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  • INTRODUCING CHINESE DISCOURSE
    BO WANG / YUANYI MA
    Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this book introduces readers to the methods for analysing discourse/texts written and spoken in the Chinese language. It presents Chinese discourse as a semantic unit, adopting a trinocular view in terms of the hierarchy of stratification. The texts in this book are based on a comprehensive and rich archive, featuring not only t...

    $1,160.00

  • STATE GOVERNANCE AND PUBLIC FINANCE THEORY
    JUN, MA
    This book explores the fundamental theories, methodologies, and innovative directions of public finance research, focusing on its relationship with and role in state governance. Public finance is the foundation and an important pillar of state governance. The two mutually reinforce each other at the macro level and in broader contexts, necessitating the reconstruction of a publ...

    $1,480.00

  • A MATHEMATICS BOOT CAMP FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING STUDENTS
    YING MA
    Many students have difficulty applying mathematical techniques to solve problems in science and engineering, even after completing Calculus I and II. Students who are beginning the core coursework in their field of study often need additional guidance on practicing, learning, and improving their problem-solving skills for application. The objectives of A Mathematics Boot Camp f...

    $1,500.00

  • PRIVACY IN VEHICULAR NETWORKS
    BAIHE MA / XU WANG / WEI NI / REN PING LIU
    In an era where vehicular networks and Location-Based Services (LBS) are rapidly expanding, safeguarding location privacy has become a critical challenge. Privacy in Vehicular Networks delves into the complexities of protecting sensitive location data within the dynamic and decentralized environment of vehicular networks. This book stands out by addressing both the theoretical ...

    $1,380.00

  • CULTURAL BIFOCALS ON CHINESE TV SERIES AND DIASPORA FICTION
    SHENG-MEI MA
    The book explores how Chinese TV series and Asian Diaspora fiction are consumed, experienced, and adapted by and for audiences worldwide, particularly those of the Chinese diaspora. It focuses or ‘zooms in’ on well-known exceptional Chinese TV series such as Reset and The Bad Kids and ‘zooms-out’ to explore a wider panorama of lesser-known TV dramas and films. It also explores ...

    $1,240.00

  • LIKELIHOOD METHODS IN SURVIVAL ANALYSIS
    JUN MA / ANNABEL WEBB / HAROLD MALCOLM HUDSON
    Many conventional survival analysis methods, such as the Kaplan-Meier method for survival function estimation and the partial likelihood method for Cox model regression coefficients estimation, were developed under the assumption that survival times are subject to right censoring only. However, in practice, survival time observations may include interval-censored data, especial...

    $1,480.00

  • ISLAMIC GREEN FINANCE
    MA’SUM BILLAH, MOHD
    This book argues that focusing on the green economy and green finance is essential to counteract the catastrophic, socio-economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Further, while numerous research initiatives in the context of the green economy and/or finance have been observed in different parts of the world, to date, no comprehensive work has been published on the topic of gr...

    $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

  • THE PRECARIAT IN WESTERN CHINA
    XUEYANG MA
    This book provides a comprehensive picture for understanding the experiences and dynamics of precarious workers’ in-work poverty in western China. The research presented in this book identifies the causes and the consequences of precarious employment and in-work poverty and analyses the stakeholders’ responses to the changes in the context of employment in China's socialist mar...

    $1,240.00

  • ADAPTIVE FILTERING UNDER MINIMUM MEAN P-POWER ERROR CRITERION
    WENTAO MA / BADONG CHEN
    Adaptive filtering still receives attention in engineering as the use of the adaptive filter provides improved performance over the use of a fixed filter under the time-varying and unknown statistics environments. This application evolved communications, signal processing, seismology, mechanical design, and control engineering. The most popular optimization criterion in adaptiv...

    $4,700.00

  • ISLAMIC SUSTAINABLE FINANCE
    MOHD MA’SUM BILLAH
    The central idea of sustainability in the modern world is intricate and ever-changing. Closely related to the realm of finance and socioeconomic discussion, the phrase “sustainable impact finance” has become increasingly popular among bankers, practitioners, financial analysts, investors and the relevant experts seeking an impactful connection between the best financing mechani...

    $1,140.00

  • ISLAMIC FINANCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
    MOHD MA’SUM BILLAH
    The interest in improving Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) outcomes among stakeholders of Islamic banking and finance has become front and centre in the discussions relating to Islamic sustainable finance. This book offers an expansive overview of the relevant issues, global initiatives and trends in the management, governance, and operation of Islamic sustainable imp...

    $1,240.00

  • MODERN MANDARIN CHINESE GRAMMAR
    CLAUDIA ROSS / JING-HENG SHENG MA / PEI-CHIA CHEN / BAOZHANG HE / MENG YEH
    Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar: A Practical Guide, third edition, is an innovative reference guide to Mandarin Chinese, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume. The Grammar is divided into two parts. Part A covers traditional grammar points such as phrase order, and the structure of noun phrases and verb phrases. Part B is carefully organized around...

    $1,420.00

  • MODERN MANDARIN CHINESE GRAMMAR WORKBOOK
    CLAUDIA ROSS / JING-HENG SHENG MA / BAOZHANG HE / PEI-CHIA CHEN / MENG YEH
    Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar Workbook, third edition, is a book of exercises and language tasks to facilitate practice and reinforce language use. Divided into two sections, the Workbook initially provides exercises based on essential grammatical structures, and moves on to practice everyday functions such as making introductions, apologizing, and expressing needs. With an e...

    $1,120.00

  • THEORIZING AND APPLYING SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS
    BO WANG AND YUANYI MA
    This collection reflects on developments in the field of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) as embodied in the work of Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, highlighting his diverse contributions to the field from theoretical and applied perspectives. The book surveys Matthiessen’s academic career and illustrates the myriad ways in which his work has reverberated through to current ...

    $1,240.00

  • UNTETHERING EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
    CHENWEI MA / ROGER C. SHOUSE
    Lingdao, the Chinese word for leadership, is rarely used to denote acts of social persuasion that occur outside of contexts of formal rank or status. However, the ubiquity of informal leadership in China raises a number of practical and theoretical questions. Based on an analysis of selected Chinese cinematic works depicting settings of educational practice and policy, the book...

    $580.00

  • THE ETHICS OF BECOMING A GOOD TEACHER
    YING MA
    This book explores Aristotelian and Confucian wisdom traditions to understand education and what counts as a good teacher in an embodied dialogic approach. The book creates a dialogue between ancient ideas and the author’s lived experiences as a teacher in cross-cultural landscapes today to ruminate on the important themes of educational purpose, teacher excellence, teacher-stu...

    $1,200.00

  • STUDENT MOBILITY SINCE THE EXPANSION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN CHINA
    LIPING MA
    Using a nationally representative data set, this book examines the characteristics of Chinese college students’ mobility since the expansion of higher education. It analyses college graduates’ mobility in both horizontal and vertical dimensions. The horizontal dimension shows college students’ migration directions and location changes, including migration for college, migration...

    $1,120.00

  • PREDICTION AND CONTROL OF NOISE AND VIBRATION FROM VENTILATION SYSTEMS
    CHEUK MING MAK / KUEN WAI MA / HAI MING WONG
    This book addresses the prediction and control of noise and vibration in ventilation systems and their psychoacoustic effects on people. The content is based on the authors’ research and lecture material on building acoustics and provides insights into the development of prediction methods and control of noise and vibration from ventilation systems, and an assessment of their p...

    $1,420.00

  • 思辩纵横 DEVELOPING ADVANCED PROFICIENCY IN CHINESE THROUGH DEBATE
    SHUPEI WANG / YINA MA PATTERSON / LIN GUO
    Developing Advanced Proficiency in Chinese through Debate provides lesson plans for holding high-level debates in the classroom. The lesson plans in this textbook were created based on the standards of the Oral Proficiency Interview held by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. These lesson plans train students in advanced language tasks such as giving thor...

    $1,120.00

  • THE “SOCIALIST TRANSFORMATION” OF MEMORY
    YUSI LIU / YE MA
    Through discourse analysis and a historical comparison of “Pernicious-Vestiges” narratives in the news text of People’s Daily, this book is devoted to revealing primary metaphors of “Pernicious-Vestiges” and political functions in China. “Pernicious-Vestiges” (Yí Dú 遗毒) is one of the most frequently used words in contemporary Chinese historical narration, as well as a constantl...

    $960.00

  • JAPAN FROM KOIZUMI TO ABE
    KA MEI SAMANTHA MA
    This book studies national security strategies introduced by the Koizumi administration (2001–2006) and the second Abe administration (2012–2020). Drawing on the common themes of ‘normalization’, constitutional revision, in particular Article 9, and the right of collective self-defence, the volume examines through the theory of neoclassical realism how and why the national secu...

    $1,160.00

  • SUPPORTING YOUNG CHILDREN TO COPE, BUILD RESILIENCE, AND HEAL FROM TRAUMA THROUGH PLAY
    JULIE NICHOLSON / JULIE KURTZ / LAFESHIA EDWARDS / JONATHAN IRIS-WILBANKS / SAMANTHA WATSON-ALVARADO / MA
    Now more than ever, there is a need for early childhood professionals to comprehensively integrate trauma-sensitive practices into their work with children and families. This essential resource offers instructional strategies teachers can use daily to support their students dealing with trauma in early learning environments. Readers will learn to create opportunities for childr...

    $820.00

  • THE LONG GRIEF JOURNEY
    PAMELA D BLAIR PHD / BRADIE MCCABE HANSEN MA
    An essential grief guide and recovery workbook for those who have said, "I thought I'd feel better by now." Grief does not follow a timeline or a set path. It is nonlinear and messy, doubling back on itself just when you thought you were out of the woods. Those who have experienced the loss of a loved one know this unequivocally, but Western society still seems to think that gr...

    $344.00

  • MINE DESIGN, PLANNING AND SUSTAINABLE EXPLOITATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE
    A.J.S. (SAM) SPEARING / LIQIANG MA / CONG-AN MA
    Mine Design, Planning and Sustainable Exploitation in the Digital Age covers mine planning, design and exploitation taking cognizance of new developments, especially those associated with the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the positive influence that it has, and will have, on the mining industry. It refers to latest best practices with emphasis on the social license to operat...

    $3,600.00

  • ADULT COMPETENCIES FOR LIFELONG LEARNING
    ZHENG QINHUA / MA DONGMING / NIAN ZHIYING
    Beijing Institute for the Learning Society (BILS) was inaugurated in October 2011 through the joint efforts of Beijing Leading Group Office for Construction of Learning City and Beijing Normal University. The main focus of BILS lies within the education discipline.The Institute is building a platform that integrates intellectual resources of universities in Beijing to serve the...

    $765.00

  • THE ELEMENTS OF VOICE FIRST STYLE
    AHMED BOUZID / WEIYE MA
    If you're a new or experienced designer of conversational voice first experiences, this handy reference provides actionable answers to key aspects of eyes-busy, hands-busy, voice-only user interfaces. Designed as a companion to books about conversational voice design, this guide includes important details regarding eyes-free, hands-free, voice-only interfaces delivered by Amazo...

    $294.00

  • INTRODUCING M.A.K. HALLIDAY
    BO WANG / YUANYI MA
    M.A.K. Halliday (1925–2018) was the founder of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and, undoubtedly, one of the most influential linguists of his time, credited with changing the way that language and linguistics have been taught. SFL, as an appliable theory that approaches language as social semiotic, is the study of the relationship between language and its functions in soc...

    $1,120.00

  • EMBRACING THE NEW TWO-CHILD POLICY ERA
    XIUMIN HONG / WENTING ZHU / QUN MA
    Crafted from a research project that lasted for three years, this book examines the impacts of China’s universal two-child policy under the lens of education and focuses specifically on early childhood. This book not only provides number projection, but also the prediction and judgment of the supply and demand of service resources in early childhood education. It attempts to re...

    $1,240.00

  • TEACHING AND RESEARCH METHODS FOR ISLAMIC ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
    MOHD MA’SUM BILLAH
    Methods and techniques adopted in teaching, training, learning, research, professional development, or capacity building are generally standardized across most traditional disciplines, particularly within developing countries. This is not the case, however, when it comes to the Islamic disciplines, and, in particular, in relation to the study of Islamic economics and finance, w...

    $1,200.00


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