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The Sounds of Korean
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 30.00This introduction to the sounds of Korean is designed for English-speaking students with no prior knowledge of the language. more...
Human Performance, Situation Awareness, and Automation
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 135.00In 2000, the Conference on Automation joined forces with a partner group on situation awareness (SA). The rising complexity of systems demands that one can be aware of a large range of environmental and task-based stimulation in order to match what is done with what has to be done. Thus, SA and automation-based interaction fall naturally together and... more...
Insect Repellents
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 129.95A one-volume source for information on the development and use of repellent products, Insect Repellent: Principles, Methods, and Uses covers the theory and science, the means for advancing the particular area, and the implications for effective protection of people from biting arthropods. The book comprehensively compares repellent active ingredients... more...
Hmong American Concepts of Health, Healing, and Conventional Medicine
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 158.00Examines Hmong American concepts of health, illness and healing, and looks at the Hmong American experience with conventional medicine. In this, it identifies factors that either obstruct or enable healthcare delivery to the Hmong. more...
The Impossible State
HarperCollins 2012; US$ 23.99Former White House official Victor Cha has written the definitive volume on North Korea, arguably the world?s most menacing and mysterious nation. In The Impossible State , Cha, a singular expert on the region, exposes North Korea?s veiled past; sheds light on its culture, economy, and foreign policy; and explores the possibilities of its uncertain... more...
Boosting-Based Face Detection and Adaptation
Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2010; US$ 40.00Face detection, because of its vast array of applications, is one of the most active research areas in computer vision. In this book, we review various approaches to face detection developed in the past decade, with more emphasis on boosting-based learning algorithms. We then present a series of algorithms that are empowered by the statistical view... more...
The Impossible State
Random House Group Ltd 2012; US$ 33.36Much discussed and often maligned, precious little is known or understood about North Korea, the world's most controversial and isolated country. In The Impossible State Victor Cha pulls back the curtain, providing an unprecedented insight into North Korea's history, the rise of the Kim family dynasty, and the obsessive personality cult that surrounds... more...
Follow Her Home
St. Martin's Press 2013; US$ 24.99A stunning, edgy debut introducing Juniper Song, an amateur sleuth taking on the darkness in the veins of L.A. with razor-sharp wit and a breaking heart. Juniper Song knows secrets?how to keep them and how to search them out. As a girl, noir fiction was her favorite escape, and Philip Marlowe has always been her literary idol. So when her friend... more...
Breaking the Barriers to Higher Economic Growth
World Bank Publications 2008; US$ 29.99The world's attention to the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has often been dominated by headline issues: conflict, sanctions, political turmoil, and rising oil prices. Little of this international attention has considered the broad range of development challenges facing this diverse group of countries. Breaking the... more...
The Great Recession and Developing Countries
World Bank Publications 2010; US$ 24.99The 2008-09 financial crisis, which originated in the United States and rapidly spread to the rest of world, resulting in the most severe and intense Great Recession since World War II, has posed new challenges for international policy coordination and the management of national economies. Questions are being raised about globalization, which has been... more...









