Springer nature apr 2015 (177 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A follow-up to the popular Graduate Study for the 21st Century , this book seeks to expand professional development to include the personal aspects of daily lives in the humanities. How to Build a Life in the Humanities delves into…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The main focus of this monograph is to explain the important role of soil and the environment to a broad audience. Soil is one of the five essential factors crucial for human life. On the one hand the authors describe a responsible approa…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book tells the inside story of Europe's first presidential campaign, the candidates, how they were chosen, the campaign trail, the TV debates and the tense negotiations which followed. It explains what led to this new way of choosing…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book investigates the alarming of fatalities among migrant workers. The authors argue that migrant workers are often powerless and unprotected by national laws, unearthing new truths on migrant workers as significant economic players…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book reconnects The Federalist Papers to the study of American politics and political development, arguing that the papers contain previously unrecognized theory of institutional power, a theory that enlarges and refines the contribu…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This project provides an in-depth study of the role of worker-activist leaders in industrial strikes in China, a country where labor rights face significant challenges from state and industry suppression and by current lack of formal orga…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In the past generation, Brazil has risen to become the seventh largest economy and fourth largest democracy in the world. Yet its rise challenges the conventional wisdom that capitalist democracies will necessarily converge to become fait…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book offers a novel and parsimonious framework to help understand Hong Kong's lengthy democratic transition by analyzing the electoral dynamics of the city's competitive authoritarian political system, where pro-Beijing and pro-democ…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume examines journalism and memorialization in the age of social media, with a particular emphasis on communication in times of crisis. Recognizing that individuals are sharing more actively than ever before, this book investigate…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Radical Environmentalism: Nature, Identity and More-than-human Agency provides a unique account of environmentalism - one that highlights the voices of activists and the nature they defend. It will be of interest to both students and acad…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Research, Development, and Innovation in Asia Pacific Higher Education critically examines recent policies and practices adopted by governments and universities in Asia Pacific in promoting research and development, innovation, and entrep…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is about a variety of national arrangements and practices, whose common characteristics are to constitute 'presidential republics' and which as such have become the main form of government in the contemporary world. 339 pp. Engl…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In the shadow of a French national narrative which demonises and rejects local specificities, highly differentiated territorial political spaces have been created, shaped by identity, decentralisation, and public policy. This book analyse…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Pandemics, Science and Policy analyses the World Health Organisation's (WHO) management of the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic. Abeysinghe illustrates the ways in which the WHO's account was vulnerable to contestation, and ultimately how uncertain ris…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book brings together the newest and the most innovative scholarship on Nigerian children-one of the least researched groups in African colonial history. It engages the changing conceptions of childhood, relating it to the broader the…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Knowing that we are finite, how can we live to the fullest Philosopher George Santayana suggested 'spirituality' enables us to enjoy what we have. This book clarifies and extends Santayana's account of spirituality, while suggesting how t…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Leviathan invests the sovereign with nearly absolute power, and that vast sovereign has drawn the reader's eye for 350 years. Yet Hobbes has much to say about subjects as well, and he articulates a normative conception of a good subject.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book analyzes the literary representation of Indigenous women in Latin American letters from colonization to the twentieth century, arguing that contemporary theorization of Indigenous feminism deconstructs denigratory imagery and of…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Fascination of Film Violence is a study of why fictional violence is such an integral part of fiction film. How can something dreadful be a source of art and entertainment Explanations are sought from the way social and cultural norms…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Williamson explains, defends, and applies Kant's theory of emotion. Looking primarily to the Anthropology and the Metaphysics of Morals, she situates Kant's theory of affect within his theory of feeling and focuses on the importance of mo…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Vietnam War has had many long-reaching, traumatic effects, not just on the veterans of the war, but on their children as well. In this book, Weber examines the concept of the war as a social monad, a confusing array of personal storie…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Orature and Yorùbá Riddles takes readers into the hitherto unexplored undercurrents of riddles in Africa. Because of its oral and all too often ephemeral nature, riddles have escaped close scrutiny from scholars. The strength of the Yorùb…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -As widely applied as Marxist theory is today, there remain a host of key western thinkers whose texts are rarely scrutinized through a Marxist lens. In this philosophical analysis of Marx's never-before translated German notes on Machiave…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Ionescu examines the process of economic Romanianization of Bucharest during the Antonescu regime that targeted the property, jobs, and businesses of local Jews and Roma/Gypsies and their legal resistance strategies to such an unjust poli…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -For the education system to remain responsive to the needs and demands of its multiple stakeholders it must embrace the innovation and research produced by contemporary technology. This book traverses a wide range of conceptual, disciplin…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Carter illuminates and validates the vital role of visioning in social education. The book features peace in social education with instructional recommendations, planning resources and descriptions of transdisciplinary learning. It elabor…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -We must quickly learn how to live well in the world as it is today, including the realm of work. We need to learn a new vocabulary of economics and markets that is more suitable to understand the present world and that is likely to offer…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book discusses the empirical studies on how biological age influences foreign language learning in school. It provides a succinct overview of a complex field for both experts and researchers interested in the teaching and learning of…