This book provides an insightful analysis of Korea’s remarkable economic growth, tracing its development from one of the poorest countries in the 1960s to a global high-tech leader. It explores the role of trade, R&D, and technology, with implications for developing countries.
Technological development is threatening to make the earth uninhabitable. This book presents scientific and engineering perspectives on promising, cost-effective technologies for restoring degraded environments and producing clean, low-carbon energy.
This guide delves into bacterial classification, from basic principles to cutting-edge genomics and AI. With expert contributions, it is an essential resource for students and researchers to unravel the mysteries of bacterial speciation, evolution, diversity, and taxonomy.
The Legacy of Karen Gershon
Based on private archives, this is the story of Karen Gershon, a child survivor rescued on the Kindertransport whose writing became the voice of a generation. It reveals her search for identity and home, and a family’s struggle with immigration and inherited trauma.
Lessons Learned in Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity
Earth’s biodiversity is threatened, but conservation cannot be defined by political boundaries. These authors—experts from over 50 disciplines—share stories of crossing lines to take action, inspiring future practices for students and professionals alike.
A collection of essays on our planet’s environmental challenges. The contributions connect resilience with ecology, health, and biotechnology, concluding with an ethical analysis of overlapping problems that require urgent attention and long-term resolution.
This book describes the world’s vineyards and wines, with the science behind viticulture and winemaking. It is an essential reference for students, teachers, and professionals in the wine trade, from growers and winemakers to sommeliers.
A guide for business students, investors, and professionals to learn R and Python. This book uses a unique R-assisted learning environment and provides 15 weeks’ worth of teaching material.
Florence’s English Cemetery, 1827-1877
The restoration of Florence’s English Cemetery reveals the stories of foreign non-Catholics buried there from 1827-1877. It is a democracy in death, where writers like Elizabeth Barrett Browning, artists, and former slaves lie alongside nobility and royalty.
This textbook provides an introduction to physics for undergraduate students of geology and Earth sciences. It explains basic physics theories first, which are then applied to geological phenomena, using accessible math with figures and solved problems.
This book describes the latest knowledge on hereditary colorectal cancer syndromes, focusing on management, surveillance, and screening. It discusses multidisciplinary care, risk estimation, genetic information, and future developments in this evolving field.
This book contributes to a better understanding of the environment and climate change, assisting students in scoring higher marks in competitive exams. It covers environmental ecology, bio-diversity, natural hazards, disaster management, climate change, and other key topics.
The first history of British chess from 1774 to 2000. The book focuses on the professionals and amateurs who shaped the game, its struggle against moral disapproval, and its rise to a popular recreation. It covers major events, providing game scores and tables of results.
Calcium Study to Alzheimer’s Therapeutics
This book explains recent scientific discoveries on calcium storage in cells and their link to Alzheimer’s. It presents unprecedented information on the disease process and introduces a new therapeutic ready for clinical trials, benefiting patients, families, and researchers.
This book tells the story of Monet, Tchaikovsky, and Zola. Parallel biographies follow these three artistic geniuses as they took a leading role in moving painting, music, and literature in a bold new direction, shaping the course of modern culture in 19th-century Europe.
This book highlights the research of pioneer Rabbi Richard A. Freund. Using non-invasive archaeology, geophysical techniques are applied at Holocaust sites, melding science with testimony and archival research to uncover the hidden aspects of the Holocaust.
Voice Classification by Phonetography
An essential guideline for all voice professionals. This book uses phonetographic analysis to present an age- and gender-specific pattern card of the human voice, based on a database of more than 1000 phonetograms, enabling basic voice classification for education and therapy.
Tokyo and Venice as Cities on Water
Tokyo and Venice are fragile cities on water. This volume focuses on how rediscovering water, from architectural and cultural points of view, and preserving their heritage can maintain their unique maritime identity and contribute to new forms of resilience for the future.
The Value of Employment for People with Disabilities Around the World
Historically, people with disabilities have had limited employment opportunities due to discrimination. This book is intended to build awareness and inspire action from CEOs, HR managers, and policymakers to facilitate employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
This book develops Jordan canonical form and shows how to apply it to solving systems of dynamic equations on arbitrary time scales. Beginning with the diagonalizable case, it proceeds to the general case, covering all situations. For senior undergraduate and graduate students.
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