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View book details for An Instrument of Peace
The Full-Circled Life of Ambassador Guillermo Belt Ramirez
This book presents a meticulously-researched biography on Guillermo Belt Ramirez, one of Cubas most important diplomats of the 20th century. As Ambassador, Belt represented his homeland in the United States and the Soviet Union as the Cold War turned wartime …
View book details for Environmental Radiation Effects on Mammals
A Dynamical Modeling Approach
Dr. Smirnova's updated text is devoted to the theoretical studies of radiation effects on mammals. It summarizes 35 years of results the author obtained from analyzing dose rate equivalents for the Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR) and for Solar Particles Events …
View book details for Charakterisierung der Kratzanfalligkeit von Glasern im Bauwesen
Characterisation of the scratch sensitivity of glasses in civil engineering
Der sprode Werkstoff Glas wird immer haufiger fur konstruktive Bauteile verwendet, sodass er heute baurechtlich den konventionellen Materialien des konstruktiven Ingenieurbaus nahezu gleichgestellt ist. Im Gegensatz zu duktilen Werkstoffen konnen mechanische Oberflachendefekte, wie beispielsweise Kratzer und Eindrucke, die Anwendbarkeit jedoch …
This book analyses the voluminous and meandering case law on gambling of the Court of Justice from an empirical perspective. It offers a comprehensive overview of the legal situation of gambling services in the EU Single Market. Additionally, the book …
View book details for Executing Truth
Public Policy and the Threat of Social Science
Lexington Books
With the increasing use of algorithms to govern public life, a proliferation of promises surrounding big data, and an ever tighter union of academic specialists and the state bureaucracy, we are, it seems, on our way to an administrative utopia. …
View book details for Cultivating Creativity through World Films
Exploring Cinematic Narratives Featuring Child Protagonists
With the aim to help teachers design and deliver instruction around world films featuring child protagonists, Cultivating Creativity through World Films guides readers to understand the importance of fostering creativity in the lives of youth. It is expected that by …
Lexington Books
This philosophical monograph on forgiveness is the first of its kind to be written from a feminist perspective. Kathryn J. Norlock urges scholars to attend to gender when analyzing and recommending forgiveness in practice. She demonstrates that while many academics …
This volume brings together various theories of how aberrations in mitochondrial function and morphology contribute to neurodegeneration in idiopathic and familial forms of Parkinsons disease. Moreover, it comprehensively reviews the current search for therapies, and proposes how molecules are involved …
View book details for The Unexpected Journey of Caring
The Transformation from Loved One to Caregiver
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
With a foreword by Judy Woodruff, The Unexpected Journey of Caring is a practical guide to finding personal meaning in the 21st century care experience.Personal transformation is usually an experience we actively seek outnot one that hunts us down. Becoming …
Evaluates the capacity of Fairtrade labeling to enhance the livelihoods of marginalized producers in developing countries. It looks critically at the evolution of fair trade values and markets, including its somewhat controversial engagement with conventional businesses, and problematizes the role …
View book details for Crafting Dissent
Handicraft as Protest from the American Revolution to the Pussyhats
Pussyhats, typically crafted with yarn, quite literally created a sea of pink the day after Donald J. Trump became the 45th president of the United States in January 2017, as the inaugural Womens March unfolded throughout the U.S., and sister …
View book details for Communicating Mental Health
History, Contexts, and Perspectives
Communicating Mental Health: History, Contexts, and Perspectives explores mental health through the lens of the communication discipline. In the first section, contributors describe the major contributions of the communication discipline as it pertains to a broader perspective and stigma of …
Representing Rural Women highlights the complexity and diversity of representations of rural women in the U.S. and Canada from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The 15 chapters in this collection offer fresh perspectives on representations of rural women in literature, …
View book details for Dialogues with Shklovsky
The Duvakin Interviews 19671968
Lexington Books
Dialogues with Shklovsky: The Duvakin Interviews 19671968 reflects the spirit of timeswhen the most dramatic events of the twentieth century were happening in Russia and the USSR. The first English translation of the 19671968 interviews with the founder of the …
View book details for Personal Peacefulness
Psychological Perspectives
Personal Peacefulness examines the existing theories and knowledge about the peacefulness of individuals, including inner peace, interpersonal peacefulness, and peaceful attitudes towards groups and nations. It uses the term personal peacefulness to refer to the peaceful states, attitudes, and behaviors …
View book details for Imagined Borders/Lived Ambiguity
Intersections of Repression and Resistance
Lexington Books
Imagined Borders/Lived Ambiguity: Intersections of Repression and Resistance examines the theoretical versatility of the concept of borders. The impulse to categorize, while present from antiquity in Western culture, has increased in intensity since the advent of the modern age with …
View book details for Wissenstransfer bei der Reintegration von Expatriates
Theoretische und empirische Analyse unternehmensinterner Strukturen und Prozesse
Stefan Doetsch untersucht, wie Muttergesellschaften multinationaler Unternehmen die Nutzenpotentiale erschlieen konnen, die sich aus dem Wissen ergeben, welches Expatriates wahrend ihres Auslandseinsatzes erworben haben. Der Autor identifiziert unternehmensinterne Strukturen und Prozesse, die notig sind, um den umfassenden und systematischen Transfer …
View book details for Combinatorial Optimization and Graph Algorithms
Communications of NII Shonan Meetings
Covering network designs, discrete convex analysis, facility location and clustering problems, matching games, and parameterized complexity, this book discusses theoretical aspects of combinatorial optimization and graph algorithms. Contributions are by renowned researchers who attended NII Shonan meetings on this essential …
View book details for Mathematik der Information
Theorie und Anwendungen der Shannon-Wiener Information
Ausgehend vom Shannon-Wiener-Zugang zur mathematischen Informationstheorie, die eine mathematische "Messung" einer Informationsmenge erlaubt, beginnt das Buch mit einer Abgrenzung der Begriffe Nachricht und Information und der axiomatischen Zuordnung einer Informationsmenge zu einer Wahrscheinlichkeit. Im zweiten Teil werden abzahlbare Wahrscheinlichkeitsraume untersucht, …
View book details for Das europaische Arzneimittelrecht
Zentrale Rechtsfragen des Arzneimittelzulassungsverfahrens
Im Fokus des Buches von Regina Kroll steht die Analyse des gesamten Zulassungsverfahrens, vom Anwendungsbereich uber die Besonderheiten des Zulassungsantrages und den Verfahrensablauf bis zur Phase nach Erteilung der Zulassung. Beleuchtet werden auerdem die Entwicklung des europaischen Arzneimittelrechts, die Ubertragung …
View book details for Ketzer, Kreuzzuge, Inquisition
Die Vernichtung der Katharer
Der erste Band einer Geschichte professioneller Kontrolle untersucht, wie es im Mittelalter, einer Zeit, in der er noch keinen Staat per se gab, gelang, die vom orthodoxen Glauben abweichenden Ketzer systematisch auszurotten, um damit ein Leitbild fur alle kunftigen Kontroll-Institutionen …
This book presents the basics and characterization of defects at oxide surfaces. It provides a state-of-the-art review of the field, containing information to the various types of surface defects, describes analytical methods to study defects, their chemical activity and the …
This book presents the state of the art of biostatistical methods and their applications in clinical oncology. Many methodologies established today in biostatistics have been brought about through its applications to the design and analysis of oncology clinical studies. This …
View book details for Why the West Fears Islam
An Exploration of Muslims in Liberal Democracies
Jocelyne Cesari examines the idea that Islam might threaten the core values of the West through testimonies from Muslims in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the US. Her book is an unprecedented exploration of Muslim religious and …
Human & Rousseau
How do stories begin, and why? What are the conditions for writing fiction? Need, compulsion, a listener, opportunity, rhetoric. . . In The Snow Sleeper, the art and meaning of storytelling is illuminated in four magically interwoven tales of friendship. …
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