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We have always been formed in the mistaken belief that success is reserved for only a few people, and that the rest of us have to be content with waiting for luck to come to us to achieve what we yearn for. This book explains and develops the thesis that all human beings are genetically configured ... More

A book that will guide you along the paths of economic well-being without borders. You put the limits. If today we took away all the riches from the planet's wealthy people and gave it to the poor, after a very short time they would be as rich as before, and the poor as poor or poorer than they w... More

In engineering, material resilience is tis capacity to absorb an impact and to store that energy without deforming. In neuroscience, is the potential to face an adverse situation, overcome it and come out of it empowered. In psychology, it is said it is the capacity some people have to experience t... More

The book covers nonlinear physical problems and mathematical modeling, including molecular biology, genetics, neurosciences, artificial intelligence with classical problems in mechanics and astronomy and physics. The chapters present nonlinear mathematical modeling in life science and physics throu... More

Nós sempre fomos treinados na crença errônea de que o sucesso é reservado apenas para algumas pessoas, e que o resto tem que se contentar com a espera pela sorte para nos alcançar para alcançar o que queremos. Este livro explica e desenvolve a tese segundo a qual todos os seres humanos são geneticam... More

Da sempre siamo stati indotti a credere erroneamente che il successo sia riservato solo a poche persone e che il resto di noi debba accontentarsi di aspettare che arrivi la fortuna per raggiungere ciò che desideriamo. Questo libro spiega e sviluppa la tesi secondo cui tutti gli esseri umani sono ge... More

Narration des expériences de quelques personnes considérées comme d'authentitques résilientes, qui ont servi de modèle et d'exemple de dépassement pour des millions de personnes dans le Monde. En ingéniérie on dit que la résilience d'un matériau est sa capacité à absorber un impact et à engranger d... More

International development is a contested territory. As emergencies grow in number and scale, international aid is increasingly unable to respond to the desperate need arising from them. In spite of the objectives established by the United Nations in 2000, global poverty persists, and worse still, th... More

The first publication of Albert Einstein’s travel diary to the Far East and Middle EastIn the fall of 1922, Albert Einstein, along with his then-wife, Elsa Einstein, embarked on a five-and-a-half-month voyage to the Far East and Middle East, regions that the renowned physicist had never visited befo... More

Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in this illuminating selection of personal papers from the Albert Einstein Archives. The illustrious physicist wrote as thoughtfully to an Ohio fifth-grader, distressed by her discovery that scientists classify humans as animals, as ... More

This note explains the residual income valuation model (RIM), how it relates to "traditional" valuation models, the intuition behind its use, and empirical research related to its value relevance. RIM is theoretically equivalent to the dividend discount model and the discounted free cash flow model.... More

​This two-volume set, CCIS 1453 and CCIS 1454, constitutes refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data, DMBD 2021, held in Guangzhou, China, in October 2021. The 57 full papers and 28 short papers presented in this two-volume set were carefully reviewed and s... More

This two-volume set, CCIS 1453 and CCIS 1454, constitutes refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data, DMBD 2021, held in Guangzhou, China, in October 2021. The 57 full papers and 28 short papers presented in this two-volume set were carefully reviewed and se... More

Principles of Airway Management, 4th Edition, reviews the essential aspects of airway management: anatomy, equipment, intubation, fiberoptic endoscopy, surgical approaches, intubating LMA (lightwand), pediatric airway, CPR, and mechanical ventilation. The book features well-balanced discussions of t... More

In ca. 1300, Little Hawk and his family take a trip to trade with the Indians of Cahokia, the great city along the Mississippi River.... More

This book provides readers with the fundamental, analytical, and quantitative knowledge of machining process planning and optimization based on advanced and practical understanding of machinery, mechanics, accuracy, dynamics, monitoring techniques, and control strategies that they need to understand... More

Government collapsing? Zombies hunting you down? Everyone you know killed by a global epidemic? Not to worry! Economics holds the keys to survival. Often known as "the dismal science", it is particularly equipped to reveal order in what seems like chaos. Economists observe human behaviour: what lea... More

Anger is universal. Unchecked, it can cause lasting damage in our lives: wrecked relationships, lost jobs, even serious disease. Yet in these increasingly stressful times, all of us have acted in anger - and often wished we hadn't. Is there a way that really works to solve problems and assert oursel... More

This volume looks at school-university partnerships from sociocultural perspectives of learning that view participation in social practice as fundamental to the process of learning. Its two major themes – school-university partnership and sociocultural and social theories of learning – have both bee... More

Classics of Public Administration is a collection of articles carefully chosen for their readability and continuing contribution to the study of Public Administration. Written by the most significant scholars from the field, these classics focus on topics and issues that are recognized as important ... More

This book introduces state-of-the-art experimental and numerical methods and examples for evaluating the drilling performance of engineering and biological materials, particularly in thermal aspects. The authors use a common pathway to present the technological and analytical methods for both indust... More

Research findings in education can provide invaluable insight into how teaching practice can be improved, but research papers are often inaccessible and hard to digest. This innovative new text is designed to assist physical education　students, pre-service teachers, practising teachers and teacher e... More

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed prost-workshop proceedings of the International Workshop on Medical Computer Vision: Algorithms for Big Data, MCS 2015, held in Munich, Germany, in October 2015, held in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Co... More

This is the now the 9th edition of a text first published in 1997. There's only one audience for a book of this nature--practitioners, students and teachers of public administration. In the original preface to this book we explained that we sought to create a text that would bridge two worlds, a tex... More

<p>Now in an extensively revised 9th edition, Introducing Public Administration provides students with the conceptual foundation they need, while introducing them to important trends in the discipline. Known for its lively and witty writing style, this beloved textbook examines the most important is... More