Authors:Steffen Becker, Frantisek Plasil, Ralf Reussner,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: software, architectures, quality, programming, engineering, qosa, international, models, conference
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 2008-11-17
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 3540878785
ISBN-13: 9783540878780

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures, QoSA 2008, held in Medford, MA, USA, in July 2007, in conjunction with the 10th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering, CBSE 2007, and the ROSATEA 2007 event, investigating the Role of Software Architecture for Testing and Analysis, forming the federated events on Component-Based Software Engineering and Software Architecture, CompArch 2007. The 13 revised full papers presented together with 1 keynote lecture were

Authors:Steffen Mau and Benjamin Veghte, Steffen Mau, Benjam
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: state, welfare, legitimacy, justice, social
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 2007-10-17
List price: $114.95
ISBN-10: 0754649393
ISBN-13: 9780754649397

This volume addresses issues of justice and legitimacy in the context of welfare state transformation.Leading international experts including Knut Halvorsen, Robert Y. Shapiro, Stefan Svallfors and Wim van Oorschot, demonstrate that the Western welfare state is not at risk of losing support or encountering fundamental opposition, yet does face serious challenges such as growing social and ethnic diversity, new social risks, fiscal constraints and contested notions of justice. The book is focused on four main aspects: attitude formation in cross-national perspective; the just distribution of bu

Authors:Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker, Irma S. Rombau
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: cooking, joy
Number of Pages: 1152
Published: 1997-11-05
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 0684818701
ISBN-13: 9780684818702

Since its original publication, Joy of Cooking has been the most authoritative cookbook in America? the one upon which millions of cooks have confidently relied for more than sixty-five years. It’s the book your grandmother and mother probably learned to cook from, the book you gave your sister when she got married. This, the first revision in more than twenty years, is better than ever. Here’s why: Every chapter has been rethought with an emphasis on freshness, convenience, and health. All the recipes have been reconceived and tested with an eye to modern taste, and the cooking

Authors:Katrin Becker, Melanie Becker, Aaron Bertram, Paul S.
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: geometry, string, lectures, snowbird
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 0821836633
ISBN-13: 9780821836637

The interaction and cross-fertilization of mathematics and physics is ubiquitous in the history of both disciplines. In particular, the recent developments of string theory have led to some relatively new areas of common interest among mathematicians and physicists, some of which are explored in the papers in this volume. These papers provide a reasonably comprehensive sampling of the potential for fruitful interaction between mathematicians and physicists that exists as a result of string theory.

Authors:Katrin Becker, Melanie Becker, John H. Schwarz,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: theory, introduction, modern, string
Number of Pages: 756
Published: 2007-01-15
List price: $91.00
ISBN-10: 0521860695
ISBN-13: 9780521860697

String theory is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of modern theoretical physics. This book guides the reader from the basics of string theory to recent developments. It introduces the basics of perturbative string theory, world-sheet supersymmetry, space-time supersymmetry, conformal field theory and the heterotic string, before describing modern developments, including D-branes, string dualities and M-theory. It then covers string geometry and flux compactifications, applications to cosmology and particle physics, black holes in string theory and M-theory, and the microscopic or

Authors:William E. Becker, Michael Watts, Suzanne R. Becker,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: chalk, alternatives, economics, teaching
Number of Pages: 225
Published: 2006-12-30
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1847200397
ISBN-13: 9781847200396

`This must sit alongside the previous volume as an essential source of teaching strategies for the thoughtful economist. Becker and Watts have succeeded again in providing a book which should push the profession forward in its thinking as well as its practice in teaching a new generation of economists.’ - Peter Davies, University of Staffordshire, UK and Co-Editor, International Review of Economics Education Acclaim for Teaching Economics to Undergraduates: `Teaching Economics to Undergraduates deserves a prominent spot on the bookshelves of all economists who are inte

Authors:Ted Becker, Christa D. Slaton, Ted Daryl Becker, Chri
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: teledemocracy, future
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2000-06-30
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0275970906
ISBN-13: 9780275970901

Drawing on the new physics as the scientific foundation of transformational politics, Becker and Slaton write compellingly about the positive impact televoting, electronic town meetings, and other initiatives designed to put the "public" back into public affairs.