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View book details for ANCIENT SILK TRADE ROUTES
Selected Works from Symposium on Cross Cultural Exchanges and Their Legacies in Asia
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As key nodes that connected ancient silk routes traversing China, Japan and India, trading hubs, towns and cities in Java and Sumatra and other places in Asia were key destination points for merchants, monks and other itinerants plying these routes.Recent …
View book details for TOPOLOGY AND DYNAMICS OF CHAOS: IN CELEBRATION OF ROBERT ...
In Celebration of Robert Gilmore's 70th Birthday
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The book surveys how chaotic behaviors can be described with topological tools and how this approach occurred in chaos theory. Some modern applications are included.The contents are mainly devoted to topology, the main field of Robert Gilmore's works in dynamical …
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The Life and Times of a Doctor and Patient
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This book describes the life and times of a physician-scientist over the last half-century. Part One is about the author's struggle with colon cancer and the lessons he learnt from the experience; Part Two is about his life growing up, …
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Nonabelian multiplicative integration on curves is a classical theory. This volume is about the 2-dimensional case, which is much more difficult. In our construction, the setup is a Lie crossed module: there is a Lie group H, together with an …
View book details for COMPUTABLE UNIVERSE, A
Understanding and Exploring Nature as Computation
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This volume, with a foreword by Sir Roger Penrose, discusses the foundations of computation in relation to nature.It focuses on two main questions:The contributors are world-renowned experts who have helped shape a cutting-edge computational understanding of the universe. They discuss …
View book details for CHRONIC HEPATITIS B AND C: BASIC SCIENCE TO CLINICAL APPLN
Basic Science to Clinical Applications
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The scope of the book is very broad, covering a wide range of areas in HBV/HDV and HCV research, including both basic and clinical science. The selected topics range from epidemiology, immunology, molecular virology and oncology, to clinical therapy.Chronic Hepatitis …
View book details for REFORGING THE CENTRAL BANK
The Top-Level Design of the Chinese Financial System in the New Normal
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Reforging the Central Bank presents an insightful comparison between financial development in China a rising global economic superpower under the old and new normal and an all-encapsulating study of current monetary transmission mechanism and monetary policy instruments. Focusing on the …
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Rediscovering Traditional Five Element Healthcare
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Very little has been written on acupuncture and the Oriental medical view of health for the lay person in recent years. Even less has been written on the training requirements which vary enormously. This unique book clarifies this situation. It …
View book details for CHAOS, INFORMATION PROCESSING AND PARADOXICAL GAMES
The Legacy of John S Nicolis
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This volume provides a self-contained survey of the mechanisms presiding information processing and communication. The main thesis is that chaos and complexity are the basic ingredients allowing systems composed of interesting subunits to generate and process information and communicate in …
View book details for WANG GUNGWU: EDUCATOR AND SCHOLAR
Educator and Scholar
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The name Wang Gungwu is iconic. He is one of the most eminent scholars and historians in Asia today and is renowned for his scholarship on the history of the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia, and the history and civilisation …
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How to Succeed in Breastfeeding Without Really Trying provides new mothers with humorous, easy-to-use, hands-on advice and step-by-step instructions on how to initiate, sustain, and actually succeed in breastfeeding. After giving birth, many women are shocked to discover that breastfeeding …
View book details for MODEL RISK IN FINANCIAL MARKETS
From Financial Engineering to Risk Management
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The financial systems in most developed countries today build up a large amount of model risk on a daily basis. However, this is not particularly visible as the financial risk management agenda is still dominated by the subprime-liquidity crisis, the …
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This book is an introductory text on real analysis for undergraduate students. The prerequisite for this book is a solid background in freshman calculus in one variable. The intended audience of this book includes undergraduate mathematics majors and students from …
View book details for RANK LIVEABILITY WORLD MAJOR CITI (GLCI)
The Global Liveable Cities Index (GLCI)
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This unique volume aims to provide a first comprehensive assessment on attributes, conditions and characters which constitute a liveable city. The book posits that the degree of liveability depends on five themes: satisfaction with the freedom from want; satisfaction with …
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The lecture notes in this book are based on the TCC (Taught Course Centre for graduates) course given by the author in Trinity Terms of 2009-2011 at the Mathematical Institute of Oxford University. It contains more or less an elementary …
View book details for RECONSTRUCTION OF CHINA LOW-CARBON CITY EVALUATION INDICATOR
A Methodological Guide for Applications
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The book, written by acclaimed experts from China , is an output of the Low-Carbon City China (LCCC) Programme. It provides an overview of the low-carbon progress in various Chinese cities, identifies their strengths and weaknesses, and enables the development …
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View book details for QUANTUM CRITICALITY IN CONDENSED MATTER
Phenomena, Materials and Ideas in Theory and Experiment
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This volume comprises 8 articles written by lecturers of 50th Karpacz Winter School of Theoretical Physics and their collaborators. The contributing lecturers are outstanding researchers, and experts in various fields of physics, in particular in condensed matter, quantum phase transitions …
View book details for ANDREI SAKHAROV: QUARKS & THE STRUC MATT
Quarks and the Structure of Matter
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In 1980, the Cold War was in full bloom. The Soviet father of the hydrogen bomb and Nobel Peace Laureate turned dissident physicist, Andrei Sakharov, had been exiled to Gorki by the Soviet authorities. Called senile and under heavy Soviet …
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This volume is a collection of the contributions to the 14th National Conference on Nuclear Structure in China (NSC2012). It provides an important updated resource in the nuclear physics literature for researchers and graduate students studying nuclear structure and related …
View book details for STEM CELL BATTLES: PROPOSITION 71 AND BEYOND
How Ordinary People Can Fight Back against the Crushing Burden of Chronic Disease with a Posthumous Foreword by Christopher Reeve
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This is a one-of-a-kind book: combining easy-to-understand science, in-the-trenches political warfare, and inspirational stories. It aims to give hope to individuals and families who suffer from chronic disease or disability; to point out how ordinary people can make an extraordinary …
View book details for ADVANCES IN DIGITAL HANDWRITTEN SIGNATURE PROCESSING
A Human Artefact for e-Society
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In the age of e-society, handwritten signature processing is an enabling technology in a multitude of fields in the digital agenda of many countries, ranging from e-health to e-commerce, from e-government to e-justice, from e-democracy to e-banking, and smart cities. …
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The True Story of World Champion Surfer Layne Beachley
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Brave Beachley tells the tale of Australian Layne Beachley and how she chased her dream to become a world champion surfer."Because tough times are sure to happen.They are part and parcel of life's plan.But don't let those tough times stop …
View book details for CORRUPTION, GOOD GOVERNANCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Contemporary Analysis and Case Studies
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Corruption, Good Governance and Economic Development adopts a non-Eurocentric approach towards good governance issues in Asia and Africa on practical and theoretical levels. Edited by R N Ghosh and M A B Siddique, this volume features contributions from distinguished scholars …
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