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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - German Visual DictionaryA visual way to learn GermanIt's a fact--seeing something helps us remember it. This handy guide helps you build your German vocabulary with full-color pictures that illustrate the words. You'll be able to communicate with native speakers faster as you learn and remember more words and their meanings. The book is organized by themes such as transportation, accommodations, restaurants and eating, sports, emergencies, shopping, and more, making it especially useful for travelers. Boost your learning speed today!Inside\* Navigate a city\* Handle money like a local\* Master short conversations\* Be prepared for emergencies.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Seize control of your financial future with rock-solid advice from two of the world's leading investment expertsInvestors today are bombarded with conflicting advice about how to handle the increasingly volatile stock market. From pronouncements of the 'death of diversification' to the supposed virtues of crypto, investors can be forgiven for being thoroughly confused.It's time to return to the basics. In the 10th Anniversary Edition of The Elements of Investing: Easy Lessons for Every Investor, investment legends Burton G. Malkiel and Charles D. Ellis deliver straightforward, digestible lessons in the investment rules and principles you need to follow to mitigate risk and realize long-term success in the markets.Divided into six essential elements of investing, this concise book will teach you how to:\* Focus on the long-term and ignore short-term market fluctuations and movements\* Use employer-sponsored plans to supercharge your savings and returns and minimize your taxes\* Understand crucial investment subjects, like diversification, rebalancing, dollar-cost averaging, and indexingSo, forget the flavor of the week. Stick with the timeless and invaluable advice followed by the world's most successful retail investors.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Go from singing in the shower to taking your audience's breath awayWhether you picture yourself as the next Ariana Grande or just feel like picking up a new hobby, Singing For Dummies walks you through the surprisingly straightforward steps you'll need to take to develop your voice. It's a practical guide to every important aspect of singing, from vocal techniques to performance tips.You'll learn exercises and practice songs that gradually improve your craft and receive instruction on the latest technology and recording devices to capture and play back your songs. Singing For Dummies also shows you how to:\* Understand and use important singing techniques, improve your tone, upgrade your posture, and maximize your breath\* Maintain your voice with preventative self-care that keeps your vocal cords in tiptop shape\* Sing with instrumental accompaniment or with a partner in a duetPerfect for men, women, boys, and girls, Singing For Dummies is the most intuitive and accessible resource on the market for anyone who hopes to find their voice.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Unravel the mysteries of the MasonsAll the myths and rumors about Masonic organizations probably have you wondering 'what do Masons really do ' Questions like this one are a natural by-product of being the oldest and largest 'secret society' in the world. This book is an ideal starting place to find answers to your questions about the secret and not-so-secret things about Freemasonry.Now in its third edition, this international best-seller peeks behind the door of your local Masonic lodge and explains the meanings behind the rituals, rites, and symbols of the organization. Along the way the book covers nearly 3,000 years of Masonic history, introduces you to some famous Freemasons you already know from history books, and explains the relationship with related groups like Knights Templar, Scottish Rite, Order of Eastern Star, and the beloved fez-wearing Shriners.Look inside the book to learn:\* What it takes to become a member of the Freemasons, and what you can expect when you join\* How Lodges are organized and what really goes on during Masonic ceremonies\* The basic beliefs and philosophies of Freemasonry, including how Masons contribute to charity, and society in general\* The origins behind some of the wild myths and conspiracy theories surrounding Freemasonry and how to debunk (most of) themWritten by a 33rd degree Scottish Rite Mason and the Public Relations and Marketing Director for the Grand Lodge F&AM of Indiana, Freemasons For Dummies is a must-read guide for anyone interested in this ancient fraternal order, whether you're looking to join or are just curious about some of the more mysterious aspects of Freemasonry.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Wait--you took that amazing picture Taking a photo is as simple as point and click. Taking a good photo takes a bit more know-how, and Android Smartphone Photography For Dummies is your quick-and-easy guide. No matter what model of Android phone you have, this book teaches you to produce high-quality images using the powerhouse camera you carry in your pocket every day. You'll learn the photography techniques pros use, like how to recognize beautiful outdoor lightning, how to capture moving subjects, and how to make stuff look good.Whatever kind of photos you want to take, this book will help you identify the gear and the apps you need for stunning results. With Dummies as your friendly instructor, you'll be wowing your friends and family before you know it.\* Explore your phone's camera, including little-known advanced features that will make a big difference in your images\* Figure out how to edit your pictures, correct lighting imbalances, apply neat filters, remove blemishes, and more\* Learn the basic principles of photography and apply your knowledge to outdoor photography, action shots, and still life\* Plus: capture video, organize your images, share photos online, choose a phone tripod, and protect your camera from the elementsDummies makes it easy for Android users of all skill levels to morph into masterful image-makers.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The logics and ethics of neoliberal capitalism dominate public discourses and politics in the early twenty-first century. They morally endorse and institutionalize forms of competitive self-interest that jettison social justice values, and are deeply antithetical to love, care and solidarity.But capitalism is neither invincible nor inevitable. While people are self-interested, they are not purely self-interested: they are bound affectively and morally to others, even to unknown others. The cares, loves and solidarity relationships within which people are engaged give them direction and purpose in their daily lives. They constitute cultural residuals of hope that stand ready to move humanity beyond a narrow capitalism-centric set of values.In this instructive and inspiring book, Kathleen Lynch sets out to reclaim the language of love, care and solidarity both intellectually and politically and to place it at the heart of contemporary discourse. Her goal is to help unseat capital at the gravitational centre of meaning-making and value, thereby helping to create logics and ethical priorities for politics that are led by care, love and solidarity.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Become a process improvement star with Lean Six Sigma!Thinking Lean Not in terms of weight loss, but operational efficiency Then you can get into the Lean mindset with Lean Six Sigma For Dummies. A popular process improvement strategy used in many corporations, Lean Six Sigma exemplifies eliminating waste and optimizing flow at an operational level. With the strategies outlined in this book, you'll have your projects, team, and maybe even your organization running at peak efficiency.Written by two experts that have been teaching Lean Six Sigma for over 20 years, Lean Six Sigma For Dummies explains the jargon surrounding this organizational practice, outlines the key principles of both Lean thinking and the Six Sigma process, and breaks it all down into easy-to-follow steps.\* Use Lean Six Sigma to develop a culture of continuous improvement\* Complete repetitive tasks through robotic process automation\* Assess how well your company and employees adapt to Lean Six Sigma\* Discover tips on how to implement Lean Six Sigma every day\* Find best practices to sustain ongoing improvementsWith handy checklists and helpful advice, Lean Six Sigma For Dummies shows you how to implement Lean Six Sigma in any industry, within any size organization. Pick up your copy to successfully lean into the Lean Six Sigma mindset yourself.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 352 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This ground-breaking book offers a deep and original analysis of the Mafia - in particular Cosa Nostra - as a distinct form of politics. Marco Santoro breaks with criminal and economic approaches which see the Mafia as an industry of private protection and rationally calculating wealth accumulation. Instead he argues that it represents an alternative way of organizing political relations, the exercise of power, and the struggle for prestige. Nor is this a distortion or failure of the modern Western state, based on the rule of law: the Mafia is best understood as an older, alternative tradition of politics, a distinctly Southern institutional arrangement of social life focused on personal ties and obligations. Today, the Mafia still thrives among subaltern classes and in regions that the modern state has not yet incorporated, as a conservative counter-politics of prestige. Pivotal to understanding this world is a cultural sociology of the Mafia, offering the tools and concepts necessary to penetrate the symbolism and structures of Mafia life.Blending diverse theoretical strands with folk sources and the voices of Mafiosi themselves, Santoro develops a political theory of the Mafia, shedding new light on this captivating, global, and remarkably resilient phenomenon.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Prep for success on the Network+ N10-008 exam and for your new career in network administration with this must-have resourceIn the newly updated Fifth Edition of the CompTIA Network+ Review Guide: Exam: N10-008, a leading expert in Network Operations, Jon Buhagiar, delivers a focused and concise handbook for anyone preparing for the new Network+ N10-008 exam or for a career in network administration.This guide is organized into five parts, with each part corresponding to one of the 5 objective domain areas of the Network+ exam: Fundamentals, Implementations, Operations, Security, and Troubleshooting.You'll handily learn crucial IT skills like designing and implementing functional networks, configuring and managing essential network devices, using switches and routers to segment network traffic, and securing existing networks. This book also allows you to:\* Quickly and comprehensively prepare for the Network+ N10-008 exam with intuitively organized info and efficient learning strategies\* Discover the skills and techniques required in an entry-level network administration interview and job\* Access the Sybex online learning center, with chapter review questions, full-length practice exams, hundreds of electronic flashcards, and a glossary of key termsPerfect as a standalone resource for those seeking to succeed on the CompTIA Network+ N10-008 exam or as a companion to the CompTIA Network+ Study Guide and CompTIA Network+ Deluxe Study Guide, this book is an indispensable reference for anyone preparing for a career in network administration, network analysis, or systems engineering.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Become a process improvement star with Lean Six Sigma!Thinking Lean Not in terms of weight loss, but operational efficiency Then you can get into the Lean mindset with Lean Six Sigma For Dummies. A popular process improvement strategy used in many corporations, Lean Six Sigma exemplifies eliminating waste and optimizing flow at an operational level. With the strategies outlined in this book, you'll have your projects, team, and maybe even your organization running at peak efficiency.Written by two experts that have been teaching Lean Six Sigma for over 20 years, Lean Six Sigma For Dummies explains the jargon surrounding this organizational practice, outlines the key principles of both Lean thinking and the Six Sigma process, and breaks it all down into easy-to-follow steps.\* Use Lean Six Sigma to develop a culture of continuous improvement\* Complete repetitive tasks through robotic process automation\* Assess how well your company and employees adapt to Lean Six Sigma\* Discover tips on how to implement Lean Six Sigma every day\* Find best practices to sustain ongoing improvementsWith handy checklists and helpful advice, Lean Six Sigma For Dummies shows you how to implement Lean Six Sigma in any industry, within any size organization. Pick up your copy to successfully lean into the Lean Six Sigma mindset yourself.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Discover the trends shaping our world, and explore the data underlying them, in this fascinating, visual journey.In Signals, Visual Capitalist founder and editor-in-chief Jeff Desjardins and his team explore the 27 most important trends shaping the future of our global economy. This striking book draws on the oceans of data we're all surrounded by to extract insights about where we are and where we are headed--from society and demographics to the environment, digital tech, the markets, and more. It also includes:\* Infographics, charts, and other data visualizations that identify signals hiding in the data\* Discussions about the impact trends are having on the world around us\* A full bibliography with references to the data sourced by the authorSignals is a must-read for entrepreneurs, executives, policymakers, and regulators--or simply, anyone seeking to navigate a complex world.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Organize and plan for your family business's continued, intergenerational successContinuity Model Generation: Integrating Wealth, Strategy, Talent, and Governance Plans delivers a cohesive and comprehensive plan for family business leaders who seek to improve the chances of sustaining success across generations. Incorporating four distinct--but closely related--plans, Continuity Model Generation shows family businesses how to manage their strategy, their wealth, their talent, and their governance to achieve multi-generational success. The book also offers:\* A coherent framework (Continuity Canvas) for the integration of its multiple plans affecting every critical aspect of the family-owned or controlled business\* Straightforward and practical frameworks, meta-frameworks, and cornerstones to ground your family business's strategy\* A variety of templates, checklists, and forms to organize your thinking and strategyIdeal for business-owning families, as well as their stakeholders and those who advise them, Continuity Model Generation: Integrating Wealth, Strategy, Talent, and Governance Plans is required reading for anyone interested in maintaining and developing family-based wealth.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The new and enhanced edition of the popular textbook on research methods in construction and related disciplinesResearch Methods for Construction is designed to help construction students develop the research skills needed to achieve success in their research projects. Providing clear guidance on research formulation, methodologies, and methods, this comprehensive textbook addresses the theoretical, philosophical, and practical aspects of research in many areas of construction. The authors explain the requirements for data and analysis and describe the methods used for scientific and engineering experiments, modelling and simulations, research on management and socio-economic issues, and more.Now in its fifth edition, Research Methods for Construction is fully revised to reflect contemporary developments and emerging areas of construction research. New and expanded chapters cover topics including data protection and ethics, theory borrowing, sensemaking, and directionally motivated reasoning. This edition includes additional models and details relating to translation, and offers fresh discussion of axiology, determinism, and stochasticism. Providing students with coherent, well-structured account of construction research, this market-leading textbook:\* Emphasizes and instils rigor into construction students' problem-solving, reports, and publications\* Assists researchers in selecting appropriate methods to execute research\* Articulates the stages of construction research processes: producing a proposal, executing the research, and reporting the results\* Examines qualitative and quantitative approaches and statistical considerations for a wide range of construction research\* Discusses current ethical, legal, and regulatory issues pertaining to research in constructionThe fifth edition of Research Methods for Construction is the ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students embarking on a research project, at bachelors, masters or doctoral level, in construction, surveying, architecture, civil engineering, and other built environment disciplines.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The logics and ethics of neoliberal capitalism dominate public discourses and politics in the early twenty-first century. They morally endorse and institutionalize forms of competitive self-interest that jettison social justice values, and are deeply antithetical to love, care and solidarity.But capitalism is neither invincible nor inevitable. While people are self-interested, they are not purely self-interested: they are bound affectively and morally to others, even to unknown others. The cares, loves and solidarity relationships within which people are engaged give them direction and purpose in their daily lives. They constitute cultural residuals of hope that stand ready to move humanity beyond a narrow capitalism-centric set of values.In this instructive and inspiring book, Kathleen Lynch sets out to reclaim the language of love, care and solidarity both intellectually and politically and to place it at the heart of contemporary discourse. Her goal is to help unseat capital at the gravitational centre of meaning-making and value, thereby helping to create logics and ethical priorities for politics that are led by care, love and solidarity. 302 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This International Adaptation enhances the coverage of network theorems by adding new theorems such as reciprocity, compensation, and Millman's, and strengthens the topic of filter networks by including cascaded and Butterworth filters. This edition also includes inverse hybrid and inverse transmission parameters to describe two-port networks and a dedicated chapter on diodes.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Become a process improvement star with Lean Six Sigma!Thinking Lean Not in terms of weight loss, but operational efficiency Then you can get into the Lean mindset with Lean Six Sigma For Dummies. A popular process improvement strategy used in many corporations, Lean Six Sigma exemplifies eliminating waste and optimizing flow at an operational level. With the strategies outlined in this book, you'll have your projects, team, and maybe even your organization running at peak efficiency.Written by two experts that have been teaching Lean Six Sigma for over 20 years, Lean Six Sigma For Dummies explains the jargon surrounding this organizational practice, outlines the key principles of both Lean thinking and the Six Sigma process, and breaks it all down into easy-to-follow steps.\* Use Lean Six Sigma to develop a culture of continuous improvement\* Complete repetitive tasks through robotic process automation\* Assess how well your company and employees adapt to Lean Six Sigma\* Discover tips on how to implement Lean Six Sigma every day\* Find best practices to sustain ongoing improvementsWith handy checklists and helpful advice, Lean Six Sigma For Dummies shows you how to implement Lean Six Sigma in any industry, within any size organization. Pick up your copy to successfully lean into the Lean Six Sigma mindset yourself. 352 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Behavior of AnimalsAn updated view of animal behavior studies, featuring global expertsThe Behavior of Animals, Second Edition provides a broad overview of the current state of animal behavior studies with contributions from international experts. This edition includes new chapters on hormones and behavior, individuality, and human evolution. All chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated, and are supported by color illustrations, informative callouts, and accessible presentation of technical information.\* Provides an introduction to the study of animal behavior\* Looks at an extensive scope of topics- from perception, motivation and emotion, biological rhythms, and animal learning to animal cognition, communication, mate choice, and individuality.\* Explores the evolution of animal behavior including a critical evaluation of the assumption that human beings can be studied as if they were any other animal species.\* Students will benefit from an updated textbook in which a variety of contributors provide their expertise and global perspective in specialized areas.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - REVENUE MANAGEMENT FOR THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRYExplore intermediate and advanced topics in the field of revenue management with this up-to-date guideIn the newly revised second edition of Revenue Management for the Hospitality Industry, an accomplished team of industry professionals delivers a comprehensive and insightful review of hospitality pricing and revenue optimization strategies. The book offers realistic industry examples from hotels, restaurants, and other hospitality industry segments that use differential pricing as a major revenue management tool.The authors discuss concepts critical to the achievement of hospitality professionals' revenue management goals and include new examinations of the growing importance of effective data collection and management. A running case study helps students learn how to incorporate the revenue management principles and strategies included in the book's 14 chapters.Written for students with some prior knowledge and understanding of the hospitality industry, the new edition also includes:\* A brand-new chapter on data analysis and revenue management that addresses many of the most important data and technology-related developments in the field, including the management of big data, data safety, and data security\* In-depth discussions of revenue management topics including Net Revenue Per Available Room, Direct Revenue Ratio, and other KPIs\* Major changes to the book's instructor support materials and an expansion of the instructor's test bank items and student exercises.An indispensable resource for students taking courses in hospitality management or business administration, Revenue Management for the Hospitality Industry, Second Edition is also ideal for managers and executives in the hospitality industry.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book introduces climate change fundamentals and essential concepts that reveal the extent of the damage, the impacts felt around the globe, and the innovation and leadership it will take to bring an end to the status quo. Emphasizing peer-reviewed literature, this text details the impact of climate change on land and sea, the water cycle, human communities, the weather, and humanity's collective future. Coverage of greenhouse gases, oceanic and atmospheric processes, Pleistocene and Holocene paleoclimate, sea levels, and other fundamental topics provide a deep understanding of key mechanisms, while discussion of extreme weather, economic impacts, and resource scarcity reveals how climate change is already impacting people's lives--and will continue to do so at an increasing rate for the foreseeable future.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - DIATOM MORPHOGENESISA unique book presenting the range of silica structures formed by diatoms, theories and hypotheses of how they are made, and applications to nanotechnology by use or imitation of diatom morphogenesis.There are up to 200,000 species of diatoms, each species of these algal cells bearing an ornate, amorphous silica glass shell. The silica is structured at 7 orders of magnitude size range and is thus the most complex multiscalar solid structure known. Recent research is beginning to unravel how a single cell marshals chemical, physical, biochemical, genetic, and cytoskeletal processes to produce these single-cell marvels. The field of diatom nanotechnology is advancing as this understanding matures.Diatoms have been actively studied over the recent 10-20 years with various modern equipment, experimental and computer simulation approaches, including molecular biology, fluorescence-based methods, electron, confocal, and AFM microscopy. This has resulted in a huge amount of information but the key stages of their silica morphogenesis are still not clear. This is the time to reconsider and consolidate the work performed so far and to understand how we can go ahead.The main objective of this book is to describe the actual situation in the science of diatom morphogenesis, to specify the most important unresolved questions, and to present the corresponding hypotheses. The following areas are discussed:\* A tutorial chapter, with a glossary for newcomers to the field, who are often from outside of biology, let alone phycology;\* Diatom Morphogenesis: general issues, including symmetry and size issues;\* Diatom Morphogenesis: simulation, including analytical and numerical methods for description of the diatom valve shape and pore structure;\* Diatom Morphogenesis: physiology, biochemistry, and applications, including the relationship between taxonomy and physiology, biosilicification hypotheses, and ideas about applications of diatoms.AudienceResearchers, scientists, and graduate students in the fields of phycology, general biology, marine sciences, the chemistry of silica, materials science, and ecology.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An authoritative guide to the most recent advances in statistical methods for quantifying reliabilityStatistical Methods for Reliability Data, Second Edition (SMRD2) is an essential guide to the most widely used and recently developed statistical methods for reliability data analysis and reliability test planning. Written by three experts in the area, SMRD2 updates and extends the long- established statistical techniques and shows how to apply powerful graphical, numerical, and simulation-based methods to a range of applications in reliability. SMRD2 is a comprehensive resource that describes maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods for solving practical problems that arise in product reliability and similar areas of application. SMRD2 illustrates methods with numerous applications and all the data sets are available on the book's website. Also, SMRD2 contains an extensive collection of exercises that will enhance its use as a course textbook.The SMRD2's website contains valuable resources, including R packages, Stan model codes, presentation slides, technical notes, information about commercial software for reliability data analysis, and csv files for the 93 data sets used in the book's examples and exercises. The importance of statistical methods in the area of engineering reliability continues to grow and SMRD2 offers an updated guide for, exploring, modeling, and drawing conclusions from reliability data.SMRD2 features:\* Contains a wealth of information on modern methods and techniques for reliability data analysis\* Offers discussions on the practical problem-solving power of various Bayesian inference methods\* Provides examples of Bayesian data analysis performed using the R interface to the Stan system based on Stan models that are available on the book's website\* Includes helpful technical-problem and data-analysis exercise sets at the end of every chapter\* Presents illustrative computer graphics that highlight data, results of analyses, and technical conceptsWritten for engineers and statisticians in industry and academia, Statistical Methods for Reliability Data, Second Edition offers an authoritative guide to this important topic.