by Andreas Hadjar and Christiane Gross
How do education systems shape educational inequalities and differences in educational outcomes? And how do advantages and disadvantages in educational attainme...
Interferometry, the most precise measurement technique known today, exploits the wave-like nature of the atoms or photons in the interferometer. As expected fro...
byChristian Groes,Jennifer Cole
The influx of African migrants into Europe in recent years has raised important issues about changing labor economies, new technologies of border control, and t...
byChristian Groes,Nadine Fernandez
As globalization and transnational encounters intensify, people’s mobility is increasingly conditioned by intimacy, ranging from love, desire, and sexual liai...
byAlois Heissenhuber,Andreas Goetz,Anton Steiner,Bernd Scherer,Christiane Groß,Christine Krämer,Christine Wenzel,Claus Kumutat,Dietmar Wienholdt,Erich Eichenseer,Erich Englmann,Gabriele Merz,Gregor Overhoff,Hans Huber,Holger Magel,Ingo Reimann,Jacobus Hofstede,Jakob Opperer,Karl Schneider,Katrin Horn,Maria Patek,Martin Faulstich,Martin Grambow,Martin Steger,Martin Wahl,Michael Becker,Michael Haug,Peter Rutschmann,Peter Wilderer,Raoul Weiler,Reinhard Schmidtke,Rolf Manser,Stephan Keitz, Theo Schlaffer,Ulrich Drost,Walter Binder,Werner Reifenhäuser,Werner Wahliß,Wolfgang Günthert,Wolfram Mauser
Der Wassersektor gehört zu den ganz großen aktuellen globalen Herausforderungen. Wasserbewirtschaftung verlangt ein vertieftes Verständnis der Nachhaltigkeit...
byJonathan Kehayias,Cindy Gross,Steven Wort,James Rowland-Jones,Christian Bolton,Justin Langford,Brent Ozar
A hands-on resource for SQL Server 2008 troubleshooting methods and toolsSQL Server administrators need to ensure that SQL Server remains running 24/7. Authored...
byMark Andrejevic,Angela Daly,Christian Fuchs,Birgitta Jónsdóttir,William Uricchio,Pj Rey,Pelle Snickars,Larry Gross,Axel Bruns,Sandra Braman,Nathan Jurgenson,Athina Karatzogianni,Lisa Lynch,Andrew Robinson,Karin Wahl-Jorgensen,Arlene Luck,Christian Christensen,Toby Miller,Leah Lievrouw
"Little did I know that I was getting involved with WikiLeaks at the time of the biggest leaks in human history." -- Birgitta JónsdóttirWithin a relatively sh...
byChristian Grosse,Masayasu Ohtsu,Dimitrios Aggelis,Tomoki Shiotani
This book provides an introduction to Acoustic Emission Testing and its applications to different materials like concrete, steel, ceramics, geotechnical materia...
bySebastian Groh,Christian Hirschhausen,Lukas Barner,Georg Heinemann
This Open-Access-Book covers different aspects of the low-carbon energy transformation in a unique manner, with a particular focus on two regions, South Asia an...
Former PepsiCo COO Grace Puma and former Nike President of Consumer Direct Christiana Smith Shi offer a groundbreaking, empowering guide for women that shows ho...
byMarion Taylor,Christiana Groot
The stories of such women as Rahab, Deborah, Jael, Delilah, Jephthah's daughter, and the Levite's concubine raised thorny questions for nineteenth-century femal...
byThomas Billard,Silvio Waisbord,Amy Jordan,Rachel Kuo,Philip Napoli,Chad Raphael,Paula Gardner,Holley Wilkin,Srividya Ramasubramanian,Sue Robinson,Yidong Wang,Elaine Almeida,Aymar Christian,Stacey Connaughton,Susan Mancino,Daniel Kreiss,Shannon McGregor,Danielle Brown,Todd Newman,Becca Beets,Larry Gross
Prometheus brought the gift of enlightenment to humanity and suffered for his benevolence. This collection takes on scholars’ Promethean view of themselves as...
byStephen Jones,Jessica Kingsley,Tony Attwood,Luke Beardon,Nisha Dogra,Rex Haigh,Jan Lees,Sarah Carr,Marian Liebmann,Gwen Adshead,Paul Cooper,Priscilla Alderson,Nick Luxmoore,Barbara Kelly,Belinda Hopkins,Joyce Lishman,Michael Mandelstam,Peter Beresford,Dawn Brooker,Christiane Sanderson,Kim Golding,Sally Donovan,Martin Barrow,Vanessa Rogers,Winnie Dunn,Lorraine Nicolle,Nigel Ching,Matthew Taylor,Charles Buck,Jennifer Rhind,Carola Beresford-Cooke,Cj Atkinson,Grace Watts,Harriet Ward
What social change has been achieved over the past 30 years? What have been the main barriers to progress? What great achievements can we identify and celebrate...
byNarciso Aguilera,Joaquim Alonso,Samuel Andrew,Irene Barnes,Ashleigh Basel,Rita Bastos,Pierre Binggeli,Rachel Binks,Christophe Botella,Giuseppe Brundu,David Bush,Margaret Byrne,João Cabral,Jane Carruthers,Laura Celesti-Grapow,Julian Chan,Roland Cochard,M. Colaço,Peter Cunningham,Jorge Dias,Catherine Dickson,Liliana Duarte,Allan Ellis,Luís Fernandes,Nuno Fernandes,Eduardo Fuentes-Lillo,Andrés Fuentes-Ramírez,Rachael Gallagher,Rafael García,Sjirk Geerts,Michelle Gibson,Margherita Gioria,Catarina Gonçalves,João Gonçalves,Vinicius Gonçalves,Pablo González-Moreno,Luís González,António Gouveia,A. Griffin,André Große-Stoltenberg,Greg Guerin,Antoine Guisan,Stuart Hall,Jane Harbard,Gustavo Heringer,Richard Hill,Patricia Holmes,João Honrado,Cang Hui,Philip Hulme,Brett Hurley,Fiona Impson,Cally Jansen,Nolwethu Jubase-Tshali,Jan-Hendrik Keet,Rob Kelly,Ian Kotze,Christoph Kueffer,Ingolf Kühn,Christian Kull,Sabrina Kumschick,Vitalis Lagat,Bárbara Langdon,Guillaume Latombe, David C. Le Maitre,Ivan Lizarazo,Francisco López-Núñez,Paula Lorenzo,Vanessa Lozano,Sérgio Maggiolli,Cristina Máguas,Hélia Marchante,Irene Martín-Forés,Cecilia Masemola,Bruce Maslin,David Merritt,Stephen Midgley,Melissa Millar,Carey Minteer,Leonie Monks,Nuno Mouta,Jana Mullerova,Daniel Murphy,Silvia Neves,Dung Ngo,Ana Novoa,Jens Oldeland,Lucas Osco,Penelope Pascoe,Aníbal Pauchard,Thao Pham,Eva Pinto,Petr Pyšek, Jorge E. Ramirez-Albores,A. Rinaudo,Matt Ritter,Libby Robin,James Rodger,Philip Rundel,Mário Santos,Charlie Shackleton,Ross Shackleton,Iryna Skulska,Canh Tran,Thang Tran,Helena Trindade,Florian Ulm,Van Hai,Brian Wilgen,Maribel Vásquez-Valderrama,A. Vaz,Joana Vicente,Sara Vicente,Elizabeth Wandrag,Andrew Wannenburgh,Christiane Werner,John Wilson,Michael Wingfield,Rafael Zenni
The book provides a comprehensive overview of current knowledge about "wattles", a large clade of over 1000 species of trees and shrubs in the genus Acacia, mos...