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Published by SPRINGER NATURE Mrz 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 1349271934ISBN 13: 9781349271931
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 -Defending India attempts to comprehensively analyse the management of conflicts and security challenges faced by India during its first half century as a free country. The book is unique in being both the first in its genre and also in that it has been authored by a prominent Indian public figure, a parliamentarian of high standing, and a senior member of the present government in New Delhi. This book plumbs the sources of Indian strategic culture and thought, the evolution of its armed forces, the management of conflicts in the past 50 years (some 37 in all), and along with examining India's defence expenditure patterns, the author also addresses huimself to the challenges that India faces in the future. While presenting a new insight into the last 50 years, Defending India also suggests essential structural changes for the future. 338 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Mrz 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 1852331674ISBN 13: 9781852331672
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 -Welcome to BIS'99! Business Information Systems 99 is an international conference being held for the third time. BIS'99 aims to discuss the development, implementation, application and improvement of computer systems for business processes. It is addressed to the scientific community, people involved in the development of business computer applications, and to consultants helping to properly implement computer technology and applications in industry. Over 50 selected papers will be presented at BIS'99 during the scientific and practical sessions. The papers deal with a variety of topics related to computer systems in management, from the point of view of their application (e.g., electronic commerce), their business or industrial users (e.g., business process re-engineering), and technology (e.g., data warehousing). The submitted papers underwent a rigorous reviewing process, and the resulting program should provide an outstanding representation of international research in this area. We believe that BIS'99 will provoke some interesting international discussion amongst participants, particularly as this meeting includes a number of invited lectures by international experts in the area. The BIS'99 international Program Committee was composed of 53 scientists from diverse locations -from the USA to Australia, from countries with a stable economy through to those undergoing economic transformation. This aspect further helps to enrich the conference program. 296 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Mrz 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 0333731344ISBN 13: 9780333731345
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 -The authors focus on the important, controversial issues and policies of contemporary China. These include new intellectual currents and re-assessment of socialism in the PRC, grassroots political participation in rural China, public maladministration and bureaucratic corruption, and legal reform. 260 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Mrz 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 0792355962ISBN 13: 9780792355960
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book describes the state of the art at the interface between energy and environmental research. The contributing authors are some of the world leaders in research and education on energy and environmental topics. The coverage is worth noting for its breadth and depth. The book begins with the latest trends in applied thermodynamics: the methods of exergy analysis, entropy generation minimization and thermoeconomics. It continues with the most modern developments in energy processing and conservation techniques: heat transfer augmentation devices, inverse thermal design, combustion and heat exchangers for environmental systems. The environmental impact of energy systems is documented in a diversity of applications such as the flow of hazardous waste through cracks and porous media, thermally induced flows through coastal waters near power plants, and lake ecology in the vicinity of pumped storage systems. The book outlines new research directions such as the manufacturing of novel materials from solid waste, advances in radiative transport, the measurement of convective heat transfer in gas turbines and environmentally acceptable refrigerants. The book is rich in engineering design data that make a concrete statement on topics of world wide interest, e.g., toxic emissions, the depletion of energy resources, global environmental change (global warming), and future trends in the power generation industries. Written by leaders in research and education, this book is an excellent text or supplement for undergraduate and graduate courses on energy engineering and environmental science. 280 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Mrz 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 0792356799ISBN 13: 9780792356790
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 -There is a great deal of current research into wave propagation in random media, in such fields as applied mathematics, acoustics, optics, materials science, atomic physics and geophysics. This book provides accurate theoretical and practical introductions at research level to topics such as: localization of waves, band gap materials, random matrices, dielectric media, laser cooled atoms, wave scattering from rough surfaces, randomly layered media, seismic waves and imaging the earth. 476 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Mrz 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 0792356268ISBN 13: 9780792356264
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 -The slogan `Information professionals make the difference' was chosen to highlight the 10th anniversary of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL) in 1997. To what effect, under which circumstances, and how medical librarians in Europe play an active role in medical information management and education is reflected in the collection of papers presented during the 6th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries in Utrecht, The Netherlands, 22-27 June, 1998, entitled: Libraries without Limits: Changing Needs - Changing Roles. Medical libraries are confronted with the international aspects of copyright and licence agreements, and cope with a fast-growing demand for high quality medical information in order to bring evidence-based medicine into practice. Medical librarians also serve the public, especially in those countries where consumer health information is in the forefront of health care policy. The importance of pharmaceutical information is well understood; the need for information transfer from (basic) research into (clinical) practice is not restricted to medicine, but is nonetheless important in veterinary sciences. In all fields in which members of EAHIL are working the commercial interest and political value of information is recognized. With the exponential growth of medical, health and health-care related information available or accessible on the Internet, librarians play a crucial role in information dissemination. Information services, especially in medicine, are no longer local activities, but are knitted into the global web. The Minister of Health, Welfare and Sports of The Netherlands, Mrs Els Borst-Eilers, gives many arguments why doctors need to be better informed. The papers of Lois Ann Colaianni (USA), Derek Law (UK), Charles Oppenheim (UK), Bas Savenije (NL) and many others will prove to the reader that the library provides a perfect paradigm for the management of networked resources. 332 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Mrz 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 0792354850ISBN 13: 9780792354857
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 volume, which brings together papers from a seminar held in Beijing in 1996, contains contributions written by Chinese participants as well as by visiting experts from the West. The different experience of the several authors is represented in the unique balance of the book: all the Chinese contributions point out the importance of the environment in economic development, expressing a determination to measure effects as a means to the successful management of natural resources. They concentrate on rather specific issues within the constraints of the prevailing economic situation, where identification and asset pricing tend to be specified by administrative norms. Several of these papers contain interesting and useful statistical information. The papers by the visiting experts also stress the importance of taking account of environmental aspects in deriving indicators relating to economic development. All the papers, however, reveal that work in this area is still evolving very quickly, sometimes in unexpected directions. This particular juxtaposition of approaches is a valuable record of the situation at a particular point in time when concern about the environment in China is developing rapidly. 204 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Mrz 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 0333718860ISBN 13: 9780333718865
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 -The question of ethics has dominated recent developments within the humanities. This volume brings together the most recent theories of ethics and reading and applies them to a wide variety of literary texts. Ethical and literary issues explored by the contributors include biography, sensibility, national identity, feminism, postcolonialism, religion, subjectivity and stylistics. Literary authors and philosophers/theorists discussed range from Shakespeare and Mary Shelley to Michele Roberts and Salman Rushdie, and from Kant and Coleridge to Derrida and Levinas. 281 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Mrz 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 0333729730ISBN 13: 9780333729731
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 -In revisiting the Popular Front some sixty years on, this book explores the link between metropolitan France and the empire at a defining moment in their history. One of the most significant events of the twentieth century is the end of empire, yet the importance of the empire in shaping contemporary France has traditionally been ignored by historians. By extending our perspective to empire, this book widens our understanding of the Popular Front experience and shows that it represents an important watershed in French history, marking the beginning of an irreversible process of reform that was ultimately to lead to decolonisation and the end of empire. 264 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Mrz 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 0333945999ISBN 13: 9780333945995
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 -This book provides a compelling analysis of the conditions in which women are sustained within prostitution in Britain at the end of the millennium. Based on a major empirical study, it is a unique glimpse into how some women, who live lives completely torn apart by poverty, violence and criminalization, are able to understand their lives in prostitution and make sense of the choices they make (including their involvement in prostitution) in their struggles to survive. 200 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Mrz 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 0333736168ISBN 13: 9780333736166
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 examines recent developments in Brazilian labour relations. Analysing the current state of labour relations in Brazil, the author shows how the proposals advanced by the new unionism have put strong pressure on the corporate system still legally enforced and have successfully developed a new political culture he terms the 'political culture of active citizenship'. 321 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Mrz 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 033375011XISBN 13: 9780333750117
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 -In this important theoretical contribution to the area of refugee studies based on ethnographic field work among Kurdish refugees, the author has uniquely combined empirical evidence and contemporary sociological theories of diasporas and transnationalism. The book provides essential reading for anybody looking for a comprehensive view of refugee resettlement issues and it will be of special interest to anybody concerned with the topical Kurdish question. 219 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Mrz 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 0312217684ISBN 13: 9780312217686
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 is an edited collection of items on unionism worldwide, recognising the crisis that an informatised and globalised capitalism implies for work, workers and the trade-union movement. It considers radical alternatives for labour organisation and action in the 21st century. The book includes contributions by informed academics and unionists and proposes alternative union policies or models in relation to the working class(es), to women, democracy, ecology, internationalism. 269 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Mrz 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 0312216491ISBN 13: 9780312216498
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 -In June 1998, diplomats met in Rome to draft the Statute of an International Criminal Court. Based on the precedents of the Nuremberg and Tokyo Tribunals and of the War Crimes Tribunals for Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the new Court will judge individuals, not States. Unpunished mass slaughters have occurred in many countries. National justice is often ineffective. Truth and reconciliation commissions complement but do not replace justice. International 'Peoples' Tribunals have no international legitimacy. It is hoped that a permanent, international criminal court may combat impunity and deter more crimes. 230 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Mrz 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 1349271845ISBN 13: 9781349271849
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 -This book brings together research on the relations between people and the planet's living and non-living resources. Its three main foci include the methodological approaches to the study of relationships between people and land use, patterns of consumption, population trends and the availability of food and water resources; an examination of evidence of disequilibria in increasing conflicts, migrations, and over-crowding; and a search for balance between people and the other elements of the biosphere through understanding and overcoming destructive forces. 313 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Mrz 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 1349405442ISBN 13: 9781349405442
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 -Focusing on freedom of speech, the book deals with the perennial problem of how a small country should react in the face of pressure threatening its sovereignty. Should it give way or resist The author describes in detail how the Soviet Union operated both overtly and covertly in the propaganda war and discusses the reactions of the west - the United States, Great Britain, West Germany and Sweden. 198 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Mrz 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 1349270490ISBN 13: 9781349270491
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 -The events of recent years have demonstrated beyond doubt not only that ethnic pluralism presents major problems for the management of political systems, but that it is also a major cause of their failure and disintegration. This timely and topical book discusses the general issue of ethnic pluralism and considers a range of types of multi-ethnic society within a common analytical framework. It then examines the responses of governments to the problems of ethnic diversity and assesses the effects of ethnic conflict on the development and viability of states. 315 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Mrz 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 0333735005ISBN 13: 9780333735008
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 examines the processes of economic and political reform in Tunisia, placing the current policies of Zine el Abidine Ben Ali within their historical context. The book develops a theoretical understanding of the relationship between economic liberalisation and political change in the Arab world, developing the concept of the disarticulation of the corporatist state and concluding that, despite efforts at democratization, an authoritarian political system is a more likely successor in the era of economic transformation. 285 pp. Englisch.