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  • TRANSLATION, PORNOGRAPHY, PERFORMATIVITY
    DOUGLAS ROBINSON / XIAORUI SUN
    Robinson and Sun’s book goes in search of the neglected metaphorics of translation in pornography using poststructuralist rethinkings and reframings of porn (and masturbation) from Jacques Derrida to Judith Butler. In his 1684 “Essay on Translated Verse,” the Earl of Roscommon attacked “want of decency” in translation metaphorically by comparing it to picking up prostitutes in ...

    $640.00

  • NUCLEAR ALLIANCE RESTRAINT
    DONG SUN LEE / IORDANKA ALEXANDROVA
    This book examines why powerful states have varying success in restraining less-powerful allies from acquiring nuclear weapons, based on a broad range of historical case studies. The outcomes of nuclear alliance restraint primarily depend on two structural factors: the number of superpowers in the global system and the geographical distance between patrons and clients. Through ...

    $1,240.00

  • HERBAL MEDICINE FOR RARE DISEASES
    SUN-CHONG WANG / MENG-HUA CHEN
    Many rare diseases are genetic and lack effective cures. Herbal medicine, developed by ancient healers without the benefit of modern cell biology knowledge, focuses on alleviating symptoms associated with uncommon conditions. Herbal Medicine for Rare Diseases: Alleviating Symptoms by GMP Herbal Formulations adopts an herbal medicine approach to addressing signs and symptoms of ...

    $1,840.00

  • DATA ANALYTICS FOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
    ZHAOHAO SUN
    This book studies data, analytics, and intelligence using Boolean structure. Chapters dive into the theories, foundations, technologies, and methods of data, analytics, and intelligence. The primary aim of this book is to convey the theories and technologies of data, analytics, and intelligence with applications to readers based on systematic generalization and specialization. ...

    $1,240.00

  • FUSION AND INTEGRATION OF CLOUDS, EDGES, AND DEVICES
    JUNLONG ZHOU / KUN CAO / JIN SUN / KEQIN LI
    This book provides an in-depth examination of recent research advances in cloud-edge-end computing, covering theory, technologies, architectures, methods, applications, and future research directions. It aims to present state-of-the-art models and optimization methods for fusing and integrating clouds, edges, and devices. Cloud-edge-end computing provides users with low-latency...

    $1,700.00

  • RADAR HIGH-SPEED TARGET DETECTION VIA COHERENT INTEGRATION TRANSFORM
    XIAOLONG LI / GUOLONG CUI / LINGJIANG KONG / ZHI SUN
    Radar High-Speed Target Detection via Coherent Integration Transform offers a systematic presentation of high-speed radar target detection methods using coherent integration transforms including the signal model, derivations of coherent integration transforms, and definitions of related key concepts. The authors present mathematical models and design principles necessary to ana...

    $3,200.00

  • NEW PRAGMATISM
    NING SUN
    Through a series of case studies, the book thoroughly investigates the pragmatic elements of “new pragmatism,” which inherits the legacy of classical pragmatism and combines the topics and methods of analytic philosophy. By exploring the continuity and heterogeneity of these two trends of thought, the author aims to compare them from various perspectives of new pragmatists, suc...

    $1,240.00

  • LU XUN AND RUSSIA
    SUN YU
    Based on Lu Xun's works and book collections, this book explores the significant influence of Russian literature, art, and thinking on Lu Xun's thoughts and works. Through the analysis of rich historical materials and literary texts, this book shows the profound influence of Russian literary and artistic resources on Chinese writers, especially on Lu Xun. It delves into Lu Xun'...

    $1,480.00

  • OPTICAL BRAIN–COMPUTER INTERFACE
    DECHUAN SUN / CHRIS FRENCH / RANJITH R UNNITHAN
    In this shortform book, Sun, French, and Unnithan explore state- of- the- art optical recording techniques, with a focus on the revolutionary miniaturized fluorescence microscope – the miniscope – for real- time and in vivo monitoring of multi- neuronal dynamics during cognition- related events. The miniscope is a powerful tool that allows real- time in vivo optical recording o...

    $580.00

  • USING CHINESE CLASSICS FOR INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE
    JINAI SUN / XUEHUA XIANG / LI YE
    Using Chinese Classics for Intercultural Communicative Competence presents new strategies and tools for integrating Mandarin language teaching with fostering intercultural competencies through contemporary, global lenses on Chinese classic texts. Chinese classic texts are canonical works in Chinese culture published before 1911. They offer a window into deeply held cultural val...

    $980.00

  • POWER IN MEGAPROJECT DECISION-MAKING
    JESSICA POOI SUN SIVA / THAYAPARAN GAJENDRAN
    This research-based book critically examines the complex interplay of power relations in decision-making in megaprojects. This book is tailored for academics, students, practitioners, clients, and policymakers and addresses a significant gap in understanding how formal and informal power influences decision-making. Through applying governmentality theory and narrative inquiry f...

    $4,500.00

  • APPLIED MICROBIOME STATISTICS
    YINGLIN XIA / JUN SUN
    This unique book officially defines microbiome statistics as a specific new field of statistics and addresses the statistical analysis of correlation, association, interaction, and composition in microbiome research. It also defines the study of the microbiome as a hypothesis-driven experimental science and describes two microbiome research themes and six unique characteristics...

    $1,480.00

  • DARK HERITAGE IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
    JUNG-SUN HAN
    This book examines civic activism to conserve dark heritage built by the colonial and wartime labor regime in contemporary Japan. Introducing and analyzing local organizations and their activities in multiple locations throughout Japan, this book looks at the ways in which the Japanese have remembered, negotiated, and re-experienced their wartime past. Drawing insights from dis...

    $1,240.00

  • THE COLOR OF PRECISION MEDICINE
    SHIRLEY SUN / ZOE ONG
    Will genome-based precision medicine fix the problem of race/ethnicity-based medicine? To answer this question, Sun and Ong propose the concept of racialization of precision medicine, defined as the social processes by which racial/ethnic categories are incorporated (or not) into the development, interpretation, and implementation of precision medicine research and practice. Dr...

    $1,240.00

  • PSYCHOLOGY IN ASIA
    JASON TAK-SANG CHOW, CATHERINE TIEN-LUN SUN
    Psychology in Asia: An Introduction is the second edition of this introductory level textbook on psychology and human behavior written with an Asian focus. The book introduces the central tenets of psychology, using examples and content which are culturally relevant and applicable to students in Asia. It covers essential topics of psychology including: personality, human develo...

    $2,700.00

  • THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    YILIN SUN, XIAOSHU XU
    The Development of Personal Learning Environments in Higher Education explores how today’s knowledge-based, learner-centered virtual platforms, which often limit teaching to a complimentary facilitation role, can compromise with the requirements and regulations of colleges and universities. Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) driven by culturally responsive teaching and learn...

    $1,200.00

  • BLOCKCHAIN AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGIES FOR SMART ENERGY SYSTEMS
    HONGJIAN SUN / WEIQI HUA / MINGLEI YOU
    Present energy systems are undergoing a radical transformation, driven by the urgent need to address the climate change crisis. At the same time, we are witnessing the sharp growth of energy data and a revolution of advanced technologies, with artificial intelligence (AI) and Blockchain emerging as two of the most transformative technologies of our time. The convergence of thes...

    $1,420.00

  • GIS
    MATT DUCKHAM / QIAN (CHAYN) SUN / MICHAEL F. WORBOYS
    Following two successful editions, the third edition of GIS: A Computing Perspective has been completely revised and updated, with extensive new content reflecting the significant progress that has been made in the realm of GIS within the last 20 years. Major new topics covered for the first time in this edition include: graph databases and graph query languages, ontology engin...

    $2,800.00

  • ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
    JAMES T. HARRIS / JASON E. LANE / JEFFREY C. SUN / GAIL F. BAKER
    Winner of the 2012 ASHE/CAHEP Barbara Townsend Lecture AwardTo prosper and thrive in an increasingly unpredictable national and global environment, U.S. higher education will need to adapt, innovate, and evolve once again, as it has during every major societal change over the past four centuries.The purpose of this new edition, published a turbulent decade after the first, is t...

    $1,040.00

  • FINANCE IN RURAL CHINA
    XINGYUAN FENG / GUANGWEN HE / TONGQUAN SUN / CHRISTER LJUNGWALL
    This book offers insights into the scholarly debates on formal and informal finance in rural China and fills a gap in the existing literature. The book provides an overview of the overall development of rural finance in China and explains the necessity of embarking on the pathway toward rural financial pluralization through the "Local Knowledge Paradigm". The authors also analy...

    $1,060.00

  • TRANSCULTURAL POETICS
    YIFENG SUN
    This book examines many facets of transcultural poetics in the English translation of Chinese literature from 12 different expert contributors. Translating Chinese literature into English is a special challenge. There is a pressing need to overcome a slew of obstacles to the understanding and appreciation of Chinese literary works by readers in the English-speaking world. Hithe...

    $960.00

  • FOURIER METHODS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
    WEN LI / WEIMING SUN
    This innovative book discusses and applies the generalized Fourier Series to a variety of problems commonly encountered within science and engineering, equipping the readers with a clear pathway through which to use the Fourier methods as a solution technique for a wide range of differential equations and boundary value problems. Beginning with an overview of the conventional F...

    $1,420.00

  • EMERGENT MICRO- AND NANOMATERIALS FOR OPTICAL, INFRARED, AND TERAHERTZ APPLICATIONS
    SONG SUN
    Driven by continuing pursuits in device miniaturization and performance improvement, emergent micro- and nanomaterials hold the keys to enabling next-generation technologies in optical, infrared, and terahertz applications, owing to their unique properties and strong responses in these frequency bands. Development of these fascinating materials has triggered a number of opportu...

    $1,600.00

  • CHINESE MACROECONOMY
    NINGHUA SUN
    This book deploys quantitative methods to focus on the operation of the Chinese economy as a whole since the reforms in 1978, by combining a range of mathematical, algorithmic and computational methods to analyze rich empirical data, seeking to demonstrate the long-term economic trends and dynamics of economic growth and fluctuations in China. To answer the core question of how...

    $1,160.00

  • ULTRA-DENSE HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS
    WEN SUN / QUBEIJIAN WANG / NAN ZHAO / HAIBIN ZHANG / CHAO SHEN / LAWRENCE WAI-CHOONG WONG
    Driven by the ever-increasing amount of mobile data, cellular networks evolve from small cell network to ultra-dense heterogeneous networks, to provide high system capacity and spectrum efficiency. By bringing base stations (BSs) to the approximate spatial scale and number magnitude, ultra-dense heterogeneous networks would definitely bring unprecedented paradigm changes to the...

    $1,260.00

  • LEARNER INTERACTIONS IN MASSIVE PRIVATE ONLINE COURSES
    DI SUN / GANG CHENG
    By employing learning analytics methodology and big data in Learning Management Systems (LMSs), this volume conducts data-driven research to identify and compare learner interaction patterns in Massive Private Online Courses (MPOCs). The uncertainties about the temporal and sequential patterns of online interaction, and the lack of specific knowledge and methods to investigate ...

    $520.00

  • INTERNET REGULATION AND THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE REGIME
    SUN NANXIANG
    In the age of information, an open Internet is a key component for modern economic development. This book analyses the World Trade Organization Agreement for virtual society and explores key questions regarding internet regulation and trade barriers. Information and communication technology has introduced a transformational element to international trade, in the shape of e-comm...

    $1,200.00

  • POPULATION AND LABOUR MARKET POLICIES IN CHINA’S REFORM PROCESS
    SUN WENKAI
    This book investigates the population and labour management reforms implemented since the reform and opening up of China in the early 1980s, giving insights into the economic and social implications of these reforms and future prospects for population governance. The study examines three major components of China’s population management strategy in terms of its history and impl...

    $1,200.00

  • NETWORKED AND EVENT-TRIGGERED CONTROL APPROACHES IN CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS
    JINHUI ZHANG / YUANQING XIA / ZHONGQI SUN / DUANDUAN CHEN
    The insertion of communication networks in feedback control loops complicates analysis and synthesis of cyber-physical systems (CPSs), and network-induced uncertainties may degrade system control performance. Thus, this book researches networked delay compensation and event-triggered control approaches for a series of CPSs subject to network-induced uncertainties. The authors b...

    $1,360.00

  • A STUDY OF LABOR MOBILITY IN CHINA
    SUN WENKAI
    The title investigates rural labor mobility in China since 2003, an important phenomenon in the process of Chinese economic transition, influential in economic growth at the macro level and individual wellbeing at the micro level.Based on empirical analysis, the study identifies and evaluates the characteristics, driving forces and impact of the migration and mobility of the ru...

    $1,200.00


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