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View book details for WOMEN AT IMPERIAL COLLEGE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Past, Present and Future
World Scientific Publishing Company
This book is a celebration of women in science, technology, medicine and business at Imperial College London. It shows the inspirational role women played in the creation of the legacy of the College since its inception, and represents a guide …
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With "The Cutting Edge" in Afghanistan
Naval Institute Press
Where Youth and Laughter Go completes LtCol Seth Folsoms recounting of his personal experiences in command over a decade of war. It is the culminating chapter of a trilogy that began with The Highway War: A Marine Company Commander in …
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Revolutionizing the Use of Commercial Vessels and Intermodal Systems for Military Sealift, 1990-2012
Naval Institute Press
Since the 1980s, strategic sealift has been formally designated as a U.S. Navy mission. With over ninety percent of all military equipment and supplies required to support U.S. military forces in combat being delivered by sea, and as globalized interests …
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The Wooden Subchasers of World War II
Naval Institute Press
Hastily built at the onset of World War II to stop German U-boats from taking their toll on Allied shipping, the 110-foot wooden subchasers were the smallest commissioned warships in the U.S. Navy, yet they saw as much action as …
View book details for COMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF MOLECULES AND CONDENSED MATTER
From Electronic Structures to Molecular Dynamics
World Scientific Publishing Company
This book provides a relatively complete introduction to the methods used in computational condensed matter. A wide range of electronic structure theories are introduced, including traditional quantum chemistry methods, density functional theory, many-body perturbation theory, and more. Molecular dynamics simulations …
View book details for The Great Rebirth
Lessons from the Victory of Capitalism over Communism
Columbia University Press
The fall of communism transformed the political and economic landscape in more than two dozen countries across Europe and Asia. In this volume published on the 25th anniversary of the fall, political leaders, scholars, and policymakers assess the lessons learned …
Columbia University Press
There is inherent tension between the increasingly global focus of foreign investors and the continuing national focus of governments. Countries, particularly developing ones, compete to attract investment from global corporations, and they attach performance requirements to tilt the impact of …
View book details for Industrial Policy in an Era of Globalization
Lessons from Asia
Columbia University Press
Globalization reigns supreme as a description of recent economic transformationand it carries many meanings. In the policy realm, the orthodox terms of engagement have been enshrined in the "Washington consensus." But disappointing results in Latin America and transitional economiesplus the …
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Restarting Growth and Reform in Latin America
Columbia University Press
This volume is a successor of sorts to the Institute's 1986 volume Toward Renewed Economic Growth in Latin America, which blazed the trail for the market-oriented economic reforms that were adopted in Latin America in the subsequent years. It again …
Learning Sciences International
Currently, schools define themselves by state metrics. But when we dig down into the numbers, questions remain: Do good schools get positive numbers despite good instruction, or because of it? Do lower performing schools get negative numbers because of subpar …
World Scientific Publishing Company
Professor Kerson Huang was a well respected theoretical physicist, who was also well versed in English and Chinese literature. He was born in Nanning, China, on 15 March 1928, and he was a fellow at the IAS, Princeton, from 1955-1957 …
View book details for INFORMATION SPILLOVERS & MARKET INTEGRATION IN INTL FINANCE
Empirical Analyses
World Scientific Publishing Company
This book volume brings together carefully selected scholarly works covering four inter-related topic areas in international finance. The first section deals with the efficacy and determinants of central bank currency interventions by the Bank of Japan and the Reserve Bank …
View book details for ASIAN AGRIBUSINESS MANAGEMENT: CASE STUDIES IN GROWTH...
Case Studies in Growth, Marketing, and Upgrading Strategies
World Scientific Publishing Company
This book of case studies is designed to provide useful information for instructional purposes and for those interested in the management of Asian agribusiness. This collected volume of case studies is organized around three major themes-growth, marketing, and upgrading strategies. …
World Scientific Publishing Company
This book is a monograph on harmonic analysis and fractal analysis over local fields. It can also be used as lecture notes/textbook or as recommended reading for courses on modern harmonic and fractal analysis. It is as reliable as Fourier …
View book details for K-12 MATHEMATICS EDUCATION IN ISRAEL: ISSUES AND INNOVATIONS
Issues and Innovations
World Scientific Publishing Company
The book provides the reader with a multifaceted picture of mathematics education in Israel, put into an international perspective where relevant. It is intended to give an overview of a wide range of topics covering issues such as raising and …
View book details for DOES CLASS MATTER?
Social Stratification and Orientations in Singapore
World Scientific Publishing Company
This book provides a comprehensive portrait of class structure, dynamics, and orientations in Singapore understood as a new nation, a capitalist and emerging knowledge economy, a largely middle-class society, and a polity with a strong state at the turn of …
World Scientific Publishing Company
Phototherapy, or the usage of light to treat diseases, is an important modality in a physician's therapeutic armamentarium. It is effective for a number of common skin conditions like atopic dermatitis, psoriasis and vitiligo. The accurate diagnosis of a photodermatosis …
World Scientific Publishing Company
World Scientific Publishing Company
The book introduces the basic notions in Symplectic and Contact Geometry at the level of the second year graduate student. It also contains many exercises, some of which are solved only in the last chapter.We begin with the linear theory, …
View book details for SINGAPORE, MY COUNTRY: BIOGRAPHY OF M BALA SUBRAMANION
Biography of M Bala Subramanion
World Scientific Publishing Company
When after three decades of research Singapore could produce its own water, the little city-state was said to have lost its vulnerability. No longer would every policy have to bend at the knees for water survival. It was finally time …
View book details for OCEAN SURFACE WAVES (3RD ED)
Their Physics and Prediction
World Scientific Publishing Company
This book is an extended and substantially updated edition of the previous book editions published in 1996 and 2013 under the same title. The 3rd edition is a one-volume, modern and comprehensive overview of the current knowledge of regular and …
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The Fracturing of a Texas Family Ranch
Trinity University Press
A Rock between Two Rivers is the story of a man coming to terms with the environmental legacy of his familys ranch in Dimmitt County, Texas, and reckoning with the birthright hell leave for the generations who follow. What began …
View book details for Inside the Euro Crisis
An Eyewitness Account
Columbia University Press
In mid-2009 Simeon Djankov, who had dealt with a variety of economic and financial crises as chief economist for finance and private sector development at the World Bank, was suddenly thrust into the job of finance minister of his native …
View book details for Foreign Direct Investment and Development
Launching a Second Generation of Policy Research
Columbia University Press
This volume is the culmination of Institute investigations on the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and development. Today, more than one-third of world trade takes place in the form of intrafirm transactionsthat is, trade among the various parts of …
View book details for Accelerating the Globalization of America
The Role for Information Technology
Columbia University Press
Information technology (IT) was key to the superior overall macroeconomic performance of the United States in the 1990shigh productivity, high growth, low inflation, and low unemployment. But IT also played a role in increasing earnings dispersion in the labor marketgreatly …
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