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  • SYSTEM INNOVATION FOR A WORLD IN TRANSITION
    ARTDE DONALD KIN-TAK LAM, STEPHEN D. PRIOR, SIU-TSEN SHEN, SHENG-JOUE YOUNG AND LIANG-WEN JI
    System Innovation for a World in Transition: Applied System Innovation IX, includes the contributions presented at the IEEE 9th International Conference on Applied System Innovation (ICASI 2023, Chiba, Japan, 21-25 April 2023). The conference received more than 600 submitted papers from 12 different countries, whereby roughly one quarter of these papers was selected to present ...

    $1,339.00

  • THE SIGNS OF THE NEW TEMPLE
    TAT YU LAM
    Recent monographs on Johannine signs tend to focus on a single sign. Other studies that examine multiple signs mainly focus on the first half of John's Gospel. In Christian circles, most preachers and believers remain preoccupied by the traditional view that John's Gospel contains only seven signs. However, what constitutes a sign for John, and how signs function to achieve the...

    $1,011.00

  • XI JINPING
    WILLY LAM
    This book examines the policy, ideology and politics of Xi Jinping, State President and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and China’s “ruler for life.” Through comparisons with former CCP leaders, including Deng Xiaoping, it assesses whether, having abandoned many of the key precepts of the Era of Reform and the Open Door, the conservative supreme leader’s ...

    $979.00

  • MING TAIZU (R. 1368–98) AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE MING DYNASTY IN CHINA
    HOK-LAM CHAN
    This second collection of studies by Hok-lam Chan focuses on the person and the image of Ming Taizu, the founder of the Ming dynasty, and a powerful, brutal and autocratic emperor who has had a significant impact not only in late imperial China, but also in East Asia, over the last six centuries. Individual studies look at the legitimation of the dynasty, particular military an...

    $1,279.00

  • SYSTEM INNOVATION FOR A TROUBLED WORLD
    ARTDE DONALD KIN-TAK LAM, STEPHEN D. PRIOR, SIU-TSEN SHEN, SHENG-JOUEYOUNG AND LIANG-WEN JI
    System Innovation for a Troubled World: Applied System Innovation VIII contains roughly one tenth of the total of 250 contributions from 8 different countries that were presented at the IEEE 8th International Conference on Applied System Innovation (ICASI 2022, Sun Moon Lake, Nantou, Taiwan, 21-23 April 2022). This book aims to provide an integrated communication platform for r...

    $1,339.00

  • USING DIGITAL PORTFOLIOS TO DEVELOP STUDENTS’ WRITING
    RICKY LAM / BENJAMIN LUKE MOORHOUSE
    This book equips pre-service teachers, research postgraduate students, teacher educators, and language specialists with specific knowledge and skills about the principles, research, and applications of digital portfolios within the EFL writing contexts. While most digital portfolio scholarship focuses on higher education, this book targets primary-level and secondary-level scho...

    $539.00

  • COLLISION ACTIONS ON STRUCTURES
    ARNOLD C.Y. YONG / NELSON T.K. LAM / SCOTT J. MENEGON
    This textbook covers the collision of a moving, falling or flying object on a rigid barrier or a structural element, and the transmission of the transient action to the rest of the structural system. It is the only up-to-date book on this under-researched topic that confronts engineers on a day-to-day basis. The book deals with a range of real-life engineering problems and focu...

    $2,500.00

  • VIBRATION TESTING AND APPLICATIONS IN SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION OF CIVIL ENGINEERING STRUCTURES
    HEUNG-FAI LAM / JIA-HUA YANG
    This book covers vibration testing and identification of dynamic structural systems. It starts from the fundamentals of structural dynamics, and covers the methods of modal analysis and model identification, vibration tests and the related experimental setup. It concludes with an outline of the authors‘ software, demonstrating practical applications, and illustrated with real-w...

    $3,600.00

  • PUBLIC DIPLOMACY IN VIETNAM
    VU LAM
    This book explores how Vietnam's leadership conceptualises and conducts public diplomacy (PD) and offers a comparative analysis with regional powers. Drawing on social constructivism as its theoretical framework it investigates the rationale behind an authoritarian regime's implementation of public diplomacy to contribute to a better understanding of the broader framework of fo...

    $1,099.00

  • CONNECTIVITY, IMPERIALISM, AND THE HAN IRON INDUSTRY
    WENGCHEONG LAM
    This book examines the rise of the iron industry during the Warring States and Western Han periods (ca. 400 BCE–9 CE) in ancient China, which is characterized not only by various technological innovations but also as a remarkable phenomenon, leading to the widespread distribution of iron implements and the emergence of massive ironworks that were rarely seen in later periods. W...

    $1,099.00

  • CONTEMPORARY KOREA-SOUTHEAST ASIAN RELATIONS
    LAM PENG ER
    This book presents a comprehensive overview of the relations between the two Koreas and the different ASEAN states, including their relations with ASEAN as an organization. It outlines a complex picture with both bilateral and multilateral relations in play at the same time. It charts for each relationship how the present situation has arisen, discusses current difficulties and...

    $1,099.00

  • DRESSINGS FOR ADVANCED WOUND CARE
    SHARON LAM PO TANG
    Dressings for Advanced Wound Care focuses on helping the reader better understand advanced wound care and relevant technologies. It explains how different types of wounds may require different environments to heal and how dressings can help in creating the right environment. It gives an overview of the various dressing technologies that are available to help manage wounds that ...

    $2,300.00

  • ONLINE PLACE BRANDING
    PHOENIX LAM
    Through an interdisciplinary approach combining the concepts, methods and tools in language and discourse studies and insights from marketing and tourism research, this book examines the online place branding of Hong Kong, one of the most visited cities and well-known spots in the world. The book compares how the place brand is officially constructed and conveyed by the institu...

    $1,099.00

  • THE HISTORY OF SOUTH VIETNAM - LAM
    VINH-THE LAM
    This book provides an in-depth analysis of the political instability of South Vietnam between the two Republics and offers a valuable contribution to the study of the history of Vietnam as it focuses on a decisive period in the history of South Vietnam. A much-needed examination of the political environment of the Republic of Vietnam between 1963-1967, this book shows how South...

    $1,099.00

  • ENTREPRENEURIAL FINANCE
    MIRANDA S. LAM / GINA VEGA
    An accessible guide to an increasingly complex subject, Entrepreneurial Finance: Concepts and Cases demonstrates how to address often- overlooked financial issues from the entrepreneur’s standpoint, including challenges faced by start-ups and small businesses. This new edition retains the original’s structure, around seven modules or building blocks designed to be taught across...

    $1,339.00

  • THE ELOQUENCE OF ART
    ANDREA OLSEN LAM / ‎ROSSITZA SCHROEDER
    For those within the fields of art history and Byzantine studies, Professor Henry Maguire needs no introduction. His publications transformed the way art historians approach medieval art through his insightful integration of rhetoric, poetry and non-canonical objects into the study of Byzantine art. His ground-breaking studies of Byzantine art that consider the natural world, m...

    $1,039.00

  • FROM TEACH FOR AMERICA TO TEACH FOR CHINA
    SARA LAM
    This book examines the role of Teach For China in addressing educational equity and expanding public participation in education. The author uses the case of Teach For China to explore the broader theme of the mobility of education models between contexts characterized by neoliberalism and those characterized by strong state control. Transnational advocacy networks are increasin...

    $1,059.00

  • THE FIGHT FOR CHINA'S FUTURE
    WILLY WO-LAP LAM
    The Fight for China’s Future throws light on the quintessence of 21st century Chinese politics through the prism of the struggle between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and China’s vibrant intelligentsia and civil society. This book examines Xi Jinping’s 24-hour, multi-dimensional, AI-enabled police-state apparatus and explores the CCP’s policy towards civil society. Through ...

    $1,039.00

  • CASINO MANAGEMENT IN INTEGRATED RESORTS
    DESMOND LAM
    Casino Management in Integrated Resorts introduces students to the changing nature of casino businesses within the framework of an integrated resort or hospitality organisation. In the new integrated casino model, casinos play an important role not only in revenue generation but in supporting the other amenities in the resort, including bars, restaurants, hotels and theme parks...

    $1,379.00

  • CHINA AND THE MONGOLS
    HOK-LAM CHAN
    Published in 1999. A common theme linking these papers is that of the interaction of élite and popular traditions, as found in the writings and folktales of Yuan and Ming China. The first studies focus on historical writings, not just as topics of intellectual and cultural history, but as foundations for understanding the sources of that time and seeing how earlier periods were...

    $999.00

  • DESIGN GUIDE FOR CONCRETE-FILLED DOUBLE SKIN STEEL TUBULAR STRUCTURES
    LIN-HAI HAN / DENNIS LAM / DAVID NETHERCOT
    This is the first design guide on concrete filled double skin steel tubular (CFDST) structures. It addresses in particular CFDST structures with plain concrete sandwiched between circular hollow sections, and provides the relevant calculation methods and construction provisions for CFDST structures. These inherit the advantages of conventional concrete-filled steel tubular (CFS...

    $539.00

  • STRUCTURAL STEELWORK
    DENNIS LAM / THIEN CHEONG ANG / SING-PING CHIEW
    Completely revised and updated, this fourth edition of Structural Steelwork: Design to Limit State Theory describes the design theory and code requirements for common structures, connections, elements, and frames. It provides a comprehensive introduction to structural steelwork design with detailed explanations of the principles underlying steel design. See what’s in the Fourth...

    $1,699.00

  • PARENTING IN STEPFAMILIES
    GLADYS LAN TAK LAM-CHAN
    First published in 1999, this book contains the findings of an exploratory study using in-depth interviews on parenting and the dynamics of Hong Kong Chinese stepfamilies. The stepfamily is a topic which is in lack of local research in Hong Kong, but is an emerging family structure which has increasing need for professional intervention. This study began as a result of the rese...

    $579.00

  • POLARIZED LIGHT AND OPTICAL SYSTEMS
    RUSSELL CHIPMAN / WAI SZE TIFFANY LAM / GARAM YOUNG
    Polarized Light and Optical Systems presents polarization optics for undergraduate and graduate students in a way which makes classroom teaching relevant to current issues in optical engineering. This curriculum has been developed and refined for a decade and a half at the University of Arizona’s College of Optical Sciences. Polarized Light and Optical Systems provides a refere...

    $4,800.00

  • ENTERTAINMENT TOURISM
    JIAN MING LUO / CHI FUNG LAM
    Entertainment tourism has recently become more popular. Entertainment attractions encourage tourists to travel around the world to have fun and are an important part of many gaming destinations. This book explores the tourist experience in entertainment destinations. It introduces and outlines the concept of entertainment and tourism in the global environment, focusing on enter...

    $499.00

  • MANAGING CURRENCY OPTIONS IN FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
    YAT-FAI LAM / KIN-KEUNG LAI
    The book introduces how we can manage currency options with the Vanna-Volga method. It describes the underlying theories and applications of the Vanna-Volga method in managing currency options of a financial institution, conforming to the Basel III regulatory requirements which demand a high consistency between the valuation and market risk calculation methodologies of financia...

    $1,099.00

  • CITIZENSHIP, IDENTITY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE NEW HONG KONG
    WAI-MAN LAM
    Hong Kong’s ‘Umbrella Revolution’ has been widely regarded as a watershed moment in the polity’s post-1997 history. While public protest has long been a routine part of Hong Kong’s political culture, the preparedness of large numbers of citizens to participate in civil disobedience represented a new moment for Hong Kong society, reflecting both a very high level of politicisati...

    $1,179.00

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY
    WILLY WO-LAP LAM
    Whilst the Chinese Communist Party is one of the most powerful political institutions in the world, it is also one of the least understood, due to the party’s secrecy and tight control over the archives, the press and the Internet. Having governed the People’s Republic of China for nearly 70 years though, much interest remains into how this quintessentially Leninist party gover...

    $1,179.00

  • CHOPSTICKS AND GAMBLING
    DESMOND LAM
    The Chinese are known throughout the world as avid gamblers with a long history of participation in games of chance. Historians have documented wagering on such games as far back as the early Chinese dynasties. Despite measures by ancient Chinese rulers to contain gambling, it proliferated, and Chinese games have evolved and multiplied since then. Desmond Lam provides a unique ...

    $1,139.00

  • CHINESE STATE OWNED ENTERPRISES IN WEST AFRICA
    KATY NGAN TING LAM
    This book investigates the globalization process of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in West Africa, primarily in Benin and Ghana, based on ethnographical studies. It challenges the dominant vision of "a powerful China in Africa", and argues that the so-called "Chinese business advantages" – monolithic Chinese state and Chinese low cost advantages, are non-viable for sust...

    $1,179.00


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