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Intrinsic Sustainable Development
Epistemes, Science, Business and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Sustainable development sets the agenda for the 21st century. Human technological capability and needs mean that nature is and will be challenged and damaged in many ways. Whilst many social and technological innovations are being made to improve our survival prospects, they are likely to be insufficient...
by Peter Rowlands
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This book looks at how Newton's theories can be linked to modern day problems and solutions in physics. Newton created an abstract system of theorizing which has been applied to all aspects of the physical world, however he had difficulties in persuading his contemporaries of its unique merits. A...
Lost in Translation
Barriers to Incentives for Translational Research in Medical Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
This book is all about the definition and finding ways to prioritize and accelerate translation research in biomedical sciences and rapidly turning new knowledge into first-in-human studies. It represents an effort to bring together scientists active in various areas of translational research to share...
The Quantum Adventure
Does God Play Dice?
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Quantum theory revolutionized physics at the beginning of the last century. Einstein was one of its originators, but as the implications of the theory emerged, he began to have doubts. Are the most basic physical processes based on probability? Is the Universe governed by chance? Do physical objects...
Breaches and Bridges
German Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Breaches and Bridges — German Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times features an agenda-setting speech by the Federal President of Germany, Dr Frank-Walter Steinmeier, delivered as a GIGA Distinguished Speaker Lecture in June 2016, when he served as the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs.
This...
by Thomas E Novotny, Ilona Kickbusch, Michaela Told
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Global health diplomacy begins with a recognition that the most effective international health interventions are carried out with sensitivity to historical, political, social, economic, and cultural differences. It focuses on the interplay of globalization, economic interdependence, social justice,...
Doing Mathematics
Convention, Subject, Calculation, Analogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Doing Mathematics discusses some ways mathematicians and mathematical physicists do their work and the subject matters they uncover and fashion. The conventions they adopt, the subject areas they delimit, what they can prove and calculate about the physical world, and the analogies they discover and...
A Computable Universe
Understanding and Exploring Nature as Computation
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
This volume, with a foreword by Sir Roger Penrose, discusses the foundations of computation in relation to nature.
It focuses on two main questions:
What is computation?
How does nature compute?
The contributors are world-renowned experts who have helped shape a cutting-edge computational...
What Makes a Champion!
Over Fifty Extraordinary Individuals Share Their Insights
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
What drives great and successful individuals — be they athletes, artists, or scientists — or businesses, to achieve the extraordinary?
Over fifty champions from all walks of life, brought together by Allan Snyder, draw on their experiences to explore the secrets of success in this inspiring,...
by Mo-Lin Ge, Rong-Gen Cai, Yu-Xiao Liu
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Yi-Shi Duan (1927–2016) was one of the world-renowned pioneers in the study of gauge field theory and general relativity. Trained in the former Soviet Union, Prof. Duan returned to China in 1957 to work in Lanzhou University for 60 years. In 1963, he came up with a general co-variant form of the...
by Wilhelm Kohler
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
This volume is a collection of papers that apply general equilibrium theory in order to obtain policy relevant insights on topical issues of international trade and migration. The first set of papers focuses on European integration, applying dynamic numerical general equilibrium methods to quantify...
Business Exit Strategies
Family-Owned and Other Business
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
This book analyzes various business exit strategies for both family-owned businesses as well as other businesses, both in the United States and throughout the world. Approximately 80% to 90% of all businesses in the world are family-owned. The book discusses, among other things, 12 common mistakes...
by Jaime de Melo
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Differences in the choices of trade and macro policies, both by developing countries and by developed countries towards developing countries, have been critical in determining the overall performance of developing countries. All too often, the performance of developing countries has not been assessed...
by Vipin K Agrawal, Ramesh K S Rao
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
A corporate manager typically oversees several ongoing projects and has the opportunity to invest in new projects that add wealth to the stockholders. Such new projects include expanding the corporation's existing business, entering into a new line of business, acquiring another business, and so on....