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Analyzing Sound Patterns

An Introduction to Phonology

By: Bruce Long Peng,Long Peng

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Analyzing Sound Patterns

An Introduction to Phonology

By: Bruce Long Peng,Long Peng

Analyzing Sound Patterns is a clear and concise introduction to phonological phenomena, it includes extensive exercises which involve students in a variety of analytical tasks and shows students how to analyze phonological problems with a focus on practical tools, methodology and step-by-step instructions.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521195799

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China's New Rulers

The Secret Files; Second, Revised Edition

By: Bruce Gilley,Andrew Nathan

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China's New Rulers

The Secret Files; Second, Revised Edition

By: Bruce Gilley,Andrew Nathan

At the Chinese Communist Party's 16th Congress in November 2002, a group of new leaders took over the world's most populous country. Their accession as the "Fourth Generation" of rulers of the People's Republic—following the generations of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Zemin—signaled the end of a long, complex struggle for power. Yet little has been known outside high Party circles about either that struggle or the men who emerged victorious from it. China's New Rulers, based on confidential Party files leaked to a Chinese writer abroad, offers an unprecedented glimpse into the most orderly succession in the turbulent history of the People's Republic. At its center are detailed descriptions of the nine men who will rule China for the next five years—their backgrounds, their characters, and their visions for the future. Among the challenges they will face are economic reform and China's integration into a global economy, pressures for political liberalization and human rights, ethnic unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang, the status of Taiwan, and relations with the US. China's New Rulers is an extraordinary account of a high-level political drama that has largely taken place in secret. It portrays many key figures in the Party, government, and military, and provides new information on Jiang Zemin's thirteen years in office. Most importantly, it contains the first insights into matters of great importance to the West: who will lead China, what changes they may bring to their country, and how they may act as international partners and competitors.

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New York Review of Books

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1590170725

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JFK's Forgotten Crisis

Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War

By: Bruce Riedel

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JFK's Forgotten Crisis

Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War

By: Bruce Riedel

Bruce Riedel provides new perspective and insights into Kennedy's forgotten crisis in the most dangerous days of the cold war. The Cuban Missile Crisis defined the presidency of John F. Kennedy. But during the same week that the world stood transfixed by the possibility of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, Kennedy was also consumed by a war that has escaped history's attention, yet still significantly reverberates today: the Sino-Indian conflict. As well-armed troops from the People's Republic of China surged into Indian-held territory in October 1962, Kennedy ordered an emergency airlift of supplies to the Indian army. He engaged in diplomatic talks that kept the neighboring Pakistanis out of the fighting. The conflict came to an end with a unilateral Chinese cease-fire, relieving Kennedy of a decision to intervene militarily in support of India. Bruce Riedel, a CIA and National Security Council veteran, provides the first full narrative of this crisis, which played out during the tense negotiations with Moscow over Cuba. He also describes another, nearly forgotten episode of U.S. espionage during the war between India and China: secret U.S. support of Tibetan opposition to Chinese occupation of Tibet. He details how the United States, beginning in 1957, trained and parachuted Tibetan guerrillas into Tibet to fight Chinese military forces. The United States did not abandon this covert support until relations were normalized with China in the 1970s. Riedel tells this story of war, diplomacy, and covert action with authority and perspective. He draws on newly declassified letters between Kennedy and Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru, along with the diaries and memoirs of key players and other sources, to make this the definitive account of JFK's forgotten crisis. This is, Riedel writes, Kennedy's finest hour as you have never read it before.

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815727003

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9780815727002

Distant Water

By: Bruce Gray

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Distant Water

By: Bruce Gray

American Bryan Paton, new hire at Hong Kong's top law firm, travels to Beijing to recover the body of his client's daughter, Fiona. Unknown to Bryan, also searching for Fiona is General Zhu Fangguo, a central figure in the plot to restore Deng Xiaoping to power.Bryan learns that Fiona is alive and a pawn in the tug of war between radical and moderate factions. His connection to her and, through her, to Zhu involves him in a deadly game of survival and ultimately exposes a web of family secrets closely guarded for nearly 30 years.

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Greenleaf Book Group

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1936909359

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Complex Webs

Anticipating the Improbable

By: Bruce J. West,Paolo Grigolini

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Complex Webs

Anticipating the Improbable

By: Bruce J. West,Paolo Grigolini

Complex Webs synthesises modern mathematical developments with a broad range of complex network applications of interest to the engineer and system scientist, presenting the common principles, algorithms, and tools governing network behaviour, dynamics, and complexity. The authors investigate multiple mathematical approaches to inverse power laws and expose the myth of normal statistics to describe natural and man-made networks. Richly illustrated throughout with real-world examples including cell phone use, accessing the Internet, failure of power grids, measures of health and disease, distribution of wealth, and many other familiar phenomena from physiology, bioengineering, biophysics, and informational and social networks, this book makes thought-provoking reading. With explanations of phenomena, diagrams, end-of-chapter problems, and worked examples, it is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in engineering and the life, social, and physical sciences. It is also a perfect introduction for researchers who are interested in this exciting new way of viewing dynamic networks.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139493779

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Biodynamics

Why the Wirewalker Doesn't Fall

By: Bruce J. West,Lori A. Griffin

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Biodynamics

Why the Wirewalker Doesn't Fall

By: Bruce J. West,Lori A. Griffin

You can never step in the same river twice, goes the old adage of philosophy. An observation on the transitory nature of fluids in motion, this saying also describes the endless variations researchers face when studying human movement. Understanding these biodynamics-why the wirewalker doesn't fall-requires a grasp of the constant fluctuations and fine tunings which maintain balance in the complex, fluid system of human locomotion. Taking a comprehensive approach to the phenomenon of locomotion, Biodynamics: Why the Wirewalker Doesn't Fall integrates physical laws and principles with concepts of fractals, chaos, and randomness. In so doing, it formulates a description of both the large-scale, smooth aspects of locomotion and the more minute, randomized mechanisms of this physiological process. Ideal for beginners in this subject, Biodynamics provides an elegant explanation without assuming the reader's understanding of complex physical principles or mathematical equations. Chapter topics include: * Dimensions, measurement, and scaling * Mechanics and dynamics * Biometrics * Conservation of momentum * Biomechanics * Bioelectricity * Bioenergetics * Fluid mechanics and dynamics * Data analysis * Biostatistics Packed with problem sets, examples, and original line drawings, Biodynamics is an invaluable text for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and instructors in medicine, biology, physiology, biophysics, and bioengineering.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471346195

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9780471346197

The Lure of Modern Science

Fractal Thinking

By: Bruce J. West,Bill Deering,William D. Deering

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The Lure of Modern Science

Fractal Thinking

By: Bruce J. West,Bill Deering,William D. Deering

The authors describe mostly in non-technical language the development of a new scientific paradigm based on nonlinear deterministic dynamics and fractal geometry. The concepts from these two mathematical disciplines are interwoven with data from the physical, social and life sciences. In this way rather sophisticated mathematical concepts are made accessible through experimental data from various disciplines, and the formalism is relegated to appendices. It is shown that the complexity of natural and social phenomena invariably lead to inverse power law distributions, both in terms of probabilities and spectra. This book tries to show how to think differently about familiar phenomena, such as why the bell-shape curve ought not to be used in teaching or in the characterization of such complex phenomena as intelligence.

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World Scientific

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9810221975

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9789810221973

Fractal Analysis for Natural Hazards

By: Giuseppe Cello,Bruce D. Malamud

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Fractal Analysis for Natural Hazards

By: Giuseppe Cello,Bruce D. Malamud

In the Earth Sciences, the concept of fractals and scale invariance is well-recognized in many natural objects. However, the use of fractals for spatial and temporal analyses of natural hazards has been less used (and accepted) in the Earth Sciences. This book brings together twelve contributions that emphasize the role of fractal analyses in natural hazard research, including landslides, wildfires, floods, catastrophic rock fractures and earthquakes. A wide variety of spatial and temporal fractal-related approaches and techniques are applied to 'natural' data, experimental data, and computer simulations. These approaches include probabilistic hazard analysis, cellular-automata models, spatial analyses, temporal variability, prediction, and self-organizing behaviour. The main aims of this volume are to present current research on fractal analyses as applied to natural hazards, and to stimulate the curiosity of advanced Earth Science students and researchers in the use of fractals analyses for the better understanding of natural hazards.

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Geological Society of London

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1862392013

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Physiology, Promiscuity, and Prophecy at the Millennium

A Tale of Tails

By: Bruce J. West

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Physiology, Promiscuity, and Prophecy at the Millennium

A Tale of Tails

By: Bruce J. West

This book concerns the development of a theory of complex phenomena, using such concepts as fractals, chaos, and fractional derivatives; but, most important, the idea of an allometric control process is developed. In summary the theory attempts to explain why the distribution in the intensity of wars is the same as the relative frequency of the number of words used in languages and the number of species evolved over time from one or a few remote ancestors. The theory also describes the similarity in the variability of the number of births to teens in Texas to the number of sexual partners in homosexual liaisons. The data in both of the aforementioned categories are shown to have long-term memory, and it is this memory that also gives rise to inverse power laws in such physiological phenomena as the interbeat interval distribution of the human heart, the interstride interval distribution in the human gait, and memory in DNA sequences.

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9810238363

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9789810238360

Physics of Fractal Operators

By: Bruce West,Mauro Bologna,Paolo Grigolini

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Physics of Fractal Operators

By: Bruce West,Mauro Bologna,Paolo Grigolini

This text describes the statistcal behavior of complex systems and shows how the fractional calculus can be used to model the behavior. The discussion emphasizes physical phenomena whose evolution is best described using the fractional calculus, such as systems with long-range spatial interactions or long-time memory. The book gives general strategies for understanding wave propagation through random media, the nonlinear response of complex materials, and the fluctuations of heat transport in heterogeneous materials.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387217460

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Crucial Event Rehabilitation Therapy

Multifractal Medicine

By: Bruce J. West,Paolo Grigolini,Mauro Bologna

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Crucial Event Rehabilitation Therapy

Multifractal Medicine

By: Bruce J. West,Paolo Grigolini,Mauro Bologna

This book describes a new strategy for rehabilitation from injury and/or disease using Crucial Event Therapy. Recent studies have shown that individuals can recuperate more rapidly from surgery and other invasive procedures intended to correct the negative effects of disease or injury through the use of life support systems that operate at the body's natural biofrequencies. The same observation has been clinically shown to reverse the degenerative effects of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer's Disease. Crucial Event Therapy describes medicine as the operational control of the functions of the human body treated as a network-of-networks, with 1/f-variable crucial events coding the dynamic states of health and disease through information flow within a network and information exchange between biomedical networks. A new way of thinking based on the statistics of Cortical Events is presented and the relevant literature is suitably referenced. This is an ideal book for biophysicists and data scientists seeking to understand the connection of complexity measures for the study of consciousness with the clinical aspects of designing a rehabilitation strategy.

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Springer Nature

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3031462777

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9783031462771

Modern China

Continuity and Change, 1644 to the Present

By: Bruce A. Elleman,S. C. M. Paine

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Modern China

Continuity and Change, 1644 to the Present

By: Bruce A. Elleman,S. C. M. Paine

Now in a fully updated edition, this accessible text provides a balanced history of modern China in a global context. Through years of living and research in China, Taiwan, Japan, and Russia, the authors are deeply qualified to understand China’s internal dynamics as well as its foreign relations over centuries. Arguing that modern Chinese history cannot be understood without a deep appreciation of the outside factors that have influenced the country, the authors focus on China’s near neighbors, especially Japan and Russia. They also emphasize the tragic role of almost endless warfare throughout Chinese history. Providing a unique comparative approach, the authors bridge the cultural divide separating Chinese history from Western readers trying to understand it. Specifically geared to the teaching requirements of the semester system, the book is divided into four parts and a total of twenty-eight chapters, corresponding either to two chapters per week in a fourteen-week semester or one chapter per week in a two-semester course.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538103877

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9781538103876

China's Next Strategic Advantage

From Imitation to Innovation

By: George S. Yip,Bruce McKern

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China's Next Strategic Advantage

From Imitation to Innovation

By: George S. Yip,Bruce McKern

A book for everyone who does business with China or in China. The history-making development of the Chinese economy has entered a new phase. China is moving aggressively from a strategy of imitation to one of innovation. Driven both by domestic needs and by global ambition, China is establishing itself at the forefront of technological innovation. Western businesses need to prepare for a tidal wave of innovation from China that is about to hit Western markets, and Chinese businesses need to understand the critical importance of innovation in their future. Experts George Yip and Bruce McKern explain this epic transformation and propose strategies for both Western and Chinese companies. This book is for everyone who does business with China or in China, or is interested in the development of the world's fastest-growing economy. Western CEOs can learn from Chinese companies and can create an effective innovation process in China, for China and the world. Chinese CEOs can benefit from understanding the strategies of their peers as they strive to enter foreign markets. And all Western businesses should prepare for disruption from their new competitors. Yip and McKern provide case studies of successful firms, outline ten ways in which the managerial and innovative capabilities of these firms differ from those of Western firms, and describe how multinationals doing business in China can become part of the Chinese ecosystem of new knowledge and technology. Yip and McKern argue that these innovation capabilities will be the basis for creating world-class products and services to meet the challenges of a new era of global competition.

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MIT Press

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0262534754

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9780262534758

Tiger on the Brink

Jiang Zemin and China's New Elite

By: Bruce Gilley

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Tiger on the Brink

Jiang Zemin and China's New Elite

By: Bruce Gilley

This pathbreaking book is the first full-length study of the rise to power of Jiang Zemin, now the central figure in China's "third generation" of leaders. Tracing Jiang's beginnings as a student in the underground Communist movement in Shanghai through his appointment by Deng Xiaoping as party general secretary and his sudden elevation to central authority in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre in Beijing, Bruce Gilley offers a fascinating and highly readable look at how Jiang Zemin has secured his position as one of the world's most powerful figures. Gilley follows Jiang's life and career from his early years as the adopted son of a revolutionary martyr, through his training in Western science and engineering, to his emergence as what many believed would be an interim figurehead in the wake of Tiananmen. Gilley shows how Jiang instead persisted as China's key leader following the death of Deng Xiaoping: While he shared the concerns of the last of the Party elders—including their idealistic views of Chinese socialism—he also accommodated the younger generation of economic reformers who have helped China to achieve staggering growth in its domestic economy and foreign trade. Gilley's analysis of the careful and methodical transition of power from Deng to Jiang during the 1990s is a remarkable study in complexity and contrast, clearly illustrating Jiang's ability to either placate his allies and adversaries or ruthlessly exploit their weaknesses. Based on first-hand interviews and primary documents as well as a variety of mainland Chinese and international media sources, Tiger on the Brink is an unprecedented and immensely revealing look into the highest echelons of Chinese politics on the eve of the twenty-first century, and will be of interest to anyone concerned with the world's most populous nation and its newest emerging superpower.

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Univ of California Press

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0520921119

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9780520921115

The Kaohsiung Incident in Taiwan and Memoirs of a Foreign Big Beard

By: J. Bruce Jacobs

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The Kaohsiung Incident in Taiwan and Memoirs of a Foreign Big Beard

By: J. Bruce Jacobs

The Kaohsiung Incident of 1979-1980 disturbed Taiwan’s dictatorship and ultimately contributed to Taiwan’s democratization. This book analyzes the precursors to the Kaohsiung Incident, the Kaohsiung Incident itself, the following trials and the contributions of these events to Taiwan’s democratization. After the indictments were issued, the murder of the mother and twin daughters of Lin I-hsiung, one of the defendants, shocked Taiwan and the world. The government accused the author, a well-known scholar of Taiwan, of being involved in the murder case and he was placed under “police protection” for three months. Part 2 of this book is the writer’s memoir of that period.

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BRILL

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9004315926

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9789004315921

Fractal Physiology and Chaos in Medicine

By: Bruce J. West

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Fractal Physiology and Chaos in Medicine

By: Bruce J. West

This exceptional book is concerned with the application of fractals and chaos, as well as other concepts from nonlinear dynamics to biomedical phenomena. Herein we seek to communicate the excitement being experienced by scientists upon making application of these concepts within the life sciences. Mathematical concepts are introduced using biomedical data sets and the phenomena being explained take precedence over the mathematics.In this new edition what has withstood the test of time has been updated and modernized; speculations that were not borne out have been expunged and the breakthroughs that have occurred in the intervening years are emphasized. The book provides a comprehensive overview of a nascent theory of medicine, including a new chapter on the theory of complex networks as they pertain to medicine.

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World Scientific

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9814417807

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Cancer Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy, and Biotherapy

By: Bruce A. Chabner,Dan L. Longo

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Cancer Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy, and Biotherapy

By: Bruce A. Chabner,Dan L. Longo

Focusing on individual patient needs, Cancer Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy and Biotherapy: Principles and Practice, Seventh Edition, provides thorough, comprehensive information from Drs. Bruce A. Chabner, Dan L. Longo, and an authoritative team of clinicians and scientists working at renowned cancer centers across the globe. It covers fundamental information about mechanism of action, pharmacokinetics, clinical toxicity, and drug interactions, all essential to the safe and effective use of the drug.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975199308

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Where Medicine Went Wrong

Rediscovering the Path to Complexity

By: Bruce J. West

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Where Medicine Went Wrong

Rediscovering the Path to Complexity

By: Bruce J. West

Where Medicine Went Wrong explores how the idea of an average value has been misapplied to medical phenomena, distorted understanding and lead to flawed medical decisions. Through new insights into the science of complexity, traditional physiology is replaced with fractal physiology, in which variability is more indicative of health than is an average. The capricious nature of physiological systems is made conceptually manageable by smoothing over fluctuations and thinking in terms of averages. But these variations in such aspects as heart rate, breathing and walking are much more susceptible to the early influence of disease than are averages.It may be useful to quote from the late Stephen Jay Gould's book Full House on the errant nature of averages: ?? our culture encodes a strong bias either to neglect or ignore variation. We tend to focus instead on measures of central tendency, and as a result we make some terrible mistakes, often with considerable practical import.? Dr West has quantified this observation and make it useful for the diagnosis of disease.

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World Scientific

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9812568832

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On the Fractal Language of Medicine

By: Bruce J. West,W. Alan C. Mutch

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On the Fractal Language of Medicine

By: Bruce J. West,W. Alan C. Mutch

On the Fractal Language of Medicine bridges a very clear gap among the knowledge gained over the last 20 years in the physical and life sciences on network theory, organ synchronicity and communication, the understanding of fractal signatures in health and disease and the importance of fractional calculus in integrating these concepts. The authors opine that the field of medicine has not appreciated this hard-won knowledge and has suffered greatly as a result. This book addresses this perceived deficiency by introducing medical researchers, clinicians, residents, first-year medical students and members of allied fields to the work of the so-called hard sciences. It seeks to facilitate effective communication between empiricists and theorists by making interdisciplinary efforts to explain complex mathematical concepts to physicians and, equally important, to elucidate complex medical concepts to physicists or mathematicians. This book will be of great interest to medical students, professionals and academics, as well as students and researchers of applied mathematics, especially those interested in fractional calculus and fractals.

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CRC Press

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1040089135

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Democratizing Taiwan

By: J. Bruce Jacobs

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Democratizing Taiwan

By: J. Bruce Jacobs

Taiwan is only one of four consolidated Asian democracies. Democratizing Taiwan provides the most comprehensive analysis of Taiwan's peaceful democratization including the past authoritarian experience, leadership both within and outside government, popular protest and elections, and constitutional interpretation and amendments.

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9004221549

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Crucial Events: Why Are Catastrophes Never Expected?

By: Bruce J West,Paolo Grigolini

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Crucial Events: Why Are Catastrophes Never Expected?

By: Bruce J West,Paolo Grigolini

A nonsimple (complex) system indicates a mix of crucial and non-crucial events, with very different statistical properties. It is the crucial events that determine the efficiency of information exchange between complex networks. For a large class of nonsimple systems, crucial events determine catastrophic failures - from heart attacks to stock market crashes.This interesting book outlines a data processing technique that separates the effects of the crucial from those of the non-crucial events in nonsimple time series extracted from physical, social and living systems. Adopting an informal conversational style, without sacrificing the clarity necessary to explain, the contents will lead the reader through concepts such as fractals, complexity and randomness, self-organized criticality, fractional-order differential equations of motion, and crucial events, always with an eye to helping to interpret what mathematics usually does in the development of new scientific knowledge.Both researchers and novitiate will find Crucial Events useful in learning more about the science of nonsimplicity.

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9811234116

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9789811234118

Classic Secrets of Magic

By: Bruce Elliot

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Classic Secrets of Magic

By: Bruce Elliot

Originally published in 1953 by Harper and Brothers, ‘Classic Secrets of Magic’ exposes the mystery behind some of the most well-known magical tricks, such as the ‘Ambitious Card’, the ‘Chink-a-Chink’ and the ‘Four Ace Trick’. Contents include: The Spectator’s Card is Produced - Corn-Cobs - Water, Water, Everywhere! - The Very Peripatetic Paddle - Those Four Aces! - The Miser’s Dream Come True! - The Egg Bag, Well Done - The Two Covers, and The Four Objects... - Billiards, Magic Style - Razor Sharp - The Ambitious Card! - The Eternal Cups and Balls - in Conclusion - Appendix - Glossary. The book references many notable magicians, including Dai Vernon, Charlie Miller and Roy Benson, and is perfect for the magic novice and enthusiast alike. We are republishing this vintage compendium in a modern and affordable edition, featuring a new introduction and high quality reproductions of the original artwork.

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Read Books Ltd

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1447494288

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Fractal Physiology

By: James B Bassingthwaighte,Larry S Liebovitch,Bruce J West

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Fractal Physiology

By: James B Bassingthwaighte,Larry S Liebovitch,Bruce J West

I know that most men, including those at ease with the problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. Joseph Ford quoting Tolstoy (Gleick, 1987) We are used to thinking that natural objects have a certain form and that this form is determined by a characteristic scale. If we magnify the object beyond this scale, no new features are revealed. To correctly measure the properties of the object, such as length, area, or volume, we measure it at a resolution finer than the characteristic scale of the object. We expect that the value we measure has a unique value for the object. This simple idea is the basis of the calculus, Euclidean geometry, and the theory of measurement. However, Mandelbrot (1977, 1983) brought to the world's attention that many natural objects simply do not have this preconceived form. Many of the structures in space and processes in time of living things have a very different form. Living things have structures in space and fluctuations in time that cannot be characterized by one spatial or temporal scale. They extend over many spatial or temporal scales.

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1461475724

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Assessing the Lee Teng-hui Legacy in Taiwan's Politics

Democratic Consolidation and External Relations

By: Bruce Dickson,Chien-Min Chao

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Assessing the Lee Teng-hui Legacy in Taiwan's Politics

Democratic Consolidation and External Relations

By: Bruce Dickson,Chien-Min Chao

The 12 years of Lee Teng-hui's presidency were marked by a series of contrary trends such as progress in the consolidation of Taiwan's democracy, and periodic conflicts with China. This book assesses the complex legacy of Lee Teng-hui by looking at his accomplishments and setbacks.

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Routledge

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1315290391

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The Power of Internal Martial Arts and Chi

Combat and Energy Secrets of Ba Gua, Tai Chi, and Hsing-i

By: Bruce Kumar Frantzis

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The Power of Internal Martial Arts and Chi

Combat and Energy Secrets of Ba Gua, Tai Chi, and Hsing-i

By: Bruce Kumar Frantzis

Explains how awareness and development of chi gives internal martial arts their power and strength, contains full instructions on the Taoist system Nei Gung, describes how specific martial arts use chi, includes stories about masters. The new edition adds a new foreword, new introduction by author, practical explanations on spiritual traditions of the internal martial arts, index"--Provided by publisher.

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1583941908

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Power of Internal Martial Arts

Combat Secrets of Ba Gua, Tai Chi, and Hsing-I

By: Bruce Kumar Frantzis

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Power of Internal Martial Arts

Combat Secrets of Ba Gua, Tai Chi, and Hsing-I

By: Bruce Kumar Frantzis

From the author of "Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body" comes a book that introduces martial arts practitioners to three "internal" arts and their subtle powers. Inner martial arts rely on internal energy for power rather than on muscles or tension. 15 photos.

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North Atlantic Books

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1556432534

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9781556432538

Middleton's Allergy E-Book

Principles and Practice

By: N. Franklin Adkinson Jr.,Bruce S Bochner,A Wesley Burks,William W Busse,Stephen T Holgate,Robert F Lemanske,Robyn E O'Hehir

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Middleton's Allergy E-Book

Principles and Practice

By: N. Franklin Adkinson Jr.,Bruce S Bochner,A Wesley Burks,William W Busse,Stephen T Holgate,Robert F Lemanske,Robyn E O'Hehir

This best-selling resource has a worldwide reputation as the leader in its field. Focusing on human immunology and biology, while also reporting on scientific experimentation and advancement, it provides comprehensive coverage of state-of-the-art basic science as well as authoritative guidance on the practical aspects of day-to-day diagnosis and management. This new edition includes 700 full-color illustrations and a new, more accessible format to make finding information a snap for the busy practitioner. Includes a glossary of allergy and immunology for quick and easy reference. Contains keypoints and clinical pearls highlighted to find important information quickly. links to useful online resources both for you and for your patients. Offers contributions from hundreds of international authorities for world-class expertise in overcoming any clinical challenge. Contains 400 new illustrations, 700 in all, to better illustrate complex immunology. Covers the very latest in the field, including hot topics such as food allergy and immunotherapy. Includes the latest guidelines from The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP). Utilizes a new, more user-friendly full-color format for easier reference.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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032311332X

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9780323113328

Passport

By: Bruce Herschensohn

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Passport

By: Bruce Herschensohn

From their first chance encounter in the British-ruled territory of Hong Kong, to their fateful reunion during the Chinese takeover decades later, twelve very different people discover that their lives have been irrevocably altered by the events of the Cold War.

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iBooks

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074347984X

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9780743479844

Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, Twelfth Edition

By: Laurence Brunton,Bruce Chabner,Bjorn Knollman

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Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, Twelfth Edition

By: Laurence Brunton,Bruce Chabner,Bjorn Knollman

The landmark text in medical pharmacology is now in full color Includes DVD with image bank A Doody's Core Title ESSENTIAL PURCHASE for 2011! 4 STAR DOODY'S REVIEW! "This 12th edition of the most authoritative book in pharmacology is the best both in content and physical appearance....This edition of Goodman & Gilman's continues to be the most authoritative and widely used resource bridging the discipline of pharmacology with therapeutics. Moreover, readers will find this edition to be substantially improved from past editions in both content and physical appearance."--Doody's Review Service The most universally respected and read medical text in all of pharmacology, Goodman & Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics represents the pinnacle of authority and accuracy in describing the actions and uses of therapeutic agents in relation to physiology and pathophysiology. Goodman & Gilman’s careful balance of basic science and clinical application has guided thousands of practitioners and students to a clear understanding of the drugs essential to preventing, diagnosing, and treating disease. Enriched by a new full-color presentation and updated to reflect all critical new developments in drug action and drug-disease interaction, the twelfth edition includes more than 440 color illustrations depicting key principles and actions of specific pathways and therapeutic agents. The companion DVD includes all the images and tables in the text along with narrated animations. Goodman & Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 12e is divided into nine sections, covering: General Principles Neuropharmacology Modulation of Cardiovascular Function Inflammation, Immunomodulation, and Hematopoiesis Endocrine Pharmacology Gastrointestinal Pharmacology Chemotherapy of Infectious Disease Chemotherapy of Neoplastic Diseases Special Systems Pharmacology More than a textbook, Goodman & Gilman's is a working template for the effective and rational prescribing of drugs in daily practice.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071624422

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9780071624428

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