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Command Decision in Harm's Way
Naval Institute Press
A longtime professor at the Naval War College who once directed strategic and long-range planning for the Navy and Marine Corps in Europe considers the transformation of the U.S. Navy from a defensive-minded coastal defense force into an offensive risk-taking …
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Finite Groups, Lie Groups, and Lie Algebras
World Scientific Publishing Company
The book presents the main approaches in study of algebraic structures of symmetries in models of theoretical and mathematical physics, namely groups and Lie algebras and their deformations. It covers the commonly encountered quantum groups (including Yangians). The second main …
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Lessons of a First Command
Naval Institute Press
This memoir of James Stavridis' two years in command of the destroyer USS Barry reveals the human side of what it is like to be in charge of a warshipfor the first time and in the midst of international crisis. …
View book details for Next-Generation Homeland Security
Network Federalism and the Course to National Preparedness
Naval Institute Press
Security governance in the second decade of the 21st century is ill-serving the American people. Left uncorrected, civic life and national continuity will remain increasingly at risk. At stake well beyond our shores is the stability and future direction of …
World Scientific Publishing Company
The success of spintronics the science and technology of storing, processing, sensing and communicating information using the quantum mechanical spin degree of freedom of an electron is critically dependent on the ability to inject, detect and manipulate spins in semiconductors …
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Results and Scientific Applications Derived from the Italian PON ReCaS Project
World Scientific Publishing Company
This book aims to provide a deep look into Italian actions taken in some fields of science and high performance computing (HPC), and the Italian effort to bridge the HPC gap with respect to Europe. The Italian PON ReCaS Project …
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An Emergency Survival Guide (Expanded and Revised Edition)
Process
In uncertain times, a solid preparedness plan is essential for every individual and family. PREPAREDNESS NOW! navigates the new realities of twenty-first century living: extreme weather, economic instability, terror attacks, and more.Packed with checklists, resources, and step-by-step instructions, PREPAREDNESS NOW! …
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The ancient village of Drumlin is one of peace and wisdom. The people have not known bloodshed in ages, so when their deity, The Always, sends a prophecy of division and discord through a wise old woman, no one can …
World Scientific Publishing Company
The book is a collection of papers of experts in the fields of information and complexity. Information is a basic structure of the world, while complexity is a fundamental property of systems and processes. There are intrinsic relations between information …
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The Greatest Adventure in Town and Ten Reasons Why it Matters, as Illustrated by the ATLAS Experiment
World Scientific Publishing Company
When the discovery of the Higgs Boson at CERN hit the headlines in 2012, the world was stunned by this achievement of modern science. Less well appreciated, however, were the many ways in which this benefited wider society.The Large Hadron …
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Ever since Paul Cohen's spectacular use of the forcing concept to prove the independence of the continuum hypothesis from the standard axioms of set theory, forcing has been seen by the general mathematical community as a subject of great intrinsic …
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All You Need is Paper!
World Scientific Publishing Company
'This is a marvellous book. The diversity of possible puzzles that can be given with these very limited resources, which are basically some paper and scissors, is overwhelming, and the challenges are sometimes very tough. Even the two-star problems may …
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Interviews with World Leaders on the Sustainable Transition
World Scientific Publishing Company
Sustainability is going to be one of the most important issues of the coming decades. For the first time, institutions at all levels, public and private, national and international, are teaming up to combat climate change and to promote more …
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Solutions to Problems
World Scientific Publishing Company
Statistical mechanics is concerned with defining the thermodynamic properties of a macroscopic sample in terms of the properties of the microscopic systems of which it is composed. The previous book Introduction to Statistical Mechanics provided a clear, logical, and self-contained …
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Between Pro-China and Objectivism
World Scientific Publishing Company
The rise of China has reconstituted the regional identity in Asia as well as the lens through which understanding of China and self-understanding are no longer separate processes intellectually. China scholarship in South and Southeast Asia necessarily highlights meanings of …
World Scientific Publishing Company
We introduce the theory of chemical reaction networks and their relation to stochastic Petri nets important ways of modeling population biology and many other fields. We explain how techniques from quantum mechanics can be used to study these models. This …
View book details for SOFT, HARD, AND HYBRID JANUS STRUCTURES
Synthesis, Self-Assembly, and Applications
World Scientific Publishing Company
This book investigates recent progress in synthesis of soft, hard and hybrid Janus structures and looks at processing strategy, such as emulsion polymerization, microfluidics, co-jetting and seeded growth. Also reviewed are both the experimental and theoretical studies on the unique …
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Novel Therapies for Digestive Diseases
World Scientific Publishing Company
This unique book deals with both inflammation and cancer in a single source of publication. They are seldom grouped together although it has been known that both diseases are closely associated, particularly in the gastrointestinal tract and liver. As the …
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The Threat of Terrorism in Southeast Asia
World Scientific Publishing Company
This book critically analyses the specific threat of terrorism in Southeast Asia since the Bali blasts of 12 October 2002 and the US-led war on Iraq. It offers a comprehensive and critical examination of the ideological, socioeconomic and political motivations, …
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The recent observation of the Higgs boson has been hailed as the scientific discovery of the century and led to the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics. This book describes the detailed science behind the decades-long search for this elusive particle …
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This book exposes and comments on the consequences of Reg NMS and MiFID on market microstructure. It covers changes in market design, electronic trading, and investor and trader behaviors. The emergence of high frequency trading and critical events like the'Flash …
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The book is aimed at graduate students and researchers with basic knowledge of Probability and Integration Theory. It introduces classical inequalities in vector and functional spaces with applications to probability. It also develops new extensions of the analytical inequalities, with …
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It is well known that most problems in science and engineering eventually progress into matrix problems. This book gives an elementary introduction to applied matrix theory and it also includes some new results obtained in recent years.The book consists of …
World Scientific Publishing Company
In order to bridge the gap between artificial and synthetic intelligence, we must first understand our own intelligence. 'What is intelligence?' might appear as a simple question, but many great minds have agreed that there is no singular answer. Unlocking …
World Scientific Publishing Company
The field of real options is concerned with the management and financial valuation of operational flexibility in business endeavors. From the very outset, energy and commodity markets which play fundamental roles in the worldwide economy have provided a relevant context …
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