Peter Thomas: 235 books
Balancing Renewable Electricity
Energy Storage, Demand Side Management, and Network Extension from an Interdisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
An important aim behind the restructuring of Germany’s and Europe’s electricity systems is to reduce the environmental burden, especially with respect to greenhouse gas emissions, of the current systems. Emissions must be brought down to a level that is sustainable in the long run and consistent...
by Peter Bates, Bob Bayles, Wilfred Beckford
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
This book provides perspectives and insights across the educational system for how we might move toward living out this wish in all schools. The chapters provide perspectives on fundamental questions that have been guiding recent research on wellbeing in schools: How do school communities flourish...
by Cristina Eisenberg, Jack Turner, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
A compelling case for connecting with the wild, for our psychological and physical well-being and to flourish as a species
We often enjoy the benefits of connecting with nearby, domesticated nature—a city park, a backyard garden. But this book makes the provocative case for the necessity...
by Peter Macinnis, Adele K. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Have you ever wondered why sometimes after you have washed your socks, one of them mysteriously disappears? Or why your shoelaces always seem to get tangled into tricky knots? The answer is, you probably have a monster problem or, more specifically, two monster problems with a gobblesock living behind...
Planning and Support for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Issues for Case Managers and Other Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
'Thought-provoking, well-written, and offering a range of fresh and sometimes challenging perspectives, Planning and Support should be essential reading for people working in the field of learning disabilities. Highly recommended.' - Involve Magazine The authors outline the skills needed and common issues...
Neues vom Tatort Tegel
25 Geschichten von Stars der deutschsprachigen Krimiszene
Language: German
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Zum 25. Jubiläum der Reinickendorfer Kriminacht gibt es endlich „Neues vom Tatort Tegel“: Nach zehn Jahren bringt Krimi-Urgestein Horst Bosetzky in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Bezirksamt Reinickendorf zum zweiten Mal eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten aus der Feder von deutschsprachigen Kriminacht-Stars...
HSPA Evolution
The Fundamentals for Mobile Broadband
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
This book is essential reading for those wishing to obtain a systems perspective and a broad view on the background, performance and application of the latest developments in HSPA in the context of the demands on today’s mobile broadband devices and networks. It takes the reader behind the scenes...
The Software Industry
Economic Principles, Strategies, Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Whether ERP software, office applications, open-source products or online games: In terms of its economic characteristics, software differs fundamentally from industrial goods or services. Based on the economic principles and rules of the software industry, the book reveals strategies and business...
Transgender Communication Studies
Histories, Trends, and Trajectories
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Transgender Communication Studies: Histories, Trends, and Trajectories brings scholarship in transgender studies to the forefront of the communication discipline. Leland Spencer and Jamie Capuzza provide a broad foundation that documents the evolution of transgender communication studies and challenges...
Columns to Characters
The Presidency and the Press Enter the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
The relationship between the presidency and the press has transformed—seemingly overnight—from one where reports and columns were filed, edited, and deliberated for hours before publication into a brave new world where texts, tweets, and sound bites race from composition to release within a matter...
by Thomas D. SJ Stegman, Peter Williamson, Mary Healy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
There is an increasing hunger among Catholics to study the Bible in depth and in a way that integrates Scripture with Catholic doctrine, worship, and daily life. Second Corinthians is the fourth of seventeen volumes in the Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture (CCSS), a new series that will cover...
Citizenship
Discourse, Theory, and Transnational Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
A significant addition to the growing body of literature on citizenship, this wide-ranging overview focuses on the importance, and changing nature, of citizenship. It introduces the varied discourses and theories that have arisen in recent years, and looks toward future scholarship in the field.
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Fractured Communities
Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
While environmental disputes and conflicts over fossil fuel extraction have grown in recent years, few issues have been as contentious in the twenty-first century as those surrounding the impacts of unconventional natural gas and oil development using hydraulic drilling and fracturing techniques—more...
by Frederick C. Pollett, Robert W. Udell, Peter J. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
A lavishly illustrated driving guide to the landscapes, geology, ecology, culture, people and history of the Northern Rockies Region of Alberta.