Springer nature jun 2009 (92 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The texts of Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossmann assembled in this volume are important contributions to the historiography of the Scienti c Revolution and to the methodology of the historiography of science. They are of course also historical documents, not only testifying to Marxist discourse of…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Over the next few years political and financial power will move in the direction of individuals, companies and nations that are able to use energy in a more efficient way. This book describes this challenge and presents a way forward by w…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Why is it that more and more people like their work, but can no longer support the conditions under which they must practice it What is impeding the improvement of occupational health and organizational effectiveness The authors share the…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Duncan Pritchard offers students not only a new exploration of topics central to current epistemological debate, but also a new way of doing epistemology. This advanced textbook covers such key topics as virtue epistemology, anti-l…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines how women athletes were represented in international media coverage during the 2004 Olympic Games. Through feminist theorizing and qualitative textual analysis, the contributors discuss sexualization, nationalism, succe…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The figure of the migrant has been celebrated by some as an icon of postmodernity, an emblematic figure in a world increasingly characterized by transnationalism, globalization and mass migrations. Král takes issue with this view of the m…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Paying particular attention to the representation of women and to gendered notions of the nation, this book examines for the first time the marked parallels between Rushdie's critique of the Nehruvian legacy and the most significant recen…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book contributes to the theoretical and policy debate on the existence of a European public sphere. It presents a critical discussion of the links between media, history and politics in Europe today, examining the re-organization of…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This unique collection of essays provides a re-evaluation of the term 'Atlantic', by placing at the core of the debate on republicanism in the early modern age the link between continental Europe and America, rather than assuming British…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Despite the availability of some formal legal remedies, women lawyers rarely challenge discriminatory behaviour. This book explores this seemingly contradictory situation, and by exploring lawyers' use of legal discourse in an Internet co…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A detailed study of an increasingly popular genre, this book offers readings of a group of significant and representative works, drawing on a range of interpretative strategies to examine the ways in which the contemporary historical nove…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book suggests that the US-Russia post-9/11 partnership did not endure because much of America's policy is shaped by an ambition to remain the world's only superpower. The book analyzes the negative role played by Russophobia and advoc…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) are a massive subset of the healthcare industry that negotiate lower costs for healthcare supplies by buying for several hospitals at once. Group Purchasing Organizations provides an analysis and crit…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -As Mubarak's regime nearing its end becomes a strong possibility, many pressures, both foreign and domestic, are coming to bear on Egypt to bring democratic reforms to this struggling country. In The Mubarak Leadership and Future of Democ…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In the lifetimes of the authors, the world and especially the United States have received three significant 'wake-up calls' on energy production and consumption. The first of these occurred on October 15, 1973 when the Yom Kippur War bega…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -With a critical look at Tolstoy's persona, faith, and thought, this book treats the writer as a midwife of modern counterculture. It shows and tries to correct the metaphysical blunder on which Tolstoy's philosophy was based. 254 pp. Engl…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume explores the impact of social identity on teaching and learning. The contributors argue, from the perspective of diverse disciplinary and educational contexts, that mobilizing identities in the classroom is a necessary…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume brings together cutting edge research on Israeli citizens and organizations mobilized around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. These pioneering perspectives provide a wealth of information on state-society relations in Israel,…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This collection brings together leading international scholars and filmmakers focusing on Latin American cinema. Themes discussed include subjectivity, history, memory, representations of reality, cinema's relation to the public sphere, a…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This collection explores the controversial and perhaps even abject idea that evils, large and small, human and natural, may have a central positive function to play in our lives. For centuries a concern of religious thinkers from the Chri…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature deftly interrogates the relationship between lord and man in medieval England. Employing the study of medieval analogies this book is the first to explore how the relationship…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This innovative study reassesses Primo Levi's Holocaust memoirs in light of the posthumanist theories of Adorno, Levinas, Lyotard, and Foucault and finds causal links between certain Enlightenment ideas and the Nazi genocide. 173 pp. Engl…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -More and more policy issues involve issues that are explicitly values-based, yet public policy analysis tends to skirt around the question of values. Public Policy Values overcomes this reluctance by showing how public policies enable val…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The concept of specific receptors for drugs, hormones and transmitters lies at the very heart of biomedicine. This book is the first to consider the idea from its 19th century origins in the work of John Newport Langley and Paul Ehrlich,…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume provides insight into modelling and ultimate limit computation of complex structures, with their components represented by solid deformable bodies. The book examines practically all the important questions of current interests…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Reasons for Writing This Book The published literature on the economic appraisal of healthcare acquired infection (HAI) is described by phrases such as: 'With so many virtues of the cost-benefit approach identified, it is perhaps puzzling…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -We have recently seen stock-markets plunge and governments bail out banks. People have been made redundant, and many others are very worried. Some of the short essays in this collection are part musing and part reaction to the rece…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book discusses the political and social presumptions ingrained in the texts of the Harry Potter series and examines the manner in which they have been received in different contexts and media. The 2nd edition also contains ext…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume explores the impact of social identity on teaching and learning. The contributors argue, from the perspective of diverse disciplinary and educational contexts, that mobilizing identities in the classroom is a necessary part of…