Springer nature jan 2007 (42 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book applies an overarching theme of 'Development, Competition and Co-operation' to container ports in Asia. Major trends are identified and concrete examples offer insights into the nature of relationships between the main ports in the region. It aids understanding of port development withi…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In many developed welfare states, consumers of social services are increasingly given money rather than services so that they can buy in their own care. This book explores the implications of these trends, not just for the older consumers but also for the workers involved, through cross-national…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Transport phenomena is used here to describe momentuin, energy, mass, and entropy transfer [1, 2]. It includes thermodynamics, a special case of which is thermosiaiics. Interfacial transport phenomena refers to momentum, energy, mass, and entropy transfer within the immediate neighborhood of a ph…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - '.this is a very useful compendium and should have a place on every polymer scientist's bookshelf,' George Christopher Martin, Journal of the American Chemical SocietyThis handbook offers concise information on the properties of polymeric materials, particularly those most relevant to the areas o…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This is the first full-length study in English of the New Right in Germany and it breaks new ground by considering the New Right as a political and a cultural movement. The book examines the often contradictory motives that feed into New…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This study presents a critique of social constructionist identity politics, which is distinguished from specific identity-based political positions, from within and with social constructionist commitments. Gupta examines the institutional…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Public Men offers an introduction to an exciting new field: the history of masculinities in the political domain. By building upon new work on gender and political culture, these new case studies explore the gendering of the political dom…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The BSE epidemic, GM foods, avian flu, the growth of supermarkets and the crisis in obesity have shaken consumer trust in food. Uncovering surprising differences between countries, Trust in Food examines this and challenges the ide…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. Gregoriou conducts case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Corn…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The BSE epidemic, GM foods, avian flu, the growth of supermarkets and the crisis in obesity have shaken consumer trust in food. Uncovering surprising differences between countries, Trust in Food examines this and challenges the idea of th…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Changing Politics of European Security explores the key security challenges confronting Europe, from relations with the US and Russia to the use of military force and the struggle against terrorism. In the future, the authors conclude…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The creation of Monetary Union marked a major step in the evolution of the European Union. Is the EU now taking the next step of deeper integration towards a fully-fledged economic government The book seeks to answer this question by stud…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book charts the major events of Stoker's life, including friendships with many of the major figures of the age and as manager of Henry Irving's Lyceum, with his literary career. It offers critical evaluation of Dracula and of Stoker'…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Using Symbolic Interactionist theories and descriptions of the everyday life of self-defined 'shy' people, the book explores the social processes of becoming a 'shy person' and performing the shy self in public places. The question of int…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This exciting new title investigates the explosion of Shakespeare films during the 1990s and beyond. Linking fluctuating 'Shakespeares' with the growth of a global marketplace, the dissolution of national borders and technological advance…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Great American Makeover is a collection of essays that explore the American makeover mythos that has been recently repackaged in the form of popular makeover television programs such as Extreme Makeover, The Swan, Supernanny, and Quee…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume brings together distinguished international specialists on Vietnam and its reform process to explore the impact of reform in Vietnam on the Vietnamese state, society, and order, and Vietnam's international and regional environ…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This collection of essays offers a wide-ranging and provocative reassessment of the British novel's achievements after modernism. The book identifies continuities of preoccupation - with national identity, historiography and the challenge…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book uses modern biological knowledge to tackle the question of what distinguishes living organisms from the non-living world. The authors first draw on recent advances in cell and molecular biology to develop an account of the livin…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book investigates the contemporary functioning of financial institutions and monetary policies in order to assess their effects in different economic situations. It advances some proposals to improve their contribution towards a more…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The multiple features of intellectual property rights and industrial competition are explored through the analytically rigorous lens of the frontier of the economics literature. The book covers a broad range of issues ranging from industr…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -At the beginning of the C21st, utilities in energy, telecommunications, transport and water emerged as leading TNCs. How and why did this unprecedented transition occur Leading authorities from Europe, Russia, Canada, Mexico and the Unite…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Globalization is calling for new conceptualizations of belonging within culturally diverse communities. Quebec, driven by the pressures of maintaining Francophone identity and accommodating migrant groups, provides a fascinating case stud…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This collection of essays is designed to help scholars and practitioners understand the fluid and dynamic nature of federalism, with particular emphasis on the federal system in the United States. The book is written to aid our understand…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this updated and expanded edition, the author explores the broad features of Hayek's economic philosophy, shows the interrelationship between the liberal philosophy and economic advance, examines Hayek's approach to the problems of a m…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The New Public Management paradigm seems to have produced a convergence of administrative reform. However, specific implementations of NPM show range of forms and results including performance indicators, personal reforms and evaluations…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book considers some important economic issues currently facing the EU and examines its prospects. Topics covered include: the Broad Economic Policy Guidelines; the Growth and Stability Pact; company taxation in the enlarged EU; and t…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Drawing extensively on the author's archival research, this is the first major study in English of the first three and a half centuries in Spain of a people, its 'gitanos', who, despite their elevation by Spaniards and non-Spaniards alike…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Vague language ('bags of time', 'doing stuff', 'and all that') is an aspect of communicative competence of considerable social importance. This book examines its function. It spans genre analysis, critical discourse analysis, psycholingui…