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Author |
: H Scott Dumas |
Publisher |
: World Scientific Publishing Company |
Total Pages |
: 378 |
Release |
: 2014-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789814556606 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9814556602 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kam Story, The: A Friendly Introduction To The Content, History, And Significance Of Classical Kolmogorov-arnold-moser Theory by : H Scott Dumas
This is a semi-popular mathematics book aimed at a broad readership of mathematically literate scientists, especially mathematicians and physicists who are not experts in classical mechanics or KAM theory, and scientific-minded readers. Parts of the book should also appeal to less mathematically trained readers with an interest in the history or philosophy of science.The scope of the book is broad: it not only describes KAM theory in some detail, but also presents its historical context (thus showing why it was a “breakthrough”). Also discussed are applications of KAM theory (especially to celestial mechanics and statistical mechanics) and the parts of mathematics and physics in which KAM theory resides (dynamical systems, classical mechanics, and Hamiltonian perturbation theory).Although a number of sources on KAM theory are now available for experts, this book attempts to fill a long-standing gap at a more descriptive level. It stands out very clearly from existing publications on KAM theory because it leads the reader through an accessible account of the theory and places it in its proper context in mathematics, physics, and the history of science.
Author |
: H. Scott Dumas |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 378 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9814556599 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789814556590 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis The KAM Story by : H. Scott Dumas
Author |
: Joshua Kam |
Publisher |
: Epigram Books |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789814901055 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9814901059 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis How the Man in Green Saved Pahang, and Possibly the World by : Joshua Kam
Winner of the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize When a renegade prophet vanishes in a cloud of pigeons in Kuala Lumpur, chorister and first witness Gabriel finds himself press-ganged into a wild road trip down the Malaysian coast. Meanwhile, in a sleepy town by the sea, Lydia traces the links between her late grandaunt’s eccentric lover and her involvement in the Communist Emergency. As Lydia and Gabriel enter a shadowy mythology of serpents, Sufi saints and plainclothes gods, they must grapple with the theologies and histories they once trusted, in a country more perilously punk than they’d ever conceived of. Reader Reviews: "A dizzying tale of saints, heists, maybe-queens." —The Straits Times "Quite the debut, accomplished, deft, unabashed and exuberant." —Asian Review of Books "Author Joshua Kam’s debut book brings Asian mythology to the forefront." —The Sun Daily Malaysian author blurs myths and truths as you escape on a wild road trip ... This whimsical, rollercoaster ride of a book also carries a tale of old and new Malaysia colliding, with various figures from local history, politics and folklore coming together in an epic quest for the soul of the nation. —newsday24.com "In essence, (the novel) acts as a love letter to Malaysian folklore and history, showcasing an impressive degree of representation and imagination that never feels shoehorned into the narrative." —Bakchormeeboy "What a trip! This 21st-century adventure quest with an Islamic saint also brings us on a madcap tour through a multitude of Malaysian mythologies— Malay epics, Taoist pantheons, WW2/Emergency/Merdeka heroics, and more. Even more vitally, it gives us hope amidst the dire news of our era— political corruption, environmental devastation and bigotry—reassuring us that the human/divine spirit still flourishes in the late-capitalist tropics, and is ultimately destined to triumph over evil. An absolute delight, and truly, deliciously Malaysian.” —Ng Yi-Sheng, award-winning author of Lion City “Borgesian, even Manichean in spirit, with almost reverent borrowings from Nusantara mythologies to Abrahamic religiosity, this novel is a wild ride from start to finish, riffing on Malayan history, politics and folklore in a surprisingly redemptive arc, while remaining deeply interrogative about what it means to keep true to goodness in the ever-changing face of evil.” —Cyril Wong, two-time Singapore Literature Prize-winning author of This Side of Heaven
Author |
: Rose Kam |
Publisher |
: Burns & Oates |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0826408044 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780826408044 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Their Stories, Our Stories by : Rose Kam
From Eve, "Woman of the Dawn", and Sarah, "Princess of the Promise", to Mary Magdalene, "Apostle to the Apostles", the women of the Bible struggled with the inequalities of a patriarchal world. Their Stories/Our Stories offers insight and inspiration to women "who refuse to be driven from our spiritual homes".
Author |
: Kam Mak |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 40 |
Release |
: 2001-12-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780060291907 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0060291907 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis My Chinatown by : Kam Mak
Chinatown -- a place of dragons and dreams; fireflies and memories Chinatown -- full of wonder and magic; fireworks on New Year's Day and a delicious smell on every corner Chinatown -- where every day brings something familiar and something wondrously new to a small boy Chinatown -- home? Kam Mak grew up in a place of two cultures, one existing within the other. Using extraordinarily beautiful paintings and moving poems, he shares a year of growing up in this small city within a city, which is called Chinatown.
Author |
: Wei Wang |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 159 |
Release |
: 2021-07-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000412932 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000412938 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ethnic Identity of the Kam People in Contemporary China by : Wei Wang
Based on three years of fieldwork in Zhanli, a remote Kam Village in Guizhou Province, Wang and Jiang explore the complex dynamics between the discursive practices of the local government and the villagers in relation to the reconstruction of Kam identity in response to social change, particularly the rise of rural tourism. China’s profound demographic and socio-economic transformation has intensified the dominance of Han culture and language and seriously challenged the traditional cultures in ethnic minority areas. The authors draw on multiple empirical sources, including in-depth interviews with Kam villagers and local officials, field observations, media discourse, local archives and government documents. They present an engaging account of the significant compromises that government and villagers have made in relation to ethnic identity in the name of economic development, and of the tensions and struggles that characterise the ongoing process of ethnic identity reconstruction. Students and researchers in sociolinguistics, ethnography, and discourse studies, especially those with an interest in Chinese discourse, and everyone interested in issues around ethnicity (minzu) issues in China, will find this book a valuable resource.
Author |
: David D. Nolte |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2018-07-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192528506 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192528505 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Galileo Unbound by : David D. Nolte
Galileo Unbound traces the journey that brought us from Galileo's law of free fall to today's geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our lives as trajectories traversing a health space with thousands of dimensions. Remarkably, common themes persist that predict the evolution of species as readily as the orbits of planets or the collapse of stars into black holes. This book tells the history of spaces of expanding dimension and increasing abstraction and how they continue today to give new insight into the physics of complex systems. Galileo published the first modern law of motion, the Law of Fall, that was ideal and simple, laying the foundation upon which Newton built the first theory of dynamics. Early in the twentieth century, geometry became the cause of motion rather than the result when Einstein envisioned the fabric of space-time warped by mass and energy, forcing light rays to bend past the Sun. Possibly more radical was Feynman's dilemma of quantum particles taking all paths at once — setting the stage for the modern fields of quantum field theory and quantum computing. Yet as concepts of motion have evolved, one thing has remained constant, the need to track ever more complex changes and to capture their essence, to find patterns in the chaos as we try to predict and control our world.
Author |
: Shannon Messenger |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 512 |
Release |
: 2012-10-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781442445956 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1442445955 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Keeper of the Lost Cities by : Shannon Messenger
A New York Times bestselling series A USA TODAY bestselling series A California Young Reader Medal–winning series In this riveting series opener, a telepathic girl must figure out why she is the key to her brand-new world before the wrong person finds the answer first. Twelve-year-old Sophie has never quite fit into her life. She’s skipped multiple grades and doesn’t really connect with the older kids at school, but she’s not comfortable with her family, either. The reason? Sophie’s a Telepath, someone who can read minds. No one knows her secret—at least, that’s what she thinks… But the day Sophie meets Fitz, a mysterious (and adorable) boy, she learns she’s not alone. He’s a Telepath too, and it turns out the reason she has never felt at home is that, well…she isn’t. Fitz opens Sophie’s eyes to a shocking truth, and she is forced to leave behind her family for a new life in a place that is vastly different from what she has ever known. But Sophie still has secrets, and they’re buried deep in her memory for good reason: The answers are dangerous and in high-demand. What is her true identity, and why was she hidden among humans? The truth could mean life or death—and time is running out.
Author |
: Tian Qiao Lu |
Publisher |
: Universal-Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781612331447 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1612331440 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Classifiers in Kam-Tai Languages by : Tian Qiao Lu
This monograph describes and analyzes the syntax of classifiers and cultural taxonomy in more than 20 major languages in southern China and Southeast Asia. It provides comprehensive and in-depth data for professional linguists and rudimental knowledge for postgraduate or undergraduate majors or minors engaged in linguistics. Readers will learn how nouns are categorized in syntax and what cultural factors are involved in such a classification process. This is the first book on Kam-Tai classifiers from both syntactic and sociocultural aspects.
Author |
: Edouard Kayihura |
Publisher |
: BenBella Books, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 229 |
Release |
: 2014-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781937856731 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1937856739 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Inside the Hotel Rwanda by : Edouard Kayihura
In 2004, the Academy Award–nominated movie Hotel Rwanda lionized hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina for single-handedly saving the lives of all who sought refuge in the Hotel des Milles Collines during Rwanda's genocide against the Tutsi in 1994. Because of the film, the real-life Rusesabagina has been compared to Oskar Schindler, but unbeknownst to the public, the hotel's refugees don't endorse Rusesabagina's version of the events. In the wake of Hotel Rwanda's international success, Rusesabagina is one of the most well-known Rwandans and now the smiling face of the very Hutu Power groups who drove the genocide. He is accused by the Rwandan prosecutor general of being a genocide negationist and funding the terrorist group Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). In Inside the Hotel Rwanda, survivor Edouard Kayihura tells his own personal story of what life was really like during those harrowing 100 days within the walls of that infamous hotel and offers the testimonies of others who survived there, from Hutu and Tutsi to UN peacekeepers. Kayihura tells of his life in a divided society and his journey to the place he believed would be safe from slaughter. Inside the Hotel Rwanda exposes Paul Rusesabagina as a profiteering, politically ambitious Hutu Power sympathizer who extorted money from those who sought refuge, threatening to send those who did not pay to the genocidaires, despite pleas from the hotel's corporate ownership to stop. Inside the Hotel Rwanda is at once a memoir, a critical deconstruction of a heralded Hollywood movie alleged to be factual, and a political analysis aimed at exposing a falsely created hero using his fame to be a political force, spouting the same ethnic apartheid that caused the genocide two decades ago.