BOOKS with Alphabet C (Ca, Cb,Cc, Cd, Ce…... )

Overview: An interdisciplinary approach to disaster governance.Examines the capacity of national civil protection and crisis management systems.Demonstrates how knowledge and competencies contribute to more res.This books offers a comprehensive overview of the possible effects of disasters or crisis situations on civil protections which have been challenged and tested during these scenarios. The book provides a comprehensive discussion on security and threats, describes the examples of crisis situations faced by people across regions of Africa, Asia, and Europe: the border ethnicity conflict e

Overview: Proposes a new way of analyzing development projects and policies, based on post-development and complexity theories, and New Institutional Economics.Analyzes the connections between literacy, civil s.Former World Bank education specialist Bjorn Nordtveit argues in this groundbreaking study that a development project or policy should not be understood and analyzed as a linear system. Instead, he believes we should view it as a complex and dialectical organism. Basing his theories on post-development and complexity theories as well as New Institutional Economics, Nordtveit lays out a

Overview: Sustainable wine businesses are being crafted around the world, leaving the land in better shape for the next generation. In this book, four case studies reveal that sustainability in the wine industry it is tied tightly to long-term profitability.978-1-137-55308-9

Overview: In April 1979 a symposium on "Multiple Somatic Sensory Motor, Visual and Auditory Areas and Their Connectivities" was held at the FASEB meeting in Dallas, Texas. The papers presented at that symposium are the basis of most of the substantially augmented, updated chapters in the three volumes of Cortical Sensory Organi- zation. Only the material in chapter 8 of volume 3 was not pre- sented in one form or another at that meeting. The aim of the symposium was to review the present status of the field of cortical representation in the somatosensory, visual and auditory systems. Since the

Overview: This lecture provides an introduction to cyber foraging, a topic that lies at the intersection of mobile and cloud computing. Cyber foraging dynamically augments the computing resources of mobile computers by opportunistically exploiting fixed computing infrastructure in the surrounding environment. In a cyber foraging system, applications functionality is dynamically partitioned between the mobile computer and infrastructure servers that store data and execute computation on behalf of mobile users. The location of application functionality changes in response to user mobility, platf

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Overview: Fast track conference proceedingsThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th Collaboration?Researchers‘ International Working Group Conference on Collaboration and?Technology, held in Maastricht, The Netherlands, in September 2010..The 27 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected?from numerous submissions. They are grouped into seven themes that?represent current areas of interest in groupware research: knowledge?elicitation, construction and structuring, collaboration and decision?making, collaborative development, awareness, support for groupware?design, s

Overview: Covers fungal infections specific for Asian countries.Provides key information to manage such fungal disease in Asian countries.Includes figures/tables for swift understanding.This book discusses the unique epidemiology of fungal infections in Asia, illustrating that the situation in these countries is different from that in Western countries in terms of the causative species, natural history and management strategies. Asia, the world’s largest continent and home to more than half the global population, has conditions that favor the growth of many fungi, including a number of unique

Overview: Highlights the challenges and adoption of technology during a pandemic.Focuses on the challenges of complexity, the rapid pace of change and risk/opportunity issues associated with the 21st century li.?..This book provides an opportunity for investigators, government officials, systems scientists, strategists, assurance researchers, owners, operators and maintainers of large, complex and advanced systems and infrastructures to update their knowledge with the state of best practice in the challenging domains whilst networking with the leading representatives, researchers and solution

Overview: Provides a valuable and timely contribution to understanding girlhood in the contemporary period.Contains unique ethnographic data of a class of girls, following their stories over a year.Presents ins.This book explores theways in which notions of childhood are being influenced by a rapidly expandingconsumer-media culture in the 21.st. Century. It has been argued thatnew stages of childhood are being created and defined by children’s role asconsumers. The concept of ‘tween’, girls aged between 9 and 14, has generatedthe greatest debate. While the fantasy world of ‘tween’ offers girls

Overview: Explores whether and how creativity and rationale can have mutually facilitative interactions.State of the art volume developed from the NSF Workshop ‘Creativity and Rationale in Software Design’.Incl.Creativity and rationale comprise an essential tension in design. They are two sides of the coin; contrary, complementary, but perhaps also interdependent. Designs always serve purposes. They always have an internal logic. They can be queried, explained, and evaluated. These characteristics are what design rationale is about. But at the same time designs always provoke experiences and i

Overview: An evidence-based work that evaluates various CBFM practices on the basis of extensive field data sets.Critically analyzes current CBFM practices and outlines important policy implications.Includes deThe book is immensely beneficial to the readers to have a clear understanding of various CBFM practices prevailing in Bangladesh..Providing a comprehensive and critical analysis of success stories concerning several CBFM practices in different forest areas of Bangladesh, together with their respective strengths and weaknesses, it identifies sharing authority to take decision by the commu

Overview: Kundenorientierung als Wettbewerbsfaktor.Innovative L?ungen f? den Unternehmenserfolg.Praktische Unterst?zung bei der Umsetzung von CRM.Das Buch bietet eine fundierte Einführung in das Customer Relationship Management (CRM) und erl?utert systematisch CRM-spezifische Prozesse, Systeme und Technologien. Wichtige Prozesse im CRM werden anhand ausführlicher Prozessbeschreibungen und Referenzmodelle dargestellt. Eine funktionale Betrachtung von CRM-Systemen zeigt auf, wie diese Prozesse durch Informations- und Kommunikationssysteme unterstützt werden k?nnen. Aufbauend auf dieser funktiona

Overview: 978-3-7091-8584-1978-3-7091-8582-7Series ISSN 0303-6995

Overview: Includes supplementary material: ESORICS, the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, is the leading research-oriented conference on the theory and practice of computer security in Europe. It takes place every two years, at various locations throughout Europe, and is coordinated by an independent Steering Committee. ESORICS 2002 was jointly organized by the Swiss Federal Institute of Te- nology (ETH) and the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, and took place in Zurich, Switzerland, October 14-16, 2002. The program committee received 83 submissions, originating from 22 co- tr

Overview: Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anf?ngen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.978-3-642-89947-8978-3-642-91804-9

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Overview: Analyzes oligarchies in economically developed democracies which is not widely researched.Includes cases from the US, UK, Israel and South Korea.Explains how oligarchies have arisen and taken shape in.The book analyzes concentrations of wealth and power in developed democracies. It shows that economic measures, which states adopted during the 1980s and 1990s, had evolved first into liberal oligarchy, and later, after the 2007-2008 global financial crisis, into illiberal and populist oligarchy. The shape and content of these two kinds of oligarchy have been determined largely because

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Overview: Second Edition features 6 new chapters, and all chapters updated or revised.Uses case studies to resolve questions related to human behavior in the past rather than to demonstrate the application of mA few years ago, one of us was approached by a student who asked if we really knew anything about human behavior from environmental archaeology. This student was taking an environmental archaeology course in which taphonomy and the biases of the techniques and methods used by environmental archae- ogists figured prominently. The goal was to train students to be informed users of environm