot be sufficiently understood without transforming the modes, forms, and notions of understanding. Conceptually, uncertain curiosity is inspired by Helga Nowotny s Insatiable Curiosity, as it maps trends in the history of knowledge on creative curiosity and its shifting relation to innovation-promoting institutions and societal notions of un/certain and un/predictable futures.This volume explores epistemic, infrastructural, and cosmological conditions under which the curiosity drive can flourish.Adopting an encyclopedic structure, the contributions engage with terminologies that echo transformation processes and conditions of change by foregrounding the ephemeral, the processual, and the desynchronous and address issues of insurability, vagueness, and ambiguity. This is achieved through a blend of case study research, critical terminological work, poetic engagement with language, and visual culture and discourse analysis through the lenses of artistic research, philosophy, media and cultural studies. 210 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Der Herzberger Quader ist ein räumliches Puzzle aus elf Bausteinen und wurde 1984 von Gerhard Schulze in Herzberg (Elster) vorgestellt. Sein Erfinder sah in ihm zuallererst ein geometrisches Spielzeug. Und genauso wird er im Buch präsentiert: spielerisch, mit Aufgaben, Hintergründen und detaillierten Lösungsansätzen die Mathematik dahinter bleibt über weite Strecken fast unsichtbar.Neulinge benötigen praktisch keine mathematischen Vorkenntnisse, es werden jedoch auch Fragen aufgeworfen, die selbst Teilnehmende von gymnasialen Leistungskursen als anspruchsvoll empfinden dürften. Damit ist das Buch ebenso bestens geeignet für knobelfreudige Erwachsene, aber auch Lehrkräfte finden vielfältige Anregungen für ihren Unterricht.Im Text befinden sich zwischen ausführlichen Erklärungen immer wieder knifflige Fragestellungen, die Lesende anfangs gern überspringen dürfen. In jedem Fall bietet es sich an, während der Lektüre sowohl einen Herzberger Quader als auch Stift und Papier griffbereit zu haben.Das Buch enthält zahlreiche Aufgaben zum Zusammensetzen verschiedenster Körper und wird durch ein Kapitel über die Geschichte des Herzberger Quaders abgerundet.Die Produktfamilie WissensExpress bietet Ihnen Lehr-, Lern- und Sachbücher in kompakter Form. Die Bücher liefern schnell und verständlich fundiertes Wissen. 112 pp. Deutsch. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Martingale theory is a cornerstone of modern probability, offering a natural extension of the study of sums of independent random variables. Although its roots can be traced back to the work of Paul Lévy in 1937, it was Joseph L. Doob in the 1940s who formally developed the theory, culminating in his landmark bookStochastic Processesin 1953. Since then, martingale theory has evolved significantly, with deep contributions from mathematicians such as Donald L. Burkholder, Richard Gundy, and Burgess Davis, among others. This is what is now known as advanced martingale theory, which began with the publication of Burkholder s seminal paperMartingale Transformsin 1966.This book provides a comprehensive treatment of both classical and advanced martingale theory. It opens with a historical introduction, exploring foundational functions such as Rademacher, Haar, and Walsh functions, before delving into the core concepts of conditional probability. The classical theory, as developed by Doob, is meticulously presented, followed by an in-depth examination of modern advancements, including Burkholder s inequalities, Burkholder-Davis-Gundy inequality, and their generalizations, as well as good-lambda inequalities. The final chapter showcases a wide range of applications, highlighting the theory s profound impact on Banach space theory, harmonic analysis, and beyond.Intended for graduate students and researchers in probability and analysis, this book serves as both an introduction and a reference, offering a clear and structured approach to a subject that continues to shape mathematical research and its applications. 276 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book presents a case study of the development of a smart contract, from the analysis of the legal contract to the structural design of the smart contract and implementation on the Ethereum blockchain. It identifies approaches to avoid or lessen the impact of pitfalls. And it discusses strategies to address the interaction between parties to the smart contract and legal authorities. The legal contract that is implemented is the simple agreement for future equity (or SAFE), which is widely used for financing startup companies. The analysis of this contract has the additional advantage that it clarifies issues in the conversion of a SAFE contract to equity that are a source of confusion in practice. This book is of interest to anyone in the field of digital finance, as well as to venture capitalists and entrepreneurs making use of SAFEs. 282 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This second edition describes the management of fecal incontinence from an advanced practice nursing perspective using the latest and best available evidence. The book is written by a group of interdisciplinary, international experts on fecal incontinence. Authors objectives are to disseminate information about evidenced-based nursing care for the incontinent patient to assist nurses to provide high quality care, reduce incontinence, and improve patients quality of life.The book is structured in chapters whose content has been updated since the first edition. It addresses assessment and management of fecal incontinence in various patient groups, paralleling the delivery of care. Case studies are provided. Normal defecation and mechanisms to promote continence are explained to improve understanding of alterations resulting in fecal incontinence. The epidemiology of fecal incontinence is summarized to illustrate the scope of the problem. There is a chapter about the assessment and management of skin problems commonly associated with fecal incontinence with recommendations for assessing them on darky pigmented skin. New chapters about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on continence care, selection and use of absorbent products, and a horizon scan of technologies for managing fecal incontinence have been added. All chapters highlight key information in a box or table. The intended readers are international advanced practice nurses who care for patients with incontinence and continence nurse specialists practicing at a general level. General nurses or nursing students interested in continence care might also be interested in the book. Readers from other healthcare disciplines can learn more about the role of the advanced practice nurse in continence care. 353 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Dieses Buch nimmt die EnzyklikaLaudato si von Papst Franziskus zum Ausgangspunkt, um zentrale Fragen der ökologischen Krise und sozialen Gerechtigkeit neu zu beleuchten. Die Enzyklika mahnt eindringlich zur ökologischen Umkehr, ohne in Pessimismus zu verfallen sie setzt auf Hoffnung und Vertrauen als tragende Kräfte des Wandels. Die Autoren analysieren die Herausforderungen und Chancen eines Dialogs zwischen wissenschaftlicher Rationalität und religiöser Sinnstiftung. Sie zeigen, wie Begriffe wie Hoffnung und Vertrauen oft religiös geprägt auch im Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurs eine zentrale Rolle spielen können. Gleichzeitig machen sie deutlich, wo Spannungen entstehen: etwa dort, wo wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse in religiösen Texten zu kurz kommen.Mit einem fundierten Blick auf beide Perspektiven eröffnet das Buch neue Wege, wie säkulares und religiöses Denken gemeinsam zu einem tieferen Verständnis von Gerechtigkeit, Freiheit und ökologischer Verantwortung beitragen können. 152 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book offers a different take on the aesthetic experience. Firstly, aesthetics has traditionally been analyzed only from the point of view of the viewer. This book does not do that, as aesthetics involves both a viewer and a maker; thus, a satisfactory account of the aesthetic experience would be one that was derived from both kinds of perceptual experiences. Secondly, this book focuses on the role of low-level features, such as texture, illumination, color, shape, movement, etc., in the aesthetic experience. Perception itself significantly involves these low-level features, and the sensory experience of aesthetics does so particularly. To explicate this, the book provides background information into recent findings in visual science that support this emphasis on low-level features, particularly within the framework of very early perception known as gist perception, which is experienced in the first approximately 300 ms. This gist experience is also viewed through the philosophical lens of sensing, which gives a framework with which to understand low-level percepts. Thirdly, the book concludes with a description of how the perceptual and cognitive processes of viewer and maker interact with curatorial/critical testimony in order to construct the artwork s meaning. Thus, art is seen as a kind of conversation. 193 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -During his presidency, FDR led the American public to believe that the US government could set policy that would transform the economy. This book argues that this assumption, which ultimately became embedded into the general American psyche, has impacted our economy today in more ways than one.Robert E. Wright breaks down the negative societal impact of the New Deal throughout this book. The chapters highlight the lasting influence of these policies, providing new perspectives and never-before-seen archival research related to FDR's policies. The book provides insight into how assumptions of governmental intervention in the economy have shifted the direction of the economy over time. It also dives into socioeconomic topics related to social justice, critiquing the New Deal in its original and historical contexts.Wright brings a long-term public-choice perspective to the New Deal, providing interdisciplinary insights into socioeconomic topics such as gender, race, and climate. The resulting book is ideal for those interested in economics, American history, law, and policy. 339 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the principles of integrated risk management across three main domains: enterprise, infrastructure/institutional, and program/project risk management. It sets out to define the types of risk that are applicable to each domain, including strategic risk, operations risk, compliance risk, cybersecurity risk, and safety risk, among many others. Using demonstrative examples, the book identifies vulnerabilities in different risk management models, suggests in detail the means for correcting them, and introduces the concept of unknown and underappreciated (U/U) risks that need to be considered in addition to known risks. Then, it goes on to draw on perspectives from a range of disciplines, including systems engineering (SE), expert judgment elicitation, Monte Carlo simulation techniques, and applied statistics, to illustrate how such risks can be evaluated, aggregated, and mitigated. Drawing from experience gained during the NASA space shuttle program, as well as other high-tech programs involving space exploration, commercial nuclear reactors, and strategic weapon systems, Allan Benjamin demonstrates these concepts qualitatively and quantitatively in a set of detailed examples from governmental and industrial settings. 193 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book provides readers with a single-source reference to the state of the art in domain-wall, nanomagnet and spin-wave-based computing devices, enabling them to provide additional computing functions and lower the power consumption of electronic devices by orders of magnitudes. Tutorial chapters gives a thorough introduction to the preliminaries and the theory behind spin-based devices, and additional chapters give an overview of the most promising spin-based computing concepts. This book is designed to be a first read for anyone interested in the field of spin-based (magnetic) computing devices. The author provides an overview of how information can be processed by single-domain nanomagnets, domain walls, spin-waves or spin torque oscillators. Both Boolean approaches (magnetic logic gates) and non-Boolean devices (image processing circuits, etc.) are discussed. 188 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Dieses Lehrbuch bietet einen speziell für Studierende des Lehramts Physik konzipierten Grundkurs in Quantenphysik und spezieller sowie allgemeiner Relativitätstheorie. Die Rechenwege werden besonders ausführlich und detailliert dargestellt, um eine breite Leserschaft anzusprechen. Es werden keine mathematischen Vorkenntnisse über das Abiturniveau oder übliche Vorkurse hinaus vorausgesetzt.Alle notwendigen Herleitungen und Berechnungen erfolgen auf dem Niveau eines Physikstudiums, jedoch wird berücksichtigt, dass nicht immer ausreichend Zeit oder Erfahrung vorhanden ist, um alle Rechenschritte selbstständig nachzuvollziehen. Daher wird auf Formulierungen wie 'wie man leicht sieht' verzichtet.Bei der Themenauswahl wurde besonders auf die Interessen der Schülerinnen und Schüler eingegangen. Auch auf spannende Themen, die oft durch Science-Fiction in den Medien vorbereitet werden, wird fachlich fundiert eingegangen. Um zu solchen Themen Auskunft geben oder selber Recherchen durchführen zu können, wird auch die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie in den Lehrstoff integriert. Themen wie Raum-Zeit, Raumkrümmung, dunkle Materie und Schwarze Löcher werden durch nachvollziehbare Rechnungen zugänglich gemacht. 128 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book provides a critical and comprehensive analysis of the reconceptualization of preventive warfare in the 21st century. It discusses how the US launched and fought some wars to prevent future vague threats and how that practice has fundamentally undermined the legal system and the main principles of the use of force in ways that not only further US dominance but shield powerful actors from accountability.The US redefined key legal concepts to set up a new legal framework for preventive warfare and, consequently, introduced new practices for carrying out preventive military operations.Drawing on a collection of case studies, on the changes in the jus ad bellum and jus in bello, focusing mainly onAfghanistan and Iraq and beyond,the book shows how violations of the law of war were persistently conducted in the 21st century by supposedly democratic countries that claimed to be upholding the law. It explores three types of preventive warfare - that is,preventive national self-defense, preventive on-the-spot reactions, and preventive 'security' detention - to show how they blurred the line between civilians and legitimate military targets, and thus increased the risk of causing harm to civilians. The book speaks tostudents, scholars, and practitioners from the fields of criminology, law, international relations, political science, critical security studies, and critical military studies. 222 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines the long-standing belief in infinite scientific and technological progress and links it to the Enlightenment ideal of man as a universal being and subject of the universal world history, destined to become a 'master and possessor of nature.' The author analyzes a broad range of issues in epistemology, the philosophy of history, and the philosophy of science and technology. Marx's philosophy is explored to the extent that his dialectic of labor sheds light on Western technological optimism and the ideal of human universality and offers an elaborate framework for analyzing the intrinsic limits to technological progress. The focus is on his 'early' works, providing a theoretical and humanistic underbelly for the 'mature' ideas of theCapital.Examining the epistemic foundations of the belief in infinite progress, the author arguesthatactual infinity,either in the form of unbounded technological/scientific expansion or infinite complexity of nature,is redundant for the universality of man, his scientific pursuit and historical experience. The conundrum of universality and power calls for a systematic critique ofinstrumental reason, its practical applicability and value structure. 177 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This edited volume offers new and exciting perspectives on the social study of science and religion through current scholarship grounded in Science and Technology Studies (STS). The contributors explore how STS theories, methods, and concepts can be applied to the study of religion, as well as how to incorporate aspects of religion into STS.The purpose of the volume is to advance the social study of science and religion by fostering the already interdisciplinary nature of the field and to encourage engagement with the intersection between science and religion from a wide range of perspectives. 239 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Just war theory concerns the morality of engaging in warfare, the conduct in war and justice - including democratization and reconstruction - in the aftermath to end war. The morality of war can be measured from a variety of military and philosophical ethics that include theological, consequentialist and realist schools of thought.Various military interventions, such as Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq, have been analyzed and evaluated and criticized from a Western and, especially, liberal point of view.In this book, Danny Singh addresses foreign interventions from a different normative paradigm. Namely, he addresses the morality of foreign military interventions in light of Afro-communitarianism, a dominant philosophical approach in sub-Saharan Africa. According to Afro-communitarianism, positive communal relationships/social harmony are the greatest good that can be achieved to form friendship (which can be understood as the combination of shared identity and goodwill). Even though Afro-communitarianism prioritizes peaceful communal relations, enmity-behavior and violence are morally permissible if it either leads to a less disharmonious state of affairs or to a harmonious state of affairs or there are no friendly alternatives to achieve any of both desired outcomes but the initiator of conflict desires to promote them. Moreover, Afro-communitarianism prescribes dialogue as a guiding action to avoid military conflict. The book provides an alternative, and non-Western, approach to the morality of war and efforts to promote sustainable peace in the aftermath of conflict between warring belligerent parties. 303 pp. Englisch.…