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Nick Koehne
Tablo Publishing
A space trader discovers a planet filled with rich resources for a intergalactic space mining company. He crash lands and discovers more than he bargained for.

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Strange Lifts and Spiders Lead Where?
Kevin Colbran
Tablo Publishing
Where a young man's curiosity leads to an adventure in time and space, perhaps stepping into an elevator and pushing 13 will lead further that you expected.

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How to Build Influence in a World of Competing Ideas
John Butman
Harvard Business Review Press
How do you gain influence for an idea?In Breaking Out, idea developer and adviser John Butman shows how the methods of todays most popular idea entrepreneursincluding dog psychologist Cesar Millan, French lifestyle guru Mireille Guiliano (French Women Dont Get Fat), …

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The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
Ethan S. Harris
Harvard Business Review Press
Ben Bernanke's swearing in as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006 marked the end of Alan Greenspan's long, legendary career. To date, the new chair has garnered mixed reviews. Business economists see him as the best-qualified successor to Greenspan, while many …
Terence Chong
World Scientific Publishing Company
This book covers Singapore's key arts policies and art institutions which have shaped the cultural landscape of the country from the 1950s to the present.The scholars and experts in this volume critically assess arts policies and arts institutions to collectively …
Tugrul U Daim
World Scientific Publishing Company
The management of technological innovation is both an art, as well as a science; the process involves the know-how and technological core skills to deliver the functionality on the one hand, and (with an ear on the ground) the ability …

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A Portrait of Benot Mandelbrot, The Founding Father of Fractal Geometry
Nigel Lesmoir-gordon
World Scientific Publishing Company
'The book is well-illustrated, earlier chapters with monochrome portraits of Mandelbrot, his family and those who influenced him, and later ones with striking colour pictures not only of the Mandelbrot set and other computer generated fractals, but also of a …
Nik Weaver
World Scientific Publishing Company
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 …
Ilan Garibi, David Hillel Goodman, Yossi Elran
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
Yacine Belhaj-bouabdallah
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 …
John Dirk Walecka
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 …
Chih-yu Shih, Prapin Manomaivibool, Reena Marwah
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 …
John C Baez, Jacob D Biamonte
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 …

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Synthesis, Self-Assembly, and Applications
Zhiqun Lin, Bo Li
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 …
Chi-hin Cho
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
Kumar Ramakrishna, See Seng Tan
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, …
Aleandro Nisati, Vivek Sharma
World Scientific Publishing Company
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 …
Charles-albert Lehalle, Sophie Laruelle
World Scientific Publishing Company
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 …
Odile Pons
World Scientific Publishing Company
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 …
Mark Burgin, Cristian S Calude
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
Andrew J Millington, Markus Nordberg, Thorsten Wengler, Rob Mcpherson
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 …
Xiao Qing Jin, Seak-weng Vong
World Scientific Publishing Company
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 …
Charles T Ross
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 …
Nicola Secomandi
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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