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Lucrari academice:

March 2010
	CHINA'S ELITE POLITICS Governance and Democratization by Zhiyue Bo (East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore) ''Dr Bo is an authority on the elites and the political role they play in China today. In this new volume, he analysed the role of those elites through the close examination of several recent developments that severely tested their governance skills. By focusing on some of the most dramatic challenges this past year, events that received considerable local and global attention, he demonstrates that the operation of elite politics in each case has stabilized. The study also demonstrates how the elites have become increasingly confident of their capacity to rule.'' Wang Gungwu Chairman, East Asian Institute National University of Singapore 448pp March 2010 ISBN: 978-981-283-672-4

	CHINESE CITY AND URBANISM Evolution and Development by Victor F S Sit (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong) The purpose of this volume is to treat the progress of history, civilization and urban development of China together in order to demonstrate the unique qualities of Chinese civilization. 356pp March 2010 ISBN: 978-981-4293-72-3

	RECENT TRENDS IN RADIATION CHEMISTRY edited by James F Wishart (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA) & BSM RaoUniversity of Pune, India) A state-of-the-art review of the present status and future trends in the field of radiation chemistry research. With world-renowned specialist contributors, this unique book covers a wide spectrum of topics that will be of great interest to beginners as well as experts. 636pp March 2010 ISBN: 978-981-4282-07-9

	SELECTED TOPICS IN INFORMATION AND CODING THEORY edited by I Woungang (Ryerson University, Canada), S Misra (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India), & S C Misra (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA) The last few years have witnessed rapid advancements in information and coding theory research and applications. This book provides a comprehensive guide to selected topics, both ongoing and emerging, in information and coding theory. All of the chapters are integrated in a manner that renders the book as a supplementary reference volume or textbook for use in both undergraduate and graduate courses on information and coding theory. 724pp March 2010 ISBN: 978-981-283-716-5

	A COURSE ON ABSTRACT ALGEBRA by Minking Eie (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan) & Shou-Te ChangNational Chung Cheng University, Taiwan) An introduction to abstract algebra for advanced undergraduate students, this textbook is more accessible and less ambitious than most existing books covering the same subject. Readers will also find the pedagogical material very useful in enhancing the teaching and learning of abstract algebra. 372pp March 2010 ISBN: 978-981-4271-88-2

	THE KNEE A Comprehensive Review edited by Giles R Scuderi (Insall Scott Kelly Institute, USA) & Alfred J Tria, Jr (Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA) This book covers all the basics of the knee for practicing orthopedic surgeons and residents who are finishing their training and preparing for the board examinations. Although there are many textbooks on the knee, this title is the first to address the entire area of the knee from start to finish. 620pp March 2010 ISBN: 978-981-4282-03-1

	FRACTIONAL ORDER SYSTEMS Modeling and Control Applications by Riccardo Caponetto (University of Catania, Italy), Giovanni Dongola (University of Catania, Italy), Luigi Fortuna (University of Catania, Italy), & Ivo Petráš (Technical University of Košice, Slovakia) This book aims to propose the implementation and application of Fractional Order Systems (FOS). With this viewpoint, introductory chapters are included on the definition of stability region of Fractional Order PID Controller and Chaotic FOS, followed by the practical implementation based on Microcontroller, Field Programmable Gate Array, Field Programmable Analog Array and Switched Capacitor. This new material will have applications in robotics, aerospace and biomedicine. 200pp March 2010 ISBN: 978-981-4304-19-1

	SURFACE PROPERTIES AND ENGINEERING OF COMPLEX INTERMETALLICS edited by Esther Belin-Ferré (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France) The third in a series of 4 books issued yearly as a deliverable of the research school established within the European Network of Excellence CMA (for Complex Metallic Alloys), this book is written by reputed experts in the fields of surface physics and chemistry, metallurgy and process engineering, combining expertise found inside as well as outside the network. 408pp Pub. date: Feb 2010 ISBN: 978-981-4304-76-4

	STATISTICAL METHODS OF GEOPHYSICAL DATA PROCESSING by Vladimir Troyan (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia) & Yurii Kiselev (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia) A consideration of the wide field of problems connected with statistical methods of processing of observed data, with the main examples and considered models related to geophysics and seismic exploration, this textbook will be particularly helpful to students and professionals from various fields of physics, connected with an estimation of the parameters of the physical objects by experimental data. 456pp March 2010 ISBN: 978-981-4293-74-7

	MURRAY GELL-MANN Selected Papers edited by Harald Fritzsch (University of Munich, Germany) Murray Gell-Mann is one of the leading physicists of the world. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969 for his work on the classification and symmetries of elementary particles, including the approximate SU(3) symmetry of hadrons. His major publications and many others are collected in this volume, providing physicists with easy access to much of Gell-Mann's work. 464pp March 2010 ISBN: 978-981-283-684-7 ISBN: 978-981-4261-62-3(pbk)

	AT THE LEADING EDGE The ATLAS and CMS LHC Experiments edited by Dan Green (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA) This volume aims to elucidate how the requirements of the physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) define the detector environment. 448pp March 2010 ISBN: 978-981-4277-61-7 ISBN: 978-981-4304-67-2(pbk)

June 2008
	Business and Management ADVANCES IN DOCTORAL RESEARCH IN MANAGEMENT edited by Luiz Moutinho (University of Glasgow, UK) & Kun-Huang Huarng (Feng Chia University, Taiwan) 220pp June 2008 ISBN 978-981-277-865-9 The second volume in the Advances in Doctoral Research in Management series comprises doctoral research papers and research notes. This comprehensive volume also includes research methodology papers that introduce applications of new methodological concepts, techniques, and tools

Computer Science

PERSONALIZATION TECHNIQUES AND RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS
edited by Gulden Uchyigit (Imperial College, UK) & Matthew Y Ma (Scientific Works, USA)
336pp June 2008
ISBN 978-981-279-701-8

**The first of its kind, this book presents theoretic research in the context of various applications from mobile information access, marketing and sales and web services, to library and personalized TV recommendation systems**

Economics and Finance

STOCHASTIC MODELING OF ELECTRICITY AND RELATED MARKETS
by Fred Espen Benth, Jurate Šaltyte Benth (University of Oslo, Norway) & Steen Koekebakker (University of Agder, Norway)
352pp June 2008
ISBN 978-981-281-230-8

**This book provides a concise and rigorous treatment on the stochastic modeling of energy markets.The theory presented here pays special attention to the seasonality of volatility and the Samuelson effect. Empirical studies using data from electricity, temperature and gas markets are given to link theory to practice**

Engineering

HAPTICS FOR TELEOPERATED SURGICAL ROBOTIC SYSTEMS
by M Tavakoli (Harvard University, USA), R V Patel (University of Western Ontario, Canada), M Moallem (Simon Fraser University, Canada) & A Aziminejad (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
180pp June 2008
ISBN 978-981-281-315-2

**An important obstacle in Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) is the significant degradation of haptic feedback (sensation of touch) to the surgeon about surgical instrument's interaction with tissue. This monograph is concerned with devices and methods required for incorporating haptic feedback in master-slave robotic MIS systems**

General

ANALOGIES IN PHYSICS AND LIFE
A Scientific Autobiography
by Richard M Weiner (Université Paris-Sud, France & University of Marburg, Germany)
436pp June 2008
ISBN 978-981-270-470-2
ISBN 978-981-270-471-9(pbk)

**This book discusses a series of analogy effects in subatomic physics, the prediction and theory of which the author has contributed to in the last 50 years. These phenomena are presented at a level accessible to the non-specialist. besides its scientific aspects, the book constitutes an absorbing witness account of a holocaust survivor who subsequently illegally crossed the Iron Curtain to escape communist persecution**

Mathematics

EVERYDAY PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
Health, Elections, Gambling and War
by Michael M Woolfson (University of York, UK)
236pp June 2008
ISBN 978-1-84816-031-6
ISBN 978-1-84816-032-3(pbk)

**This book presents the important results of probability and statistics without making heavy mathematical demands on the reader**

	Mathematics GEOMETRIC MECHANICS Part I: Dynamics and Symmetry by Darryl D Holm (Imperial College London, UK) 376pp June 2008 ISBN 978-1-84816-195-5 ISBN 978-1-84816-196-2(pbk) This textbook introduces the tools and language of modern geometric mechanics to advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in mathematics, physics and engineering. The ideas and concepts of geometric mechanics are explained in the context of explicit examples

	Table of Contents (153k) \| Preface (176k) \| Chapter 1: Fermat's ray optics (2,685k)

	Mathematics GEOMETRIC MECHANICS Part II: Rotating, Translating and Rolling by Darryl D Holm (Imperial College London, UK) 312pp June 2008 ISBN 978-1-84816-155-9 ISBN 978-1-84816-156-6(pbk) *This second part of the textbook Geometric Mechanics* treats the dynamics of rotating, spinning and rolling rigid bodies from a geometric viewpoint, by formulating their solutions as coadjoint motions generated by Lie groups**

	Table of Contents (129k) \| Preface (154k) \| Chapter 1: Galileo (305k) \| Chapter 2: Newton, Lagrange and Hamilton's Treatments of the Rigid Body (607k)

Mathematics

NON-PERTURBATIVE RENORMALIZATION
by Vieri Mastropietro (Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy)
304pp June 2008
ISBN 978-981-279-239-6

**This book provides a self-consistent and accessible introduction to the sophisticated tools used in the modern theory of non-perturbative renormalization, allowing an unified and rigorous treatment of Quantum Field Theory, Statistical Physics and Condensed Matter models**

Medicine

A THINKING APPROACH TO PHYSIOLOGY
by Ian N Sabir & Juliet A Usher-Smith (University of Cambridge, UK)
252pp June 2008
ISBN 978-981-270-601-0
ISBN 978-981-270-602-7(pbk)

**This textbook presents a broad overview of the subject, covering areas that are not given the attention they deserve in other texts whilst purposely omitting those aspects where memorization is an unfortunate necessity**

Nanotechnology and Nanoscience

NANOSTRUCTURES IN ELECTRONICS AND PHOTONICS
edited by Faiz Rahman (University of Glasgow, UK)
316pp June 2008
ISBN 978-981-4241-10-6

"I am very impressed with the presentation of information in this book. The information contained is on the edge of current technology in which there are not many available yet. I find the pictures informative and of high quality. The text is very well written and it actually reads like a novel. There are valuable explanations on how the work was done - that can be helpful for researchers who wish to start in this field. This is a book I will recommend to my students who are taking my advanced electronics device course. It will make very interesting background reading. Finally this is a reference work I can use. I recommend this book to the general public, anyone with an interest on developments in the field of nanotechnology, especially those who are keen to become involved in this field."

Physics

SPECIAL RELATIVITY FOR BEGINNERS
A Textbook for Undergraduates
by Jürgen Freund (Schubart College, Germany)
Author's website: www.relativity.ch.
332pp June 2008
ISBN 978-981-277-159-9
ISBN 978-981-277-160-5(pbk)

**This book, first appearing in German in 2004 under the title Spezielle Relativitätstheorie für Studienanfänger, offers access to the special theory of relativity for readers with a background in mathematics and physics comparable to a high school honors degree**

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