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Did you know that the presidency is not a safe job to have? Presidential candidates spend resources to win and when one does it'll seem like the weight of the world is on his shoulders. On top of that there will be so many...

Homer's Odyssey is a lengthy but beautifully written tale of gods and the power of human will. It is one of the most-loved stories in Greek mythology. Treat this book as a kid-friendly version of the tale. Complete with pictures and summarized texts this...

Read about the top archaeological dig sites and discoveries in Asia. Sure it's a big continent and several traces of civilizations have been found. This picture book gives you the chance to learn about the results of the archaeologists' hardwork around the continent. Go...

The former Navy lieutenant and current CIA senior analyst Mickey Rybak has a real dilemma. He is dying in the emergency room when suddenly, scenes of his life flash through his mind's eye. With each new revelation, comes another realization of the truth. As...

Fundamental Statistics for the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences presents students with instructional material in a clear, concise manner and features exercises that get students thinking about how to use statistics in applied settings.The text opens with coverage of foundational concepts in descriptive statistics,...

This is the untold history of Oceania's 1960s lost psychedelic album, The Happy Prince. Recorded in Sydney by the La De Das, an Aotearoa/New Zealand band, this was the first LP in Australia that told a single story, creating an audio world. The La...

Author: John CalvinISBN-13: 9798385216253Publisher: Wipf & Stock PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/30/2024Pages: 518Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.64lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.13d

This devotional book provides a daily reflection, questions for consideration, and a prayer for each of the twenty-eight days in the church season of Advent. It is intended for integration into a daily practice of preparation and reflection during Advent. Readers are encouraged to...

This novel promises to captivate readers with its blend of suspense, intrigue, and rich cultural heritage. Prepare yourself for a riveting journey, set in diverse locations, including North Carolina and the Everglades National Park in Florida. The story features key characters like the world-famous...

The rapid and profound permeation of generative AI technology into all aspects of modern society also changes the landscape of higher education and thus leads to a compelling call to harness the power of AI for transforming higher education. One of the most significant...

The psychological drivers of herding behavior and market overreaction shape current financial markets, often leading to price volatility and mispriced assets. Investors who are influenced by emotions may copy the actions of others, resulting in collective decision-making that can amplify market trends. This phenomenon...

A deep-seated issue persists in postgraduate education-one that threatens the relevance of academia in our diverse and evolving world. The problem at hand is the Western-centric nature of postgraduate education, where research paradigms, methodologies, and theoretical frameworks overwhelmingly reflect a Western worldview. This rigid...

The rise of ChatGPT has stirred intense conversations in education, raising concerns about the loss of traditional assessment methods. The increasing emphasis on examination-based evaluations has gained attention, leading educators to wrestle with the possible standardization of academic assessments. This one-size-fits-all approach not only...

Think Erma Bombeck sprinkled with Beth Moore.Step into the unpredictable world of a seasoned primary care doctor in this highly anticipated sequel to Patients I Will Never Forget. With warmth, humor, and unflinching honesty, the author shares true stories that will make you laugh...

This book is a compilation of my life arising from my deepest memories and heart-felt moments through the experiences I have lived. This book is in poetry--all my loves, struggles as a mother and wife, to just enjoying all the things that God has...

There is something remarkable about everyday life. It is complex and layered, full of highs and lows. The unexpected can happen in a heartbeat. But with a little courage in your pocket and an open heart, you can find yourself in the middle of...

From the small town in southern Minnesota where he grew up, he was sent around the world to the Pacific Island called the Philippines. It was World War 2, and Jacob Wesley Zimmerli was part of the US Army. Specifically, he was a member...

Based on our pet Moto, this is the story of a sleepy cat Who loves taking naps. All While he waits for his people to take care of the chores around the house before bedtime. A tale about an impatient, playful kitty, and his...

This book describes in a non-technical language, one of the success stories of modern (twentieth-century) astronomy. It presents us with the physical picture of what constitutes a star, with a description of how a star evolves with time, how its shape and brightness change,...

These lectures give an elementary introduction to the important recent developments of the applications of N=1 supergravity to the construction of unified models of elementary particle interactions. Topics covered include couplings of supergravity with matter, spontaneous symmetry breaking and the super-higgs effect, construction of...

These volumes, a collection of a series of articles with commentary notes by the editor, describe supersymmetric theories for particle interactions from the earliest developments to the latest advancements. The book, divided into two volumes, will mainly focus its attention on subjects related to...

Author: A. ZeeISBN-10: 9971950146ISBN-13: 9789971950149Publisher: World Scientific Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1982Pages: 1104Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.26lbsSize: 8.80h x 6.10w x 2.50d

Every finite separable field extension F/K carries a canonical inner product, given by trace(xy). This symmetric K-bilinear form is the trace form of F/K.When F is an algebraic number field and K is the field Q of rational numbers, the trace form goes back...

Author: H. R. DalafiISBN-10: 9971509466ISBN-13: 9789971509460Publisher: World Scientific Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1994Pages: 376Format: Hardcover

This volume aims at surveying and exposing the main ideas and principles accumulated in a number of theories of Mathematical Analysis. The underlying methodological principle is to develop a unified approach to various kinds of problems. In the papers presented, outstanding research scientists discuss...

This book is a formal presentation of lectures given at the 1987 Summer School on Turbulence, held at the National Center for Atmospheric Research under the auspices of the Geophysical Turbulence Program. The lectures present in detail certain of the more challenging and interesting...

This book is currently the only one on this subject containing both introductory material and advanced recent research results. It presents, at one end, fundamental concepts and notations developed in syntactic and structural pattern recognition and at the other, reports on the current state...

This reprint volume compiles the works of the author on the building of science in developing countries. The purpose of this volume is to improve the accessibility of the literature on science development for interested individuals especially in the Third World Countries.Author: M. MoravesikISBN-10:...

In the development of autonomous sensory controlled systems, image understanding of sensory data is a difficult but important topic. Due to the unpredictable and uncertain nature of the environment, current image processing and computer vision approaches are not adequate to provide the capabilities needed...

This review volume represents the first attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of this exciting and rapidly evolving development. The book comprises specially commissioned articles by leading researchers in the areas of neural networks and connectionist systems, classifier systems, adaptive network systems, genetic algorithm,...

This book presents detailed studies of the development of three kinds of number. In the first part the development of the natural numbers from Stone-Age times right up to the present day is examined not only from the point of view of pure history...

The main aim of this book is to give a self-contained and representative cross section through present-day research in solid-state physics. This covers metallic and mesoscopic transport, localization by disorder and superconductivity, including questions related to high-temperature superconductors and to heavy fermion systems. An...

Most studies of solids at high temperatures have concentrated on rare gases or metals. However, in the last few years, the special properties of ionic solids at high temperatures have become increasingly important, with applications to geophysics, ceramic processing, nuclear fuels, solid-state electrolytes, and...

This review volume on topological and nontopological chiral solitons presents a global view on the current developments of this field in particle and nuclear physics. The book addresses problems in quantization, restoration of translational and rotational symmetry, and the field theoretical approach to solitons...

With the termination of the physics program at PETRA, and with the start of TRISTAN and the SLC and later LEP, an era of e+e- physics has come to an end and a new one begins. The field is changing from a field of...

This is a set of lecture notes given by the author at the Universities of Göttingen and Wroclaw. The text presents the axiomatic approach to field theory and studies in depth the concepts of symmetry and supersymmetry and their associated generators, currents and charges....

This book contains selected works on the biomechanics of the hand accumulated in the Biomechanics Laboratory of Mayo Clinic over the past eleven years. It attempts to apply a composite approach to normal and pathological functions of the hand by utilizing mechanical modeling, anatomical...

This book gives a complete and systematic account of the I/O software system of minicomputers, the writing of new drivers and privileged processes to perform I/O operations. This book should be ideal for researchers and professionals who have a general understanding of the nature...

This textbook provides an introduction to statistics for computer users or computer science undergraduates. The main emphasis here is on how to use the computer to understand statistics and to facilitate statistical computation. Since the Stress is on the basic concepts, the mathematics is...

The first volume of the book-Emerging Human Viral diseases presents pathogenesis, diagnostics, and therapeutic strategies against viral respiratory and hemorrhagic fever diseases. The initial chapter discusses the underlying factors contributing to the emergence of these viral diseases. The subsequent chapters introduce structure, composition, and...

This book covers various data scientific approaches to analyze the issue of grid integration of renewable energy for which the grid flexibility is the key to cope with its intermittency. It provides readers with the scope to view renewable energy integration as establishing a...

This book explains the hardware implementation of computational holography and hardware acceleration techniques, along with a number ofconcrete example source codes that enable fast computation. Computational holography includes computer-based holographictechnologies such as computer-generated hologram and digital holography, for which acceleration of wave-optics computation is...

Even though frequent disaster losses occur in rural and agricultural areas, a substantial number of the prevailing disaster research has focused on urban areas, often failing to notice rural populations, communities, and rural development as a whole. It is critical to assess how the...

This book makes a deliberate attempt to explore the complexity of decolonising theories in teacher education. It draws attention to the historical and emerging impacts of colonialism on educational institutions and practices, challenging educators to expand their understanding of diverse trajectories of decolonial research...

First book that covers key pharmacovigilance issues from resource-limited countriesIncludes case studies from different countries and focusses on special methodologies like active pharmacovigilanceA special chapter on unique methodological challenges with the conduct of vaccine safety studiesGuides the reader on training and funding opportunities in...

This book systematically explains the mechanics of fracture phenomena, focusing on cracking under high temperature conditions. One of the defining characteristics of high temperature fracture is creep, a phenomenon where deformation progresses over time, eventually leading to failure.Author: Takayuki KitamuraISBN-10: 9815129554ISBN-13: 9789815129557Publisher: Jenny Stanford...

Mentioned as the second prize area in his will, Chemistry was the most important science for Alfred Nobel's own work. The development of Nobel's inventions as well as the industrial processes he employed were based upon chemical knowledge. This volume is a collection of...

This invaluable textbook presents the basic elements needed to understand and research into semiconductor physics. It deals with elementary excitations in bulk and low-dimensional semiconductors, including quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum dots. The basic principles underlying optical nonlinearities are developed, including excitonic and...

This memorial volume in honor of Dr Akira Tonomura is to commemorate his enormous contributions to fundamental physics in addition to the basic technology of electron microscopy. Dr Tonomura passed away on May 2, 2012 at the age of 70. He was Fellow of...

This book covers both fundamental and practical aspects of chemical analysis: Data Process and Analysis; Chemical Equilibria and Volumetric titrations; Gravimetry; Spectrophotometry; Sample Preparation and Separation Methods in Quantitative Analysis.It was written with the rich tradition of teaching at Peking University College of Chemistry,...