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Forest management is a complex process that now incorporates information obtained from many sources. It is increasingly obvious that the physiological status of the trees in a forest has a dramatic impact on the likely success of any particular management strategy. Indeed, models described in this book that deal with forest productivity and sustainability require physiological information. This information can only be obtained from an understa...

It is often claimed that the Japanese have a particular love for nature, a love often reflected in their art and material culture. But today equal notice is being given to the environmental degradation caused by the Japanese at home as well as abroad. How can these phenomena be reconciled? This issue is but one of several raised that this volume seeks to address in its examination of the human-nature relationship in Japan. Through topics rangi...

What binds together Louis Riel's former secretary, a railroad inventor, a Montreal comedienne, an early proponent of Canada's juvenile system and a prominent Canadian architect? Socialists, suffragists, musicians, artists-from 1898 to 1948, these and some 550 other individual Canadian Bahá'ís helped create a movement described as the second most widespread religion in the world. Using diaries, memoirs, official reports, private correspondence,...

Shihab al-Din Yahya Suhrawardi, also known as Shaikh al-ishraq or the Master of Illumination, lived in the sixth century AH / twelfth century CE.His thoughts form a consistent and coherent philosophical system, and a close study of his writings in Persian reveals a theory of knowledge generally called 'Knowledge by Presence'. The elaborate web of myth and symbolism in Suhrawardi's philosophy articulates his theory of knowledge, an important su...

The latest edition of a very widely adopted textbook. Written by a team of leading experts and edited by an international authority in the field. .

Chemical Dependency: Women at Risk shows readers how to design and implement drug and alcohol treatment programs that take into account not only gender but also the cultural differences among women. This authoritative book encourages professionals in the field--whether counselors, researchers, or health care providers--to abandon "one size fits all" treatment approaches that fail to address the individual needs of women undergoing substance ab...

Removes the foundations of classical Greek history, and begins creating new ones

Reihentext + Finite Geometries From the reviews: "Such a vast amount of information as this book contains can only be accomplished in 375 pages by a very economical style of writing... it enables one to have a good look at the forest without being too detracted by the individual trees... The author deserves unstinting praise for the skill, energy, and perseverance which he devoted to this work. The finished product confirms what his many earli...

Reihentext + Geometry of Numbers From the reviews: "The work is carefully written. It is well motivated, and interesting to read, even if it is not always easy... historical material is included... the author has written an excellent account of an interesting subject." (Mathematical Gazette) "A well-written, very thorough account ... Among the topics are lattices, reduction, Minkowski's Theorem, distance functions, packings, and automorphs, so...

Die Bundesrepublik gilt im Vergleich zu den USA als ein Land, in dem die Beschäftigungsverhältnisse auf vielfältige Weise reguliert sind. Angesichts der Arbeitslosenquote ist die Frage, wie sich gesetzlicher Kündigungsschutz auf die Beschäftigung auswirkt, von besonderer Bedeutung.

Eine bedeutende Ursache für die geringe Profitabilität von Promotions für Konsumgüter liegt in der mangelnden Kooperation des Handels bei Promotions der Hersteller. Zur Reduzierung des Aufwands und zur Verbesserung der Qualität von Promotionentscheidungen entwickelt der Autor eine umfassende Computerunterstützung.

Der Autor stellt einen umfassenden Ansatz vor. Er analysiert die wichtigsten Einflußgrößen und entwickelt ein Bilanzierungskonzept. Dieses setzt er in das Softwaresystem CUMPAN (Computergestützte Umweltorientierte Produktbilanzierung) um.

Christoph Gabrisch geht der Frage nach, wie in einem wettbewerblichen Umfeld der Universaldienst sichergestellt werden kann. Die Analyse der Ziele, Inhalte und Instrumente des Universaldienstes macht deutlich, daß die Antwort jenseits vom traditionellen Leitbild der 'Tarifeinheit im Raum' liegt.

Die Autorin führte erstmals eine Systematisierung von Mehrzielverfahren unter dem Aspekt der Multipersonalität durch. Sie stellt auf der Basis der linearen Programmierung Möglichkeiten der Alternativenreduktion durch Generierung von Kompromißlösungen dar.

Trotz niedriger Zinsen haben sich Geldmarktfonds schnell zu einem der größten Segmente des Investmentgeschäftes entwickelt. A. Lutz entwickelt ein Analyseraster, mit dem die Differenzierungsmöglichkeiten von Geldmarktfonds systematisch beschrieben werden.

Der Autor erklärt das kurzfristige Verhalten des deutschen Rentenmarktes mit Hilfe eines Simulationsmodells als eine Folge des Wechselspiels aus stochastischen und deterministischen Elementen. Die zentrale Rolle spielt dabei die Erwartungshaltung institutioneller Anleger.

Der konzernbilanzielle Firmenwert ist eine zentrale Größe der Konzernrechnungslegung. Jan-Philipp Sauthoff zeigt, unter welchen Bedingungen konzernbilanzielle Firmenwerte entstehen und wie die Regelungen der Folge- und Endbilanzierung des konzernbilanziellen Firmenwertes auszulegen sind.

In Mimesis and the Animal, Robert Storey argues that human culture derives from biology and that literary representation therefore must have a biological basis.

Sheds new light on women's differing responses to feminism according to factors of ethnicity and race

This book examines the place of body practices and the management of emotions in Japanese preschools. Early childhood socialization is explored as a set of 'body projects': a series of practices undertaken (over time) to design the body according to prevailing cultural definitions and images. The concept 'body projects' allows us to understand how the body is, at one and the same time, a malleable material capable of being fashioned in a certa...