Wspc imprint: 2707 books
China and Southeast Asia
Myths, Threats, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 1999
The reemergence of China as a political force has triggered sharp reassessments of its future role in the Asia-Pacific region. There has been much hyperbole about China's economic power, especially if it is linked with the entrepreneurial talents of the ubiquitous Chinese spread around the globe....
The Village and Its Discontents
Meaning and Criticism in Late Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
The Village and Its Discontents: Meaning and Criticism in Late Modernity is a hopeful collection of essays about villages in Southeast Asia and across the world. The "village" is an idea, a construct, and a way of organising society. Villages constitute the basic unit of analyses in the...
by Tai Wei Lim, Wen Xin Lim, Xiaojuan Ping;Hui-Yi Tseng
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
This book aims to provide comprehensive empirical and theoretical studies of expanding fandom communities in East Asia through the commodification of Japanese, Korean and Chinese popular cultures in the digital era. Using a multidisciplinary approach including political economy, East Asian studies,...
M(odified) E(ssay) Q(uestions) for Medicine Finals
With Solutions and TipsVolume 2
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
There is a paucity of high-value examination-style questions for final-year medical undergraduates. This book uses true (and modified) clinical scenarios (for realism), appropriate and pragmatic clinical questions (for clinical reasoning), and provides readers with explanations and tips in solutions...
Frontiers in Autism Research
New Horizons for Diagnosis and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
This book focuses on the emerging and expanding areas of research on ASD and their potential to lead to better diagnosis and more effective therapies. These areas include innovative and integrative approaches to genetic/genomic analyses and investigations of epigenetic contributions, including the...
Differential Equations
An Introduction to Basic Concepts, Results and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
This book presents, in a unitary frame and from a new perspective, the main concepts and results of one of the most fascinating branches of modern mathematics, namely differential equations, and offers the reader another point of view concerning a possible way to approach the problems of existence,...
Undergraduate Convexity
Problems and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
This solutions manual thoroughly goes through the exercises found in Undergraduate Convexity: From Fourier and Motzkin to Kuhn and Tucker. Several solutions are accompanied by detailed illustrations and intuitive explanations. This book will pave the way for students to easily grasp the multitude...
Numerical Differential Equations
Theory and Technique, ODE Methods, Finite Differences, Finite Elements and Collocation
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
This text presents numerical differential equations to graduate (doctoral) students. It includes the three standard approaches to numerical PDE, FDM, FEM and CM, and the two most common time stepping techniques, FDM and Runge-Kutta. We present both the numerical technique and the supporting theory.
The...
by Yong Zhou
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
This invaluable book is devoted to a rapidly developing area on the research of the qualitative theory of fractional differential equations. It is self-contained and unified in presentation, and provides readers the necessary background material required to go further into the subject and explore...
by Christopher Frye, Costas Efthimiou
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
The current book makes several useful topics from the theory of special functions, in particular the theory of spherical harmonics and Legendre polynomials in arbitrary dimensions, available to undergraduates studying physics or mathematics. With this audience in mind, nearly all details of the calculations...
Discrete Fourier and Wavelet Transforms
An Introduction through Linear Algebra with Applications to Signal Processing
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
This textbook for undergraduate mathematics, science, and engineering students introduces the theory and applications of discrete Fourier and wavelet transforms using elementary linear algebra, without assuming prior knowledge of signal processing or advanced analysis.
It explains how to use...
A Course in Analysis
Vol. II: Differentiation and Integration of Functions of Several Variables, Vector Calculus
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
This is the second volume of "A Course in Analysis" and it is devoted to the study of mappings between subsets of Euclidean spaces. The metric, hence the topological structure is discussed as well as the continuity of mappings. This is followed by introducing partial derivatives of real-valued...
by Arak M Mathai, Hans J Haubold
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Fractional calculus in terms of mathematics and statistics and its applications to problems in natural sciences is NOT yet part of university teaching curricula. This book is one attempt to provide an approach to include topics of fractional calculus into university curricula. Additionally the material...
by John Loustau
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Here we present numerical analysis to advanced undergraduate and master degree level grad students. This is to be done in one semester. The programming language is Mathematica. The mathematical foundation and technique is included. The emphasis is geared toward the two major developing areas of applied...