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Disability and Child Sexual Abuse examines the ways in which society marginalises, institutionalises and places disabled children in situations of unacceptable risk, and  how  - as evidenced in the survivors' narratives - patterns of service delivery can contribute to the problem. Based on the acco... More

The authors combine substantial selections from significant works in the history of philosophy with excerpts from current philosophy, clarifying the readings and providing context with their own detailed commentary and explanation.... More

Science fiction can be seen as a diagnosis of the present, and a vision of possible futures. It therefore provides an excellent resource with which to interrogate both contemporary organizing processes and organizations as institutions. The marginal activity of science fiction has, however, been lar... More

This book is an exciting, accessible, and thorough introduction to the core questions of philosophy and the many ways in which they are, and have been, answered. The authors combine substantial selections from significant works in the history of philosophy with excerpts from current philosophy, clar... More

Guided by the multifaceted relations between city and text, Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City attempts to chart the burgeoning field of literary urban studies by outlining how texts in varying degrees function as both representations of the city and as blueprints f... More

The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law introduces students, scholars, and practitioners to the theory and history of the rule of law, one of the most frequently invoked-and least understood-ideas of legal and political thought and policy practice. It offers a comprehensive re-assessment by leadi... More

This book provides an overview of microgravity-induced changes in human metabolism, muscle, bone and the cardio-vascular system, and discusses in detail the nutrient uptake required during spaceflight to counteract these adaptive mechanisms and ensure an improved physical constitution upon returning... More

Dairy herd health is an important and universal topic in large animal veterinary practice and farming, covering both preventive medicine and health promotion. With the move towards large-scale farming, the health of the herd is important as an economic unit and to promote the health of the individua... More

Today, it can seem as if the world has nothing but problems.  And more than ever the boundaries of those problems are expanding in terms of the speed, scale, and impact by which they can alter business conditions, public governance, entire societies, the health of our planet, and the quality of our ... More

This book focuses primarily on the advantages and implications of sustainable bioenergy production in terms of ensuring a more sustainable world despite its growing energy demands. It addresses a new concept that focuses on the interactions between different uses of agricultural land (for example, a... More

The financial services industry is undergoing a period of dramatic change. Deregulation has created an ultra-competitive marketplace and recent challenges like the worldwide subprime crisis, SEPA and Basel II have only intensified the need for financial services providers to shift their focus to cus... More

A basic text on defects in materials, emphasizing the fundamentals of dislocations and their applications to understanding physical phenomena. The new edition discusses recent discoveries in dislocation theory and includes new material on displacement fields of dislocations, atomic calculations, ad... More

Understanding Complex Urban Systems takes as its point of departure the insight that the challenges of global urbanization and the complexity of urban systems cannot be understood - let alone 'managed' - by sectoral and disciplinary approaches alone. But while there has recently been significant pr... More

Twenty years ago the use of entomology in a crime scene investigation was considered bizarre, despite the solid scientific background and documented historical applications. Today, the use of insect evidence is an accepted sub-discipline in modern forensic science. Nevertheless, forensic entomology ... More

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2017, held in Vienna, Austria, in April 2017. The 19 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. They were organized in topical s... More

This handbook to spirituality gathers together Danish meditation teacher Jes Bertelsen's advice on training the mind through wordless prayer and meditation to realize the essence of consciousness. Bertelsen has been teaching philosophy and meditation since the early 1970s; in 1989, he met the Tibeta... More

An illustrated guide to the sweeping diversity of crustacean larval forms.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLCrustaceans—familiar to the average person as shrimp, lobsters, crabs, krill, barnacles, and their many relatives—are easily one of the most important and diver... More

Water supply- and drainage systems and mixed water channel systems are networks whose high dynamic is determined and/or affected by consumer habits on drinking water on the one hand and by climate conditions, in particular rainfall, on the other hand. According to their size, water networks consist ... More

Aligning an organization's goals and strategies requires specifying their rationales and connections so that the links are explicit and allow for analytic reasoning about what is successful and where improvement is necessary. This book provides guidance on how to achieve this alignment, how to moni... More

The chapters in this book build upon selected research papers from the 12th International Networked Learning Conference 2020, hosted by University of Southern Denmark, Kolding. The selected chapters were chosen as cutting-edge research on networked learning which reflected focal discussion points du... More

Die Luftfahrtindustrie hat innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Konzepte, Tools und Arbeitsmethoden hervorgebracht und weiterentwickelt, die in anderen Branchen der Wirtschaft bis heute wenig bekannt, aber für diese sehr wohl geeignet sind. Die Autoren, alle Insider der Luftfahrt, rücken die betrieb... More

Das Leben Albrecht von Graefes war von großen Höhen und Tiefen geprägt, so dass es noch heute – 150 Jahre nach seinem Ableben – berührt. Neben dem frühen Tod an Tuberkulose mit 42 Jahren, dem Verlust zweier Kinder im ersten Lebensjahr und dem frühen Verlust von Mutter und insbesondere Vater stehen f... More

Aktuelles Lehrbuch zur Materialkunde der Nichteisenmetalle - kompakt, übersichtlich, verständlich Die Werkstoffklasse der Nichteisenmetalle ist groß: man teilt sie ein in Leicht-, Bunt-, Alkali- und Erdalkalimetalle, hochschmelzende und Refraktärmetalle sowie Metalle der Platingruppe und Edelmetall... More

Der Alltag in Industriebetrieben ist seit Jahren geprägt von stetig zunehmender Komplexität, Informations- und Dokumentationsflut, Zwang zu intensiver Teamarbeit und ständigem Wandel der Rahmenbedingungen. Da die Luftfahrt über jahrzehntelange Erfahrung in einem solchen Umfeld verfügt, erläutert die... More

Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Sie Konzepte aus der Luftfahrt auf Ihr Vertriebsmanagement übertragen.Die wenigsten kämen auf die Idee, Lösungen für den Vertrieb in der Luftfahrtbranche zu suchen. Schließlich gibt es deutliche Unterschiede zwischen beiden Bereichen. Dass sich dieser Blick dennoch lohnt, bewe... More