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  • Labor Market Institutions in Europe: A Socioeconomic Evaluation of Performance

    A Socioeconomic Evaluation of Performance

    by Gunther Schmid ...
    The outcome of three years of research on the role of institutions in labor markets at the research unit Labor Market Policy and Employment of the Social Science Research Center Berlin, these seven contributions were originally presented at a conference in December 1992 before a group of experts i ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Wave 2002: Wave Propagation - Moving Load - Vibration Reduction

    Proceedings of the WAVE 2002 Workshop, Yokohama, Japan, 2002

    Edited by Nawawi Chouw, Günther Schmid ...
    Detailing the proceedings of the Wave 2002 workshop at Okayama University in Japan, this collection of eighteen peer-reviewed papers concerns the issue of the ground vibration and noise caused by construction activities, explosions in the ground, or high-speed trains. Providing key information for engineers, researchers, scientists, practitioners, teachers and students working in the field of ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • Reframing Global Social Policy

    Social Investment for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth

    by Tim Jackson, Jane Jenson, James Midgley, Robin Webster, Anton Hemerijck, Laia Maynou Pujorlas, Guillem López-Casasnovas, Jon Kvist, Marius R. Busemeyer, Giuliano Bonoli, Gunther Schmid, Stephan Klasen, Huck-ju Kwon, Cook Cook ...
    Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth together with internationally renowned contributors propose that the merging of the ‘social investment’ and ‘inclusive growth and development’ agendas is forging an unprecedented global social policy framework. The book shows how these key ideas together with the environmental imperative of ‘sustainability’ are shaping a new global development agenda.This ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Preventive Measures

    Building Risk Assessment and Crisis Early Warning Systems

    by Adeel Ahmed, Günther Baechler, Doug Bond, Peter Brecke, Robert S. Chen, John G. Cockell, Andrei Dmitrichev, Daniel C. Esty, Deborah J. Gerner, Jack Goldstone, Barbara Harff, Joost R. Hiltermann, Charles J. Jefferson, J Craig Jenkins, Elizabeth Voulieris Kassinis, Dennis King, Andreas V. Kohlschütter, Donald Krumm, Akira Onishi, Abdur Rashid, Grace I. Scarborough, Susanne Schmeidl, Philip A. Schrodt, Anne L. Speca, Pamela T. Surko, Alan N. Unger, William P. Whelan, Ted Robert Gurr, Alex P. Schmid ...
    State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan. The international consequences of such crises are profound, often threatening regional security and requiring major inputs of humanitarian assistance. They also may pose ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Essentials of Chemical Education

    by Hans-Dieter Barke, Günther Harsch, Siegbert Schmid ...
    Translated by Hannah Gerdau ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    For everybody teaching chemistry or becoming a chemistry teacher, the authors provide a practice-oriented overview with numerous examples from current chemical education, including experiments, models and exercises as well as relevant results from research on learning and teaching. With their proven concept, the authors cover classical topics of chemical education as well as modern topics such as ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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