BOOKS with Alphabet W (Wa, Wb,Wc, We…)

Overview: The first comprehensive volume on wildland fuels in the context of ecology and land management.Provides the critical information on the characteristics of wildland fuels that fire management professioA new era in wildland fuel sciences is now evolving in such a way that fire scientists and managers need a comprehensive understanding of fuels ecology and science to fully understand fire effects and behavior on diverse ecosystem and landscape characteristics. This is a reference book on wildland fuel science; a book that describes fuels and their application in land management.? There

Overview: Das Zeichnen von Hand bleibt in den Biowissenschaften und der Medizin unerl?sslich.Erprobte Beispielen beschreiben Zeichentechniken mit Bleistift und Tusche sowie den Umgang mit Pinsel und Farbe.Die A.Trotz Makrofotografie und digitaler Bildbearbeitung bleibt das Zeichnen von Hand in den Biowissenschaften und der Medizin unerl?sslich. Messergebnisse müssen zusammengefasst werden, morphologische Befunden ben?tigen eine exemplarische Darstellung, mikroskopische Details lassen sich oft nur zeichnerisch wiedergeben. Au?erdem lernt man durch das Zeichnen Strukturen besser kennen, weil man

Overview: The last decade has seen a tremendous growth in the usage of the World Wide Web. The Web has grown so fast that it seems to be becoming an unusable and slow behemoth. Web caching is one way to tame and make this behemoth a friendly and useful giant. The key idea in Web caching is to cache frequently accessed content so that it may be used profitably later. This book focuses entirely on Web caching techniques. Much of the material in this book is very relevant for those interested in understanding the wide gamut of Web caching research. It will be helpful for those interested in makin

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Overview: The book demonstrates how participation in Japanese school bands contributes to musical identity in terms of nationality, gender, and religious beliefs..The narrative sheds new light on the most effic.This well researched volume tells the story of music education in Japan and of the wind band contest organized by the All-Japan Band Association. Identified here for the first time as the world’s largest musical competition, it attracts 14,000 bands and well over 500,000 competitors. The book’s insightful contribution to our understanding of both music and education chronicles music lea

Overview: Grundlegendes Lehrbuch für die Einführungsvorlesungen.Didaktisch ausgefeilt und leicht lesbar.Optimal für die Prüfungsvorbereitung.Includes supplementary material: .Werkstoffwissenschaften und Fertigungstechnik . .Die Autoren geben einen überblick über nahezu alle Ingenieurwerkstoffe, seien es metallische, nichtmetallische, Naturstoffe oder Kunststoffe. Beschrieben werden integrierende physikalische Ph?nomene, wie z. B. atomare Bindung und Struktur, Diffusion und atomare Platzwechsel, Zustands?nderung und Phasenumwandlung, Vorg?nge an Grenzfl?chen, Korrosion und Korrosionsschutz, Fes

Overview: Bietet eine Anleitung zum Einsatz von Wikis im WWW.Praxisorientierte Darstellung mit direkt umsetzbaren Tools.CD-ROM mit OpenSource Wiki-Tools, Projektdatenbank mit Beispielseiten.Includes supplementaEin Buch über Wikis! Das braucht der Mensch. Denn mit der Wiki-Technologie k?nnen viele Menschen frei- stimmt gemeinsam arbeiten – sie k?nnen sogar ganz gro?e Werke im intellektuellen Bereich errichten. Sehen Sie: Wir bewundern heute noch unsere gewaltigen Kirchenbauten, die jeweils über Jahrhunderte entstanden, immense Arbeitskraft v- schlangen und oft den kulturellen Stempel aller ihre

Overview: First volume to provide a comprehensive overview of Studies from the Tropics.Intended for scholars, academics,‘practitioners and‘government officials.Covers theory, case studies, and research gaps.This edited volume provides a review of remediation approaches utilizing aquatic and wetland macrophytes in the Tropics.?This form of phytotechnology has exceptional potential as a sustainable nature-based solution, but that potential is not commonly utilized in the Tropics. Constructed wetlands for improvement of water quality are cost-effective, offering affordable solutions for remediati

Overview: 978-3-531-12080-5978-3-322-84139-1

Overview: Describes some aspects of wastewater treatment.Encompasses various treatment technologies.Outlines the evaluation of technologies.Elaborates on waste management.This book comprises two parts. The first part deals with some aspects of wastewater treatment, encompassing various types of technologies for treating wastewater and evaluation. The technologies, biochemical as well as chemical, including evaluation of technologies are also discussed. Part 2 is on solid waste management. It includes both municipal and industrial waste management. The book is of interest to researchers and pra

Overview: 978-3-0348-6176-2978-3-0348-6175-5

Overview: Orientierungsbuch für mehrgenerationale Organisationen zur wertebewussten Führung.Hilft Ihnen, biografische Werte für IHRE Führungskompetenzen zu reflektieren und zu nutzen.Zeigt Ursachen und Wege, wi.?.Werte sind Leuchttürme der digitalen und der kulturellen Transformation.?.Das?Buch zur digitalen Transformation durch Werte?zeigt, dass die digitale Transformation und das?erfolgreiche Recruiting?von Talenten nur dann erfolgreich umgesetzt werden k?nnen, wenn Führungskr?fte in Unternehmen und Verwaltungen Klarheit über ihre eigenen biografischen Werte und deren Wurzeln gewinnen. Nur s

Overview: A collection of twenty-one essays by David Bartholomae, Writing on the Margins includes selections that have helped shape the discipline of composition studies. With a wide-ranging introduction and three retrospective postscripts to set the essays in context, it serves as a valuable reference and as a powerful introduction to crucial issues in the field. This book has been awarded the MLA‘s Mina P. Shaugnessy Award, recognizing an outstanding research publication on the teaching of English.978-1-4039-8439-5

Overview: Provides an interdisciplinary view of the state of the art in wireless technologyWireless technology and handheld devices are dramatically changing the degrees of interaction throughout the world, further creating a ubiquitous network society. The emergence of advanced wireless telecommunication technologies and devices in today’s society has increased accuracy and access rate, all of which are increasingly essential as the volume of information handled by users expands at an accelerated pace. The requirement for mobility leads to increasing pressure for applications and wireless sys

Overview: Unlike many recent studies of animals in fiction it does not argue that literary depictions can help readers understand or empathise with nonhuman animals more fully, instead demonstrating that such dThis book surveys a broad range of contemporary texts to show how representations of human-animal relations challenge the anthropocentric nature of fiction. By looking at the relation between language and suffering in twenty-first-century fiction and drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches, Baker suggests new opportunities for exploring the centrality of nonhuman animals in rec

Overview: At a time when humanity is challenged by fossil fuel depletion and climate change, this book explains the development of wind power as a major energy growth sector, stressing the interactions between political, economic and social dimensions as the key to understanding public acceptability and uptake.978-1-349-54232-1978-0-230-28667-2Series ISSN 2947-8561 Series E-ISSN 2947-857X

Overview: Wind energy is the great success story of modern renewable energy. Since the industry‘s rebirth following the energy crisis of the 1970s, thousands of wind energy projects have been installed around the world. The technology today is competitive with traditional fossil-fuelled electricity generation. Wind Energy in the 21st Century explores the current economic, financial, technical, environmental, competitive, and policy considerations facing the wind energy industry. With discussions of the latest electricity industry trends including deregulation, green markets, and tradable renew

Overview: Umfassende Analyse des Wissens- und Technologietransfers aus ?ffentlich gef?rderten Forschungseinrichtungen in die Industrie.Pr?sentation ausgew?hlter Fallstudien zum Management von WerkstoffinnovatioErfolgreiche Innovation h?ngt entscheidend von der effektiven Zusammenarbeit zwischen Forschungssystem, Industrie und Anwendern ab. Dem deutschen Innovationssystem wird oft vorgeworfen, dass Spitzenleistungen in der Forschung nicht konsequent und schnell genug in neue Produkte umgesetzt werden. Die Entwicklung und Anwendung neuer Werkstoffe ist beispielhaft dafür, dass Transferprozesse a

Overview: Interdisziplin?rer Ansatz mit relevanten Praxisbezügen.Darstellung und Diskussion aktueller Dynamiken.Neueste ForschungsergebnisseDer Band lotet Grenzen und Schnittstellen in den Bereichen Kommunikation, Werbung und PR im digitalen Zeitalter aus. Vor allem überg?nge zwischen analogen und digitalen Kommunikationsformen stehen im Brennpunkt. Zentrales Anliegen ist die Er?rterung von Potenzialen und Beschr?nkungen von herk?mmlichen und neuen Formaten u.a. in Bezug auf Meinungsführer (Influencer), soziale Netzwerke (Social Media), relevante Botschaften (Content Marketing), Markenkommunik

Overview: Provides textbook coverage of Wavelets and applications, suitable for one and two semester courses.Discusses many types of wavelets and their applications across many disciplines.Includes MATLAB code .This textbook is unique because of its in-depth treatment of the applications of wavelets and wavelet transforms to many areas, across many disciplines. The book is written to serve the needs of a one or two semester course at either the undergraduate or graduate level. The author uses a very simplified, accessible approach that de-emphasizes mathematical rigor. The presentation include