Icp imprint: 267 books
Mathemusical Conversations
Mathematics and Computation in Music Performance and Composition
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Mathemusical Conversations celebrates the understanding of music through mathematics, and the appreciation of mathematics through music. This volume is a compilation of the invited talks given at the Mathemusical Conversations workshop that took place in Singapore from 13–15 February 2015, organized...
by Hamid Bolouri
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
This book serves as an introduction to the myriad computational approaches to gene regulatory modeling and analysis, and is written specifically with experimental biologists in mind. Mathematical jargon is avoided and explanations are given in intuitive terms. In cases where equations are unavoidable,...
by Kent G Deng
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The narrative of China's history in this book is 'theme-led' rather than conventionally chronicle-based. It covers China's resource endowments, historical contingencies (such as civil wars, invasions and climate changes) and ideologies (including Legalism, Confucianism, Social Darwinism, nationalism,...
The EUChina Relationship: European Perspectives
A Manual for Policy Makers
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This book brings together 30 papers commissioned from 2011 to 2013 by the EU-funded Europe–China Research and Advice Network (ECRAN). These papers, thematically grouped in sections on economics, society and politics, were written by some of the world's leading China experts in Europe, and give a...
Terrorist Rehabilitation
A New Frontier in Counter-terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
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With the rise of religiously motivated violence and terrorism, governments around the world need to develop their religious and ideological capabilities in parallel with strengthening their law enforcement, military and intelligence capabilities. Terrorist Rehabilitation: A New...
Wars From Within
Understanding and Managing Insurgent Movements
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Wars from Within brings together an international and multidisciplinary group of academics and practitioner-researchers specializing in the study of insurgent movements in order to provide a deeper understanding of the violent manifestations of insurgencies in different parts of the world. In doing...
Countering Extremism
Building Social Resilience through Community Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
This unique work is the first to address the subject of community engagement strategies in countering extremism, and explores the development and research of these strategies. In so doing it demystifies the process of community engagement, while simultaneously extolling the virtues of the ground breaking...
Overcoming Deafness
The Story of Hearing and Language
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Hearing is one of the most empowering of our senses; it enables us to work, socialise and communicate. It's hard to imagine living in a silent world, yet just 60 years ago this was the inevitable outcome for the majority of people with ear disease or language problems. Nowadays, virtually everybody...
by Phil Dyke
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Modelling is now an accepted part in the understanding, prediction and planning of environmental strategies. Perfect for undergraduate students and non-specialist readers, Modelling Coastal and Marine Processes (2nd Edition) offers an introduction into how coastal and marine models are constructed...
by Jeffrey Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
The modern world is complex beyond human understanding and control. The science of complex systems aims to find new ways of thinking about the many interconnected networks of interaction that defy traditional approaches. Thus far, research into networks has largely been restricted to pairwise relationships...
After the Beginning
A Cosmic Journey through Space and Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2004
In a brilliant flash about fourteen billion years ago, time and matter were born in a single instant of creation. An immensely hot and dense universe began its rapid expansion everywhere, creating space where there was no space and time where there was no time. In the intense fire just after the beginning,...
Beating the Odds
The Life and Times of E A Milne
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
E A Milne was one of the giants of 20th century astrophysics and cosmology. His bold ideas, underpinned by his Christianity, sparked controversy — he believed two time scales operate in the universe.
Struggling against poverty, Milne won five scholarships to Cambridge, but he never finished...
by Robert Weale
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
What exactly is human ageing? Can it be slowed down? These questions have puzzled scientists and laymen alike for generations, and continue to do so today. The author addresses these thought-provoking issues by challenging pre-conceived notions of age-perception, age-acceptance and inter-age relations....
Biological Threats in the 21st Century
The Politics, People, Science and Historical Roots
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Biological Threats in the 21st Century offers a fresh understanding of contemporary biological threats to national security. Readers are introduced to the politics, people, science and historical roots of contemporary biological threats through up-to-date, rigorous and accessible chapters written...