BOOKS with Alphabet P (Pa, Pb,Pc, Pd, Pe…... )

Overview: Offers an academic perspective on the positive contribution of probation to the criminal justice system.Exposes the destruction of the contribution of probation by successive governments.Provides a crThis book is a collection of essays by a unique group of authors about the political destruction of?the probation service in England and Wales. All of them are probation officers turned academics,?with a collective scholarly output that is both prodigious and distinguished. They address?the history of probation, its underlying values and working methods, and the way it has been?systemati

Overview: Draws together a range of disciplines, including Philosophy, Musicology, and Literary Studies to explore Proust‘s work.Provides a fresh new approach to Proust‘s much-studied novel.Offers a unique argu.This book?is about reading Proust’s novel via philosophical and musicological approaches to “modern” listening. It articulates how insights into the way we listen to and understand classical music inform the creation of literary meaning.?It asks: are we to take at face value the ideas about art that the novel contains, or are those part of the fiction??Is there a difference between what

Overview: 978-3-663-12322-4

Overview: Führt in die Grundlagen des Projekcontrollings ein.Stellt Controlling-Instrumente und -Methoden vor.Beleuchtet Entwicklungsperspektiven des ProjektcontrollingsDie zunehmende Volatilit?t der M?rkte, Entstehung neuer Gesch?ftsmodelle und Vernetzung der Wertsch?pfung konfrontieren Unternehmen nicht nur mit ver?nderten Aufgaben in der Linienorganisation, sondern h?ufig auch mit zahlreichen zeitlich befristeten Projektaktivit?ten.? Das vorliegende Buch gibt einen ganzheitlichen überblick über die Instrumente und Methoden zur Steuerung von Projekten. Mit Blick auf die mitunter komplexen St

Overview: Offers a comprehensive introduction to TiO2-, ZnO-, BiVO4-based photocatalysts as well as their metal/nonmetal modification and morphology controlled synthesis.Studies the effects on adsorption, catal.This book introduces the theory and applications of nanometer photocatalysis, and it briefly presents the concept of photocatalysts, photocatalytic reaction mechanisms and kinetics, and photocatalytic reactor design. In addition, the use of photocatalysis in the control of flue-gas pollutants is discussed in detail..The book also describes how a photocatalytic reactor is designed and im

Overview: Illustrates each concept with code samples in Java language; provides guidelines for different application-specific needs.Describes the techniques to distribute the logging activity – critical to impl.In development scenarios where things can‘t be run in a debugger, or when you run the risk of masking the problem, logs are the greatest source of information about running a program. .Pro Apache Log4j, Second Edition. provides best practices guidelines and comprehensive coverage of the most recent release...Step by step, the book explains core concepts, from basic to advanced. Code sam

Overview: In sich geschlossene monographische Gesamtübersicht.Alles zur deutschsprachigen und internationalen Parteienforschung.Vom renommierten VS-Autor Elmar WiesendahlDas Buch des bekannten deutschen Parteienforschers Elmar Wiesendahl stellt die Entwicklung, theoretischen Perspektiven, Forschungsans?tze und Untersuchungsfelder der Parteienforschung mit Blick auf den aktuellen Diskussionsstand dar..978-3-658-33899-2978-3-658-33900-5

Overview: Aktives Personalmanagement"Praktische Personalführung" verbindet in konstruktiver Weise die theoretischen Grundlagen des Faches mit praxisorientiertem Wissen. Wagner/Rex führen zun?chst in soziologische und psychologische Aspekte ein, die zum Verst?ndnis von Führungsproblemen und zur aktiven Personalführung wichtig sind. Darauf aufbauend stellen die Autoren einen zeitgem??en interaktiven Führungsansatz vor, der die Sicht der Führungskraft und der Mitarbeiter berücksichtigt. Anhand echter Fallstudien k?nnen die Lehrinhalte sofort auf ihre Praxistauglichkeit geprüft werden. Die zweite

Overview: Erste geschlossene Darstellung zu allen Landesverb?nden der Parteien.Eine umfassende Darstellung der Landesentwicklung seit 1999.Mit Beitr?gen renommierter Experten.Includes supplementary material: Seit 1989/90 hat sich in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern viel ver?ndert. Im Spiegel der Transformation zeigt sich eine Entwicklung mit Licht und Schatten. In spezifischen ostdeutschen Rahmenbedingungen haben Politik und Parteienwettbewerb diesen Prozess mitgestaltet. Das Bindestrichland steht aber auch zukünftig vor besonderen Herausforderungen: Der Demographische Wandel, der Auslaufende Solidarpak

Overview: Philosophy: Key Themes is a beginner‘s guide to understanding and critiquing philosophical arguments. Each chapter introduces one of the major themes in philosophy. Baggini‘s approach combines explanation with summary while encouraging the reader to question the arguments and positions presented.978-0-230-29664-0978-1-137-00887-9

Overview: Includes research based on interviews with journalists and editors located at the discussed news outlets.Illustrates the central role that media plays in shaping politics, and governments play in shap.This book examines the role played by two popular private newspapers in the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe, one case from colonial Rhodesia and the other from the post-colonial era. It argues that, operating under oppressive political regimes and in the dearth of credible opposition political parties or as a platform for opposition political parties, the .African Daily News, .betwee

Overview: Politics at the Edge was the theme of the 1999 PSA Annual Conference. This volume brings together nearly twenty of the liveliest, most thoughtful and original papers from some two hundred presented at the conference. The major traditional strengths of British political science are well represented - with papers on parties, political theory and the history of political thought - but so too are less familiar areas such as the politics of Latin America and the politics of poststructuralism. Distinguished contributors include Agnes Heller, David Held, Mahdi Elmandjra, Andrew Dobson, Andr

Overview: Die Politik Gro?britanniens im überblick!Das britische Regierungssystem geh?rt zu den ?Klassikern“ der vergleichenden Regierungslehre. Das ?Westminster Modell“ des Regierens hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten jedoch weitgehend ver?ndert. Wie und auf welchen Feldern, kann hier erstmals in einem Gesamtkontext der Reformen des politischen Systems nachgelesen werden. Stichworte: Devolution, Wahlsystemreformen, House of Lords-Reform, Civil Service-Reform, Freedom of Information Act und Human Rights Act. Diese Darstellung legt Grundlagen für das Verst?ndnis des britischen Regierungssystem

Overview: Examples and exercises use real data.Unified treatment of poverty and equity.Quantitative and rigorousThe publication of this book is in large part due to the role of Canada‘s Inter- national Development Research Center (IDRC) in encouraging policy-relevant research in the fields o f poverty and equity. The book has in particular benefit- ted much from IDRC‘s support of two significant ventures, the Micro Impacts of Macro Economic and Adjustment Programs (MIMAP) and the Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) international research network. We are most grateful to the IDRC for their contin

Overview: 978-3-540-55187-4978-3-642-77317-4Series ISSN 1431-5394

Overview: In 1991 the politicians of Northern Ireland sat down at the formal negotiating table for the first time in seventeen years. This book tells the fascinating story of the Initiative‘s three years of painstaking political deals in an enlightening and entertaining narrative, using the words of many of the participants. It shows how the Initiative laid the necessary groundwork for the subsequent Irish peace process and how its failures also illuminate current events.978-0-230-38973-1

Overview: Discusses the nutraceutical importance and cultivation practices of underutilized vegetables.Explores the production technologies and management practices of underutilized vegetable crops.Analyzes undThis volume?discusses the nutraceutical importance, production technologies, management and cultivation practices of underutilized vegetables, which can be described as those vegetable crops which are neither grown commercially on a large scale nor traded widely. While much of the crops addressed in the book?are cultivated, traded and consumed at the local level, there are over 60 specie

Overview: Compiles information from original fieldwork and ethnobotanical research on medicinal plants in Jamaica.Moves beyond anecdotal ethnobotanical evidence by means of a quantitative approach and identifieThis book highlights the results from over a year of ethnobotanical research in a rural and an urban community in Jamaica, where we interviewed more than 100 people who use medicinal plants for healthcare. The goal of this research was to better understand patterns of medicinal plant knowledge, and to find out which plants are used in consensus by local people for a variety of illnesses.

Overview: Argues that legal geography provides new insights into contemporary conservation challenges.Discusses the protected area phenomenon and calls for changes to current approaches.Reveals how current apprThis book argues that legal geography provides new insights into contemporary conservation challenges. Despite unprecedented efforts, we are facing an extinction crisis, and in situ protected area programs are falling short. This book discusses the protected area phenomenon and calls for changes to current approaches, informed by legal geography –an inter-disciplinary area focused on the

Overview: The first book on Rust for machine learning.Covers the basics to full-blown applications.Provides insights into challenges when working with the existing ecosystem.Explore machine learning in Rust and learn about the intricacies of creating machine learning applications. This book begins by covering the important concepts of machine learning such as supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning, and the basics of Rust. Further, you’ll dive into the more specific fields of machine learning, such as computer vision and natural language processing, and look at the Rust libraries