Dr. Baofu is the author of 18 books (as of 2008) in numerous fields ranging from the social sciences through the humanities to the natural sciences. He earned an entry to the list of ”prominent and emerging writers” in Contemporary Authors (2005) and another honorary entry in The Writers Directory (2007). He was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in the Far East. He had taught as a professor at different universities in Western Europe, the Caucasus, the Middle East, the Balkans, Central Asia, and North America. He finished more than 5 academic degrees, including a Ph.D. from M.I.T., and was a summa cum laude graduate.
62 E-böcker av Peter Baofu
Peter Baofu: Future Of Complexity, The: Conceiving A Better Way To Understand Order And Chaos
Contrary to the conventional wisdom held by many contemporaries in our time, the popularity of studying complexity is fast becoming a new fad in the intellectual scene. However, can the study of comp …
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€219.99
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Mass Media
Why should mass media be informational and accurate as much as its proponents would claim-and, conversely, disinformational and propagandistic as much as its critics would argue? Contrary to the conv …
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€83.45
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Sexuality
What precisely resides in "sexuality" which warrants the popular discourse on sexuality as "part of our world freedom, " or something as an inspiring source for "our own crea …
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€92.43
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Formal Science
What exactly is so appealing in formal science, such that its influence can be seen in numerous disciplines nowadays, for practical purposes like better functionality, performance, and so on-as Pytha …
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€92.16
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human War and Peace
Is peace really so precious that it is popularly viewed in irenology (peace studies) of our time as "natural" and "a prime force in human behavior"-whereas war, its opposite, is i …
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€92.44
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Culinary Art
Is culinary art really so exact that, as Delia Smith once wrote, "cooking is an exact art and not some casual game"? (BQ 2012) This exact view of cooking can be contrasted with an opposing …
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€128.08
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Performing Arts
Are the performing arts really supposed to be so radical that, as John Cage once said in the context of music, "there is no noise, only sound, " since "he argued that any sounds we can …
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€102.72
Peter Baofu: Beyond Natural Resources to Post-Human Resources
Are natural resources really so limited that, as Mahatma Gandhi once famously said, "Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed"? (TE 2012)This limiting vi …
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€129.77
Peter Baofu: Beyond Ethics to Post-Ethics
Is moral goodness really so desirable in the way that its proponents through the ages would like us to believe? For instance, in our time, there is even this latest version of the popular moral idea …
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€105.65
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Accounting
Is the invention of accounting so useful that, as Charlie Munger once said, "you have to know accounting. It’s the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to c …
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€104.25
Peter Baofu: Future of Information Architecture
The Future of Information Architecture examines issues surrounding why information is processed, stored and applied in the way that it has, since time immemorial. Contrary to the conventional wisdom …
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€63.72
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Knowledge
Why should inquiry be possible, only if some knowledge is required to guide it, as conventionally understood? Contrary to the conventional wisdom held by many thinkers in all human history hitherto e …
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€54.24
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Mathematical Logic
Why should mathematical logic be grounded on the basis of some formal requirements in the way that it has been developed since its classical emergence as a hybrid field of mathematics and logic in th …
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€65.07
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Unconsciousness
Why should anomalous experience, in a general sense, be proven to exist, before they can be taken seriously? Contrary to the conventional wisdom held by many scholars in human history hitherto existi …
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€65.25
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Creative Thinking
What exactly makes creative thinking so magical that, somehow, "everyone can be creative" and, by implication, creativity is a good thing to have-to the point that this popular view is fast …
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€83.77
Peter Baofu: Beyond the World of Titans, and the Remaking of World Order
Contrary to the conventional wisdom held by many, not only the dominance of the U.S. in the post-Cold War era is much exaggerated, but also its days as a hyper-power are ending. Instead, the world is …
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€73.68
Peter Baofu: Future of Aesthetic Experience
Contrary to the conventional wisdom held by many, Dr. Peter Baofu argues that the current popularity of postmodernism in the humanities (especially though not exclusively in relation to the arts) wil …
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€74.42
Peter Baofu: Rise of Authoritarian Liberal Democracy
There is something fundamentally wrong with the conventional wisdom in the field of Comparative Politics, Political Theory, and even Political Science as a whole, which rigidly conceptualize and theo …
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€73.68
Peter Baofu: Beyond Nature And Nurture
Why are some individuals relatively more successful than others in achievement? And why are some countries (or regions), for that matter, relatively more successful than others in development? Contra …
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€65.62
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Engineering
Why should mass media be informational and accurate as much as its proponents would claim-and, conversely, disinformational and propagandistic as much as its critics would argue? Contrary to the conv …
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€83.83
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Geometry
Why should some essential properties of geometry (i.e., infinity, symmetry, and dimensionality) be both necessary and desirable in the way that they have been constructed-albeit with different modifi …
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€93.00
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Urban Planning
Why should urban planning in our time be obsessed with the issue of sustainability? Or differently put, is sustainability really as desirable and possible as its proponents in urban planning (and oth …
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€91.30
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Language
To what extent is there really a universal structure, whether innate or not, of language for learning? Or conversely, is language learning mainly context-based? And, in the end, does the very nature …
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€92.12
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Organization
What exactly makes the nature of organizations so miracular that their very purpose is "to achieve performance" and that it is now regarded, in this capitalist age of ours, as the central a …
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€92.44
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Martial Arts
Is it really true that martial arts, in spite of their popularity in this day and age of ours, have, at their deepest level, the promised land of "self-knowledge, " "the expression of …
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€83.00
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Law
What makes the rule of law so special that it is to conscientiously punish the "bad" doers and reward the "good" ones-such that, where there is the rule of law, peace and order ar …
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€91.95
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Chemistry
Is chemistry really so valuable that, as Theodore L. Brown (2011) and his colleagues continue to claim in the twelfth edition of their work in 2011, chemistry is "the central science" in co …
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€102.72
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Semantics
Is semantics really so indeterminate that, as W. V. Quine (1960) once argued in Word and Object, in the example about a previously undocumented, primitive tribe, "it is impossible in principle t …
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€102.71
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human History
Is history really so universalistic (even when similar events happen in different contexts) that, as George Santayana (1905) once famously wrote, "[t]hose who cannot remember the past are condem …
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€119.94
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Migration
Is migration really so constructive that, as Ralph Emerson (1909) once wrote, in the context of the New World, "asylum of all nations . . . will construct a new race, a new religion, a new state …
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€121.16
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Waste
Is waste (or trash) really so useless that, as William Faulkner once wrote, "[r]ead everything-trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. . . . If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’ …
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€129.69
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Transportation
Can transportation really have such a destructive impact on society that, as Jay Holtz Kay (1998) once forcefully wrote, with the automobile industry as an example, that "the modern consequences …
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€128.87
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Sports
Are sports really supposed to be so competitive that, as Henry R. Sanders once famously said, "Men, I’ll be honest. Winning is…the only thing!"? (WK 2012)This competitive view of sports c …
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€129.22
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Morphology
Are words really so determined by rules that, as Leonard Bloomfield once argued in defense of the "morpheme-based" morphology, "word forms are analyzed as arrangements of morphemes, &q …
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€532.95
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Health Care
Is positive thinking really so healthy that, as Martin Seligman (2000) and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi passionately thus argued, "we believe that a psychology of positive human functioning will aris …
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€308.73
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Probability
Is the degree of probability that an individual holds when betting on a particular outcome really so subjective that, as Frank Ramsey once argued, "objective logical relations" do not exist …
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€481.52
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Phonology
Are the rules and principles in phonology so general that, as Jacques Derrida once said, "as soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene"? (REL 2013) This general view on la …
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€481.57
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Aerology
Is the nature of the atmosphere really so predictable that, as James Mahoney confidently said, "we know that humans are influencing the climate. There’s no question about that"? (TE 2013) T …
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€380.26
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Aerology
Is the nature of the atmosphere really so predictable that, as James Mahoney confidently said, "we know that humans are influencing the climate. There’s no question about that"? (TE 2013) T …
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€379.57
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Etiology
Is the traditional understanding of cause and effect in etiology so certain that Arthur Eddington therefore proposed in 1927 "the arrow of time, or time’s arrow" involving "the ’one-wa …
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€378.79
Peter Baofu: Beyond Human Resources to Post-Human Resources
Is it really true that, as the Roman philosopher Seneca famously said in antiquity, "It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters"? (TE 2013) This popular view on quality can be …
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€376.14
Peter Baofu: Beyond Human Resources to Post-Human Resources
Is it really true that, as the Roman philosopher Seneca famously said in antiquity, "It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters"? (TE 2013) This popular view on quality can be …
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€380.53
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Visual Arts
Are the visual arts really so central in our time that, as Doug Adams once said, "people under 60, raised on television…remember by what they see….[F]ilm and television are really the langua …
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€380.26
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Visual Arts
Are the visual arts really so central in our time that, as Doug Adams once said, "people under 60, raised on television…remember by what they see….[F]ilm and television are really the langua …
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€319.90
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Public Administration
Is public administration so effective that, as William Poole once wrote, "it is highly desirable that policy practice be formalized to the maximum possible extent"? (FAM 2014) This favorabl …
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€378.79
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Public Administration
Is public administration so effective that, as William Poole once wrote, "it is highly desirable that policy practice be formalized to the maximum possible extent"? (FAM 2014) This favorabl …
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€378.84
Peter Baofu: Future of Post-Human Etiology
Is the traditional understanding of cause and effect in etiology so certain that Arthur Eddington therefore proposed in 1927 "the arrow of time, or time’s arrow" involving "the ’one-wa …
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€374.13
Suran Fernando: Urticaria
Urticaria is a common condition, affecting up to 20% of the population at some stage in their lives. It is an important entity to recognize and differentiate from other similar presenting conditions …
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€307.58
Lucille Monaco Cacioppo: Food Science Research Biographical Sketches and Research Summaries. Volume 1
This book compiles research biographical sketches and research summaries from a number of different focuses in the important field of food science. …
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€376.76
Howard L Reese: Gemcitabine
Gemcitabine was synthesized in the 1980s at Lilly Research Laboratories (Eli Lilly and Co., Indianapolis, IN). It was initially developed as an antiviral agent, but it had an extremely narrow therape …
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€166.93
Richard W Cook: Peanuts
Peanuts are among the most popular oilseeds in the world. When their price is considered, they present a competitive advantage in comparison to other nuts such as macadamia, walnuts, hazelnuts, Brazi …
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€228.28
Jeffrey Graham: Video Games
Video games are not necessarily uniform in the "lessons" they teach players. Indeed, even violent video games are not simply hotbeds of violent content. For example, the popular Call of Dut …
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€353.75
Mindy P Kiernan: Lizards
Lizards utilize many different niches across a large variety of habitats. As a result of selective pressures exerted by the particular environments, many lizards in similar habitats have been shown t …
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€166.61
Cindy D Mullan: Supercapacitors
Electrochemical Capacitors (ECs) are a class of energy storage device that fill the gap between high energy density batteries and high-power-density electrostatic capacitors. ECs show shorter charge/ …
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€353.75
Barbara P Hendriks: Agricultural Research Updates. Volume 1
This compilation examines agricultural research from across the globe and covers a broad spectrum of related topics. In this book, the authors discuss research including the use, control and residue …
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€208.04
M.E. Henry Bergmann & Michaela Fischer: Perchlorate Formation in Electrochemical Water Disinfection
Electrochemical water treatment is a simple method to generate disinfecting agents. Several companies offer special cell technologies for water disinfection. It has been found that besides active chl …
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€89.88
Kam C Wong: Cyberspace Governance in China
Computer processing and internet communication has changed the way we learn, work, play and associate with each other. In the case of China, the introduction of the computer and mass availability of …
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€293.50
Eiji Ichishima: Unique Enzymes of Aspergillus Fungi Used in Japanese Bioindustries
The most widely used organisms are fungi, and several enzymes and organic acids are synthesized by species of Aspergillus. Over the past 1, 000 years, the use of hydrolytic enzymes from fungi has bec …
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€76.06
K. Sahayaraj & S Sujatha: Temperature-Dependent Biology and Physiology of Reduviids
This new book examines current research on biology, linear developmental model and biological control efficiency. The book draws heavily from insect physiology as the base of knowledge of these field …
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€146.59
Peter Baofu: Beyond Human Acting to Post-Human Acting: Towards a New Theory of Attachment and Detachment
Is the art of acting really so much linked to the audience that, as Ingrid Bergman once said, "It’s not whether you really cry. It’s whether the audience thinks you are crying"? (WQ 2018) T …
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€105.36
Peter Baofu: Beyond Human Molecular Biology to Post-Human Molecular Biology: Towards to New Theory of Function and Non-Function
Is molecular biology really so promising that, as William T. Astbury (TOD 2019) assertively claimed, "We are at the dawn of a new era, the era of ’molecular biology’ as I like to call it…" …
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€105.41
Peter Baofu: Beyond Human Biophysics to PostHuman Biophysics: Towards a New Theory of Practicalness and NonPracticalness
Is biophysics really so significant that, as Ursula Goodenough once claimed, "biophysics…[is] the notes required for life; they conspire, collectively, to generate the real unit of life, the o …
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€397.82
