Composed by two prominent statesmen-generals of classical China, this book develops the strategies of Sun Tzu's classic, The Art of War, into a complete handbook of organisation and leadership. The great leaders of ancient China who were trained in Sun Tzu's principles understood how war is waged successfully, and how victory and defeat follow ...
In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), foods can be classified in the same way as herbs and used for medicinal purposes - diet therapy is therefore a very large part of TCM and one of its main therapeutic 'tools'. This book presents the theory of modern use and principles of diet therapy. It covers the classification, properties and actions of a ...
Miniature, catheter-based ultrasound transducers are now being used in clinical studies in a variety of lumina throughout the body. This book covers the subject of endoluminal ultrasound in all its aspects, including its historical development, physical principles, instrumentation and technical considerations, as well as a variety of vascular and ...
Contains a comprehensive description of the mechanical equilibrium and deformation of membranes as a surface problem in differential geometry. Following the pioneering work by W. Helfrich, the fluid membrane is seen as a nematic or smectic - a liquid crystal film and its elastic enegy form is deduced exactly from the curvature elastic theory of ...
Using episodes from the panorama of Chinese history, this handbook summarizes the essential laws found in Sun Tzu's great book, The Art of War, and presents tales of conflict and strategy that show in concrete terms the proper use of Sun Tzu's principles for developing great leadership traits.
This new volume presents 15 papers treating discrete groups as they occur in areas such as algebra, analysis, geometry, number theory and topology. Most of the papers are surveys, and the volume is intended to help graduate students and researchers better understand the structures and applications of discrete subgroups of Lie groups and locally ...
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