Author: Young-Joon Surh
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: oxidative, stress, disease, inflammation, health
Number of Pages: 660
Published: 2005-05-24
List price: $205.95
ISBN-10: 0824727339
ISBN-13: 9780824727338

Specifically focusing on the redox regulation of cell signaling responsible for oxidative stress and inflammatory tissue damage, this reference provides a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge research on the intracellular events mediating or preventing oxidative stress and pro-inflammatory processes induced by endogenous and xenobiotic factors-analyzing the implications of oxidative stress and inflammatory damage in the pathogenesis of human disorders such as cancer, neurodegenerative disease, and diabetes.

Authors:Zigang Dong, Young-Joon Surh,
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: oxidative, stress, disease, pathways, signaling, modulation, cell, dietary
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2008-09-26
List price: $162.95
ISBN-10: 0849381487
ISBN-13: 9780849381485

A consequence of rapid progress in the science of nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics is the substantial accumulation of data covering nutrienal modulation of gene expression at the cellular and subcellular levels. Current research is increasingly focused on the role of nutrition and diet in modifying oxidative damage in the progression of disease. Dietary Modulation of Cell Signaling Pathways reviews some of these findings, focusing on nutrient-gene interactions with particular emphasis on the intracellular signaling network. Explore a Pivotal Function for Maintaining Homeostasis The book add

Author: Ha-Joon Chang
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Keywords: history, capitalism, secret, trade, myth, free, samaritans
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-12-26
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1596913991
ISBN-13: 9781596913998

A rising young star in the field of economics attacks the free-trade orthodoxy of The World Is Flat head-on—a crisp, contrarian history of global capitalism. One economist has called Ha-Joon Chang “the most exciting thinker our profession has turned out in the past fifteen years.” With Bad Samaritans, this provocative scholar bursts into the debate on globalization and economic justice. Using irreverent wit, an engagingly personal style, and a battery of examples, Chang blasts holes in the “World Is Flat” orthodoxy of Thomas Friedman and other liberal economists w

Author: Ha-Joon Chang
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged
Keywords: history, capitalism, secret, trade, myth, free, samaritans
Published: 2007-12-26
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1423346831
ISBN-13: 9781423346838

With irreverent wit, an engagingly personal style, and a battery of real-life examples, Ha-Joon Chang blasts holes in the “World Is Flat” orthodoxy of Thomas Friedman and other neo-liberal economists who argue that only unfettered capitalism and wide-open international trade can lift struggling nations out of poverty. On the contrary, Chang shows, today’s economic superpowers - from the United States to Britain to his native South Korea - all attained prosperity by shameless protectionism and government intervention in industry. We in the wealthy nations have conveniently

Author: Sung Joon Ahn
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: lecture, notes, computer, science, space, surfaces, orthogonal, distance, fitting, curves, squares
Number of Pages: 125
Published: 2005-01-12
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 3540239669
ISBN-13: 9783540239666

This book presents in detail a complete set of best-fit algorithms for general curves and surfaces in space. Such best-fit algorithms approximate and estimate curve and surface parameters by minimizing the shortest distances between the curve or surface and the measurement point. After reviewing the basics for representing curves and surfaces in space and fitting in general, the author presents three algorithms for orthogonal distance fitting combining numerical methods and minimizational methods. These algorithms are applied to implicit and parametric curves and surfaces in 2D and 3D space

Author: Ha-Joon Chang
Publisher: Anthem Pre
Keywords: historical, perspective, strategy, development, ladder, kicking
Number of Pages: 187
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1843310279
ISBN-13: 9781843310273

How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative new study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain "good policies" and "good institutions", seen today as necessary for economic development. Adopting an historical approach, Chang finds that the economic evolution of now-developed countries differed dramatically from the procedures that they now recommend to poorer nations. His conclusions are compelling and disturbing: that developed countries are attempting to "kick away the ladder" by which they have climbe

Author: Ha-Joon Chang
Publisher: Anthem Press
Keywords: development, globalization, studies, economics, rethinking, anthem
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2003-06-20
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1843311100
ISBN-13: 9781843311102

This important new collection tackles the failure of neoliberal reform to generate long-term growth and reduce poverty in many developing and transition economies. As dramatically demonstrated in the collapse of the WTO’s Seattle talks, there is increasing dissatisfaction, in both developing and developed countries, with the emerging neoliberal global economic order. The resignations of Joseph Stiglitz and Ravi Kanbur from the World Bank emphasize that this disillusionment with the orthodoxy now exists at the very heart of the establishment. Yet the increasing demand for an alternativ