Tipo de artículo
Condición
Encuadernación
Más atributos
Gastos de envío gratis
Ubicación del vendedor
Valoración de los vendedores
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3030236889ISBN 13: 9783030236885
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is aimed at mathematicians, scientists, and engineers, studying models that involve a discontinuity, or studying the theory of nonsmooth systems for its own sake. It is divided in two complementary courses: piecewise smooth flows and maps, respectively. Starting from well known theoretical results, the authors bring the reader into the latest challenges in the field, going through stability analysis, bifurcation, singularities, decomposition theorems and an introduction to kneading theory. Both courses contain many examples which illustrate the theoretical concepts that are introduced. 140 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3030199258ISBN 13: 9783030199258
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This Open Access Brief analyzes the dynamics in which children's selves emerge through their everyday activities of meaning construction, both in their relationships with family and within school education. It begins with a discussion of new psychological inquiries into children's selves and builds upon the innovative theoretical notion of the Presentational Self, developed by the author over the last decade.The book illustrates how the observation of children's meaning construction in their everyday lives becomes a starting point for theoretical and empirical inquiries into child development and gives a framework that promotes new inquiries in this area. The book describes the Presentational Self Theory as a sense of how the notion of the Self is being worked upon in everyday life encounters. Chapters feature in-depth analyses of exchanges between adults and children in the Japanese cultural context.Meaning-Making for Living will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in the fields of cognitive, social, developmental, educational, and cultural psychology. 160 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3030299554ISBN 13: 9783030299552
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Each year, the Supreme Court of the United States announces new rulings with deep consequences for our lives. Thissecond volume in Palgrave's SCOTUS series explains and contextualizes the landmark cases of the US Supreme Court in the term ending 2019. With a close look at cases involving key issues and debates in American politics and society,SCOTUS 2019tackles the Court's rulings on the census citizenship question, partisan gerrymandering, religious monuments, the death penalty, race in jury selection, double jeopardy, jury trials for reimprisonment during supervised release, Fourth Amendment protection for blood alcohol tests, deference to federal agencies, excessive fines under the Eighth Amendment and more. Written by notable scholars in political science and law, the chapters inSCOTUS 2019present the details of each ruling, its meaning for constitutional debate, and its impact on public policy or partisan politics. Finally,SCOTUS 2019offers an analysis of thecontroversialJustice Brett Kavanaugh's first term in office, as well as a big-picture look at the implications of the Court's decisions for the direction of this new Roberts Court. 172 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3030314812ISBN 13: 9783030314811
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Machine Intelligence is changing every aspect of our lives. Internet traffic and sensors in households, cars, and wearables provide data that oligopolistic companies collect and use to extract patterns of human behavior. Further, active digital assistants are taking over more and more of our everyday decisions. Humanity is on the verge of an evolutionary leap and it is time to determine if this development will benefit people's wellbeing or will just mean the accumulation of capital and power with no regard for quality of life.This book integrates the perspectives of various disciplines that are striving to establish resilient foundations - computer science, economics and social sciences, political science, psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, ethics and religion - in order to clarify a number of positions and, as a result, objectify the discussions. Written by Hubert Osterle, a researcher working at the interface of these disciplines, the book promotes debate on the future of man and machine, on happiness and evolution and on the major changes brought about by digital technology. Last but not least, it is a manifesto calling for a new - integrated - discipline to be founded: life engineering.'If you want to think more deeply about what machine intelligence (aka AI) really means for humanity, you should read this book. Hubert Oesterle takes an amazingly broad and multi-disciplinary look at all relevant aspects, from the roots of human behavior to the impact advanced digital assistants might have on our daily lives (and who will control these assistants). Highly recommended!' Andreas Goeldi, Partner at btov Partners 176 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3030257746ISBN 13: 9783030257743
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Exploring An t-Oileánach (anglicised as The Islandman), an indigenous Irish-language memoir written by Tomás Ó Criomhthain (Tomás O'Crohan), Máiréad Nic Craith charts the development of Ó Criomhthain as an author; the writing, illustration, and publication of the memoir in Irish; and the reaction to its portrayal of an authentic, Gaelic lifestyle in Ireland. As she probes the appeal of an island fisherman's century-old life-story to readers in several languages-considering the memoir's global reception in human, literary and artistic terms-Nic Craith uncovers the indelible marks of Ó Criomhthain's writing closer to home: the Blasket Island Interpretive Centre, which seeks to institutionalize the experience evoked by the memoir, and a widespread writerly habit amongst the diasporic population of the Island. Through the overlapping frames of literary analysis, archival work, interviews, and ethnographic examination, nostalgia emerges and re-emerges as a central theme, expressed in different ways by the young Irish state, by Irish-American descendants of Blasket Islanders in the US today, by anthropologists, and beyond. 216 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3030246035ISBN 13: 9783030246037
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Oscar Wilde: A Literary Life tracks the intellectual biography of one of the most influential minds of the nineteenth century. Rather than focusing on the dramatic events of Wilde's life, this volume documents Wilde's impressive forays into education, religion, science, philosophy, and social reform. In so doing, it provides an accessible and yet detailed account that reflects Wilde's own commitment to the 'contemplative life.' Suitable for seasoned readers as well as those new to the study of his work, Oscar Wilde: A Literary Life brings Wilde's intellectual investments into sharp focus, while placing him within a cultural landscape that was always evolving and often fraught with contradiction. 280 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 303021169XISBN 13: 9783030211691
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The first World Meeting for Women in Mathematics - (WM) - was a satellite event of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2018 in Rio de Janeiro. With a focus on Latin America, the first (WM) brought together mathematicians from all over the world to celebrate women mathematicians, and also to reflect on gender issues in mathematics, challenges, initiatives, and perspectives for the future. Its activities were complemented by a panel discussion organized by the Committee for Women in Mathematics (CWM) of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) inside the ICM 2018 entitled 'The gender gap in mathematical and natural sciences from a historical perspective'.This historical proceedings book, organized by CWM in coordination with the Association for Women in Mathematics, records the first (WM) and the CWM panel discussion at ICM 2018. The first part of the volume includes a report of activities with pictures of the first (WM) and a tribute to Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to be awarded the Fields medal. It also comprises survey research papers from invited lecturers, which provide panoramic views of different fields in pure and applied mathematics. The second part of the book contains articles from the panelists of the CWM panel discussion, which consider the historical context of the gender gap in mathematics. It includes an analysis of women lecturers in the ICM since its inception. This book is dedicated to the memory of Maryam Mirzakhani. 172 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3030258823ISBN 13: 9783030258825
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Collecting together the lecture notes of the CIME Summer School held in Cetraro in July 2018, the aim of the book is to introduce a vast range of techniques which are useful in the investigation of complex manifolds. The school consisted of four courses, focusing on both the construction of non-Kähler manifolds and the understanding of a possible classification of complex non-Kähler manifolds. In particular, the courses by Alberto Verjovsky and Andrei Teleman introduced tools in the theory of foliations and analytic techniques for the classification of compact complex surfaces and compact Kähler manifolds, respectively. The courses by Sebastien Picard and Slawomir Dinew focused on analytic techniques in Hermitian geometry, more precisely, on special Hermitian metrics and geometric flows, and on pluripotential theory in complex non-Kähler geometry. 260 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3030302172ISBN 13: 9783030302177
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book develops a full theory for hinged beams and degenerate plates with multiple intermediate piers with the final purpose of understanding the stability of suspension bridges.New models are proposed and new tools are provided for the stability analysis. The book opens by deriving the PDE's based on the physical models and by introducing the basic framework for the linear stationary problem. The linear analysis, in particular the behavior of the eigenvalues as the position of the piers varies, enables the authors to tackle the stability issue for some nonlinear evolution beam equations, with the aim of determining the 'best position' of the piers within the beam in order to maximize its stability. The study continues with the analysis of a class of degenerate plate models. The torsional instability of the structure is investigated, and again, the optimal position of the piers in terms of stability is discussed. The stability analysis is carried out by means of both analytical tools and numerical experiments. Several open problems and possible future developments are presented. The qualitative analysis provided in the book should be seen as the starting point for a precise quantitative study of more complete models, taking into account the action of aerodynamic forces. This book is intended for a two-fold audience. It is addressed both to mathematicians working in the field of Differential Equations, Nonlinear Analysis and Mathematical Physics, due to the rich number of challenging mathematical questions which are discussed and left as open problems, and to Engineers interested in mechanical structures, since it provides the theoretical basis to deal with models for the dynamics of suspension bridges with intermediate piers. More generally, it may be enjoyable for readers who are interested in the application of Mathematics to real life problems. 120 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3030108392ISBN 13: 9783030108397
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is a forthright and novel examination of efforts to improve national and global governance over the last forty years. Much has changed since Michel Foucault considered, and rejected, economics and neoliberalism as a potential mechanism for individuals to govern themselves and their nations. Nonetheless, his approach, which focused on the evolution of social development through interaction of many disciplines and biopolitical forces, remains highly relevant. Neoliberalism became a dominant political force from the 1980s to the present. It has failed however to address issues of inequality, to ensure economic stability, or to tackle the problems of people and nations that have been marginalized by industrial progress and international conflict. Market forces alone cannot meet the needs of global society. Now, however, developments in behavioural theory, institutional theory and analysis, accounting theory and accountability practice are providing tools that are developing comprehensive and evidence-based measures of well-being that promise to broaden and strengthen the field of socio-economic policy-making. Resolute, albeit long-term, steps to establish widely accepted standards of accountability, the book argues, are essential to guide policies and address the formidable governance issues of global security, information technology, social inequality, and economic and financial crises that the world faces at the beginning of the 21st century. 328 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 303011998XISBN 13: 9783030119980
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book explores how the socially disputed period of the Cold War is remembered in today's history classroom. Applying a diverse set of methodological strategies, the authors map the dividing lines in and between memory cultures across the globe, paying special attention to the impact the crisis-driven age of our present has on images of the past. Authors analysing educational media point to ambivalence, vagueness and contradictions in textbook narratives understood to be echoes of societal and academic controversies. Others focus on teachers and the history classroom, showing how unresolved political issues create tensions in history education. They render visible how teachers struggle to handle these challenges by pretending that what they do is 'just history'. The contributions to this book unveil how teachers, backgrounding the political inherent in all memory practices, often nourish the illusion that the history in which they are engaged is all about addressing the past with a reflexive and disciplined approach. 492 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3030284077ISBN 13: 9783030284077
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This open access book provides both a broad perspective and a focused examination of cow care as a subject of widespread ethical concern in India, and increasingly in other parts of the world. In the face of what has persisted as a highly charged political issue over cow protection in India, intellectual space must be made to bring the wealth of Indian traditional ethical discourse to bear on the realities of current human-animal relationships, particularly those of humans with cows. Dharma, yoga, and bhakti paradigms serve as starting points for bringing Hindu-particularly Vaishnava Hindu-animal ethics into conversation with contemporary Western animal ethics. The author argues that a culture of bhakti-the inclusive, empathetic practice of spirituality centered in Krishna as the beloved cowherd of Vraja-can complement recently developed ethics-of-care thinking to create a solid basis for sustaining all kinds of cow care communities. 300 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3030251195ISBN 13: 9783030251192
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -'This open access book addresses an urgent issue on which little organized information exists. It reflects experience in Africa but is highly relevant to other fragile states as well.' -Constantine Michalopoulos, John Hopkins University, USA and former Director of Economic Policy and Co-ordination at the World BankFragile countries face a triple data challenge. Up-to-date information is needed to deal with rapidly changing circumstances and to design adequate responses. Yet, fragile countries are among the most data deprived, while collecting new information in such circumstances is very challenging. This open access book presents innovations in data collection developed with decision makers in fragile countries in mind.Looking at innovations in Africa from mobile phone surveys monitoring the Ebola crisis, to tracking displaced people in Mali, this collection highlights the challenges in data collection researchers face and how they can be overcome. 276 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3030216284ISBN 13: 9783030216283
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This open access book provides an exhaustive picture of the role that annulment conflicts play in the EU multilevel system. Based on a rich dataset of annulment actions since the 1960s and a number of in-depth case studies, it explores the political dimension of annulment litigation, which has become an increasingly relevant judicial tool in the struggle over policy content and decision-making competences. The book covers the motivations of actors to turn policy conflicts into annulment actions, the emergence of multilevel actors' litigant configurations, the impact of actors' constellations on success in court, as well as the impact of annulment actions on the multilevel policy conflicts they originate from. 264 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 303021091XISBN 13: 9783030210915
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This open-access edited collection, focusing on Ghana and Nigeria, offers a transatlantic, transnational exploration of barriers that threaten the wellbeing of West African youth-ranging from Black immigrant youth in the American city of Newark, New Jersey, to students in Almajiri Islamic schools in Northern Nigeria. Incorporating themes of migration, vulnerability, and agency and aspirations, the book conveys the resilience of African youth transitioning toward adulthood in a world of structural inequality. It thus crosses the academic divide between Youth Studies and African Studies, while challenging conventional framings of Black youth as deficient and deviant-positing instead their individual and collective creativity and assets. The contributors employ different methodological approaches, including field research and autoethnography, from varying multidisciplinary and practitioner perspectives. 292 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3030320855ISBN 13: 9783030320850
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This open access book provides a comparative perspective on capital punishment in Japan and the United States. Alongside the US, Japan is one of only a few developed democracies in the world which retains capital punishment and continues to carry out executions on a regular basis. There are some similarities between the two systems of capital punishment but there are also many striking differences. These include differences in capital jurisprudence, execution method, the nature and extent of secrecy surrounding death penalty deliberations and executions, institutional capacities to prevent and discover wrongful convictions, orientations to lay participation and to victim participation, and orientations to 'democracy' and governance. Johnson also explores several fundamental issues about the ultimate criminal penalty, such as the proper role of citizen preferences in governing a system of punishment and the relevance of the feelings of victims and survivors. 144 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3030272192ISBN 13: 9783030272197
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores the place of Media Studies in the age of 'fake news', analysing the calls for a curriculum of critical news literacy as part of a cyclical policy debate. With the need for young people in democracies to understand mainstream news agendas and take a critical perspective on social media news, including so-called 'fake news', this book argues for Media Studies as a mandatory subject. However, 'fake news' is not presented in the book as a stable, neutral term with a clear definition, but is instead defined as an idea that risks obscuring the key critical and political premise of Media Studies. All media representation requires critical deconstruction: therefore, any distinction between 'real' and 'fake' media is a false binary.The author draws together two narrative strands: one analysing contemporary news and journalism, featuring interviews with journalists and news commentators, and the other re-appraising the discipline of Media Studies itself. This bold and innovative book will appeal to all those interested in the nebulous and often confusing media landscape, as well as students and practitioners of Media Studies. 276 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3030308480ISBN 13: 9783030308483
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Vladimir Babitsky was born before the Second World War and migrated West after Perestroika. The theory of vibro-impact systems that he developed helped create the world's safest jackhammerand other record-breaking machines.The author has lived through a series of fascinating epochs: experiencing life under totalitarianism, witnessing the Soviet Union's collapse, and then migrating to Europe as a specialist in his field. 'On the Waves of a Pulsating World' is an animated and highly engaging story about the journey of an engineer; from childhood daydreams to creating new technologies, from East to West, and from concepts to realities. It is also the story of people who outshine authoritarianism. 176 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 303028767XISBN 13: 9783030287672
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -How were social media posts, scripted speeches, traditional news media and political cartoons used and understood during the Brexit campaign What phrases and metaphors were key during and after the 2016 Brexit referendum How far did the Remain and Leave campaigns rely on metaphor to engage with supporters in communicating their political positions These questions, and many others, can be answered only through a systematic analysis of the actual language used in relation to Brexit by the different parties involved. By drawing on a range of data sources and types of communication, and presenting them as 'frames' through which individuals can attempt to understand the world, the author provides the first book-length examination of the metaphors of Brexit. This book takes a detailed look at the rhetorical language behind one of the major political events of the era, and it will be of interest tostudents and scholars of linguistics and political science, as well as anyone witha special interest in metaphor, rhetoric, Brexit, or political communication more broadly. 352 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 303004758XISBN 13: 9783030047580
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -First published in December 1919, this global bestseller attacking those who had made the peace in Paris after the First World War, sparked immediate controversy. It also made John Maynard Keynes famous overnight and soon came to define how people around the world viewed the Versailles Peace Treaty. In Germany the book, which argued against reparations, was greeted with enthusiasm; in France with dismay; and in the US as ammunition that could be (and was) used against Woodrow Wilson in his ultimately unsuccessful bid to sell the League of Nations to an increasingly sceptical American public. Meanwhile in his own country the book provoked outrage amongst establishment critics - Keynes was even refused membership of the prestigious British Academy - while admirers from Winston Churchill to the founders of the LSE, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, went on to praise Keynes for his wisdom and humanity. Keynes may have written what he thought was a reasoned critique of the economics of the peace settlement. In effect, he had penned a political bombshell whose key arguments are still being debated today. The Economic Consequences of the Peace is now reissued by Keynes' publisher of choice with a new introduction from Michael Cox, one of the major figures in the field of International Relations today. Scholarly yet engaged and readable, Cox's introduction to the work - written a century after the book first hit the headlines - critically appraises Keynes' polemic contextualising and bringing to life the text for a new generation of scholars and students of IR, IPE, Politics and History. The original text and this authoritative introduction provide essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the tragedy that was the twentieth century; why making peace with former enemies can be just as hard as winning a war against them; and how and why ideas really do matter. 232 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3030293920ISBN 13: 9783030293925
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -How does Einstein's description of space and time compare with Doctor Who Can James Bond really escape from an armor-plated railroad car by cutting through the floor with a laser concealed in a wristwatch What would it take to create a fully intelligent android, such as Star Trek's Commander Data Exploring Science Through Science Fiction addresses these and other intriguing questions, using science fiction as a springboard for discussing fundamental science concepts and cutting-edge science research. It includes references to original research papers, landmark scientific publications and technical documents, as well as a broad range of science literature at a more popular level. The revised second edition includes expanded discussions on topics such as gravitational waves and black holes, machine learning and quantum computing, gene editing, and more. In all, the second edition now features over 220 references to specific scenes in more than 160 sci-fi movies and TV episodes, spanning over 100 years of cinematic history.Designed as the primary text for a college-level course, this book will appeal to students across the fine arts, humanities, and hard sciences, as well as any reader with an interest in science and science fiction.Praise for the first edition:'Thisjourney from science fiction to science fact providesan engaging and surprisingly approachableread.' (Jen Jenkins, Journal of Science Fiction, Vol. 2 (1), September 2017) 360 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 303030907XISBN 13: 9783030309077
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -As the case for Climate Change mitigation becomes ever more pressing, hydrogen has the potential to play a major role in a low-carbon energy future. Hydrogen can drive the vehicles of tomorrow and also heat homes and supply energy to businesses. Much recent discussion in energy policy circles has considered ways in which greatly expanded electrification can meet the demand for low-carbon mobility and heating. Such narratives centre on the widespread use of renewable energy sources with occasionally surplus renewable electricity being used to produce hydrogen, for example by electrolysis. While such developments have a beneficial role to play, this book focuses on an alternative paradigm. This book considers a more evolutionary path involving the continued extraction and use of fossil fuels, most notably natural gas, but in ways that greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In this way much established industrial capacity and know how might be transitioned to help deliver the low carbonfuture that the world so desperately requires. Presenting up-to-date energy policy recommendations with a focus on hydrogen from fossil fuels, the book will be of considerable interest to policymakers and energy researchers in academia, industry and government labs, while also offering a valuable reference guide for business developers in low-carbon energy, and for oil and gas industry analysts. 156 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3030229858ISBN 13: 9783030229856
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -On February 15, 2013, the Chelyabinsk meteor sailed over Russian skies in a streak of light that was momentarily brighter than the Sun. The remarkable event and its subsequent shock wave were witnessed and documented by countless local residents, launching a widespread scientific expedition to gather and study the remaining meteoritic fragments.This book chronicles Chelyabinsk's tale of recovery and discovery from the minds of many of the scientists who studied the superbolide, leading field experiments and collecting meteorites and meteorite dust across the region. The Chelyabinsk superbolide is a complex and multi-aspect phenomenon. The book not only presents the results of the scientific research but also details the firsthand experiences of those involved in such efforts, providing readers with a unique opportunity to look at the 'inner workings' of science that are seldom shown to the public.Over the course of their studies, the scientists collected over 200 photographs and a dozen video recordings taken by nearly 40 different eyewitnesses. Many of those never-before-published illustrations and photos can be found in full color in the pages of this book. 320 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer, Berlin, Springer International Publishing, Palgrave Macmillan Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3030221520ISBN 13: 9783030221522
Librería: Rheinberg-Buch Andreas Meier eK, Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The power of gender difference,notgender equality, is a secret source for success. Some smart businesses are starting to wake up to this fact. This book explores why and how.Properly valuing brain gender diversity in the workplaceisone of the biggestand largelyuntapped sources of competitive advantage for modern businesses. Recent advances in neuroscience provide the key to unlocking it.Modernresearch showsthat therearegender-based differences in the brain - it's just not as simple as a binary between a 'male brain' and 'female brain'. In fact, our brains are like a mosaic where many of the tiles are available in thousands of shades on a spectrum between pinkand blue. The problem is that our workplaces tend to be governed by structures, processes and cultures that arepracticallypure blue.All thebrains in the businessthat are elsewhere on the spectrumcannot thrive as they might,sosources of productivity, creativity and agility go untapped.Anyone who manages people needs to understand how the brain works and the impact it has on how people work together as teams. Anyone who wants to unlock the talent and productivity ofallof their people needs to understand how recent findings around male- and female-type brains should shape the way they manage.Leading applied neuroscientistsand international corporate coaches Kate Lanz andPaul Brownshow you why and howto accessallthe brains in your business. 144 pp. Englisch.
Más opciones de compra de otros vendedores en IberLibro
Nuevo desde EUR 37,44
Encuentre también Tapa dura
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3030253023ISBN 13: 9783030253028
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book introduces critical cultural social marketing and adapts these techniques for use in the promotion of educational futures in communities and places where there is educational disadvantage. An approach that builds on the discipline of social marketing, the authors describe the promotion of education as underpinned by a commitment to understanding the effects of difficult experiences with institutions such as schools, as well as the diversity of learning. Involving the critical in promoting education means it is possible to be alert to the impacts of institutional education, while involving the cultural means we are forced to appreciate and connect with learning in all its diversity. The authors draw upon examples from Lead My Learning , an education promotion campaign produced using a critical cultural social marketing approach. In doing so, they provide a detailed account of new ways to promote education. 328 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3030255565ISBN 13: 9783030255565
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book disrupts the way practitioners and academic scholars think about crowds, crowdsourcing, innovation, and new organizational forms in this emerging period of ubiquitous access to the internet. The authors argue that the current approach to crowdsourcing unnecessarily limits the crowd to offering ideas, locking out those of us with knowledge about a problem. They use data from 25 case studies of flash crowds - anonymous strangers answering online announcements to participate in a 7-10 day innovation challenge - half of whom were unleashed from the limitations of focusing on ideas. Yet, these crowds were able to develop new business models, new product lines, and offer useful solutions to global problems in fields as diverse as health care insurance, software development, and societal change. This book, which offers a theory of collective production of innovative solutions explaining the practices that the crowds organically followed, will revolutionize current assumptions about how innovation and crowdsourcing should be managed for commercial as well as societal purposes. 332 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3030348628ISBN 13: 9783030348625
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third EAI International Conference on Innovations and Interdisciplinary Solutions for Underserved Areas, InterSol 2019, and the 8 th Conference on Research in Computer Science and its Applications, CNRIA 2019, held in Saint-Louis, Senegal, in April 2019. The 16 papers presented were selected from 34 submissions and issue different problems in underserved and unserved areas. They face problems in almost all sectors such as energy, water, communication, climate, food, education, transportation, social development, and economic growth. 204 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3319669079ISBN 13: 9783319669076
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book illustrates the first connection between the map user community and the developers of digital map processing technologies by providing several applications, challenges, and best practices in working with historical maps. After the introduction chapter, in this book, Chapter 2 presents a variety of existing applications of historical maps to demonstrate varying needs for processing historical maps in scientific studies (e.g., thousands of historical maps from a map series vs. a few historical maps from various publishers and with different cartographic styles). Chapter 2 also describes case studies introducing typical types of semi-automatic and automatic digital map processing technologies.The case studies showcase the strengths and weaknesses of semi-automatic and automatic approaches by testing them in a symbol recognition task on the same scanned map. Chapter 3 presents the technical challenges and trends in building a map processing, modeling, linking, and publishing framework. The framework will enable querying historical map collections as a unified and structured spatiotemporal source in which individual geographic phenomena (extracted from maps) are modeled (described) with semantic descriptions and linked to other data sources (e.g., DBpedia, a structured version of Wikipedia). Chapter 4 dives into the recent advancement in deep learning technologies and their applications on digital map processing. The chapter reviews existing deep learning models for their capabilities on geographic feature extraction from historical maps and compares different types of training strategies. A comprehensive experiment is described to compare different models and their performance.Historical maps are fascinating to look at and contain valuable retrospective place information difficult to find elsewhere. However, the full potential of historical maps has not been realized because the users of scanned historical maps and the developers of digital map processing technologies are from a wide range of disciplines and often work in silos. Each chapter in this book can be read individually, but the order of chapters in this book helps the reader to first understand the 'product requirements' of a successful digital map processing system, then review the existing challenges and technologies, and finally follow the more recent trend of deep learning applications for processing historical maps.The primary audience for this book includes scientists and researchers whose work requires long-term historical geographic data as well as librarians. The secondary audience includes anyone who loves maps! 124 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3030258262ISBN 13: 9783030258269
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book reviews some of the most recent developments in neural networks, with a focus on applications in actuarial sciences and finance. It simultaneously introduces the relevant tools for developing and analyzing neural networks, in a style that is mathematically rigorous yet accessible.Artificial intelligence and neural networks offer a powerful alternative to statistical methods for analyzing data. Various topics are covered from feed-forward networks to deep learning, such as Bayesian learning, boosting methods and Long Short Term Memory models. All methods are applied to claims, mortality or time-series forecasting.Requiring only a basic knowledge of statistics, this book is written for masters students in the actuarial sciences and for actuaries wishing to update their skills in machine learning.This is the third of three volumes entitled Effective Statistical Learning Methods for Actuaries. Written by actuaries for actuaries, this series offers a comprehensive overview of insurance data analytics with applications to P&C, life and health insurance. Although closely related to the other two volumes, this volume can be read independently. 264 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Springer International Publishing Nov 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3030296644ISBN 13: 9783030296643
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This open access book explores the dataspace paradigm as a best-effort approach to data management within data ecosystems. It establishes the theoretical foundations and principles of real-time linked dataspaces as a data platform for intelligent systems. The book introduces a set of specialized best-effort techniques and models to enable loose administrative proximity and semantic integration for managing and processing events and streams.The book is divided into five major parts: Part I 'Fundamentals and Concepts' details the motivation behind and core concepts of real-time linked dataspaces, and establishes the need to evolve data management techniques in order to meet the challenges of enabling data ecosystems for intelligent systems within smart environments. Further, it explains the fundamental concepts of dataspaces and the need for specialization in the processing of dynamic real-time data. Part II 'Data Support Services' explores the design and evaluation of critical services, including catalog, entity management, query and search, data service discovery, and human-in-the-loop. In turn, Part III 'Stream and Event Processing Services' addresses the design and evaluation of the specialized techniques created for real-time support services including complex event processing, event service composition, stream dissemination, stream matching, and approximate semantic matching. Part IV 'Intelligent Systems and Applications' explores the use of real-time linked dataspaces within real-world smart environments. In closing, Part V 'Future Directions' outlines future research challenges for dataspaces, data ecosystems, and intelligent systems.Readers will gain a detailed understanding of how the dataspace paradigm is now being used to enable data ecosystems for intelligent systems within smart environments. The book covers the fundamental theory, the creation of new techniques needed for support services, and lessons learned from real-world intelligentsystems and applications focused on sustainability. Accordingly, it will benefit not only researchers and graduate students in the fields of data management, big data, and IoT, but also professionals who need to create advanced data management platforms for intelligent systems, smart environments, and data ecosystems. 352 pp. Englisch.