Lo: 453 books
Interpreting Biomedical Science
Experiment, Evidence, and Belief
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Interpreting Biomedical Science: Experiment, Evidence, and Belief discusses what can go wrong in biological science, providing an unbiased view and cohesive understanding of scientific methods, statistics, data interpretation, and scientific ethics that are illustrated with practical examples and...
by Andrew Brennan, Y.S. Lo
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Environmental philosophy is one of the exciting new fields of philosophy to emerge in the last forty years. "Understanding Environmental Philosophy" presents a comprehensive, critical analysis of contemporary philosophical approaches to current ecological concerns. Key ideas are explained,...
by Éloïse Brezault
Language: French
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Dix-huit romanciers déclinent le multiple visage de l’Afrique. Cette Afrique dont on discerne les contours dans l’intimité de sa littérature pour aller droit au cœur des mythes, des histoires coloniale et postcoloniale, des guerres, des génocides, des exils. Perce également, en contrepoint...
Mod-ϕ Convergence
Normality Zones and Precise Deviations
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
The canonical way to establish the central limit theorem for i.i.d. random variables is to use characteristic functions and Lévy’s continuity theorem. This monograph focuses on this characteristic function approach and presents a renormalization theory called mod-ϕ convergence. This type of convergence...
Advances in Geosciences
Volume 31: Solid Earth Science (SE)
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
This invaluable volume set of Advances in Geosciences continues the excellent tradition of the Asia-Oceania scientific community in providing the most up-to-date research results on a wide range of geosciences and environmental science. The information is vital to the understanding of the effects...
Urbanism in the Preindustrial World
Cross-Cultural Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2009
A baseline study of the growth of preindustrial cities worldwide.
This work employs a subset of preindustrial cities on many continents to answer questions archaeologists grapple with concerning the populating and growth of cities before industrialization. It further explores how scholars differently...
The Age of Perversion
Desire and Technology in Psychoanalysis and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize Winner for 2018 (Theoretical Category)
We have entered the age of perversion, an era in which we are becoming more like machines and they more like us.The Age of Perversion explores the sea changes occurring in sexual and social life,...
by Ivaïlo M. Mladenov, Mariana Hadzhilazova
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
This book provides an introduction to the mathematical aspects of Euler's elastic theory and its application. The approach is rigorous, as well as visually depicted, and can be easily digested. The first few chapters introduce the needed mathematical concepts from geometry and variational calculus....
Helping Children Form Healthy Attachments
Building the Foundation for Strong Lifelong Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Safety, feeling at home, trust, self-confidence, creativity, and comfort in exploring the world, are things all children should have. From an early age, children form attachments that become the foundation of their future relationships. Strong bonds wi
by LO BIANCO, Joseph, ORTON
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
The book is a collection of essays on translating various types of text (literary, religious, political, etc.) into and from Chinese. The focus is on how such translations have been produced and propagated from ancient to modern times, and their sociocultural impact on the evolution of Chinese history and Chinese translatology.
University Rankings
Implications for Higher Education in Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
This book adopts a qualitative case study approach to provide the readers with a systematic delineation and interpretation of the implications of the university ranking phenomenon for Taiwan’s higher education system. It reviews the literature on different theories concerning the global transformation...
La forza di combattere
Il medaglione
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Una storia ambientata nella bella Palermo, la storia di Lia.
Questa giovane ragazza ci accompagna per le vie della città, così caratteristica ma altrettanto ostica, dove la mafia lascia le sue impronte. È per questo che i suoi genitori saranno costretti a trasferirsi a Firenze, lontano dagli...
Encounter with God
July–September 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Encounter with God is Scripture Union's daily Bible reading guide designed to lead you to a deeper understanding about what God is saying to you and to his world today. You’ll find its thorough and energetic investigation of the whole Bible inspiring and stimulating. And you’ll discover that its...
The Renminbi Rises
Myths, Hypes and Realities of RMB Internationalisation and Reforms in the Post-Crisis World
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
This book breaks new ground in research on the RMB's offshore market by addressing the myths, hypes and realities surrounding the rise of the Chinese Yuan. It is the first book to address the rise of the Renminbi by focusing on the structural factors behind it and drawing on the global, regional and domestic developments affecting its development.