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Governing Global-City Singapore Legacies and Futures After Lee Kuan Yew

Governing Global-City Singapore Legacies and Futures After Lee Kuan Yew

This book provides a detailed analysis of how governance in Singapore has evolved since independence to become what it is today and what its prospects might be in a post-Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) future. First it discusses the question of political leadership electoral dominance and legislative monopoly in Singapore’s one-party dominant system and the system’s durability. Second it tracks developments in Singapore’s public administration critically analysing the formation and transformation of meritocracy and pragmatism two key components of the state ideology. Third it discusses developments within civil society focusing in particular on issues related to patriarchy and feminism hetero-normativity and gay activism immigration and migrant worker exploitation and the contest over history and national narratives in academia the media and the arts. Fourth it discusses the People's Action Party (PAP) government’s efforts to connect with the public including its national public engagement exercises that can be interpreted as a subtler approach to social and political control. In increasingly complex conditions the state struggles to maintain its hegemony while securing a pre-eminent position in the global economic order. Tan demonstrates how trends in these four areas converge in ways that signal plausible futures for a post-LKY Singapore. | Governing Global-City Singapore Legacies and Futures After Lee Kuan Yew

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American Theology Superhero Comics and Cinema The Marvel of Stan Lee and the Revolution of a Genre

American Theology Superhero Comics and Cinema The Marvel of Stan Lee and the Revolution of a Genre

Stan Lee who was the head writer of Marvel Comics in the early 1960s co-created such popular heroes as Spider-Man Hulk the X-Men the Fantastic Four Iron Man Thor and Daredevil. This book traces the ways in which American theologians and comic books of the era were not only both saying things about what it means to be human but starting with Lee they were largely saying the same things. Author Anthony R. Mills argues that the shift away from individualistic ideas of human personhood and toward relational conceptions occurring within both American theology and American superhero comics and films does not occur simply on the ontological level but is also inherent to epistemology and ethics reflecting the comprehensive nature of human life in terms of being knowing and acting. This book explores the idea of the American monomyth that pervades American hero stories and examines its philosophical and theological origins and specific manifestations in early American superhero comics. Surveying the anthropologies of six American theologians who argue against many of the monomyth’s assumptions principally the staunch individualism taken to be the model of humanity and who offer relationality as a more realistic and ethical alternative this book offers a detailed argument for the intimate historical relationship between the now disparate fields of comic book/superhero film creation on the one hand and Christian theology on the other in the United States. An understanding of the early connections between theology and American conceptions of heroism helps to further make sense of their contemporary parallels wherein superhero stories and theology are not strictly separate phenomena but have shared origins and concerns. | American Theology Superhero Comics and Cinema The Marvel of Stan Lee and the Revolution of a Genre

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Samsung Media Empire and Family A power web

Samsung Media Empire and Family A power web

This book analyses media conglomerates owning multiple media holdings under centralized ownership within and across media markets. It argues that Asian capitalists utilize both a market-oriented ideology and family connections to build their media empires thereby creating cultural conglomerates that exercise corporate censorship over media markets. It focuses on family-controlled media conglomerates in Korea specifically the international business giant Samsung and its related media companies Cheil Jedang and JoongAng Ilbo all of which are controlled by the single Lee family. Utilizing the theoretical approach of political economy of communication the book examines how and why the Lee family exercise corporate censorship over Korean society. Offering an essential take on Asia’s political economy of communication in order to understand the workings of Asian media empires this book will appeal to students and scholars of Korean Studies Korean Business and Mass Communications. | Samsung Media Empire and Family A power web

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Fusing with Europe? Sweden in the European Union

Fusing with Europe? Sweden in the European Union

Informed by his profound knowledge of contemporary political affairs and the current debate on European integration in Sweden Lee Miles investigates Sweden's experiences of being a full member of the European Union since 1995. Widely regarded as one of the leading authorities on Scandinavian relations with the European Union (EU) the author proposes a micro fusion perspective offering an insightful new conceptual framework through which to understand Swedish views on European integration and the influences on national EU policy. The volume also includes a Foreword by Wolfgang Wessels Jean Monnet Professor and the founder of the fusion theory. | Fusing with Europe? Sweden in the European Union

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Digital Wildlife Photography

Digital Wildlife Photography

Using a combination of artistic approach and impeccable technique professional photographers John and Barbara Gerlach guide you through the field as you photograph intriguing and captivating subjects out in the wild. Learn how to integrate equipment with technique to capture superb wildlife images of birds mammals amphibians and more with an emphasis on precision and speed. This book includes all of the details you need to capture wildlife photos easily and consistently – choose the right lens and best lighting while following simple composition guidelines that are perfect for wildlife. John and Barbara Gerlach have taken more than a million wildlife images since 1978 and run seminars and workshops all over the world. Their pictures have been published in Outdoor Photographer Audubon Popular Photography National Wildlife Sierra Natural History Petersen’s Photographic Ranger Rick Birder’s World as well as books published by National Geographic Society Sierra Club and others. | Digital Wildlife Photography

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Advanced Visual Effects Compositing Techniques for Working with Problematic Footage

Advanced Visual Effects Compositing Techniques for Working with Problematic Footage

In Advanced Visual Effects Compositing: Techniques for Working with Problematic Footage learn to tackle difficult visual effect composites in layer-based and node-based compositing programs. In this book industry veteran and compositing expert Lee Lanier offers tips tricks techniques and workflows for difficult visual effects shots including poorly shot green screen moving shots with no visible motion tracking marks shots requiring three-dimensional (3D) elements that lack 3D renders poor-quality stock footage and incorrectly lit shots. Lanier details the common problems of visual effects shots and offers practical solutions using examples from Adobe After Effects and Blackmagic Design Fusion. An accompanying eResource (www. routledge. com/9781138668348) features video image sequences 3D renders and other tutorial materials allowing you to practice the discussed techniques. The visual effects challenges covered in this book include: Chroma keying Motion tracking Relighting in the composite Repairing plates Replicating damage Adding depth with 2. 5D Working with stock footage | Advanced Visual Effects Compositing Techniques for Working with Problematic Footage

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Applied Mathematics in Hydrogeology

Applied Mathematics in Hydrogeology

As introduced in Dr. Lee's 10-week class Applied Mathematics in Hydrogeology is written for professionals and graduate students who have a keen interest in the application of mathematics in hydrogeology. Its first seven chapters cover analytical solutions for problems commonly encountered in the study of quantitative hydrogeology while the final three chapters focus on solving linear simultaneous equations finite element analysis and inversion for parameter determination. Dr. Lee provides various equation-solving methods that are of interest to hydrogeologists geophysicists soil scientists and civil engineers as well as applied physicists and mathematicians. In the classroom this same information will help students realize how familiar equations in hydrogeology are derived-an important step toward development of a student's own mathematical models. Unlike other applied mathematics books that are structured according to systematic methodology Applied Mathematics in Hydrogeology emphasizes equation-solving methods according to topics. Hydrogeological problems and governing differential equations are introduced including hydraulic responses to pumping in confined and unconfined aquifers as well as transport of heat and solute in flowing groundwater.

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Public Relations and Religion in American History Evangelism Temperance and Business

Public Relations and Religion in American History Evangelism Temperance and Business

Winner of The American Journalism Historians Association Book of the Year Award 2015 This study of American public relations history traces evangelicalism to corporate public relations via reform and the church-based temperance movement. It encompasses a leading evangelical of the Second Great Awakening Rev. Charles Grandison Finney and some of his predecessors; early reformers at Oberlin College where Finney spent the second half of his life; leaders of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League of America; and twentieth-century public relations pioneer Ivy Ledbetter Lee whose work reflecting religious and business evangelism has not yet been examined. Observations about American public relations history icon P. T. Barnum whose life and work touched on many of the themes presented here also are included as thematic bookends. As such this study cuts a narrow channel through a wide swath of literature and a broad sweep of historical time from the mid-eighteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth century to examine the deeper and deliberate strategies for effecting change for persuading a community of adherents or opponents or even a single soul to embrace that which an advocate intentionally presented in a particular way for a specific outcome—prescriptions as it turned out not only for religious conversion but also for public relations initiatives. | Public Relations and Religion in American History Evangelism Temperance and Business

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Hands-On Machine Learning with R

Hands-On Machine Learning with R

Hands-on Machine Learning with R provides a practical and applied approach to learning and developing intuition into today’s most popular machine learning methods. This book serves as a practitioner’s guide to the machine learning process and is meant to help the reader learn to apply the machine learning stack within R which includes using various R packages such as glmnet h2o ranger xgboost keras and others to effectively model and gain insight from their data. The book favors a hands-on approach providing an intuitive understanding of machine learning concepts through concrete examples and just a little bit of theory. Throughout this book the reader will be exposed to the entire machine learning process including feature engineering resampling hyperparameter tuning model evaluation and interpretation. The reader will be exposed to powerful algorithms such as regularized regression random forests gradient boosting machines deep learning generalized low rank models and more! By favoring a hands-on approach and using real word data the reader will gain an intuitive understanding of the architectures and engines that drive these algorithms and packages understand when and how to tune the various hyperparameters and be able to interpret model results. By the end of this book the reader should have a firm grasp of R’s machine learning stack and be able to implement a systematic approach for producing high quality modeling results. Features: · Offers a practical and applied introduction to the most popular machine learning methods. · Topics covered include feature engineering resampling deep learning and more. · Uses a hands-on approach and real world data.

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Modern Cryptography with Proof Techniques and Implementations

Modern Cryptography with Proof Techniques and Implementations

Proof techniques in cryptography are very difficult to understand even for students or researchers who major in cryptography. In addition in contrast to the excessive emphases on the security proofs of the cryptographic schemes practical aspects of them have received comparatively less attention. This book addresses these two issues by providing detailed structured proofs and demonstrating examples applications and implementations of the schemes so that students and practitioners may obtain a practical view of the schemes. Seong Oun Hwang is a professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and director of Artificial Intelligence Security Research Center Gachon University Korea. He received the Ph. D. degree in computer science from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Korea. His research interests include cryptography cybersecurity networks and machine learning. Intae Kim is an associate research fellow at the Institute of Cybersecurity and Cryptology University of Wollongong Australia. He received the Ph. D. degree in electronics and computer engineering from Hongik University Korea. His research interests include cryptography cybersecurity and networks. Wai Kong Lee is an assistant professor in UTAR (University Tunku Abdul Rahman) Malaysia. He received the Ph. D. degree in engineering from UTAR Malaysia. In between 2009 – 2012 he served as an R&D engineer in several multinational companies including Agilent Technologies (now known as Keysight) in Malaysia. His research interests include cryptography engineering GPU computing numerical algorithms Internet of Things (IoT) and energy harvesting. | Modern Cryptography with Proof Techniques and Implementations

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Routledge Handbook on Capital Punishment

Routledge Handbook on Capital Punishment

Capital punishment is one of the more controversial subjects in the social sciences especially in criminal justice and criminology. Over the last decade or so the United States has experienced a significant decline in the number of death sentences and executions. Since 2007 eight states have abolished capital punishment bringing the total number of states without the death penalty to 19 plus the District of Columbia and more are likely to follow suit in the near future (Nebraska reinstated its death penalty in 2016). Worldwide 70 percent of countries have abolished capital punishment in law or in practice. The current trend suggests the eventual demise of capital punishment in all but a few recalcitrant states and countries. Within this context a fresh look at capital punishment in the United States and worldwide is warranted. The Routledge Handbook on Capital Punishment comprehensively examines the topic of capital punishment from a wide variety of perspectives. A thoughtful introductory chapter from experts Bohm and Lee presents a contextual framework for the subject matter and chapters present state-of-the-art analyses of a range of aspects of capital punishment grouped into five sections: (1) Capital Punishment: History Opinion and Culture; (2) Capital Punishment: Rationales and Religious Views; (3) Capital Punishment and Constitutional Issues; (4) The Death Penalty’s Administration; and (5) The Death Penalty’s Consequences. This is a key collection for students taking courses in prisons penology criminal justice criminology and related subjects and is also an essential reference for academics and practitioners working in prison service or in related agencies.

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Integrating Nutrition into Practice

Integrating Nutrition into Practice

Integrative medicine is an approach to wellness that makes use of both conventional and alternative therapies to achieve optimal health and healing. Nutrition-based therapies are consistently among the highest used alternative therapies to treat a wide variety of illnesses. This book provides consumers and health care professionals with practical guidance on integrating nutrition therapies into disease prevention and management. It provides reliable and accurate information from experts in the nutrition field including dietitians nutritionists physicians researchers and academic professionals. Integrative Nutrition Therapy includes up-to-date information on dietary supplements popular diets physical activity and food allergies. The book covers disease prevention for cancer cardiovascular disease diabetes and obesity. Additional topics include liver/pancreatic conditions and musculoskeletal disorders as well as nutrigenomics epigenetics and metabolomics. The book provides evidence-based recommendations for which therapies might be appropriate for various conditions and discusses the possible adverse effects that may develop. It also includes guidelines and suggestions for creating individualized integrative care plans. Integrative Nutrition Therapy is organized in a systematic manner that presents the scientific data using an evidence-based how-to approach. An overview of integrative medicine is written by Dr. Roberta Lee a leading authority in the field. Award-winning nutrition experts provide practical knowledge for the integrative practitioner covering topics such as: Nutrition screening and assessmentSearch for the optimum dietFunctional foods and nutritional supplementsNutritional recommendations for women’s healthHealth benefits of physical activityDiet and mental healthAlthough unanswered questions still exist this resource gives you a much-needed guide to the information currently available on nutrition and lifestyle-based therapies. | Integrating Nutrition into Practice

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Kinetics in Materials Science and Engineering

Kinetics in Materials Science and Engineering

A pedagogical gem…. Professor Readey replaces ‘black-box’ explanations with detailed insightful derivations. A wealth of practical application examples and exercise problems complement the exhaustive coverage of kinetics for all material classes. –Prof. Rainer Hebert University of ConnecticutProf. Readey gives a grand tour of the kinetics of materials suitable for experimentalists and modellers…. In an easy-to-read and entertaining style this book leads the reader to fundamental model-based understanding of kinetic processes critical to development fabrication and application of commercially-important soft (polymers biomaterials) hard (ceramics metals) and composite materials. It is a must-have for anyone who really wants to understand how to make materials and how they will behave in service. Prof. Bill Lee Imperial College London Fellow of the Royal Academy of EngineeringA much needed text filing the gap between an introductory course in materials science and advanced materials-specific kinetics courses. Ideal for the undergraduate interested in an in-depth study of kinetics in materials. –Prof. Mark E. Eberhart Colorado School of MinesThis book provides an in-depth introduction to the most important kinetic concepts in materials science engineering and processing. All types of materials are addressed including metals ceramics polymers electronic materials biomaterials and composites. The expert author with decades of teaching and practical experience gives a lively and accessible overview explaining the principles that determine how long it takes to change material properties and make new and better materials. The chapters cover a broad range of topics extending from the heat treatment of steels the processing of silicon integrated microchips and the production of cement to the movement of drugs through the human body. The author explicitly avoids black box equations provid | Kinetics in Materials Science and Engineering

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