Larsen: 701 books
by Olga Popovic Larsen
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007
In structural terms reciprocal frame structures are 'three dimensional assemblies of mutually supporting beams'. But behind this definition lie some breathtakingly beautiful and complex structures at the heart of buildings both ancient and modern. This new book explores the principles of these apparently...
Energy Branding
Harnessing Consumer Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
Demonstrating the potential of building strong brands in the energy sector, this book explores the challenges of shifting the perception of energy from a commodity business into a consumer brand. Energy suppliers are increasingly being met with skepticism, indicating the need for a greater focus on...
Health Inequities Related to Intimate Partner Violence Against Women
The Role of Social Policy in the United States, Germany, and Norway
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
This book examines the extent to which social position impacts exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) and whether women with IPV exposure are more vulnerable to social inequities in health. At the intersection of sociological theories on health, gender, and policy, this book explores these issues...
by Mette Vinther Larsen
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Relational Perspectives on Leading discusses leadership from a relational and social constructionism perspective as practiced on an everyday basis between people. The book pursues a fast growing, practice-based approach - particularly within the Anglo-Saxon parts of the world - to organization studies and organizational phenomena.
Writing in Online Courses
How the Online Environment Shapes Writing Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
For scholars interested in the intersection of writing and online instruction, Writing in Online Courses: How the Online Environment Shapes Writing and Practice examines both the theoretical and practical implications of writing in online courses. The essays in this collection reflect upon what the...
by Bal, Campbell, McDowell-Larsen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Everyone experiences stress, and leaders face the additional stress brought about by the unique demands of leadership: having to make decisions with limited information, to manage conflict, to do more with less . . . and faster! The consequences of stress can include health problems and deteriorating...
by Diane Larsen-Freeman, Michael H. Long
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Understanding how people learn and fail to learn second and foreign languages is increasingly recognised as a critical social and psycholinguistic issue. Second languages are vitally important to diverse groups of people, ranging from refugees to college students facing foreign language requirements....
Vulnerable Daughters in India
Culture, Development and Changing Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
In India, girls are aborted on a massive scale merely because they are girls. Underlying this widespread problem is the puzzling fact that daughters have become vulnerable in a time of general improvement of welfare, female status and deep economic and social changes. The findings centre on a contradiction...
by Francis Lyall, Paul B. Larsen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The opening of space to exploration and use has had profound effects on society. Remote sensing by satellite has improved meteorology, land use and the monitoring of the environment. Satellite television immediately informs us visually of events in formerly remote locations, as well as providing many...
by Klaus Günter Grunert, Hanne Hartvig Larsen, Tage Koed Madsen
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the fall of 1990, the Danish government started a comprehensive research pro gramme to improve the competitiveness of the Danish food sector: The Research and Development Programme in the Danish Food Sector (Det F!Ildevareteknologiske Forsk nings- og Udviklingsprogram, F0TEK). The programme...
by Jonathan Wright, Linda Johnson Larsen
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Everything you need to start eating clean
Whether you've lived on white carbs and trans fats all your life or you're already health conscious but want to clean up your diet even further, Eating Clean For Dummies, 2nd Edition explains in plain English exactly what it means to keep a clean-eating...
Family Law Reform in Postwar Japan
Succession and Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
How does a nation, defeated in war, respond to externally imposed reforms that set that nations family system upside down, completely eliminating the familys modus operandi At least that is what the elimination of family kinship and single inheritance in reforms by the Supreme Command for the Allied...
Tourism, Performance and the Everyday
Consuming the Orient
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Tourism has become increasingly ‘exotic’, a process made possible by low-cost charter tourism and cheaper air tickets. Faraway and evermore ‘exotic’ holidays are becoming widespread and within reach as destinations make their entry into the mass tourism market. Strolls through the bazaars...
Remaking American Power
Potential Energy Market Impacts of EPA’s Proposed GHG Emission Performance Standards for Existing Electric Power Plants
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
This study seeks to help inform federal and state policymakers, energy producers, investors, and consumers about the potential energy market impacts of state and federal policy decisions associated with the Clean Power Plan as proposed. The report outlines the potential electric power sector and broader...