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  • CALIBRATING COASTAL RESILIENCE
    SONIA R CHÁO
    Calibrating Coastal Resilience presents a conceptual reimagining of place in the era of climate change. The urban terroir framework introduced by the authors offers a holistic, data-driven approach to assessing vulnerabilities in the built environment and in designing cities. Inspired by the hyperlocal relationships between humans, cultural traditions, and urban and natural con...

    $1,620.00

  • EXPLORING SINOPHONE LIMINALITY IN CONTEMPORARY CHINESE FICTION
    DI-KAI CHAO
    Chao explores Sinophone literature as a complex field that navigates the intersections of Sinitic languages, global literary systems, and China-centered perspectives. He presents an alternative perspective that Sinophone literature, especially through ghost narratives, offers a platform for communities to critically examine modernity, transgress boundaries, and challenge episte...

    $1,240.00

  • ADVANCED UNSATURATED SOIL MECHANICS
    CHARLES W.W. NG / CHAO ZHOU / JUNJUN NI
    Unsaturated soil is a three-phase material that is ubiquitous on the Earth’s surface and exhibits complex behaviour, which becomes more complex in response to the Earth’s changing climate and increasing engineering activities. This is because the former affects its moisture and temperature conditions significantly and the latter governs its stress state and suction condition. T...

    $4,500.00

  • DOMAIN-SPECIFIC COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES FOR EMERGING APPLICATIONS
    CHAO WANG
    With the end of Moore’s Law, domain-specific architecture (DSA) has become a crucial mode of implementing future computing architectures. This book discusses the system-level design methodology of DSAs and their applications, providing a unified design process that guarantees functionality, performance, energy efficiency, and real-time responsiveness for the target application....

    $1,280.00

  • THE POWER OF DATA
    ZHANG CHAO
    This book is a theoretical work on data journalism production that drills down the models, narratives, and ethics. From idea to concept and then to a widespread innovative trend, data journalism has become a new global paradigm, facilitating the transformation to focus on data, convergence, and intelligence. Drawing on various theoretical resources of communication, narratology...

    $1,140.00

  • POLICY STRATEGY AND INNOVATION PRIMER
    CHARLES CHAO RONG PHUA
    Phua focuses on applying the best of corporate strategy and innovation tools and praxis into the policy process with the aim of devising a coherent policy strategy–innovation framework and process. Government and business strategies differ in their operating assumptions and variables, but the strategy process is more similar than is often perceived. Phua debunks the government ...

    $1,060.00

  • CULTURAL PRAGMATISM FOR US-CHINA RELATIONS
    CHARLES CHAO RONG PHUA
    The Thucydides trap and a US-China face-off are not structurally inevitable; US-China relations are what the US and China make of them. Phua focuses on the ability to see "US as US" and "China as China" to trigger both countries’ cultural tendencies towards pragmatism. Phua examines China’s arduous journey to fit in the Westphalian system, the deep cultural misunderstandings by...

    $1,100.00

  • ULTRA-DENSE HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS
    WEN SUN / QUBEIJIAN WANG / NAN ZHAO / HAIBIN ZHANG / CHAO SHEN / LAWRENCE WAI-CHOONG WONG
    Driven by the ever-increasing amount of mobile data, cellular networks evolve from small cell network to ultra-dense heterogeneous networks, to provide high system capacity and spectrum efficiency. By bringing base stations (BSs) to the approximate spatial scale and number magnitude, ultra-dense heterogeneous networks would definitely bring unprecedented paradigm changes to the...

    $1,260.00

  • HOW TO COOK AND EAT IN CHINESE
    BUWEI YANG CHAO
    The beloved classic—now back in print. A gold mine of simple and authentic Chinese cuisine that's a must-have for everyone who loves delicious food. Let these glowing reviews tell you how this old-school cookbook revealed the secrets of Chinese cooking and culture and made itself at home in 20th-century American households . . . "Something novel in the way of a cookbook . . . [...

    $229.00

  • ADAPTING DERMAL FILLERS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
    YATES YEN-YU CHAO
    There have been many different brands of dermal fillers approved for use for soft tissue augmentation in the US market alone, comprising four different types of temporary fillers and one permanent type, with several other brands and types also available elsewhere in the world. Against such a potentially bewildering variety and range of choices, this new text offers a scientific...

    $4,500.00

  • OPTIMIZING AESTHETIC TOXIN RESULTS
    YATES YEN-YU CHAO
    Botulinum toxin injections are the most used and best-known aesthetic treatment internationally, but there remain a number of problematic topics and suboptimal results. Here an internationally known expert and his contributors explain the scientific background and aesthetic principles that can help clinicians achieve better results in problem cases. ...

    $3,200.00

  • CHINESE TRADITIONAL THEATRE AND MALE DAN
    GUO CHAO
    This book examines male dan, a male actor who performs female roles in Chinese theatre. Through the rise, fall and tenuous survival of male dan in Chinese history, Guo Chao reflects the transformations in the social zeitgeist in China, especially the politics of gender and sexuality. The breadth of this study reflects a diversified set of sources, ranging from classical to cont...

    $1,160.00

  • ORAL EPIC TRADITIONS IN CHINA AND BEYOND
    CHAO GEJIN
    This volume is the masterpiece of Chao Gejin, one of the best-known Chinese scholars of epic studies, during the last several decades between the 20th and 21st centuries. The discussion ranges from Homeric and Indo-European epics to renewed discoveries of age-old African and Asian epics. The author details developments in research from Parry and Lord’s work on Homeric epics and...

    $1,160.00

  • TOWARDS STRATEGIC PRAGMATISM IN FOREIGN POLICY
    CHARLES CHAO RONG PHUA
    What is pragmatism? Is it a means to an end, or an end in itself? Is it antithetical to ideology or morality? Arguing that pragmatism is a skill much more than an attribute, Phua examines how viewing it in this way can help achieve better foreign policy outcomes. He examines and contrasts the ways in which the United States, China and Singapore have incorporated pragmatism into...

    $1,160.00

  • SUSTAINABLE SOIL AND LAND MANAGEMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE
    SHAH FAHAD, OSMAN SONMEZ, SHAH SAUD, DEPENG WANG, CHAO WU, MUHAMMAD ADNAN, VEYSEL TURAN
    The third volume of Sustainable Soil and Land Management and Climate Change presents a complete overview of plant soil interactions in a climate affected by greenhouse gas emissions and organic carbon. It presents approaches and managements strategies for the stabilization of soil organic matter. The latest in the respected Footprints of Climate Variability on Plant Diversity s...

    $4,500.00

  • ROBOT LEARNING HUMAN SKILLS AND INTELLIGENT CONTROL DESIGN
    CHENGUANG YANG / CHAO ZENG / JIANWEI ZHANG
    In the last decades robots are expected to be of increasing intelligence to deal with a large range of tasks. Especially, robots are supposed to be able to learn manipulation skills from humans. To this end, a number of learning algorithms and techniques have been developed and successfully implemented for various robotic tasks. Among these methods, learning from demonstrations...

    $1,360.00

  • SKINCARE FOR YOUR SOUL
    JUDE CHAO
    The Korean skin care guide that "feels like talking with a trusted friend, one so generous with practical advice and wisdom" (Dr. Erin Tababa-Santos, creator of The Nerdy Derma). Have you always longed for that fresh, glowing, no-makeup look? With this step-by-step guide to Korean skincare routines, anyone can attain healthy skin. But Skincare for Your Soul takes it one step fu...

    $251.00

  • QUANTITATIVE BIOIMAGING
    RAIMUND J. OBER / E. SALLY WARD / JERRY CHAO
    Quantitative bioimaging is a broad interdisciplinary field that exploits tools from biology, chemistry, optics, and statistical data analysis for the design and implementation of investigations of biological processes. Instead of adopting the traditional approach of focusing on just one of the component disciplines, this textbook provides a unique introduction to quantitative b...

    $1,420.00

  • COMPUTATIONAL ADVERTISING
    PENG LIU / CHAO WANG
    This book introduces computational advertising, and Internet monetization. It provides a macroscopic understanding of how consumer products in the Internet era push user experience and monetization to the limit. Part One of the book focuses on the basic problems and background knowledge of online advertising. Part Two targets the product, operations, and sales staff, as well as...

    $1,280.00

  • REPRESENTATION AND STRUCTURE IN ECONOMICS
    HSIANG-KE CHAO
    This book provides a methodological perspective on understanding the essential roles of econometric models in the theory and practice. Offering a comprehensive and comparative exposition of the accounts of models in both econometrics and philosophy of science, this work shows how econometrics and philosophy of science are interconnected while exploring the methodological insigh...

    $1,320.00

  • COOPERATIVE LOCALIZATION AND NAVIGATION
    CHAO GAO
    This book captures the latest results and techniques for cooperative localization and navigation drawn from a broad array of disciplines. It provides the reader with a generic and comprehensive view of modeling, strategies, and state estimation methodologies in that fields. It discusses the most recent research and novel advances in that direction, exploring the design of algor...

    $1,380.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF CHINESE LANGUAGE TEACHING
    CHRIS SHEI / MONICA MCLELLAN ZIKPI / DER-LIN CHAO
    The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language Teaching defines Chinese language teaching in a pedagogical, historical, and contemporary context. Throughout the volume, teaching methods are discussed, including the traditional China-based approach, and Western methods such as communicative teaching and the immersion program. The Handbook also presents a pedagogical model covering p...

    $1,340.00

  • SUN YAT-SEN'S DOCTRINE IN THE MODERN WORLD
    CHU-YUAN CHENG / HUNG-CHAO TAI / HAROLD Z SCHIFFRIN / YU-LONG LING
    This volume focuses on Sun Yat-sen's social, political, and economic ideas as seen in his major work, The Three Principles of the People, which discusses nationalism, democracy, and people's welfare, examining his doctrines as well as a his ideas with other contemporary ideologies. ...

    $1,000.00

  • THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHINESE COLLECTION IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
    SHU CHAO HU
    This is the first comprehensive and in-depth study of the Chinese collection in the Library of Congress, the largest collection of its kind in the Western world. Started in 1869 with some 950 books received in the first exhange of publications between the United States and China, the collection has grown so steadily that in 1977 it numbered more than 430,000 volumes, including ...

    $1,160.00

  • THE GOVERNMENT OF CHINA, 1644-1911
    PAO CHAO HSIEH
    This volume, first published in 1925, presents a clear background to the then-contemporary political situation in China, and in doing so sheds much light on the history of Chinese politics. In focusing on the political organization it generates an insightful study of Chinese government. ...

    $980.00

  • ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY
    PEI KANG SHEN, CHAO-YANG WANG, SAN PING JIANG, XUELIANG SUN AND JIUJUN ZHANG
    Electrochemical Energy: Advanced Materials and Technologies covers the development of advanced materials and technologies for electrochemical energy conversion and storage. The book was created by participants of the International Conference on Electrochemical Materials and Technologies for Clean Sustainable Energy (ICES-2013) held in Guangzhou, China, and incorporates select p...

    $2,540.00

  • SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS
    RAVINDRA K. DHIR OBE / JORGE DE BRITO / GURMEL S. GHATAORA / CHAO QUN LYE
    This book is the fourth, in the series of five, on sustainable construction materials and like the previous three, it is also different to the norm. Its uniqueness lies in using the newly developed, Analytical Systemisation Method, in building the data-matrix sourced from 751 publications, contributed by 1402 authors from 513 institutions in 51 countries, from 1970 to 2017, on ...

    $3,323.00

  • CMOS PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
    HENRY RADAMSON / EDDY SIMOEN / JUN LUO / CHAO ZHAO
    CMOS Past, Present and Future provides insight from the basics, to the state-of-the-art of CMOS processing and electrical characterization, including the integration of Group IV semiconductors-based photonics. The book goes into the pitfalls and opportunities associated with the use of hetero-epitaxy on silicon with strain engineering and the integration of photonics and high-m...

    $2,659.00

  • HARD DISK DRIVE
    ABDULLAH AL MAMUN / GUOXIAO GUO / CHAO BI
    The hard disk drive is one of the finest examples of the precision control of mechatronics, with tolerances less than one micrometer achieved while operating at high speed. Increasing demand for higher data density as well as disturbance-prone operating environments continue to test designers' mettle. Explore the challenges presented by modern hard disk drives and learn how to ...

    $1,600.00

  • PLANNING FOR GREYING CITIES
    TZU-YUAN STESSA CHAO
    Planning for Greying Cities: Age-Friendly City Planning and Design Research and Practice highlights how modern town planning and design act as a positive force for population ageing, taking on these challenges from a user-oriented perspective. Although often related to 'healthy city' concepts, the contexts of age-friendly cities and communities (AFCC) were not emphasized until ...

    $1,260.00


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