Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: nielsen

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  • UNDERSTANDING VIDEO GAMES
    SIMON EGENFELDT-NIELSEN / JONAS HEIDE SMITH / SUSANA PAJARES TOSCA
    The fifth edition of this pioneering textbook takes video game studies into the next decade, highlighting changes in mobile, social, and casual gaming. This book introduces students to both the major theories used to analyze games, such as ludology and narratology, and the commercial and organizational aspects of the game industry. Drawing from historical and contemporary examp...

    $1,380.00

  • MASTERING THE NEW PMI CERTIFIED ASSOCIATE IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT (CAPM)® EXAM (2023 VERSION)
    KLAUS NIELSEN / GIAMPAOLO MARUCCI / JEAN-LUC FAVROT
    Project Management Institute (PMI) is the leading professional association for project management, and the authority for a growing global community of millions of project professionals and individuals who use project management skills. PMI offers several certifications in the areas of project management, risk management, and other related areas. The Certified Associate in Proje...

    $1,380.00

  • TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE
    BENGT NIELSEN
    Taking a holistic approach, this book describes the developments in medicine and medical technology from ancient times to modern days. It is an exciting journey where readers will learn about the many great inventions by people that did not take the knowledge of their times as a fact. They challenged mysticism, beliefs, the religion, and the Church. They were true scientists lo...

    $1,000.00

  • PROVOST
    LARRY A. NIELSEN
    What is a Provost—and what does a Provost do? Don’t look for the answers on the bookshelf. There is scant literature devoted to the Provost-ship – for which the author advances a number of hypotheses – so, until this informal and autobiographical account, there has been little for aspirants or new appointees to draw on for guidance or to provide a feel for what the role entails...

    $740.00

  • MYTHS AND LIES ABOUT DADS
    LINDA NIELSEN
    Myths and Lies About Dads: How They Hurt Us All is a groundbreaking book that destroys more than 100 of the most damaging beliefs about fathers. Using the most recent research, this pioneering work exposes these baseless beliefs and the toll they take on children’s relationships with their fathers, parents’ relationships with one another, and the physical and mental health of f...

    $780.00

  • MASTERING THE PMI RISK MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL (PMI-RMP) EXAM
    KLAUS NIELSEN
    Risk Management Professionals seek to identify, analyze, and document the risks associated with a company’s business operations, as well as monitor the effectiveness of risk management processes and implement needed changes. The PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)® certification not only highlights the ability to identify and assess project risks, mitigate threats, and c...

    $1,320.00

  • GADAMER’S HERMENEUTICAL AESTHETICS
    CYNTHIA R. NIELSEN
    This book offers a sustained scholarly analysis of Gadamer’s reflections on art and our experience of art. It examines fundamental themes in Gadamer’s hermeneutical aesthetics such as play, festival, symbol, contemporaneity, enactment, art’s performative ontology, and hermeneutical identity. The first two chapters focus on Gadamer’s critical appropriation and movement beyond Ka...

    $1,140.00

  • REVISITING TRUSTWORTHINESS IN SOCIAL INTERACTION
    MIE FEMØ NIELSEN / ANN MERRIT RIKKE NIELSEN
    Bringing together trust research, rhetoric, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, this book formulates an analytical program for conceptualizing and defining trustworthiness as an empirical research object in social interaction. Revisiting Trustworthiness in Social Interaction examines trustworthiness as a relational and dynamic concept. It reviews sociological and rhetor...

    $1,160.00

  • THE PIRATE CAPTAIN NED LOW
    NICKY NIELSEN
    Edward 'Ned' Low's career in piracy began with a single gunshot. While working on a logging ship in the Bay of Honduras the quick-tempered Ned was provoked by the ship's captain. He responded by grabbing a musket and inciting a mutiny. Then the London-born sailor and a dozen of his crewmates held a council, stitched a black flag and voted to make war against the whole world pre...

    $217.37

  • MOTHERLESS CREATIONS
    WENDY C. NIELSEN
    This book explains the elimination of maternal characters in American, British, French, and German literature before 1890 by examining motherless creations: Pygmalion’s statue, Frankenstein’s creature, homunculi, automata, androids, golems, and steam men. These beings typify what is now called artificial life, living systems made through manufactured means. Fantasies about crea...

    $1,260.00

  • SOCIAL WORK, SOCIAL WELFARE, UNEMPLOYMENT AND VULNERABILITY AMONG YOUTH
    VIBEKE BAK NIELSEN
    Social Work, Social Welfare, Unemployment and Vulnerability Among Youth critically analyses contemporary welfare state interventions on unemployment and poverty among youth in a context of societal transformation. It also considers how we can develop future knowledge and methods in evolving welfare institutions. Young people constitute a group that is particularly exposed to hi...

    $1,160.00

  • INTEGRATIVE COUPLE THERAPY IN ACTION
    ARTHUR C. NIELSEN
    Integrative Couple Therapy in Action offers a comprehensive, user-friendly guide to handling the most common problems and crisis situations seen by couple therapists. Drawing on the latest literature and the author’s experience of over 40 years, Nielsen investigates what makes certain issues, such as sex, or situations, such as extramarital affairs, so stressful for clients and...

    $960.00

  • MARXISM AND THE MORAL POINT OF VIEW
    KAI NIELSEN
    Marxism and the Moral Point of View attempts to say what consistent Marxists working within the parameters of the canonical conceptions of Marxism should say about morality. This includes what they should say about the function of morality in society, about the extent of moral comment they can justifiably make, and about freedom, equality, and justice, including the justice of ...

    $1,160.00

  • THE BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION PROCESS
    YARIV TARAN / HARRY BOER / CHRISTIAN NIELSEN
    Business Model Innovation Process: Preparation, Organization and Management examines a range of critical questions that merit thoughtful interdisciplinary consideration, such as: Why do business models, and their innovation in particular, matter today? How can the process of business model innovation be understood, organized and managed adequately under increasingly volatile, u...

    $1,200.00

  • AGILE PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
    KLAUS NIELSEN
    Agile Portfolio Management deals with how an organization identifies, prioritizes, organizes, and manages different products. This is done in a streamlined way in order to optimize the development of value in a manner that’s sustainable in the long run. It ensures that a company provides their clients with the best value for their investment. A good portfolio manager understand...

    $1,240.00

  • HOPE TEACHER RATING SCALE
    MARCIA GENTRY / NIELSEN PEREIRA / SCOTT J. PETERS / JASON S. MCINTOSH / C. MATTHEW FUGATE
    The HOPE Teacher Rating Scale is designed to help guide teachers in identifying gifted students for programming. It is unique in several ways. First, it is short, with only 11 items that measure academic and social/affective components of giftedness, making it easy to use. Second, it is invariant when used to identify students from low-income and culturally diverse families. Th...

    $1,660.00

  • GENDER AND GENERATION IN CHINA TODAY
    NIELSEN, HARRIET BJERRUM
    This book examines how gender and generational relations have been influenced by the vast changes in the Chinese society since the start of the Reform era in 1978. It offers a short introduction to China's recent development and the relationship between Chinese and Nordic gender research. Three articles in the book focus on how the developments in the Reform era have produced g...

    $1,200.00

  • LOW-SWITCHING FREQUENCY MODULATION SCHEMES FOR MULTI-LEVEL INVERTERS
    A. RAKESH KUMAR / T. DEEPA / SANJEEVIKUMAR PADMANABAN / JENS BO HOLM-NIELSEN
    Multi-level Inverters (MLIs) are widely used for conversion of DC to AC power. This book provides various low-switching frequency (LSF) modulation schemes (conventional and improved), which can be implemented on MLIs. The LSF modulation schemes are implemented to three different MLI topologies to demonstrate their working and aimed at their application to reader invented MLI to...

    $1,320.00

  • PRACTICAL FAIRNESS
    AILEEN NIELSEN
    Fairness is an increasingly important topic as machine learning and AI more generally take over the world. While this is an active area of research, many realistic best practices are emerging at all steps along the data pipeline, from data selection and preprocessing to blackbox model audits. This book will guide you through the technical, legal, and ethical aspects of making y...

    $574.00

  • MICROGRIDS
    SANJEEVIKUMAR PADMANABAN / K. NITHIYANANTHAN / S. PRABHAKAR KARTHIKEYAN / JENS BO HOLM-NIELSEN
    Microgrids offers a complete discussion and details about microgrids and their applications, including modeling of AC/DC and hybrid grids in a tied mode with simulation for the solar systems, wind turbines, biomass and fuel cells, and deployment issues. The data communications and control mechanism implementations are analyzed for proper coordination of the AC/DC microgrid. The...

    $1,000.00

  • SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN HOSPITALITY
    WILLY LEGRAND / MIGUEL ANGEL GARDETTI / ROBERT SCHØNROCK NIELSEN / COLIN JOHNSON / MEHMET ERGUL
    This innovative book is the first to explore social entrepreneurship in the field of hospitality, introducing students to the principles of social entrepreneurship motivation, finance, sustainability, issues and challenges, and how these can be successfully implemented in a range of hospitality settings. The hospitality industry offers a particularly fruitful framework for soci...

    $1,100.00

  • DIRECT INTEGRAL THEORY
    O. A. NIELSEN
    This book covers various topics related to direct integral theory, including Borel spaces, direct integral of Hilbert spaces and operators, direct integrals of representations, direct integrals and types of von Neumann algebras, and measures on the quasi-dual representations. ...

    $4,900.00

  • IMPROVING FATHER-DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIPS
    LINDA NIELSEN
    Improving Father-Daughter Relationships: A Guide for Women and Their Dads is essential reading for daughters and their fathers, as well as for their families and for therapists. This friendly, no-nonsense book by father-daughter relationships expert, Dr. Linda Nielsen, offers women and their dads a step-by-step guide to improve their relationships and to understand the impact t...

    $640.00

  • FROM MUMMIES TO MICROCHIPS
    JOYCE TYLDESLEY / NICKY NIELSEN
    This volume offers a detailed case study of the internationally acclaimed online programmes in Egyptology at the University of Manchester, UK. It distils over a decade of online teaching experience and student feedback, providing guidance for instructors developing their own online offerings. Today, many universities are actively encouraging their teaching staff towards the dev...

    $660.00

  • SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
    SØREN NORS NIELSEN
    Analyzing the self-sufficient Danish island of Samsø, this book explains sustainability through a bio-geophysical understanding of how to best use society’s limited resources to achieve true sustainability. The method used derives from the thermodynamic function of exergy. By analyzing exergy flows and establishing a system for evaluating the energy and the materials used in a ...

    $1,340.00

  • GENDER AND ISLAND COMMUNITIES
    FIROUZ GAINI / HELENE PRISTED NIELSEN
    This book takes an explicitly feminist approach to studying gender and social inequalities in island settings while deliberating on ‘islandness’ as part of the intersectional analysis. Though there is a wealth of recent literature on islands and island studies, most of this literature focuses on islands as objects of study rather than as contexts for exploring gender relations ...

    $1,200.00

  • PRACTICAL TIME SERIES ANALYSIS
    AILEEN NIELSEN
    Time series data analysis is increasingly important due to the massive production of such data through the internet of things, the digitalization of healthcare, and the rise of smart cities. As continuous monitoring and data collection become more common, the need for competent time series analysis with both statistical and machine learning techniques will increase. Covering in...

    $801.00

  • EXPERIENCES AND EXPLANATIONS OF ADHD
    MIKKA NIELSEN
    Experiences and Explanations of ADHD: An Ethnography of Adults Living with a Diagnosis presents research on the lived experiences of those diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Drawing on in-depth interviews with adults diagnosed with ADHD, the book provides an examination of how the diagnosis is understood, used, and acted upon by the people receiving...

    $1,200.00

  • THE NEW CIVIL RIGHTS RESEARCH
    LAURA BETH NIELSEN
    First published in 2006, this book brings together some of the most innovative and important research on civil rights law and legality, this book draws on narratives of individuals from a variety of contexts to provide a rich and contextualized understanding of what happens when law interacts with other competing systems or forms of social organization. By privileging the real ...

    $400.00

  • THE ECOLOGY AND ECONOMIC IMPACT OF POISONOUS PLANTS ON LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION
    LYNN F JAMES / MICHAEL H RALPHS / DARWIN B NIELSEN
    First published in 1988. Livestock poisoning by plants has been a problem to the livestock producers of the United States since our pioneer forefathers first grazed their herds of cattle and sheep on the vast rangelands and pastures of this country. It has long been recognized that poisonous plants are not only disruptive to the harvesting of the ...

    $1,200.00


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