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Stay on the cutting edge of today’s most promising trends in complementary and alternative medical treatments with Dr. David Rakel’s Integrative M...
The History of Chen Renbing, Liberal Intelletual
This book, first published in 2001, uses key oral histories to confirm and explain the professional and private lives of post-1949 Chinese intellectua...
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Harmonious Heterotopia
The Confucian notion of “Harmony with difference” (he er bu tong) has great political and cultural resonance in contemporary China, which propagat...
Seeking Convergent Security
This comprehensive 2002 book is an overview of security issues in the Asia-Pacific. It is also an argument for a strategy that promises to achieve gre...
The proceedings present selected research papers from the CIAC2021, held in Zhanjiang, China on Nov 5-7, 2021. It covers a wide range of topics includ...
An examination of why politicians choose to employ targeted tax incentives to firms that are inefficient and distortionary....
Over recent decades, depression rates have skyrocketed. While for Depression some depression sufferers find relief with traditional approaches, they d...
Health Care and Economic Transformation in Pittsburgh and Houston
In 2008, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers (UPMC) hoisted its logo atop the U.S. Steel Building in downtown Pittsburgh, symbolically declar...
Envisaging the Sea as Social Space
Before the eighteenth century, the ocean was regarded as a repulsive and chaotic deep. Despite reinvention as a zone of wonder and pleasure, it contin...
Preventive Diplomacy (PD) has been recognized as a useful tool to address security issues in the Asia-Pacific region. To explore a PD mode compatible ...
Geometrical Perspectives on Transparency, Accountability, and Corruption
Policy-Driven Democratization offers a comprehensive conceptual analysis of each one of these fuzzy terms separately to then sew them together in one ...
Expert systems represent a branch of artificial intelligence aiming to take the experience of human specialists and transfer it to a computer system. ...
A Dialectic Journey of Theory and Praxis
Conventionally, analysts of social change perceive organizational initiatives in binary terms: projects are seen as being either top-down or bottom-up...
From Membership to Management in American Civic Life
Pundits and social observers have voiced alarm each year as fewer Americans involve themselves in voluntary groups that meet regularly. Thousands of n...
Effective Solution for Global Challenges
The book explains the important concepts and principles of image processing to implement the algorithms and techniques to discover new problems and ap...
18th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2016, Tsukuba, Japan, December 7–9, 2016, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th InternationalConference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2016, held in Tsukuba,Japa...
Recognized as modern China’s preeminent man of letters, Lu Xun (1881–1936) is revered as the nation’s conscience, a writer comparable to Shakesp...
Paloma Melgarejo is an author on one patent issued in Spain and one patent issued internationally, and has co-obtained plant variety rights for the fo...
Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao
How succession in authoritarian regimes was less a competition of visions for the future and more a settling of scores “Joseph Torigian’s stellar ...
It is an interesting topic to discuss addiction and love in the context of reward. In this e-book, we begin with an animal study of comparison between...
Proceedings of 16th IAHR-APD Congress and 3rd Symposium of IAHR-ISHS
"Advances in Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering - Proceedings of 16th IAHR-APD Congress and 3rd Symposium of IAHR-ISHS" discusses some serious ...
This collection of essays takes critical steps toward understanding the way the Chinese manage and resolve conflict. Twenty chapters form this compreh...
Advances in Civil Engineering and Building Materials presents the state-of-the-art development in: - Structural Engineering - Road & Bridge Engineerin...
This book is the first complete study of Chen Duxiu, the controversial founder and first secretary-general of the Chinese Communist party. Disputing m...
A Medicine of Revolution
Using original sources, this significant text looks at the transformation of Chinese medicine from a marginal, side-lined medical practice of the earl...
This book offers a fresh method of assessing and managing risks in SMEs, by adopting a multidisciplinary approach. In small and medium companies, the ...
Courtesans, Intellectuals, and Entertainment Culture, 1850-1910
In this fascinating book, Catherine Yeh explores the Shanghai entertainment world at the close of the Qing dynasty. Established in the 1850s outside o...
Proceedings of the 11th Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC 2019), April 19-21, 2019, Xiamen, China
Power and Energy Engineering are important and pressing topics globally, covering issues such as shifting paradigms of energy generation and consumpti...
Sport, Culture, and the Cold War
Winner, 2019 NASSH Book Award, Anthology. The Cold War was fought in every corner of society, including in the sport and entertainment industries. Rec...
A Multiperspectival Study on the Chinese Model of Policy Implementation
Utilizing a case study method and a Multiperspectival Approach, this volume presents a pioneering, in-depth study about China’s teacher education po...
Living with the Leviathan
A close-up look at the struggle for democracy in Hong Kong. Hong Kong in the Shadow of China is a reflection on the recent political turmoil in Hong K...
Exploring and Data Mining the Dark Side of the Web
The University of Arizona Artificial Intelligence Lab (AI Lab) Dark Web project is a long-term scientific research program that aims to study and unde...
What We Know and Can Do About Summer Learning Loss
This book is an authoritative examination of summer learning loss, featuring original contributions by scholars and practitioners at the forefront of ...
Natural-based biomolecules continuously play an important role in novel drug discovery for the treatment of chronic diseases. The development of natur...
This volume represents the proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Innovation, Communication and Engineering (ICICE 2013). This conference...