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Be Fit for Life: A Guide to Successful Aging is a self-help book for anyone interested in living a happier and healthier life. Aging is a life-long process and the sooner one accepts this and better...

This book is written for engineers, students of coastal processes and laypersons interested in beach nourishment, which consists of the placement of large quantities of good quality sediment on the...

The refined theory of beams, which takes into account both rotary inertia and shear deformation, was developed jointly by Timoshenko and Ehrenfest in the years 1911-1912. In over a century since the...

High-energy particle accelerators are as diverse as their uses, which range from scientific research in fields such as high-energy physics, materials science and the life sciences, to applications in...

Why is 2 times 3 equal to 3 times 2? One may think this is an axiom, but it has a proof, and a beautiful one at that. Elementary mathematics is as deep and as beautiful as higher mathematics. It...

Why is 2 times 3 equal to 3 times 2? One may think this is an axiom, but it has a proof, and a beautiful one at that. Elementary mathematics is as deep and as beautiful as higher mathematics. It...

The road to becoming an integrated STEM teacher is a journey. This STEM education journal aims to be a companion, or a guiding 'voice' on your journey from being to becoming a competent STEM teacher...

The road to becoming an integrated STEM teacher is a journey. This STEM education journal aims to be a companion, or a guiding 'voice' on your journey from being to becoming a competent STEM teacher...

Biologists find computing bewildering; yet they are expected to be able to process the voluminous data available from the machines they buy and the datasets that has accumulated in genomic databanks...

The area of behavioral finance, though relatively young, has matured and spread beyond its initial objectives: to demonstrate the fallibility of the efficient market hypothesis, to shake the belief...

This unique volume presents new original research exploring factors that lead to investors behavioral biases. It discusses how features such as professionalism, sophistication, gender, media, and...

This is the fourth volume of edited books constituting an eclectic collection of papers in behavioral finance based on contributions by participants of Israel Behavior Finance conferences. Like its...

Analysts of government have frequently noted how Singapore's policies are grounded in rigorous economics thinking. Policies are designed to be economically efficient even if they are not always...

Beijing Record, the result of ten years of research on the urban transformation of Beijing in the last fifty years, brings to an extended Western audience the inside story on the key decisions that...

Being! Five ways of leading authentically in an iConnected world is rooted in leadership practice across many sectors and its raison d'etre is to build adaptiveness and resilience in uncertain times...

This book is an introduction to quantum mechanics and mathematics that leads to the solution of the Schrodinger equation. It can be read and understood by undergraduates without sacrificing the...

This book views the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a bold and all-encompassing 21st century global effort by China, with unprecedented perspectives. The BRI could be summarised as a "revitalization"...

ASEAN countries play a crucial role in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) that was initiated in 2013. A number of priority BRI projects have since been implemented. The implementation of BRI brings...

This leads to the key finding that the phenomenon is actually quantitative in nature. Why? The author illustrates that in extreme generality, nature creates many small quantities but very few big...

Materials science institutions have always been crucial to the development of materials research. Even before materials science emerged as a discipline in the 20th century, these institutions existed...

Beyond Conventional Economics: Selected Works of E Ray Canterbery presents a collation of Canterbery's many contributions to economics. This volume marks the first time that his complete works have...

Author: Amitav AcharyaPublisher: World Scientific Publishing CompanyPublication Date: Mar 15, 2011Number of Pages: 164 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 9814324876ISBN-13: 9789814324878

Author: Amitav AcharyaPublisher: World Scientific Publishing CompanyPublication Date: May 15, 2011Number of Pages: 164 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 9814324809ISBN-13: 9789814324809

The Indo-Pacific has now emerged as a major area of collaboration between India, Japan and the United States (US). It was in 2018 that the US renamed its Pacific Command as the Indo-Pacific Command...

Marketing and communications are ever-evolving areas, with trends and issues quickly emerging, and often fading just as fast. An evergreen issue that continues to gain more and more traction is that...

Overview -- Issues and challenges of international monetary reform -- East Asia perception of the global safety net, IMF -- Use of national currencies for trade settlement in East Asia : a proposal...

So far, so good: the universe at the start of the 20th century -- A relatively different story: how Einstein's relativity revolutionized space, time and the universe -- Beyond the Milky Way: a giant...

Beyond the Knowledge Trap: Developing Asia's Knowledge-Based EconomiesAuthor: Thomas MenkhoffPublisher: World Scientific Publishing CompanyPublication Date: 40662Number of Pages: 472 pagesBinding:...

Finally, someone has written a comprehensive, easily readable explanation of the tides on earth that is both simple enough for students and solid enough for their professors. Step by step, by analogy...

What is the origin of the universe? Are we alone in the Universe? Using clear and plain language, the author explores these two interesting scientific-philosophical themes with a broad range of...