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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Noncommutative Geometry is one of the most deep and vital research subjects of present-day Mathematics. Its development, mainly due to Alain Connes, is providing an increasing number of applications and deeper insights for instance in Foliations, K-Theory, Index Theory, Number Theory but also in Quantum Physics of elementary particles. The purpose of the Summer School in Martina Franca was to offer a fresh invitation to the subject and closely related topics; the contributions in this volume include the four main lectures, cover advanced developments and are delivered by prominent specialists.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Noncommutative Geometry is one of the most deep and vital research subjects of present-day Mathematics. Its development, mainly due to Alain Connes, is providing an increasing number of applications and deeper insights for instance in Foliations, K-Theory, Index Theory, Number Theory but also in Quantum Physics of elementary particles. The purpose of the Summer School in Martina Franca was to offer a fresh invitation to the subject and closely related topics; the contributions in this volume include the four main lectures, cover advanced developments and are delivered by prominent specialists.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is for geoscience researchers and students with interests in climate change, paleohydrology, and sedimentology. Studies of Cave Sediments is unique in that it is the first comprehensive volume on cave sediments, provides case-studies from around the world, gives guidance on appropriate applications of techniques, and their limitations, synthesizes methods that can be used to decipher complex deposits, and includes chemical deposits (speleothems) as well as clastic sediments. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reframing Disease Contextually will be of particular interest to philosophers of medicine, bioethicists, and philosophers. It may also be of value to medical professionals, historians of western medicine, and health policy makers who take interest in the conceptual foundations of medicine.This book: - provides an overview of key debates in the history of modern western medicine on the nature, knowledge, and value of disease; - illustrates how these debates relate; - provides a 'contextual' or 'localized' way of understanding disease; - includes case studies of e.g. AIDS, genetic disease, and gendered disease; - conveys the importance of the intersection and interrelation between and among factors that make up disease; - illustrates how bioethical discussions about disease naming, classification, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment are part of a much greater discussion in philosophy of medicine.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Japan and the Sino-Soviet Alliance 1950-1964 reveals the divisive impact of the Sino-Soviet Alliance on Japanese domestic politics and foreign relations during the turbulent years between 1950 and 1964. Drawing on extensive Japanese sources and unprecedented access to previously classified government documents, C.W. Braddick exposes the myths shrouding this formative era in Japan's postwar development.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work analyzes the interrelation and interdependence between personality changes, which differ in their nature and phenomenology, and disorders of certain aspects of communicative ability. The author's approach is an interdisciplinary and comprehensive study of neuropsychological, psychopathological and special education data on the basis of communication theories. The book will be a valuable resource for psychologists, social workers, psycholinguists, physicians, and speech and language therapists.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The author of this volume explores questions of mind, reality, knowledge and signification in a provocative, stimulating and humorous way. Drawing on various domains such as systems research, semiotics, philosophy, and complexity sciences, he touches basic questions of our Being-in-the-World as cognate creatures, and presents a novel theory of the mind as a boundary phenomenon.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This volume deals with the basic knowledge and understanding of fundamental interactions of low energy electrons with molecules. It pro vides an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the fundamental in teractions of low-energy electrons with molecules of current interest in modern technology, especially the semiconductor industry. The primary electron-molecule interaction processes of elastic and in elastic electron scattering, electron-impact ionization, electron-impact dissociation, and electron attachment are discussed, and state-of-the art authoritative data on the cross sections of these processes as well as on rate and transport coefficients are provided. This fundamental knowledge has been obtained by us over the last eight years through a critical review and comprehensive assessment of 'all' available data on low-energy electron collisions with plasma processing gases which we conducted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Data from this work were originally published in the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, and have been updated and expanded here. The fundamental electron-molecule interaction processes are discussed in Chapter 1. The cross sections and rate coefficients most often used to describe these interactions are defined in Chapter 2, where some recent advances in the methods employed for their measurement or calculation are outlined. The methodology we adopted for the critical evaluation, synthesis, and assessment of the existing data is described in Chapter 3. The critically assessed data and recommended or suggested cross sections and rate and transport coefficients for ten plasma etching gases are presented and discussed in Chapters 4, 5, and 6.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Turbulence theory is one of the most intriguing parts of fluid mechanics and many outstanding scientists have tried to apply their knowledge to the development of the theory and to offer useful recommendations for solution of some practical problems. In this monograph the author attempts to integrate many specific approaches into the unified theory. The basic premise is the simple idea that a small eddy, that is an element of turbulent meso-structure, possesses its own dynamics as an object rotating with its own spin velocity and obeying the Newton dynamics of a finite body. A number of such eddies fills a coordinate cell, and the angular momentum balance has to be formulated for this spatial cell. If the cell coincides with a finite difference element at a numerical calculation and if the external length scale is large, this elementary volume can be considered as a differential one and a continuum parameterization has to be used. Nontrivial angular balance is a consequence of the asymmetrical Reynolds stress action at the oriented sides of an elementary volume. At first glance, the averaged dyad of velocity components is symmetrical, == However, if averaging is performed over the plane with normal nj, the principle of commutation is lost. As a result, the stress tensor asymmetry j is determined by other factors that participate in the angular momentum balance. This is the only possibility to determine a stress in engineering.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A vast majority of failures emanate from stress concentrators such as geometrical discontinuities. The role of stress concentration was first highlighted by Inglis (1912) who gives a stress concentration factor for an elliptical defect, and later by Neuber (1936). With the progress in computing, it is now possible to compute the real stress distribution at a notch tip. This distribution is not simple, but looks like pseudo-singularity as in principle the power dependence with distance remains. This distribution is governed by the notch stress intensity factor which is the basis of Notch Fracture Mechanics. Notch Fracture Mechanics is associated with the volumetric method which postulates that fracture requires a physical volume. Since fatigue also needs a physical process volume, Notch Fracture Mechanics can easily be extended to fatigue emanating from a stress concentration.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - st th The 21 century is the century of Asia in the same way the 20 century was of America. In terms of urbanization challenges Asia in the current century is faced with an enormous surge of urban population and the associated problems of rural -urban migration, overcrowding, proliferation of slums, housing shortage, growing unempl- ment and underemployment and choice between capital intensive productivity vs. labor intensive employment generation, suffocating pollution caused by both industries and motor vehicle fumes, crumbling urban facilities and education / health care systems and above all mind boggling poverty. While facing these challenges many bright urbani- tion aspects may also be noted -efficient mass transport systems of Japan, banning of leaded fuels for motor vehicles in Indian mega cities, formation and operation of metro -planning organizations, linking rural/urban development and a general consciousness of urban problems, recognization and efforts to resolve them. Thisbook pioneers the analysis and research effort on urbanization in Asia in the st 21 century in light of new and continued challenges. It is a part of a continuum that emanates from the selected papers at the Sixth Asian Urbanization Conference (AUC) held in Chennai (Madras), India in January 2000. AUC is organized almost every third year. The Asian Urbanization Research Organization (AURA) headquartered at The University of Akron's Department of Geography and Planning plans such conferences. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Health care delivery has become institutionalized. As a result, health care organizations now have the power to determine who has access to what kind of health care and under what circumstances. They shape as well the ethics of the various health care professions. These developments have provoked controversies about what kind of obligations such health care organizations have to patients, caregivers, and society at large. In order to respond to these controversies, an account of health care organizational ethics has become necessary. The essays in this volume: -are drawn from an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars in this growing field; -address the nature of health care organizational ethics, including such issues as corporate fraud and institutional moral integrity; -cover the broad range of issues that must be addressed for a coherent discussion of organizational moral responsibility; -cover the range of theoretical and practical issues like no other volume; -are of interest to researchers, students and professionals working in the fields of bioethics, health care administration and management, organizational science, and business ethics.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Bonded magnets are the fastest growing sector in the entire market for magnetic materials. Their great advantages lie in the cost effective net-shape manufacturing process allowing the achievement of complex geometries and their isotropic magnetic properties. Energy products have more than quadrupled in recent years, too. The contributors to this volume present the current and future status of bonded magnets, including total world production and distribution, the markets involved, and the status of current and future applications. Current novel processing techniques are described and new developments reported, including powder production techniques, jet casting/melt spinning, atomization and DDDR processes. The different types of bonded magnets reviewed include isotropic and anisotropic neodymium-iron-boron, nanocomposites, Sm-Fe interstitial nitrides, Sm-Co and ferrites.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cancer chemotherapy frequently attacks the gastrointestinal tract. Many of the possible side-effects reduce the patient's quality of life, may limit acceptance of further drug administration, and even life-threatening complications must be considered. This book is the proceedings of the Falk Workshop 'Side-effects of Chemotherapy on the Gastrointestinal Tract: Pathogenesis and Therapy', held in Freiburg, Germany, on October 11, 2002 (Part IV of the Freiburg Gastroenterology Week). Chapters by pathologists, pharmacologists, oncologists and gastroenterologists will improve our understanding of the effects of anticancer agents on the organs of the gastrointestinal tract and help to compensate for chemotherapy-induced adverse effects.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Marriage and social inequality are closely interrelated. Marriage is dependent on the structure of marriage markets, and marriage patterns have consequences for social inequality. This book demonstrates that in most modern societies the educa tional system has become an increasingly important marriage market, particularly for those who are highly qualified. Educational expansion in general and the rising educational participation of women in particular unintentionally have increased the rate of 'assortative meeting' and assortative mating across birth cohorts. Rising educational homogamy means that social inequality is further enhanced through marriage because better (and worse) educated single men and women pool their economic and sociocultural advantages (and disadvantages) within couples. In this book we study the changing role of the educational system as a marriage market in modern societies from a cross-national comparative perspective. Using life-history data from a broad range of industrialized countries and longitudinal statistical models, we analyze the process of spouse selection in the life courses of single men and women, step by step. The countries included in this book vary widely in important characteristics such as demographic behavior and institutional characteristics. The life course approach explicitly recognizes the dynamic nature of partner decisions, the importance of educational roles and institutional circum stances as young men and women move through their life paths, and the cumulation of advantages and disadvantages experienced by individuals.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Even if the subject is a long-standing one, this is the first monograph on this field. On the one hand, this book is intended to give a rather wide review on this field, both in a historical and pedagogical perspective; on the other hand, it aims at critically re-examining and discussing the most controversial issues. For instance, according to some authors the celebrated Sagnac effect is a disproval of the theory of relativity applied to rotating frames; according to others, it is an astonishing experimental evidence of the relativistic theory. In order to give the reader a deeper insight into this research field, the contributing authors discuss their opinions on the main subjects in an enthralling virtual round table: in this way, the reader can get a direct comparison of the various viewpoints on the most controversial and interesting topics. This is particularly expedient, since the differences in the various approaches are often based upon subtleties that can be understood only by a direct comparison of the underlying hypotheses.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The international Colloquium Open Issues in Local Star Formation and Early Stellar Evolution was held in Ouro Preto (Brazil) from April 05to10, 2003. TheColloquiumtookplaceinthe ParqueMetalurgico , an old iron industry that has been transformed into a nice modern c- ference center. Ouro Preto is a 18th century colonial city that has been declared a Cultural Heritage of Mankind in 1980. It is situated in the hills of the State of Minas Gerais at about 100 km from Belo Horizonte. Themeeting was attended by 115 participants from 15 countries. The participants were in general very happy with the high level of the p- sentations and with the friendly ambiance of the discussions. The talks and poster sessions were focused on the physics of young stellar objects, which are being observed with increasing angular resolution provided by the new generation of telescopes, and on the processes that triggered large scale star-formation in the solar neighborhood or in the Galaxy. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book takes you to the 'classical academy of shamanism', Siberian tribal spirituality that gave birth to the expression 'shamanism.' For the first time, in this volume Znamenski has rendered in readable English more than one hundred books and articles that describe all aspects of Siberian shamanism: ideology, ritual, mythology, spiritual pantheon, and paraphernalia. It will prove valuable to anthropologists, historians of religion, psychologists and practitioners of shamanism.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As Symposium Committee Chair for the 2003 International Space University (ISU) Symposium, and Editor of this Proceedings volume, respectively, we write this introduction. The success of previous ISU symposia suggests that the ISU has developed a unique and winning formula for a novel type of symposium. The characteristics of ISU symposia are that they: - Adopt a broad, and interdisciplinary, perspective - Address all aspects of the subject, ranging from policy, business, organisational, and legal issues to technical and scientific topics - Foster a constructive dialogue among very different sectors of the space community, and - Allow ample time for interactive discussions. The present Symposium is no exception. It considers the very timely topic of space-based systems for global positioning and navigation, ranging from the GPS system developed by the US military to the Russian GLONASS system, and on to the future European Galileo system. Other nations are planning regional augmentation systems.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Does the World exist ' There would be no reason to resurrect this question of modernity from its historical oblivion were it not for the fact that recent evolution in science and technology, impregnating culture, makes us wonder about the nature of reality, of the world we are living in, and of our status as living beings within it. Thus great metaphysical subjacent queries are forcefully revived, calling for new investigations to proceed in the light of the innumerable novel insights of science. This collection presents a wealth of material toward an elaboration of a new metaphysical groundwork of the ontopoiesis/ phenomenology of life sought to effect such investigations. The classic postulates of the metaphysics of reality, those of necessity and certainty here find a new formulation. Away from sclerotized ontological and cognitive assumptions and congenial with the views of contemporary science, the understanding of reality, of our world of life, and of ourselves within it is to be sought in the existential/ontopoietic ciphering of life (Tymieniecka).…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Knowledge itself is soon obsolete; It is a blunt instrument. Only by understanding can problems be solved and progress achieved. Reliability in performance of electronic equipment, in the face of demands for continuing miniaturisation and the anticipated abolition of lead containing solders, represents a major engineering challenge. The involvement of numerous disciplines; such as electrical, electronic, mechanical, manufacturing, and materials engineering together with physicists and computer specialists, adds to the complexity of the situation. Nevertheless, with electronics being the World's largest industrial sector, the potential rewards to the winners are substantial. This book aims to provide the ingredients for understanding, together with knowledge of reliability in interconnection technology and of the implementation of lead free solders. It is strongly contended that such a combination forms the necessary basis for greater structural integrity and enhanced performance The text is essentially in three parts: The intentions of the Part I component {The Materials Perspective, Chapters 1 6) are to present a snapshot of the current, but rapidly changing, global scene and to establish a firm understanding of the fundamentals surrounding interconnection performance. With potential readers possessing a broad spectrum of knowledge and expertise, this is essential. It could be argued that the reason for the limited progress made in this field to date has been due to the difficulties encountered in communicating effectively across the discipline boundaries.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - SMC COLOMBIER FONTAINE is a company in the AFE METAL group, which uses a sand casting process to manufacture steel primary parts. To reduce the 'time to market', primary part producers need to reduce the time and cost of the industrialisation process. These factors, in addition to the global goal of improving process performance levels, brought SMC to develop numerical technologies and traceability from quotation to part delivery [1]. Nowadays, these improvements are incorporated into company culture. The next step in reducing the time and cost of the production process is to introduce a complete methodology of use and experience feedback of these new models and methods. To be able to generalise this approach, a CAD methodology is essential and thus becomes a step in the industrialisation process. The amount of improvements engendered by the numerical technologies largely justifies the time investment made to obtain a numerical definition of all the different elements in the sand casting process [2]. The objective of our approach is to optimise the product and its production process by generating a complete numerical reference, through the integration of quotation, CAD, simulation, new manufacturing technologies and effective production processes.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - PETER BRYANT & TEREZINHA NUNES The time that it takes children to learn to read varies greatly between different orthographies, as the chapter by Sprenger-Charolles clearly shows, and so do the difficulties that they encounter in learning about their own orthography. Nevertheless most people, who have the chance to learn to read, do in the end read well enough, even though a large number experience some significant difficulties on the way. Most of them eventually become reasonably efficient spellers too, even though they go on make spelling mistakes (at any rate if they are English speakers) for the rest of their lives. So, the majority of humans plainly does have intellectual resources that are needed for reading and writing, but it does not always find these resources easy to marshal. What are these resources Do any of them have to be acquired Do different orthographies make quite different demands on the intellect Do people differ significantly from each other in the strength and accessibility of these resources If they do, are these differences an important factor in determining children's success in learning to read and write These are the main questions that the different chapters in this section on Basic Processes set out to answer. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -MeineEntscheidung, dem Vorschlag Folge werden, urn einen weiteren Schritt der zu leisten, ein Geleitwort fur das neue Menschheit auf dem Wege der Huma Buch uber . posttraumatlsche Storunqen' nisierung zu setzen. Damit wird auch die zur Verfuqunq zu stellen, wurde durch Hoffnung gestiirkt, dass immer deutlicher zwei Griinde bestimmt:einerseits ist es ein erkannt wird, was ein Mensch dem ande Dokument des Zweiten Vatikanischen ren antun kann. Konzils zum Thema . Kirche und Welt von DieletztenErgebnissederForschungim heute',mit dem Hinweis auf die praktische Bereiche der . Psychotraumatoloqie' - wie Seelsorge,die sich auch mit seelischenund die Fachleute sagen,zeigen also, dass man zu Recht von echten Verletzungen spre gesellschaftlichen Fragen beschattigen miisse. In diesem Text wird aufmerksam chen muss und dass der Spruch 'Die Zeit gemacht, dass die Seelsorge nicht nur theo heilt aIle Wunden',in solchen Fiilleweder logische Grundsiitze zu erortern habe, son zu trosten noch zu heilenvermag. Hiersind dem ebenso die Ergebnisse der profanen in der Tat Therapeuten gefordert, die eine Wissenschaften beachten musse, jene der besondere Ausbildung, ein groBes Verant Psychologie wie der Gesellschaftslehre. wortungsbewusstsein und eine gefestigte Dazu kommt meine praktische Erfahrung Personlichkeit besitzen; dazu gehOrt ein als Seelsorger mit Angstproblemen vieler mitmenschliches Milieu, das Mitgehihl Menschenunddas Bemuhen, hiermensch und Zuwendung, Respekt und Betroffen lich und christlich Hilfe leisten zu kon heit vermittelt. Am wichtigstenaber ist das nen. Wissen urn die Tiefe und Komplexitiit des Das vorliegende Buch eroffnet neue sen, was das Traumaopfer erlitten hat und Einblicke und Erkenntnisse von Angstzu immer wieder erleidet.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - MeineEntscheidung, dem Vorschlag Folge werden, urn einen weiteren Schritt der zu leisten, ein Geleitwort fur das neue Menschheit auf dem Wege der Huma Buch uber . posttraumatlsche Storunqen' nisierung zu setzen. Damit wird auch die zur Verfuqunq zu stellen, wurde durch Hoffnung gestiirkt, dass immer deutlicher zwei Griinde bestimmt:einerseits ist es ein erkannt wird, was ein Mensch dem ande Dokument des Zweiten Vatikanischen ren antun kann. Konzils zum Thema . Kirche und Welt von DieletztenErgebnissederForschungim heute',mit dem Hinweis auf die praktische Bereiche der . Psychotraumatoloqie' - wie Seelsorge,die sich auch mit seelischenund die Fachleute sagen,zeigen also, dass man zu Recht von echten Verletzungen spre gesellschaftlichen Fragen beschattigen miisse. In diesem Text wird aufmerksam chen muss und dass der Spruch 'Die Zeit gemacht, dass die Seelsorge nicht nur theo heilt aIle Wunden',in solchen Fiilleweder logische Grundsiitze zu erortern habe, son zu trosten noch zu heilenvermag. Hiersind dem ebenso die Ergebnisse der profanen in der Tat Therapeuten gefordert, die eine Wissenschaften beachten musse, jene der besondere Ausbildung, ein groBes Verant Psychologie wie der Gesellschaftslehre. wortungsbewusstsein und eine gefestigte Dazu kommt meine praktische Erfahrung Personlichkeit besitzen; dazu gehOrt ein als Seelsorger mit Angstproblemen vieler mitmenschliches Milieu, das Mitgehihl Menschenunddas Bemuhen, hiermensch und Zuwendung, Respekt und Betroffen lich und christlich Hilfe leisten zu kon heit vermittelt. Am wichtigstenaber ist das nen. Wissen urn die Tiefe und Komplexitiit des Das vorliegende Buch eroffnet neue sen, was das Traumaopfer erlitten hat und Einblicke und Erkenntnisse von Angstzu immer wieder erleidet.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Syndyastik - der tiefe Wunsch nach Beziehung und Zugehörigkeit.Alle Menschen sind programmiert auf die Erfüllung elementarer Grundbedürfnisse, wie Nähe, Geborgenheit und Akzeptanz.Werden in einer Paarbeziehung diese Grundbedürfnisse nicht erfüllt, entstehen daraus häufig sexuelle Funktionsstörungen, z.B. Unlust oder Erektionsstörungen.Die hier erstmals vorgestellte Sydnyastische Sexualtherapie rückt nicht die gestörte Sexualfunktion in den Mittelpunkt, sondern die zu Grunde liegende frustrierte partnerschaftliche Beziehung. Syndyastische Sexualtherapie ist- schulenübergreifend - Fokussierung auf innere Grundbedürfnisse - das Mittel zur Verbesserung der sexuellen Kommunikation - frei von mechanistischen 'Übungen' oder 'Hausaufgaben' - wirksam ohne langwierige Therapiesitzung Anwendbar ist die Syndyastische Sexualtherapie bei sexuellen Funktionsstörungen des Mannes und der Frau, bei unerfülltem Kinderwunsch, Sexualität im Alter, krankheits- und behandlungsbedingten Sexualstörungen, sexuellen Präferenz- und Verhaltensstörungen und Geschlechtsidentitätsstörungen.Dieser neue Therapieansatz geht weit über die klassische Psychotherapie hinaus und ist geeignet für alle Ärzte und Psychotherapeuten, die in ihren Praxen mit sexuellen Funktiosstörungen konfrontiert werden.und seine Erfüllung macht wieder Lust.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book, now in its 2nd edition, is devoted to the arithmetical theory of Siegel modular forms and their L-functions. The central objectare L-functions of classical Siegel modular forms whose special values are studied using the Rankin-Selberg method and the action of certain differential operators on modular forms which have nice arithmetical properties. A new method of p-adic interpolation of these critical values is presented. An important class of p-adic L-functionstreated in the present book are p-adic L-functions of Siegel modular forms having logarithmic growth. The given construction of these p-adic L-functions uses precise algebraic properties of the arithmetical Shimura differential operator.The book will be very useful for postgraduate students and for non-expertslooking fora quick approach to a rapidly developing domain of algebraic number theory. This new edition is substantially revised to account for the new explanations that have emerged in the past 10 years of the main formulas for special L-values in terms of arithmetical theory of nearly holomorphic modular forms. 212 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In November 12, 2002, Dr. John Chambers of the NASA Ames Research Center gave a seminar to the Astrobiology Group at the University of Washington. The audience of about 100 listened with rapt attention as Chambers described results from a computer study of how planetary systems form. The goal of his research was to answer a deceptively simple question: How often would newly forming planetary systems produce Earth-like planets, given a star the size of our own sun By 'Earth-like' Chambers meant a rocky planet with water on its surface, orbiting within a star's 'habitable zone. ' This not-too-hot and not-too-cold inner region, relatively close to the star, supports the presence of liquid water on a planet surface for hundreds of million of years-the time-span probably necessary for the evolution of life. To answer the question of just how many Earth-like planets might be spawned in such a planetary system, Chambers had spent thousands of hours running highly sophisticated modeling programs through arrays of powerful computers. The results presented at the meeting were startling. The simulations showed that rocky planets orbiting at the 'right' distances from the central star are easily formed, but they can end up with a wide range of water content. Earth seems to be quite a gem-a rocky planet where not only can liquid water exist for long periods of time, but where water can be found as a heathy oceanful-not too little and not too much. Our planet seems to reside in a benign region of the Galaxy, where comet and asteroid bombardment is tolerable and habitable-zone planets can commonly grow to Earth size. Such real estate in our galaxy-perhaps in any galaxy-is prime for life. And rare as well. 368 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This unique volume combines chapters containing a multidisciplinary academic analysis of the causes of the continued existence of contemporary forms of slavery, such as globalization, poverty and migration with empirical chapters on trafficking, domestic migrant workers, bonded labour and child labour in Asia, Latin America and Africa. It provides relevant policy recommendations, such as respect for victims' rights and assesses longer term strategies for change, including Fair Trade, reparations for slavery in the past, the Tobin tax and Development ethics. 272 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Governments use human rights both as a tool and as an objective of foreign policy. The Role of Human Rights in Foreign Policy analyses conflicting policy goals such as peace and security, economic relations and development co-operation. The use of diplomatic, economic and military means is discussed, together with the role of state actors, intergovernmental organizations and non-state actors. 165 pp. Englisch.…