Authors:Gerard Delanty, Piet Strydom,
Publisher: Open University Press
Keywords: contemporary, readings, classic, science, social, philosophies
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $92.00
ISBN-10: 0335208843
ISBN-13: 9780335208845

This collection of over sixty extracts from classic works on the philosophy of social science provides an essential textbook and a landmark reference in the field. It highlights the work of some of the most influential authors who have shaped social science and is the definitive companion to the study of the philosophy of social science. The selections explore the question of truth, the meaning of scientific knowledge, the nature of methodology and the relation of science to society, including edited extracts from both classic and contemporary works. The readings are representative of the

Authors:Piet Oudolf, Henk Gerritsen,
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Keywords: garden, natural, planting
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2003-11-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 088192606X
ISBN-13: 9780881926064

Following on the success of Designing with Plants and Dream Plants for the Natural Garden, Piet Oudolf’s landmark first book (co-authored by Henk Gerritsen), is now available in English. Thoroughly updated and revised, including several new chapters and many new photographs, it provides the definitive argument for the "natural garden." This updated edition of the book that started the "Dutch Wave," a movement that is now sweeping gardens from Europe to North America, shows how to plant a garden that can look wild but be tame at heart. Hundreds of eye-catching plant combinations are ex

Authors:Piet Oudolf, Noël Kingsbury,
Publisher: Timber Press
Keywords: plants, designing
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0881929530
ISBN-13: 9780881929539

Piet Oudolf’s gardens excite the senses and stir emotion with an approach to gardening that emphasizes form, texture, light, movement, and color. Designing with Plants is both inspirational and instructive-an informative and visually breathtaking study that shows readers how to create the same effects in their gardens. This paperback reprint includes four main parts. "Planting Palettes" shows the range of plant choice available in form, texture, and color. "Designing Schemes" shows how to combine these elements to create stunning and sculptural gardens. Through stunning photography, "Pla

Authors:Piet W.N.M. van Leeuwen, Carmen Claver,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: metal, complexes, catalysis, hydroformylation, catalyzed, rhodium
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2002-03-31
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 1402004214
ISBN-13: 9781402004216

In the last decade there have been numerous advances in the area of rhodium-catalyzed hydroformylation, such as highly selective catalysts of industrial importance, new insights into mechanisms of the reaction, very selective asymmetric catalysts, in situ characterization and application to organic synthesis. The views on hydroformylation which still prevail in the current textbooks have become obsolete in several respects. Therefore, it was felt timely to collect these advances in a book. The book contains a series of chapters discussing several rhodium systems arranged according to ligand

Authors:Piet W.N.M. van Leeuwen, Keiji Morokuma, J.H. van Le
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: catalysis, theory, orbital, metal, complexes, molecular, initio, aspects, homogeneous, applications, theoretical
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1995-04-30
List price: $182.00
ISBN-10: 0792331079
ISBN-13: 9780792331070

This publication is the first to present the quantitative application of quantum chemistry to organometallic reactions. Great progress has been made in recent years in the calculation of transition states of organometallic conversions in both homo and heterogeneous catalysis. This volume, which contains seven contributions by leading scientists, deals with key reactions of homogeneous catalysis including oxidative addition, migratory insertions, 2+2 additions, the Wacker reaction, and epoxidation. The book provides experimental chemists with an up-to-date overview of the state of the

Authors:Serge P. Hoogendoorn, Stefan Luding, Piet H.L. Bov
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: flow, granular, traffic
Number of Pages: 602
Published: 2005-08-22
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 3540258140
ISBN-13: 9783540258148

This book continues the biannual series of conference proceedings, which has become a classical reference in traffic and granular research alike. It addresses new developments at the borderline between physics, engineering and computational science. Complex systems, where many simple agents, be it vehicles or particles, give rise to surprising and fascinating phenomena. Topics include highway, pedestrian and internet traffic, long range interactions, two-phase flow, nonlinear pattern formation, data acquisition and technological applications.

Authors:Guus Extra, Massimiliano Spotti, Piet Van Avermae
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: integration, regimes, advances, sociolinguistics, perspectives, national, testing, migration, citizenship, cross, language
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2009-08-23
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 1847063454
ISBN-13: 9781847063458

This is an in depth analysis of the linguistic issues surrounding civic integration and citizenship in nation states across the world. What is required to achieve civic integration and citizenship in nation states across the world? Should language testing be a part of it? This book addresses the urgent need to develop a fuller conceptual and theoretical basis for language testing than is currently available, to enable widespread discussion of this theme and the concomitant linguistic and cultural requirements. The policy proposals for civic integration have so far been conducted almost entirel