Product Description: This volume contains the proceedings of the conference String-Math 2012, which was held July 16-21, 2012, at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Universitat Bonn. This was the second in a series of annual large meetings devoted to the interface of mathematics and string theory...read more

"Aid and Ebb Tide: A History of CIDA and Canadian Development Assistance" examines Canada s mixed record since 1950 in transferring over $50 billion in capital and expertise to developing countries through ODA. It focuses in particular on the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the organization chiefly responsible for delivering Canada s development assistance. "Aid and Ebb Tide" calls for a renewed and reformed Canadian commitment to development co-operation at a time when the gap between the world s richest and poorest has been widening alarmingly and millions are still being born into poverty and human insecurity. "

Product Description: In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Phillip Griffiths and his collaborators undertook a study of period mappings and variation of Hodge structure. The motivating problems, which centered on the understanding of algebraic varieties and the algebraic cycles on them, came from algebraic geometry...read more