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by Yasuhiro Monden, Noriyuki Imai, Takami Matsuo;Naoya Yamaguchi
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
With the service industry taking up the largest portion of its GDP, Japan has much to share in the area of managing service industry. This book explores and elucidates the unique management styles in non-manufacturing industries or service industries in contemporary Japan, both practically and theoretically...
Handbook on Social Stratification in the BRIC Countries
Change and Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Along with the fast growing economy, the term “BRICs” was coined to represent the newly emerging countries — Brazil, Russia, India and China. The enhanced economy in these countries has largely improved people's life; at the same time, it has also strongly influenced the transformation of social...
Handbook of Climate Change and Agroecosystems
The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) Integrated Crop and Economic Assessments — Joint Publication with American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America(In 2 Parts)
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
“Top agricultural scientists from around the world have taken up the challenge of sustainable agriculture, with the specific focus on integrating agronomic, climatological, biophysical and socio-economic perspectives and processes. Every chapter (of the Handbook) contributes to addressing the growing...
Biophysics of Consciousness
A Foundational Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The problem of how the brain produces consciousness, subjectivity and "something it is like to be" remains one of the greatest challenges to a complete science of the natural world. While various scientists and philosophers approach the problem from their own unique perspectives and in the...
by Swadhin Kumar Behera, Toshio Yamagata
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
This book aims to compile some of the important results from the latest research in climate variation and prediction studies with a focus on the role of the ocean, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region. Several new modes of ocean-atmosphere climate variations have been discovered in the last decade,...
Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction & Management
Climate Change and Natural Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Climate change is increasingly of great concern to the world community. The earth has witnessed the buildup of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere, changes in biodiversity, and more occurrences of natural disasters. Recently, scientists have begun to shift their emphasis away from curbing carbon...
by Joseph Yu-Shek Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Since the mid-1990s, the Chinese authorities have gradually come to embrace multilateralism to realize their basic foreign policy objectives in maintaining a peaceful international environment and enhancing China's international status and influence. This embrace is largely based on pragmatic considerations....
by Khee Giap Tan, Trieu Duong Luu Nguyen, Hui Yin Chuah;Duy Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
This book titled 2017 Annual Competitiveness Analysis and Impact of Exchange Rates on Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to ASEAN Economies recount the development experience of ASEAN over the past 50 years, describe the long-term mega-trends which will shape ASEAN's development trajectory, and propose...
by Dukgeun Ahn
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
The Legal and Economic Analysis of the WTO/FTA System presents a collation of interdisciplinary studies covering a wide range of issues from WTO dispute settlement issues to trade remedy systems and FTA negotiations. The author applies legal as well as economic rationales and methods to analyze core...
Studying Hong Kong
20 Years of Political, Economic and Social Developments
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This book captures the essence of Hong Kong's development in the past two decades from 1997 to 2017. It is broken into four parts — economics, society, politics and culture.
Hong Kong's role remains as a gateway for global trading houses, businessmen, investors and traders. Hong Kong continues...
Getting to Grips with Science
A Fresh Approach for the Curious
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Science touches all of our lives, every day, and should be a constant source of wonder and fascination — not something confined to the classroom. This book is for anybody who feels curious about ideas in science but lacks a strong background in the subject. Getting to Grips with Science draws on...
Cultural Security
Evaluating the Power of Culture in International Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Over the past two centuries, abuse of antiquities and fine art has evolved from the “spoils of war” into a medium for conducting terrorism which strives to erase the cultural heritage of “the other”. At the same time, the growth of the art market over the past fifty years has created opportunities...
Reform and Development in China
After 40 Years
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
This book provides a comprehensive review of China's experience in reform and opening up from political, social, and economic perspectives. It attempts to engage existing scholarly debates in three areas — first, how the party-state has evolved in the past four decades and whether it remains a Leninist...
by Lijun Yang, Wei Shan
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
New Humanism and Global Governance is the first in this subject to study how a variety of factors related to globalization will shape the future of the human community. It discusses the major challenges to today's world order and governance, as well as international experience in responding to these...