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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Become the best negotiator you can be, one manageable step at a timeIn the newly updated third edition of The Negotiation Book: Your Definitive Guide to Successful Negotiating, distinguished commercial negotiator Steve Gates delivers a singular and practical guide to the art and science of negotiation. Steve Gates is the founder of the world's leading negotiation consultancy, The Gap Partnership - and the methodology in this book is used by the world's biggest businesses to successfully execute their strategies. The book lays out the behaviours and traits associated with successful negotiation and offers a comprehensive model for how power, process and behaviour can have substantial impacts on your next negotiation. You'll also learn how you can shape these factors to optimise value for yourself, your client or your organisation.The author shows you how to secure more agreements and realise more value with every agreement you conclude. Through simple, realistic and hands-on advice, you'll improve as a negotiator and apply straightforward techniques to the real-world, dynamic environments in which your negotiations take place. You'll also find:\* Strategies for maintaining a balanced perspective and keeping your ego in check\* Maintaining a focus on the interests and priorities of the other party/parties\* Incremental steps for improving your negotiation ability that are easy to apply and retainThis third edition brings the book firmly into the zeitgeist as it considers the very modern challenges presented to commercial negotiators as a result of an ever-changing world, in which they must navigate technological advancements, the post-Covid reality of virtual negotiation, and the impact of war, Brexit and other macro-economic and political developments that are having far-reaching impacts to business and beyond.An invaluable roadmap to becoming a Complete Skilled Negotiator, The Negotiation Book is the negotiation playbook that business leaders, lawyers, consultants and other professionals have been waiting for.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Are you on Insta Start sharing pictures and a lot, lot moreInstagram For Dummies helps you navigate Instagram and all the updates coming to the platform. For new and experienced users, this book keeps you in the know, so you can post to your feed, create Reels and Stories, broadcast and watch live video, and so much more. This handy guide covers creating Reels to attract more followers, adding updates and stickers for stories, and the addition of multiple feeds so you can customize your experience. There are so many new features coming to this ever-more-popular social platform, you need a friend like Dummies to help you keep up. Create viral content, or just share cat pics with your close friends and family.\* Learn the basics of the Instagram app and web interfaces\* Get started with your first posts, Stories, and Reels\* Discover the many new features that are making Instagram more fun than ever\* Find out how to make your posts scroll-stopping and more popularThis is the perfect how-to guide for both newbie and experienced social media users who need a guide on setting up Instagram, expanding their audience, and doing more on the app.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 255 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Warren Buffett: Inside the Ultimate Money Mind, Hagstrom breaks new ground with a deep analysis of Buffett's essential wisdom, an intricate mosaic of wide-ranging ideas and insights that Buffett calls a Money Mind.What exactly is a Money Mind At one level, it's a way of thinking about major financial issues such as capital allocation. At another level, it summarizes an overall mindset for successfully investing in today's fast-paced stock market, a mindset that depends on a commitment to learning, adapting, and facing down irrelevant noise.This is not a method book. It is a thinking book.Warren Buffett: Inside the Ultimate Money Mind explains the philosophies of self-reliance, stoicism, rationalism, and pragmatism and their contributions to making intelligent investment decisions. It also outlines the evolution of value investing, discusses how to develop a business-driven investing mindset, and describes the defining traits of successful active management. Lastly, it examines the surprising aspects of a Money Mind - sportsman, teacher, and artist.In short, Warren Buffett: Inside the Ultimate Money Mind helps readers understand the building blocks that go into making a Money Mind so they can begin to incorporate its principles in the service to a life of value.Testimonials'An erudite masterpiece.'-Lawrence A. Cunningham, author; professor and director, Quality Shareholders Initiative, George Washington University'It's another must-read.'-Bethany McLean, journalist and Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair, author, Saudi America and co-author The Smartest Guys in the Room'Pure Genius! This is a game changer in investment books.'-Robert P. Miles, author; Executive in Residence, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Executive MBA Program, 'The Genius of Warren Buffett''Effervescence and thoughtful analysis of Buffett's life and work.'-Tom Gayner, Co-chief Executive Officer, Markel Corporation'Hagstrom's books always enable readers to think about the world in new ways.'-Tren Griffin, author, Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Should droids be free Should clone troopers What political and ethical ideas ground resistance and rebellion What's wrong with the way women are portrayed in Star Wars Does Han Solo have a philosophical worldview Was Galen Erso responsible for the destruction of Alderaan Should you eat Baby Yoda 'This is the Way.' In Star Wars and Philosophy Strikes Back, the Way wends through entirely new adventures in the Star Wars galaxy far, far away: not only the films of the Skywalker saga, but also Rebels, The Bad Batch, Rogue One, Solo, and The Mandalorian. Like the creators of these films and television series, the authors in this book harness the magical mix of humor, action, empathy, characterization, adventure, and fan service that constitutes Star Wars.In addition to thorny metaphysical questions about the nature of time and free will, this volume highlights the staggering cultural impact of George Lucas's universe. The newest Star Wars narratives tackle ethnicity on alien worlds and how love and sex with a droid like L3-37 would work ('It works'). The connections between the Separatist Freedom Movement and the struggle for social justice in the USA in the 21st century are brought to light. And philosophical second looks at Rian Johnson's The Last Jedi prove there is much more to this controversial entry in the Skywalker saga.Thirty-six philosophers, both sages and scoundrels among them, examine the full range of deep questions throughout the Star Wars chronology--from The Phantom Menace to The Rise of Skywalker and beyond. 'They have spoken.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Whether understood as a long-run historical process or an intentional political project, international development transforms not only societies and economies but also key ideas about how the world works and how problems should be solved.In this compelling book, Michael Woolcock demonstrates that achieving peace and prosperity for all is supremely contingent and often contentious: the means and ends of development are often perceived as alien, unjust, and disruptive, its benefits and costs unequally borne. Many development challenges are not technical problems amenable to an expert's solution, but require extensive deliberation to find and fit context-specific responses. Woolcock insists that it is each generation's challenge to find shared, legitimate, and durable solutions to the moral imperative to reduce human suffering while simultaneously redressing the challenges that development success (let alone failure) inexorably brings.This skillful guide will be essential reading for students and practitioners working in this complex field, and for anyone seeking to help 'make the world a better place.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Are you on Insta Start sharing pictures and a lot, lot moreInstagram For Dummies helps you navigate Instagram and all the updates coming to the platform. For new and experienced users, this book keeps you in the know, so you can post to your feed, create Reels and Stories, broadcast and watch live video, and so much more. This handy guide covers creating Reels to attract more followers, adding updates and stickers for stories, and the addition of multiple feeds so you can customize your experience. There are so many new features coming to this ever-more-popular social platform, you need a friend like Dummies to help you keep up. Create viral content, or just share cat pics with your close friends and family.\* Learn the basics of the Instagram app and web interfaces\* Get started with your first posts, Stories, and Reels\* Discover the many new features that are making Instagram more fun than ever\* Find out how to make your posts scroll-stopping and more popularThis is the perfect how-to guide for both newbie and experienced social media users who need a guide on setting up Instagram, expanding their audience, and doing more on the app.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fashion is under the spotlight like never before. Activists call for environmental accountability, and wide-ranging debates highlight exploitation across global supply chains and the reliance on unpaid labour. Digital technology undermines traditional fashion companies, while small-scale independent fashion designers provide radical innovations in design and work in more socially inclusive ways.This book contributes to a new sociology of fashion. Focusing on the working lives of independent designers and based on ethnographic research and interviews carried out in London, Berlin and Milan, the authors consider the urban policy regimes in place in these cities. They analyse how these regimes shape the microenterprises and the emerging political economy, as well as the structures needed for designers to flourish. They also develop several key concepts - the 'milieu of fashion labour', 'social fashion' and 'fashion diversity' - and chart the new world of digital fashion-tech and e-commerce.Drawing on lessons from European initiatives and recognizing the capacity of microenterprises and start-ups to determine fashion's future, the authors call for the industry to be significantly decentralized to ensure more diversity and less exclusivity.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cities are raucous, cacophonous, and complex. Many dimensions of life play out and conflict across cities' intricate landscapes, be they political, cultural, economic, or social. Urban policy makers and analysts often attempt to 'cut through the noise' of urban disagreement by emphasizing a dominant lens for understanding the key, central logic of the city. How To Think About Cities sees this tendency to selective vision as misleading and ultimately unjust: cities are many things at once to different people and communities.This book describes the various ways of seeing the functions and landscapes of the city as place frames, and the constant process of negotiating which place frames best explain the city as place-making. Martin and Pierce call for an explicitly hybrid perspective that shifts between many different frames for making sense of cities. This approach highlights how any given stance opens up some lines of inquiry and understanding while closing off others. Thinking of cities as sites of contested perspectives promotes a synthetic approach to urban analysis that emphasizes difference and political possibility.This mosaic view of the city will be a welcome read for those within urban studies, geography, and social sciences exploring the many faces of urban life.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The idea of a connection between poetry and religion is as old as civilization. Homer consulted the Olympian gods on the fate of the fighters on the plain before Troy, and the poet made the heavenly ones speak. It was through poetry that the gods were brought within reach of human hearing. In the centuries after Homer, the Athenian stage became the setting where gods made their poetic interventions, resolving human impasses and contributing to the emotional synchronization of the public life of the city.Sloterdijk argues that, as with the culture of the Ancient Greeks, all religions inscribe a kind of 'theopoetry' at the heart of their cultural life and thought, even as they strenuously obscure these poetic origins through the cultivation and enforcement of orthodox norms. Sloterdijk also shows how, in conditions of religious pluralism, religions poetically reshape themselves to accommodate the demands of the religious marketplace.This highly original study of the poetic devices that inform accounts of the otherworldly offers a new interpretation of religious practice and its theological elaboration through history, as well as a fresh perspective on our contemporary age in which collective life, interwoven with imaginative fabrications, is fraying under critical stress.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Get to know the building blocks of a new economyThe promise of decentralized finance (DeFi for those up on their financial lingo) as a disruptor to financial institutions makes it must-know for anyone involved in finance. DeFi For Dummies provides an easy-to-understand option for unraveling the past, present, and future of DeFi. Understand current DeFi applications, including how to build basic applications on the leading platforms, and get a look into the future's most promising new DeFi solutions. Staying ahead of the game is critical for finance professionals these days, and this Dummies guide makes it possible, with full coverage of how DeFi affects asset management, lending and borrowing, and investment markets. Wrap your mind around DeFi and start getting hands on, the Dummies way.\* Learn how the DeFi revolution started and where it's going\* Get insight into opportunities for getting started and building value with DeFi\* Discover the leading assets, exchanges, and marketplaces built on DeFi principles\* Create secure DeFi applications on established platformsThis book is great for current pros or active investors in the world of finance who need to get up to speed on the world of DeFi as quickly and clearly as possible.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world is undergoing a major historical shift: Africa, and the Global South more generally, is increasingly becoming a principal theatre in which the future of the planet plays itself out. But not only this: Africa is at the same time emerging as one of the great laboratories for novel forms of social, economic, political, intellectual, cultural, and artistic life. Often arising in unexpected places, these new forms of life materialize in practices that draw deeply from collective memory while simultaneously assuming distinctly contemporary, even futuristic, guises.In November 2017, the second session of the Ateliers de la pensée - Workshops of Thought - was held in Dakar, Senegal. Fifty African and diasporic intellectuals and artists participated and their debates unfolded along numerous thematic lines, approached from the standpoints of many different disciplines. This volume is the result of that encounter. Among the many topics discussed were the concurrence and entanglement of multiple temporalities, the politics of life in the Anthropocene, the project of decolonization, and the preservation and transmission of different ways of knowing. At a time when the world is haunted by the specter of its own end, the contributors to this volume ask whether one can, by taking Africa as a point of departure, seize hold of other options for the future - not only for Africa, but for the world.The Politics of Time and its companion volume, To Write the Africa World, will be indispensable works for anyone interested in Africa - its past, present, and future - and in the new forms of critical thought emerging from Africa and the Global South.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The perfect resource for your journey to start a businessEntrepreneurship For Dummies is the essential guide to becoming your own boss and a successful entrepreneur. We make it simple to learn every step of the process. Identify an opportunity, learn your customers' needs, test your product, protect your intellectual property, secure funding, and get ready for that all-important launch. In classic Dummies style, this book is packed with practical information and useful advice, all in a fun and easy-to-follow format. Take fear out of the entrepreneurship equation and build the confidence you need to make your fantastic business idea take flight. Get up to date on the latest lingo, new ideas for raising money, and the latest ways to do business in the digital age.\* Understand the process of starting a business, from beginning to end\* Complete the necessary planning and meet legal requirements, without the headache\* Get expert tips and tricks on funding your idea and bringing your product or service to market\* Build the foundation you need to keep your business thriving and growingEntrepreneurship For Dummies supports you as you travel along the road to success.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Data-Driven Guide for your Digital Transformation PaydayIn Digital Transformation Payday: Navigate the Hype, Lower the Risks, Increase Return on Investments, Tim Bottke, Senior Strategy Partner at Deloitte and Associate Professor for Strategy and Digital Transformation at SDA Bocconi, a Financial Times/Forbes/Bloomberg Businessweek Top-Five European business school, delivers a provocative, new perspective on digital business transformation--using research to get beyond the hype and uncover its real financial payback.Have you ever asked yourself: 'Should I really embark on a digital transformation journey that is likely full of pain, failure, and high cash-outs One that puts a lot of pressure on our stock price and my nerves Who will thank me for that Will there ever be a measurable return on invest for all these technologies that supports positive market value impact ' If so, this book is for you.You'll find unique insights and guidance for managers, executives, board members, and investors as you navigate an immense array of strategic and operational choices, opportunities, and pitfalls. You'll also learn to demystify digital strategy and technology buzzwords, better define the initial focal point and process of your firm's digital transformation, and establish new ways of thinking in terms of value impacts--and how to measure them--right from the start.The book also includes:\* A proven framework for defining your next digital transformation effort end to end, and configuring your initiatives for maximum return on investment\* Empirical data to help you understand your company's odds of navigating your chosen digital transformation initiatives with financial paybackAn indispensable resource for business leaders, Digital Transformation Payday will also earn a place in the libraries of entrepreneurs, founders, leaders of established companies, and digital enthusiasts.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Identify and invest in the world's best performing companiesIn Global Investing: A Practical Guide to the World's Best Financial Opportunities, veteran portfolio manager Darrin Erickson walks readers through how to best analyze, understand, and invest in leading global businesses. In the book, you'll discover how you can improve the performance of your investment portfolio by taking advantage of opportunities that exist outside of the borders of the country you happen to inhabit.The author discusses how to identify and make investments around the world in effective and efficient ways, and how to successfully manage the risks associated with investing in a foreign country. You'll also find:\* Relevant information about key stock markets around the world\* Insights into the underlying dynamics of the world's major global industries\* Fulsome discussions on how to evaluate companies within each global industry\* Advice on how to construct a portfolio of global stocks that will help you to build wealth and protect it during times of stock market weakness\* Descriptions of free and paid tools that belong on the radar of every successful global investorAn indispensable and accessible resource for investors with a desire to engage with the world's financial markets, Global Investing is a must-read handbook for any investor seeking to expand their horizons beyond their own country's borders.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Create simple, easy programs in the popular Python languageBeginning Programming with Python For Dummies is the trusted way to learn the foundations of programming using the Python programming language. Python is one of the top-ranked languages, and there's no better way to get started in computer programming than this friendly guide. You'll learn the basics of coding and the process of creating simple, fun programs right away. This updated edition features new chapters, including coverage of Google Colab, plus expanded information on functions and objects, and new examples and graphics that are relevant to today's beginning coders. Dummies helps you discover the wealth of things you can achieve with Python.\* Employ an online coding environment to avoid installation woes and code anywhere, any time\* Learn the basics of programming using the popular Python language\* Create easy, fun projects to show off your new coding chops\* Fix errors in your code and use Python with external data setsBeginning Programming with Python For Dummies will get new programmers started--the easy way.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The latest edition of the gold-standard guide for leadership developmentIn the new seventh edition of The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations, best-selling leadership authors and business scholars James Kouzes and Barry Posner deliver an essential strategic playbook for effective leadership. The book's actionable advice is grounded in robust research and deep insights into the complex interpersonal dynamics of the workplace.Premier authorities in the field, the authors frame leadership as both a skill to be learned and as a relationship to be nurtured. They demonstrate how to achieve extraordinary results in the face of contemporary business challenges with engaging stories, current case studies, and straightforward frameworks for those who seek continuous, incremental improvement.The book also offers:\* Incisive commentary on the shift toward team-oriented and hybrid work relationships\* Key insights into how to break through a new and pervasive level of cynicism amongst the modern workforce\* Strategies for leveraging the electronic global village to deliver better results within your team, in your department, and across your organizationPerfect for every practicing and aspiring leader who wants to stay current, relevant, and effective in a rapidly evolving business environment, The Leadership Challenge will help you remain impactful and capable of inspiring and motivating your constituents at every level.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Shakespeare's Theatre: A History examines the theatre spaces used by William Shakespeare, and explores these spaces in relation to the social and political framework of the Elizabethan era. The text journeys from the performing spaces of the provincial inns, guild halls and houses of the gentry of the Bard's early career, to the purpose-built outdoor playhouses of London, including the Globe, the Theatre, and the Curtain, and the royal courts of Elizabeth and James I. The author also discusses the players for whom Shakespeare wrote, and the positioning--or dispositioning--of audience members in relation to the stage.Widely and deeply researched, this fascinating volume is the first to draw on the most recent archaeological work on the remains of the Rose and the Globe, as well as continuing publications from the Records of Early English Drama project. The book also explores the contentious view that the 'plot' of The Seven Deadly Sins (part II), provides unprecedented insight into the working practices of Shakespeare's company and includes a complete and modernized version of the 'plot'. Throughout, the author relates the practicalities of early modern playing to the evolving systems of aristocratic patronage and royal licensing within which they developedInsightful and engaging, Shakespeare's Theatre is ideal reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars of literature and theatre studies.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The latest edition of the bestselling introduction to the field of linguistic semantics, updated throughout and featuring a wholly new chapter on inferential pragmaticsSemantics, Fifth Edition, is a comprehensive and well-balanced introduction to the study of the communication of meaning in language. Assuming no previous background in semantics and limited familiarity with formal linguistics, this student-friendly textbook describes the concepts, theory, and study of semantics in an accessible and clear style. Concise chapters describe the role of semantics within contemporary linguistics, cover key topics in the analysis of word and sentence meaning, and review major semantic theories such as componential theory, formal semantics, and cognitive semantics.The updated fifth edition incorporates recent theoretical developments and important research in linguistic semantics, featuring an entirely new chapter examining the overlap between inferential pragmatics and Relevance Theory, truth-conditional meaning, and other traditional areas of semantics. Revised and expanded sections discuss the continuing growth and consolidation of cognitive semantics, various contextual features of language, conceptualization and categorization, and construal and perspective. This edition includes new exercises with solutions, up-to-date references to relevant literature, and additional examples with data from a wide range of different languages.\* Covers basic concepts and methods as well as key theoretical models, current lines of research, and important writers\* Explains general concepts in semantics before gradually moving to more advanced topics in semantic description and theoretical approaches\* Highlights the relation between cross-linguistic variation and language universals\* Provides students with the background necessary to understand more advanced and specialized primary semantics literature\* Includes a glossary of technical terms and numerous exercises arranged by level of difficulty\* Highlights the relationship between semantics and cross-linguistic variation, language universals, and pragmaticsWith detailed examples from a wide range of contexts and a wealth of practical exercises, Semantics, Fifth Edition, remains the perfect textbook for undergraduate students of linguistics, English language, applied linguistics, modern languages, and computer sciences.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 568 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A new approach to sociolinguistics, introducing the study of the social meaning of English words over time, and offering an engaging and entertaining demonstration of lexical sociolinguistic analysisThe Social Life of Words: A Historical Approach explores the rise and fall of the social properties of words, charting ways in which they take on new social connotations. Written in an engaging narrative style, this entertaining text matches up sociolinguistic theory with social history and biography to discover which kind of people used what kind of word, where and when. Social factors such as class, age, race, region, gender, occupation, religion and criminality are discussed in British and American English.From familiar words such as popcorn, porridge, café, to less common words like burgoo, califont, etna, and phrases like kiss me quick, monkey parade, slap-bang shop, The Social Life of Words demonstrates some of the many ways a new word or phrase can develop social affiliations. Detailed yet accessible chapters cover key areas of historical sociolinguistics, including concepts such as social networks, communities of practice, indexicality and enregisterment, prototypes and stereotypes, polysemy, onomasiology, language regard, lexical appropriation, and more. The first book to take a focused look at lexis as a topic for sociolinguistic analysis, The Social Life of Words:\* Introduces sociolinguistic theories and shows how they can be applied to the lexicon\* Demonstrates how readers can apply sociolinguistic theory to their own analyses of words in English and other languages\* Provides an engaging and amusing new look at many familiar words, inviting students to explore the sociolinguistic properties of words over time for themselvesPart of Wiley Blackwell's acclaimed Language in Society series, The Social Life of Words is essential reading for upper-level undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and linguists working in sociolinguistics, lexical semantics, English lexicology, and the history and development of modern English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A wide-ranging and accessible introduction to the origins and histories of the first agricultural populations in many different parts of the worldThis fully revised and updated second edition of First Farmers examines the origins of food production across the world and documents the expansions of agricultural populations from source regions during the past 12,000 years. It commences with the archaeological records from the multiple homelands of agriculture, and extends into discussions that draw on linguistic and genomic information about the human past, featuring new findings from the last ten years of research.Through twelve chapters, the text examines the latest evidence and leading theories surrounding the early development of agricultural practices through data drawn from across the anthropological discipline--primarily archaeology, comparative linguistics, and biological anthropology--to present a cohesive history of early farmer migration. Founded on the author's insights from his research into the agricultural prehistory of East and Southeast Asia--one of the best focus areas for the teaching of prehistoric archaeology--this book offers an engaging account of how prehistoric humans settled new landscapes.The second edition has been thoroughly updated with many new maps and illustrations that reflect the multidisciplinary knowledge of the present day. Authored by a leading scholar with wide-ranging experience across the fields of anthropology and archaeology, First Farmers, Second Edition includes information on:\* The early farming dispersal hypothesis in current perspective, plus operational considerations regarding the origins and dispersals of agriculture\* The archaeological evidence for the origins and spreads of agriculture in the Eurasian, African and American continents\* The histories of the language families that spread with the first farming populations, and the evidence from biological anthropology and ancient DNA that underpins our modern knowledge of these migrationsDrawing evidence from across the sub-disciplines of anthropology to present a cohesive and exciting analysis of an important subject in the study of human population history, Farmers First, Second Edition is an important work of scholarship and an excellent introduction to multiple methods of anthropological and archaeological inquiry for the beginner student in prehistoric anthropology and archaeology, human migration, archaeology of East and Southeast Asia, agricultural history, comparative anthropology, and more disciplines across the anthropology curriculum.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The latest edition of the bestselling introduction to the field of linguistic semantics, updated throughout and featuring a wholly new chapter on inferential pragmaticsSemantics, Fifth Edition, is a comprehensive and well-balanced introduction to the study of the communication of meaning in language. Assuming no previous background in semantics and limited familiarity with formal linguistics, this student-friendly textbook describes the concepts, theory, and study of semantics in an accessible and clear style. Concise chapters describe the role of semantics within contemporary linguistics, cover key topics in the analysis of word and sentence meaning, and review major semantic theories such as componential theory, formal semantics, and cognitive semantics.The updated fifth edition incorporates recent theoretical developments and important research in linguistic semantics, featuring an entirely new chapter examining the overlap between inferential pragmatics and Relevance Theory, truth-conditional meaning, and other traditional areas of semantics. Revised and expanded sections discuss the continuing growth and consolidation of cognitive semantics, various contextual features of language, conceptualization and categorization, and construal and perspective. This edition includes new exercises with solutions, up-to-date references to relevant literature, and additional examples with data from a wide range of different languages.\* Covers basic concepts and methods as well as key theoretical models, current lines of research, and important writers\* Explains general concepts in semantics before gradually moving to more advanced topics in semantic description and theoretical approaches\* Highlights the relation between cross-linguistic variation and language universals\* Provides students with the background necessary to understand more advanced and specialized primary semantics literature\* Includes a glossary of technical terms and numerous exercises arranged by level of difficulty\* Highlights the relationship between semantics and cross-linguistic variation, language universals, and pragmaticsWith detailed examples from a wide range of contexts and a wealth of practical exercises, Semantics, Fifth Edition, remains the perfect textbook for undergraduate students of linguistics, English language, applied linguistics, modern languages, and computer sciences.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Prepare to take the NEW Exam AZ-700 with confidence and launch your career as an Azure Network EngineerNot only does MCA Microsoft Certified Associate Azure Network Engineer Study Guide: Exam AZ-700 help you prepare for your certification exam, it takes a deep dive into the role and responsibilities of an Azure Network Engineer, so you can learn what to expect in your new career. You'll also have access to additional online study tools, including hundreds of bonus practice exam questions, electronic flashcards, and a searchable glossary of important terms. Prepare smarter with Sybex's superior interactive online learning environment and test bank.Exam AZ-700, Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions, measures your ability to design, implement, manage, secure, and monitor technical tasks such as hybrid networking; core networking infrastructure; routing; networks; and private access to Azure services. With this in-demand certification, you can qualify for jobs as an Azure Network Engineer, where you will work with solution architects, cloud administrators, security engineers, application developers, and DevOps engineers to deliver Azure solutions. This study guide covers 100% of the objectives and all key concepts, including:\* Design, Implement, and Manage Hybrid Networking\* Design and Implement Core Networking Infrastructure\* Design and Implement Routing\* Secure and Monitor Networks\* Design and Implement Private Access to Azure ServicesIf you're ready to become the go-to person for recommending, planning, and implementing Azure networking solutions, you'll need certification with Exam AZ-700. This is your one-stop study guide to feel confident and prepared on test day. Trust the proven Sybex self-study approach to validate your skills and to help you achieve your career goals!

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Highly useful guide for all members of a multidisciplinary team managing children suffering from heart diseaseBuilt on the success of previous editions and brought to you by a stellar author team, Moller's Essentials of Pediatric Cardiology, 4th Edition provides a unique, concise, and extremely practical overview of heart disease in children. From history-taking, physical examination, ECG, and chest X-ray--the basics that enable clinicians to uncover possible problems and eliminate areas of false concern--this work goes on to examine the range of more complex topics in the diagnosis and treatment/management of childhood cardiovascular disease.Every chapter is fully updated with the very latest clinical guidelines and management options from the AHA, ACC, and ESC. Recent updates also include an enhanced section on imaging, including recent advances in cardiac MRI and fetal echocardiography, new techniques in genetic testing for heart disease in special populations, and much more emphasis on the importance of echocardiography in understanding the pathophysiology of congenital cardiac malformations. This work also includes an expanded section on cardiac conditions in the neonate, specifically on prenatal diagnosis and management, and neonatal screening for congenital heart disease.Moller's Essentials of Pediatric Cardiology, 4th Edition also provides:\* Tools to diagnose cardiac conditions in children and environmental and genetic conditions associated with heart disease in children\* Anomalies with a left-to-right shunt in children, conditions obstructing blood flow in children, and congenital heart disease with a right-to-left shunt in children\* Unusual forms of congenital heart disease in children, unique cardiac conditions in newborn infants, and the cardiac conditions acquired during childhood\* Abnormalities of heart rate and conduction in children and congestive heart failure in infants and childrenMoller's Essentials of Pediatric Cardiology, 4th Edition is a succinct and accessible yet highly detailed and informative resource for treating children suffering from heart disease. It is an invaluable reference for anyone working on a multidisciplinary team treating patients with these attributes.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Eine prägnante, gut strukturierte Einführung in die Anwendungen von DFT-BerechnungenIn der neu überarbeiteten zweiten Auflage von Density Functional Theory: A Practical Introduction liefern die Autoren eine prägnante und leicht verständliche Einführung in die wichtigsten Konzepte und praktischen Anwendungen der Dichtefunktionaltheorie (DFT), wobei der Schwerpunkt auf die DFT der ebenen Wellen gelegt wird. Die Autoren, die über jahrzehntelange Erfahrung auf diesem Gebiet verfügen, bieten Studierenden mit unterschiedlichen Vorkenntnissen ein ausgewogenes Maß an Verständlichkeit und Klarheit und haben auf diese Weise ein insgesamt sehr gut zu verstehendes Fachbuch verfasst.\* In dieser neuen Auflage werden die Genauigkeit von DFT-Berechnungen und die Wahl der Funktionale detailliert erörtert\* Das Werk bietet einen Überblick über ein breites Spektrum an verfügbaren DFT-Codes\* Mit zusätzlichen Beispielen zur Nutzung von DFT für Berechnungen von Materialien mit hohem Durchsatz\* Stärkere Hervorhebung der Berechnung von Phasendiagrammen und offener Ensemble-Methoden, die in der Elektrochemie umfassend genutzt werden.\* In dieser erweiterten Auflage werden auch Berechnungen abgedeckt, die über die Standard-DFT hinausgehen, z. B. DFT mit Dispersionskorrektur, DFT+U und zeitabhängige DFT.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Clinical Handbook of Feline Behavior MedicineComprehensive resource offering practical and accessible guidance on managing behavior problems in catsClinical Handbook of Feline Behavior Medicine provides a complete, easy-to-use reference to practical information on identifying, diagnosing, and treating behavior problems in cats. Designed to offer streamlined access to concrete guidance for managing feline behavior, the book offers diagnostic plans organized by clinical sign. Normal behavior is thoroughly described, to provide a better understanding of the abnormal, with the heart of the book devoted to advice for identifying, diagnosing, and treating specific behavior problems.The book describes the diagnostic process and covers treatment options for each problem. A companion website offers client education handouts to enhance compliance and video clips depicting presenting complaints.Sample topics covered in Clinical Handbook of Feline Behavior Medicine include:\* Normal feline social behavior, covering body language and other social communication, feline social structure, interactions with humans and other species, and social/behavioral development in the kitten\* Preventing behavior problems, covering feeding, litter box availability and care, scratching options, toys, and grooming\* Elimination problems, including the differentiation between urine marking and toileting, deducing the underlying causes, and elements of effects treatment plans\* Senior cats, covering feline cognitive decline, increased vocalization, sleep-wake cycle disturbances, disorientation, litterbox problems, and repetitive behaviorsWith its specific topical focus of behavior in felines, Clinical Handbook of Feline Behavior Medicine is a targeted and highly useful resource for any veterinarian seeing feline patients, assisting through all stages of treatment with easily accessible and understandable information.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Assessing the MicrobiologicalA timely exploration of the coordinated functions of microbiological communities and the impacts of global climate change on microbial lifeEcosystems function like interlocking puzzles and ultimately the health of an ecosystem depends upon the niche activities of its microbial communities.Assessing the Microbiological Health of Ecosystems summarizes our understanding of how microbial community processes are organized and the mechanisms by which activities of their constituent species are coordinated. The authors collectively present a basis for understanding what produces healthy microbial components of an ecosystem, thereby supplying a foundation for achieving one of the eventual future goals of environmental microbiology: to diagnose and correct the integrative nature of microbial activities when ecosystems fail. Assessing the Microbiological Health of Ecosystems will prove to be a valuable resource to environmental microbiologists, ecologists and integrative biologists. The book will:\* help researchers and students to understand the commonalities of processes, techniques, and discoveries in the study of microbial communities\* contribute to understandings of how microbial communities coordinate their function, discussing how the relative rates and effective integration of community microbial processes are currently measured\* provide insights into the composition of a healthy microbial ecosystemBy learning to recognize what constitutes and produces a healthy microbial ecosystem, we gain significant ground on the path towards being able to diagnose and correct the health of ailing microbial ecosystems. Assessing the Microbiological Health of Ecosystems will help new generations of scientists discern new ways to carry these efforts forward.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An essential companion for catalysis researchers and professionals studying economically viable and eco-friendly catalytic strategies for energy conversionIn the two-volume Heterogeneous Nanocatalysis for Energy and Environmental Sustainability, a team of distinguished researchers deliver a comprehensive discussion of fundamental concepts in, and practical applications of, heterogeneous nanocatalysis for alternative energy production, biomass conversion, solar energy, green fuels, H2 production, fuel cells, electrochemical energy conversion processes, CO2 conversion, clean water, and environmental protection.The volumes cover the design and catalytic performance of various nanocatalysts, including nanosized metals and metal oxides, supported metal nanoparticles, inverse oxide-metal nanocatalysts, core-shell nanocatalysts, nanoporous zeolites, nanocarbon composites, and metal oxides in confined spaces. Each chapter contains a critical discussion of the opportunities and challenges posed by the use of nanosized catalysts for practical applications.Volume 1 - Energy Applications focuses on the conversion of renewable energy (biomass/solar) into green fuels and chemicals, ammonia synthesis, clean hydrogen production, and electrochemical energy conversion processes using a variety of nanosized catalysts.It also offers:\* A thorough introduction to heterogeneous catalysis and nanocatalysis, as well as a discussion of catalytic active sites at nano-scale range\* Comprehensive explorations of the methods for control and activation of nanosized catalysts\* Practical discussions of C3N4-based nanohybrid catalysts for solar hydrogen production via water splitting\* Nanosized catalysts in visible light photocatalysis for sustainable organic synthesis\* Applications of MXenes in electrocatalysisPerfect for researchers, postgraduate students, chemists, and engineers interested in heterogeneous catalysis and nanocatalysis, Heterogeneous Nanocatalysis for Energy and Environmental Sustainability will also earn a place in the libraries of professionals working in alternative energy production, biomass conversion, solar energy, green fuels, H2 production, fuel cells, electrochemical energy conversion processes, CO2 conversion, clean water, and environmental protection.Explore the environmental applications of heterogeneous nanocatalysis in the field of alternative energy production In Volume 2: Environmental Applications of Heterogeneous Nanocatalysis for Energy and Environmental Sustainability, a team of distinguished researchers discusses the foundational concepts and practical applications of heterogeneous nanocatalysis for alternative energy production. Volume 2 focuses on the purification of auto exhaust pollutants and volatile organic compounds, as well as CO2 conversion and wastewater treatment over a range of nano-sized catalysts.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An essential companion for catalysis researchers and professionals studying economically viable and eco-friendly catalytic strategies for energy conversionIn the two-volume Heterogeneous Nanocatalysis for Energy and Environmental Sustainability, a team of distinguished researchers deliver a comprehensive discussion of fundamental concepts in, and practical applications of, heterogeneous nanocatalysis for alternative energy production, biomass conversion, solar energy, green fuels, H2 production, fuel cells, electrochemical energy conversion processes, CO2 conversion, clean water, and environmental protection.The volumes cover the design and catalytic performance of various nanocatalysts, including nanosized metals and metal oxides, supported metal nanoparticles, inverse oxide-metal nanocatalysts, core-shell nanocatalysts, nanoporous zeolites, nanocarbon composites, and metal oxides in confined spaces. Each chapter contains a critical discussion of the opportunities and challenges posed by the use of nanosized catalysts for practical applications.Volume 1 - Energy Applications focuses on the conversion of renewable energy (biomass/solar) into green fuels and chemicals, ammonia synthesis, clean hydrogen production, and electrochemical energy conversion processes using a variety of nanosized catalysts.It also offers:\* A thorough introduction to heterogeneous catalysis and nanocatalysis, as well as a discussion of catalytic active sites at nano-scale range\* Comprehensive explorations of the methods for control and activation of nanosized catalysts\* Practical discussions of C3N4-based nanohybrid catalysts for solar hydrogen production via water splitting\* Nanosized catalysts in visible light photocatalysis for sustainable organic synthesis\* Applications of MXenes in electrocatalysisPerfect for researchers, postgraduate students, chemists, and engineers interested in heterogeneous catalysis and nanocatalysis, Heterogeneous Nanocatalysis for Energy and Environmental Sustainability will also earn a place in the libraries of professionals working in alternative energy production, biomass conversion, solar energy, green fuels, H2 production, fuel cells, electrochemical energy conversion processes, CO2 conversion, clean water, and environmental protection.