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A Time for Creation

Offers liturgical texts for a variety of services with a focus on creation, from daily prayer to services of the word, school assemblies, eucharistic celebrations and seasonal services to mark the agricultural year.

Frequencies of God

Carys Walsh

In the Balance of Power

Omar H. Ali

Reveals the multiple independent political tactics and strategies that African Americans have used to expand democracy and uphold civil and political rights since the founding of the nation. This new edition of Ali’s groundbreaking narrative includes an epilogue by independent political analyst and leader Jacqueline Salit. New material addresses the historic presidencies of both Barack Obama and Donald Trump, as well as the rising tide of independent and anti-party sentiments.

Basketball

Koon Teck Koh

Basketball: A Guide for Physical Education Teachers and Coaches is a valuable resource for those beginning to teach the sport or even seasoned coaches looking for a fresh approach to the game. The practical guide is a consolidated effort from two authors who have taught and coached the sport at various levels for many decades. Their aim is to share knowledge and sound pedagogical approaches in teaching and coaching basketball.This book will show you how to teach fundamental skills and concepts progressively through fun and innovative ways. It includes many modified games and examples of lesson plans aim to develop competent and confident learners through differentiated instruction. In this guide, Koh and Wang advocate the importance of taking a 'game-based' approach to develop good decision-making skills in the game. You will be able to select different types of content with a skill/concept, plan and deliver a teaching/coaching session to cater to different groups of learners.Complete with numerous tactics, skills and tips, Basketball: A Guide for Physical Education Teachers and Coaches is a wealth of information for instructors.Contents: <ul><li>A Brief History of Basketball</li><li>Equipment and Facilities</li><li>Playing Positions</li><li>The Basic Rules</li><li>Teaching/Coaching Approaches</li><li>Suggested Teaching/Coaching Sequences</li><li>FIBA 3 x 3: Modified Game</li><li>Samples of Basketball Skills Rubric</li><li>Sample Lesson Plans</li></ul> Readership: Physical education teachers, basketball coaches, basketball beginners and students, anyone interested in learning how to teach basketball.Basketball;Physical Education;Coaching;Plays00

Global Manufacturing and Secondary Innovation in China

Xiaobo Wu

Innovation studies have long been confined to the theoretical system established by the scholars of developed countries in the West. It is difficult to use these studies to understand the real nature and law of technological innovation in developing countries. This book, in an innovative manner, studies the theoretical system of secondary innovation, and reveals the evolution law and dynamic innovation mode of the activities carried out by technologically backward countries. It does so by laying an important foundation for the development of management science theory on the basis of the standpoint and characteristics of developing countries.Contents: <ul><li>Introduction</li><li>Theoretical and Practical Background for Constructing Secondary Innovation Theory</li><li>Secondary Innovation Dynamic Process Model</li><li>Evolution and Development of the Secondary Innovation Theoretical Model</li><li>Secondary Innovation and Dynamic Mode of Organizational Learning</li><li>Cultivation of Technology Innovation Capability in the Dynamic Process of Secondary Innovation</li><li>Conclusion</li><li>Summary and Prospects</li></ul> Readership: Readers who are interested in technological innovation in developing countries.Basic Research;Chinese Manufacturing;Secondary Innovation;Globalization;Industrial Innovation;China0Key Features:<ul><li>The concept of «secondary innovation» is creative</li><li>The book provides typical cases from different industries, which can serve as good references for secondary innovation</li><li>The book provides scientific and practical suggestions for improving technological innovation ability and competitive advantage</li></ul>

China's Rise in Mainland ASEAN

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In today's rapid rise and expansion of China's influence all around the world and in ASEAN during the past two decades, there has been an increasing awareness of various countries and regions adjusting themselves to the new trends, both in terms of opportunities and risks alike. This has become necessary due to the rapid changes in many aspects — political landscapes, economic issues, as well as social and cultural considerations. This book, China's Rise in Mainland ASEAN: Regional Evidence and Local Responses, provides timely insights on some of the latest issues pertaining to ASEAN and China, rapidly shifting interactions and upcoming geostrategic challenges.ASEAN can be said to be undergoing a new era, with China becoming more intertwined and involved with the ASEAN region than ever before. The complexity of the regional dynamics means that this phenomenon cannot be captured with a single narrative or discipline of study. In addressing the matters at hand, this book sets out to examine and provide deeper understandings on the regional implications, and local responses from ASEAN countries, and from the perspective of the region as a whole. The underlying rationale is that adequate understanding on the matters involved in this new ASEAN–China era will help to encourage better and mutually beneficial relationships between both sides.The analysis of this book will be categorized into four main themes — (1) 'The Big Picture', concerning China's policies, strategies, and diplomatic stances, (2) 'Implications and Responses', dealing with how ASEAN members react and respond to China's actions and regional influence, (3) 'Perspectives on Trade, Investment and External Debt', which handles the economic facets of the ASEAN–China interactions, and (4) 'Connectivity in Focus', addressing various emerging and existing dimensions of connectivity expansion between ASEAN and China, both physical and virtual.Contents: <ul><li>Introduction (Suthiphand Chirathivat, Buddhagarn Rutchatorn, Wasutadon Nakawiroj)</li><li>Xi Jinping's Thought and Mainland ASEAN (Vira Somboon)</li><li>The Effects of Lancang–Mekong Cooperation on the Mainland ASEAN Countries: Opportunities or Challenges? (Yang Baoyun and Patcharinruja Juntaronanont)</li><li>China's Rising Influence in Mainland ASEAN: Implications for and Responses from Myanmar (Aung Kyaw)</li><li>Contemporary Economic Influences of China and India in Mainland ASEAN: Comparative Perspectives (Anupama Devendrakumar)</li><li>China's Rising Influence in Thailand: Transborder Human Mobility and Its Impacts (Supang Chantavanich)</li><li>Increasing Reliance of Vietnam on the Chinese Economy: Causes and Impacts (Tuan Pham)</li><li>Vietnam–China Economic Cooperation: Aid or Burden? (Nguyen Van Chinh and Dinh Thi Thanh Huyen)</li><li>Determinants of FDI and Policies for Attracting Chinese FDI into Laos (Somdeth Bodhisane and Thantavanh Manolom)</li><li>Influence of Chinese Investment in the Mining Sector in Laos: Land Concession and Concession Fees (Alay Phonvisay and Thantavanh Manolom)</li><li>China's Rising Influence and its Implications on Myanmar–Thailand Trade (Mu Mu Theint)</li><li>Experiencing the Dian-Việt Railway Corridor as Panoramization: A View from the Past (Stan BH Tan-Tangbau)</li><li>Thailand–Laos–Vietnam–Southern China: Land Logistic and Transportation (Nisachol Thaithong and Nisarat Thaithong)</li><li>The E-commerce Landscape in ASEAN and China: A Virtual Bridge between The World's Largest Market and ASEAN's Emerging Markets (Wasutadon Nakawiroj and Pak Veerastien)</li></ul> Readership: Students and researchers interested in China Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, ASEAN studies, and International Relations; and policymakers and practitioners in the field of China Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, ASEAN Studies and International Relations.Asian Studies;China Studies;Southeast Asian Studies;ASEAN Studies;ASEAN;Mainland ASEAN;Lancang-Mekong;China;India;Thailand;Vietnam;FDI;Laos;Dian-Việt Railway Corridor;Myanmar;Transborder Human Mobility;Economic Cooperation;Mining Sector;Trade;Land Logistics;Land Transportation;E-Commerce;Emerging Markets0Key Features:<ul><li>This book aims to bridge the gaps observed between evidence-based practical analyses and the perceptions of various agents</li><li>This book aims to help various stakeholders in Mainland ASEAN facing challenges from the shift in China's role in the region with an adequate understanding or providing suggestions for supporting measures to be well found by all parties involved</li></ul>

Economics of G20

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The G20 (or Group of Twenty) is an international body established to manage the global economy, and includes members from developing economies.This reference set examines the issues facing developing countries and studies the role that the G20 can play in light of continuing challenges and objectives to meet the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).Volume 1 sets out the state of the world economy and the intricate functions of the G20 in policy coordination and economic cooperation. It also deals with the interests and strategies of some developing country members of the G20. These chapters answer questions such as what the country expects from the G20, the strategies adopted to achieve its ends, the extent to which it sees itself as a representative of developing countries in its region and how does it seek to represent them.The G20 has also centred its efforts around helping countries achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Volume 2 concentrates on trade issues and the prospects of achieving the SDGs. In this context, it examines whether the SDGs themselves are a desirable goal in terms of what the nature of development is which underlies these goals.Contents: <ul><li>About the Editors-in-Chief</li><li>Acknowledgements</li><li>Introduction</li><li>Volume 1: Developing Countries and the Need for G20:<ul><li>Part 1 State of the World Economy and the Role of the G20:<ul><li>G20 and International Economic Coordination: Lessons from the Inter-War Years (Manmohan Agarwal)</li><li>The Economic Situation of Countries in Sub-Saharan Countries: What Can Be Done by the G20? (Manmohan Agarwal and Amrita Brahmo)</li><li>Latin America's Economic Performance: What Ails It? (Manmohan Agarwal and Amrita Brahmo)</li><li>What Realistically Can the G20 Contribute to Development? (Manmohan Agarwal and John Whalley)</li><li>The 2008–2009 Crisis and Developing Countries (Manmohan Agarwal and Adrita Banerjee)</li></ul></li><li>Part 2 Country Perspectives:<ul><li>Argentina, G20 and Beyond: The 'Outsider' Saga (Aparajita Gangopadhyay)</li><li>Indonesia's Role in the G20: Assessing the Critical Link in the ASEAN Chain (Shankari Sundararaman)</li><li>Saudi Arabia and the Millennium Development Goals (P R Kumaraswamy and Md Muddassir Quamar)</li><li>Turkey, G20 and Global Governance: Aspiration and Limitation (Anwar Alam)</li></ul></li><li>Index</li></ul></li><li>Volume 2: How Developing Countries can Achieve Sustainable Development Goals:<ul><li>Part I Trade:<ul><li>Which Way Forward? The Role of Free Trade for the Development of the World Economy (Cora Jungbluth and Thieβ Petersen)</li><li>China and Global Economic Governance (Tian Huifang)</li></ul></li><li>Part II Sustainable Development Goals:<ul><li>Prospects for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (Manmohan Agarwal and Adrita Banerjee)</li><li>Guardian of the Common Good or National Power Projection? What Role for the G20 in the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development? (Thomas Fues)</li><li>The G20 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Imme Scholz and Clara Brandi)</li><li>The Potential of SDG-3 for Reducing Health Inequities: Across and Within Nations (T Sundararaman and Alok Ranjan)</li><li>Universal Healthcare and Africa: Key Policy Challenges and the Role of G20 (T C James)</li></ul></li><li>Part III Education:<ul><li>The Goals Concealed in the Goal Revealed: Taking Forward Global Education from SDG 4 (Arshima Champa Dost)</li><li>Public Investment in Education and Out of School Children: The Case of India in South Asia (Susmita Mitra and Manmohan Agarwal)</li></ul></li><li>Index</li></ul></li></ul> Readership: Economists, researchers and scholars in international economics, developing economies and international economic governance, especially those studying the effect of the 2008 crisis on developing countries such as Africa and Latin America; researchers and political scientists in international political economy. G20;The 2008 Crisis and Developing Countries;Developing Countries and the G20;G20 and Sustainable Development;Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa;Economic Development in Latin America;Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)0Key Features:<ul><li>No similar books are currently available; the book provides a detailed analysis of the expectations for developing countries from the G20 in meeting their sustainable development goals both in terms of growth and social achievements</li></ul>

Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics of Heterogeneous Systems

Signe Kjelstrup

This book utilizes non-equilibrium thermodynamics to describe transport in complex, heterogeneous media. There are large coupling effects between transport of heat, mass, charge and chemical reactions at surfaces, and it is important to know how one should properly integrate across systems where different phases are in contact. There is no other book available today that gives a prescription of how to set up flux equations for transports across heterogeneous systems.Contents: <ul><li>Scope</li><li>Why Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics?</li><li>Thermodynamic Relations for Heterogeneous Systems</li><li>The Entropy Production for a Homogeneous Phase</li><li>The Excess Entropy Production for the Surface</li><li>The Excess Entropy Production for a Three-Phase Contact Line</li><li>Flux Equations and Onsager Relations</li><li>Transport of Heat and Mass</li><li>Transport of Heat and Charge</li><li>Transport of Mass and Charge</li><li>Evaporation and Condensation</li><li>Multi-Component Diffusion, Heat Conduction and Cross Effects</li><li>A Non-Isothermal Concentration Cell</li><li>The Transported Entropy</li><li>Adiabatic Electrode Reactions</li><li>The Liquid Junction Potential</li><li>The Formation Cell</li><li>Power from Regular and Thermal Osmosis</li><li>Modeling the Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell</li><li>Measuring Membrane Transport Properties</li><li>The Impedance of an Electrode Surface</li><li>Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulations</li><li>The Non-Equilibrium Two-Phase van der Waals Model</li><li>Curved Surfaces</li><li>The Catalyst Surface Temperature</li></ul> Readership: Graduate students, researchers, lecturers and professionals in physics, nanoscience and surface science.Irreversible Processes;Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics;Interface Transports;Phase Transitions;Catalysis;Batteries;Fuel Cells;Thermal Osmosis0Key Features:<ul><li>Two new chapters have been added to the bestselling first edition of the book</li></ul>

Mathematics of Harmony as a New Interdisciplinary Direction and “Golden” Paradigm of Modern Science

Alexey Stakhov

Volume II is the second part of the 3-volume book Mathematics of Harmony as a New Interdisciplinary Direction and 'Golden' Paradigm of Modern Science. 'Mathematics of Harmony' rises in its origin to the 'harmonic ideas' of Pythagoras, Plato and Euclid, this 3-volume book aims to promote more deep understanding of ancient conception of the 'Universe Harmony,' the main conception of ancient Greek science, and implementation of this conception to modern science and education.This 3-volume book is a result of the authors' research in the field of Fibonacci numbers and the Golden Section and their applications. It provides a broad introduction to the fascinating and beautiful subject of the 'Mathematics of Harmony,' a new interdisciplinary direction of modern science. This direction has many unexpected applications in contemporary mathematics (a new approach to a history of mathematics, the generalized Fibonacci numbers and the generalized golden proportions, the generalized Binet's formulas), theoretical physics (new hyperbolic models of Nature) and computer science (algorithmic measurement theory, number systems with irrational bases, Fibonacci computers, ternary mirror-symmetrical arithmetic).The books are intended for a wide audience including mathematics teachers of high schools, students of colleges and universities and scientists in the field of mathematics, theoretical physics and computer science. The book may be used as an advanced textbook by graduate students and even ambitious undergraduates in mathematics and computer science.Contents: <ul><li>Foundations of the Constructive (Algorithmic) Measurement Theory</li><li>Principle of Asymmetry of Measurement and Fibonacci Algorithms of Measurement</li><li>Evolution of Numeral Systems</li><li>Bergman's System and 'Golden' Number Theory</li><li>The 'Golden' Ternary Mirror-Symmetrical Arithmetic</li><li>Fibonacci p-Codes and Fibonacci Arithmetic for Mission-Critical Applications</li><li>Codes of the Golden p-Proportions</li></ul> Readership: High school, college and university students, teachers, professionals, scientists and investors interested in history of mathematics, Fibonacci numbers, golden section and their generalization.Babylonian Numeral System;Golden Section;Platonic Solids;Pythagoreanism And Pythagorean Mathem's;Classical Mathematics;Mathematics of Harmony;“Golden” Paradigm;Fibonacci Numbers;Philosophy0Key Features:<ul><li>In the world literature there is only one book, devoted to the «Mathematics of Harmony»</li><li>Scornful attitude towards the «school» and applied arithmetic and its problems</li><li>Can serve as the explanation of the fact why in the number theory attention was not given to numeral systems</li><li>The great interest was again shown to the methods of the representation of numbers and new computer arithmetic</li><li>The ternary computer «Setun», designed by the Russian engineer Nikolay Brousentsov on the basis of the ternary system, was the brightest example</li><li>Mathematics again returned to the period of its origin, when the numeral systems were as one of the main subjects of the ancient mathematics</li></ul>

Mathematics of Harmony as a New Interdisciplinary Direction and “Golden” Paradigm of Modern Science

Alexey Stakhov

Volume III is the third part of the 3-volume book Mathematics of Harmony as a New Interdisciplinary Direction and 'Golden' Paradigm of Modern Science. 'Mathematics of Harmony' rises in its origin to the 'harmonic ideas' of Pythagoras, Plato and Euclid, this 3-volume book aims to promote more deep understanding of ancient conception of the 'Universe Harmony,' the main conception of ancient Greek science, and implementation of this conception to modern science and education.This 3-volume book is a result of the authors' research in the field of Fibonacci numbers and the Golden Section and their applications. It provides a broad introduction to the fascinating and beautiful subject of the 'Mathematics of Harmony,' a new interdisciplinary direction of modern science. This direction has many unexpected applications in contemporary mathematics (a new approach to a history of mathematics, the generalized Fibonacci numbers and the generalized golden proportions, the generalized Binet's formulas), theoretical physics (new hyperbolic models of Nature) and computer science (algorithmic measurement theory, number systems with irrational bases, Fibonacci computers, ternary mirror-symmetrical arithmetic).The books are intended for a wide audience including mathematics teachers of high schools, students of colleges and universities and scientists in the field of mathematics, theoretical physics and computer science. The book may be used as an advanced textbook by graduate students and even ambitious undergraduates in mathematics and computer science.Contents: <ul><li>Mathematics of Harmony as a Prerequisite for the 'Golden' Revolution in Mathematics and Computer Science</li><li>The 'Golden' Hyperbolic Functions as the 'Golden' Paradigm Shift to the 'Golden' Non-Euclidean Geometry</li><li>Applications of the Symmetric Hyperbolic Fibonacci and Lucas Functions</li><li>Theory of Fibonacci and Lucas λ-Numbers and Its Applications</li><li>Hilbert Problems: General Information</li><li>Beauty and Aesthetics of Harmony Mathematics</li><li>Epilogue</li></ul> remove Sample Chapter(s) <a href='http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/suppl/10.1142/11645/suppl_file/11645_preface.pdf'>Preface to the Three-Volume Book</a> <a href='http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/suppl/10.1142/11645/suppl_file/11645_intro.pdf'>Introduction</a> <a href='http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9789811213502_0001'>Chapter 1. Mathematics of Harmony as a Prerequisite for the 'Golden' Revolution in Mathematics and Computer Science</a> /remove Readership: High school, college and university students, teachers, professionals, scientists and investors interested in history of mathematics, Fibonacci numbers, golden section and their generalization.Babylonian Numeral System;Golden Section;Platonic Solids;Pythagoreanism and Pythagorean Mathem's;Classical Mathematics;Mathematics of Harmony;“Golden” Paradigm;Fibonacci Numbers;Philosophy0Key Features:<ul><li>The present 3-volume book will promote to the implementation of these «harmonic ideas» into modern science and education</li><li>Will lead to more deep understanding of the ancient conception of the «Universe Harmony,»</li><li>The creation of the «harmonious» society of the future</li></ul>