Discover the enigmatic world of Chabad Lubavitch - a journey into the heart of a rapidly growing and explosively influential branch of Orthodox Jews.In Inside Chabad Lubavitch: Who are the explosively growing branch of Orthodox Jews? What do they want? How are they getting it? A case study in Argentina, A.J. Soifer, Ph.D., delivers an investigative tour de force, delving into the heart of a movement that has intrigued and puzzled in equal measure. Through...

A Manual for the Ultimate Real Estate InvestorBy: Ben Soifer and Brielle SoiferWhat if you could cut to the chase of real estate investing and learn from an ultimate real estate investor?Whether you’re already building your portfolio or exploring your first investment, this book is for you. It contains a mix of practical knowledge and insider info from a career investor.Over the past 30 years, Ben Soifer has developed a strong set of guiding principles for i...

What if you could cut to the chase of real estate investing and learn from an ultimate real estate investor?Whether you’re already building your portfolio or exploring your first investment, this book is for you. It contains a mix of practical knowledge and insider info from a career investor.Over the past 30 years, Ben Soifer has developed a strong set of guiding principles for investing in residential, commercial, and industrial real estate. In this easy-to-digest manual,...

Between 1980 and 1994, Peru endured a bloody internal armed conflict, with some 69,000 people killed in clashes involving two insurgent movements, state forces, and local armed groups. In 2003, a government-sponsored “Truth and Reconciliation Committee” reported that the conflict lasted longer, affected broader swaths of the national territory, and inflicted higher costs in both human and economic terms than any other conflict in Peru’s history. Of those killed, 75 percent were speakers of...

Diffractive Optics and Nanophotonics is devoted to achievements in diffractive optics, focusing on the creation of new nanophotonic components and devices, as well as instrumentation and available information technology. The author describes methods of calculation of diffractive optical elements to solve actual problems of nanophotonics. Coverage includes mathematical methods for calculation of diffraction gratings, calculation of modes of inhomogeneous waveguides, integra...

Discover the enigmatic world of Chabad Lubavitch — a journey into the heart of a rapidly growing and explosively influential branch of Orthodox Jews.In Inside Chabad Lubavitch: Who are the explosively growing branch of Orthodox Jews? What do they want? How are they getting it? A case study in Argentina, A.J. Soifer, Ph.D., delivers an investigative tour de force, delving into the heart of a movement that has intrigued and puzzled in equal measure. Through meticulo...

Diffractive Nanophotonics demonstrates the utility of the well-established methods of diffractive computer optics in solving nanophotonics tasks. It is concerned with peculiar properties of laser light diffraction by microoptics elements with nanoscale features and light confinement in subwavelength space regions. Written by recognized experts in t

About the BookWhat if you could cut to the chase of real estate investing and learn from an ultimate real estate investor?Whether you’re already building your portfolio or exploring your first investment, this book is for you. It contains a mix of practical knowledge and insider info from a career investor.About the AuthorBen is passionate about sharing his knowledge with his family and friends. He and his wife include their kids in important family conversation...

The New Mathematical Coloring Book (TNMCB) includes striking results of the past 15-year renaissance that produced new approaches, advances, and solutions to problems from the first edition. A large part of the new edition “Ask what your computer can do for you,” presents the recent breakthrough by Aubrey de Grey and works by Marijn Heule, Jaan Parts, Geoffrey Exoo, and Dan Ismailescu. TNMCB introduces new open problems and conjectures that will pave the way to the future keeping ...

Now in its third decade, the Colorado Mathematical Olympiad (CMO), founded by the author, has become an annual state-wide competition, hosting many hundreds of middle and high school contestants each year. This book presents a year-by-year history of the CMO from 2004–2013 with all the problems from the competitions and their solutions. Additionally, the book includes 10 further explorations, bridges from solved Olympiad problems to ‘real’ mathematics, bringing young readers to th...

No human woman is allowed to speak to an Aldar, lest they fall under his spell. I made it to my eighteenth birthday before I ever broke that rule…Bel has often challenged the traditions of her village, and as her coming-of-age ceremony approaches, a forbidden encounter with a handsome Aldar—tall, supposedly-magical beings from the north—makes her question the wisdom of her elders as never before.Then her mother’s scheming earns her a prominent place in the line-up ...

This book gathers the best presentations from the Topic Study Group 30: Mathematics Competitions at ICME-13 in Hamburg, and some from related groups, focusing on the field of working with gifted students. Each of the chapters includes not only original ideas, but also original mathematical problems and their solutions. The book is a valuable resource for researchers in mathematics education, secondary and college mathematics teachers around the globe as well as their gifted students.