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  • GOVERNANCE AND INTERVENTION IN MALI
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    GOVERNANCE AND INTERVENTION IN MALI
    SUSANNA D. WING
    This book provides the historical and political context for the security interventions in Mali over the past three decades. The work contextualizes external military engagement (including that of the United States, France, the United Nations and G5 Sahel) within the broader framework of weak democratic consolidation, unmet development goals and increasing popular perceptions of...

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  • MIGRATION AND IDENTITY IN BRITISH EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN CINEMA
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    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...

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  • URBAN CHINA REFRAMED
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    URBAN CHINA REFRAMED
    WING-SHING TANG
    Given China’s rapid economic growth and massive urbanization, no one in the world can ignore what is happening in urban China. This book is a critical review of existing urban China research, which is found wanting due to the decontextualized use of theories and concepts developed in the West. Urban China Reframed: A Critical Appreciation consists of epistemological, theoretica...

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  • CHILDREN OF MIGRANTS IN CHINA
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    CHILDREN OF MIGRANTS IN CHINA
    KAM WING CHAN / YUAN REN
    Children are precious in China especially as its population ages rapidly. The unprecedented fast urbanization and massive internal migration have profoundly changed almost every aspect of society. They have impacted the livelihood of children of migrants most. Because of the hukou system and related policies, China’s internal migrants face major obstacles to assimilate into cit...

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  • UNDERSTANDING CRIME IN VILLAGES-IN-THE-CITY IN CHINA
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    UNDERSTANDING CRIME IN VILLAGES-IN-THE-CITY IN CHINA
    ZHANGUO LIU / T. WING LO
    Rapid urbanization of economic zones in China has resulted in a special social phenomenon: "villages-in-the-city." Underdeveloped villages are absorbed during the expansion of urban areas, while retaining their rustic characteristics. Due to the rural characteristics of these areas, social security is much lower compared with the urbanized city. This book uses Tang Village, a r...

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  • THE MAKING OF AN ALIENATED GENERATION
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    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...

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  • MIXTURE MODELLING FOR MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES
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    MIXTURE MODELLING FOR MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES
    SHU KAY NG / LIMING XIANG / KELVIN KAI WING YAU
    Mixture Modelling for Medical and Health Sciences provides a direct connection between theoretical developments in mixture modelling and their applications in real world problems. The book describes the development of the most important concepts through comprehensive analyses of real and practical examples taken from real-life research problems in ...

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  • PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS
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    PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS
    KUNWU FU / ANITA WING HO-BAILLIE / HEMANT KUMAR MULMUDI / PHAM THI THU TRANG
    The increasing use of metal halide perovskites as light harvesters has stunned the photovoltaic community. The book, Perovskite Solar Cells: Technology and Practices, covers the basics and provides up-to-date research in the field of perovskite photovoltaics—a fast trending branch of the thin film photovoltaic generation. This comprehensive handbook provides a broad and overall...

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  • PUBLIC EDUCATION REFORM AND NETWORK GOVERNANCE
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    PUBLIC EDUCATION REFORM AND NETWORK GOVERNANCE
    PHILIP WING KEUNG CHAN
    This book is located in the field of education governance and sits amidst debates on public school reform in China. It examines how a top-down policy approach has been implemented from central government right down to the district level within the public education system in China. It shows the way networks support negotiation and bargaining at the district level which, in turn,...

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  • ETHNOGRAPHIC INQUIRY AND LIVED EXPERIENCE
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    ETHNOGRAPHIC INQUIRY AND LIVED EXPERIENCE
    WING-CHUNG HO
    Ho addresses two fundamental theoretical questions about how best to practice ethnographic inquiries to obtain qualitative, experience-near, and shareable accounts of human living. The first question is regarding the epistemology of ethnography. Ho posits that writing is epistemologically prior to the researcher’s fieldwork experience in the production of ethnographic knowledge...

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  • OPTICAL CODING THEORY WITH PRIME
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    OPTICAL CODING THEORY WITH PRIME
    WING C. KWONG / GUU-CHANG YANG
    Although several books cover the coding theory of wireless communications and the hardware technologies and coding techniques of optical CDMA, no book has been specifically dedicated to optical coding theory—until now. Written by renowned authorities in the field, Optical Coding Theory with Prime gathers together in one volume the fundamentals and developments of optical coding...

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  • URBANIZATION WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS: THE HUKOU SYSTEM AND MIGRATION
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    URBANIZATION WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS: THE HUKOU SYSTEM AND MIGRATION
    KAM WING CHAN
    Many agree that rapid urbanization in China in the late 20th and early 21st centuries is a mega process significantly reshaping China and the global economy. China’s urbanization also carries a certain mystique, which has long fascinated generations of scholars and journalists alike. As it has turned out, many of the asserted Chinese feats are mostly fancied claims or gross mis...

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  • CITY STATES IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
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    CITY STATES IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
    STEPHEN WING-KAI CHIU
    This is the first serious comparative study of two dynamic Asian city-states that are emerging as key regional?indeed global?cities. Providing both historical comparisons and analyses of contemporary issues, the authors consider the patterns, strategies, and consequences of industrial restructuring. They build their analysis around the interrelationships of four institutional s...

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  • CHINESE AND BOTANICAL MEDICINES
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    CHINESE AND BOTANICAL MEDICINES
    RAYMOND COOPER / CHUN-TAO CHE / DANIEL KAM-WAH MOK / CHARMAINE WING-YEE TSANG
    Chinese and Botanical Medicines: Traditional Uses and Modern Scientific Approaches is a classroom-tested book that contains a balance of chemistry, the history of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and the theory and practice of a modern TCM practitioner. This distinct book reviews the scientific methods for collecting data and supporting evidence for the efficacy and safety o...

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  • REASONING ABOUT MADNESS
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    REASONING ABOUT MADNESS
    J. K. WING
    The exact definition of "madness" remains elusive. There are difficulties in distinguishing the criminal from the mad or, more euphemistically, the mentally ill. Controversy has centered on the frightening potential possessed by the state to deprive of his rights the individual officially classified as mad. In this book, Wing, a psychiatrist of international repute, argues for ...

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  • ALGORITHMS FOR NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING
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    ALGORITHMS FOR NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING
    WING-KIN SUNG
    Advances in sequencing technology have allowed scientists to study the human genome in greater depth and on a larger scale than ever before – as many as hundreds of millions of short reads in the course of a few days. But what are the best ways to deal with this flood of data? Algorithms for Next-Generation Sequencing is an invaluable tool for students and researchers in bioinf...

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  • TORTURED SCIENCE
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    TORTURED SCIENCE
    DIANNE QUIGLEY, AMY LOWMAN, AND STEVE WING
    The U.S.A. s nuclear weapons program has exposed workers and the public to health hazards since World War II. In the 1980s and 1990s, federal health agencies responded to new revelations about these hazards by pouring millions of dollars into research on the health impacts of radiation. In Tortured Science: Health Studies, Ethics and Nuclear Weapons in the United States , commu...

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  • UNDERSTANDING CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN HONG KONG
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    UNDERSTANDING CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN HONG KONG
    ERIC WING HONG CHUI
    In recent years law, crime and justice have become increasingly politicised in Hong Kong. Understanding Criminal Justice in Hong Kong, 2nd Edition offers a detailed and comprehensive overview of and introduction to the criminal justice system in Hong Kong, building upon recent events and controversies. This book provides a much-needed overview of the criminal justice system in ...

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  • DELAUNAY MESH GENERATION
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    DELAUNAY MESH GENERATION
    SIU-WING CHENG / TAMAL K. DEY / JONATHAN SHEWCHUK
    Written by authors at the forefront of modern algorithms research, Delaunay Mesh Generation demonstrates the power and versatility of Delaunay meshers in tackling complex geometric domains ranging from polyhedra with internal boundaries to piecewise smooth surfaces. Covering both volume and surface meshes, the authors fully explain how and why thes ...

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  • LAW UNBOUND!
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    LAW UNBOUND!
    RICHARD DELGADO / ADRIEN KATHERINE WING / JEAN STEFANCIC
    This book offers the best and most influential writings of Richard Delgado, one of the founding figures of the critical race theory movement and one of the earliest scholars to address the harms of hate speech. With excerpts from his classic law review articles, conversations with his famous alter ego Rodrigo Crenshaw, and comments on the vicissitudes of academic life, this boo...

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  • DESIGNING SACRED SPACES
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    DESIGNING SACRED SPACES
    SHERIN WING
    Sacred spaces exemplify some of the most exciting and challenging architecture today. Designing Sacred Spaces tells the inside story of seven architecture firms and their approaches to designing churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, monasteries and retreats. Twenty beautifully illustrated case studies located in Asia, Europe, and North America are showcased alongside discu...

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  • ACTIVE PHYTOCHEMICALS FROM CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINES
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    ACTIVE PHYTOCHEMICALS FROM CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINES
    WING SHING HO
    Biomedical ScienceChinese herbal medicine represents complementary or adjunctive therapies that often can improve the efficacy of Western medicine to achieve the pharmacological effects, especially in cancer treatment. However, the combination of herbs with therapeutic drugs can raise potential health risk. Building a bridge between Western medicin ...

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  • THE SOFT POWER OF CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTING ORGANISATIONS
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    THE SOFT POWER OF CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTING ORGANISATIONS
    CHEUNG, SAI ON / WONG, PETER SHEK PUI / YIU, TAK WING
    Across the AEC industry, the non-technical skills possessed by organisations are key to their overall performance. In this study, the particular importance of optimising the so-called "soft power" of organisations, is addressed. Things like organisational culture, responsible corporate behaviour, and building trust-based relationships with other stake-holders are seen as facets...

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  • MULTIMEDIA STARDOM IN HONG KONG
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    MULTIMEDIA STARDOM IN HONG KONG
    LEUNG WING-FAI
    This book details original research into the practices and discourse of multimedia stardom alongside changing social and cultural landscapes in Hong Kong since 1980. It examines the cultural and sociological significance of stardom in the region, and the conditions which gave rise to such famous stars as Jackie Chan. This book elaborates the distinction between multimedia stard...

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  • LEARNING TO TEACH SMALL CLASSES
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    LEARNING TO TEACH SMALL CLASSES
    MAURICE GALTON / KWOK CHAN LAI / KAM WING CHAN
    The justification for smaller classes has traditionally been that students can receive more individual attention and be provided with a curriculum that promotes student centred learning. However, in Asia where student engagement is generally over 90% in primary school classrooms, the focus of smaller classes is for teachers to increase the quality of their teaching, building on...

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  • AUTODESK REVIT ARCHITECTURE 2015: NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
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    AUTODESK REVIT ARCHITECTURE 2015: NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
    ERIC WING
    Learn Revit Architecture the hands-on way For those who like to learn by doing, this Autodesk Official Press book shows you how to build a four-story office building one step at a time, providing you with real-world practice you might expect to encounter on the job. Concise explanations, focused examples, step-by-step instructions, and an engaging hands-on tutorial make this bo...

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  • RESPONDING TO YOUTH CRIME IN HONG KONG
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    RESPONDING TO YOUTH CRIME IN HONG KONG
    MICHAEL ADORJAN / WING HONG CHUI
    A society’s response to youth crime reveals much about its broader cultural values, social circumstances, and political affairs. This book examines reactions and policy responses to youth delinquency and crime in Hong Kong during its colonial and post-colonial periods, and in doing so, underscores the history of Hong Kong itself and its present-day circumstances. Exploring how ...

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  • CHILDREN AND COMPUTERS IN SCHOOL
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    CHILDREN AND COMPUTERS IN SCHOOL
    BETTY A. COLLIS / GERALD A. KNEZEK / KWOK-WING LAI / KEIKO T. MIYASHITA / WILLEM J. PELGRUM
    This volume integrates research findings from three multinational studies conducted to examine the impact of children's use of computers in school. Conclusions are drawn from in-depth analyses of trends in more than 20 nations. Its seven authors from four nations were key researchers on these projects. Both a study and a product of the information age, this work is of prime imp...

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  • INSTITUTIONS, REGULATORY STYLES, SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE IN CHINA
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    INSTITUTIONS, REGULATORY STYLES, SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE IN CHINA
    CARLOS WING-HUNG LO / SHUI-YAN TANG
    During the past three decades of rapid industrial growth, China has suffered from devastating environmental degradation. Most scholarly and popular publications have painted a rather pessimistic picture about the worrisome trend. Yet a somewhat more optimistic view has emerged in the past decade given the Chinese government’s increased commitment to fighting industrial pollutio...

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  • AUTISTIC CHILDREN
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    AUTISTIC CHILDREN
    LORNA WING
    orna Wing discusses the stresses on the autistic child's family, services that are available and the outlook for the future. This revised updated edition explains how an autistic child views his world and how to cope with the difficult behaviour and emotional problems that are expected from him. ...

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