Electronic Books

Total Books: 1501 - 1520 /1554

Vergleichsweise menschlich? : Ambulante Sanktionen als Alternative zur Freiheitsentziehung aus europäischer Perspektive = Comparatively human? : Outpatient sanctions as an alternative to imprisonment from a European perspective

Ambulatory sanctions are often seen as a humane alternative to deprivation of liberty. The nature of intervention, the perspective ...

Verifying Treaty Compliance

International treaties requiring binding commitments on the part of the member states and appropriate compliance verification ...

Victim-Offender Mediation with Youth Offenders in Europe

This book documents the state of the art on Victim-Offender Mediation with youth offenders in 15 European nations.It provides ...

Vienna - A Doctor´s Guide : 15 walking tours through Vienna’s medical history

This book describes a total of 15 walking tours through old medical Vienna. Naturally, these tours are concentrated on the ...

Violence Against Women : An International Perspective

The International Violence against Women Survey (IVAWS) has interviewed over 23,000 women in eleven countries (including ...

Violence in Europe

Taking the sociocultural long view, Violence in Europe analyzes the prevalence and role of violence—from street crime to ...

Virtual Storytelling. Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Virtual Storytelling, ICVS 2007, held ...

Virtual Storytelling. Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling

The 1st International Conference on Virtual Storytelling took place on September 27-28, 2001, in Avignon (France) in the ...

Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration : Political Ideas of European Women, 1400–1800

This volume challenges the view that women have not contributed to the historical development of political ideas, and highlights ...

Virtues and Passions in Literature / Excellence, Courage, Engagements, Wisdom, Fulfilment

The Human Condition prompts our creative strivings beyond the natural round of life toward outstanding achievements. It shows ...

Visa Policy within the European Union Structure

The book focuses on the common visa policy as a case study on the constitutional structure of the European Union. After introducing ...

Visual Astronomy Under Dark Skies

Modern astronomical telescopes, along with other advances in technology, have brought the deep sky – star clusters, nebulae ...

Visual Methodology in Migration Studies New Possibilities, Theoretical Implications, and Ethical Questions

This book explores the use of visual methods in migration studies through a combination of theoretical analyses and empirical ...

Visualization in Science Education

This book addresses key issues concerning visualization in the teaching and learning of science at any level in educational ...

Visualization: Theory and Practice in Science Education

External representations (pictures, diagrams, graphs, concrete models) have always been valuable tools for the science teacher. ...

Vite matematiche : Protagonisti del’ 900 da Hilbert a Wiles = Mathematical Lives: Twentieth-century protagonists from Hilbert to Wiles

Presenting famous mathematicians alongside others less known to the general public - from Hilbert to Gödel, from Turing ...

Vocationalisation of Secondary Education Revisited

The book is a cutting-edge contribution to the debate which has occurred for some time on the pros and cons of secondary ...

Volume 9: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

The present volume is a continuation of the series Contemporary Philosophy (International Institute of Philosophy). As with ...

Volunteering and Social Inclusion : Interrelations between Unemployment and Civic Engagement in Germany and Great Britain

Conceptualising employment and volunteering as two distinct forms of social inclusion, Susanne Strauß analyses their interrelations ...

WIDENING ACCESS TO EDUCATION AS SOCIAL JUSTICE

Universal access to education, a gage of social justice, is much more than a right—it is an open door to freedom: the freedom ...

Total Books: 1501 - 1520 /1554