Icp imprint: 267 books
Motivating Mathematics
Engaging Teachers and Engaged Students
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Motivating Mathematics demonstrates that pupils can be motivated by being given the Big Picture, including a clearer picture of the nature of maths, and by linking topics to the sciences, rather than teaching each topic in isolation. The author emphasises the many virtues of problem-solving, strongly...
Everyday Probability and Statistics
Health, Elections, Gambling and War
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2008
Probability and statistics impinge on the life of the average person in a variety of ways — as is suggested by the title of this book. Very often, information is provided that is factually accurate but intended to present a biased view. This book presents the important results of probability and...
Decarbonising the World's Economy
Assessing the Feasibility of Policies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Too often amongst policy makers and thought leaders an assumption is made that we must make a choice between tackling climate change and having a strong economy; tackling climate change and allowing poorer nations to develop; tackling climate change and having a secure energy system. However, a decade...
Approximation of Set-Valued Functions
Adaptation of Classical Approximation Operators
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
This book is aimed at the approximation of set-valued functions with compact sets in an Euclidean space as values. The interest in set-valued functions is rather new. Such functions arise in various modern areas such as control theory, dynamical systems and optimization. The authors' motivation also...
by W Shepherd, D W Shepherd
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
How is the future world energy demand to be met? The rates of use of the fossil fuels — coal, oil and natural gas — are increasing all over the world. The remaining stocks are finite and are not renewable.
This book considers the various options of renewable energy, including water energy,...
A Critical History of Financial Crises
Why Would Politicians and Regulators Spoil Financial Giants?
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
We are pleased to announce that A Critical History of Financial Crises has been included in CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Title list. Only the most outstanding works have been selected for their excellence in scholarship and presentation, the significance of their contribution to...
by Godfrey Onwubolu
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Group method of data handling (GMDH) is a typical inductive modeling method built on the principles of self-organization. Since its introduction, inductive modelling has been developed to support complex systems in prediction, clusterization, system identification, as well as data mining and knowledge...
GMDH-Methodology and Implementation in C
(With CD-ROM)
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH) is a typical inductive modeling method built on the principles of self-organization. Since its introduction, inductive modeling has been developed and applied to complex systems in areas like prediction, modeling, clusterization, system identification, as well...
Medical Futility
A Cross-National Study
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Medical futility is a controversial issue not only in its definition but also in its application. There are few books on the subject, and those in existence mostly focus on the situation in the United States. This title, however, provides extensive international perspectives on medical futility.
This...
by Dale B Haidvogel, Aike Beckmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1999
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the models and methods employed in the rapidly advancing field of numerical ocean circulation modeling. For those new to the field, concise reviews of the equations of oceanic motion, sub-grid-scale parameterization, and numerical approximation techniques...
by Joe Tidd
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
The concept of open innovation has become increasingly popular in the management and policy literature on technology and innovation. However, despite the large volume of empirical work, many of the prescriptions being proposed are fairly general and not specific to particular contexts and contingencies....
World Scientific Reference on Globalisation in Eurasia and the Pacific Rim
Volume 1: Foreign InvestmentVolume 2: InnovationVolume 3: Energy: Policy, Legal and Social-Economic Issues under the Dimensions of Sustainability and SecurityVolume 4: Migration: Economic Drivers of Contemporary Labour Mobility in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This multi-volume set focuses on a key region of the world which contains four of the biggest emerging economies, a large number of highly dynamic small- and medium-sized emerging economies, and one of the leading advanced industrial countries. It is a region which contains some of the biggest hydrocarbon...
by John Wong
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Following Deng Xiaoping's economic reform and opening (Gaige Kaifang) policy, China experienced unprecedented high growth for over three decades. Crucial in the process was the role of Zhu Rongji, who was hand-picked by Deng initially as Executive Vice-Premier and later full Premier to carry through...
From Bin Laden to Facebook
10 Days of Abduction, 10 Years of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Maria A Ressa has been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal (High-Profile Journalist Reshapes Her Role in Terrorism Fight) and Channel NewsAsia (Terrorism Goes Online)
The two most wanted terrorists in Southeast Asia — a Malaysian and a Singaporean — are on the run in the Philippines,...