Hong Kong in Transition: The Handover Years & Hong Kong the Super Paradox: Life After Return to China. (Book Reviews).: An article from: Pacific Affairs

Average customer rating:
Hong Kong in Transition: The Handover Years & Hong Kong the Super Paradox: Life After Return to China. (Book Reviews).: An article from: Pacific Affairs
Ming K. Chan
Manufacturer: University of British Columbia
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0009FA32Q
Release Date: 2005-07-30

Book Description

This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on March 22, 2002. The length of the article is 1890 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.

Citation Details
Title: Hong Kong in Transition: The Handover Years & Hong Kong the Super Paradox: Life After Return to China. (Book Reviews).
Author: Ming K. Chan
Publication: Pacific Affairs (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2002
Publisher: University of British Columbia
Volume: 75 Issue: 1 Page: 109(5)

Article Type: Book Review

Distributed by Thomson Gale

Hong Kong in Transition: The Handover Years

Average customer rating:

Hong Kong in Transition: The Handover Years

Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Economic Conditions | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Economic Conditions | International | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Hong Kong | Asia | History | Subjects | Books

General | Politics | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

Practical Politics | Politics | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

General | Business & Finance | New & Used Textbooks | Stores | Books

Book Description

This book presents an overview of critical developments surrounding the handover of Hong Kong to Chinese rule. Well-known commentors from a variety of disciplines examine the issues and events in the years leading up to the transfer of sovereignty, and in the eighteen months that followed. Major dilemmas are addressed in the economic, political legal, social and diplomatic life on the territory, which remain in many cases unresolved and pressing as Hong Kong enters the new century.

Book Description

"The breadth of this book is astounding-they have taken so much of what mediators do and put it all into just this one book." -Diane Neumann, diane neumann&associates, divorce mediation services

What is mediation and why is it needed?

Who can become a mediator?

How can you incorporate mediation into your practice? Are there any pitfalls?

The Practitioner's Guide to Mediation answers all of these critical questions and much more as it guides you through the process of breaking into this lucrative field. Written by the leading experts on the subject and founders of the Erickson Mediation Institute, this practical guidebook will provide you with all the information you'll need to incorporate mediation into your existing range of services and build a successful practice. Packed with helpful advice and tips, Erickson and McKnight clearly show you how to confidently mediate family, divorce, and workplace disputes. They also take you step-by-step through their client-centered approach so that you can develop new ways of thinking to resolve conflicts that will benefit everyone.

Book Description

After the first edition, published in 1982, established itself as the main introductory textbook on marine parasitology, this edition has been reviewed to take account of recent advances. Now there is an additional chapter on the structure of marine parasite communities as well as new sections on pollution, translocations of hosts and parasites and on the effects of parasites on the aquaculture of marine fish molluscs and crustacea. The chapters covering ecological, zoogeographical and economic aspects have also been significantly changed. Aimed particularly at students and research workers in parasitology, the book will also be of interest to ecologists, biologists concerned with zoogeographical problems, and to fish and fisheries biologists.

Book Description

Computer-based design and modeling, computational approaches, and instrumental methods for elucidating molecular mechanisms of protein folding and ligand-acceptor interactions are included in Volumes 202 and 203, as are genetic and chemical methods for the production of functional molecules including antibodies and antigens, enzymes, receptors, nucleic acids and polysaccharides, and drugs.

Book Description

A comprehensive resource book providing professionals and students with a broad survey of structural information delineating the parallel development of crystallography and modern chemistry. Provides detailed description of crystal structures in increasing levels of complexity, from metals to organics, inorganics, organometallics, and inclusion compounds. Examples used to illustrate topics have been carefully selected to reflect the major advances of recent years and to bring the reader to the forefront of active research by including topics of current interest.

Customer Reviews:

An Indispensable Chemistry Teaching Tool.......2000-09-08

The book "Crystallography in Modern Chemistry - Resource Book of Crystal Structures" by Thomas W.C. Mak and Gong-Du Zhou (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1992, ISBN 0-471-54702-6) is always on my bookshelf - and I constantly refer to it.

Why? The answer is simple: It is the best resource book about chemical structures I know. I use it constantly to compare the molecular structures I obtain with the ab-initio calculations I do with Gaussian 98W with the structures discussed in the book.

The authors have collected crystal and molecular structures to illustrate chemical concepts for their introductory and advanced lectures at several universities over a period of 25 years. And what a magnificent collection of structures they have managed to collect, reproduce, discuss and place in perspective!

This collection covering 1323 pages ranges from the "run-of-the-mill" structures for freshman chemistry courses (Chapter 2; 27 structures; about 160 pages of structures, data and illustrations), main group inorganic compounds (Chapter 3; 43 structures; about 280 pages), inorganic compounds of the transition elements (Chapter 4; 23 structures; about 260 pages), organic compounds (Chapter 5; 23 structures; about 110 pages), organometallic compounds (Chapter 6; 16 compounds; about 160 pages) ans inclusion compounds (Chapter 7; 9 compounds; about 130 pages).

I must emphasize that the term "compound" in my list in the previous paragraph is far wider than just a single compound, for instance, the discussion of the compound "Zinc Blende, ZnS" compares it with many of the other compounds having the ideal zinc blende structure; a useful set of references for further reading is also provided for each compound type.

The authors did not include structures haphazardly, but put a lot of thought into the selection of structures which are useful for illustrating chemical concepts, for instance, including hexamethyl benzene and its structural problems. The crystal and molecular structure of benzene, the symmetry of the benzene molecule as deduced from vibrational spectra, the actual equilibrium geometry of the benzene molecule, the structures of the hexa-substituted benzenes (hexachloro-, hexanitro-, hexaamino-, etc.), as well as borazine and its P- and Al-analogues, etc are also discussed. The discussion emphasizes the similariity, as well as the differences between these intriguing compounds, and the list of about 30 references to the original and extended literature invites the reader to delve deeper.

A book which compliments the book by Mak and Zhou is the very valuable book written by Kozo Kuchitsu (Editor), "Structures of Free Polyatomic Molecules - Basic Data", Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1998, ISBN 3-540-60766-8), which collects the structural data of some free polyatomic molecules. However, since it's purpose is to provide a collection of critically evaluated structural data and references, it does not provide a discussion of the individual structures.

In conclusion, I can say that I recommend that all teachers of chemistry should use the book by Mak and Zhou, and that all libraries should own copies of it for the use of their students. The only reason why I use the library copy is the cost of the book - namely, US$240.

And I wish that the book were available in electronic format on a CD-ROM - it would make it a far more useful teaching tool, since its structures and tables could then be electronically projected from a laptop in a well-equipped classroom and discussed without the need of Xeroxes and copyright problems! In addition, a CD-ROM ought to be cheaper than the printed version and students could buy it. Strange, in this age of the information highway, that this has not been done. I would strongly recommend it!

Average customer rating:

The best axiomatic development of pure mechanics ever

A beautiful, highly advanced text on Quantum Mechanics.

Quantum Kinematics and Dynamics (Advanced Book Classics)
Julian Schwinger
Manufacturer: Perseus Books (Sd)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Science | Subjects | Books
General | Physics | Science | Subjects | Books
Quantum Theory | Physics | Science | Subjects | Books
Quantum Theory | Physics | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

Particles, Sources, and Fields: Vol. 1

Quantum Mechanics: Symbolism of Atomic Measurements

Selected Papers on Quantum Electrodynamics

Theory of Fundamental Processes (Advanced Book Classics)

Quantum Electrodynamics (Advanced Book Classics)

ASIN: 0201533545

Book Description

A classic from 1969, this book is based on a series of lectures delivered at the Les Houches Summer School of Theoretical Physics in 1955. The book outlines a general scheme of quantum kinematics and dynamics.

Read and cited by scientists worldwide, Advanced Book Classics are works that continue to inform today's groundbreaking research efforts. Redesigned and newly released in paperback, these graduate-level texts and monographs are now available to an even wider audience. Written by the most influential physicists of the twentieth century, these Advanced Book Classics promise to enrich and inspire a new generation of physicists.

Customer Reviews:

The best axiomatic development of pure mechanics ever.......2006-12-14

Schwinger was arguably one of the four or five brightest physicists of his era in terms of sheer intelligence, and he was also something of an iconoclast. This book beautifully demonstrates both -- it is a highly nontraditional axiomatic development of quantum theory, where the clear expectation is that by developing things extremely clearly from a minimal set of postulates and choices the "right path" on to theoretical breakthroughs becomes clear. I agree completely, although I also believe that some components of that "right path" -- for example, the full richness of Geometric Algebra -- were not yet accessible and need to be mixed into at the right places.

Schwinger begins by developing a priori an algebra of (numerical) measurement in the simplest possible terms. This section has nothing to do with quantum theory per se; rather it applies to any set of quantitative observations of some "system".

He then associates in a very intuitive way the notion that the quantitative measurements obtained in the context of the measurement algebra reflect the state of the system being observed, and works out just how the underlying states can be expressed as a geometry. Some aspects of this geometry are familiar but others are less so. Once again, this chapter is entirely abstract and really has nothing to do with whether the system in question is classical, quantum, or something else entirely. The system is viewed as something that has states, those states form a mixed discrete/continuous geometry, and the states are connected to quantitative measurements via the unknown properties of the measurement process itself. In this chapter he introduces the dirac bra/ket notation as a natural way to express the geometry and its norm/metric (inner product).

Schwinger then posits the fundamental question -- do all possible measurements performed on the system always return the same result independent of the order of measurement, or are there some measurements that will yield different results when performed in different orders? This is presented as an axiomatic choice -- one answer leads of course to classical mechanics, the other to quantum mechanics. Only at this point does the book begin to be explicitly quantum mechanical.

Schwinger then formulates (in not unfamiliar but nevertheless compellingly presented ways) a dynamical principle, identifies classes of non-commuting measurement processes, and derives basic quantum theory from no further assumptions. It is beautifully minimal, and one can clearly see the forks in the road he takes and why one takes the branch he takes at each point.

The rest of the book is a gold mine -- Schwinger tries to tackle many of the most challenging issues of the time he delivered these lectures in novel and unconventional ways. They didn't "work" -- there are no breakthroughs here and history has given us in some cases alternative ways of solving or understanding the problems that are now "accepted" -- but his ideas and approach are wonderful to review, especially when one realizes that there was so much that wasn't known fifty years ago that might well inform new attempts to re-tackle those same old issues, or attempts to make progress in e.g. string theory and unified field theory that utilize his unconventional but very systematic approach.

I routinely use this book to help philosophically-minded students introduce themselves to quantum theory via the first three chapters; some of them go on to puzzle over the latter part of the book (as I still do) to see if there is anything yet to be gleaned from it. The book's lecture note format is particularly well suited to this -- one can read the first part of the book and work through everything in at most six or eight hours, total -- a lot of reward for such a small amount of work!

Feynman once said that "nobody understands quantum mechanics". I think that he was right, but a few people understand it far, far better than others: Dirac, Schwinger, and Feynman himself being luminous examples. Students of quantum theory can do far worse than to avail themselves of the words of these masters, especially when they are so tersely and clearly written.

A beautiful, highly advanced text on Quantum Mechanics........1998-07-24

Julian Schwinger was one of the greatest minds of our century. He learned, as I heard at one of his semminars, quantum mechanics by himself as he was about fourteen from the horse's mouth, that is, the great book of Dirac, "Principles of Quantum Mechanics". One could consider this book as built around Dirac's. It starts by introducing a pre-Dirac notation, symbols which represent measurements. These symbols "factor out" into Dirac's bras and kets when the system is in a pure state. The mathematical properties of these symbols, therefore, follow from the way quantum mechanics describes experiments. The dynamics is introduced through the use of an action principle, soon explicited in terms of continuous transformation groups whose infinitesimal generators include the observables. This action principle turns out to be a differential version of the now popular Feynman action principle, which introduced the concept of path integrals. Schwinger's book is a! barely explored mine of gold. Most of his ideas are there, waiting for you! I think this is the second most beautiful physics book I ever met. The first, of course, is Dirac's. I think Schwinger would agree with me.

Average customer rating:

Quantum Kinematics and Dynamics
Julian Schwinger
Manufacturer: Perseus Books (Sd)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OOJ1IY

Download Description

Jemand mußte Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne daß er etwas Böses getan hätte, wurde er eines Morgens verhaftet. Die Köchin der Frau Grubach, seiner Zimmervermieterin, die ihm jeden Tag gegen acht Uhr früh das Frühstück brachte, kam diesmal nicht. Das war noch niemals geschehn. K. wartete noch ein Weilchen, sah von seinem Kopfkissen aus die alte Frau die ihm gegenüber wohnte und die ihn mit einer an ihr ganz ungewöhnlichen Neugierde beobachtete, dann aber, gleichzeitig befremdet und hungrig, läutete er.

Average customer rating:

Der Prozess
Franz Kafka
Manufacturer: Adamant Media Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Mystery | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books

General | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books

German | Foreign Language Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

All German Books | German | Foreign Language Books | Specialty Stores | Books
ASIN: 0543894517
Release Date: 2000-08-01

Markov Processes, Brownian Motion, and Time Symmetry (Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften)

Average customer rating:

Markov Processes, Brownian Motion, and Time Symmetry (Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften)
Kai Lai Chung , and John B. Walsh
Manufacturer: Springer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Mathematics | Science | Subjects | Books

Time | Physics | Science | Subjects | Books

All Amazon Upgrade | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

Professional & Technical | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

Science | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

Professional | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

Science | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
ASIN: 0387220267

Book Description

From the reviews of the First Edition: "This excellent book is based on several sets of lecture notes written over a decade and has its origin in a one-semester course given by the author at the ETH, Zürich, in the spring of 1970. The author's aim was to present some of the best features of Markov processes and, in particular, of Brownian motion with a minimum of prerequisites and technicalities. The reader who becomes acquainted with the volume cannot but agree with the reviewer that the author was very successful in accomplishing this goal…The volume is very useful for people who wish to learn Markov processes but it seems to the reviewer that it is also of great interest to specialists in this area who could derive much stimulus from it. One can be convinced that it will receive wide circulation." (Mathematical Reviews) This new edition contains 9 new chapters which include new exercises, references, and multiple corrections throughout the original text.

"Endlosung der Judenfrage", Massenmord oder "Gaskammerluge"?: Eine Auswertung d. Beweisaufnahme im Prozess gegen d. Hauptkriegsverbrecher vor d. Internationalen ... Nurnberg 14. November 1945-1. Oktober 1946

Average customer rating:

"Endlosung der Judenfrage", Massenmord oder "Gaskammerluge"?: Eine Auswertung d. Beweisaufnahme im Prozess gegen d. Hauptkriegsverbrecher vor d. Internationalen ... Nurnberg 14. November 1945-1. Oktober 1946
Ludwig Rosenthal
Manufacturer: Verlag Darmstadter Blatter
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Europe | History | Subjects | Books

German | Foreign Language Nonfiction | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

History | German | Foreign Language Books | Specialty Stores | Books

Nonfiction | German | Foreign Language Books | Specialty Stores | Books

All German Books | German | Foreign Language Books | Specialty Stores | Books
ASIN: 3871390593

Average customer rating:

Der Prozeß des Hauptmanns Dreyfus
Bruno Weil
Manufacturer: Dr. Walther Rothschild
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000M75V1E

Average customer rating:

Der Prozeß.
Franz Kafka
Manufacturer: Dtv
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

All German Books | German | Foreign Language Books | Specialty Stores | Books
Similar Items:

The Castle: A new translation based on the restored text

ASIN: 3423026448

Agnes Und Die Sohne Der Wolfin: Ein Prozess (Lothar Schreyer Edition, Volume 7)

Average customer rating:

Agnes Und Die Sohne Der Wolfin: Ein Prozess (Lothar Schreyer Edition, Volume 7)
Lothar Schreyer
Manufacturer: Edwin Mellen Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

German | Foreign Language Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

German | Foreign Language Nonfiction | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

Nonfiction | German | Foreign Language Books | Specialty Stores | Books

All German Books | German | Foreign Language Books | Specialty Stores | Books
ASIN: 0773413642

Alles klar bei Sonnenuntergang. Der Solved-by- Sunset- Prozeß.

Average customer rating:

Alles klar bei Sonnenuntergang. Der Solved-by- Sunset- Prozeß.
Carol Orsborn
Manufacturer: Bauer, Freiburg
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

All German Books | German | Foreign Language Books | Specialty Stores | Books
ASIN: 3762605483

Average customer rating:

Amerika / Der Prozess / Das Schloss
Franz Kafka
Manufacturer: C. Bange GmbH & Co KG
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Anwalt des Reiches: Carl Schmitt und der Prozess "Preussen contra Reich" vor dem Staatsgerichtshof (Zeitgeschichtliche Forschungen)

Average customer rating:

Anwalt des Reiches: Carl Schmitt und der Prozess "Preussen contra Reich" vor dem Staatsgerichtshof (Zeitgeschichtliche Forschungen)
Gabriel Seiberth
Manufacturer: Duncker & Humblot
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

German | Foreign Language Nonfiction | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

History | German | Foreign Language Books | Specialty Stores | Books

Nonfiction | German | Foreign Language Books | Specialty Stores | Books

All German Books | German | Foreign Language Books | Specialty Stores | Books
ASIN: 3428104447

Books:

Books Index

Books Home

Recommended Books