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  • GEOGRAPHY AND INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT
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    GEOGRAPHY AND INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT
    STEVE CHAN / WEIXING HU
    This book analyzes the influence of geography— defined broadly to refer to physical size, location, terrain, accessibility, insularity, climate, regions, neighborhoods, natural endowment, strategic pathways, maritime and continental orientations and even imagined communities— on international relations. Drawing on evidence and insights from cross- national research the book hig...

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  • APPLYING TECHNOLOGY TO LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION
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    APPLYING TECHNOLOGY TO LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION
    LEUNG SZE MING AND CHAN SIN-WAI
    A cutting-edge collection of work on the influence and application of new technologies on the study and practice of language and translation. This book analyzes the relationship between technology, language, and translation in the digital age. Language issues covered include an automatic football commentary system, the use of digital humanities in the versification of Classical...

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  • ROUTLEDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TECHNOLOGY AND THE HUMANITIES
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    ROUTLEDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TECHNOLOGY AND THE HUMANITIES
    CHAN SIN-WAI, MAK KIN-WAH, LEUNG SZE MING
    Routledge Encyclopedia of Technology and the Humanities is a pioneer attempt to introduce a wide range of disciplines in the emerging field of techno-humanities to the English-reading world. This book covers topics such as archaeology, cultural heritage, design, fashion, linguistics, music, philosophy, and translation. It has 20 chapters, contributed by 26 local and internation...

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  • WARFARE ETHICS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
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    WARFARE ETHICS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
    SUMNER B. TWISS, PING-CHEUNG LO, BENEDICT S. B. CHAN
    This volume explores East Asian intellectual traditions and their influence on contemporary discussions of the ethics of war and peace. Through cross-cultural comparison and dialogue between East and West, this work charts a new trajectory in the development of applied ethics. A sequel to the volume Chinese Just War Ethics, it expands the range of the earlier work and includes ...

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  • MINDFULNESS FOR CHILD AND ADOLESCENT WELL-BEING
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    MINDFULNESS FOR CHILD AND ADOLESCENT WELL-BEING
    KEVIN KA SHING CHAN, ELSA NGAR SZE LAU, JOHN CHI-KIN LEE
    Providing a comprehensive overview of the benefits of mindfulness for children and adolescents, this edited collection offers an in-depth exploration of research, theory, and practice from international perspectives. The book written by academics and clinicians from the East and the West, first introduces mindfulness and its roots in spirituality and psychology, and then discus...

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  • REGULATING LAWYERS THROUGH DISCIPLINARY SYSTEMS
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    REGULATING LAWYERS THROUGH DISCIPLINARY SYSTEMS
    CHAN, KAY-WAH
    This book offers comparative analyses on issues in lawyer regulation in England and Wales, Japan, Myanmar, New Zealand and Singapore. It examines the lawyer disciplinary systems in different jurisdictions through diverse and comparative perspectives. In addition to enriching the literature on legal ethics, contributions also highlight areas for future research regarding the leg...

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  • HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND CHINA'S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE
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    HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND CHINA'S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE
    VICTOR C.M. CHAN
    This book explores how China’s Belt and Road Initiative through promoting a non-Western-centred geopolitical narrative is affecting the conservation and management of Belt and Road heritage sites. Considering the dynamics between academics, heritage professionals, and government officials, the inscription process and management of Silk Roads heritage sites, and the practice of ...

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  • CHORAL COUNTING & COUNTING COLLECTIONS
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    CHORAL COUNTING & COUNTING COLLECTIONS
    MEGAN FRANKE / ELHAM KAZEMI / ANGELA CHAN TURROU
    In this influential book from collaborative authors Megan L Franke, Elham Kazemi, and Angela Chan Turrou, Choral Counting & Counting Collections: Transforming the PreK – 5 Math Classroom, explores ways in which two routines — Choral Counting and Counting Collections — can transform your elementary math classroom, your students' math understanding, and your partnerships with fam...

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  • MANAGING CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
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    MANAGING CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
    ROBERT T. MORAN / NEIL REMINGTON ABRAMSON / ANTHONY CHAN / SABONGUI MARIE-MARGUERITE
    In today’s global business environment, it is vital that individuals and organizations have sophisticated global leadership skills. Communication and understanding of different cultures are paramount to business success. This new edition of the bestselling textbook Managing Cultural Differences guides students and practitioners to an understanding of how to do business internat...

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  • A DEAF TAKE ON NON-EQUIVALENCE IN WRITTEN CHINESE TRANSLATION
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    A DEAF TAKE ON NON-EQUIVALENCE IN WRITTEN CHINESE TRANSLATION
    CHAN YI HIN
    A Deaf Take on Non-Equivalence in Written Chinese Translation examines the issue of lexical non-equivalence between written Chinese and Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL) translation, describing its theoretical and practical implications. This research foregrounds the semiotic resources in the Deaf community of Hong Kong by analyzing translation strategies exhibited by Deaf Hongkon...

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  • PERSPECTIVES ON TEACHING WORKPLACE ENGLISH IN THE 21ST CENTURY
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    PERSPECTIVES ON TEACHING WORKPLACE ENGLISH IN THE 21ST CENTURY
    MABLE CHAN
    This collection bridges the gap between research and practical applications by showcasing the latest research developments on business English as a lingua franca and the ways in which they might better inform language teaching practice. Featuring contributions from both established and emerging researchers in the field, this book brings together research findings on business an...

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  • PAUL TILLICH AND SINO-CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY
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    PAUL TILLICH AND SINO-CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY
    KEITH KA-FU CHAN
    With contributors from different generations of the Chinese-speaking world, the book addresses the relevance of Paul Tillich’s thought in the Chinese cultural-political contexts. Appropriating and transforming different themes of Tillich’s thought in the Chinese context, the contributors reframe the dialogue with Buddhism and Confucianism, religion and science, and religion and...

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  • MING TAIZU (R. 1368–98) AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE MING DYNASTY IN CHINA
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    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...

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  • ROUTLEDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY
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    ROUTLEDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY
    CHAN SIN-WAI
    Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Technology, second edition, provides a state-of-the-art survey of the field of computer-assisted translation. It is the first definitive reference to provide a comprehensive overview of the general, regional, and topical aspects of this increasingly significant area of study. The Encyclopedia is divided into three parts: Part 1 presents gen...

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  • THE ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND PHONOLOGY BY CANTONESE ESL LEARNERS
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    THE ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND PHONOLOGY BY CANTONESE ESL LEARNERS
    ALICE YIN WA CHAN
    Chan’s exploration of the acquisition of English grammar and phonology by Cantonese learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) offers insights into the specific challenges that learners often encounter and posits ways to help them overcome those challenges. Possible sources of the challenges are also examined. The book covers the basic differences between English and Canton...

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  • FRANCHISING STRATEGIES
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    FRANCHISING STRATEGIES
    ED TEIXEIRA / RICHARD CHAN
    A comprehensive and accessible companion to a proven business model, this book shows how to franchise an existing business, supported by case studies, data, and research reports on the franchise industry. For small to medium sized businesses, franchising can lead to successful and profitable growth, and plays an important role within the US economy. Utilizing a proprietary data...

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  • ANALYSIS OF A MODEL FOR EPILEPSY
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    ANALYSIS OF A MODEL FOR EPILEPSY
    CANDACE M. KENT / DAVID M. CHAN
    In the 1960s and 1970s, mathematical biologists Sir Robert M. May, E.C. Pielou, and others utilized difference equations as models of ecological and epidemiological phenomena. Since then, with or without applications, the mathematics of difference equations has evolved into a field unto itself. Difference equations with the maximum (or the minimum or the "rank-type") function were ...

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  • EQUIPPING EDUCATORS TO TEACH RELIGIOUS LITERACY
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    EQUIPPING EDUCATORS TO TEACH RELIGIOUS LITERACY
    EMILE LESTER / W. Y. ALICE CHAN
    This volume provides a detailed evaluation of a unique education program implemented in secondary schools in Georgia to enhance teachers’ religious literacy and their ability to promote this in schools and classrooms. The text demonstrates that religious literacy can be proactively taught to students, whilst also highlighting key considerations and tensions around religious lib...

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  • MATHEMATICS AND THE CRAFT OF THOUGHT IN THE ANGLO-DUTCH RENAISSANCE
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    MATHEMATICS AND THE CRAFT OF THOUGHT IN THE ANGLO-DUTCH RENAISSANCE
    ELEANOR CHAN
    The development of a coherent, cohesive visual system of mathematics brought about a seminal shift in approaches towards abstract thinking in western Europe. Vernacular translations of Euclid’s Elements made these new and developing approaches available to a far broader readership than had previously been possible. Scholarship has explored the way that the language of mathemati...

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  • CHINA'S MARITIME SECURITY STRATEGY
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    CHINA'S MARITIME SECURITY STRATEGY
    EDWARD SING YUE CHAN
    This book examines the evolution of China’s maritime security strategy, and questions what has made China shift from a constrained to a more assertive strategy. Historically, China has not been an active player in maritime security, but in recent years Beijing has begun to pursue policies and measures to safeguard its maritime rights and interests in the Indo-Pacific region. Th...

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  • WHOLE PERSON EDUCATION IN EAST ASIAN UNIVERSITIES
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    WHOLE PERSON EDUCATION IN EAST ASIAN UNIVERSITIES
    BENEDICT S. B. CHAN
    This book provides much new thinking on the phenomenon of whole-person education, a phenomenon which features strongly in East Asian universities, and which aims to develop students intellectually, spiritually, and ethically, to master critical thinking skills, to explore ethical challenges in the surrounding community, and to acquire a broad based foundation of knowledge in hu...

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  • ONLINE TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION DURING COVID-19
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    ONLINE TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION DURING COVID-19
    ROY Y. CHAN
    This timely volume documents the immediate, global impacts of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) on teaching and learning in higher education. Focusing on student and faculty experiences of online and distance education, the text provides reflections on novel initiatives, unexpected challenges, and lessons learned. Responding to the urgent need to better understand online teac...

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  • TEACHING RELIGIOUS LITERACY TO COMBAT RELIGIOUS BULLYING
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    TEACHING RELIGIOUS LITERACY TO COMBAT RELIGIOUS BULLYING
    W. Y. ALICE CHAN
    This text explores the phenomenon of religious bullying as it manifests in two North American contexts and theorizes religious literacy as a viable school-based intervention to promote understanding of religious and non-religious difference. Using substantive, qualitative data from schools and communities in California and Quebec, Teaching Religious Literacy to Combat Religious...

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  • ESTIMATING AND MEASUREMENT FOR SIMPLE BUILDING WORKS IN HONG KONG
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    ESTIMATING AND MEASUREMENT FOR SIMPLE BUILDING WORKS IN HONG KONG
    CAROLINE T. W. CHAN
    This book is an introductory text on building measurement and estimating for simple buildings in Hong Kong, based on the Hong Kong Standard Method of Measurement of Building Works 4th Edition Revised 2018 (HKSMM4 Rev 2018). It provides a toolkit for students and surveying technicians who are new to the subject. This second edition updates the contents in line with the HKSMM4 Re...

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  • HEALTH LAW AND MEDICAL ETHICS IN SINGAPORE
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    HEALTH LAW AND MEDICAL ETHICS IN SINGAPORE
    GARY CHAN KOK YEW
    This book encompasses two inter-related disciplines of health law and medical ethics applicable to Singapore. Apart from Singapore legal materials, it draws upon relevant case precedents and statutory developments from other common law countries and incorporates recommendations and reports by health-related bodies, agencies and committees. The book is written in an accessible m...

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  • CHILDREN OF MIGRANTS IN CHINA
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    CHILDREN OF MIGRANTS IN CHINA
    KAM WING CHAN / YUAN REN
    Children are precious in China especially as its population ages rapidly. The unprecedented fast urbanization and massive internal migration have profoundly changed almost every aspect of society. They have impacted the livelihood of children of migrants most. Because of the hukou system and related policies, China’s internal migrants face major obstacles to assimilate into cit...

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  • CORRUPTION IN INFRASTRUCTURE PROCUREMENT
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    CORRUPTION IN INFRASTRUCTURE PROCUREMENT
    EMMANUEL KINGSFORD OWUSU / ALBERT P.C. CHAN
    This book presents an extensive study on the extant constructs of corruption in infrastructure-related projects and aims to contribute to the determination and elimination of its incidence and prevalence in infrastructure projects. The book conducts a comprehensive examination of the various determining factors of corruption that negatively affect the procurement process and, i...

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  • FEMALE CHINESE BANKERS IN THE ASIA PACIFIC
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    FEMALE CHINESE BANKERS IN THE ASIA PACIFIC
    WAI-WAN VIVIEN CHAN
    This book explores the simultaneous Asianisation and feminisation of mid-level management in the financial services sector in world and global cities in the Asia-Pacific. Chan draws on 50 in-depth interviews with ethnically Chinese female professionals working in middle or upper management positions in Sydney, Hong Kong, Shanghai and four other cities in Australia and China. Sh...

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  • LEGAL TRANSLATION AND BILINGUAL LAW DRAFTING IN HONG KONG
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    LEGAL TRANSLATION AND BILINGUAL LAW DRAFTING IN HONG KONG
    CLARA HO-YAN CHAN
    Legal Translation and Bilingual Law Drafting in Hong Kong presents a systematic account from a cross-disciplinary perspective of the activities of legal translation and bilingual law drafting in the bilingual international city of Hong Kong and its interaction with Mainland China and Taiwan in the use of legal terminology. The study mainly examines the challenges posed to Engli...

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  • CHINESE AMERICAN MASCULINITIES
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    CHINESE AMERICAN MASCULINITIES
    JACHINSON CHAN
    This book is one of the first scholarly analyses of the current social constructions of Chinese American masculinities. Arguing that many of these notions are limited to stereotypes, Chan goes beyond this to present a more complex understanding of the topic. Incorporating historical references, literary analysis and sociological models to describe the construct a variety of mas...

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