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  • THE INDEPENDENT MEDIA MOVEMENTS IN HONG KONG AND TAIWAN
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    THE INDEPENDENT MEDIA MOVEMENTS IN HONG KONG AND TAIWAN
    LEVON KWOK
    This book examines the independent media movements by Inmediahk and Coolloud – long-established, autonomous media organizations that have agitated for the development of media freedom and human rights in Hong Kong and Taiwan since 2004 and 1997, respectively. Based on direct interviews with the founders and core members of Inmediahk and Coolloud, the author investigates the ori...

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  • SUSTAINABLE NANOMATERIALS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
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    SUSTAINABLE NANOMATERIALS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
    GHASAN FAHIM HUSEIEN / KWOK WEI SHAH
    Sustainable Nanomaterials for the Construction Industry examines applications of sustainable nanomaterials used in the building construction sector. The chapters focus on sustainable construction materials using nanotechnology such as pigments, modified cement, polymer, glass, phase change materials and air purification. • Highlights nanotechnology applications in smart buildin...

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  • PRICING MODELS OF VOLATILITY PRODUCTS AND EXOTIC VARIANCE DERIVATIVES
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    PRICING MODELS OF VOLATILITY PRODUCTS AND EXOTIC VARIANCE DERIVATIVES
    YUE KUEN KWOK / WENDONG ZHENG
    Pricing Models of Volatility Products and Exotic Variance Derivatives summarizes most of the recent research results in pricing models of derivatives on discrete realized variance and VIX. The book begins with the presentation of volatility trading and uses of variance derivatives. It then moves on to discuss the robust replication strategy of variance swaps using portfolio of ...

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  • RECYCLED CERAMICS IN SUSTAINABLE CONCRETE
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    RECYCLED CERAMICS IN SUSTAINABLE CONCRETE
    KWOK WEI SHAH / GHASAN FAHIM HUSEIEN
    Recycled Ceramics in Sustainable Concrete: Properties and Performance explores the use of novel waste materials in the construction industry as sustainable and environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional cement production technologies. It specifically focuses on using waste ceramics as a binder and aggregate replacement for concrete. Includes a lifecycle assessment Des...

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  • THE HONG KONG-GUANGDONG LINK
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    THE HONG KONG-GUANGDONG LINK
    REGINALD YIN-WANG KWOK / ALVIN Y. SO
    This text focuses on the relationship of Hong Kong with the adjacent Chinese province Guangdong, the territories most directly involved in the 1997 transfer of Hong Kong to Chinese rule. The socio-economic, political and cultural impact of this crucial link and the implications for the future of both Hong Kong and China are studied. A multi-disciplinary approach is taken to exa...

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  • CURRENT ECONOMIC PROBLEMS IN CHINA
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    CURRENT ECONOMIC PROBLEMS IN CHINA
    KWOK-KWAN FUNG
    An analysis of the PRC's current economic problems and a critical evaluation of the nation's efforts to solve them, this book brings together papers and speeches by Xue Muqiao, one of China's most prominent economists and one of its key spokesmen for liberal economic reform. Xue addresses such issues as commune and brigade enterprises; employment a ...

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  • CHINESE URBAN REFORM
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    CHINESE URBAN REFORM
    KWOK YIN-WANG
    Based on a 1987 conference on urban development at the Centre for Urban Planning and Development at Hong Kong University. ...

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  • TEACHERS' WORK AND EMOTIONS
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    TEACHERS' WORK AND EMOTIONS
    KWOK KUEN TSANG
    Being a teacher is often thought of as an emotionally fulfilling job, with many positive experiences in watching students grow and mature. However, as Tsang’s research shows, there are plenty of negative emotional experiences in this line of work as well. Given the recent attention towards mental health and well-being, this book addresses these negative experiences and provides...

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  • POLITE POLITICS
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    POLITE POLITICS
    DENNY HO KWOK-LEUNG
    This title was first published in 2000:  This book contributes to social movement theory and to an understanding of Hong Kong politics through analysis of an urban housing protest movement. The theoretical approach adopted is a multi-level one, and seeks to show the influence of the political context, the resources available to the groups concerned, the actors’ interpretations ...

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  • SOUTHERN MIN
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    SOUTHERN MIN
    BIT-CHEE KWOK
    Southern Mǐn refers to a group of Chinese dialects spoken mainly in Southeast China and Taiwan. This group occupies a special position in the study of Chinese dialects, not only because of its large population of speakers (around 48 million) but also because of its preservation of various archaic linguistic features long lost in other dialects. In this book, B.C. Kwok applies t...

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  • DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
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    DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
    KWAN KWOK LEUNG
    This title was first published in 2002.The region of Southeast Asia has been one of the focal points for study in academic circles. Most of the studies concentrate on the economic development but social development received relatively lesser attention. The region has undergone a period of rapid transition and development in various aspects, such as education, social security, p...

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  • PASSIVE HOUSE DETAILS
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    PASSIVE HOUSE DETAILS
    DONALD CORNER / JAN FILLINGER / ALISON KWOK
    Passive House Details introduces the concepts, principles, and design processes of building ultralow-energy buildings. The objective of this book is to provide design goals, research, analysis, systems, details, and inspiring images of some of the most energy-efficient, carbon-neutral, healthy, and satisfying buildings currently built in the region. Other topics included: heat ...

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  • ACCOUNTING IRREGULARITIES IN FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
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    ACCOUNTING IRREGULARITIES IN FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
    BENNY K.B. KWOK
    Accounting irregularities are at the heart of those kinds of frauds that hit financial statements and include misstatement, misclassification as well as misrepresentation. In essence, they involve manipulation of accounting data, description or disclosure in order to distort the true financial picture of the organization in question. This book provides an in-depth practical r...

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  • ADVANCES IN PULMONARY DRUG DELIVERY
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    ADVANCES IN PULMONARY DRUG DELIVERY
    PHILIP CHI LIP KWOK AND HAK-KIM CHAN
    The respiratory tract has been used to deliver biologically active chemicals into the human body for centuries. However, the lungs are complex in their anatomy and physiology, which poses challenges to drug delivery. Inhaled formulations are generally more sophisticated than those for oral and parenteral administration. Pulmonary drug development is therefore a highly specializ...

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  • LEARNING TO TEACH SMALL CLASSES
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    LEARNING TO TEACH SMALL CLASSES
    MAURICE GALTON / KWOK CHAN LAI / KAM WING CHAN
    The justification for smaller classes has traditionally been that students can receive more individual attention and be provided with a curriculum that promotes student centred learning. However, in Asia where student engagement is generally over 90% in primary school classrooms, the focus of smaller classes is for teachers to increase the quality of their teaching, building on...

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  • CHINESE ENTERTAINMENT
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    CHINESE ENTERTAINMENT
    CHAN, KWOK-BUN
    Scholarly studies of Chinese culture, history and society, both within and outside of China, generally pay little attention to leisure, entertainment and amusement, though it has long been known that this aspect of life gives a deep understanding of the psyche and soul, and the hopes and fears, of a person. Leisure is a less coerced-upon, mandatory human conduct than work; cert...

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  • SOCIOLINGUISTICS TODAY (RLE LINGUISTICS C: APPLIED LINGUISTICS)
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    SOCIOLINGUISTICS TODAY (RLE LINGUISTICS C: APPLIED LINGUISTICS)
    BOLTON, KINGSLEY / KWOK, HELEN
    This collection of essays developed out of a conference held in Hong Kong in 1988. The aim was to provide a forum for an exchange of views between academics working within the field of sociolinguistics, in particular between those working in the West and those working in the East. Sociolinguistics Today has taken this aim a step further to produce an overview of contemporary re...

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  • CHILDREN AND COMPUTERS IN SCHOOL
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    CHILDREN AND COMPUTERS IN SCHOOL
    BETTY A. COLLIS / GERALD A. KNEZEK / KWOK-WING LAI / KEIKO T. MIYASHITA / WILLEM J. PELGRUM
    This volume integrates research findings from three multinational studies conducted to examine the impact of children's use of computers in school. Conclusions are drawn from in-depth analyses of trends in more than 20 nations. Its seven authors from four nations were key researchers on these projects. Both a study and a product of the information age, this work is of prime imp...

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  • HYBRID HONG KONG
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    HYBRID HONG KONG
    CHAN, KWOK-BUN
    Hybrid Hong Kong attempts to attract and excite the intellectual, cultural, economic and political elites as well as the intelligent laymen of Hong Kong - hopefully enough for them to take a closer look at their society - while engendering a public discourse on the city's identity, its past, present and future. Hong Kong is at its crossroads. With a colonial past and having bee...

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  • PEER-TO-PEER COMPUTING
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    PEER-TO-PEER COMPUTING
    YU-KWONG RICKY KWOK
    While people are now using peer-to-peer (P2P) applications for various processes, such as file sharing and video streaming, many research and engineering issues still need to be tackled in order to further advance P2P technologies. Peer-to-Peer Computing: Applications, Architecture, Protocols, and Challenges provides comprehensive theoretical and practical coverage of the major...

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  • ECONOMIC CONVERGENCE IN GREATER CHINA
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    ECONOMIC CONVERGENCE IN GREATER CHINA
    CHUN KWOK LEI / SHUJIE YAO
    Although China's economy has grown very rapidly in recent decades, there are still very large differences between the economy of mainland China and the economies of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. For example, per capita income in Hong Kong is many, many times higher than per capita income in mainland China. This book considers the degree to which economic convergence between main...

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  • GLOBALIZING TAIPEI
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    GLOBALIZING TAIPEI
    KWOK, REGINALD
    Taipei's quest to become a global city is the key to its urban development. Globalizing Taipei looks at this "Asian Dragon", a major city in the South China Growth Triangle and a centre for transnational production, revealing how the development of this capital has received firm state support but is conditioned by international and domestic politics. The book is divided into fo...

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  • CHINESE IDENTITIES, ETHNICITY AND COSMOPOLITANISM
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    CHINESE IDENTITIES, ETHNICITY AND COSMOPOLITANISM
    KWOK BUN CHAN
    Drawing upon wide-ranging case study material, the book explores the ever-changing personal and cultural identity of Chinese migrants and the diverse cosmopolitan communities they create. The various models of newly-forged communities are examined with the added dimension of personal identity and the individual's place in society. With particular emphasis on the changing face o...

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  • MIGRATION, ETHNIC RELATIONS AND CHINESE BUSINESS
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    MIGRATION, ETHNIC RELATIONS AND CHINESE BUSINESS
    KWOK-BUN CHAN
    Incorporating research carried out over the last twenty years, this book documents the personal and collective responses of Chinese migrants and refugees to the prejudice and discrimination they have experienced. Using case studies of Chinese communities in Canada, Chan explores the different defence mechanisms Chinese migrants have created in order to escape the systemic and i...

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  • NETWORK SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES
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    NETWORK SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES
    KWOK T. FUNG
    Network Security Technologies, Second Edition presents key security technologies from diverse fields, using a hierarchical framework that enables understanding of security components, how they relate to one another, and how they interwork. The author delivers a unique presentation of major legacy, state-of-the-art, and emerging network security tec ...

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  • DETECTION TECHNOLOGIES FOR CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS AND TOXIC VAPORS
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    DETECTION TECHNOLOGIES FOR CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS AND TOXIC VAPORS
    YIN SUN / KWOK Y. ONG
    While it is not possible to predict � or necessarily prevent � terrorist incidents in which chemical warfare agents (CWAs) and toxic industrial chemicals (TICs) are deployed, correctly chosen, fast, and reliable detection equipment will allow prepared rescue workers to respond quickly and minimize potential casualties.Detection Technologies ...

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  • THE GREEN STUDIO HANDBOOK
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    THE GREEN STUDIO HANDBOOK
    ALISON G. KWOK / WALTER T. GRONDZIK / TOM HAHN
    Making the complexities of green architecture accessible to the design studio, The Green Studio Handbook remains a must-read for current and future architects. The heart of this book provides 43 comprehensive design strategies covering the building envelope, lighting, heating, cooling, energy and electricity, and water and waste – each with a description, key architectural issu...

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  • OUR BEST LIFE BEFORE THE BEST LIFE
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    OUR BEST LIFE BEFORE THE BEST LIFE
    BARNABAS KWOK / ALLIE KWOK
    What are the odds of a city boy meeting an island girl thousands of miles away for marriage? This isn't your typical boy-meets-girl story. Rather, it's more of a boy-meets-God and girl-meets-God story . . . and the two opposites end up meeting and marrying through God. Written from the perspectives of both the boy and girl, Our Best Life before the Best Life captures the real s...

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  • NARRATIVE AND THE TRIUNE REALITY
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    NARRATIVE AND THE TRIUNE REALITY
    WAI LUEN KWOK
    Robert Jenson is commended as one of the greatest American theologians in the twentieth century. This book proposes a critique of Jenson's narrative Trinitarianism by comparing it with Eberhard Jungel's theology. It argues for the importance of the double dimensions of event and communicative-linguistics of the Divine narrative. ...

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  • SOLIDOS LIQUIDOS Y GASES
    SOLIDOS LIQUIDOS Y GASES
    YOUNG JIK, KWOK
    Una materia firme que conserva su aspecto se llama sólido. La que tiene volumen pero no una forma constante se llama líquido. Aquella que tiene un volumen variable y no posee apariencia fija, que flota en derredor se llama gas. El cuerpo de las personas contiene los tres y en el resto del planeta también se les encuentra. Pueden convertirse una en otra: el agua líquido, cuando ...
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