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Contextual Development Economics
Springer 2010; US$ 94.99Poverty still persists in today's low-income countries despite decades of international aid, and extensive research on the determinants of growth and development. The book argues that meeting this challenge requires a holistic understanding of the context-specific factors that influence economic behavior and structures in poor countries. "Contextual... more...
Semantic Knowledge Management
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005; US$ 199.00In this e-book the contributors focus on the new possibilities afforded by semantic web technology in the area of knowledge management. more...
Global Nollywood
Indiana University Press 2013; US$ 24.99Global Nollywood considers this first truly African cinema beyond its Nigerian origins. In 15 lively essays, this volume traces the engagement of the Nigerian video film industry with the African continent and the rest of the world. Topics such as Nollywood as a theoretical construct, the development of a new, critical film language, and Nollywood?s... more...
Ontology Management
Springer 2007; US$ 99.99Managing ontologies and annotated data throughout their life-cycles is at the core of semantic systems of all kinds. Ontology Management, an edited volume by senior researchers in the field, provides an up-to-date, concise and easy-to-read reference on this topic. This volume describes relevant tasks, practical and theoretical challenges, limitations... more...
The Market Approach to Comparable Company Valuation
Springer 2006; US$ 129.99Corporate valuation using multiples is one of the most popular corporate valuation approaches. This book discusses the different steps of this valuation approach such as the selection of comparable companies or the choice of the reference variables. more...
Molecular Chaperones in Health and Disease
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 399.99Molecular chaperones are involved in a wide variety of essential cellular processes in living cells. Starting with the analysis of the mode of action of chaperones at the molecular, cellular and organismic level, this book describes specific aspects where modulation of chaperone action could be of pharmacological and therapeutic interest. more...
Life conduct in modern times
Springer 2006; US$ 179.99Investigates the critique of psychoanalysis formulated by the psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) over a period of five decades. This study traces the medico-historical roots of Jasper's criticism of psychoanalysis and then places it within the framework of scientific theory. more...
Das Burnout-Syndrom
Springer 2005; US$ 31.99Burnout ist ein Phänomen, das in jedem Beruf und in beinahe jeder Lebenslage auftreten kann - bei Lehrern und Pflegepersonal, bei Künstlern und Entwicklungshelfern, aber auch bei Ingenieuren und Professorinnen. Burisch entwickelt als Experte für die Thematik eine umfassende Theorie des Burnout-Syndroms - die er auf sehr lebendige und mit Fallbeispielen... more...
Language Diversity Endangered
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 137.00This book compiles unique contributions on the extent and kinds of language endangerment world-wide. Besides presenting the specific situations of language endangerment at the subcontinental level, the volume discusses major issues that bear universally on language endangerment. Aspects of the actual study of endangered languages within fieldwork frameworks... more...
The English Galileo
Springer 2008; US$ 189.99The short series The Historical Epistemology of Mechanics presents the long-term development of mechanical knowledge. The books in this series combine the presentation of a broad selection of relevant sources with in-depth analyses of the long-term development of mechanical knowledge focusing on the early modern period. This series is conceived in... more...









