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Cremona Violins
A Physicist's Quest for the Secrets of Stradivari(With DVD-ROM)
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Cremona violins occupy a unique and storied place in violin history. This book contains a brief account of that history — the rise and fall of the Cremonese art of violin making that dominated over two centuries. It is primarily devoted, however, to the physics behind violin acoustics, specifically...
The Geology of the Modern Cancer Epidemic
Through the Lens of Chinese Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Cancers are on the rise across the world. Except for viral-based cancers, overall cancers are diseases that may be preventable. This book looks at the many levels of determined, probable, and possible causation for several common cancers. These causes include realities found in culture, anthropology,...
Remembering S R Nathan
A Mentor for All Seasons
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Remembering S R Nathan: A Mentor for All Seasons is a collection of essays commemorating the life of Singapore's sixth President, the late Mr S R Nathan. The book aims to give greater insights into the wide-ranging roles he had in his various contributions to Singapore. It reviews his leadership and...
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,...
Superpower, China?
Historicizing Beijing's New Narratives of Leadership and East Asia's Response Thereto
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
This book sets out to answer how China's rise can best be understood from both East Asian and Western perspectives. It also assesses the prospect of realignment away from the US hegemony in East Asia in light of persistent regional rivalries. Throughout the book, the authors show that for China's...
China's 19th Party Congress
Start of a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
This book gives an overview of key themes domestically and internationally from the 19th Communist Party Congress held in Beijing in October 2017, setting out the main policy priorities for the Xi government in China as the country moves towards fulfillment of the first Centenary Goal, the hundredth...
Modern Railway Engineering Consultation
Methods and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Report on the rapid development of railway engineering construction in China, this book introduces the basic concepts of railway engineering supported by reference to cases. This book underpins the experiences and technologies of the Chinese engineering sector in railway construction and explores...
Understanding JapanChina Relations
Theories and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This timely book examines new developments in Japan–China relations and new research conducted in Japan, China and elsewhere since 2006. The book covers major issues such as the September 2010 Chinese fishing boat collision incident, cross-Strait relations, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations,...
The Ultimate Chinese Martial Art
The Science of the Weaving Stance Bagua 64 Forms and its Wellness Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
The Ultimate Chinese Martial Art — The Science of the Weaving Stance Bagua 64 Forms and the Wellness Applications has three well integrated parts. Part One describes the cultural, historical and scientific background of the mysterious inner style martial
by Shaun Bullett, Tom Fearn, Frank Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
This book leads readers from a basic foundation to an advanced level understanding of dynamical and complex systems. It is the perfect text for graduate or PhD mathematical-science students looking for support in topics such as applied dynamical systems, Lotka–Volterra dynamical systems, applied...
Singapore's Health Care System
What 50 Years Have Achieved
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
How did Singapore's health care system transform itself into one of the best in the world? It not only provides easy access, but its standards of health care, not only in curative medicine but also in prevention, are exemplary. Fifty years ago, the infant mortality rate (IMR) was 26 per thousand live...
New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider
Proceedings of the Conference
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The Standard Theory of Particle Physics describes successfully the observed strong and electroweak interactions, but it is not a final theory of physics, since many aspects are not understood: (1) How can gravity be introduced in the Standard Theory? (2) How can we understand the observed masses of...
by Tommaso Dorigo
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
From the mid-1980s, an international collaboration of 600 physicists embarked on the investigation of subnuclear physics at the high-energy frontier. As well as discovering the top quark, the heaviest elementary particle ever observed, the physicists analyzed their data to seek signals of new physics...
Fifty Years of Nuclear BCS
Pairing in Finite Systems
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
This unique volume reviews more than fifty years of theoretical and experimental developments of the concept that properties of atomic nuclei up to a great extent are defined by the pair correlations of nuclear constituents — protons and neutrons. Such correlations in condensed matter are responsible...