BOOKS with Alphabet ? M (Ma,Mb,Mc, Md,Me…)

Overview: 978-3-528-08450-9978-3-322-84284-8

Overview: Erstes Lexikon zu modernen Mythen.Personen, Figuren, Ereignisse, Orte oder Konzepte, die im kulturellen Ged?chtnis gespeichert sind.Moderne Mythen: Interpretation und BedeutungstraditionMythen des Alltags . Was haben Marilyn Monroe, Asterix, die Alpen und Ewige Jugend gemeinsam? Sie alle geh?ren zu den modernen Mythen. Moderne Mythen unterscheiden sich in vielem nicht von den klassischen: Sie sind zugleich stetig und wandelbar, sie schaffen kollektive Identit?t, stiften Sinn, deuten die Welt und verwandeln Widersprüchliches in scheinbar Eindeutiges. Das Lexikon versammelt erstmals ex

Overview: At the end of the Cold War, the global economic system encountered a new phenomenon in the field of knowledge creation and technological innovation - the birth of mad technologies. This book analyses major changes in the national innovation systems (NIS) due to the introduction of mad technologies in East Asia. The authors find that mad technologies were the cause of stock market crashes and economic uncertainties in the region and conclude that successful corporations use various measures to neutralize mad technologies and/or incorporate them into the NIS.978-1-349-52265-1978-0-230-

Overview: First to document extensively the feelings and experiences of autogynephilic male-to-female transsexuals in their own words.Elucidates and largely validates one theory of transsexual motivation proposThere are few topics in sex research as compelling and confounding to researchers, clinicians, and the general public as that of transsexualism. Upending normative notions of gender, eroticism, and identity, it poses significant scientific and clinical challenges. The book addresses a fascinating and largely unexplored topic within the study of transsexualism: The feelings and desires of

Overview: Provides an accessible account of the social construction of racialized groups. Using both primary (in-depth interviews) and secondary data, four nations are examined: the UK, US, South Africa and Jamaica. Little attention has traditionally been given to theorizing multiracial identity in the context of white supremacist thought and practice.978-1-349-40360-8978-0-230-50174-4

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, MFCS 2002, held in Warsaw, Poland in August 2002..The 48 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. All relevant aspects of theoretical computer science are addressed, ranging from discrete mathematics, combinatorial optimization, graph theory, algorithms, and complexity to programming theory, formal methods, and mathematical logic.978-3-540-4404

Overview: 978-3-0348-5805-2

Overview: Ovid‘s Metamorphoses played an irrefutably important role in the integration of pagan mythology in Christian texts during the Middle Ages. This book is the only study to consider this Ovidian revival as part of a cultural shift disintegrating the boundaries between not only sacred and profane literacy but also between academic and secular politics.978-1-137-48282-2Series ISSN 2945-5936 Series E-ISSN 2945-5944

Overview: Die Mehrwertsteuer, die am 1. Januar 1968 in Kraft tritt, wirft nicht nur neue steuerliche Probleme auf, sie bringt auch erhebliche ?nderungen im kauf- m?nnischen Rechnungswesen mit sich. Es ist das Ziel der folgenden Darlegun- gen, den Praktiker wie den Lernenden mit der neuen Materie vertraut zu machen. Dazu wurde die Form eines Grundrisses mit zahlreichen Beispielen gew?hlt. Bei der Darstellung des Gesetzes habe ich auch die Begriffe erl?utert, die aus dem alten Umsatzsteuerrecht übernommen worden sind. Auf diese Weise erh?lt der Leser die M?glichkeit, sich anhand einer Broschüre

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.978-3-663-00786-9978-3-663-02699-0

Overview: Presents proceedings of a diverse international forum of the International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences.Talks about pertinent and current issues in mobility and engin.The book contains the proceedings of CAETS 2015 Convocation on ‘Pathways to Sustainability: Energy, Mobility and Healthcare Engineering’?that was held on October 13-14, 2015 in New Delhi. This 3 volume proceedings provide an international forum for discussion and communication of engineering and technological issues of common concern. This volume talks about ‘Mobility’ and includes 14 c

Overview: In Wissenschaft und Praxis wird zunehmend die Notwendigkeit einer ganzheitlichen und langfristig orientierten Steuerung der Unternehmens-IT auf der Ebene der Makroarchitektur anerkannt. Mit dem IT-Architekturmanagement (bzw. Enterprise Architecture Management) hat sich hierzu innerhalb der letzten Jahre eine eigene Disziplin herausgebildet. Die Implementierung einer entsprechenden Funktion gilt jedoch als eine der gr??ten Herausforderungen des IT-Managements...Christian Schmidt widmet sich in seiner Arbeit einer umfassenden wissenschaftlichen Analyse dieses noch weitgehend unerschlos

Overview: According to the classical theory of functional structure of bone which was developed by J. Wolff (1884, 1892) and W. Roux (1895) following the investigations of the functional architecture of the substantia spongiosa by H. von Meyer (1867), bone is "functionally" laid down in gross form as well as in minute architecture in accordance with the "maximum-minimum-law". As a result of functional adaptation, a maximum of efficiency is achieved with a minimum of material (Kummer, 1962a). In this sense functional adaptation is a reaction of adaptation of the idiotype-within the bounds of th

Overview: Die zentralen Befunde der Forschung im überblick.Kompakte und verst?ndliche Darstellung.Für Studierende und Praktiker in Medien gleicherma?en geeignet.Medienwirkungen kompakt – angesichts der Differenzierung der Kan?le und Gattungen einerseits und der Themenvielfalt andererseits ein gro?es Anliegen in kleinem Format. Als Leitfaden dient – auch wegen der für Vermittlungszwecke bew?hrten Transparenz – die Lasswell-Formel in ihrer erweiterten Fassung: Wer sagt was durch welchen Kanal zu wem unter welchen Umst?nden zu welchem Zweck mit welchem Effekt? Das l?sst eine Integration des Medie

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the joint conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: ECML PKDD 2009, held in Bled, Slovenia, in September 2009. The 106 papers presented in two volumes, together with 5 invited talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from 422 paper submissions. In addition to the regular papers the volume contains 14 abstracts of papers appearing in full version in the Machine Learning Journal and the Knowledge Discovery and Databases Journal of Springer. The conference intends to provide an international forum for the di

Overview: Examines the social and environmental impacts of the shipping industry in densely populated areas adjacent to ports.Explores the potential use of currently available technologies to mitigate these imp.The book quantifies the impact of in-port ships’ greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution in adjacent cities, and evaluates the feasibility of implementing shore-side electricity facilities in Europe to reduce the unwanted social and environmental effects of ships at berth. The book also discusses the potential of future “green” ports and the use of shore side electricity as a means o

Overview: 978-0-86010-737-8978-94-009-3237-1

Overview: Cross-disciplinary overall view of the internal and external factors of of resilient societies.Short and precise, generally understandable, presentation without preconditions of partly unknown factors.The book, deliberately written in generally understandable language for all interested readers, paints a unique, transdisciplinary overall picture of resilience as a national and international social factor of our time. It shows that in terms of socio-political significance, the concept of resilience is in no way inferior to the older, hitherto dominant concepts of sustainability and de

Overview: Enhance your mindfulness and boost your athletic performance through a specially designed course program.Discover everything about the correlations between athletic performance and mindfulness traininThe cycle of emotions, like few other phenomena, can significantly influence our performance in sports. For this reason, many elite athletes turn to mindfulness training as a form of training for mental strength and emotion regulation. Prominent examples include Novak Djokovic (tennis), Phil Jackson (basketball), and Malaika Mihambo (track and fields)..In recent years, the benefits of mi

Overview: Sorensen investigates the manner in which Chilean media and public culture discuss human rights violations committed during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) as well as human rights problems which still exist.978-1-349-37738-1978-0-230-62213-5