Springer nature mai 2015 (169 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In the twenty-first century, Britain faces new challenges from disruptive technology, an ever more competitive world and an ageing population. Structured around a radical manifesto for free enterprise, A Time for Choosing offers a…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores what 'critical' means for the talking therapies in a climate of increasing state influence and intervention. It looks at theoretical and practical notions of 'critical' from perspectives including queer theory, f…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The text analyses identities within virtual on-screen environments. Investigating regions in Second Life, it explores topical issues of the body in virtual space, nature and mythology in virtual environments, and the key arguments surroun…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book contains groundbreaking and immersive essays on crucial 20th Century scholars on social theory, discussed and analyzed from a radical, critical theory perspective. Aronowitz provides his unique and lauded critical eye towa…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Drawing on discussions of the 'Creative Economy,' the 'Network Economy,' and the 'Green Economy,' Rethinking US Education Policy critiques educational policies authored by the Obama administration and considers the need for a new educatio…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -What explains civil society participation in policy making in Latin American democracies Risley comparatively analyzes actors who have advocated for children's rights, the environment, and freedom of information in Argentina, Chile, and U…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Project sponsors in Europe are facing more and more difficulty when acquiring conventional long-term bank loans for infrastructure projects. The regulatory landscape for debt markets will evolve further with implementation of Basel III re…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Family members are increasingly likely to provide caregiving for older adults as the US population ages. This book summarizes what we know about caregiving by spouses and other intimate partners, adult children, siblings, grandchildren, f…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Spracklen explores the impact of the internet on leisure and leisure studies, examining the ways in which digital leisure spaces and activities have become part of everyday leisure. Covering a range of issues from social media and file-sh…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Africans Investing in Africa explores intra-African trade and investment by showing how, where and why Africans invest across Africa; to identify the economic, political and social experiences that hinder or stimulate investment; and to h…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains country experiences explained by policy makers and studies by leading experts on causes and consequences of capital flows as well as policies to control these flows. It addresses portfolio flow issues central to open…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book identifies and engages with an analysis of racism in the Caribbean region, providing an empirically-based theoretical re-framing of both the racialisation of the globe and evaluation of the prospects for anti-racism and the post…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The news media and the state are locked in a battle of wills in the world's emerging democratic states. It is a struggle that will determine whether or not democracy flourishes or withers in the 21st century. Using a number of case studie…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this book, leading scholars from East Asia and beyond debate Michael Oakeshott's views on liberal democracy and totalitarianism and their implications for East Asia today. His ideas on rationality in politics, the nature of liberal dem…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Bologna Process has significantly shaped recent higher education policies across Europe but the impact of the social dimension has been neglected. This book provides an overview of the major Bologna reforms and through a cross-country…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this comparative study of young people's educational careers in England and Germany, individual factors, social class, school and country characteristics are shown jointly to shape these careers through mutually reinforcing processes.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -While policymakers in the world reiterate the importance of protecting voice diversity, traditional media conglomerates and new social media giants make their task increasingly challenging. This book assesses the current state of policy-m…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Why did France, with its strong sense of national identity, want to give up the Franc for the Euro This book, by a former British diplomat in Paris, draws on new archive evidence to explore France's drive for European Economic and Monetar…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Little Rock Crisis frames the story of the Little Rock 1957 desegregation crisis through the lens of memory. Over time, those memories - individual and collective - have motivated Little Rockians for social and political action and en…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Migrant Citizenship from Below explores the dynamic local and transnational lives of Filipina and Filipino migrant domestic workers living in Schönberg, Germany. Shinozaki examines their irregular migrant citizenship status from 'above',…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Laws Relating to Sex, Pregnancy, and Infancy examines case law and legislation in regards to reproduction, pregnancy, and infancy. Cusack explores the winding pathways of legal precedence and action on the social conditions of pregnancy a…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Based on an analysis of the changing practice of sovereignty in Brazil, India and South Africa, this book argues that soft sovereignty provides an adequate, yet unrecognized, basis for a moderate, embedded and plural cosmopolitanism situa…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Manufacturing in the UK has an image problem. Although this image problem is more fiction than fact, it nonetheless has an impact on the sector's ability to attract staff, capital, and policy interest. This book redresses this situation b…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The contributors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the ways in which spaces of the city do not merely contain, but also constitute, urban poverty. The volume explores how the spaces of the city actively produce and rep…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In the face of emerging new threats, the EU's capacity to build a distinctive role in crisis management remains problematic. Analysing EU policies and actions, this collection sheds light on the EU's role in managing crises and peacekeepi…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This collection is an inside look at European Commission policy-making in education and the privatization of policy-making in the European Union. Along with contributions from leading academics in the field of educational policy and polic…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This brief analyzes the characteristics of a microring resonator (MRR) to perform communication using ultra-short soliton pulses. The raising of nonlinear refractive indices, coupling coefficients and radius of the single microring…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book offers a critical analysis of the effect of usage of locative social media on the perceptions and phenomenal experience of lived in spaces and places. Drawing on users accounts of location-based social networking, a digital post…