This book provides a modern and easy-to-understand introduction to the chemical equilibria in solutions. It focuses on aqueous solutions, but also addresses non-aqueous solutions, covering acid-base, complex, precipitation and redox equilibria. The theory behind these and the resulting knowledge for experimental work build the foundations of analytical chemistry. They are also of essential importance for all solution reactions in environmental chemistry, biochemistry and geochemistry as well as pharmaceutics and medicine. Each chapter and section highlights the main aspects, providing examples in separate boxes. Questions and answers are included to facilitate understanding, while the numerous literature references allow students to easily expand their studies.

Understanding acid-base equilibria made easy for students in chemistry, biochemistry, biology, environmental and earth sciences. Solving chemical problems, be it in education or in real life, often requires the understanding of the acid-base equilibria behind them. Based on many years of teaching experience, Heike Kahlert and Fritz Scholz present a powerful tool to meet such challenges. They provide a simple guide to the fundamentals and applications of acid-base diagrams, avoiding complex mathematics. This textbook is richly illustrated and has full color throughout. It offers learning features such as boxed results and a collection of formulae.

What is happening to gender studies and gender research as emerging but contested fields of scientific knowledge in the conditions of the new academic governance? And which role do gender studies and gender research play in the current transformations in academia? All articles in this book make clear that the impacts of the new academic governance have global, glocal and local dimensions which have to be taken into account in analysing the state of gender studies and gender research at the end of the 2010s. From diverse geopolitical and sociocultural views the authors simultaneously draw a multifaceted picture of the current situation, criticise the widespread tendencies of the marketisation of scientific knowledge, suggest strategies for resistance against the neo-liberalisation of higher education and research, and identify starting points for further and optionally comparative studies on these issues. These contributions emphasise not only the need for more theoretical reflection and empirical research and for critical exchanges on the current transformations, but also the need for political action to challenge, resist and change them. The EditorDr Heike Kahlert is Professor and Chair of Sociology/Social Inequality and Gender at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (RUB), Germany.

Understanding acid-base equilibria made easy for students in chemistry, biochemistry, biology, environmental and earth sciences. Solving chemical problems, be it in education or in real life, often requires the understanding of the acid-base equilibria behind them. Based on many years of teaching experience, Heike Kahlert and Fritz Scholz present a powerful tool to meet such challenges. They provide a simple guide to the fundamentals and applications of acid-base diagrams, avoiding complex mathematics. This textbook is richly illustrated and has full color throughout. It offers learning features such as boxed results and a collection of formulae.

Demographic change in Europe has been a topic of great public and political interest since the 1990s. The central aim of this book is to create new questions for research by connecting the topics of demographic change, of the restructuring of the welfare state and of change in gender relations. The articles have a closer look at the interrelation of these social and political changes by highlighting different national situations as well as different theoretical and empirical aspects. They try to reframe the 'problem' of demographic change by analyzing it in the context of gender and welfare state transformations.

This book provides a modern and easy-to-understand introduction to the chemical equilibria in solutions. It focuses on aqueous solutions, but also addresses non-aqueous solutions, covering acid-base, complex, precipitation and redox equilibria. The theory behind these and the resulting knowledge for experimental work build the foundations of analytical chemistry. They are also of essential importance for all solution reactions in environmental chemistry, biochemistry and geochemistry as well as pharmaceutics and medicine. Each chapter and section highlights the main aspects, providing examples in separate boxes. Questions and answers are included to facilitate understanding, while the numerous literature references allow students to easily expand their studies.

Das Lehrbuch beschreibt die theoretischen Grundlagen der Saure-Base-, Komplex-, Fallungs- und Redoxgleichgewichte fur die Analytische Chemie, Umweltchemie und Biochemie.

Der Band will am Beispiel ausgewahlter zeitgenoessischer Gesellschaftstheorien, die bereits mehrheitlich auch in der Genderforschung rezipiert werden, zum starker systematisierten Dialog zwischen Genderforschung und Gesellschaftstheorien einladen. Unter Bezugnahme auf gemeinsame Leitkategorien berucksichtigen die Beitrage den Entstehungskontext der behandelten Gesellschaftstheorien sowie den zeitdiagnostisch relevanten Rezeptionsrahmen und entwickeln Perspektiven, die Gender als selbstverstandlichen Bestandteil von Gesellschaft(stheorien) in das jeweilige Theoriegerust einflechten. Dabei werden der Ort von Gender in der jeweiligen Theorie ausgelotet und Ansatzpunkte fur den Theorienvergleich wie auch den weiteren Dialog von Gesellschaftstheorien und Genderforschung aufgezeigt. Zielsetzungen sind, Leerstellen der Gesellschaftsanalyse hinsichtlich der komplexen Einbettung der Geschlechterverhaltnisse fokussierter zu erarbeiten und Erkenntnisse und Potenziale der Genderforschung gesellschaftstheoretisch ruckzubinden. Fur die 2. Auflage wurden alle Texte durchgesehen und zum Teil aktualisiert.

Der Sammelband greift zentrale Positionen und Diskussionen zu Inter- und Transdisziplinaritat der Gender Studies in zweierlei Hinsicht auf: erstens aus wissenschaftstheoretischen Perspektiven und zweitens hinsichtlich ihrer Relevanz fur Lehre, Studium und Beruf. Neben einer Bilanz zu den Debatten uber Inter- und Transdisziplinaritat im Feld der Geschlechterforschung geht es um deren Weiterentwicklung angesichts der aktuellen Reformprozesse in Forschung und Lehre. Die Beitrage des ersten Teils fokussieren auf Forschung und reflektieren inter- und transdisziplinare Positionen und Erfahrungen in den Gender Studies mit der Kooperation von Natur-/Technik- und Kultur-/Sozialwissenschaften. Die Beitrage des zweiten Teils untersuchen die Bedeutung von Inter- und Transdisziplinaritat der Gender Studies im Hinblick auf aktuelle Reformprozesse in Lehre und Studium.

Das Buch bietet aus geschlechtskategoriale Perspektive einen fundierten Uberblick uber die zentralen methodologischen und methodischen Debatten in den Sozialwissenschaften, die Politik und politisches Handeln ins Zentrum stellen.

Dieser Band bringt ausgewahlte Theorien - Gesellschaftstheorien und einflussreiche soziologische Zeitdiagnosen - in einen Dialog mit der feministischen Debatte zum Spannungsverhaltnis von privat und oeffentlich. Die Begrifflichkeiten oeffentlich und privat sind ein eng mit den Geschlechterverhaltnissen assoziiertes Ordnungsprinzip gesellschaftlicher Entwicklung und damit hochpolitisch. Der Fokus dieses Bandes liegt auf der Frage, welche Bedeutung dieser Unterscheidung heute noch zukommt - in einer Zeit, in der viel von Grenzaufloesungen die Rede ist und damit oft auch eine Aufloesung der beiden Spharen gemeint ist. Es ist ein erster Schritt in Richtung eines zeitdiagnostischen Entwurfs, in dem die Unterscheidung zwischen oeffentlich und privat, deren Zusammenhang mit Geschlecht und Gesellschaft und deren politische Brisanz im Zentrum des Interesses stehen. Die Auseinandersetzungen mit etablierten Theorien (u.a. von Arendt, Bourdieu, Foucault, Habermas sowie Kritische Theorie, Postcolonial Theory, Queer Theory) sind ausgerichtet am moeglichen Ertrag fur eine GeschlechterGesellschaftsTheorie, das heisst, fur eine Gesellschaftstheorie, die Geschlechterverhaltnisse nicht als empirische Variable, sondern als grundlegende Strukturkategorie behandelt, und die auf Veranderungen, die sich mit dem Bedeutungswandel von privat, oeffentlich und politisch einstellen, angemessen reagieren kann.

Gender relations in post-socialist countries Even more than 20 years after turning away from socialism, Eastern European and Central Asian states are still characterized by the regime change in the fields of work, politics, and culture. What are the effects and implications that this change has produced for gender relations in post-socialist countries? And what does this mean for the situation of women and men living there today? In this context gender relations are especially interesting since gender equality was perceived as a political goal and, moreover, a given reality in socialism. The articles in this volume show the changes as well as the stability of gender relations and power structures during the transformation process and in post-socialist times. They shed light on topics like labour market policies, fertility, political representation of women or male artists concerned with gender issues covering the geographical space from Hungary and Poland over Bulgaria and Romania to Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Beyond that, some of the descriptions and analyses challenge understood certainties about how to create gender equality and about the women and men living in post-soviet regions today.

Forty years have passed since the first UN-organized World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975. In that time, women's rights, and later gender equality, have become firmly established as an important area of global politics and human rights. What shape have these processes taken in different parts of the world? How do global and internationally designed institutions adapt to local cultural, religious, political, and economic contexts? What are the problems and contradictions embedded in this process when viewed from a global perspective? What effects do grassroots, local, and national actors have on transnational institutions? In answering the questions, the book draws on historical and global perspectives, beginning in the 1960s, an important moment for internationalization during the Cold War, and looking to a global selection of case studies. Providing a series of "snapshots" of historical and contemporary global gender equality politics, the chapters allow for an examination of how local, national, and transnational actors have interacted in ways that affect the dissemination of gender equality institutions, both formal and informal. The case studies demonstrate the relationship between the supranational, regional, national, and sub-national or "local." They explore the power dynamics, interactions, and mutually constituting nature of two analytic levels of organizations and actors involved in the institutionalization of gender equality-the transnational level as well as the level of activity within specific national political systems (as represented by states, grassroots organizations, and other sub-national actors). The findings reveal that the institutionalization of gender equality is dependent on national and local context, the potential for interactions between gender equality policies and other state agendas, the depth of informal institutions, and the degree to which a given state is integrated into the norms of the international system.

Forty years have passed since the first UN-organized World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975. In that time, women's rights, and later gender equality, have become firmly established as an important area of global politics and human rights. What shape have these processes taken in different parts of the world? How do global and internationally designed institutions adapt to local cultural, religious, political, and economic contexts? What are the problems and contradictions embedded in this process when viewed from a global perspective? What effects do grassroots, local, and national actors have on transnational institutions? In answering the questions, the book draws on historical and global perspectives, beginning in the 1960s, an important moment for internationalization during the Cold War, and looking to a global selection of case studies. Providing a series of "snapshots" of historical and contemporary global gender equality politics, the chapters allow for an examination of how local, national, and transnational actors have interacted in ways that affect the dissemination of gender equality institutions, both formal and informal. The case studies demonstrate the relationship between the supranational, regional, national, and sub-national or "local." They explore the power dynamics, interactions, and mutually constituting nature of two analytic levels of organizations and actors involved in the institutionalization of gender equality-the transnational level as well as the level of activity within specific national political systems (as represented by states, grassroots organizations, and other sub-national actors). The findings reveal that the institutionalization of gender equality is dependent on national and local context, the potential for interactions between gender equality policies and other state agendas, the depth of informal institutions, and the degree to which a given state is integrated into the norms of the international system.