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Mathematics Going Forward, Jin Akiyama, Kiyoko Matsunaga, 2024

Treks into Intuitive Geometry

• Offers a fascinating tour, leading readers from simple amazement to appreciation for cutting-edge results.
• Brims with amazing figures to spark the creativity of readers, artists and mathematicians.
• Added many new results and elegant proofs makes the book mathematically much richer.

Be a Champion, Amandine Aftalion, 2024

40 Facts You Didn't Know About Sports and Science

• Aimed at people who watch or practice sports and ask themselves "why" certain things occur.
• A popular science book which is simple and pleasant to read.
• Provides a series of examples of physics or math in action for a broad audience.

Uncorking the Physics of Wine, Lutz Kasper, Patrik Vogt, 2024

A Wine Tasting in 50 Experiments

• Presents exciting experiments around wine and wine enjoyment.
• Reveals surprising findings on the speed of sound, pressure in champagne bottles and red wine as a color filter.
• Offers a variety of experiments to participate in and recreate

The Novel and Neuroscience from Dostoevsky to Ishiguro, Nina Pelikan Straus, 2024

• Shows how affective neuroscience can transform literary criticism Includes.
• Chapters on Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Eliot, Kafka, Kundera, Morrison and Ishiguro.
• Offers a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to the representation of embodied emotions in literature.

If there were no Shinkansen, Shuichiro Yamanouchi, 2023

High-speed rail experience from its birth to today in Japan

• Introduces the birth of Shinkansen, troubles after the opening, and development of 300 km/h commercial operation
• Discusses a railway philosophy based on the perspective of both management perspective and engineering
• Compares Shinkansen with European high-speed rail for the further improvement of high-speed rails.

Contemporary Prime Ministerial Leadership in Britain and Japan, Tina Burrett, 2023

• Compares UK and Japanese prime ministers, focusing on institutions, personality and the media.
• Draws on the author’s insider knowledge as a political researcher in the UK and Japanese parliaments.
• Analyses Japan’s rapid turnover in prime ministers to understand the chaos gripping the UK premiership since 2016.

Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies in Japan, Nobuo Mimura, Satoshi Takewaka, 2025

• This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.
• Introduces research methodologies and results that bridging research and climate change policy development.
• Integrates research framework using common scenarios for climate and socio-economic changes.
• Reveals interaction among global warming level, social changes and impacts, and effectiveness of countermeasures.

Nuclear Power and Society, Yoshiaki Oka, 2024

• Offers comprehensive depiction of the issues at the boundary between the use of nuclear power and society Highlights social topics including economic liberalization, risk communication, accountability, and non-proliferation.
• Written based on the author's professional experience as the chairman of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission.