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Foreign Direct Investment in Russia: A Strategy for Industrial Recovery
Paul Fischer Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0312230559 |
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Foreign Direct Investment in Russia : A Strategy for Industrial Recovery
Paul Fischer Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OTDGS0 |
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Caribbean Imperatives: Regional Governance and Integrated Development
Manufacturer: Ian Randle Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 9766372209 |
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With the launch of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy and the Caribbean Court of Justice, the Caribbean Community has taken major steps to promote closer and more intensive forms of economic cooperation among its constituent members. This effort requires the adoption of innovative approaches to regional governance and creative regional development strategies aimed at maximizing the exercise of sovereignty within the community and also optimizing the development possibilities of the region.The 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Caribbean Community in 2003 marked an important milestone in the historical evolution of regional integration in the Caribbean. Caribbean Imperatives focuses on several important topics relevant to the future of the community by addressing issues such as the conception of the Caribbean Community; integration theory; the exercise of sovereignty; the Single Market and Economy; production integration; the external relations of the community; and the importance of multilateralism for the viability of small states in the international system.
The analysis contained in the volume is extremely relevant to policy makers in the region in managing the transition to more intensive forms of regional integration aimed at improving the well-being of the people of the Caribbean.
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History of Agricultural Education in the United States 1785-1925
Alfred C. True Manufacturer: Ayer Co Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0405014856 |
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Modern Bioelectricity
Marino Manufacturer: CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0824777883 |
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Modern Bioelectrochemistry
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0306419815 |
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Modern Bioelectricity
Andrew A. Marino Manufacturer: Marcel Dekker ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MHFHIG |
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Vector Analysis in Chemistry
Donald D. Fitts Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Book Co. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000JLGHES |
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Vector Analysis in Chemistry (McGraw-Hill series in advanced chemistry)
Donald D. Fitts Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0070211302 |
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On four-dimensional vector analysis, and its application in electrical theory (Contributions from the Research Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Vector Analysis in Chemistry
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Quantum Field Theory, Rev.Ed.
F. Mandl , and G. Shaw Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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Quantum Field Theory Revised Edition F. Mandl and G. Shaw, Department of Theoretical Physics, The Schuster Laboratory, The University, Manchester, UK When this book first appeared in 1984, only a handful of W ± and Z° bosons had been observed and the experimental investigation of high energy electro-weak interactions was in its infancy. Nowadays, W ± bosons and especially Z° bosons can be produced by the thousand and the study of their properties is a precise science. We have revised the text of the later chapters to incorporate these developments and discuss their implications. We have also taken this opportunity to update the references throughout and to make some improvements in the treatment of dimen-sional regularization. Finally, we have corrected some minor errors and are grateful to various people for pointing these out. This book is designed as a short and simple introduction to quantum field theory for students beginning research in theoretical and experimental physics. The three main objectives are to explain the basic physics and formalism of quantum field theory, to make the reader fully proficient in theory calculations using Feynman diagrams, and to introduce the reader to gauge theories, which play such a central role in elementary particle physics. The theory is applied to quantum electrodynamics (QED), where quantum field theory had its early triumphs, and to weak interactions where the standard electro-weak theory has had many impressive successes. The treatment is based on the canonical quantization method, because readers will be familiar with this, because it brings out lucidly the connection between invariance and conservation laws, and because it leads directly to the Feynman diagram techniques which are so important in many branches of physics. In order to help inexperienced research students grasp the meaning of the theory and learn to handle it confidently, the mathematical formalism is developed from first principles, its physical interpretation is stressed at every point and its use is illustrated in detailed applications. After studying this book, the reader should be able to calculate any process in lowest order of perturbation theory for both QED and the standard electro-weak theory, and in addition, calculate lowest order radiative corrections in QED using the powerful technique of dimensional regularization. Contents: Preface; 1 Photons and electromagnetic field; 2 Lagrangian field theory; 3 The KleinGordon field; 4 The Dirac field; 5 Photons: covariant theory; 6 The S-matrix expansion; 7 Feynman diagrams and rules in QED; 8 QED processes in lowest order; 9 Radiative corrections; 10 Regularization; 11 Weak interactions; 13 Spontaneous symmetry breaking; 14 The standard electro-weak theory; Appendix A The Dirac equation; Appendix B Feynman rules and formulae for perturbation theory; Index.Customer Reviews:
So, this is QFT?.......2005-06-19
Quick overview of quantum field theory.......2002-04-18
Clear and very simple.......2001-08-28
The one and only book for the beginner........2000-07-31
It starts smoothly and someone need only have a basic course in quantum mechanics and analytical (Lagrangian) dynamics. The nice thing about the book is that it is SELF CONTAINED. You start from chapter one and you can go along through the end without ever needing to open any other book. Everything is in there. Also it has nice and very helpfull appendices that have gothered all the formulae, conventions and diagrams that you need in order to calculat any electroweak cross section.
In this book you will learn all the story about canonical quantization in a very clear and informative way. I consider a CRIME for a physics student to start learning Quantum Field Theory with the path integral approach. You loose immedately the physical picture and the particle content of the theory because you are confronted right from the start with mathematical structures that you have never seen and handling them correctly takes away the physics content of the subject. Believe me I have been there! With Mandl you will always be close to the quantum of the field ,which is the particle, you will see it right in fron of your eyes beeing created, propagated and then annihilated, and you will have a clear picture of what is really going on (quantum theory permitting of course).
Mandl gives you right from the beginning all the tricks and tools of the trade for calculating Feynman diagrams. After reading and understanding this book I personally guarantee to you that will be able to calculate any first order diagram in the electro-weak theory and a lot of higher order diagrams too. He introduces in a very pleasant way the trace theorems and the tricks in order to calculate cross sections.
His treatment of the electroweak Lagrangian is superb. He really starts from the beginning and slowly builds up writing down the whole Lagrangian, its symmetries and its uses. His treatment of the gauge symmetry is a real beauty. It really opens your mind. I could go on forever writting about this great book and how much it helped me cope with this difficult for beginners field. You will not be lost in difficult mathematics that will take away from you the real physics and on the other hand you dont loose anything. He has exactly the right material for a first rigorous course in Quantum Field Theory. His treatment of renormalization is also great.
I consider Mandl to be one of the most prominent pedagogists in the physics field and I have the utmost respect for him. The reason for this is that I have gained a very strong background in both Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics just by reading his books.
The serious student of particle physics will eventually have to move on to the path integral approach, renormalization of the electro-weak theory, renormalization group, QCD etc. BUT without having a solid background in the topics included in Mandl's book this effort will be fruitless and frustrating. Take my word for it.
A very gentle introduction to quantum field theory.......2000-04-07
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Letters To Rheinhart Kleiner
H. P. Lovecraft Manufacturer: Hippocampus ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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LETTERS TO RHEINHART KLEINER
H.P.; S. T. Joshi & David E. Schultz (editor) Lovecraft Manufacturer: Hippocampus Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OXJ6CG |
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Brassey's D-Day Encyclopedia: The Normandy Invasion A-Z
Barrett Tillman Manufacturer: Potomac Books Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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This unique encyclopedia provides detailed entries for everything you ever wanted to know about D-Day, the invasion of Normandy. Organized alpha-betically, the entries give detailed descriptions of weapons, equipment, divisions, air and naval units, geography, terminology, personalities, and more. Every Allied division that crossed the English Channel on June 6, 1944 has its own listing as do the major Axis divisions that fought them. Brief biographies of major military and political leaders on both sides provide a handy âwhoâs whoâ of the campaign. The book also includes entries for related popular culture: GI slang, the best movies about D-Day, and major writers such as Stephen Ambrose and Cornelius Ryan. Cross-references make the book easy to use. With hundreds of entries, Brasseyâs D-Day Encyclopedia is an indispensable reference tool for history buffs and interesting browsing for readers who want to know more about World War II.Customer Reviews:
One-stop Shopping.......2006-07-06
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Brassey's Encyclopedia of Military History & Biography
Manufacturer: Brassey's Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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Authoritative accounts of history's great battles and the men who led them. Specially selected from the acclaimed International Military and Defense Encyclopedia.
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Brassey's Encyclopedia of Military History and Biography
Franklin D. Margiotta Manufacturer: Brassey's Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000O92CGM |
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BRASSEY'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MILITARY HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.
Franklin D., et al., eds. Margiotta Manufacturer: Wash., Brassey, 1994. 1197 pp., illus., charts, map. Fine copy of first edition, in dust jacket. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000UE26SU |
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The Social Life of Opium in China
Zheng Yangwen Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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The history of Opium in China begins in the mid-Ming dynasty, when as a tribute from vassal states, it was initially used as an aphrodisiac in the Ming court. The Chinese then began to collectively redefine the foreign recreational resource's usage and created a complex culture around its comsumption. This book traces the transformation over a period of five hundred years, revealing the nature of Opium's introduction and development in China as a universal cultural institution.
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The Social Life of Opium in China.(Book review): An article from: Pacific Affairs
Norman Smith Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000NUW15Y Release Date: 2007-09-27 |
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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 565 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Defending The Cavewomen: And Other Tales of Evolutionary Neurology
Henry Klawans Manufacturer: NORTON & COMPANY ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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"All superficial comparisons to the contrary, Oliver Sacks and I are really quite dissimilar," said Dr. Harold Klawans, in his essay "My Lunch with Oliver." He and Sacks were both neurologists, both with special interests in movement disorders and Parkinson's disease, and both writers. "The brain and how it functions is to Oliver a philosophical issue... I try to ask simple questions." Klawans's questions are not really "simple," but they're about evolution and development instead of philosophy.In his clinical practice, Klawans thought about the evolution of the brain to try to understand his patients' problems, and vice versa. His theme throughout is that brain development is about windows of opportunity: many things can only be learned in certain periods, and after puberty in particular the brain has been largely "pruned to shape," so that skills like language and music may never be properly acquired.
The cavewoman of the title is the one who stayed home taking care of the babies while Man the Hunter was off spearheading the Ascent of Man (in what Stephen Jay Gould, one of Klawans's favorite writers, calls an "evolutionary just-so story"). Not so, says Klawans: because the window of opportunity for learning language is in childhood, especially early childhood, language must have arisen between mothers and children: "though few defend the Cavewoman, we all speak our mother's tongue." --Mary Ellen Curtin
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A master neurologist's clinical tales--both funny and profound--of the evolution of the brain. During Dr. Harold Klawans's lifetime, patients came to him from all over the country, exhibiting a huge array of troubles, all of which boiled down to one complaint: something was wrong with their brains. As a sympathetic--and brilliant--brain detective, Klawans deduced a great deal from his patients, not only about the immediate causes of their ailments but also about the evolutionary underpinnings of their behavior. Klawans examines people ranging from the woman suffering from "painful foot and moving toe syndrome," whose case reminds him that we were once reptiles with brains at the bases of our spines, to the farmer from Indiana who had contracted something similar to mad cow disease, caused by a protein-like pathogen that man himself helped nurture by removing the pressures of natural selection from his herds of livestock and from his own communities. As Klawans notes, "almost all of man's recent 'evolution' takes place outside the body . . . because man can alter his environment in ways that no other species ever could." In the best tradition of clinical tales, this master physician/storyteller weaves into his patient narratives brilliant insights into the evolutionary legacy encoded in the brain and the remarkable capacity of the human mind.Note: the paperback reissue of this book has slightly different title: "Strange Behavior: Tales of Evolutionary Neurology" (ISBN: 0393321843).
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Digresses extensively, but that does have appeal.......2003-01-25
His stories are very interesting to me, since Dr. Klawans did his residency on the same ward, Station 50, at the University of Minnesota Hospital that I worked on early in my career as a nurse. As he mentions in the book, his mentor was our department head, Dr. Abraham B. Baker, a brilliant diagnostician. Dr. Klawans probably graduated from the institution a year or two before my arrival. While the stories are intriguing, they seemed to me to provide more illumination on the complicated process of diagnosis, especially of the more unusual neurological diseases, in particular the movement disorders (Parkinson's disease is the doctor's specialty) than they did a theory of evolution of the brain in humans. In fact it might be said that an understanding of the underlying principles of evolution would be of more use in unraveling the causes of neurological problems, than vice versa. Certainly an understanding of genetics, the very foundation of evolution, has lead to more advances with respect to the causes of some of the more exotic neurological problems, like Huntington's Chorea, Kuru, and Jacob-Croitzfelds syndromes.
By the end of the book, the author has completed his lengthy digression and returns to his main theme, the evolution of the brain, it's effects on our overall evolution, and the key factor that women contribute, namely the size of the birth canal. In his final chapter, Dr. Klawans discusses the importance of the immaturity of the human infant post-natally. Compared to other types of mammal, the human baby is essentially still fetal at birth, as Stephen Jay Gould points out in his book The Panda's Thumb. While the baby horse is ready to run independently within minutes of birth, the human baby is not able to walk for months. This is due to the fact that the nervous system is still too immature for the newborn to be autonomous. In order to accommodate the larger brain, a larger brain case is necessary. In order to deliver the child without killing the mother, the mother's birth canal must be wide enough for the head to pass through it and/or the brain/skull must be smaller. The baby's brain is still immature at birth and the plates of the brain case are not fully fused, allowing it to pass through the mother's pelvis.
Of interest was the doctor's suggestion that the bottleneck that caused the Neanderthal's demise and prevented a genetic mix with Homo sapiens was the contribution of maternal DNA and pelvis size to the situation. In a human male- female Neanderthal mix, the mother's pelvis and DNA would lead to a more mature infant with fuller sized head and nervous system, a situation that would provide less of an opportunity for learning. As the author writes, "The greater maturation of the Neanderthal brain at birth would have been a biological advantage only so long as survival depended more on a classic survival of the fittest than on the acquisition of knowledge within a human-manipulated environment (p. 240)." On the other hand, with a Neanderthal male-human female mix, the mother's smaller pelvis and the infant's larger head size would probably have killed them both.
The book digresses extensively, but that does have its appeal.
Neurologist's view of evolution.......2001-02-14
A woman suffering from "painful foot and moving toe syndrome" demonstrates the remnant of dinosaur brain we still carry around in our spines; a musician who loses the power of speech to a stroke retains his ability to conduct music, an illiterate man shows how reading has changed our perspective on the world, an English professor loses the ability to read English (from stroke) and substitutes Hebrew.
The first half of the book explores brain function and what it can teach us about evolution. The second explores hereditary diseases, pain, and, in an informative piece on mad cow disease, external evolution, or human alteration of the environment.
Klawans pleasure at the elegance of evolution infuses each of his essays, many of which center around a 'eureka!' moment - an offhand comment or question leading to a breakthrough in understanding. For example, his daughter's quip that an authentic Arabic restaurant always plays "the Song," meaning all Arabic music sounds the same to her, makes him realize the fundamental similarity between music and speech. Both exist in all cultures and culture determines comprehension.
Klawans particular interest is the plasticity of the human brain. Bipedalism changed the human pelvic structure, which forced an evolutionary choice - small chimplike brains or small immature brains that would require years of maternal nurturing. The beauty of the choice made by evolution is the unique abilities fostered by environmental interaction with a developing brain.
Speech is the greatest of these and the title essay concerns the case of a six-year-old girl found locked in a closet in an abandoned building. Undernourished and undersized, she was unable to speak. But her "window of opportunity" remained open and once exposed to language her progress was amazing. An adolescent, however, never exposed to speech, never develops the brain constructs and never speaks or comprehends. It's the "cavewoman," Klawans says, who made our unique cultural abilities possible, the cavewoman's nurturing and the cavewoman's mitochondrial DNA (brain diseases passed by mitochondrial DNA indicate a crucial role in brain development). Klawans' final essay, "Whatever Happened to Baby Neanderthal?" poses a stunning theory of extinction. Big Neanderthal brains were big at birth, thus lacking human plasticity, precluding language ability. Interbreeding would not have helped. Human men fathering Neanderthal babies could not pass on mitochondrial DNA (passed only through egg) and human woman did not have pelvises big enough to birth half-Neanderthal babies.
Klawans ("Toscanini's Fumble," "Why Michael Couldn't Hit"), who died last year, was an engaging, clear-sighted, stimulating writer with an infectious enthusiasm. In making his way to evolutionary insights, he takes the reader through neurological diagnoses of real people with baffling problems and even lets us know how it turns out for them in the end.
Neurology explained and placed in the framework of evolution.......2001-01-05
Incredible and Facinating!.......2000-11-16
Extremely radable.......2000-08-01
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Defending the Cavewoman & Other Tales of Evolutionary Neurology ( Evolution of Human thought & Behavior )
M.D. , Preface Harold Klawans Manufacturer: W. W. Norton,NY ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000JCXGUU |
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Defending the Cavewoman and Other Tales of Evolutionary Neurology
Harold Klawans Manufacturer: W.W. Norton ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000HZVNKO |
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Defending the Cavewoman: and Other Tales of Evolutionary Neurology
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The role of higher education in wilderness for the 21st century.(Wilderness Education): An article from: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance
Alan Ewert , and Amy Shellman Manufacturer: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008E5A0I Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, published by American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) on October 1, 2003. The length of the article is 2648 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Books:
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