Taylor francis ltd apr 2002 (52 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Written by one of the world's foremost religious authorities, A Christian Faith for Today provides both Christians and sceptics with a much-needed response to modernity's challenge to God.Most people accept that our world is regulated by the laws of natural science, but how should Christian believers reconcile this with faith, incarnation and a loving and intelligent Creator W. Montgomery Watt returns to the Biblical stories and sources at the roots of modern faith and to theological problems such as Jesus' divinity and humanity. He suggests how the miraculous might be understood from a rational perspective and the genuinely transcendental distinguished from allegory and symbolism.Sympathetic to the Gospel, yet acceptable to the modern mind, this is a timely and sensitive exposition of God's manifestation and intervention in the world and of his purposes with us and for us.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The use of participatory research techniques to provide policy-makers with information about poor people's perspectives on poverty became increasingly common in the 1990s. This book focuses on the use of participatory research in poverty reduction policies, and presents a series of participants' reflections on recent and ongoing processes. The 1990s witnessed a shift in the application of participatory methodologies, adding to the project planning approaches of the 1980s a new focus on participatory research for policy. Much of this centres on poverty issues. In this volume, contributions from researchers and practitioners in the field of poverty reduction examine how participatory research has affected the way poverty is understood, and how these understandings have been acted on in policy-making for poverty reduction. Coming from diverse backgrounds, the authors' critical reflections feature various aspects of the relationship between participation and policy, spanning different levels, from the individual researcher to the global institution. They address technical, ethical, operational, political and methodological problems. Through raising their concerns, they highlight lessons to be learnt from current practice, and challenges for the future. These include the balancing of knowledge, action and consciousness in participatory research processes which can effectively influence the development of policy that reflects and responds to the needs and priorities of poor people.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Research in the field is often very different from what is described in research theory. Stage by stage Darlington and Scott outline the processes of qualitative research, drawing on the experiences of leading international researchers in the human services.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book provides a clear, concise, management-orientated approach to atrial fibrillation. It also provides a useful and practical guide to the issues relating to this common cardiac problem, to improve the care and treatment of these patients.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book draws upon new theoretical insights and fresh bodies of data to historically reappraise partition in the light of its long aftermath. It uses a comparative approach by viewing South Asia in its totality, rather than looking at it in narrow 'national' terms. As the first book to focus on the aftermath of partition, it fills a distinctive niche in the study of contemporary South Asia. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This accessible and engaging account looks at how non-human animals process information from their environment.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Effective Learning and Teaching in Higher Education seriesis packed with up-to-date advice, guidance and expert opinion on teaching in the key subjects in higher education today,and isbacked up by the authority of the Institute for Learning and Teaching. This book covers all of the key issues surrounding the effective teaching of maths- a key subject in its own right, and one that forms an important part of many other disciplines. The book includes contributions from a wide range of experts in the field, and has a broad and international perspective. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Explore ways to bring and keep your library's electronic services up to date!From editor Di Su: 'Some years ago, if you were told that a library's catalog would be available on a 24/7/365 basis, you'd think it was just another fiction. Perhaps as influential as Johannes Gutenberg's invention of movable type printing, the Internet is one of the most significant happenings in the information world in modern times.'In addition to showing you how library services have been influenced and enhanced by the advent of the Internet, Evolution in Reference and Information Services: The Impact of the Internet will enable you to make the most of the new opportunities that current technologies offer. This valuable book will also help you and your library avoid the pitfalls and new challenges to professional competency that come along with electronic research.Evolution in Reference and Information Services: - gives you a review of the history of electronic reference - looks at the increasing role of librarians as teachers and providers of technical help for users - provides case studies and ways to evaluate electronic research methods - suggests strategies for providing effective electronic services - examines government Web sites - explores Internet sources of health information - shows you how to establish electronic services through your library's portal site - looks at how to manage a library computer lab and much more.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Worldwide, the number of poor people increased during the past decade, despite technological improvements, more open trade, and improved policy frameworks in developing countries. Regional conflicts, adverse shifts in terms of trade, and marginalization of poor countries in the new global economy explain this outcome. This highlights the need to reform development assistance and improve its effectiveness. Making Development Work examines the four key principles of the Comprehensive-Development Framework, a World Bank initiative currently being piloted in twelve developing counties. The initiative promotes a holistic long-term vision of development, domestic ownership of development programs, and focus on results; and stronger partnership between government, the private sector, and the civil society. The first section of the volume describes the evolution in development thinking that culminated in this new consensus. The second focuses on country ownership of development policies and programs. Based on empirical evidence, it proposes a new view of the aid relationship as a mutual-learning process. The third section focuses on results and on the ways aid agencies might enhance development impact of their operations. It concludes with a preliminary assessment of strategies for scaling up from specific projects to sector and programmatic approaches, and suggests ways to adapt them to counter conditions. The experience of a bilateral aid agency, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is examined in this context. The fourth section focuses on partnership, emphasizing that aid agencies must be explicit about the kinds of partnerships they seek with countries and the kinds of strategic selectivity they will exercise. The final chapter pulls together the lessons of development experience at various levels of operation. It outlines key tensions between comprehensiveness and selectivity, ownership and conditionality, speed and broad-based ownership, focus on results and poor local evaluation capacity, and enhanced country focus and globalization. Promising approaches to manage these tensions are put forward to replace one-size-fits-all prescriptions with client empowerment and social learning. Making Development Work offers rich lessons on improving the effectiveness of aid. It will be of particular interest to development practitioners, students and professors of development economics studies. Nagy Hanna is a lead corporate strategist and evaluation officer at the World Bank. He has published extensively on development, management, and knowledge. Robert Picciotto is director-general of Operations Evaluation at the World Bank.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A collection of essays about different representations of architecture including architectural writing, drawing, journalism and history, photography and various cultures, ideas and bias that each media carries.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Cluster physics is the foundation of the increasingly important field of nanotechnology. Clusters, ranging in size from a few to many millions of atoms, constitute a fascinating field of research in physics, chemistry and materials science. They are formed by most of the elements of the Periodic Table, and the types of bonding and the resultant clusters are equally as varied.This book introduces atomic clusters, ranging from weakly-bonded clusters of argon to strongly-bonded carbon clusters and metal nano-particles. It includes worked examples to enable lecturers and students to gauge their understanding and progress. Atomic and Molecular Clusters describes the experimental generation, detection and interrogation of clusters and theoretical approaches developed to aid understanding of their physical properties. It classifies clusters according to their bonding types and gives examples of present and possible future applications of clusters in electronic, optical and magnetic devices.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In a diverse and innovative selection of new essays by cutting-edge theologians and philosophers, Suffering Religion examines one of the most primitive but challenging questions to define human experience - why do we suffer As a theme uniting very different religious and cultural traditions, the problem of suffering addresses issues of passivity, the vulnerability of embodiment, the generosity of love and the complexity of gendered desire. Interdisciplinary studies bring different kinds of interpretations to meet and enrich each other. Can the notion of goodness retain meaning in the face of real affliction, or is pain itself in conflict with meaning Themes covered include:\*philosophy's own failure to treat suffering seriously, with special reference to the Jewish tradition\*Martin Buber's celebrated interpretations of scriptural suffering\*suffering in Kristevan psychoanalysis, focusing on the Christian theology of the cross\*the pain of childbirth in a home setting as a religiously significant choice\*Gods primal suffering in the kabbalistic tradition\*Incarnation as a gracious willingness to suffer.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Understanding the Properties of Matter: 2nd Edition takes a unique phenomenological approach to the presentation of matter, materials, and solid-state physics. After an overview of basic ideas and a reminder of the importance of measurement, the author considers in turn gases, solids, liquids, and phase changes. For each topic, the focus is on 'what happens.' After a preliminary examination of data on the properties of matter, the author raises, then addresses a series of questions concerning the data. It is only in answering these questions that he adopts the theoretical approach to the properties of matter. This approach can reawaken in readers the fascination for the subject that inspired some of the greatest physicists of our age.Examples and extensive exercises reinforce the concepts. A supporting Web site furnishes for free download a plethora of additional materials, including:' Supplementary chapters on the band theory of solids and the magnetic properties of solids' Copies of all the data talbes used in the book, in PDF and spreadsheet formats' Enlarged copies of all figures' A simple molecular dynamics simulation' Animations uillustrating important featrues of key equations' Answers to the end-of-chapter exercisesUnderstanding the Properties of Matter is an entertaining and innovative text accessible at the undergraduate level.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The perfect introduction to the essence of Jung's teaching for the reader unfamiliar with his ideas. It is a book that will awaken many to the new life of the self that Jung visualized.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Written in the 1950s at the height of popular fascination with UFO's, this is the great psychologists brilliantly prescient meditation on the phenomenon that gripped the world.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This lively and intellectually vigorous conspectus of studies approaches the subject of exile from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The contributions to this volume give due attention to the twentieth century migratory phenomena, theorised by Edward Said, Julia Kristeva and Salman Rushdie. They also show that the discourse and experience of exile is not the stuff of modernity alone. The volume illustrates that the waning of the Middle Ages, Reformation and Restoration politics, and the importation of Egyptian mummies into a nineteenth-century England hungry for imperial exotica reveal displacement, dislocation, otherness and the uncanniness of observing strangers-on-display to have long been part of European cultural currency. The essays range across a variety of disciplines: literary studies, modern languages, history of science, philosophy and museum studies. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - There is increasing cooperation between genomics-influenced researchers, with their strong grasp of technology and evolutionary morphogenetists, more deeply rooted in comparative biology and patterns of plant evolution. This title discusses gene function and expression to highlight specific key transitions in plant evolution.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is the founding text of modern feminism. In this sourcebook, Adriana Craciun provides the ideal starting point for students new to Wollstonecraft's revolutionary work, providing carefully focused introductory materials combined with reprinted and newly annotated source documents. Key materials in this sourcebook include: \*letters by Wollstonecraft and important contemporary documents \*nineteenth-century responses to the text \*twentieth-century critical readings \*annotated key passages, cross-referenced to critical texts \*suggestions for further reading. This is the essential guide to a key literary and political text.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book examines the construction of national, regional, and group identities in the football journalism of five European countries: England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Notions of the respective national stereotypes are explored in each of the countries studied.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume demystifies school self-evaluation and encourages schools to be self-critical and self-confident. It helps schools and teachers develop the necessary confidence to work with evaluation tools.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An introductory overview of the immunology of cancer including therapeutic approaches, this book will be an invaluable source for clinicians, researchers and students of immunology and molecular biology.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - With extensive diagrams and illustrations throughout, the editors have drawn together an international list of contributors to produce Nerve Compression Syndromes of the Upper Limb. This comprehensive text will assist the surgeon in managing the most common compression neuropathies in all patients from the everyday worker to the musician and the athlete.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Coal Industry of the Former USSR presents a two-part study of coal supply systems and development of the industry in the territory of the former USSR. The first part covers the role of coal in the economy, provides an overview of current status and forecast of the eight major coal basins and environmental problems associated with the industry. It concludes with a discussion of the principles and problems related to the development of regional energy problems. The second part covers technological advances and development of coal carbonization, gasification, liquefaction and agglomeration. The book ends with a discussion on how to improve efficiency and information on coal waste utilization.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - When you take on responsibility for other people you need a framework to understand and address how they think, feel and behave. Facilitation provides that framework. It doesn't offer you proscriptive solutions; instead it uses, proven principles and practice to enable you to get the best out of each of the people with whom you are working. As a facilitator, you also need to be able to adapt your style and approach to the situation you are in. This requires good self-awareness and a solid understanding of your role and responsibilities. Once this is in place you can then start to facilitate teams, coach colleagues and train groups effectively. In Anthony Landale and Mica Douglas's The Fast Facilitator, the authors have established a format based around both the core skills that facilitators need to develop as well as the issues they will have to face at work. It is divided into three parts - Essential Facilitation, Groups and Team Facilitation and Creative Facilitation - offering material to suit all facilitators whatever their level of expertise. The manual will help you develop your own understanding of facilitation as well as providing interventions and activities that you can use with others. It includes: ¢ Theoretical insights and models to help you understand the dynamics of people management; ¢ Activities, exercises, games and practice sessions which managers or trainers can use with their groups to build skills around work issues; ¢ Coaching ideas and techniques for managers who may want extra guidance when working one-to-one with team members; and ¢ A wealth of techniques, reading sources, inspirational ideas and practical exercises for the facilitator's own self-development. The Fast Facilitator illustrates the competencies that practising facilitators need to develop and shows just how this distinctive approach can make a real difference to the way people operate and the outcomes that can be achieved in organizations.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Planning Law Reports in this volume are an indispensable reference for planning law practitioners and students and offer an archive of cases pertaining to agriculture, enforcement notice, negligence, statutory nuisance, and structure planning.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This title available in Elektronisches Buch format. Click here for more information.Visit our Elektronisches Buchstore at: Elektronisches Buchstore.tandf.co.uk.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume is a compendium of four Battle Summaries or Naval Staff Histories produced soon after the war by the Naval Historical Branch of the Admiralty. Originally classified and designed for internal use only, these histories are published here for the first time. The documents in this book cover the actions that resulted in the sinking or immobilising of the German warships 'Bismarck' and 'Graf Spee,' and records the struggle to rid the seas of the meance of the armed merchant raiders. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In this book the authors evaluate existing studies and discuss new ideas and approaches to future investigations into the physiological actions of this hormone.