The complex but fascinating field of embryology is presented in this easy-to-understand Thieme Flexibook, complete with 176 color plates. Since the information relevant to medical students is separated from that needed by biologists, both can learn in a focused and time-saving manner.The overview at[...]
"Human Resource Champions" issues a challenge to HR professionals: define the value you create and institute measures for your performance, or face the inevitable outsourcing of your function. Ulrich identifies four distinct roles that human resources staff must assume - strategic player, administra[...]
Three experts in human resources and leadership development explore the connection between leadership attributes and results for employees, the organization, customers, and investors[...]
The life story of the highest decorated soldier of the Wehrmacht. Many photos of Rudels aircraft.
In the wake of the Fischer Controversy on the origins of World War I there emerged in West Germany a younger generation of historians who took a critical 'revisionist' view of the Bismarckian Empire and began to analyze the political development of the Hohenzollern monarchy against the background of[...]
In 2002 Hans Ulrich Obrist began his conversation with a diverse and influential group of Mexican pioneers during an exhibition at Luis Barragán's house in Mexico City. Over a decade in the making, "Conversations in Mexico" beautifully captures how the Mexican cultural scene has pivoted several tim[...]
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848-1931) was one of the most prominent German philologists of his time and his work is still well regarded. This book, originally published in 1893, is a detailed analysis of the The Constitution of the Athenians, then usually (though not universally) regarded a[...]
The semiconductor manufacturing industry is highly dynamic and releases new, better, and cheaper products day by day. But how do electronic and also non-electronic systems that need to be manufactured and supported for decades manage to continue operation using parts that were available for a few ye[...]
This book has two objectives: to be a contribution to the understanding of Frege's theory of truth -- especially a defence of his notorious critique of the correspondence theory - and to be an introduction to the practice of interpreting philosophical texts.[...]
Since the 1980s, Ulrich Beck has worked extensively on his theories of second modernity and the risk society. In Ulrich Beck, Mads P. Sorensen and Allan Christiansen provide an extensive and thorough introduction to the German sociologist's collected works. The book covers his sociology of work, his[...]
Scientific concepts on the co-evolution of technology and society, as well as recent sociotechnical system approaches, focus on the general interrelations between technology, socioeconomic structures, and institutions. Their aim is to study and explain processes and modes of technological change. Ra[...]
Software has bugs. Period.That's true, unfortunately. Even the good old "hello, world" program, known to virtually every C and C++ programmer in the world, can be considered to be buggy. Developing software means having to deal with defects; old ones, new ones, ones you created yourself, and those t[...]