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  • POLYAMIDE THIN FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANES FOR WATER APPLICATIONS
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    POLYAMIDE THIN FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANES FOR WATER APPLICATIONS
    YING SIEW KHOO / JIA ZHENG OOR / WOEI JYE LAU / JIA WEI CHEW
    The global market for polymeric membranes used in water and wastewater treatment is experiencing robust growth, with polyamide (PA) thin film composite (TFC) membranes dominating reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF) processes. This monograph presents the latest trends in characterization techniques for PA TFC membranes and provides the most current and relevant informat...

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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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  • MAPPING THE POSTHUMAN
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    MAPPING THE POSTHUMAN
    GRANT HAMILTON AND CAROLYN LAU
    This book works to delineate some of the major routes by which science and art intersect. Structured according to the origin myths of the posthuman that continue to shape the idea of the human in our technological modernity, this volume gives space to narratives of alter-modernity that resonate with Ursula K. Le Guin’s call for a new kind of story which exposes the violence and...

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  • LEARNING DATA SCIENCE
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    LEARNING DATA SCIENCE
    SAM LAU / JOSEPH GONZALEZ / DEBORAH NOLAN
    As an aspiring data scientist, you appreciate why organizations rely on data for important decisions--whether it's for companies designing websites, cities deciding how to improve services, or scientists discovering how to stop the spread of disease. And you want the skills required to distill a messy pile of data into actionable insights. We call this the data science lifecycl...

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  • THE METAVERSE ECONOMY
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    THE METAVERSE ECONOMY
    ARUNKUMAR KRISHNAKUMAR / THEODORA LAU
    WINNER: 2024 International Book Awards - Business: Technology WINNER: NYC Big Book Awards 2024 - Technology The Metaverse Economy equips fintech professionals with an in-depth understanding of the emergent economic models in the Metaverse and across Web3. In this book, fintech and metaverse experts Arun Krishnakumar and Theodora Lau help technology and financial services profes...

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  • POSTHUMAN SUBJECTIVITY IN THE NOVELS OF J.G. BALLARD
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    POSTHUMAN SUBJECTIVITY IN THE NOVELS OF J.G. BALLARD
    CAROLYN LAU
    This book proposes that Ballard’s novels extrapolate the formation of a posthuman subjectivity that is centred around an affirmative understanding of what a human body can do. This new subjectivity transforms constraints and prescribed desires into creative openings in a hyper-mediated control society that conditions docile bodies through technology and consumerism. Set in surr...

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  • REPRESENTATIONS OF CHILDREN AND SUCCESS IN ASIA
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    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...

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  • RESPONDING TO MASS ATROCITIES IN AFRICA
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    RESPONDING TO MASS ATROCITIES IN AFRICA
    RAYMOND KWUN-SUN LAU
    This book explores the relationship between the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the International Criminal Court (ICC), challenging the assumption that they are always mutually reinforcing or complementary, and examining instead the many tensions which arise between the immediate imperative of saving lives, and the more long-term prospect of punishing perpetrators and preve...

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  • MEDICINAL PLANTS AND MUSHROOMS OF YUNNAN PROVINCE OF CHINA
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    MEDICINAL PLANTS AND MUSHROOMS OF YUNNAN PROVINCE OF CHINA
    CLARA BIK-SAN LAU AND CHUN-LIN LONG
    Although many texts describe plants from China, the focus of this book is to draw on the rich culture and environment of medicinal plants and fungi/mushrooms of Yunnan Province. In fact, Yunnan Province covers two global hotspots of biodiversity, with the richest biological and cultural diversity in China. In particular, the Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB) of the Chinese Acad...

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  • BEYOND GOOD
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    BEYOND GOOD
    THEODORA LAU / BRADLEY LEIMER
    When we think of global corporations and business in general, do we feel pride in how we do things? Are we doing enough, given the undeniable reality of global climate change and the inequality faced by millions of people every day? Beyond Good is a call to arms for business leaders to recognize how they can do well by doing good. Business for good, which is the philosophy that...

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  • BUEN VIVIR AND THE CHALLENGES TO CAPITALISM IN LATIN AMERICA
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    BUEN VIVIR AND THE CHALLENGES TO CAPITALISM IN LATIN AMERICA
    HENRY VELTMEYER / ‎EDGAR ZAYAGO LAU
    This book explores the battleground between neoliberal capitalist development processes in Latin America and the challenges to these systems that can be found through innovative community-driven buen vivir/vivir bien initiatives. In the current climate of worldwide capitalist development, Latin America is caught between left-leaning proposals for progressive policies towards a ...

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  • MODERN DIGITAL HALFTONING
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    MODERN DIGITAL HALFTONING
    DANIEL L. LAU / GONZALO R. ARCE
    The late 1980s, revolutionary advances in digital halftoning enabled inkjet printers to achieve much higher image fidelity. The rapid rate of progress has resulted in numerous breakthroughs scattered throughout the literature, rendering old technologies obsolete and renewing the need for a centralized source on the current state of the art. Entirely revised and updated, Modern ...

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  • BUSINESS ANALYTICS FOR DECISION MAKING
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    BUSINESS ANALYTICS FOR DECISION MAKING
    STEVEN ORLA KIMBROUGH / HOONG CHUIN LAU
    Business Analytics for Decision Making, the first complete text suitable for use in introductory Business Analytics courses, establishes a national syllabus for an emerging first course at an MBA or upper undergraduate level. This timely text is mainly about model analytics, particularly analytics for constrained optimization. It uses implementations that allow students to expl...

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  • BUSINESS ANALYTICS FOR DECISION MAKING
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    BUSINESS ANALYTICS FOR DECISION MAKING
    STEVEN ORLA KIMBROUGH / HOONG CHUIN LAU
    Business Analytics for Decision Making, the first complete text suitable for use in introductory Business Analytics courses, establishes a national syllabus for an emerging first course at an MBA or upper undergraduate level. This timely text is mainly about model analytics, particularly analytics for constrained optimization. It uses implementations that allow students to expl...

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  • ADVANCED MATERIALS FOR MEMBRANE FABRICATION AND MODIFICATION
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    ADVANCED MATERIALS FOR MEMBRANE FABRICATION AND MODIFICATION
    STEPHEN GRAY, TOSHINORI TSURU, YORAM COHEN AND WOEI-JYE LAU
    Membranes are an energy efficient separation technology that are now the basis for many water treatment and food processing applications. However, there is the potential to improve the operating performance of these separations and to extend the application of membranes to energy production, gas separations, organic solvent-based separations, and biomedical applications through...

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  • SOFT SOIL ENGINEERING
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    SOFT SOIL ENGINEERING
    C.F. LEE, C.K. LAU, C.W.W. NG, A.K. KWONG, P.L.R. PANG, J.-H. YIN & Z.Q. YUE
    This volume contains seven keynote lectures and over 100 technical contributions by scientists, researchers, engineers and students from more than 25 countries and regions worldwide on the subject of soft soil engineering. ...

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  • JANE AUSTEN AND SCIENCES OF THE MIND
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    JANE AUSTEN AND SCIENCES OF THE MIND
    BETH LAU
    The essays in this volume interpret Jane Austen’s fiction through the lens of various sciences of the mind and brain, especially the cluster of disciplines implicated in the term cognitive science, including neuroscience, evolutionary biology, evolutionary and developmental psychology, and others. The field of cognitive literary studies has rapidly developed in the last few dec...

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  • TEACHING COMPUTING IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
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    TEACHING COMPUTING IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
    WILLIAM LAU
    This book provides a step-by-step guide to teaching computing at secondary level. It offers an entire framework for planning and delivering the curriculum and shows you how to create a supportive environment for students in which all can enjoy computing. The focus throughout is on giving students the opportunity to think, program, build and create with confidence and imaginatio...

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  • RELIGION AND MOBILITY IN A GLOBALISING ASIA
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    RELIGION AND MOBILITY IN A GLOBALISING ASIA
    SINWEN LAU
    This volume examines the dynamic, mutually constitutive, relationship between religion and mobility in the contemporary era of Asian globalisation in which an increasing number of people have been displaced, forcefully or voluntarily, by an expanding global market economy and lasting regional political strife. Seven case studies provide up-to-date ethnographic perspectives on t...

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  • NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES
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    NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES
    LAU WOEI JYE / AHMAD FAUZI ISMAIL
    Covering fabrication, characterization, and applications nanofiltration (NF) membranes, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of NF membrane technology over the past decade. It uniquely covers a variety of fabrication techniques, comparing the procedures of each technique to produce polymeric membranes of different morphologies. The book also discusses ...

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  • NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES
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    NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES
    LAU WOEI JYE / AHMAD FAUZI ISMAIL
    Covering fabrication, characterization, and applications nanofiltration (NF) membranes, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of NF membrane technology over the past decade. It uniquely covers a variety of fabrication techniques, comparing the procedures of each technique to produce polymeric membranes of different morphologies. The book also discusses ...

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  • FELLOW ROMANTICS
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    FELLOW ROMANTICS
    BETH LAU
    Beginning with the premise that men and women of the Romantic period were lively interlocutors who participated in many of the same literary traditions and experiments, Fellow Romantics offers an inspired counterpoint to studies of Romantic-era women writers that stress their differences from their male contemporaries. As they advance the work of scholars who have questioned bi...

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  • AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANCASH
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    AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANCASH
    GEORGE LAU
    An Archaeology of Ancash is a well–illustrated synthesis of the archaeology of North Central Peru, and specifically the stone structures of the Ancash region. All the major cultures of highland Ancash built impressive monuments, with no other region of South America showing such an early and continuous commitment to stone carving. Drawing on Lau’s extensive experience as an arc...

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  • COMMUNITY HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
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    COMMUNITY HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
    VICTOR DE LA CANCELA / JEAN LAU CHIN / YVONNE JENKINS
    As the number of people of color rapidly grows within the US population, health providers in these communities have become increasingly aware of the need to address the concerns and problems particular to each group. It's also become clear that as the delivery of our health care systems evolve, a new approach must be summoned to build systems both cost-effective and socially re...

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  • BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF CHINESE WOMEN: V. 1: THE QING PERIOD, 1644-1911
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    BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF CHINESE WOMEN: V. 1: THE QING PERIOD, 1644-1911
    LILY XIAO HONG LEE / CLARA LAU / A.D. STEFANOWSKA
    The first biographical dictionary in any Western language devoted solely to Chinese women, this reference is the product of years of research, translation, and writing by a team of over 60 China scholars from around the world. Compiled from a wide array of original sources, these detailed biographies present the lives, work, and significance of more than 200 Chinese women from ...

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  • SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSIS AND STABILIZATION
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    SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSIS AND STABILIZATION
    Y. M. CHENG / C. K. LAU
    Includes Recommendations for Analysis, Design Practice, Design Charts, Tables, and MoreUsing a unified approach to address a medley of engineering and construction problems, Slope Stability Analysis and Stabilization: New Methods and Insight, Second Edition provides helpful practical advice and design resources for the practicing engineer. This tex ...

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  • FUNCTIONAL EQUATIONS IN PROBABILITY THEORY
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    FUNCTIONAL EQUATIONS IN PROBABILITY THEORY
    RAMACHANDRAN BALASUBRAHMANYAN / KA-SING LAU
    Functional Equations in Probability Theory deals with functional equations in probability theory and covers topics ranging from the integrated Cauchy functional equation (ICFE) to stable and semistable laws. The problem of identical distribution of two linear forms in independent and identically distributed random variables is also considered, with particular reference to the c...

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  • MANAGING SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL POLICY IN GREATER CHINA
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    MANAGING SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL POLICY IN GREATER CHINA
    MOK, KA-HO / LAU, MAGGIE K. W.
    East Asia is at the heart of the global economic transformation, and the countries of the region are witnessing rapidly changing labour markets, alongside the pressure to cut production costs and lower taxes in order to become successful ‘competition states’. These changes have resulted in increased welfare demands which governments, organizations and agencies across the region...

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  • POPULAR MUSIC IN EVANGELICAL YOUTH CULTURE
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    POPULAR MUSIC IN EVANGELICAL YOUTH CULTURE
    STELLA LAU
    Christian churches and groups within Anglo-American contexts have increasingly used popular music as a way to connect with young people. This book investigates the relationships between evangelical Christianity and popular music, focusing particularly on electronic dance music in the last twenty years. Author Stella Lau illustrates how electronic dance music is legitimized in e...

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  • ANCIENT ALTERITY IN THE ANDES
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    ANCIENT ALTERITY IN THE ANDES
    GEORGE F. LAU
    Ancient Alterity in the Andes is the first major treatment on ancient alterity: how people in the past regarded others. At least since the 1970s, alterity has been an influential concept in different fields, from art history, psychology and philosophy, to linguistics and ethnography. Having gained steam in concert with postmodernism’s emphasis on self-reflection and discourse, ...

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