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Kommunen sind Orte der Freiheit und bürgerschaftlichen Gestaltung. Kommunale Selbstverwaltung ist ein prägender Verfassungsgrundsatz. Besonders viele Möglichkeiten bietet der Kulturbereich, da er kaum über Gesetze eingeengt wird und die örtlichen...

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...

Sketching is a universal activity that first appears when we play as children, but later, it is often overlooked as a useful skill in adult work – yet it can bring multiple benefits to research and practice in multiple domains. Specifically, Human...

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...

Although the National Health Service is perhaps the most important public service provided by the British state, its complex structures can make it the most difficult public service to understand. There is no single public body called the 'National...

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...

First coined in Daniel J. Siegel’s The Developing Mind, the window of tolerance refers to each individual’s “window” of emotional activation, inside which they are comfortable and can function optimally. Everyone’s window is unique, and every window has...

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,...

This book is designed to serve as a textbook for courses offered to upper-undergraduate students enrolled in physics and explains the broad spectrum of optics in a student-friendly way. The textbook covers the entire syllabi of the undergraduate courses...

This open access book gives comprehensive empirical insights on connected and automated driving (CAD) of road transport vehicles which leads to the driver being partially or completely replaced by automation. The current trend towards widespread research...

English for IT Communication provides a comprehensive introduction for students and professionals studying IT or Computer Science and covers all forms of technical communication from emails and memos through procedures to reports and design specs. In...

Digressions and the Human Imagination makes a significant contribution to our anthropological knowledge about human creativity. The creative force of the human imagination is widely considered as a key ingredient in understanding how social and cultural...

This book summarizes the latest findings in distillation process research conducted by the distillation research team in Tianjin University, with a focus on engineering aspects. In the context of the multi-scale features of the distillation process, it...