This book discusses the needs for adaptable network structures rather than hierarchical structures, stronger financial resources and administrative capacities at the municipal level, and integration and development activities with the ...

One of the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century In this New York Times bestseller, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan–the inspiration for the television ...

Summarizes probabilistic seismic hazard assessment as it is practiced in various countries throughout the world. 59 reports are included covering 88 countries, which comprise about 80% of the inhabited land mass of the Earth.

Intended to be used by librarians, this guide will also be useful to boards of trustees, governing officials, members of funding agencies, and community support groups involved in planning on a local level and within the context of regional ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Symposium on Programs as Data Objects, PADO 2001, held in Aarhus, Denmark, in May 2001.

From this unique collection of documents emerges a fresh, intimate, often striking picture of the life of science in the United States in the era when American investigators became central to scientific advances in many fields.

The purpose of this book is to give an account of the legal framework relevant to obstetrics and gynaecology, and to provide a comprehensive and authoritative account of safe practice in the speciality, thereby providing the practitioner ...

This book emphasizes the critical nature of these operations and covers all the important procedures of sample pretreatment.