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  • ATTRACTION OF KNOWLEDGE CELEBRITIES
    XIAOYU CHEN
    This book examines the phenomenon of knowledge celebrities, an emerging group of social media influencers who produce and sell knowledge products online. Its primary goal is to investigate the reasons and strategies behind their ability to attract users and persuade them to purchase knowledge products on digital platforms. With the increasing demand for high-quality content fro...

    $1,099.00

  • SMART MANUFACTURING FACTORY
    JIAFU WAN / BAOTONG CHEN / SHIYONG WANG
    Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies enable manufacturing systems to sense the environment, adapt to external needs, and extract process knowledge, including business models such as intelligent production, networked collaboration, and extended service models. This book therefore focuses on the implementation of AI in customized manufacturing (CM). The main topics include e...

    $4,000.00

  • ODONTODES
    DONGLEI CHEN
    The odontode system, which encompasses teeth and other dentine-based structures, is ancient. Odontodes are present in the oldest vertebrate fossils, dating back 500 million years, and still play an important role in the anatomy and function of living jawed vertebrates. Fossils preserve odontode tissues with remarkable nanoscale fidelity, allowing the evolution and diversificati...

    $1,339.00

  • MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM DESIGNS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
    BOR-SEN CHEN
    This book introduces multi-objective design methods to solve multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs) of linear/nonlinear dynamic systems under intrinsic random fluctuation and external disturbance. The MOPs of multiple targets for systems are all transformed into equivalent linear matrix inequality (LMI)-constrained MOPs. Corresponding reverse-order LMI-constrained multi-o...

    $1,339.00

  • TECHNOLOGY’S CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS IN K-16 EDUCATION DURING A WORLDWIDE PANDEMIC
    CHEN, LI-TENG
    The book not only provides empirical evidence of challenges faced by educators and learners during COVID-19 but also gives fresh insights on how educators and education administrators may act proactively to prepare for an emergency situation. The school year of 2020 was unlike any other. Globally, the outbreak of COVID-19 impacted leaners and educators in all levels. Many learn...

    $1,339.00

  • THERMAL ENERGY WASTE RECOVERY TECHNOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS
    WEIDONG CHEN / ZHIFENG HUANG / KIAN JON CHUA
    Thermal Energy Waste Recovery Technologies and Systems comprehensively covers thermal energy recovery technologies and systems. It considers thermal sources, working principles, products, application status, prospects, and challenges. In an effort to achieve energy security, carbon neutralization, and sustainable development, this book discusses waste recovery from thermal ener...

    $1,339.00

  • ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO BA JIN
    CHEN CHANG, LIU TIANYI, AND CHEN SIHE
    Exploring the creations of Ba Jin (1904–2005), one of the most significant writers in modern China, this edited volume offers in-depth discussions of the writer and his works from a global perspective to initiate and advance dialogues between the Chinese- and English- speaking scholarly communities. The four sections of the book provide readers with a detailed biography and an ...

    $1,179.00

  • PSEUDO-AUTHENTICITY AND TOURISM
    JESSE OWEN HEARNS-BRANAMAN / ANDY LIHUA CHEN
    This book explores the concept of authenticity in tourism through the analysis of six tourist sites in Guangdong Province and Macau, China. Through a review of tourism literature, it develops the concept of pseudo-authenticity in which tourist sites and cultural products function to give signs of authenticity for tourists. This is achieved through the influence of media, authen...

    $539.00

  • CHINA'S LOW FERTILITY AND THE IMPACTS OF THE TWO-CHILD POLICY
    WEI CHEN
    This book examines China’s fertility transition over the past seven decades and explores the socioeconomic impacts of the two-child policy. The first half of this book highlights the characteristics of China’s low fertility and the risk of falling to an ultra-low state, aiming to answer the question: How China’s fertility is changing and evolving? How low is China’s fertility? ...

    $1,339.00

  • STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING USING R/SAS
    DING-GENG CHEN / YIU-FAI YUNG
    There has been considerable attention to making the methodologies of structural equation modeling available to researchers, practitioners, and students along with commonly used software. Structural Equation Modelling Using R/SAS aims to bring it all together to provide a concise point-of-reference for the most commonly used structural equation modeling from the fundamental leve...

    $2,400.00

  • MINIMAL BRAIN DYSFUNCTION
    PAUL L. NICHOLS / TA-CHUAN CHEN
    The concept of Minimal Brain Dysfunction (a previous term for ADHD) has had a tumultuous, and some would say, checkered history. Originally published in 1981, this title was one of a series of volumes dealing with specific developmental problems in children whose mothers registered for prenatal care in the Collaborative Perinatal Project (NCPP) of the National Institute of Neur...

    $1,339.00

  • ENERGY POLITICS AND DISCOURSE IN CANADA
    SIBO CHEN
    This book examines the discourse around the intricate economic, political, and ideological struggles underlying Canadian fuel extractivism. Focusing on the two contending discourse coalitions formed by supporters and opponents of British Columbia’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry, the book explores the ongoing debates around the issue. The book’s in-depth investigation of ...

    $539.00

  • AUSTRALIA’S PURSUIT OF AN INDEPENDENT FOREIGN POLICY UNDER THE WHITLAM LABOR GOVERNMENT
    CHANGWEI CHEN
    Examining a series of episodes in Australia’s foreign relations under Whitlam, the author pays attention to a broad range of hitherto insufficiently researched domestic and international issues in Australian’s foreign relations of the early 1970s. The election of the Whitlam-led Labor Government in December 1972 ushered in fresh ideas and audacious initiatives in Australia’s fo...

    $1,099.00

  • BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERNITY
    HUI CHEN
    How to deal with the relationship between tradition and modernity has become a global concern under the impact of pluralism. This book explores the relationship between traditional Dai culture and modern school education through a field study in the Dai region of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China. The study analyses the reasons for conflicts between monastic education and modern sch...

    $1,099.00

  • UNDERSTANDING TEACHER LEARNING IN PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES IN CHINA
    LICUI CHEN
    Based on six-month fieldwork in a junior secondary school in Shanghai, this book qualitatively investigates the implementation of Teaching Research Groups (TRGs), a form of school-based Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) in China, and teachers’ different professional learning experiences within the structure of TRGs. The author situates teacher professional learning in TR...

    $1,099.00

  • THE SHAPING OF THE BOOK OF SONGS
    CHEN ZHI
    The present work is a study on the formation of the Shih-ching. The author poses the hypothesis that this collection of poems, as the standard music and literature passed down to later generations, initially incorporated different cultural heritages through a process which moved from ritualization to secularization, as well as standardization to localization. In aiming to find ...

    $2,100.00

  • AGRICULTURAL DIGITIZATION AND ZHONGYONG PHILOSOPHY
    YIYAN CHEN / HOOI HOOI LEAN / YE LI
    This interdisciplinary book combines digital technology with Eastern philosophy to examine how the concept of Zhongyong in Confucianism can be used to coordinate digital technology with sustainable agriculture. Zhongyong comes from the connotation of moderate and sustainable in ancient Chinese culture. It is with this concept in mind that this book presents a novel collaboratio...

    $539.00

  • WELLBEING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    MARCUS A. HENNING / CHRISTIAN U. KRÄGELOH / FIONA MOIR / YAN CHEN / CRAIG S. WEBSTER
    Drawing on holistic research and professional practice, this book provides rich empirical, scientific, and clinical lenses to the discourse on wellbeing in higher education. The authors have appraised the underlying, conceptual, empirical, and applied nature of existing mind-body programmes often utilized to cultivate wellbeing (e.g., seated meditation, yoga, Taijiquan, Pilates...

    $1,099.00

  • STATISTICAL ANALYTICS FOR HEALTH DATA SCIENCE WITH SAS AND R
    JEFFREY WILSON / DING-GENG CHEN / KARL E. PEACE
    This book aims to compile typical fundamental-to-advanced statistical methods to be used for health data sciences. Although the book promotes applications to health and health-related data, the models in the book can be used to analyze any kind of data. The data are analyzed with the commonly used statistical software of R/SAS (with online supplementary on SPSS/Stata). The data...

    $2,000.00

  • CURRERE AND LEGACY IN THE CONTEXT OF FAMILY BUSINESS
    SAMUEL CHEN
    This book presents a new conceptualization of the idea of legacy in a family business setting as an educational experience of teaching and learning between generations. Using the lived experience of the author, it combines autoethnography with a discussion on the influence of Chinese culture on family business and expectations placed on the eldest son, as well as Bill Pinar’s m...

    $1,099.00

  • THE GLOCALIZATION OF EARLY CHILDHOOD CURRICULUM
    PHILIP HUI LI / JENNIFER J. CHEN
    With empirical evidence and theoretical critique, this book unveils the myths and debates (e.g., child-centeredness versus teacher-directedness) about early childhood curricula, revealing their unique social, cultural, and historical roots. Analyzing globally advocated early childhood curricula and ideologies, such as the developmentally appropriate practice, the child-centered...

    $1,099.00

  • BRIDGE ENGINEERING HANDBOOK
    CHEN WAI-FAH
    First Published in 1999: The Bridge Engineering Handbook is a unique, comprehensive, and state-of-the-art reference work and resource book covering the major areas of bridge engineering with the theme "bridge to the 21st century." This third volume includes sections covering construction and maintenance, special topics, and worldwide practice. ...

    $1,439.00

  • FAMILY ANNALS, OR THE SISTERS
    LI-CHING CHEN
    Family Annals, or the Sisters, Mary Hays's last novel, was originally published in 1817. This philosophically complex novel examines the themes of the importance of women's education, economic equality of the sexes, and general equality among all human beings. This edition of Family Annals, with a new introduction and editorial commentary by Li-ching Chen, will be of interest t...

    $1,339.00

  • PRECISE POVERTY ALLEVIATION AND INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY IN CHINA
    CHUNJIN CHEN
    The widening of income and wealth inequality has become one of the most important obstacles on the road to China’s common prosperity. In the context of inequality reduction and anti-poverty strategy in China, this book investigates the complex relationship between education and intergenerational mobility in terms of occupation and income. Based on large-scale social survey data...

    $1,339.00

  • CLASSICAL ANALYSIS
    HONGWEI CHEN
    A conceptually clear induction to fundamental analysis theorems, a tutorial for creative approaches for solving problems, a collection of modern challenging problems, a pathway to undergraduate research—all these desires gave life to the pages here. This book exposes students to stimulating and enlightening proofs and hard problems of classical analysis mainly published in The ...

    $2,000.00

  • THE EVOLUTION OF LAW AGAINST PAYMENT FRAUDS
    CHRISTOPHER CHEN
    This book examines the evolution of legal institutions in containing and tackling fraudulent activities plaguing payment systems (‘payment fraud’, e.g. forged cheques, wrongful payment instructions, etc.) in Asia, focusing on laws in Greater China and Singapore. In the past century, the payment system has invited much innovation, changing the modes of payments from exchanging c...

    $979.00

  • SUPERGRID AND SUPERBLOCK
    XIAOFEI CHEN
    In this superbly illustrated book Xiaofei Chen presents the first analysis in English of a ubiquitous East Asian urban phenomenon: the supergrid and superblock urban structure. The book opens with an introductory essay by Barrie Shelton in which he sets the scene for what is to follow, emphasizing how alien this structure was to Western urban design culture where radial pattern...

    $1,099.00

  • REPRESENTATIONS OF CHILDREN AND SUCCESS IN ASIA
    CHEN, SHIH-WEN SUE AND LAU, SIN WEN
    This edited volume explores how success is conceptualized and represented in texts for young people in Asia. The essays in this collection examine how success for children relates to education, family, gender, race, class, community, and the nation. It answers the following questions: How is success for children represented in literature, cinema, and popular media? In what ways...

    $1,099.00

  • EAST ASIAN PRAGMATICS
    XINREN CHEN
    Most of the innovative and exciting work done by East Asian pragmaticians on their languages, past and present alike, is written and published in local languages. As a result, research published in and about a particular East Asian language has been largely unavailable to those who do not speak the language. The contributors seek to present a comprehensive survey of existing ou...

    $1,099.00

  • FRONTIERS IN MAGNETIC MATERIALS
    CHEN WU / JIAYING JIN
    The book aims to provide comprehensive and practical guidance on magnetism and magnetic materials. It involves four parts, focusing on fundamental magnetism, hard magnetic materials, soft magnetic materials and other functional magnetic materials. Part I highlights the ubiquity of magnetism and the close relationships between magnetic materials and our daily life. Perspectives ...

    $3,600.00