Covers a cast ranging from Italian partisans to KGB agents, from American Mafiosi to Parisian lowlifes, and features appearances by Alfred Hitchcock, Marshal Tito and the Emperor of Indochina. This work paints a picture of a past age while commenting on our own.[...]

Introduces an analytical approach to symbolic, closed-form solutions for switched-mode power converter circuits. This work uses equations to explain how solid-state switches convert electrical voltages from one level to another. It also includes use of matrix, linear algebra, implicit functions, and[...]

Digital image processing, an integral part of microscopy, is important to the fields of medicine and scientific research. This book provides a reference on the theory, technique, and applications of this technology. It covers image digitization and display, object measurement and classification, aut[...]

Recognized as an essential component of Chinese culture, Traditional Chinese Medicine TCM is both an ancient medical system and one still used widely in China today. TCMs independently evolved knowledge system is expressed mainly in the Chinese language, and the information is frequently only availa[...]

Handbook of Nanosafety: Measurement, Exposure and Toxicology, written by leading international experts in nanosafety, provides a comprehensive understanding of engineered nanomaterials (ENM), current international nanosafety regulation, and how ENM can be safely handled in the workplace. Increasingl[...]

Professor Chandler and a colleague, David Wu, have prepared a solutions manual to Introduction to Modern Statistical Mechanics (Oxford 1987) to be used as an ancillary to the text. The instructive numerical work in the manual is an important supplement, because the material can only be learned by ta[...]

Support secondary Mandarin Chinese achievement with this skills-based, syllabus-agnostic resource, written by an international team of teachers and examiners. Ensure all four language skills are equally developed with the thematic approach that is suitable for the latest Cambridge IGCSE (R) syllabus[...]

Enlightenment in Dispute is the first comprehensive study of the revival of Chan Buddhism in seventeenth-century China. Focusing on the evolution of a series of controversies about Chan enlightenment, Jiang Wu describes the process by which Chan reemerged as the most prominent Buddhist establishment[...]

This book gathers together the most recent, exciting and original scholarship on male same-sex sexuality in the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods. With contributions from the foremost respected scholars in this burgeoning field, it draws together and analyses theoretical frameworks and methodolo[...]

Winner of the 1980 United Daily Literature Competition, this novel about love, betrayal, family life, and the power of tradition in small-town Taiwan was an instant bestseller when first published in Taiwan. At once a bittersweet romance and a vividly detailed portrait of life in a southern Taiwane[...]

Wu Zhao (624-705), better known as Wu Zetian or Empress Wu, is the only woman to have ruled China as emperor over the course of its 5,000-year history. How did she--in a predominantly patriarchal and androcentric society--ascend the dragon throne? Exploring a mystery that has confounded scholars for[...]

with simulations and illustrations by Richard Gray Problem solving is an indispensable part of learning a quantitative science such as neurophysiology. This text for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in neuroscience, physiology, biophysics, and computational neuroscience provides comprehe[...]