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View book details for Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities
A Global Assessment
Urbanization is a global phenomenon and the book emphasizes that this is not just a social-technological process. It is also a social-ecological process where cities are places for nature, and where cities also are dependent on, and have impacts on, …
View book details for Storytelling in der internen Unternehmenskommunikation
Nutzen und Einsatz von Geschichten in der Unternehmenspraxis
Tatiana Belgorodski untersucht erstmals das Erzahlen von Geschichten, das Storytelling, mit Blick auf die interne Unternehmenskommunikation. Sie zeigt auf, wie Geschichten wirken und von welchen Einflussfaktoren ihr Nutzen fur die interne (Change-)Kommunikation abhangt. Vor dem Hintergrund kognitions- und sozialpsychologischer Erkenntnisse …
View book details for Okonomisierung und Sakularisierung
Neue Herausforderungen der konfessionellen Wohlfahrtspflege in Deutschland
Konfessionelle Wohlfahrtsorganisationen haben sich im Zuge der Einfuhrung eines modernen Sozialstaates zu einer wichtigen Saule des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalts entwickelt. Allerdings werden sie infolge der Prozesse Globalisierung, Migration, Sakularisierung, Pluralisierung und Rationalisierung gegenwartig vor neue Herausforderungen gestellt. Der Gedanke der interkonfessionellen …
Die Kindler Kompakt Bande prasentieren in handlicher Form die 30-40 wichtigsten Autoren und Werke einer Literatur eines Jahrhunderts. Auf 208 Seiten werden sie vorgestellt. Dazu gibt es eine kompakte Einleitung des Herausgebers. Hier werden die Epochen verortet, die groen Linien …
View book details for Magnetic Stochasticity in Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasmas
Chaos of Field Lines and Charged Particle Dynamics
This is the first book to systematically consider the modern aspects of chaotic dynamics of magnetic field lines and charged particles in magnetically confined fusion plasmas. The analytical models describing the generic features of equilibrium magnetic fields and magnetic perturbations …
View book details for Development Cooperation
Challenges of the New Aid Architecture
The aims of and motives for development cooperation have changed significantly in recent times. Besides pursuing short- and longer-term objectives in their own economic, foreign policy and other interests, donors usually have a recognisable and genuine interest in assisting countries …
This progressive reference redefines qualitative research as a crucial component of evidence-based practice and assesses its current and future impact on healthcare. Its introductory section explains the value of sociocultural context in case conceptualization, and ways this evidence can be …
View book details for Evidence for Public Policy Design
How to Learn from Best Practice
Learning from the successes and failures of others is a necessity in the field of public sector innovation. This book develops guidelines for policymakers, practitioners and policy analysts to understand what drives policy success and to transfer innovations from a …
In April 2007, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) approved the Priority Program 1324 Mathematical Methods for Extracting Quantifiable Information from Complex Systems. This volume presents a comprehensive overview of the most important results obtained over the course of the program. Mathematical …
View book details for Mobile Networks and Management
7th International Conference, MONAMI 2015, Santander, Spain, September 16-18, 2015, Revised Selected Papers
This book constitutes the post-proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management, MONAMI 2015, held in Santander, Spain, in September 2015. The 16 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. In addition there appears …
View book details for Tidal Streams in the Local Group and Beyond
Observations and Implications
This volume is written by leading scientists in the field, who review the current state of our knowledge of tidal streams in the Milky Way, the Andromeda galaxy, and in other nearby galaxies. The cosmological origins of dwarf galaxies and …
This volume presents a collection of papers covering applications from a wide range of systems with infinitely many degrees of freedom studied using techniques from stochastic and infinite dimensional analysis, e.g. Feynman path integrals, the statistical mechanics of polymer chains, …
This book explores the role of children and young people within early modern England's Catholic minority. It examines Catholic attempts to capture the next generation, Protestant reactions to these initiatives, and the social, legal and political contexts in which young …
View book details for Privacy and the Past
Research, Law, Archives, Ethics
Rutgers University Press
When the new HIPAA privacy rules regarding the release of health information took effect, medical historians suddenly faced a raft of new ethical and legal challengeseven in cases where their subjects had died years, or even a century, earlier. In …
View book details for Twelve Years a Slave
Illustrated
HarperCollins Canada
Twelve Years a Slave is the immensely popular memoir of Solomon Northup, a free-born African-American who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. in 1841 and sold into slavery. He toiled on plantations in Louisiana under the harshest of conditions until his …
Triumph Books
With traditions, records, and team lore, this lively book explores the personalities, events, and facts every Badgers fan should know. This guide to all things Badgers covers football and basketball (and even a little hockey), including the Barry Alvarez years, …
View book details for TakeNote PHYS 1201 Why the Sky Is Blue: Aspects of the Physical World
Reprint Fall 2015
TakeNote
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View book details for TakeNote: AEM 2400 Marketing
Reprint: Fall 2012
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View book details for TakeNote NS 2750 Human Biology and Evolution
Reprint Fall 2015
TakeNote
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View book details for When Good Jobs Go Bad
Globalization, De-unionization, and Declining Job Quality in the North American Auto Industry
Rutgers University Press
From Chinese factories making cheap toys for export, to sweatshops in Bangladesh where name-brand garments are sewnstudies on the impact of globalization on workers have tended to focus on the worst jobs and the worst conditions. But in When Good …
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The Story of Colorado's Gold and Silver Rushes
Fulcrum Publishing
For forty years they flooded Coloradogold diggers, silver miners, outlaws, gamblers, and pioneerslooking for another Golden Fleece. Colorado comes alive in this classic overview of the gold and silver rushes, where fortunes were won and lost. Phyllis Flanders Dorset has …
View book details for From Alba to Aotearoa
Profiling New Zealand's Scots Migrants 18401920
Otago University Press
Scots made up nearly 20 percent of the immigrant population of New Zealand to 1920, yet until the past few years the exact origins of New Zealand's Scots migrants have remained blurred. From Alba to Aotearoa establishes for the first …
View book details for Planes, Trains, and Auto-Rickshaws
A Journey through Modern India
Fulcrum Publishing
A travel essay of a recent visit to India, which reveals, with humor and insight, the tensions and contradictions facing the emerging world power. In particular, the book explores the roles of women and children in India today and includes …
Peter Owen Publishers
Who but the Marquis de Sade would write, not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love, but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards for selfless love in these stories; tragedy, despair, and death …
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