Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jan

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  • THE GERMAN WAY OF WAR ON THE EASTERN FRONT, 1941-1943
    JAAP JAN BROUWER
    On 22 June 1941, at 0410hrs, Operation Barbarossa began. More than 3 million German soldiers crossed the border with the Soviet Union and moved east, where 4.7 million Soviet soldiers were waiting for them. Hitler expected his troops would be on the Volga before the end of the year and that important cities such as Moscow and Leningrad would have been captured. But the reality ...

    $319.99

  • INTRODUCTION TO FLUID DYNAMICS IN PHYSICS AND ASTROPHYSICS
    HENDRIK JAN VAN EERTEN
    This textbook provides an accessible and self-contained introduction to the physics behind fluid dynamics; exploring the laws of nature describing three out of four fundamental states of matter (liquids, gases, and plasmas). Based on years of teaching of fluid dynamics theory and computation at advanced undergraduate level, it provides readers with the tools to understand and m...

    $1,659.00

  • WASTEWATER TREATMENT WITH THE FENTON PROCESS
    DOMINIKA BURY / MICHAŁ JAKUBCZAK / JAN BOGACKI / PIOTR MARCINOWSKI / AGNIESZKA JASTRZĘBSKA
    The presence of refractory organic compounds in wastewater is a global problem. Advanced oxidation processes, in general, and the Fenton oxidation process are alternative technologies for wastewater and water treatment. This book gives an overview of Fenton process principles, explains the main factors influencing this technology, includes applications, kinetic and thermodynamic...

    $2,400.00

  • LOCKDOWN LEISURE
    LEE LUDVIGSEN, JAN ANDRE
    This book examines the concept of ‘lockdown leisure’ as closely related to the Covid-19 pandemic. Through a range of inter-disciplinary chapters, the volume unpacks leisure life in lockdown contexts through a range of empirical, conceptual and theoretical contributions. In many countries, a key response to the global Covid-19 pandemic was the implementation of national, regiona...

    $1,339.00

  • STRATEGIC MARKETING PLANNING
    KAREL JAN ALSEM
    This book provides a uniquely practical approach to strategic marketing planning. Combining a comprehensive overview of theory with practice, each chapter takes the reader step by step through the strategic marketing process. Beginning with situation analysis, it moves on to marketing strategy (targeting and brand positioning) and finally details the overall implementation and ...

    $1,239.00

  • THE SPORT MEGA-EVENTS OF THE 2020S
    LUDVIGSEN, JAN ANDRE LEE
    This book explores various social, cultural, political and economic issues through the lenses of various sport mega-events in the twenty-first century, including the Olympic Games, and the World Cup and European Championships in football. In a time where sport mega-events are closely followed by controversies, legacy discourses and questions of their governance, the chapters wi...

    $1,339.00

  • WHO WILL BRING ME HOME?
    JAN WILLEM KIRPESTEIN
    This book is a profound meditation on power and love and in its wake on trust and hope. The author offers a new approach of these ancient biblical values.If human love is fascinated by power, what is power's attraction and charm? Love is fascinated by a promise of rootedness in a real future life. This promise is experienced as a revelation of our true home. It means that human...

    $320.00

  • THE BUSINESS OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
    HARM-JAN STEENHUIS
    Although additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, has been around for almost 40 years, few people know how it actually works and the huge impact and benefits it offers. This book explains what AM is, using business theories to explain and illustrate why AM is increasingly being used across industries. The book translates complex engineering technology into releva...

    $1,099.00

  • PERSPECTIVES ON KNOWLEDGE COMMUNICATION
    JAN ENGBERG
    This collection elaborates an innovative analytical framework for knowledge communication, bringing together insights from a range of professional settings to highlight how a cross-disciplinary approach can promote a new view of knowledge that emphasizes constructivist and cognitivist perspectives. The volume seeks to draw connections between different disciplines’ traditionall...

    $1,099.00

  • UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN PERU
    JAN LUST
    At a time when Peru continues to reel from the impact of Covid-19 and the eruption of corruption scandals involving five former presidents, this book analyzes the persistence and the structural underpinnings of underdevelopment in Peru. During the commodities boom of 2004–2011, Peru experienced strong levels of economic growth, bringing poverty down and increasing the middle-cl...

    $1,099.00

  • DEBATING IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES IN CENTRAL EUROPE
    JAN KOVÁŘ
    This book investigates the politicisation and framing of immigration in the media and political arena in Central Europe, examining two countries - Czechia and Slovakia - in the period surrounding the “European migrant crisis”. Following years of immigration being practically invisible as an issue in the socio-political debates in most Central and Eastern European countries, it ...

    $1,099.00

  • LONG LIVES ARE FOR THE RICH
    JAN BAARS
    Long Lives Are for the Rich is the title of a silent ominous program that affects the lives of millions of people. In all developed countries disadvantaged and, especially, poor people die much earlier than the most advantaged. During these shorter lives they suffer ten to twenty years longer from disabilities or chronic disease. This does not happen accidentally: health inequa...

    $979.00

  • GPS AND GNSS FOR LAND SURVEYORS
    JAN VAN SICKLE
    Based on the success of the previous four editions, this new fifth edition includes Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) in the title, which is part of the Global Positioning System (GPS). The book provides an introduction to the concepts needed to understand and use GPS and GNSS. Neither simplistic nor overly technical, the new edition is thoroughly updated with the chan...

    $2,400.00

  • SHARIAH GOVERNANCE IN ISLAMIC BANKING INSTITUTIONS
    JAN, SHAFIULLAH
    Shariah governance assumes the primary instrument through which Islamic Banking Institutions (IBIs) ensure the Islamicity of their products, services, operations, and internal environments. It is considered to be one the fundamental elements that differentiates IBIs from their traditional counterparts. Shariah Governance in Islamic Banking Institutions provides a critical overv...

    $1,099.00

  • STRATEGIC FORESIGHT
    JAN OLIVER SCHWARZ
    Organisations today are being challenged to make sense of changes in environments that, now more than ever, are described as VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous). They are also being driven to understand how the future will evolve and what impact it will have not only on the organisations themselves but also on industries and societies. In recent decades a field h...

    $979.00

  • THE PRODUCTIVE GRADUATE STUDENT WRITER
    JAN E. ALLEN
    This book is for graduate students--and others--who want to become more productive writers. It's especially written for those who want to:• increase their motivation, focus, and persistence to move a project to completion• overcome procrastination and perfectionistic tendencies• reduce (or write in spite of) their anxiety and fear of writing• manage their time, work, energy (an...

    $599.00

  • SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES, LAW AND BUSINESS
    JAN WINCZOREK / KAROL MUSZYNSKI
    The law plays an ambiguous role in running business. While legal tools can be used to tame uncertainties, for example, by concluding contracts to safeguard enforcement of future claims, they can also generate uncertainty. These secondary uncertainties like ones stemming from vague rights and obligations may be counterbalanced by using different resources and strategies, includi...

    $1,099.00

  • APPROXIMATE MODELS OF MECHANICS OF COMPOSITES
    IGOR V. ANDRIANOV / JAN AWREJCEWICZ / GALINA A. STARUSHENKO
    Approximate Models of Mechanics of Composites: An Asymptotic Approach is an essential guide to constructing asymptotic models and mathematical methods to correctly identify the mechanical behavior of composites. It provides methodology for predicting and evaluating composite behavior in various structures, leading to accurate mathematical and physical assessments. The book esti...

    $2,800.00

  • POLITICS OF THE OBERAMMERGAU PASSION PLAY
    JAN MOHR
    This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the Oberammergau Passion play and its history from the 19th century onwards. Specialists in theatre and performance studies, comparative literature, theology, political studies, history, and ethnology initiate an interdisciplinary discussion of how Oberammergau has built a trademark from tradition. A typological and historica...

    $1,099.00

  • INTERRELIGIOUS ENCOUNTERS IN EUROPE
    JAN WINKLER
    This book examines interreligious dialogue in Europe and how interreligious encounters are framed, expressed and practised. Throughout Europe religious identities have increasingly become significant categories within debates on migration, cohesion, diversity and belonging. By focusing on the spatialities, materialities and practices of interreligious dialogues and encounters, ...

    $1,099.00

  • FREE FRENCH SPITFIRE HERO
    DILIP SARKAR / JAN LEEMING
    René Mouchotte was born on 21 August 1914, at Saint Mande, Paris. He joined the Armée de l’Air for his period of military service in 1934, obtaining his flying brevet. Though Mouchotte returned to civilian life, he was called up at the outbreak of war in 1939, becoming a Sergeant-Pilot instructor in North Africa. When France capitulated in June 1940, Mouchotte and fellow pilot ...

    $383.99

  • DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONS FOR LIGHTING IN THE WORKPLACE
    DARINA DUPLÁKOVÁ / JÁN DUPLÁK
    Digital Transformations for Lighting in the Workplace: A Systematic Approach Used in Ergonomics offers a practical concept for the implementation of digital transformation in ergonomics in work settings. It specifically focuses on providing information about illumination in production and non-production fields, and the described design solutions are applicable in practice. The ...

    $539.00

  • WARSHIPS OF THE SOVIET FLEETS 1939–1945
    PRZEMYSLAW BUDZBON / JAN RADZIEMSKI / MAREK TWARDOWSKI
    Seventy-five years after the end of the Second World War the details of Soviet ships, their activities and fates remain an enigma to the West. In wartime such information was classified and after a brief period of glasnost (‘openness’) the Russian state has again restricted access to historical archives. Therefore, the value – and originality – of this work is difficult to exag...

    $639.99

  • THE UEFA EUROPEAN FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS
    JAN ANDRE LEE LUDVIGSEN / RENAN PETERSEN-WAGNER
    This book explores social and political issues and trends emerging around the UEFA European Football Championships. It presents a contemporary sociology of the European Championships which, despite its significance as a mega-event, has been largely overshadowed by the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup in existing literature. At a time when both sport mega-events and Europe are un...

    $539.00

  • OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT FOR HEALTHCARE
    JAN VISSERS / SYLVIA ELKHUIZEN / NATHAN PROUDLOVE
    This fully updated edition of the bestselling textbook on Health Service Operations Management provides an invaluable reference for students and researchers in the fields of healthcare management, operations management and patient flow logistics. Featuring theoretical frameworks and a comprehensive set of practical case studies, this book also covers subjects such as hospital p...

    $919.00

  • MIGRANT LABOUR IN EUROPE, 1600–1900
    JAN LUCASSEN
    Migrant Labour in Europe (1987) examines the movement of workers from less prosperous parts of Europe to areas with demand for their services. The author identifies seven major systems of migrant labour: the North Sea System (mainly Westphalian workers heading for the German and Dutch North Sea Coast and Walloon/French workers bound for the Belgian and Zeeland coasts); the area...

    $899.00

  • THE UNITED NATIONS TRUSTEESHIP SYSTEM
    LÜDERT, JAN
    This book considers the past and present legacies, continuities and change of the United Nations Trusteeship System by assessing consequences and legacies of decolonization in contemporary society, international organizations and international politics. International contributors address the UN Trusteeship System as a venue for multiple state and non- state actors and its effec...

    $1,099.00

  • ELEMENTARY INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM GEOMETRY
    JAN AMBJORN
    This graduate textbook provides an introduction to quantum gravity, when spacetime is two-dimensional. The quantization of gravity is the main missing piece of theoretical physics, but in two dimensions it can be done explicitly with elementary mathematical tools, but it still has most of the conceptional riddles present in higher dimensional (not yet known) quantum gravity. It...

    $2,000.00

  • MECHANIZING HYPOTHESIS FORMATION
    JAN RAUCH / MILAN ŠIMŮNEK / DAVID CHUDÁN / PETR MÁŠA
    Mechanizing hypothesis formation is an approach to exploratory data analysis. Its development started in the 1960s inspired by the question “can computers formulate and verify scientific hypotheses?”. The development resulted in a general theory of logic of discovery. It comprises theoretical calculi dealing with theoretical statements as well as observational calculi dealing w...

    $1,339.00

  • THE SOCIOLOGY OF FARMING
    JAN DOUWE VAN DER PLOEG
    This book provides a detailed and comprehensive introduction to the concepts and methods of the sociology of farming. The sociology of farming focuses on co-production: the ongoing interaction and mutual transformation of the natural and the social (of ‘human and living nature’) which requires putting the farm labour process centre stage. While there are many books which discus...

    $979.00