taylor francis inc aug 2006 (30 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An Introduction to Reference Services in Academic Libraries is a comprehensive textbook that presents compelling case studies and thought-provoking essays that teach the principles of reference services. Eighteen authorities from private and public academic libraries around the United States offer unique perspectives and solid information in an active learning format that requires students to think and learn. The book provides a stimulating starting point for those learning about planning, managing, and evaluating reference services. Each chapter is thoroughly referenced, and many have charts and activities to help spark student engagement in the learning process. Over 30 tables and figures make complex information easy to access and understand.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - At Play presents a collection of work illustrating the wide scope of intellectual dialogue surrounding digital games, as they have become a focal point for the media in recent years and have increasingly become an area of study in academia. Contributors to this special issue represent an international landscape, and include founders of the game studies area, as well as new researchers who are already infl uencing the fi eld. All of the articles are situated within important areas of communication theory and research, covering such topics as how games impact media economics and cross-media influence on the development of a new medium; the promise and challenges of games as documentary media; and the political subtext in games as it relates to the emergence of a new and ever more important form of persuasive interactive media. The range of both theoretical grounding and method of approach offered in this special.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A collection of one-on-one interviews with some of the top therapists and counsellors in the world. Each interview reveals insights into the therapists' personal lives, their observations on counselling and the helping profession in general.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Lifestyle Market Segmentation gives author and marketing expert Dennis Cahill the chance to put his nearly 30 of years marketing and teaching experience to practical use--to clearly explain the process of market segmentation and its applications. This text goes beyond the obvious demographic and/or geographic categories to get at the 'whys' of customer behaviors, carefully reviewing every facet, from theory to the exploration of applications. Step by step, this easy-to-understand book, written by the author of How Consumers Pick a Hotel: Strategic Segmentation and Target Marketing and other classic marketing books, walks readers through the process, giving real-life examples as illustration as it provides the tools to effectively market by lifestyle segment in today's competitive marketplace. This invaluable text is extensively referenced and includes several tables and figures to clarify concepts and data.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Customer equity is becoming more widely recognized as an important new concept in marketing. This book presents thought-provoking, cutting-edge writing on customer equity management. The editors and contributing authors are top international marketing researchers who share their expertise in this new area of marketing research and practice. Capturing Customer Equity: Moving from Products to Markets is designed to enable academics to chart out future research directions and to help marketers to apply recently developed frameworks to the creation and management of customer equity in domestic and international markets. Handy charts, tables, and figures make complex information easy to access and understand.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' (Romans 13:9) Through the years, religious organizations have worked to fulfill this biblical mandate. Disability Advocacy Among Religious Organizations: Histories and Reflections chronicles the progress of different ministries' advocacy for the disabled since 1950 as they worked toward fulfilling this mission. This enlightening history of several religious organizations' efforts charts the trends in advocacy while offering readers insight into ways to assist people with disabilities both within religious organizations and in society. Issues are explored by drawing upon numerous documents, communications, and in-depth reviews of the advocates' work.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Personal Project Pursuit' features Brian Little's personal projects analysis (PPA), a pioneering theory in motivational psychology. The internal and external dynamics of personal goals and the resulting positive affects of pursuing such projects ar.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Role of the Outdoors in Residential Environments for Aging presents new insights on the positive role nature and the outdoors can play in the lives of older adults, whether they live in the community, in an assisted-living environment, or in a skilled nursing facility. Current research suggests that increased contact and activity levels with the outdoors can be an important therapeutic resource for the elderly, with significant mental and physical health benefits. This unique book examines how to make the most of outdoor spaces in residential settings, exploring attitudes and patterns of use, the effect of plants, the physical environment, and health-related outcomes from contact with nature and enhanced physical activity.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Offers clinicians with instructions on how to change dietary behavior. This book uses examples from work completed in actual patient settings and emphasizes why a strategy works and what may have happened when it is not successful. It discusses exercise and stress reduction and covers organizational skills necessary to implement lifestyle change.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An Introduction to Reference Services in Academic Libraries is a comprehensive textbook that presents compelling case studies and thought-provoking essays that teach the principles of reference services. Eighteen authorities from private and public academic libraries around the United States offer unique perspectives and solid information in an active learning format that requires students to think and learn. The book provides a stimulating starting point for those learning about planning, managing, and evaluating reference services. Each chapter is thoroughly referenced, and many have charts and activities to help spark student engagement in the learning process. Over 30 tables and figures make complex information easy to access and understand.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Progressing from the fundamentals of quantum mechanics to more advanced topics, this book provides a comprehensive examination of many applications that pertain to modern physics and engineering. It begins by discussing the use of Fourier transform pairs to introduce operators in a clear way. In subsequent chapters, the author examines the Schrdinger equation, develops the appropriate operators for angular momentum, gives methods for examining time-dependent systems, and addresses special systems of interest, such as lasers and hadrons. The appendices explore matrices, functions, and physical constants, and give answers to selected problems. Throughout, the author provides relevant mathematical derivations where appropriate.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Internet Guide to Herbal Remedies helps you find reliable online resources for the information you need about herbs used to treat a variety of medical conditions, including cancer, heart disease, depression, and AIDS. This easy-to-use consumer guide will help you steer clear of misleading-and potentially harmful-information that often amounts to nothing more than a thinly veiled product advertisement, as you search for the accurate and up-to-date news, facts, and advice that are out there-if you know where to look. The book guides you through Web sites, mailing lists, and newsgroups to uncover safe health information that's aimed at specific conditions and specific populations; there's even a chapter on herbs for pets!

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Therapy's Best is a lively and entertaining collection of one-on-one interviews with some of the top therapists and counselors in the world. Educator and psychotherapist Dr. Howard G. Rosenthal talks with twenty of therapy's legends, including Albert Ellis, arguably the greatest clinical psychologist and therapist of our time; assertiveness training pioneer Robert Alberti; experiential psychotherapist Al Mahrer; and William Glasser, the father of reality therapy and choice theory. Each interview reveals insights into the therapists' personal lives, their observations on counseling, and the helping profession in general, and their thoughts on what really works when dealing with clients in need.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Potatoes are a crucial food crop around the world, grown in nearly 150 countries. The Handbook of Potato Production, Improvement, and Postharvest Management compiles everything you need to know about potato crop production in one well-organized reference. Leading international authorities clearly discuss the biology, genetics, breeding, diseases, and effective approaches for improvement of crop and handling after harvest. This one-of-a-kind text explores, from interdisciplinary perspectives, every aspect of potato crop management from seed germination to end use while presenting the most current research available.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Offering a review and synthesis of empirical research and theoretical discussion of design as cognitive activity, this work reconciles and integrates the classical view of design, as conceptualized by Herbert Simon's symbolic information processing approach, with views of design such as the situativity approach, as formulated by Donald Schon.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The purpose of Remembering the Times of Our Lives: Memory in Infancy and Beyond is to trace the development from infancy through adulthood in the capacity to form, retain, and later retrieve autobiographical or personal memories.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Personal Project Pursuit' features Brian Little's personal projects analysis (PPA), a pioneering theory in motivational psychology. The internal and external dynamics of personal goals and the resulting positive affects of pursuing such projects ar.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Covers topics including magnetic circuits and motors including simulating magnetic hysteresis, wave-scattering variables, and modal methods for distributed-parameter models; inclusion of kinetic energy in the simulation of thermodynamic systems; and, Lagrangian methods of modeling.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The pink tourism dollar is now recognized as a highly profitable niche of the tourism market. Gay Tourism: Culture and Context critically investigates the emergence of a commercial gay tourism industry for male clients, the way it is organized, and how the tourism industry promotes cities, resorts, and nations as 'gay' destinations. This careful examination critically questions the social, political, and cultural implications regarding relationships between gay tourism, Western gay male culture, the erotic, sexual politics, and sexual diversity.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Written by well-known, international authors, this comprehensive reference provides practical coverage of the best hair drug testing techniques and examines the drugs themselves. The authors review all new developments, the validation of analytical procedures, and the interpretation of data. Some of the applications discussed include doping, drug-facilitated crime investigating, workplace testing, and the granting of drivers' licenses. The authors describe specific drugs, such as opiates, cocaine, and cannabis, and discuss the different testing methods of them. The book also covers postmortem toxicology, pitfalls created by passive exposure, and testing for metals, including inductively coupled plasma spectrometry (ICP-MS), hair multielementary analysis, and the new speciation analysis.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Elder Abuse and Mistreatment is a comprehensive overview of current policy issues, new practice models, and up-to-date research on elder abuse and neglect. Experts in the field provide insight into elder abuse with newly examined populations to create an understanding of how to design service plans for victims of abuse and family mistreatment. The book addresses all forms of abuse and neglect, examining the value issues and ethical dilemmas that social workers face in providing service to elderly abuse victims and their families.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Written by internationally respected experts, Handbook of Human Helminthiasis provides information essential in the development of an integrated approach to the prevention, control and treatment of disease caused by endoparasitic helminths. The text is divided into sections dealing with the main groups of helminth infections and the diseases they induce. Each section addresses diagnostic techniques, epidemiology/distribution, pathogenesis, morbidity/pathology, treatment, prevention, and control. Emphasis is placed on methods for reducing morbidity, interrupting and reducing transmission, and techniques to prevent infection. This book is intended to be a practical manual for all involved in reducing the burden of disease and the economic costs of human helminthiasis.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Written by experienced and accomplished leaders in the field, this critical work provides comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals, technologies, applications, and recent developments of polymeric foams. The authors first outline the basic principles and fundamental foaming mechanisms, covering thermodynamics, kinetics, and the basics of blowing agents and foam formation. Foaming technologies and product applications then become the focus, with explanations of structure-property relationships, processing methods, and general types of foams. The book concludes with chapters on recent developments in composite and biodegradable foams that illustrate how to tailor processing to meet application needs.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Compiles what one would need to know about potato crop production. This title discusses the biology, genetics, breeding, diseases and effective approaches for improvement of crop and handling after harvest. It explores, from interdisciplinary perspectives, various aspects of potato production.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Focusing on specific pathways or pathway components, Analysis of Growth Factor Signaling in Embryos provides the methods and guidelines for experimental design to study cell signaling in vertebrate embryos. With contributions from top researchers, the book incorporates molecular, cellular, and systems analysis while discussing signal transduction, protein phosphorylation, embryogenesis, pattern formation, and morphogenesis. It also covers multiple types of signaling components, including receptors, GTPases, and effector kinases, and discusses all of the major vertebrate embryonic model systems, such as Xenopus, mouse, zebrafish, and chick. This book will provide a foundation for further explorations of the cellular regulatory mechanisms governing vertebrate embryonic development.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Designed to raise awareness of the current techniques of measurement and control, this book will aid in the design of instruments and control schemes, explain the applicability of these tools to enhance quality and productivity, and educate students preparing to enter the food industry. Divided into five major chapters, the book lays a solid foundation for understanding the role of transducers and controllers, covers the most recent developments and applications in measurement techniques, and explains non-traditional methods such as electronic nose, biosensors, fuzzy logic control, and microcomputer-based monitoring. Bridging the gap between food processing and instrumentation, this book ensures that together they can consistently make a decent cup of tea.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - As radiological residue, both naturally occurring and technologically driven, works its way through the ecosystem, we see its negative effects on the human population. This book provides the essential informative tool for understanding the environmental behavior of different radionuclides, their transfer through the ecosystem, subsequent concentrations in the raw food materials, an estimation of their human risks, and perspectives for transfer prevention. The book gives up-to-date information on monitoring programs and legislation, detection systems, safety protocols in radioanalytical laboratories and in food processing, as well as the effects of illicit trafficking and masking of radioactive materials by the growing radiological terrorist threat.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Molecular and Colloidal Electro-Optics presents a well-integrated yet multi-disciplinary treatment of fundamental principles, strategies, and applications of electro-optic techniques for the characterization of macromolecular, small-particle, and nanomolecular systems. The book highlights the latest achievements in electro-optic theory, particularly low-frequency relaxation, and the unique advantage of using electro-optics as an alternative to conventional characterization and analysis of colloidal systems. As the first treatment of this subject to surface in more than fifteen years, this book is a definitive, up-to-date portrait of modern colloidal electro-optic science that is ideal for advanced graduate students and researchers in biophysical chemistry, microbiology, polymer, colloid, and nanoscience.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A continuation of 'Flora Evropeiskoi hasti SSSR [Flora of Russia: The European Part and Bordering Regions]', this book includes 45 families of higher plants along with 62 genera and 860 species. Besides the wild and introduced species, it also includes important cultivated species.