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Alamander, the Orange Salamander, is the playful tale of a salamander matching wits with Loki, the mischievous Norse god. It is written in rhyme and contains 20 colorful illustrations. A glossary of specialized terms is included with the book.

From an unearthly distance, earth seems blue - but not where we stand. Life seems predictable because we live backwards, repeating the past instead of living the present. Sometimes the future surprises - and sometimes you surprise yourself. This novel tells of the contact - and collision - of a handful of human lives with an alien intelligence, in the sudden flash of an otherworldly green light.

The author has more than 30 years experience in literary and pragmatic translation and in conference interpreting. His book is the most ambitious attempt at unifying every aspect of translational and other connected activities under one overarching general theory. A most specific theory, at that, that conceptualises and explains what translators and interpreters actually do in real life and, at the same time, offers objective quality criteria....

Holographic Psychology is the birth of a revolutionary course of understanding that all comprehension and associated behavior is being subjectively determined and manifest as part of the individual's psychological dynamics. It presents a giant leap in awareness, recognizing that all language is a symbolic means, reflecting people, places or things based on the person's own accepted worldview.Holographic Psychology is surely one of the most imp...

This book is a collection of the papers presented at the workshop on "Symmetry and Heterogeneity in High Tc Superconductors" directed by Antonio Bianconi and Alexander F. Andreev in collaboration with K. Alex Müller and Giorgio Benedek. Philip B. Allen, Neil W. Ashcroft, Alan R. Bishop, J. C. Séamus Davis, Takeshi Egami, Francesco Iachello, David Pines, Shin-ichi Uchida, Subodh R. Shenoy, chaired hot sessione contributing to the success of the...

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Offers an interpretation of Plato by considering the appearance of Socrates within Plato's work as a philosophical question. This book presents an inquiry into the nature of Socrates and in doing so opens up the relationship between humankind and the natural world.

Moshe Rynecki used his paintbrush and palette to document and chronicle the life of his community-Jewish people of Warsaw, Poland. Some artists, however, do more than simply document the subjects that they see and watch-they use the canvas to reveal something new-to show us that which we did not see at first, that which we might not consider if we had observed the subject ourselves. While some might have seen a group of men sitting at a table ...

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Holographic Psychology is the birth of a revolutionary course of understanding that all comprehension and associated behavior is being subjectively determined and manifest as part of the individual's psychological dynamics. It presents a giant leap in awareness, recognizing that all language is a symbolic means, reflecting people, places or things based on the person's own accepted worldview. Holographic Psychology is surely one of the most im...

Inter-disciplinary in approach, this collection of essays explores China's reform era development within the concept of translocality. These essays focus simultaneously on mobilities and localities, drawing our attention to the multiplying forms of mobility in China, whilst retaining the importance of localities in people's lives.

The stand-off across the Straits of Taiwan is one of the most dangerous confrontations in Asia. Bringing together a range of experts, this book presents a comprehensive analysis of the reforms, and assesses their likely effectiveness. It covers various issues, including the Chinese threat, the domestic context of reform, and the role of the US.

Russia 1855-1964" explores all the key aspects of this extremely important period in Russian history. Stephen J. Lee examines and compares the ideologies of Tsarist autocracy and Soviet Communism and the opposition to these regimes. The 1917 revolution, the use of repression and terror by these regimes and the impact of the First and Second World War on Russia are also analyzed.

This book examines new crimes, or crimes which are newly of great concern, in China, and assesses the balance, or rather the imbalance, between public order and human rights in the way the law deals with them. These new crimes include 'evil cults', domestic violence, sexual harassment, internet fraud, website pornography, and organised crime in the sex and drugs trades and human trafficking. The topic is of particular importance, both because ...

Sustainable Development Policy and Administration provides a learning resource describing the major issues that are critical to understanding the multiple dimensions of sustainable development. The overall theme of each contributed chapter in this book is the urgent need to promote global sustainability while adding insights into the challenges facing the current and future generations. This volume brings together diverse contributions that co...

Resource Management Information Systems: Remote Sensing, GIS and Modelling, Second Edition provides you with the knowledge and skill necessary to design, build, implement, and operate spatial resource management information systems for the management of physical resources. This volume promotes the use of these technologies in a spatial context, enabling you to apply information systems toward the management of resources in agriculture, forestr...

This book introduces radical-reaction-based semiconductor manufacturing technologies that overcome the limitations of the existing molecule-reaction-based technologies. It systematically details the procedures and underlying concepts involved along with other wet process technologies and applications. Following an introduction to semiconductor surface chemical electronics, expert contributors discuss the principles and technology of high-perfo...

Robert Hallowell Gardiner III was the heart and soul of the Progressive Era's movement to establish cooperation among all Christian churches. The author incorporates Gardiner's letters, his published speeches and family records, to present a biography of a man who was a seminal figure in the early twentieth-century Christian ecumenical movement.

This unique reference weaves together the principles and theoretical models of parallel computing with the design, analysis, and application of algorithms for solving statistical problems. After a brief introduction to parallel computing, the book explores the architecture, programming, and computational aspects of parallel processing. Focus then turns to optimization methods followed by statistical applications. These include algorithms for p...

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