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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Workshops are moderated and prepared in advance working meetings in which participants devote themselves to a limited topic outside of regular organizational interaction. In recent years, a paradigm shift in the planning and implementation of workshops has emerged in the facilitation and consulting industry. According to the new paradigm, workshops are seen as elements in broader interaction plans, in which they are supplemented by equally important interaction events such as contract talks, exploratory interviews or major conferences. Especially where workshops are aimed at organizational change, they are embedded in a more comprehensive change architecture. This book shows in compact form how workshops can be woven into a comprehensive interaction plan and thus used as an element of organizational change processes.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 49 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Workshops are moderated and prepared in advance working meetings in which participants devote themselves to a limited topic outside of regular organizational interaction. In recent years, a paradigm shift in the planning and implementation of workshops has emerged in the facilitation and consulting industry. According to the new paradigm, workshops are seen as elements in broader interaction plans, in which they are supplemented by equally important interaction events such as contract talks, exploratory interviews or major conferences. Especially where workshops are aimed at organizational change, they are embedded in a more comprehensive change architecture. This book shows in compact form how workshops can be woven into a comprehensive interaction plan and thus used as an element of organizational change processes.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the wake of spectacular economic scandals, there has been a surge in interest about rule-breaking in organizations and the question of how to prevent such violations. More and more organizations are setting up 'compliance management' positions that are responsible for monitoring compliance with rules, sanctioning deviations from the rules, and establishing and interpreting new rules. The motto here is: from now on, we'll do everything by the book! In this book, we show why the hopes associated with compliance management are often overstated, while the risks are typically underestimated. Compliance management needs to be managed and discursively designed; it cannot ensure complete control.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Can science understand literally everything Can every mystery of nature eventually be explained given enough research attention and generous funding Will our knowledge, supplemented by the power of AI, keep growing without bounds Can truth be found in every raging academic debate Much of the development of modern mathematics has been shaped -- consciously or not -- by trying to answer these questions. This book is meant to be an accessible and, hopefully, amusing exploration of the basic and fundamental mathematical principles that limit what can be known and understood. These principles demarcate the boundary fence of science which neither a human nor an artificial mind can see beyond.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Can science understand literally everything Can every mystery of nature eventually be explained given enough research attention and generous funding Will our knowledge, supplemented by the power of AI, keep growing without bounds Can truth be found in every raging academic debate Much of the development of modern mathematics has been shaped -- consciously or not -- by trying to answer these questions. This book is meant to be an accessible and, hopefully, amusing exploration of the basic and fundamental mathematical principles that limit what can be known and understood. These principles demarcate the boundary fence of science which neither a human nor an artificial mind can see beyond.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 372 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What if psychology isn t as liberal as we think Psychology is often seen as a progressive discipline a champion of social justice, diversity, and liberal values. But this provocative book challenges that assumption. It argues that psychology, from its historical entanglements with eugenics and colonialism to its modern-day focus on individualism, has long served to reinforce the status quo.Even as many psychologists identify as politically liberal, the field s methods, theories, and institutions often promote a worldview that downplays inequality, pathologizes dissent, and resists structural change. Psychology s emphasis on personal responsibility, resilience, and self-help frequently aligns more closely with conservative ideals than with progressive ones.This book explores how the myth of a liberal bias in psychology has been weaponised in today s culture wars and how it distracts from the field s real political blind spots. It asks: what would it mean for psychology to truly live up to its promise of promoting human welfare Accessible, deeply researched, and sharply argued, Psychology s Quiet Conservatism is essential reading for anyone interested in how science shapes society and how society shapes science.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From climate change and inequality to migration and global conflict, this book explores the definingchallenges of our time. Revised and featuring nine new chapters, it brings together top scholars todemonstrate how the social sciences help us make sense of complex events and global trends. Withfresh insights into climate justice, populism, productivity, sustainable development, and social wellbeing, it reveals how these issues are deeply interconnected.Supported by the Academy for Social Sciences, the book shows how disciplines such as economics,education, political science, psychology, and sociology are essential for understanding developmentsthat may seem purely technological or natural. It champions interdisciplinary collaboration to ensurescience, technology, and policy serve the public good. Whether you're a curious reader, policymaker,or academic, this book makes a compelling case for why the social sciences matter now more thanever and how understanding human behaviour and society can help shape a better future.With contributions by: Howard Newby, Jonathan Michie, Cary L. Cooper, Jayati Ghosh, Joshua Lincoln,Oz Hassan, Robin Cohen, Iyiola Solanke, Bart van Ark, Mary O Mahony, Dirk Pilat, James CampbellQuick, Robert J. Gatchel, Camilla Toulmin, Dave Cowan, Sally Wheeler, Mike Hough, Andreas J. Stylianides, Gabriel J. Stylianides, Marya Besharov, Catherine Hasted and Will Hutton.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For fifty years, 4ZZZ has been more than just a broadcaster - it s been a movement, a megaphone, and a meeting place for radicals, musicians, punks and radio nerds alike. People Powered Radio captures the oral and archival histories of one of Australia s oldest and most unique community radio stations. From the station s subversive roots in the 1970s to its present-day digital renaissance, this rich and deeply researched book documents the lasting contributions made by 4ZZZ; promoting independent music, producing alternative news and fostering authentic community collaborations. People Powered Radio is not just a story about radio. It s an insider s perspective on what happens when people build something together and refuse to let it go. It s a celebration of everything that 4ZZZ has offered over the last half a century and what the future might hold for the station.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing upon a unique cliometric approach, this book offers a comprehensive examination of major conflicts and their consequences. War and imperialism have shaped the modern world in profound ways, leaving an indelible mark on nations and peoples. In this book, acclaimed historian Roger L. Ransom takes readers on an engaging and insightful journey through the pivotal conflicts and power struggles that defined the era from the beginning of the twentieth century until today. From the early days of imperialism to the recent events in Russia and Ukraine, the author delves into the unanswered questions surrounding imperialism and war, shedding new light on historical debates.Explore the rise of imperialist powers such as the USA and Germany, delve into the Russo-Japanese War and the Third Reich's thrust towards Moscow, and analyze pivotal moments like the Pearl Harbor attack and the use of the atomic bomb. With rigorous research and accessible prose, this book provides a compelling narrative that appeals to both scholars and general readers. This book is an invaluable resource for students, history enthusiasts, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of war and imperialism in the modern era.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book utilizes postcards as a historical and visual lens to consider the built environment of the Philippines after the governmental regime change in 1898. By compiling and using visual references to show shifting patterns of urban environmental design during the Philippines' American colonial era, this volume will reveal the changes in Manila's built environment. This book will also examine the loss of the historic urban form post-1946. In detailing the altering landscape of Manila, the book reveals the relationship between the development of the built environment and its societal context.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 160 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This Palgrave Pivot is a personal and universal history of gain and loss. Via memoir and oral histories, Sharony Green, a native of Miami with ancestral roots in the American South and the Bahamas, sheds light on ups and down of African American residents before and after the Second World War. The author uses the 'Baa Haas,' an outlying community in Miami-Dade County, a region that is also a gateway to Caribbean and Latin America, as a starting place to think through such things. As early as the New Deal era, white powerbrokers desired to relocate people of African descent from the lucrative waterfronts to a desolate and sandy area about twenty miles northwest of Miami's downtown. This community was later nicknamed the 'Baa Haas,' presumably because its nearby prehistoric beach resembled California's Bajas beaches. Whether spelled Baa Haas, Bajas or Bahas, the tiny neighborhood, whose biggest landmark nowadays is Hard Rock Stadium, is noteworthy. It was not until whites themselves settled there first, beginning in the fifties with the help of the 1944 GI bill, that people of African descent, aided by the Fair Housing Act of 1968, at last moved there. Some arrived from older Miami communities like Liberty City, Overtown and Coconut Grove or even elsewhere in the States. Essentially, two federal initiatives collided with positive gains for the oppressed. As people increasingly find themselves displaced owing to gentrification, this book permits an opportunity for readers to see what had been possible for prospective black homeowners.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 151 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Business Innovation is key to the continuing prosperity of firms and to the resolution of environmental and societal grand challenges alike. It has, therefore, become one of the core fields of academic inquiry of our times. It is, however, also an inherently inter-disciplinary subject, inviting contributions from a variety of disciplines. Due to their diverse backgrounds, scholars interested in business innovation frequently lack a "common language" and a shared base of knowledge to integrate their individual contributions effectively.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 163 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book offers philosophical and psychoanalytical reflections on the selfhood shaped in autobiographical graphic narratives, or autographics. These reflections revolve around the 'autographic gesture'. This gesture refers to, firstly, the leaving of graphic traces of an embodied self, which, secondly, transform into a drawn figure that represents this self and acquires a certain autonomy as a character, and which, thirdly, are embedded in a narrative that tells all or part of this self's life story. By combining the semiotic logics of trace, image, and narrative, the book argues, autographics perform this gesture and shape a specific form of selfhood.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This open-access publication examines the organisational mechanisms that enable the commercial real estate industry to better withstand economic headwinds and more quickly recover from downturns. With geographic focus on the United Kingdom and Germany, it sheds light on the alternative lending space and explores how debt funds prepare to weather economic turbulence by adopting effective loan risk management practices. Given the significant market share of debt funds and their potential for future growth, the insights provided by industry experts into this rather opaque sector are pertinent and satisfy an urgent need.The publication derives key success factors for effective loan risk management from experience and distils them for practical application. It investigates the corporate structures, processes, cultures andrelationshipsof debt funds. Particular focus falls on the operational practices of loan risk management, and the human resources and infrastructural requirements for success. The findings that are presented are relevant to practitioners, market analysts and academic researchers alike.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - China s Blueprint for Global Leadership offers the first comprehensive academic analysis of China s Three Major Initiatives the Global Security Initiative (GSI), the Global Development Initiative (GDI), and the Global Civilization Initiative (GCI) launched between 2021 and 2023. Collectively known as the San da changyi, these initiatives reflect Beijing s attempt to articulate a new vision of global order rooted in Chinese values, norms, and leadership, and positioned as a challenge to the Western-led Liberal International Order.The book analyses the origin, content, and likely consequences of these flagship proposals, placing them within the broader framework of China s foreign policy strategy during the Xi era. The authors explore how, through the GSI, GDI and GCI, Beijing seeks to present a coherent global vision that spans the realms of security, development, and political ideology. In doing so, China proposes itself as a leader beyond its immediate region particularly for the Global South and the BRICS coalition.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ancient African Futuresprovides a creative and critical account of the history and form(s) of systemic constellations practice (SCP) applying a decolonial lens, emphasizing the profound significance of Zulu epistemology on its origins.The volume opens with an autoethnographic account of the author s African diasporan / European identity and its bearing within the SCP profession. It offers a summary introduction to SCP as a discrete modality of Western psychotherapy, commonly accepted as the creation of Anton Hellinger, a German national. Hellinger was a Jesuit missionary priest in South Africa during the 1950-1960s. The author argues that this colonial phenomenon and Hellinger himself, are emblematic of the European Imperial project. The volume scrutinises this historic-contemporary dynamic in relation to more-than-Western indigenous epistemologies, advocating for a pluriversal reckoning, considering European colonial histories and indigenous forms of cultural resistance.Having interrogated the asymmetric dynamic exchange between Africana and Western cultures, the volume then explores a speculative manifesto . This manifesto proposes numerous concrete actions regarding future curriculum design and faculty representation within professional SCP trainings, championing a recalibration, decentring whiteness, making SCP a profession more open to and representative of diverse global communities. Honouring their historic, cultural, colonial, postcolonial and political experiences, alongside their contemporary narratives of migration, settlement and resistance to Western neocolonialism. Ultimately, advocating for an empathetic and celebratory, Black / Global Majority Heritage-inclusive SCP practice model.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Microalgae, such as algae and cyanobacteria, which are cultivated for their biomass and are rich in lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates, can be used as a renewable energy source. Seeking to mitigate climate change and ensuring energy security, this approach provides several advantages, including being carbon neutral, requiring low water usage, and having high oil content. However, challenges persist, including scalability, cost-effectiveness, biomass harvesting, conversion efficiency, water management, and land use competition with food crops.This book describes the development of a production method of bioenergy from microalgal biomass, and examines the entire process development, from strain improvement and cultivation optimization, through the conversion process, and systems integration. The book delves into related technologies, including catalytic conversion, separation and purification techniques. The potential of microalgal bioenergy as a sustainable energy source is assessed by considering scalability, cost-effectiveness, and environmental impact.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This Palgrave Pivot is a personal and universal history of gain and loss. Via memoir and oral histories, Sharony Green, a native of Miami with ancestral roots in the American South and the Bahamas, sheds light on ups and down of African American residents before and after the Second World War. The author uses the 'Baa Haas,' an outlying community in Miami-Dade County, a region that is also a gateway to Caribbean and Latin America, as a starting place to think through such things. As early as the New Deal era, white powerbrokers desired to relocate people of African descent from the lucrative waterfronts to a desolate and sandy area about twenty miles northwest of Miami s downtown. This community was later nicknamed the 'Baa Haas,' presumably because its nearby prehistoric beach resembled California s Bajas beaches. Whether spelled Baa Haas, Bajas or Bahas, the tiny neighborhood, whose biggest landmark nowadays is Hard Rock Stadium, is noteworthy. It was not until whites themselves settled there first, beginning in the fifties with the help of the 1944 GI bill, that people of African descent, aided by the Fair Housing Act of 1968, at last moved there. Some arrived from older Miami communities like Liberty City, Overtown and Coconut Grove or even elsewhere in the States. Essentially, two federal initiatives collided with positive gains for the oppressed. As people increasingly find themselves displaced owing to gentrification, this book permits an opportunity for readers to see what had been possible for prospective black homeowners.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The politics of white identity pervade American national discourse, and many commentators and scholars rightfully express concern about rising tides of white nationalism in America politics. Yet white Americans today exhibit broad diversity in their ethnic origins, the relative importance of those origins, and their views on race in politics and society. In White Identities in American Politics, Dominik Stecula and Matthew P. Hitt draw on two large original surveys to codify the various forms of white identities that exist in America today. White Americans are no more monolithic politically and psychologically than any other ethnic group. The various typologies of whiteness exhibit durable and meaningful relationships with other important political attitudes, including nativism, immigration attitudes, and racial resentment. In an era where all politics can be related to identity politics, oversimplifying and overgeneralizing the attitudes and behaviors of America s largest racial and ethnic group risks accidentally reinforcing and affirming a hegemonic form of white identity divorced from nuance and ethnic origins, one responsible for centuries of violence and bigotry in the United States.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book offers philosophical and psychoanalytical reflections on the selfhood shaped in autobiographical graphic narratives, or autographics. These reflections revolve around the autographic gesture . This gesture refers to, firstly, the leaving of graphic traces of an embodied self, which, secondly, transform into a drawn figure that represents this self and acquires a certain autonomy as a character, and which, thirdly, are embedded in a narrative that tells all or part of this self s life story. By combining the semiotic logics of trace, image, and narrative, the book argues, autographics perform this gesture and shape a specific form of selfhood. The book studies this process by turning to theories about selfhood constructed primarily within the following three intellectual traditions: existential hermeneutics, as developed by Paul Ricoeur; existential phenomenology, as embodied by Jean-Paul Sartre; and psychoanalysis, through the lenses of Jacques Lacan, Marion Milner, and Donald Winnicott. The ideas of these authors, as well as Paul de Man s and Johann Gottlieb Fichte s analyses of subject-constitution, are brought into dialogue with autobiographical graphic narratives by Zoe Thorogood, Katie Green, Peter Pontiac, Alison Bechdel, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Marjane Satrapi, Riad Sattouf, Keiji Nakazawa, Lynda Barry, and others.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Business Innovation is key to the continuing prosperity of firms and to the resolution of environmental and societal grand challenges alike. It has, therefore, become one of the core fields of academic inquiry of our times. It is, however, also an inherently inter-disciplinary subject, inviting contributions from a variety of disciplines. Due to their diverse backgrounds, scholars interested in business innovation frequently lack a common language and a shared base of knowledge to integrate their individual contributions effectively.This revised and updated edition starts with the fundamental considerations concerning the role of theories, different types of theories, and different forms of logical reasoning in this field. It goes on to present seven different schools of thought about business innovation, before concluding with the main theories currently used to study business innovation. Exploring the Field of Business Innovation aims at making this domain more accessible to scholars irrespective of their background and career stage, fostering the inter-disciplinary debate, and inspiring researchers to look at this phenomenon from new and different angles.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book examines well-known poetry, picture books, and multimodal texts to explore how visual and literary texts shape collective memory and historical understanding with an initial focus on World War I before expanding to include more current contested issues topics such as colonialism, immigration, and First Nations experiences.Organized into three sections, the book discusses the role of picture books in teaching difficult histories, analyses postmodern picture books addressing controversial topics, and provides a framework for classroom pedagogy. This approach highlights the importance of empathy, ethics, and creative expression in history education, showcasing how storytelling through multimodal texts bridges the past to the present.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book synthesises narrative research on men convicted of intimate femicide/feminicide in Latin America. Based on repeated biographical interviews conducted across eight countries, it offers a sociological exploration of the perpetrators lives and their processes of sense-making through the analysis of their narratives. The book identifies cross-cutting themes and narrative arcs in these men's accounts and examines how these relate to, interweave with one another, and help explain the perpetration of intimate partner violence. By deepening our understanding of harm-doing, it contributes to ongoing debates in criminology, law, public health, the social and human sciences of violence, and gender studies.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book explores the relationship between reading science in fiction and engaging with science. Focusing on embodied readers and empirical approaches to fiction reading, the authors examine contemporary social, cultural, biographical and political contexts in which science fictions come to matter. Drawing together a distinctive set of research studies and conceptual resources, the book outlines theories, epistemologies and methodologies for understanding how and why we read science fictions and fictions about science.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Multimedia Information Technology and Applications, MITA 2025, Jeju, South Korea, during July 21 24, 2025.The 14 full papers and 5 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:Artificial Intelligence for Multimedia.Multimedia System and Applications.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book investigates homogenisation problems for divergence form equations with rapidly sign-changing coefficients. Focusing on problems with piecewise constant, scalar coefficients in a (d-dimensional) crosswalk type shape, we will provide a limit procedure in order to understand potentially ill-posed and non-coercive settings.Depending on the integral mean of the coefficient and its inverse, the limits can either satisfy the usual homogenisation formula for stratified media, be entirely degenerate or be a non-local differential operator of 4th order. In order to mark the drastic change of nature, we introduce the inner spectrum for conductivities. We show that even though 0 is contained in the inner spectrum for all strictly positive periods, the limit inner spectrum can be empty. Furthermore, even though the spectrum was confined in a bounded set uniformly for all strictly positive periods and not containing 0, the limit inner spectrum might have 0 as an essential spectral point and accumulate at or even be the whole of C. This is in stark contrast to the classical situation, where it is possible to derive upper and lower bounds in terms of the values assumed by the coefficients in the pre-asymptotics.Along the way, we also develop a theory for Sturm Liouville type operators with indefinite weights, reduce the question on solvability of the associated Sturm Liouville operator to understanding zeros of a certain explicit polynomial and show that generic real perturbations of piecewise constant coefficients lead to continuously invertible Sturm Liouville expressions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - For Muslims, Halal food is crucial, and regulations are in place to protect quality and authenticity, including methods for keeping out forbidden elements. The identification and elimination of non-Halal contents is the basis of the Halal analyses, promoting the development of analytical techniques for Halal product authentications. Gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS), electronic nose (e-nose), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) and real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) are some of the most popular techniques used in Halal food analysis. Due to its satisfactory results, straightforward approach and lack of damaging preparation, FTIR spectroscopy, combined with chemometrics, is an excellent technique for analyzing halal food.Authentication of Halal Products using FTIR Spectroscopy aims to widen the concept of Halal food by covering FTIR in conjunction with chemometrics for Halal authentication. This combination has never been discussed before in such detail, providing the latest connection between Halal analysis and authentication plus providing comprehensive coverage on FTIR and chemometrics for Halal authentication. Halal authentication of meat, fat, oil, consumer products, and pharmaceuticals are covered plus Halal production, processing, ingredients, storage, logistics methods, and global perspective.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 10th edition of Transport Research Arena (TRA 2024), held on 15-18 April, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. Contributions cover a wide range of research findings, methodological aspects, technologies and policy issues that are currently reshaping the transport and mobility system in different parts of Europe. Bridging between academic research, industrial developments, and regulations, this book offers a comprehensive review of the state-of-the art in transportation, with a special emphasis on topics concerning digital transition in transport, and inclusive and sustainable mobility alike. This is the sixth volume of a 6-volume set.

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