Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: leung

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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...

    $1,140.00

  • DATA SCIENCE AND RISK ANALYTICS IN FINANCE AND INSURANCE
    TZE LEUNG LAI / HAIPENG XING
    This book presents statistics and data science methods for risk analytics in quantitative finance and insurance. Part I covers the background, financial models, and data analytical methods for market risk, credit risk, and operational risk in financial instruments, as well as models of risk premium and insolvency in insurance contracts. Part II provides an overview of machine l...

    $2,000.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO ENGLISH STUDIES
    LEUNG, CONSTANT
    English is now a global phenomenon no longer defined by fixed territorial, cultural and social functions. The Routledge Companion to English Studies provides an overview of this dynamic field of study, with this new edition focusing on English from an applied language perspective and taking account of interdisciplinary and decolonizing viewpoints. This companion considers histo...

    $1,380.00

  • HOW TO MANAGE AND SURVIVE DURING A GLOBAL CRISIS
    PIYUSH SHARMA / TAK YAN LEUNG
    Sharma and Leung explore the differences in the national and organizational responses to COVID-19 across various countries. The COVID-19 global pandemic is possibly the worst healthcare disaster ever, and recent studies highlight several differences in the response to COVID-19. Some countries acted quickly with strict measures to successfully contain the initial spread of the C...

    $1,240.00

  • HAEMATOLOGY AND THE ASIAN PATIENT
    ANSKAR Y.H. LEUNG / EDMOND S K MA
    Haematology encompasses a broad range of topics ranging from common and relatively benign conditions such as iron deficiency anaemia, hereditary diseases such as thalassaemia, to haematological malignancies that are often life-threatening. Burgeoning information arising from technological advances in recent years has made these subjects particularly challenging for medical stud...

    $1,440.00

  • CURBSIDE CONSULTATION IN ENDOSCOPY
    JOSEPH LEUNG / SIMON K. LO
    Curbside Consultation in Endoscopy: 49 Clinical Questions has been updated into a Second Edition! The Second Edition contains new questions and is completely updated! Curbside Consultation in Endoscopy: 49 Clinical Questions, Second Edition contains new questions and brief, practical, and evidence-based answers to the most frequently asked questions that are posed during a “cur...

    $2,800.00

  • 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...

    $1,360.00

  • BASIC EMIRATI ARABIC
    TOMMI TSZ-CHEUNG LEUNG / DIMITRIOS NTELITHEOS / MEERA AL KAABI
    Basic Emirati Arabic: A Grammar and Workbook is an elementary-level grammar book of the variety of Gulf Arabic spoken in the United Arab Emirates. In this book, a series of compact units provide brief and concise descriptions of the fundamental grammatical structures, accompanied by examples drawn from Emirati native language speakers and several exercises assessing the learner...

    $1,120.00

  • EFFECTIVE MACHINE LEARNING TEAMS
    DAVID TAN / ADA LEUNG / DAVID COLLS
    Gain the valuable skills and techniques you need to accelerate the delivery of machine learning solutions. With this practical guide, data scientists, ML engineers, and their leaders will learn how to bridge the gap between data science and Lean product delivery in a practical and simple way. David Tan, Ada Leung, and Dave Colls show you how to apply time-tested software engine...

    $801.00

  • CYBERBULLYING AND VALUES EDUCATION
    ANGEL NGA MAN LEUNG
    Written by scholars from both the Western and Chinese contexts, this monograph discusses the relation between cyberbullying, socio-emotional-moral competencies, and feasible interventions by integrating values education, and provides future directions in the field of cyberpsychology. Cyberbullying has become a growing concern in the digital age as it brings devastating impacts ...

    $1,200.00

  • DEVELOPING EXPERT PRINCIPALS
    LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND / MARJORIE E. WECHSLER / STEPHANIE LEVIN / MELANIE LEUNG-GAGNÉ / STEVEN TOZER / AYA
    Strong school leadership is critical for shaping engaging learning environments, supporting high-quality teachers and teaching, and influencing student outcomes. Developing Expert Principals offers a comprehensive research synthesis to understand the elements of high-quality programs and learning experiences that have been associated with positive outcomes ranging from principa...

    $979.00

  • MIGRATION AND IDENTITY IN BRITISH EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN CINEMA
    WING-FAI LEUNG
    An emerging interest in a British East and Southeast Asian identity after decades of political and social exclusion has coincided with periods of economic and political challenges in the UK. In Migration and Identity in British East and Southeast Asian Cinema, Leung Wing-Fai argues that this explosive context has created rich and diverse forms of storytelling and an accented ci...

    $560.00

  • LANGUAGE LEARNING MOTIVATION IN A MULTILINGUAL CHINESE CONTEXT
    MAIRIN HENNEBRY-LEUNG / XUESONG (ANDY) GAO
    Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data from teachers and students in Hong Kong’s secondary schools, this book examines critical questions in relation to language learning motivation and instructional contexts. Readers are provided with a critical overview of developments in theory and research on language learning motivation and the potential to further extend these devel...

    $1,100.00

  • SINGLE-INDUCTOR MULTIPLE-OUTPUT CONVERTERS
    ALBERT TING LEUNG LEE / WEIJIAN JIN / SIEW-CHONG TAN / RON SHU YUEN HUI
    The book provides a comprehensive overview of Single-Inductor Multiple-Output Converters from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Based on the authors’ in-depth research, the volume covers not only conventional SIMO DC-DC converters but also the new generations of SIMO such as SIMO AC-DC converters, SIMO DC-AC converters (or SIMO inverters), and the latest SIMO hybrid ...

    $1,380.00

  • ETHNIC MINORITIES, MEDIA AND PARTICIPATION IN HONG KONG
    LISA Y.M. LEUNG
    Second and third generation South and Southeast Asian minorities in Hong Kong, being marginalized from mainstream social and political affairs, have developed an ambivalent sense of belonging to their host society. Unlike their forefathers who first settled in Hong Kong under British colonial rule, these younger generations have spent their formative years in the territory. As ...

    $1,200.00

  • EMIRATI ARABIC
    TOMMI TSZ-CHEUNG LEUNG / DIMITRIOS NTELITHEOS / MEERA AL KAABI
    Emirati Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar offers readers a reference tool for discovering and studying in detail the specific dialect of Arabic spoken in the United Arab Emirates. It covers all major areas of Emirati Arabic grammar, describing in detail its phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic systems. Each grammatical point is illustrated with numerous examples d...

    $2,400.00

  • TITLE IV-E CHILD WELFARE EDUCATION
    PATRICK LEUNG / ‎MONIT CHEUNG
    BSW/MSW education funded by Title IV-E of Social Security Act ("Title IV-E Child Welfare Education") is an important incentive to encourage social workers to stay in the child protection field. It aims to demonstrate the training partnership between universities and public child welfare agencies. This book contains essential research results with a focus on the impact of Title ...

    $1,160.00

  • DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICAL GARMENTS AND APPAREL FOR THE ELDERLY AND THE DISABLED
    NG SAU-FUN / HUI CHI-LEUNG / WONG LAI-FAN
    Although the main theme of this book is products for the elderly and the disabled, it also contains major sections on medical garments, which include personal protective equipment (PPE), hip protectors (HP), pressure garments (PG), compression stockings (CS), wet dressings, products for wound dressing, adult incontinence products, sanitary napkins, disposable diapers, vital sig...

    $680.00

  • WRITINGS: V. 1: 1949-55
    ZEDONG MAO / M.Y.M. KAU / LAIFONG LEUNG
    This critical, multi-volume edition of Mao's writings is an indispensable guide to post-1949 Chinese politics and an invaluable research tool for anyone seeking to understand Communist rule in China ...

    $4,500.00

  • THE WRITINGS: V. 2: JANUARY 1956-DECEMBER 1957
    ZEDONG MAO / M.Y.M. KAU / LAIFONG LEUNG
    This collection of the correspondence of Mao Zedong during the period 1956 to 1957 explores the question of legitimatizing the leadership of the CCP, the pace of the socialist transformation of China's economy, and the issue of the divergence of ideological opinion over the strategy of revolution. ...

    $1,240.00

  • THE MAKING OF AN ALIENATED GENERATION
    SAI-WING LEUNG
    First published in 1997, this volume examines the political apathy of the Hong Kong Chinese, with a particular focus on children in secondary schools. While most previous studies have been of adults, Leung’s approach exposes a generation who are politically uninvolved and disenchanted. He examines teacher-student encounters in a depoliticized school context and through a curric...

    $660.00

  • PLANT-SOIL SLOPE INTERACTION
    CHARLES NG / ANTHONY LEUNG / JUNJUN NI
    This inter-disciplinary book provides the latest advanced knowledge of plant effects on vegetated soil properties such as water retention capability, water permeability function, shear strength, slope hydrology, movements and failure mechanisms, and applies this knowledge to the solution of slope stability problems. It is the first book to cover in detail not only the mechanica...

    $1,360.00

  • INNOVATIVE AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES IN HONG KONG
    GRACE L K LEUNG
    The experience of Hong Kong’s innovative and creative industries and the challenges they face serves as an important case study for other Chinese and Asian cities that are actively developing their innovative and creative industries in the era of globalization. The return of sovereignty over Hong Kong back to China in 1997 has led to both collaboration and competition between t...

    $1,200.00

  • MEDICAL PRODUCT SAFETY EVALUATION
    JIE CHEN / JOSEPH HEYSE / TZE LEUNG LAI
    Medical Product Safety Evaluation: Biological Models and Statistical Methods presents cutting-edge biological models and statistical methods that are tailored to specific objectives and data types for safety analysis and benefit-risk assessment. Some frequently encountered issues and challenges in the design and analysis of safety studies are discussed with illustrative applica...

    $1,360.00

  • ESSENTIAL NOTES IN BASIC SCIENCES FOR THE MRCPSYCH
    WAI-CHING LEUNG / KIRSTY PASSMORE
    * Fast access to useful facts for GPs and health planners. * Vital data on the NHS and GP workload condensed into a readable format. * Detailed information drawn from many varied sources. * Concise and easy to read. * Especially useful for GP registrars and candidates preparing for the MRCGP. * Doctors nurses pharmacists and healthcare professionals can digest the data wit...

    $860.00

  • HONG KONG
    BENJAMIN K.P. LEUNG
    This title was first published in 2003. Hong Kong is a society of contrasts and paradoxes. The city has a contrasting and yet fluid intermingling of social and cultural images - east and west, local and colonial, modern and traditional, extravagant and frugal. In this volume, the editor has selected essays dealing with a variety of aspects of Hong Kong including change and deve...

    $1,420.00

  • 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 ...

    $1,100.00

  • 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...

    $980.00

  • AIR CARGO IN MAINLAND CHINA AND HONG KONG
    ANMING ZHANG / GEORGE W.L. HUI / LAWRENCE C. LEUNG / WAIMAN CHEUNG
    Air traffic and the aviation industry have grown rapidly on the Chinese mainland in the two and a half decades since China's open door policy. Accession to the WTO will further stimulate trade and foreign direct investment (FDI), intensifying the demand for air cargo services. It will also open up the Chinese economy to foreign participation in the transportation and logistics ...

    $4,200.00

  • EDUCATION AND SOCIETY IN HONG KONG
    GERARD A. POSTIGLIONE / JULIAN LEUNG YAT MING
    This title was first published in 1992: Explores the implications of the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997 to the People's Republic of China and the political, economic and cultural impact of the social transition on education. ...

    $860.00


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