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Sustainable Investing and Environmental Markets
Opportunities in a New Asset Class
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Environmental asset classes are not a hope for tomorrow but a reality today. This new asset category promises to grow dramatically in the 21st Century as financial analysts, investors, and corporations around the world try to find ways to profit or reduce costs while promoting environmental social...
by Xin Liu
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Alongside China's vast material development, there came a change of its mental habits, largely affected by the technological revolution in the means of mass communication. This book shows how such a change has brought — and yet been brought by — a new form of pictorial thought, essentially sensuous...
George Placzek
A Nuclear Physicist's Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
This book presents the first detailed biography of George Placzek — an outstanding physicist, a participant in the Manhattan Project who stood at the very inception of nuclear physics and the subsequent development of the nuclear bomb in the course of the WWII. In the 1930s, George Placzek was known...
Intravitreal Injections
A Handbook for Ophthalmic Nurse Practitioners and Trainee Ophthalmologists
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Intravitreal injections (injections into the eye) are a new form of treatment for various conditions such as age-related macular degeneration, diabetic eye disease and vascular eye problems. The use of these injections has become so widespread that most departments around the world (and particularly...
How Chinese Teach Mathematics
Perspectives from Insiders
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
This unique book represents another concerted research effort concerning Chinese mathematics education, with contributions from the world's leading scholars and most active researchers. The book presents the latest original research work with a particular focus on the "teaching" side of...
by James D Louck, Myron L Stein*
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
This monograph develops chaos theory from properties of the graphs inverse to the parabolic map of the interval [0, 2], where the height at the midpoint x = 1 may be viewed as a time-like parameter, which together with the x-coordinate, provide the two parameters that uniquely characterize the parabola,...
by Antonino Zichichi
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
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Harmony of Scattering Amplitudes: From QCD to N = 8 Supergravity (Z Bern)
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Black Holes and Qubits (M J Duff)
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by Fuxi Gan, Qinghui Li, Julian Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The aim of the book is to report the recent research development of ancient glass and glazing technology and the historical–cultural exchange of the East and West along the Silk and Steppe Roads. The contents of this book are dedicated to promote the exchanges between researchers in both social...
China Dreams
China's New Leadership and Future Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
With the theme “China Dreams: Opportunities and Challenges,” this book contributes to emerging debates on Chinese new leadership's adaptability to important political, economic, social, and global issues. Can China's political system sustain “China Dreams”, a slogan ushered by Chinese President...
Water Is ...
The Indispensability of Water in Society and Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
People are increasingly aware of the role that water has in shaping society and how it impacts quality of life. This is the first book to provide a holistic perspective on water, capturing the full breadth of the science, technology, policy, history, and future outlook for the most important substance...
The Crisis of Cultural Intelligence
The Anthropology of CivilMilitary Operations
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Military and civilian organizations in the past have attempted to understand culture and the cultural environment of conflict zones through anthropology. While there is a small and growing number of studies examining the use of anthropology for counterinsurgency, no studies have compared the Anglo-Saxon...
Snow, Ice and Other Wonders of Water
A Tribute to the Hydrogen Bond
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
The book illustrates the fascinating world of the different forms of water — from ice and snow to liquid water. The water molecule, H2O, is the second most common molecule in the Universe (behind hydrogen, H2) and ice is the most abundant solid material. Snow and ice appear in a countless large...
by Camille Ndebeka-Bandou, Francesca Carosella, Gérald Bastard
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
This book is an introduction to quantum states and of their scattering in semiconductor nanostructures. Written with exercises and detailed solutions, it is designed to enable readers to start modelling actual electron states and scattering in nanostructures. It first looks at practical aspects of...
Prime Numbers, Friends Who Give Problems
A Trialogue with Papa Paulo
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Prime Numbers, Friends Who Give Problems is written as a trialogue, with two persons who are interested in prime numbers asking the author, Papa Paulo, intelligent questions. Starting at a very elementary level, the book advances steadily, covering all important topics of the theory of prime numbers,...