Dirk: 1047 books

CSR has now moved beyond the stage of specialist or niche subject to become an integral part of global business and society. This timely edition is destined to become the definitive guide to CSR, Sustainability, Business Ethics and the organizations and standards in the field. The A to Z of...

Relatively little is known about how regional integration affects poverty. Many suggest that increased investment would be one of the benefits of agreeing on regional integration provisions but this has not been put to the empirical test for South-South integration. This volume examines the channels...

Cementitious materials are being widely used as solidification/stabilisation and barrier materials for a variety of chemical and radioactive wastes, primarily due to their favourable retention properties for metals, radionuclides and other contaminants. The retention properties result from various...

The popular motto "The bigger, the better" is not always true - even with regard to television devices. In a sleeping room or guest room, HD TVs with a screen size of up to 37" (94 cm) are very well suitable and usually completely adequate. In this book, we present to you five HD TVs with up to 37" screen...

Offering advantages in design, efficiency, treatment time, and retention, self-ligating brackets have become a major part of modern orthodontic practice. Self-Ligating Brackets in Orthodontics: Current Concepts and Techniques summarizes all information and clinical studies on these popular systems,...

This book is devoted to one of the most famous examples of automation handling tasks – the “bin-picking” problem. To pick up objects, scrambled in a box is an easy task for humans, but its automation is very complex. In this book three different approaches to solve the bin-picking problem are...

PRACTICAL, PROVEN METHODS FOR WOOD FAILURE ANALYSIS Written by an expert in the field, this authoritative resource presents tested techniques for conducting in-depth, professional investigations of failures involving wood and wood-based products. The book offers a detailed look at the various causes...

Dieses Buch zeigt wie Unternehmen wie Apple, Amazon, Facebook und Google zu den wertvollsten Unternehmen der Welt werden konnten. Ihr Erfolg basiert auf dem Ergreifen von Chancen, die die digitale Welt und das Internet bieten. Traditionelle Geschäftsmodelle werden dadurch verändert und über Jahrzehnte...

This monograph provides a comparative study between failure probabilities and collapse frequencies in structural bridge engineering. The author presents techniques to resolve and extend the limitations of both parameters, taking also into account the time dependency of both parameters. The book includes...

Das vorliegende Buch richtet sich an Verantwortliche aus kleinen, mittleren und großen Unternehmen und beschreibt die Vorgehensweise zur Implementierung eines Datenschutzmanagementsystems (DSMS). Die Autoren rücken theoretische Überlegungen in den Hintergrund, um aus ihren mehrjährigen Erfahrungen...

Jede Scheidung ist schlimm. Schlimm für die Ehepartner, noch schlimmer für die Kinder. Eine friedliche Scheidung wäre für alle Beteiligten die beste Lösung. Doch immer häufiger erlebt man, dass die Scheidung zum Anlass für einen «Rosenkrieg» genommen wird, in dem man es dem Partner noch einmal...

Für den weiblichen Körper hat sich die Evolution besonders angestrengt. Insgesamt ist die Frau überlebensfähiger. Biologisch hat der Körper der Frau jedoch nur solange mehr drauf, als von ihm neues Leben erwartet werden kann. Dann häufen sich schlagartig die Probleme. Diese Veränderungen dürfen...

On December 8, 2014, an Embraer EMB-500 airplane (marketed as the Phenom 100), N100EQ, crashed while on approach to runway 14 at Montgomery County Airpark (GAI), Gaithersburg, Maryland. The airplane impacted three houses and the ground about 3/4 mile from the approach end of the runway. The pilot,...

Number three Inside Me is looking at you, it comes as no surprise to me. Im glad to be able to show you more of my stuff, hope youll like this little book as well. I still use the same old patterns, same way of writing. I feel good with the arrangements of my poems, only the ideas are new,...