Robert Alexander: 82 books

258 pages, 606 images, 28 contributors Of the injuries inflicted on physically abused children, head injuries are, in many cases, among the most damaging and potentially lethal. First responders and medical practitioners encountering children with head injuries may need to take quick and decisive...

The importance of the global rural-urban matrix is often overlooked due to urban-normativity. But sometimes agrarian populism and a pastoral rural imaginary result in the equally fallacy of a rural-normativity, as in Jeffersonian nostalgia for a lost way of life that never existed. The nature of rurality...

Optical Properties and Remote Sensing of Inland and Coastal Waters discusses the methodology and the theoretical basis of remote sensing of water. It presents physical concepts of aquatic optics relevant to remote sensing techniques and outlines the problems of remote measurements of the concentrations...

Discussions of key ethical dilemmas in mental health care, including consent, trauma and violence, addiction, confidentiality, and therapeutic boundaries. This book discusses some of the most critical ethical issues in mental health care today, including the moral dimensions of addiction, patient...

Godly Love: Impediments and Possibilities examines the theory of “Godly Love,” understood as including a vertical axis denoting the love of God and a horizontal axis involving the love of others, is at the core of a new field of research that studies how divine love influences the love of others...

Arteriovenous malformations (AVM) and arteriovenous fistulas (AVF) differ from all other pathology affecting the central nervous system by their high-flow arteriovenous shunts. Permanent occlusion of these shunts is the essence and the challenge of therapy. Endovascular therapy and radiosurgery became...

Der internationale Warenverkehr unterliegt zahlreichen Besonderheiten in der Besteuerung. Nur eine genaue Kenntnis der einschlägigen Regelungen gewährleistet die optimale Abwicklung der Geschäfte mit dem Drittland. In diesem Werk werden die Vorschriften umfassend und praxisnah erläutert. Zahlreiche...

Recent decades have seen huge growth in the renewable energy sector, spurred on by concerns about climate change and dwindling supplies of fossil fuels. One of the major difficulties raised by an increasing reliance on renewable resources is the inflexibility when it comes to controlling supply in...

This book pioneers the field of gain-cell embedded DRAM (GC-eDRAM) design for low-power VLSI systems-on-chip (SoCs). Novel GC-eDRAMs are specifically designed and optimized for a range of low-power VLSI SoCs, ranging from ultra-low power to power-aware high-performance applications. After a detailed...

Professionell Tiere transportieren. Wer Tiere transportiert muss dazu befähigt sein und muss die gesetzlichen Anforderungen kennen. Dieses Buch dient Transporteuren, Landwirten und Studierenden als praktischer Leitfaden. Die Autoren stellen alle wichtigen Regelungen vor. Gleichzeitig dient dieses Buch als Unterlage für den Erwerb des Befähigungsnachweises Tiertransporte.

Beschauliches Graz? Idyllische Steiermark? Das Böse ist bekanntlich immer und überall. Davon wusste schon die steirische Popgruppe EAV ein Lied zu singen. Und das gilt erst recht, wenn an die 200 Krimiautoren aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz in Graz einfallen, um dort die CRIMINALE 2017...

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - Deutschland - Neuere Geschichte, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: DDR, 1980: Die staatliche Überwachung und das eintönige Leben treiben viele junge Menschen in die rebellische Subkultur des Punk. Die Bands tragen schrille Namen wie 'Schleim-Keim',...