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Die berühmten Blumenmotive der Maria Sibylla Merian als PosterMaria Sibylla Merian war eine Ausnahmeerscheinung: sie schaffte es, sich im späten 17. und frühen 18. Jahrhundert in den männlich besetzten Domänen Naturwissenschaft und Kunst durchzusetzen. Ihre zweijährige Forschungsreise nach Surinam und ihre darauf basierenden Publikationen machten sie berühmt - sie gilt heute als wichtige Wegbereiterin der Insektenkunde. Merians »Neues Blumenbu...

This textbook metamorphosed from notes that the author has been using to teach at four universities in Australia and New Zealand. The book treats the physical principles and design of wireless Internet of Things (IoT) systems from engineering perspective. IoT enables communication between people, between people and things, and between things. The book highlights the wide scope of sensors used in IoT - including RFIDs, smart mobile phones, home...

This textbook metamorphosed from notes that the author has been using to teach at four universities in Australia and New Zealand. The book treats the physical principles and design of wireless Internet of Things (IoT) systems from engineering perspective. IoT enables communication between people, between people and things, and between things. The book highlights the wide scope of sensors used in IoT - including RFIDs, smart mobile phones, home...

This book discusses the subject of turbulence encountered in coastal and civil engineering.The primary aim of the book is to describe turbulence processes including transition to turbulence, mean and fluctuating flows in channels/pipes, and in currents, wave boundary layers (including boundary layers under solitary waves), streaming processes in wave boundary layers, turbulence processes in breaking waves including solitary breaking waves, tur...

The literature and jurisprudence of international criminal law relies on the claim that international crimes are exceptionally grave. DeGuzman looks to build the legitimacy of international law by exposing the value choices that the rhetoric of 'gravity' entails, and poses a new framework for assessing the legitimacy of international criminal law.

This resource employs a "bottom-up" approach to learning. Examples of social work practice with children and families are presented, providing real-life illustrations of the dilemmas and challenges facing practitioners. Implications for policy and practice are included.

Analysis that links the phenomenon of homelessness to wider debates about the changing social and economic environment remains relatively underdeveloped. This important book brings together contemporary debates and empirical research in order to explore the nature, experience and impact of social change in the context of risks and uncertainties.

A study of child well-being in Europe. It analyzes the trends of child welfare in Europe over the last two decades of the 20th century and asks whether the current wellbeing of children in different Member States and children's life chances are becoming more similar or not.

In the Beveridge Lecture, delivered on 18 March 1999, Prime Minister Tony Blair committed his government to abolishing child poverty within 20 years. This book presents this lecture alongside the views of some of Britain's foremost policy analysts and commentators.

As part of the "ESRC Learning Society Series", this is an examination of what is meant by "The Learning Society" and how it can contribute to the development of knowledge and skills for employment and other areas of adult life.