Springer nature sep 2008 (72 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Atomistic Modeling of Materials Failure is an introduction to molecular and atomistic modeling techniques applied to solid fracture and deformation. Focusing on a variety of brittle, ductile, geometrically confined and biological materials, this detailed overview includes computational methods at…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Some of our day-to-day situations dealing with self-organization, mobility management, and energy efficient design directly relate to ad hoc wireless (mobile or static) network applications. This book surveys state-of-the-art research regarding several rapidly growing areas in the field with a fo…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Sprekende handen is een uniek werkboek met een methodiek voor ontmoetingsgroepen met en voor dementerende mensen, wonend op psychogeriatrische afdelingen in verpleeg- en verzorgingshuizen.De methodiek is in de praktijk ontwikkeld en sluit aan bij die stromingen in de ouderenzorg die de bel…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This is an account of the many ways in which the Sun affects our planet, how its influence has changed over the last few centuries and millennia, and the extent to which we can predict its future impact. The book is the first to integrate…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This 'nuts and bolts' book provides a condensation of biostatistical methods that applied microbiology researchers need to perform data analyses. Based on the author's more than two decades of applied research and teaching experien…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Foucault on Politics, Society and War interrogates Foucault's controversial genealogy of modern biopolitics. These essays situate Foucault's arguments, clarify the correlation of sovereign and bio-power and examine the relation of…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Using two milestones in the Dutch and German political economies - Wassenaar and Alliance for Jobs respectively - this book argues that Antonio Gramsci's 'common sense' provides us with the conceptual apparatus necessary for analysing the…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Thanks to new transparency rules and increased efforts by scholars, researchers are better equipped than ever before to analyze the decision-making processes of the Council of the European Union and to test old wisdoms. This book covers t…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Myths and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Women's Fiction explores contemporary feminist, postmodernist, and postcolonial women writers' use and revisions of fairy tales and myths. With close readings of works ranging from Margaret Atwood to…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book advances the argument that the arts, from film and literature to painting and comics, offer qualitatively different readings of terror and trauma that endeavor to resist the exploitation and perpetuation of violence. 252 pp. Eng…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book provides a disturbing account of the reality of child abuse. Based on data from 152 countries, Einar Helander considers the physical, societal, economic and judicial consequences of child abuse, proposing a universal, community-…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is the first comprehensive study of French medicine in nineteenth-century Algeria. It argues that the medicalization was a priority for colonial regimes, but this goal was thwarted by ineffectual French medicine, institutional r…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Funk Era and Beyond is the first scholarly collection to discuss the significance of funk music in America. Contributors employ a multitude of methodologies to examine this unique musical genre's relationship to African American cultu…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The authors discussed in this book, including James Fenimore Cooper, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Leslie Marmon Silko, place this cross-cultural contact in nature, not only collapsing cultural and racial boundaries,…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Dutch Sailmaker and sailor Jan Struys' (c.1629-c.1694) account of his various overseas travels became a bestseller after its first publication in Amsterdam in 1676, and was later translated into English, French, German and Russian. This n…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This collection includes original studies from scholars from thirteen nations, who explore the epistemic features figured in John Dewey's writings in his discourses on public schooling. Pragmatism was one of the weapons used in the…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Bringing together memory theory, medieval cognition of images, and the English Corpus Christ drama in an innovative way, this study argues that the relationship of frames or backgrounds to the image has been misunderstood in the study of…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This collection of original essays examines the history of American education as it has developed as a field since the 1970s and moves into a post-revisionist era and looks forward to possible new directions for the future. Contributors t…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Community safety is a narrowly defined concept that allows states to ignore arguably more serious threats caused by pro-market policies and the actions of major corporations. This book redresses the idea of what constitutes a social harm…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Just plain greedy Intrinsically corrupt Or victims of the greatest game on earth, that of making money The Elephant Hunters penetrates the secret world of big deals and investment banking and exposes the psyche and activities of one of th…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -An innovative case study of one of the most recalcitrant member states of the EU: Greece. Based on extensive empirical research, the book relates its evidence to two major conceptual frames: 'Europeanization' and 'varieties of capitalism'…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Macrocomparative researchers use a variety of methodological approaches. This book features analyses of a single substantive topic, comparative employment performance in affluent countries, using three of the most common macrocomparative…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Drawing on the concept of hermeneutics the book argues that the successes and setbacks of conflict transformation in Teso can be understood through analyzing the impact of memory, identity, closure and power on social change and calls for…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Investigating the current interest in obesity and fatness, this book explores the problems and ambiguities that form the lived experience of 'fat' women in contemporary Western society. Engaging with dominant ideas about 'fatness', and an…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Chaucerian Aesthetics examines The Canterbury Tale and Troilus and Criseyde from both medieval and post-Kantian vantage points. These sometimes congruent, sometimes divergent perspectives illuminate both the immediate pleasure of encounte…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In three congregations, representing three distinct social locations, Howell goes beneath the surface to argue that even with these Western forms, these Filipino Baptists are actively constructing themselves and the locality itself in ter…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Guerrero focuses on a selection of Mexican historical novels that are particularly revealing of literary trends during the last three decades. The study addresses the balancing act of Mexican writers as they trace a national identity in t…