Ivan: 1319 books
Land Use Changes in the Czech Republic 1845–2010
Socio-Economic Driving Forces
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
The objective of this book is to analyze changes in the landscape of Czechoslovakia / the Czech Republic since the first half of the 19th century. The text focuses not only on describing these considerable changes by means of statistical and spatial data, but also on explaining the processes, societal,...
Brains Top Down
Is Top-Down Causation Challenging Neuroscience?
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Written by an international team of leading experts in neuroscience, this book presents an overview of some of the main schools of thought as well as current research trends in neuroscience. It focuses on neural top-down causation applied to hot topics like consciousness, emotions, the self and the...
Waveform Diversity: Theory & Applications
Theory & Application
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2011
Cutting-edge transmitter and receiver waveform design techniques
Optimum design can improve signal direction, interference, and noise suppression across various disciplines that utilize waveforms, including radar, sonar, and communications. Waveform Diversity explains the role of transmitter and receiver...
by Ivan Brovchenko, Alla Oleinikova
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Water in the proximity of a surface (interfacial water) is abundant on the earth. It is involved in various physical and chemical processes and crucial for biological function. Despite numerous studies of interfacial water, systematic analysis of its properties is missing in scientific literature....
by Ivan Libero Nocera
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Nell’attuale contesto di crisi macroeconomica e di drastici tagli alla spesa pubblica, gli incentivi all’economia – volti a creare assetti giuridico-istituzionali che favoriscano il valore d’impresa, la concorrenza, la certezza giuridica e una migliore allocazione delle risorse – hanno trovato...
The Vitreous State
Thermodynamics, Structure, Rheology, and Crystallization
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
This book summarizes the experimental evidence and modern classical and theoretical approaches in understanding the vitreous state, from structural problems, over equilibrium and non-equilibrium thermodynamics, to statistical physics. Glasses, and especially silicate glasses, are only the best known...
by Ivan Muse
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
With this book, principals will become more successful at communicating with difficult people, delivering speeches, and will maximize the effectiveness of groups and committees.
Liberate
Reciclaje Familiar
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 3, 2018
LIBERACION Te preguntas como será eso de la liberación. ¿Será fácil, costará un poco? ¿Es realmente efectiva? ¿Dará resultado? ¿Qué busca la gente cuando compra libros de liberación para subsanar su familia y todos los problemas que lo tuvieron a maltraer durante mucho tiempo? Las palabras...
Race, Immigration, and Social Control
Immigrants’ Views on the Police
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
This book discusses the issues surrounding race, ethnicity, and immigrant status in U.S. policing, with a special focus on immigrant groups’ perceptions of the police and factors that shape their attitudes toward the police. It focuses on the perceptions of three rapidly growing yet understudied...
Drought in Bulgaria
A Contemporary Analog for Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Given the different geographical and human contexts in which climate change impacts will be experienced, thinking by analogy provides one useful way to explore dimensions of such change. This landmark book, based on the human dimensions of global change paradigm, examines climate impacts through the...
by Ivan B. Djordjevic
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
This textbook introduces the advanced topics of: (i) wireless communications, (ii) free-space optical (FSO) communications, (iii) indoor optical wireless (IR) communications, and (iv) fiber-optics communications and presents these different types of communication systems in a unified fashion for better...
Against European Integration
The European Union and its Discontents
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
This book gives a complex description and discussion of today’s populist attacks against the European Union (EU) following the financial crisis of 2008, which opened the floodgates of dissatisfaction, and the migration crisis which destabilized the traditional solidarity basis of the EU. The problem...
Understanding Theories of Religion
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Featuring comprehensive updates and additions, the second edition of Understanding Theories of Religion explores the development of major theories of religion through the works of classic and contemporary figures.
• A new edition of this introductory text exploring the core methods and theorists...
Dumont on Religion
Difference, Comparison, Transgression
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Louis Dumont was a prominent anthropologist and sociologist whose work - notably on Indian society - influenced the study of religion. 'Dumont on Religion' introduces Dumont's work on kinship studies, structural theory, and his views on idealism. Subjects of particular interest to students of religion...