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K-pop: popular music, cultural amnesia, and economic innovation in South Korea
(University of California Press, 2015)K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean ... -
A Kaizen Approach to Food Safety: Quality Management in the Value Chain from Wheat to Bread
(Springer, 2014)This book provides a Management Science approach to quality management in food production. Aspects of food quality, product conformance and reliability/food safety are examined, starting with wheat and ending with its value ... -
Karl Popper
(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010)Karl Popper was one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Today he is best known for his contributions to the philosophy of science and the history of ideas. In the former Popper argued ... -
Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731-1917
(Cornell University Press, 2017)In «Knowledge and the Ends of Empire», Ian W. Campbell investigates the connections between knowledge production and policy formation on the Kazak steppes of the Russian Empire. Hoping to better govern the region, tsarist ... -
The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George
(Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011)John and George Keats—Man of Genius and Man of Power, to use John’s words—embodied sibling forms of the phenomenon we call Romanticism. George’s 1818 move to the western frontier of the United States, an imaginative leap ... -
Keep Talking Russian: A Teach Yourself Audio Program
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2014)Through 10 common scenarios plus culture and travel advice, you will gain advance skills for more understanding and further conversations in Russian in just 10 days Keep Talking in Russian is your adventure further into ... -
Ketogenic diet and metabolic therapies : expanded roles in health and disease
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Ketogenic diets have been used to successfully treat epilepsy and stop seizures for nearly a century. When more traditional therapies, such as pharmacology, reach their limitations for treatment, the metabolic approach ... -
Key Concepts in Measurement
(Oxford University Press, 2015)Measurement refers generally to the process of assigning a numeric value to, or ordering characteristics or traits of, entities under study. Measurement is necessary for building and testing theory, specifying problems, ... -
Key Terms in Discourse Analysis
(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011)Rather than always inventing examples to illustrate points, we have tried to take them from real life uses of language. To achieve this, we have used corpora – large collections of naturally occurring texts that have been ... -
Key Terms in Philosophy of Religion
(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010)This book is organized as follows. The first chapter provides an introduction to our subject by briefly exploring the nature of religion, the relation of philosophy to religion (of reason to faith), the main topics in ... -
Key Terms in Second Language Acquisition (Key Terms series)
(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010)Key Terms in Second Language Acquisition includes definitions of key terms within second language acquisition, and also provides accessible summaries of the key issues within this complex area of study. The final section ... -
Keynes : useful economics for the world economy
(MIT Press, 2014)As the global economic crisis continues to cause damage, some policy makers have called for a more Keynesian approach to current economic problems. In this book, the economists Peter Temin and David Vines provide an ... -
Keys to the City: How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape Development
(Princeton University Press, 2013)Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys to the City, Michael Storper, one of the world's leading economic geographers, ... -
King of Kings
(Chick Publications, 2013)The Bible in Pictures. This full color comic teaches many major Bible stories, from Genesis to Revelation. And along with each story, scripture references show readers where they can find that story in their Bible. Many ... -
Knowing Humanity in the Social World: The Path of Steve Fuller’s Social Epistemology
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book examines Fuller’s pioneering vision of social epistemology. It focuses specifically on his work post-2000, which is founded in the changing conception of humanity and project into a ‘post-‘ or ‘trans-‘ human ... -
Knowledge and Christian Belief
(Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2015)In his widely praised Warranted Christian Belief (Oxford, 2000) Alvin Plantinga discussed in great depth the question of the rationality, or sensibility, of Christian belief. In this book Plantinga presents the same ideas ... -
Knowledge Creation in Community Development: Institutional Change in Southeast Asia and Japan
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book explores how public organizations and not-for-profit organizations (NPO) can be more collaborative, innovative and effective in solving social issues in both developing and developed countries. “Social innovation,” ... -
Knowledge Creation in Public Administrations: Innovative Government in Southeast Asia and Japan
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book presents a new paradigm of innovative governments in Asia, at the municipal, regional and national levels, based on the knowledge creation theory in management, and leading to organizational transformation and ... -
Korean Women in Leadership
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)The book focuses on the historical, political, economic, and cultural elements of Korea and the strong influence these have on women leaders in the nation. It examines challenges and opportunities for women leaders as they ... -
Kurt Godel: Collected Works: Volume IV
(Oxford University Press, 2013)Kurt Godel (1906 - 1978) was the most outstanding logician of the twentieth century, famous for his hallmark works on the completeness of logic, the incompleteness of number theory, and the consistency of the axiom of ...
