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Published by Springer Nature Singapore Jan 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 8847004357ISBN 13: 9788847004351
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Proofs from THE BOOK è un'opera straordinaria che ha saputo calamitare l'interesse di numerosissimi lettori, matematici e non, come poche altre di argomento matematico apparse in questi ultimi anni. Dall'edizione originale in lingua inglese, pubblicata nel 1998, sono poi state prodotte due altre edizioni in inglese e un numero in continua crescita di traduzioni in altre lingue (undici alla data in cui diamo alle stampe questa edizione). Proofs from THE BOOK rappresenta un'opera unica nel suo genere. La matematica è una disciplina costruita su teorie codificate in lemmi e teoremi le cui dimostrazioni sono sempre rigorose, spesso avvincenti e creative, talvolta bellissime. E' proprio la tensione dei matematici di ogni epoca, che li spinge a cercare dimostrazioni belle, ad aver ispirato gli autori, i quali, insieme con il grande matematico ungherese Paul Erdos, immaginano che vi sia UN LIBRO (forse addirittura di ispirazione divina) che contenga le dimostrazioni più significative ed avvincenti della matematica, quelle che rasentano la perfezione. E questa monografia vuole proporre alcuni esempi di dimostrazioni che, presumibilmente, dovrebbero trovare posto nel LIBRO, cioè in THE BOOK. Paul Erdos amava parlare del Libro in cui Dio conserva le dimostrazioni perfette per i teoremi matematici, seguendo il detto di G. H. Hardy secondo il quale non vi è posto perenne per la matematica brutta. Erdos disse anche che non è necessario credere in Dio, tuttavia in quanto matematici si deve credere nel Libro. Alcuni anni fa gli autori gli suggerirono di scrivere una prima (e assai modesta) approssimazione del Libro. Egli fu entusiasta e, come gli era peculiare, si mise immediatamente al lavoro, riempiendo pagine su pagine con i suoi suggerimenti. Essendo sfortunatamente morto nell'estate del 1996, Paul non compare come co-autore. Tuttavia questo libro è dedicato alla sua memoria. 268 pp. Italienisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Jan 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 0230551939ISBN 13: 9780230551930
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Each year thousands of people die from bacteria resistant to antibiotics. Alternative drugs are urgently needed. A surprising ray of hope from the past are viruses that kill bacteria, but not us. Award-winning science journalist Thomas Häusler investigates how these long-forgotten cures may help sick people today. 298 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Jan 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 1403970084ISBN 13: 9781403970084
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A series of fascinating chapters analyze cookery books through the ages. From the convenience-food cookbooks of the 1950s, to the 1980s rise in 'white trash' cookbooks, and the surprise success of the Two Fat Ladies books from the 1990s, leading author Sherrie Inness discusses how women have used such books over the years to protest social norms. 246 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Jan 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 1403962790ISBN 13: 9781403962799
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A leading Turkish political scientist enhances understanding of the interactions of liberal democracy with longstanding cultural cleavages along secular-religious lines, ethnicity, and social class. This chronological narrative focuses on how the process of urbanization and industrialization has led to social mobilization and population movements. 242 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Jan 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 1403945268ISBN 13: 9781403945266
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This innovative study investigates the emergence and impact of the lower middle class on British print culture through the figure of the office clerk. This interdisciplinary work offers important insights into a previously neglected area of social and book history, and explores key works by George Gissing, Forster and JB Priestley. 211 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1403962804ISBN 13: 9781403962805
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A leading Turkish political scientist enhances understanding of the interactions of liberal democracy with longstanding cultural cleavages along secular-religious lines, ethnicity, and social class. This chronological narrative focuses on how the process of urbanization and industrialization has led to social mobilization and population movements. 242 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Jan 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 1403989478ISBN 13: 9781403989475
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Taking insights and controversies from feminist political theory, Lu looks to illuminate alternative images of 'sovereignty as privacy' and 'sovereignty as responsibility', and to identify new challenges arising from the increased agency of private global civil society, and their relationship with the world of states. 216 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1403987718ISBN 13: 9781403987716
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book looks at the issues confronting the public sector in developing countries in an era of globalization and provides lessons from implementing public sector reforms. It examines the potential and limits of managerial, fiscal and decentralization reforms and highlights cases where use of new management reforms has delivered positive results. 294 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Jan 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 1403947643ISBN 13: 9781403947642
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores the relationships between the day-to-day activities of managers in multinational firms, and the wider social, institutional and cultural contexts in which they operate. It examines new qualitative research material and applies theoretical approaches previously unexplored in the fields of international management and business. 234 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Jan 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 0230210139ISBN 13: 9780230210134
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -What can the printed texts of plays from Shakespeare's time say about performance How have printed plays been read and interpreted This collection of essays considers the evidence of early modern printed plays and their histories of production and reception, examining a wide variety of cases, from early performance to the psychology of Hamlet. 267 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Jan 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 1403969957ISBN 13: 9781403969958
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In a conversational style and in chronological sequence, Ye Weili and Ma Xiaodong recount their earlier lives in China from the 1950s to the 1980s, a particularly eventful period that included the catastrophic Cultural Revolution. Using their own stories as two case studies, they examine the making of a significant yet barely understood generation in recent Chinese history. They also reflect upon the mixed legacy of the early decades of the People's Republic of China (PRC). In doing so, the book strives for a balance between critical scrutiny of a complex era and the sweeping rejection of that era that recent victim literature embraces. Ultimately Ye and Ma intend to reconnect themselves to a piece of land and a period of history that have given them a sense of who they are. Their stories contain intertwining layers of personal, generational, and historical experiences. Unlike other memoirs that were written soon after the events of the Cultural Revolution, Ye and Ma's narratives have been put together some twenty years later, allowing for more critical distance. The passage of time has allowed them to consider important issues that other accounts omit, such as the impact of gender during this period of radical change in Chinese women's lives. 177 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Jan 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 0333970373ISBN 13: 9780333970379
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book evaluates three decades of change in employment and social regulation, questioning the paradigm of Post-Fordism as a stable development within contemporary capitalism. Bringing together leading commentators, it critiques the assumption that there is a new stable, decentralized regime of employment that is post-bureaucratic and flexible. 232 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Jan 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 1403946620ISBN 13: 9781403946621
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This comprehensive, in-depth assessment of the German foreign policy record under the Red-Green government of Gerhard Schröder and Joschka Fischer from 1998 to 2005, produced by a team of German and international experts, explores the idea of continuity and the sources, depths and directions of German foreign policy. 296 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Jan 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 1403945640ISBN 13: 9781403945648
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Incorporating an accurate measure of risk is important to the appraisal of an international investment. This book examines and recommends how decisions on international investment projects are made. Critiquing and integrating existing theory, it shows how risk can be incorporated into the present value formula produce a clear decision rule. 265 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Jan 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 1403946183ISBN 13: 9781403946188
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The question of work-life balance and the difficulties of managing multiple roles is attracting considerable interest. This international collection broadens the focus of these debates and presents recent research findings that will further stimulate theoretical development and empirical studies. While much previous research has focused on the challenges faced by working mothers, the research presented in this collection introduces perspectives that have not been widely included in previous work in the field, such as the voice of children, the challenges that students face, the role of both employers and unions and how different occupational groups experience work-life balancing strategies. 246 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Jan 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 0333968964ISBN 13: 9780333968963
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -International Joint Ventures (IJVs) combine the resources of local and foreign firms to create independent business entities, however, their failure rate is high. This analysis of the IJV life cycle considers the problems of multi-person decision-making. A typology of strategic and functional configurations, and solution concepts, are developed. 208 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Jan 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 1403986118ISBN 13: 9781403986115
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Minns argues that the industrial transformations of Mexico, South Korea and Taiwan were based on the existence of powerful developmentalist states in each. It explores the origins of such states and their dynamics and connects the form of autonomy they enjoy within their countries to the policies they pursue. 310 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Jan 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 1403936382ISBN 13: 9781403936387
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores how the venture capital sector supports growth and development of SMEs. The text draws from major international empirical studies in Indian and Islamic industries to analyse techniques used by venture capitalists to value, structure and monitor investments. This book is essential for students, policy makers and practitioners. 223 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Jan 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 0230204473ISBN 13: 9780230204478
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -How do European states adjust to international markets Why do French governments of both left and right face a public confidence crisis In this book, leading experts on France chart the dramatic changes that have taken place in its polity, economy and society since the 1980s and develop an analysis of social change relevant to all democracies. 326 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Jan 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 0306485389ISBN 13: 9780306485381
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is the based on the work of many people, and while I discuss many of them in the general context of this book in Chapter 1,1 would like to emphasize here the contribution of all those people involved. My apologies in advance to any I have omitted to mention. The backbone of the book is based on a project, 'Farm Lives' conducted between 1999 and 2002, funded exclusively by the McDonald Institute for Archaeolog ical Research at the University of Cambridge; without their essential financial support, this would not have been possible. The project involved three components: archaeological fieldwork, archive research and oral history interviews. For the fieldwork, spe cial thanks goes to Marcus Abbott, Jenny Bredenberg, Glenda Cox, Olivia Cyster, Andy Hall, Odile Peterson, and Sarah Winter; for po- excavation analysis of materials, I thank Duncan Miller (University of Cape Town), Peter Nilsson (South African Museum) and Jane Klose (University of Cape Town). For the archive research, I would like to thank J. Malherbe (Huguenot Museum) and Harriet Clift (South African Heritage Resources Agency), but most of all, Jaline de Villiers (Paarl Museum). For the oral history, my thanks go to Sarah Winter, Rowena Peterson and Jaline de Villiers for conducting interviews, and to the informants, Johanna Dressier, Louisa Adams, Geoffrey Leslie Hendricks, William Davids, Absolom David Lackay, John Cyster November and Lillian Aubrey Idas. 223 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer Nature Singapore Jan 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 0387290567ISBN 13: 9780387290560
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Vague concepts are intrinsic to human communication. Somehow it would seems that vagueness is central to the flexibility and robustness of natural l- guage descriptions. If we were to insist on precise concept definitions then we would be able to assert very little with any degree of confidence. In many cases our perceptions simply do not provide sufficient information to allow us to verify that a set of formal conditions are met. Our decision to describe an individual as 'tall' is not generally based on any kind of accurate measurement of their height. Indeed it is part of the power of human concepts that they do not require us to make such fine judgements. They are robust to the imprecision of our perceptions, while still allowing us to convey useful, and sometimes vital, information. The study of vagueness in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is therefore motivated by the desire to incorporate this robustness and flexibility into int- ligent computer systems. This goal, however, requires a formal model of vague concepts that will allow us to quantify and manipulate the uncertainty resulting from their use as a means of passing information between autonomous agents. I first became interested in these issues while working with Jim Baldwin to develop a theory of the probability of fuzzy events based on mass assi- ments.
Published by Springer Nature Singapore Jan 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 140203668XISBN 13: 9781402036682
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Gerry Stahl Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA The theme of engaged learning with emerging technology is a timely and important one. This book proclaims the global relevance of the topic and sharpens its focus. I would like to open the book by sketching some of the historical context and dimensions of application, before the chapter authors provide the substance. Engagement with the world - To be human is to be engaged with other people in the world. Yet, there has been a dominant strain of thought, at least in the West, that directs attention primarily to the isolated individual as naked mind. From classical Greece to modern times, engagement in the daily activities of human existence has been denigrated. Plato (340 BC/1941) banished worldly engagement to a realm of shadows, removed from the bright light of ideas, and Descartes (1633/1999) even divorced our minds from our own bodies. It can be suggested that this is a particularly Western tendency, supportive of the emphasis on the individual agent in Christianity and capitalism. But the view of people as originally unengaged has spread around the globe to the point where it is now necessary everywhere to take steps to reinstate engagement through explicit efforts. Perhaps the most systematic effort to rethink the nature of human being in terms of engagement in the world was Heidegger's (1927/1996). He argued that human existence takes place through our concern with other people and things that are meaningful to us.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Jan 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 185233925XISBN 13: 9781852339258
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Unique study of the human footSole perspective on the human foot in the market 182 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402044690ISBN 13: 9781402044694
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -As is now generally accepted mankind's burning of fossil fuels has resulted in the mass transfer of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, a modification of the delicately-balanced global carbon cycle, and a measurable change in world-wide temperatures and climate. Although not the most powerful greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO) drives climate 2 change due to the enormous volumes of this gas pumped into the atmosphere every day. Produced in almost equal parts by the transportation, industrial and energy-generating sectors, atmospheric CO concentrations have 2 increased by about 50% over the last 300 years, and according to some sources are predicted to increase by up to 200% over pre-industrial levels during the next 100 years. If we are to reverse this trend, in order to prevent significant environmental change in the future, action must be taken immediately. While reduced use of fossil fuels (through conservation, increased efficiency and expanded use of renewable energy sources) must be our ultimate goal, short to medium term solutions are needed which can make an impact today. Various types of CO storage techniques have been proposed to fill this 2 need, with the injection of this gas into deep geological reservoirs being one of the most promising. For example this approach has the potential to become a closed loop system, whereby underground energy resources are brought to surface, their energy extracted (via burning or hydrogen extraction), and the resulting by-products returned to the subsurface. 346 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Jan 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 1403943575ISBN 13: 9781403943576
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book presents practical Risk Management and Trading applications for the Electricity Markets. Various methodologies developed over the last few years are considered and current literature is reviewed. The book emphasizes the relationship between trading, hedging and generation asset management. 181 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402044755ISBN 13: 9781402044755
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The science of ecotoxicology and the practice of ecological risk assessment are evolving rapidly. Ecotoxicology as a subject area came into prominence in the 1960s after the publication of Rachel Carson's book on the impact of pesticides on the environment. The rise of public and scientific concern for the effects of chemical pollutants on the environment in the 1960s and 1970s led to the development of the discipline of ecotoxicology, a science that takes into account the effects of chemicals in the context of ecology. Until the early 1980s, in spite of public concern and interest among scientists, the assessment of ecological risks associated with natural or synthetic pollutants was not considered a priority issue by most government. However, as the years passed, a better understanding of the importance of ecotoxicology emerged and with it, in some countries, the progressive formalization of an ecological risk assessment process. Ecological risk assessment is a conceptual tool for organizing and analyzing data and information to evaluate the likelihood that one or more stressors are causing or will cause adverse ecological effects. Ecological risk assessment allows risk managers to consider available scientific information when selecting a course of action, in addition to other factors that may affect their decision (e. g. , social, legal, political, or economic). Ecological risk assessment includes three phases (problem formulation, analysis, and risk characterization). 360 pp. Englisch.