Laos, with its Theravada Buddhist culture, pristine countryside and French influences is one of the great treasures of Southeast Asia. It is a truly unique and delightful country to visit. This guide includes highlights of Laos illustrated with colour photography, coverage of al the entry points from Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar (Burma) and China, comprehensive information on all the sights, from Luang Prabang’s exceptional religious sites to Vientiane’s French colonial heritage, extensive listings on all practical aspects of travel plus unique colour maps to help plan the trip.

Footprint Laos Handbook: The Travel Guide

Travel

Kim, Young

Joshua Eliot

Jane Bickersteth

Dinah Gardner

Asia

Passport Books

Knowledge Attitude And Experience

Religion & Spirituality

ABINGDON PRESS *

This book explains the Lorentz group in a language familiar to physicists, namely in terms of two-by-two matrices. While the three-dimensional rotation group is one of the standard mathematical tools in physics, the Lorentz group applicable to the four-dimensional Minkowski space is still very strange to most physicists. However, it plays an essential role in a wide swathe of physics and is becoming the essential language for modern and rapidly developing fields. The first edition was primarily based on applications in high-energy physics developed during the latter half of the 20th Century, and the application of the same set of mathematical tools to optical sciences. In this new edition, the authors have added five new chapters to deal with emerging new problems in physics, such as quantum optics, information theory, and fundamental issues in physics including the question of whether quantum mechanics and special relativity are consistent with each other, or whether these two disciplines can be derived from the same set of equations. Key features <ul><li>Mathematical tools for all branches of physics</li><li>Mathematics expressed in a language for physicists</li><li>Focus on applications across physics disciplines</li><li>Significantly extended new edition to include applications in modern areas of research</li></ul>

Physics of the Lorentz Group

Science & Math

Noz, Marilyn E.

Başkal, Sibel

Mathematics

IOP Publishing Ltd.

There is widespread agreement that the world's most successful developing countries in the 1980s were those in Southeast Asia. Following in the footsteps of postwar Japan and more recently Korea, the populations of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the Philippines have made enormous strides in income, industrial and agricultural production, exports, education, health, nutrition, consumption, and other development indicators. This book brings together political scientists, economists, officials of Asian governments, the United States, and representatives of the multilateral banks to analyze and explain Southeast Asia's extraordinary growth. Chapters and contributors to The Southeast Asian Economic Miracle include: "Recent Developments and Future Prospects of Indonesia" by Anwar Nasution; "The Economic Experience and Prospects of Thailand" by Sukhumbhand Paribatra; "The Development of the Former Indochina States" by Frederick Brown; "Trade and Investment in Southeast Asian Development" by Stephen Parker; and "Managing Renewable Resources in Southeast Asia: The Problem of Deforestation" by Gareth Porter. Among the critical questions that the contributors address are: Is the success of the 1980s and early 1990s a permanent part of the world's economic landscape? How will this region react to the growth of China's vast productive capacity and to the faltering of Japan's economy? What will be the effect of U.S. military disengagement caused by domestic budgetary concerns and the end of the cold war? The Southeast Asian Economic Miracle is an important study of the shifting winds of the political economy of growth in our time—the movement away from a command to a free market environment. It will be an essential resource for political scientists, Asia area scholars, economists, and policymakers.

The Southeast Asian Economic Miracle

Business & Money

Economics

Routledge

The monumental events that have hastened the collapse of communism in Europe have inevitably raised major concerns about the future of Communist regimes and systems in Asia. What are the prospects for reform there? What do the changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union signify for Asia. What effect would the decline of communism in Asia have on superpower relations and relations with non-Communist Asian countries? This volume examines these and other related questions, and includes leading scholars on Chinese, Japanese, and Korean affairs, as well as contributions by selected foreign specialists who provide their perspectives and analyses. The first part offers commentary on the nature of political changes in the former Communist bloc and their implications for selected Asian countries. Essays in the second part assess the likely impact of political developments on China, North and South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, and on Japanese-Soviet relations and U.S.-Japanese economic and security relations. Young C. Kim and Gaston J. Sigur

Asia and the Decline of Communism

History

Americas

This is a book which explores how to life a live with a lot less suffering and anxiety. It tries to answer the question as to how and why modern society programs its citizens for unhappiness. It talks about the dangers of listening to main stream media and argues that advertising is so dangerous to one's peace of mind. There are many strategies of how to change one's thought processes to have less attachments to the material world. The book explores the science of happiness and what makes people content in general. The book addresses how the primary battle in this life is not with other people but mainly with one's own mind. There are various philosophies brought up including Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, and Stoicism. It is discussed how many of the timeless messages can be of service in one's life during difficult periods. The book argues that the goal of spiritual awakening is paramount to one's lasting bliss and happiness. Finally, the book maintains that we are one universal consciousness.

The Complete Book on Equanimity and Peace

lulu.com

Uber Lyfting

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Our society is obsessed with the "quick fix" for just about everything. This includes our fixation with taking medications. When people feel anxious, they are too quick to listen to the medical community which prescribes them a deadly solution. Benzodiazepines and Seroquel work iniitially, and sometimes all too well. Therefore, people continue down this dangerous path to become addicted. This is a guidebook on how to get off of these terribly dangerous drugs. I included all the current strategies of how best to taper off of the drugs, and included chapters on herbal remedies, and coping methods. I truly hope that my story and my research will help others get on a path to freedom from these medications. With patience, fortitude, courage, and a steadfast determined heart, I think eventually victory can be attained. Once liberated, I think it should be the mission of all to spread the word to others so that more people do not become afflicted as well. Namaste...

Benzodiazepine and Seroquel Hell

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Barron's brand new SHSAT is aligned with the recent changes made to the SHSAT, including the redesigned ELA and Math sections. You’ll get practice questions, skill review, and expert tips to help you feel prepared for the test. Barron's SHSAT includes: <ul>
<li>Practice for all question types, including ELA Revising/Editing and Reading Comprehension questions and Math Multiple-Choice and Grid-In questions</li>
<li>Three full-length practice tests with detailed answer explanations</li>
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 Scoring high on the competitive admissions test for New York City's Specialized High Schools (including the Bronx High School of Science, Brooklyn Technical High School, Stuyvesant High School, and others) is essential for academic achievers. If your goal is to attend a specialized high school, Barron’s SHSAT test guide can help you feel ready and prepared on test day.

SHSAT: New York City Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (Barron's Test Prep)

Test Preparation

Barron's Educational Series

Honner, Patrick

College & High School

Barrons Educational Services

Justice as Right Actions presents an original theory of justice anchored in the analytical philosophical tradition. In contrast to many contemporary approaches, the theory provides normative guidance, rather than focusing solely on political structures and institutions, as the question of justice is seen to comprise both a moral inquiry concerned with questions of good and bad, right and wrong, and a political inquiry, concerned with the nature of the polity and how individuals relate to it. Presenting a relational account of justice, rather than a distributive account – the latter, so much more prevalent in current studies – communications are seen as the key to the theory, both in the substantive sense as a discursive method of resolving disputes, as well as instrumentally, in the transmission of concepts, especially values through time.Rule-oriented in approach, justice as right actions attempts to be value-neutral, acknowledging, however, an underlying thin theory of the good, including concepts of rationality, autonomous moral agency, equal concern and respect for others, as well as plurality of values. Its political context is liberalism, with components of negative liberty and equality of concern and respect, while underscoring as well, the concepts of tolerance and social diversity.In this study, the original theory of Justice as Right Actions is also contrasted with and situated among contemporary accounts of justice, including the most important theoretical works on the topic in the past half-century. Thus, the study also serves as a valuable review and critique of such major contemporary accounts of justice.

Justice as Right Actions: An Original Theory of Justice in Conversation with Major Contemporary Accounts

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Lexington Books

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