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Preparing Literature Reviews is an accessible guide that provides easy to follow step-by-step advice on how to prepare qualitative and quantitative literature reviews. The 6th edition of this bestselling book retains its original lauded features of clear...

This book highlights the role of sustainable development in ancient practices to modern innovations in the textiles of Sri Lanka. It reveals the textile of Sri Lanka from the historical age to current tech-fabrics. Supporting the sustainable development...

Ludwig Giesz (1916–1985) verbindet einen ausgeprägten philosophischen Spürsinn für das Hinter- und Abgründige der menschlichen Existenz mit einer selten gewordenen stilistischen Brillanz. Die neue Auflage der Philosophischen Spaziergänge bietet eine...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Our ability to find meaning in things is one of the most important aspects of human life. But it is also one of the most mysterious. Where does meaning come from? What sorts of things have meaning?...

Practical. Interactive. Engaging. This book provides an imaginative alternative to doing research methods. With visual prompts and easy-to-follow activities, it will help you understand the basic foundations of the research process in bite-sized pieces...

This open access book provides a description on polymer science and technology, ranging from polymer chemistry, polymer physics, to polymers for energy storage and conversion and polymer processing. All the authors contributing to the book are the...

#1 National Bestseller! In the bestselling tradition of Brene Brown’s Daring Greatly and Nick Vujicic’s Life Without Limits comes a rousing 7-step plan for living a life on fire, filled with hope and possibility—from a man who survived a near-fatal fire...

This book brings together a group of leading scholars working in public law and constitutional theory. It examines accepted leading works of public law while also exploring those that deserve greater attention. Over thirteen chapters, a group of leading...

This book provides in-depth exposure to emerging technologies and recent advancements in RF, Microwave, and Millimetre Wave Technologies. The book covers the basic concepts along with the recent advancements in designing and developing antennas and...

Everyday items found at the sites of atrocities possess a striking emotional force. Victims’ garments, broken glasses, wallets, shoes, and other such personal property that are recovered from places of death including concentration camps, mass graves,...

Das Buch soll die bisher in der universitären Ausbildung nicht betrachteten Aspekte des Wissensaufbaus durch methodisches Testing beleuchten und dadurch die Ausbildung von Studierenden praxisnäher gestalten. Dazu fließen Erfahrungen aus der Forschung und...

Das Buch zeigt die Bedeutung der Erfolgskontrolle als Grundlage der Optimierung von Revitalisierungsmaßnahmen an Fließgewässern auf. Es werden sowohl etablierte als auch neu entwickelte Methoden und Verfahren vorgestellt. Für die jeweiligen...

This book highlights the prevalence of emotional disorder and substance use disorder comorbidity and effective approaches to managing these co-existing problems. As substance use disorder is twice as likely to co-exist with an anxiety disorder, and three...

Mit diesem sechsbändigen Werk erscheint erstmals eine vollständige Edition der Aufsätze und Vorträge Niklas Luhmanns zum Thema Organisation. Die Bände präsentieren schwer auffindbare Texte und bisher unveröffentlichte Materialien. Dieser abschließende...

The transformation of the built environment during the last few decades has placed enormous demands for land. About 7.7 billion people live on the planet, which is expected to increase by 2.5-3.0 billion in just 30 years, with the highest growth...

​Das Buch von Sophia Prinz führt in das Denken Maurice Merleau-Pontys ein und widmet sich den gesellschaftlcihen Implikationen eines nur vordergründig auf den Einzelnen gerichteten Denkens.Book InformationISBN 9783658014889Author Sophia PrinzFormat...

While plenty of educational material exists for beginning and advanced JavaScript developers, resources for intermediate-level engineers are scarce. Yet this is the career step where many developers often get stuck. With this practical book, you'll learn...

As artificial reproductive technologies become available to populations that have previously not had access to them, this book asks how reproduction is being transformed by technologies and individuals whose sexual and reproductive lives may defy...

'Crooks and Squares' is a study of crime as a way of life. By interviewing drug addicts and property criminals, Malin Akerstrom presents a study of the demands, attractions, and drawbacks of criminal lifestyles. She discovers which elements are exciting...

The Medicine on the Move series provides fully-flexible access to subjects across the curriculum, in this case respiratory medicine, in a unique combination of print and mobile formats. The books are ideal for the busy medical student and junior doctor,...

Problems of Psychoanalytic Technique in Freud and Lacan contributes to the everyday work of contemporary psychoanalysts through a critical examination of psychoanalytic technique.Bruno Bonoris revisits and questions key concepts including free...

Now in its 11th edition, The Other World combines thematic and area studies approaches to explore contemporary global issues. Accessible and interdisciplinary, this textbook offers political, economic, social, and historical analyses of Latin America,...

Waren Sie auch schon mal verzweifelt, verärgert und verunsichert über lange, unverständliche und unlesbare Beipackzettel zu Ihren Medikamenten? Dann ist dieses Buch genau richtig für Sie. Hannah Warmer und Roland Seifert haben für Sie die Beipackzettel...

Our divided politics, unable to solve the challenges we face concerning society’s hierarchies of injustice, poverty, endless war, and climate change, are now backtracking to even more division. But the reality goes far deeper than the simple politics of...

The confusing way in which sustainable agriculture has been defined and measured is clarified in this comprehensive volume, which provides an inventory of the metrics for sustainable agriculture from cradle to the farm gate, organized by media and scale...

When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princess on February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shifted from a dream vacation vessel to a public health nightmare. Over the next three weeks, 712 passengers tested positive for...

This must-have beginner's guide will walk you through your first steps in 3D printing at home. Get started by discovering how 3D printing has changed the world in ways you probably didn't know was possible, how to get started with 3D printing, how 3D...

Although we are most familiar with interpretation by the courts, who devote a considerable portion of judicial energy to interpretation, all jurists regularly interpret enactments. This treatise deals with the nature of the interpretive process itself...

This book, Sunscreens for Skin of Color, provides a complete and comprehensive overview of all the aspects of sunscreens and their role in clinical practice. Tracing the evolution of sunscreens from the early days to the current exploration...

Over recent decades, the decline of trust, mounting of fears, and increasing denial of science appear as a marked shift of societal attitudes towards many institutions and professionals. This book analyses these developments and looks at their role in...

This book introduces a new framework for understanding how the relationship between political parties and the state shapes the development of political parties, party systems, and democratic consolidation.Drawing on comparative case studies spanning the...

There are arguably few areas of science more fiercely contested than the question of what makes us who we are. Are we products of our environments or our genes? Is nature the governing force behind our behaviour or is it nurture? While it is now widely...

Organe für eine Transplantation dürfen in der Regel nur Toten entnommen werden. Deshalb hängt die Zulässigkeit der Organentnahme vom Todeskriterium ab. In Deutschland und vielen anderen Staaten gilt der Hirntod, d.h. der unumkehrbare Ausfall der...

When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princess on February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shifted from a dream vacation vessel to a public health nightmare. Over the next three weeks, 712 passengers tested positive for...

When you think of a person with dwarfism, what image springs to mind? Now, hold onto that image and consider how you are expected to respond to it. Is your response laughter, amusement or maybe curiosity? Do you even see them as human, or just a novelty...

This book presents the restoration of rural mobile cinema network in the Great Triangle region at the conjunction of Yunnan, Sichuan, and Tibet in China in the new century, which has added a new chapter to the long-standing complex relationship between...

There has been a surge in research on gender and sexuality in the last decade, which has predominantly focused on discrimination, dysphoria, and disparities. And much of what we hear in the news about issues relating to gender and sexuality is deeply...

The destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988 was the largest attack on Britain since World War Two. 259 passengers and 11 townsfolk of Lockerbie were murdered. Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of the...

Health and Healing in World Religions is a comprehensive introduction to the field that explores the research that links spirituality and well-being, including work with addiction and trauma. Each chapter includes an introduction to and summary of each...

Everyday items found at the sites of atrocities possess a striking emotional force. Victims’ garments, broken glasses, wallets, shoes, and other such personal property that are recovered from places of death including concentration camps, mass graves,...