F F John: 989 books

This book details polysaccharides and other important biomacromolecules covering their source, production, structures, properties, and current and potential application in the fields of biotechnology and medicine. It includes a systematic discussion on the general strategies of isolation, separation...

In this important book, a distinguished group of historians, political scientists, and legal experts explore three related issues: the Immigration and Naturalization Service's historic review of its citizenship evaluation, recent proposals to alter the oath of allegiance and the laws governing dual...

This study is an attempt to find a solution to the problem of fiscal adjustment between a province or a state and its municipalities–a pressing problem throughout Canada and the United States and in many other countries in view of the great disparities in the revenue-raising capacity of municipalities,...

Traces the recent evolution of international terrorism against civilian and U.S. military targets, looks ahead to where terrorism is going, and assesses how it might be contained. The authors consider the threat of information-based terrorism and of weapons of mass destruction, with an emphasis on...

This book is an attempt to relate moral formation to democratic life and to the emotional emotion of shame. The argument is that shame is essential to moral formation, that it tells us when we are violating our own moral norms. Contrary to common belief, I argue that shame is neither imposed on us...

**1970－2017美中台關係發展史 台灣問題專家逾四十年精深研究的結晶之作 ●台海風雲密布，本書勾勒出這幅心驚膽顫的景象。 ●跨越四十年、涵蓋美中台三方全方位觀點、最新的國際關係研究。 ●台美斷交前夕至今，美中台三邊外交最鉅細靡遺的記載。 ●美國台灣問題專家逾四十年精深研究，畢生首部中文翻譯著作。 ●作者特別為中文版增訂2006年英文書出版後至2017年的發展。 ●鉅細靡遺地以第一手觀察和資料敘述美中台關係發展史。** 「對任何一本書的讀者而言，瞭解作者的『出發點』有其啟發性，也就是他或她的背景、偏見和看待議題的方式。雖然我在美國的中心地帶出生及成長，但到了而立之年，台灣幾乎是我的第二個家。」 －－康培莊 康培莊是美國首屈一指的台灣問題專家，對台灣和中國議題非常熟悉，至今筆耕不輟。這本書是他四十多年觀察、思考和寫作的累積。作者在自序中提到他1963年來到台灣，親眼見到台灣創造民主化和經濟起飛的「雙奇蹟」，也目睹了幾次台灣大選的混亂局面和台海危機，從這樣的「出發點」開始，他共寫了26本關於台灣的專書，這本書便是交織了浪漫風情和現實主義的集大成者。 林孝庭在《意外的國度：蔣介石、美國、與近代台灣的形塑》敘述1945－1954台灣如何成為國民黨政府最後一塊根據地，聚焦於飄搖不定的台美關係。在《飛彈、政客與祕密外交》這本書中，康培莊從1970年代尼克森／季辛吉與中國祕密外交到今日中美交鋒，緊扣著美中台三方關係，而中國的崛起，注定與美國爭奪霸主，一如古希臘歷史學家修昔底德記錄古希臘兩次重大戰爭之一的《伯羅奔尼撒戰爭史》，中美之間的矛盾與衝突，以及經濟對政治、軍事的影響，再次印證了「修昔底德陷阱」－崛起中的強權挑戰霸權的情形下，一場戰爭在所難免，而夾在中間的台灣勢必捲入戰局。值得一提的是，英文書名「玩火」（Playing...

A space opera in which an interplanetary criminal reminiscent of Charteris' character, The Saint, foils a plot to flood Earth with an addictive Venusian fruit.

Information is a recognized fundamental notion across the sciences and humanities, which is crucial to understanding physical computation, communication, and human cognition. The Philosophy of Information brings together the most important perspectives on information. It includes major technical approaches,...

This volume provides a comprehensive, broad-based overview, including first-person accounts, of the development and conduct of archaeology in the Southeast over the past three decades. Histories of Southeastern Archaeology originated as a symposium at the 1999 Southeastern Archaeological Conference...

Max Stirner (1806-1856) is recognized in the history of political thought because of his egoist classic The Ego and Its Own. Stirner was a student of Hegel, and a critic of the Young Hegelians and the emerging forms of socialist and communist thought in the 1840s. Max Stirner's Dialectical Egoism:...

Commanding its own museum and over 200 years of examination, observation and scholarship, the monumental embroidery, known popularly as the Bayeux Tapestry and documenting William the Conqueror’s invasion of England in October 1066, is perhaps the most important surviving artifact of the Middle...

A study of retroscapes, commercial environments that evoke past times and places, a ubiquitous manifestation of modern marketing. It covers an array of retailing milieux, in a number of different countries, at a variety of spatial scales, and from various evaluative perspectives, both pro and con.

Following the defeat at Wabash, in 1792 the Washington administration created a new US Army to replace the one that had been destroyed. The man chosen to lead it was the famous Major-General "Mad†? Anthony Wayne. Having trained his new force, Wayne set out in 1793 to subdue the Ohio Indians....

Engineers need to be familiar with the fundamental principles and concepts in materials and structures in order to be able to design structurers to resist failures. For 4 decades, this book has provided engineers with these fundamentals. Thoroughly updated, the book has been expanded to cover...