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  • TRANSNATIONAL ASYLUM
    NIKOLAS FEITH TAN
    This book presents an original framework of transnational asylum to inform future cooperation between states on asylum processing and refugee protection. The book provides scholarly guidance on how policies can be undertaken in a way that conforms with the rights of asylum seekers and refugees under international law, asking if transnational asylum offers a workable model for l...

    $1,160.00

  • TERRORISM CHALLENGES IN THE INDO-PACIFIC
    ANDREW T.H. TAN, JULIAN DROOGAN, NELL BENNETT
    This edited volume focuses on contemporary terrorism challenges that remain serious in the Indo-Pacific region long after the seminal terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001. Since then, the emergence of the new terrorism has been epitomised by rise of radical Islamist terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda and the Islamic State. Through the use of new terrorism techniques and strate...

    $1,480.00

  • URBAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
    TAN YIGITCANLAR
    Tan Yigitcanlar offers a comprehensive exploration of artificial intelligence’s (AI) role in shaping modern cities. This volume delves into how AI‑driven analytics and big data provide city planners with deeper insights, enabling more informed decision‑making. These insights lead to more efficient resource use, improved public services, and better infrastructure management. In ...

    $1,280.00

  • URBAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
    TAN YIGITCANLAR
    This volume thoroughly explores the perceptions and ethical considerations surrounding urban artificial intelligence (AI). Tan Yigitcanlar delves into the complex public and professional views on AI, offering invaluable insights for policymakers, urban planners, and developers. As the world rapidly advances technologically, the role of AI has become increasingly significant. AI...

    $1,280.00

  • GEOPOLITICS, MILITARY MODERNISATION AND THE FUTURE OF THE INDO-PACIFIC
    BATES GILL / ADAM LOCKYER / YVES-HENG LIM / ANDREW T. H. TAN
    This book examines to what extent geopolitics explains the current wave of force modernisation in the Indo-Pacific region. Examining the leading Indo-Pacific nations in terms of defence spending: the United States, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, Pakistan, Indonesia and Thailand, geopolitical principles are used to create hypotheses that can be t...

    $1,240.00

  • TRANSLATING CHINESE FICTION
    TAN YESHENG
    Drawing on the cognitive translatological paradigm, this book introduces a situation-embedded cognitive construction model of translation and explores the thinking portfolios of British and American sinologists-cum-translators to re-examine their multiple voices and cognition in translating Chinese fiction. By placing sinologists-cum-translators in the same discourse space, the...

    $1,480.00

  • RETHINKING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
    SECK TAN
    This book demonstrates falsified economic performance of global economies when the environment is not recognised as a capital, and when the ecosystem is overlooked towards sustainable development. Seck begins with an analysis of standard macroeconomic framework and policy practice. He argues, with reference to environmental accounting literature, that environmental capital must...

    $1,140.00

  • TRANSITION TO ADVANCED ANALYTICS
    JASON TAN / BRIAN FERRIS
    Amazon knows the products we’re interested in and shows us more to boost the size of our shopping cart. Google Maps knows the best route to get from A to B and recommends it to get us there in the shortest possible time. Netflix knows the media we enjoy most and recommends more to boost streaming time. However, many companies still fall short with their data analytics practices...

    $1,360.00

  • ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO CREATIVITY AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
    JULIE T. MIAO, TAN YIGITCANLAR
    This book crtitically examines the reciprocal relationship between creativity and the built environment and features leading voices from across the world in a debate on originating, learning, modifying, and plagiarizing creativities within the built environment. The Companion includes contributions from architecture, design, planning, construction, real estate, economics, urban...

    $1,360.00

  • INNOVATION DISTRICT PLANNING
    TAN YIGITCANLAR / SURABHI PANCHOLI / NIUSHA ESMAEILPOORARABI / ROSEMARY ADU-MCVIE
    This book aims to fill the knowledge gap on how to plan, develop and manage innovation districts that are competitive in terms of both productivity and quality of living, justifying the massive investment put into place and at the same time doing both in a delicate and harmonious way. There is a need for smart urban land use that is wired with both hard infrastructures (e.g., t...

    $1,100.00

  • STEM INQUIRY AND ITS PRACTICE IN K-12 CLASSROOMS
    AIK-LING TAN / TANG WEE TEO / JINA CHANG / BAN HENG CHOY
    Through examining the theoretical ideas of disciplinarity and disciplinary practices, the book presents instructional aspects for teachers to explore when engaged with integrated STEM inquiry. Are you interested to understand the difference between science inquiry and STEM inquiry? Do you want to introduce integrated STEM problem solving to your students but need help with the ...

    $580.00

  • 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

  • ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE TROPICS
    SOOK REI TAN
    The living standards and scale of development around the world are vastly unequal. One notable observation is that much of the poverty-stricken area is located between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. By contrast, affluent nations are situated in more temperate zones. Such a phenomenon gives weight to the geography hypothesis that seeks to explain the occurrence of global e...

    $1,240.00

  • WALLACE STEVENS AND THE CONTEMPORARY IRISH NOVEL
    IAN TAN
    Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel is a major contribution to the study of the literary influence of the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens. Stevens’s lifelong poetic quest for order and the championing of the creative affordances of the imagination finds compelling articulation in the positioning of the Irish novel as a response to larger legacies of Anglo-A...

    $1,240.00

  • THE AESTHETIC VIEW OF MORAL EDUCATION
    CHUANBAO TAN
    The Aesthetic View of Moral Education is the result of in-depth interdisciplinary research in education and aesthetic studies. This book advocates the use of aesthetic ideas and methods to transform moral education activities, which are often trapped in a state of forced indoctrination. This book aims to address the problems of moral education in China and share certain commona...

    $1,040.00

  • TEACHING WELL
    STEPHEN D. BROOKFIELD / JÜRGEN RUDOLPH / SHANNON TAN
    What does it mean to teach well? In short, it means a willingness to do anything that helps students learn. Teaching Well investigates the fundamental principle of what teaching effectively entails by exploring the key dynamics of a learning-centered classroom. Based on interviews with renowned scholar Stephen D. Brookfield, this book covers a wide range of topics – such as cla...

    $980.00

  • SMART CITY BLUEPRINT
    TAN YIGITCANLAR
    The smart city movement, during the last decade and a half, advocated the built environment and digital technology convergence with the backing of institutional capital and government support. The commitment of a significant number of local governments across the globe, in terms of official smart city policies and initiatives, along with the constant push of global technology g...

    $1,360.00

  • SMART CITY BLUEPRINT
    TAN YIGITCANLAR
    The smart city movement, during the last decade and a half, advocated the built environment and digital technology convergence with the backing of institutional capital and government support. The commitment of a significant number of local governments across the globe, in terms of official smart city policies and initiatives, along with the constant push of global technology g...

    $1,360.00

  • SUSTAINABLE LIFE INSURANCE
    AYMERIC KALIFE / LUDOVIC GOUDENÈGE / TAN XIAOLU / MOUTI SAAD / MOUNIR BELLMANE
    Sustainable Life Insurance: Managing Risk Appetite for Insurance Savings and Retirement Products gives an overview of all relevant aspects of traditional and non-traditional savings and retirement products from both insurers’ and policyholders’ respective risk appetites. Examples of such products include general accounts, whole life, annuities (variable, fixed and fixed indexed...

    $2,800.00

  • MAKING EMPLOYEE-DRIVEN INNOVATION ACHIEVABLE
    JUSTINA TAN
    This volume guides workplace trainers in teaching the significance of Employee-Driven Innovation (EDI) and recognising that each and every employee is capable of being the driver of innovation. Given that innovation has become imperative to unlock competitive advantage, and that employees are increasingly regarded as a quintessential aspect of innovation, this focus on EDI and ...

    $1,100.00

  • HOW THEN SHALL WE GUIDE?
    JIMMY BOON-CHAI TAN
    There has been a marked increase of interest in the art of spiritual direction in recent decades. Yet in many circles, especially in ecumenical and interfaith contexts, it is unclear what grounds the practice of this ancient art. As a tradition's practice of spiritual direction expresses its particular theology, which, in turn, is shaped by its unique history, this work explain...

    $639.00

  • HOW THEN SHALL WE GUIDE?
    JIMMY BOON-CHAI TAN
    There has been a marked increase of interest in the art of spiritual direction in recent decades. Yet in many circles, especially in ecumenical and interfaith contexts, it is unclear what grounds the practice of this ancient art. As a tradition's practice of spiritual direction expresses its particular theology, which, in turn, is shaped by its unique history, this work explain...

    $639.00

  • A DICTIONARY OF HIGH FREQUENCY FUNCTION WORDS IN LITERARY CHINESE
    MEI AH TAN
    A Dictionary of High Frequency Function Words in Literary Chinese is the first comprehensive work on the subject that constitutes a new approach to teaching and learning by providing both a reference tool and a reader. This dictionary can serve both as a reference book and as an anthology for teaching and learning literary Chinese (the premodern written language) and both ancie...

    $1,160.00

  • TWO-DIMENSIONAL PEOPLE
    TAN TONGXUE
    Based on almost eight years of fieldwork in a town and a village in South China, this book analyzes contradictions among various dimensions of the peasant economy, social relationships, popular religion, and local politics in rural China. Compared to many anthropological, sociological, and political studies of rural China, which regard Chinese peasants as one-dimensionally mate...

    $1,000.00

  • APPLIED LINEAR REGRESSION FOR LONGITUDINAL DATA
    FRANS E.S. TAN / SHAHAB JOLANI
    This book introduces best practices in longitudinal data analysis at intermediate level, with a minimum number of formulas without sacrificing depths. It meets the need to understand statistical concepts of longitudinal data analysis by visualizing important techniques instead of using abstract mathematical formulas. Different solutions such as multiple imputation are explained...

    $2,800.00

  • BIONIC GLIDING UNDERWATER ROBOTS
    JUNZHI YU / ZHENGXING WU / JIAN WANG / MIN TAN
    Underwater robots play a significant role in ocean exploration. This book provides full coverage of the theoretical and practical aspects of bionic gliding underwater robots, including system design, modeling control, and motion planning. To overcome the inherent shortcomings of traditional underwater robots that can simultaneously lack maneuverability and endurance, a new type...

    $1,340.00

  • DESIGNING LEARNING FOR MULTIMODAL LITERACY
    FEI VICTOR LIM / LYDIA TAN-CHIA
    Designing Learning for Multimodal Literacy addresses the need to design learning for multimodal literacy in a world that is increasingly saturated with print and digital media. In the current age, communication and interactions on social media are seldom made with language alone but are often accompanied with emojis, images, and videos, making meanings multimodally. Young peopl...

    $1,100.00

  • GENDERED LABOUR, EVERYDAY SECURITY AND MIGRATION
    SHIH JOO TAN
    Drawing on original empirical research from Singapore and Hong Kong, Gendered Labour, Everyday Security and Migration interrogates women migrant domestic workers’ experiences of work and workplace exploitation. It examines the ways in which these women negotiate everyday security and safe work against the backdrop of affective employment relations and institutional structures o...

    $1,160.00

  • NAVIGATING THE PEDAGOGICAL SPACE FOR KNOWLEDGE BUILDING CLASSROOMS
    SENG CHEE TAN
    Showcasing the design and implementation of knowledge building pedagogy, this book for educators and education researchers illuminates this future-oriented instructional and learning approach. In this Knowledge Age, innovation and creative knowledge works are central to the progress of a society; increasing the productivity of knowledge workers remains the main priority of comp...

    $1,000.00

  • URBAN ANALYTICS WITH SOCIAL MEDIA DATA
    TAN YIGITCANLAR / NAYOMI KANKANAMGE
    The use of data science and urban analytics has become a defining feature of smart cities. This timely book is a clear guide to the use of social media data for urban analytics. The book presents the foundations of urban analytics with social media data, along with real-world applications and insights on the platforms we use today. It looks at social media analytics platforms, ...

    $1,000.00


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