wiley john sons aug 2011 (18 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Research-based advice for people who care for someone with dementia Nearly half of U.S. citizens over the age of 85 are suffering from some kind of dementia and require care.Loving Someone Who Has Dementiais a new kind of caregiving book. It's not about the usual techniques, but about how to manage on-going stress and grief. The book is for caregivers, family members, friends, neighbors as well as educators and professionals-anyone touched by the epidemic of dementia. Dr. Boss helps caregivers find hope in 'ambiguous loss'-having a loved one both here and not here, physically present but psychologically absent. - Outlines seven guidelines to stay resilient while caring for someone who has dementia - Discusses the meaning of relationships with individuals who are cognitively impaired and no longer as they used to be - Offers approaches to understand and cope with the emotional strain of care-giving Boss's book builds on research and clinical experience, yet the material is presented as a conversation. She shows you a way to embrace rather than resist the ambiguity in your relationship with someone who has dementia.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The easy way to shed light on OpticsIn general terms, optics is the science of light. More specifically, optics is a branch of physics that describes the behavior and properties of light-including visible, infrared, and ultraviolet-and the interaction of light with matter.Optics For Dummies gives you an approachable introduction to optical science, methods, and applications. You'll get plain-English explanations of the nature of light and optical effects; reflection, refraction, and diffraction; color dispersion; optical devices, industrial, medical, and military applications; as well as laser light fundamentals.\* Tracks a typical undergraduate optics course\* Detailed explanations of concepts and summaries of equations\* Valuable tips for study from college professorsIf you're taking an optics course for your major in physics or engineering, let Optics For Dummies shed light on the subject and help you succeed!

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Practical how-to advice for keeping chickens'For me, raising chickens, for eggs and meat, has been one of the most enjoyable aspects of our family farm. I am a great admirer of 'chicken whisperer' Pammy Riggs, and with her two co-authors she has produced an admirably thorough guide to enjoying the pleasures and avoiding the pitfalls of keeping chickens. Get the book, and take the feathery plunge!'- Hugh Fearnley-WhittingstallKeeping Chickens For Dummies provides you with an introduction to all aspects of keeping chickens, from constructing a hutch to the correct feeding regime. It offers expert advice straight from the River Cottage 'Chicken Whisperer', so whether you're looking to raise chickens for eggs, meat, or just the entertainment value and fun - Keeping Chickens For Dummies is the perfect place to start.Keeping Chickens For Dummies:\* Shows you how to keep chickens in different conditions\* Offers guidance on choosing and purchasing chickens\* Gives great step-by-step advice on constructing the right housing\* Provides expert advice on how to feed and care for your chickens.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Student-Centered Leadership offers a timely and thoughtful resource for school leaders who want to turn their ideals into action. Written by educational leadership expert Viviane Robinson, the book shows leaders how they can make a bigger difference to the quality of teaching and learning in their school and ultimately improve their students' performance.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Featuring updates and the inclusion of nine new chapters, Analytic Philosophy: An Anthology, 2nd Edition offers a comprehensive and authoritative collection of the most influential readings in analytic philosophy written over the past hundred years.\* Features broad coverage of analytic philosophy, including such topics as ethics, methodology, and freedom and personal identity\* Focuses on classic or seminal articles that were especially influential or significant\* New articles in this edition include 'Proof of an External World' by G. E. Moore, 'Criteria, Defeasibility, and Knowledge' by John McDowell, 'Sensations and Brain Processes' by J. J. C. Smart, selections from Sense and Sensibilia by J. L. Austin, 'Other Bodies' by Tyler Burge, 'Individualism and Supervenience' by Jerry Fodor, 'Responsibility and Avoidability' by Roderick Chisholm, 'Alternative Possibilities and Moral Responsibility' by Harry Frankfurt, and 'Personal Identity' by Derek Parfit\* Offers diverse approaches to analytic philosophy by including readings from Austin, Wittgenstein, Quine, and Davidson.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this highly successful textbook continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in metaphysics. In addition to updated material from the first edition, it presents entirely new sections on ontology and the metaphysics of material objects.\* One of the most comprehensive and authoritative metaphysics anthologies available - now updated and expanded\* Offers the most important contemporary works on the central issues of metaphysics\* Includes new sections on ontology and the metaphysics of material objects, as well as readings on the topics of fictionalism, fundamentality, tropes, vague identity, temporary intrinsics, stage theory, and composition\* Surpasses other anthologies in its combination of contributions from leading metaphysicians and a younger generation of 'rising-stars'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An expert's insider secrets to how successful CEOs and directors shape, lead, and oversee their organizations to achieve corporate goalsGovernance, Risk Management, and Compliance shows senior executives and board members how to ensure that their companies incorporate the necessary processes, organization, and technology to accomplish strategic goals. Examining how and why some major companies failed while others continue to grow and prosper, author and internationally recognized expert Richard Steinberg reveals how to cultivate a culture, leadership process and infrastructure toward achieving business objectives and related growth, profit, and return goals.\* Explains critical factors that make compliance and ethics programs and risk management processes really work\* Explores the board's role in overseeing corporate strategy, risk management, CEO compensation, succession planning, crisis planning, performance measures, board composition, and shareholder communications\* Highlights for CEOs, senior management teams, and board members the pitfalls to avoid and what must go right for success\* Outlines the future of corporate governance and what's needed for continued effectiveness\* Written by well-known corporate governance and risk management expert Richard SteinbergGovernance, Risk Management, and Compliance lays a sound foundation and provides critical insights for understanding the role of governance, risk management, and compliance and its successful implementation in today's business environment.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides an accessible comprehensive exploration of phenomenological theory and research methods and is geared specifically to the needs of therapists and other health care professionals. - An accessible exploration of an increasingly popular qualitative research methodology - Explains phenomenological concepts and how they are applied to different stages of the research process and to topics relevant to therapy practice - Provides practical examples throughout.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Decolonization and its Impact is a ground-breaking comparative study of decolonization from before the Second World War to the early 1960s.Compares key cases across the European colonial empiresFocuses on the process and impact of decolonization at the level of the late colonial state and of colonial societiesPresents an original model of decolonization that seeks to reconcile imperial and nationalist perspectivesEngages with important theoretical approachesMakes extensive reference to recent literature on the subject.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This fourth edition of the bestselling Spacecraft Systems Engineering title provides the reader with comprehensive coverage of the design of spacecraft and the implementation of space missions, across a wide spectrum of space applications and space science. The text has been thoroughly revised and updated, with each chapter authored by a recognized expert in the field. Three chapters - Ground Segment, Product Assurance and Spacecraft System Engineering - have been rewritten, and the topic of Assembly, Integration and Verification has been introduced as a new chapter, filling a gap in previous editions.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 736 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This fourth edition of the bestselling Spacecraft Systems Engineering title provides the reader with comprehensive coverage of the design of spacecraft and the implementation of space missions, across a wide spectrum of space applications and space science. The text has been thoroughly revised and updated, with each chapter authored by a recognized expert in the field. Three chapters - Ground Segment, Product Assurance and Spacecraft System Engineering - have been rewritten, and the topic of Assembly, Integration and Verification has been introduced as a new chapter, filling a gap in previous editions.This edition addresses 'front-end system-level issues' such as environment, mission analysis and system engineering, but also progresses to a detailed examination of subsystem elements which represents the core of spacecraft design. This includes mechanical, electrical and thermal aspects, as well as propulsion and control. This quantitative treatment is supplemented by an emphasis on the interactions between elements, which deeply influences the process of spacecraft design.Adopted on courses worldwide, Spacecraft Systems Engineering is already widely respected by students, researchers and practising engineers in the space engineering sector. It provides a valuable resource for practitioners in a wide spectrum of disciplines, including system and subsystem engineers, spacecraft equipment designers, spacecraft operators, space scientists and those involved in related sectors such as space insurance.In summary, this is an outstanding resource for aerospace engineering students, and all those involved in the technical aspects of design and engineering in the space sector.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This is an engaging and informative book on the modern practice of experimental design. The authors' writing style is entertaining, the consulting dialogs are extremely enjoyable, and the technical material is presented brilliantly but not overwhelmingly. The book is a joy to read. Everyone who practices or teaches DOE should read this book.' - Douglas C. Montgomery, Regents Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Arizona State University 'It's been said: 'Design for the experiment, don't experiment for the design.' This book ably demonstrates this notion by showing how tailor-made, optimal designs can be effectively employed to meet a client's actual needs. It should be required reading for anyone interested in using the design of experiments in industrial settings.' -Christopher J. Nachtsheim, Frank A Donaldson Chair in Operations Management, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota This book demonstrates the utility of the computer-aided optimal design approach using real industrial examples. These examples address questions such as the following: - How can I do screening inexpensively if I have dozens of factors to investigate - What can I do if I have day-to-day variability and I can only perform 3 runs a day - How can I do RSM cost effectively if I have categorical factors - How can I design and analyze experiments when there is a factor that can only be changed a few times over the study - How can I include both ingredients in a mixture and processing factors in the same study - How can I design an experiment if there are many factor combinations that are impossible to run - How can I make sure that a time trend due to warming up of equipment does not affect the conclusions from a study - How can I take into account batch information in when designing experiments involving multiple batches - How can I add runs to a botched experiment to resolve ambiguities While answering these questions the book also shows how to evaluate and compare designs. This allows researchers to make sensible trade-offs between the cost of experimentation and the amount of information they obtain.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Combining critical reflectivity and pragmatic guidance, this book is designed to meet the needs of professionals in the public and private sector whose work involves them in developing their own and others' knowledge and practice. The book begins by providing a thoroughly referenced review of the philosophies and theories underpinning current approaches to professional education as a basis for demonstrating the particular salience and implications of a Personal Construct Psychology approach for practice and research. This establishes a conceptual framework for the extensive practical guidance which follows on how to implement, with rigour and sensitivity, a range of techniques from the traditional structured repertory grid to more flexible, innovative strategies for exploring how the world is or might be construed. A selection of exemplar applications from a variety of fields of professional practice illustrates the elasticity of the approach and methods, challenging readers to adapt the ideas presented as a catalytic resource to the development of professional practice and research.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The single comprehensive treatment of the field, from the leading members of the Society of Ethnobiology.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This fourth edition of the bestselling Spacecraft Systems Engineering title provides the reader with comprehensive coverage of the design of spacecraft and the implementation of space missions, across a wide spectrum of space applications and space science. The text has been thoroughly revised and updated, with each chapter authored by a recognized expert in the field. Three chapters - Ground Segment, Product Assurance and Spacecraft System Engineering - have been rewritten, and the topic of Assembly, Integration and Verification has been introduced as a new chapter, filling a gap in previous editions. 736 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this highly successful textbook continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in metaphysics. In addition to updated material from the first edition, it presents entirely new sections on ontology and the metaphysics of material objects.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A unified, systematic approach to applying mixed integer programming solutions to integrated scheduling in customer-driven supply chains.