Springer nature aug 2015 (243 resultados)

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Featuring contributions fromindustry and academia, this volume includes chapters covering adiverse range of theoretical and empirical aspects of actuarial science and quantitative finance, including portfolio management, derivative valuation, risk theory and the economics of insurance.Developed fro…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Featuring contributions fromindustry and academia, this volume includes chapters covering adiverse range of theoretical and empirical aspects of actuarial science and quantitative finance, including portfolio management, derivative valuation, risk theory and the economics of insurance.Developed fro…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is open access under a CC BY license and charts the rise and fall of various self-harming behaviours in twentieth-century Britain. It puts self-cutting and overdosing into historical perspective, linking them to the huge c…

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 license and charts the rise and fall of various self-harming behaviours in twentieth-century Britain. It puts self-cutting and overdosing into historical perspective, linking them to the huge changes…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The environment is part of everyone's life but there are difficulties in communicating complex environmental problems, such as climate change, to a lay audience. In this book Klöckner defines environmental communication, providing a…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This is a book about evolution from a post-Darwinian perspective. It recounts the core ideas of French philosopher Henri Bergson and his rediscovery and legacy in the poststructuralist critical philosophies of the 1960s, and explores the c…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This is the first comprehensive study of the English crime play, presenting a survey of 250 plays performed in the London West End between 1900 and 2000. The first part is historically orientated while the second one establishes a tentativ…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In 1986 the first research study investigating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) was published. It aimed to determine if an early conceptualization of the ACT model could be used to treat depression. Since this seminal study,…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The collection demonstrates the ways in which established traditions and scholars have come together under the umbrella of linguistic ethnography to explore important questions about how language and communication are used in a rang…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is a comparative study of vague language based on naturally occurring data of L1 and L2 speakers in academic settings. It explores how L2 learners have diverse and culturally specific needs for vague language compared with L1s, a…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book offers a critical analysis on employing a universal understanding of poverty and suggests ways forward for poverty reduction for developing countries in a post-2015 era. Taking specific country-contexts into account, the author a…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this book, the relationship between financial decision-making and chronic regulatory focus is explored to provide a better understanding of consumer decisions. Financial decisions are modelled on the basis of assets and portfolio…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Food Stamps, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), has endured and expanded in recent years. The program has been preserved and in some cases enhanced as a result of its inclusion in the Farm Bill, being charac…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The author analyses the implementation of the agricultural and industrial parts of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco. Following a sectoral approach to assess the implementation of the ENP, he investigate…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Dynamics of Jewish Latino Relationships centers around three themes: immigration, race and identity, and faith and religion. Each chapter explores an encounter that, for various reasons, has brought Latinos and Jews together on the sam…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Making Sense of School Choice explains why school choice fails to deliver on its promise to meet the needs of culturally diverse populations, even in one of the world's most marketized education systems. Windle offers fresh insights into t…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book uses psychological theories and learning processes, such as Problem Based Learning (PBL), to provide a new approach for teaching psychology at an undergraduate level and prevent diminishing motivation. It creates a detailed examp…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This study outlines the emerging cultural turn in Peace Studies and provides a critical understanding of the cultural dimension of reconciliation. Taking an anthropological view on decentralization and peacebuilding in Indonesia, it sets n…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Decision makers' attitude towards women and gender has a significant influence on development, especially after conflict. This book analyses the effects of gender-inclusive policies deployed by the Kurdistan Regional Government in the area…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This study offers an analysis of the technological and entrepreneurial features of the Victorian telegraph service, together with the companies which ran it until nationalization in 1869. It shows a historical reconstruction mainly based o…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the international development policies of ten Central and Eastern European countries that joined the EU between 2004 and 2007. The contributors offer the first thorough overview of the 'new' EU…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Counterterrorism laws and policies have become a normalized fixture of security agendas across the globe. How do 'us/them' identity constructions contribute to the legitimizing strategies surrounding this development The British case provi…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book provides an original and timely insight into the role that the domestic and international political economy played in the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis, combining an innovative theoretical framework with in-depth bond market ana…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Across the globe, more powers are being devolved to local and regional levels of government. This book provides an innovative analysis of such decentralisation in transition states in the Balkans. Using new and rich data, it shows how poli…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Travelling intensively to and for work helps but also challenges people to find ways of balancing work and personal life. Drawing on a large European longitudinal study, Mobile Europe explores the diversity and ambivalence of mobility situ…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Spanish politics has been transformed. Using new techniques, this book looks at 30 years of Spanish political history to understand party competition, the impact of the EU, media-government relations, aspirations for independence in Catalo…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book provides the first comprehensive comparative analysis of the development of EU enlargement conditionality across four different enlargement waves - the first (2004) and the second (2007) phase of the Eastern enlargement, the EU en…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Laws are essential to the lives of all British citizens and crucial to the survival of British Governments. This book follows the work of House of Commons bill committees as they scrutinise legislation and reveals the hidden depths of law…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The author explores the practice and effects of the European Union's democracy promotion efforts vis-à-vis its authoritarian neighbours in the Middle East and North Africa. She argues that the same set of factors facilitated both internati…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book studies the relationship between women, ageing and celebrity. Focusing on an array of case studies and star/celebrity images, it aims to examine the powerful, contradictory and sometimes celebratory ways in which celebrity cultur…