Das bewährte Lehr- und Nachschlagewerk der Bauphysik wurde für die 9. Auflage aktualisiert und moderat ergänzt; neben einer Berücksichtigung der aktuellen normativen Situation ist hier insbesondere die Umstellung auf das Gebäudeenergiegesetz (GEG 2020)  zu nennen. Das Lehrbuch der Bauphysik beinhaltet damit in konzentrierter Form den heutigen Stand der Technik in diesem Bereich. Um dem Anspruch eines Studientitels auch weiterhin gerecht zu werden, wurden die Ausführungen zu den unterschiedlichen Themenbereichen auf die Lehrpläne im Fach Bauphysik abgestimmt und – wo es zielführend erschien – vertieft und ergänzt. Neben den wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen und Zusammenhängen sind im Hinblick auf die praktische Anwendung die Inhalte der wesentlichen bauphysikalisch relevanten Normen und Verordnungen in komprimierter Form enthalten.

This book investigates the parliamentary negotiation of executive secrecy. Parliaments depend on information to fulfil their roles as the people’s representatives, legislators and overseers of the executive. However, there are examples of executive secrecy across all policy fields. How, then, do parliamentary actors try to reconcile secrecy and the normative demands of an open, democratic society? This volume analyses parliamentary arguments, conflicts and patterns of agreement around this topic in the case of Germany. Based on two case studies – intelligence agencies secrecy and Public Private Partnership secrecy – it argues that substantive justifications of secrecy focusing on necessity are highly contested. By contrast, procedural legitimation of secrecy, namely deciding about it democratically, is crucial. Still, there are inherent limits to the legitimation of executive secrecy. The book therefore underlines the fragility of secrecy’s legitimation, and its need for constant actualisation.

Policy makers tend to deal with future risks by increasing the standardisation of national educational systems, a process supported by global educational policy ideas, quality assurance mechanisms and governing instruments and practices. This book presents the reader with tools to challenge accepted ideas about the standardising forces transforming educational reality, by discussing standards and standardisation from a range of different theoretical perspectives and contexts and posing questions such as: Why do we think about education through the lenses of standards? What are the assumed conditions underpinning the idea of standards? Organised into three sections, the historical, theoretical, and philosophical discussions in the first and third sections of the book underscore how educational standards as a phenomenon can be understood in a variety of ways, giving readers insight in to the ambiguous and situated aspects of the phenomenon. Six case studies in the middle section provide an international approach to the study of standards, illuminating how standards simultaneously represent a global and a context specific phenomenon. Across the diversity of theoretical and empirical writings, the book not only provide readers with insight but also broadens the scope of future empirical analyses of the historical, political, and social embeddedness of standards in education.

The book includes contributions on the latest model-based methods for the development of personal and commercial vehicle control devices. The main topics treated are: application of simulation and model design to development of driver assistance systems; physical and database model design for engines, motors, powertrain, undercarriage and the whole vehicle; new simulation tools, methods and optimization processes; applications of simulation in function and software development; function and software testing using HiL, MiL and SiL simulation; application of simulation and optimization in application of control devices; automation approaches at all stages of the development process.

In the popular imagination, no issue has been more closely linked with the environmental group Greenpeace than whaling. Opposition to commercial whaling has inspired many of the organization's most dramatic and high-profile "direct actions"-as well as some of its most notable failures. This book provides an inside look at one such instance: Greenpeace's decades-long campaign against the Norwegian whaling industry. Combining historical narrative with systems-theory analysis, author Juliane Riese shows how the organization's self-presentation as a David pitted against whale-butchering Goliaths was turned on its head. She recounts how opponents successfully discredited the campaign while Greenpeace struggled with internal disagreements and other organizational challenges, providing valuable lessons for other protest movements.

The book includes contributions on the latest model-based methods for the development of personal and commercial vehicle control devices. The main topics treated are: application of simulation and model design to development of driver assistance systems; physical and database model design for engines, motors, powertrain, undercarriage and the whole vehicle; new simulation tools, methods and optimization processes; applications of simulation in function and software development; function and software testing using HiL, MiL and SiL simulation; application of simulation and optimization in application of control devices; automation approaches at all stages of the development process.

Peacebuilding is an interactive process that involves collaboration between peacebuilders and the victorious elites of a postwar society. While one of the most prominent assumptions of the peacebuilding literature asserts that the interests of domestic elites and peacebuilders coincide, Costly Democracy contends that they rarely align. It reveals that, while domestic elites in postwar societies may desire the resources that peacebuilders can bring, they are often less eager to adopt democracy, believing that democratic reforms may endanger their substantive interests. The book offers comparative analyses of recent cases of peacebuilding to deepen understanding of postwar democratization and better explain why peacebuilding missions often bring peace—but seldom democracy—to war-torn countries.

Wie pragen Akteure und Institutionen das politische System und die Politik in Deutschland? Unter dieser Leitfrage versammelt das Lehrbuch Beitrage von Expert*innen, die forschungsorientiert in zentrale Aspekte des politischen Systems der Bundesrepublik einfuhren. In vier thematischen Teilen werden neben den Grundlagen unterschiedliche theoretische Zugriffe behandelt und aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse diskutiert. Der erste Teil fuhrt theoretisch-konzeptionell in das Thema des Bandes ein und behandelt den verfassungsrechtlichen Rahmen. Teil zwei beleuchtet, wie Interessen aggregiert, artikuliert und reprasentiert werden. Teil drei fokussiert auf die Legislative, Exekutive und Judikative der Bundesrepublik. Im vierten und letzten Teil wird der Blick auf Deutschland als foederalen Staat im europaischen Mehrebenensystem gerichtet.

Der Autor legt mit diesem Buch eine erste systematische und faktenreiche Analyse uber die Entwicklung des Fernsehens in Spanien vor, die neben einer Jahrzehnte ubergreifenden Beschreibung vor allem den treibenden Kraften und den Auswirkungen der fortschreitenden OEkonomisierung nachgeht. Was sind die Ursachen, die Strukturebenen, die Formen und Folgen der OEkonomisierung des Fernsehens in Spanien? Die Frage stellt sich nicht nur dem Beobachter aus dem deutschen Sprachraum, dem das Medium Fernsehen in unserem wichtigsten Urlaubsland ausserhalb Deutschlands in mehrfacher Hinsicht "spanisch vorkommt".