Modern Japan: A Very Short Introduction
... 100 Miles 200 Kagoshima Nagasaki Sasebo Kitakyushu Yamaguchi Hiroshima Tottori Fukui Kanazawa Toyama Tokyo Fukushima Morioka Aomori Akita Sendai Yamagata Hakodate Sapporo Shikotan Iturup (Etorofu) Kunashir (Kunashiri) Tsugaru Strait Soya Straft Sea of Okhotsk Sea of Japan Nagano Nagoya Yokohama Yokosuka Osaka Kumamoto Fukuoka Amami ... Bator Beijing Nanjing Shanghai Senkaku Okinawa Fukuoka Se...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 17:27
... breakfast plate of bacon and eggs were examples; others included a Black Magic box containing female body fragments made of chocolate, and a plate of salad with a (papier-mâché) reclining female ... between the fascination with popular commercial culture of that avant-garde a hundred years ago, and our apparently similar fascination at the present time, and we must pay attention to th...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 21:42
... golden age of the Zhou and ways of the ancients, and rather than praising innovation and dynamic change in its Modern China: A Very Short Introduction 15 What is modern China? own right, premodern ... decade of this century by an average of around 10% a year. It is seeking a regional and global role, with a new political and economic presence in Africa, Latin America, and...
Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 13:51
Economics: A Very Short Introduction
... parents can afford to be egalitarian. In contrast, Becky’s household can always afford enough food. Her parents allocate food equally every day – again, allowing for differences in nutritional ... due care has been taken by insurees against bad outcomes (protection against moral hazard). By being able to take advantage of the Law of Large Numbers, markets and the government, taken together, a...
Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2014, 18:21
Game theory: A very short introduction
... Von Neumann’s toy model abstracts all such complications away. Alice and Bob are each dealt a number between 0 and 1. Both aim to maximize their average dollar earnings on the assumption that 90 Information all ... in launching an angry attack on Alice after she has treated him unfairly. His behaviour might then easily be dismissed as irrational by observers who fail to notice that he isn’t...
Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2014, 18:23
Global catastrophes: A very short introduction
... the planet, sending up a gigantic plume of gas and debris and blasting outwards a rapidly expanding shock wave. As fragment after fragment hammered into the planet, spectacular images were gathered ... waves, earthquakes, tsunamis, and wildfires. Many urban centres in Europe, Africa, and Asia appear to have collapsed almost simultaneously around 2350 bc, and records abound of flood, fire, qu...
Ngày tải lên: 11/01/2014, 18:43