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China’s Local Entrepreneurial State and New Urban Spaces: Downtown Redevelopment in Ningbo (New Perspectives on Chinese Politics and Society)
by Han ZhangIn this book, the author seeks to understand China’s urban redevelopment from the theoretical perspective of the local entrepreneurial state. China’s rapid socio-economic transformations since 1978 have been in large part attributed to China’s state transformations. The author closely investigates N... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Ethical Foreign Policy?: US Humanitarian Interventions (Ethics and Global Politics)
While the 1990s gave rise to a wealth of literature on the notion of ethical foreign policy, it has tended to simply focus on a version of realism, which overlooks the role of ethics in international affairs, lacking an empirical analysis of foreign policy decision-making, with relation to ethical v... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Semiconducting Black Phosphorus: From 2D Nanomaterial to Emerging 3D Architecture (Emerging Materials and Technologies)
Black phosphorus (BP)-based two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials are used as components in practical industrial applications in biomedicine, electronics, and photonics. There is a need to controllably shape engineered scalable structures of 2D BP building blocks, and their assembly/organization is des... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
The Limits of Cosmopolitanism: Globalization and Its Discontents in Contemporary Literature (Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature)
This book examines the limits of cosmopolitanism in contemporary literature. In a world in which engagement with strangers is no longer optional, and in which the ubiquitous demands of globalization clash with resurgent localist and nationalist sentiments, cosmopolitanism is no longer merely a horiz... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
New Media and Transformation of Social Life in China (SAGE China Studies)
The field of media and communication has expanded substantially in China over the last few decades. New Media and the Transformations of Social Life in China covers in detail the main aspects related to media in China, including new media technologies, social networks, media convergence, smart citie... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Supramolecular Assemblies of Cucurbit[n]urils with Metal Ions
This book shows the various porous structures and supramolecular architectures that result from the cucurbituril-based coordination, hydrogen bonding, ion-dipole interactions, ππ stacking and C-Hπ processes. It includes two chapters presenting essential examples of these cucurbituril-based structur... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Microbial Biotechnology: Volume 2. Application in Food and Pharmacology
This edited book, is a collection of 25 chapters describing the recent advancements in the application of microbial technology in the food and pharmacology sector. The main focus of this book is application of microbes, food preservation techniques utilizing microbes, probiotics, seaweeds, algae, en... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Edge Effects
by Jan ConnReading Edge Effects, Jan Conn’s masterful eighth collection, is a little like looking at Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of real industrial wastelands; both visions are as gorgeous as they are terrifying, platforms for thought, even for activism, depending as they do on the energy of the viewer/read... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Jaguar Rain: The Margaret Mee Poems
by Jan ConnJaguar Rain is a rare text: at once a book of stand-alone poems and a work of scholarship, with textual notes and bibliography. Written in the voice of Margaret Mee (naturalist, explorer, and painter of flowers in the Amazon between 1956 and 1988), the poems are infused with wonder at a discovered n... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Botero's Beautiful Horses
by Jan Conn“Do we want love / each and every day of our lives?” Jan Conn asks in a poem called “Michoacán.” “You bet your ass,” she answers. The poems of Botero’s Beautiful Horses are charged with otherness, bright with the exhilaration and danger of transformation. Many are descriptions of surrealist canvases... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Pigeon Trouble: Bestiary Biopolitics in a Deindustrialized America
by Hoon SongPigeon Trouble chronicles a foreign-born, birdphobic anthropologist's venture into the occult craft of pigeon shooting in the depths of Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country. Though initially drawn by a widely publicized antipigeon shoot protest by animal rights activists, the author quickly finds ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Crappy Queen Conquers the Country: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Hong SongDuring the exploration of the ancient tomb of the first class special agent Rong Hua, his former boyfriend, who split legs, and his current girlfriend, Soo Soo, triggered the traps. In the end, Rong Hua was pulled into the space of the Demon God Continent by an inexplicable force, and was reborn ins... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Crappy Queen Conquers the Country: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Hong SongDuring the exploration of the ancient tomb of the first class special agent Rong Hua, his former boyfriend, who split legs, and his current girlfriend, Soo Soo, triggered the traps. In the end, Rong Hua was pulled into the space of the Demon God Continent by an inexplicable force, and was reborn ins... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Crappy Queen Conquers the Country: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Hong SongDuring the exploration of the ancient tomb of the first class special agent Rong Hua, his former boyfriend, who split legs, and his current girlfriend, Soo Soo, triggered the traps. In the end, Rong Hua was pulled into the space of the Demon God Continent by an inexplicable force, and was reborn ins... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Crappy Queen Conquers the Country: Volume 6 (Volume 6 #6)
by Hong SongDuring the exploration of the ancient tomb of the first class special agent Rong Hua, his former boyfriend, who split legs, and his current girlfriend, Soo Soo, triggered the traps. In the end, Rong Hua was pulled into the space of the Demon God Continent by an inexplicable force, and was reborn ins... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Crappy Queen Conquers the Country: Volume 5 (Volume 5 #5)
by Hong SongDuring the exploration of the ancient tomb of the first class special agent Rong Hua, his former boyfriend, who split legs, and his current girlfriend, Soo Soo, triggered the traps. In the end, Rong Hua was pulled into the space of the Demon God Continent by an inexplicable force, and was reborn ins... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Crappy Queen Conquers the Country: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Hong SongDuring the exploration of the ancient tomb of the first class special agent Rong Hua, his former boyfriend, who split legs, and his current girlfriend, Soo Soo, triggered the traps. In the end, Rong Hua was pulled into the space of the Demon God Continent by an inexplicable force, and was reborn ins... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Nanjing Never Cries: A Novel (Killian Press Ser.)
by Hong ZhengSet in the city of Nanjing during the time of the Sino-Japanese war (1937–1945), this novel tells the story of four people caught up in the violence and tumult of these years: John Winthrop and his MIT classmate, the brilliant Chinese physicist Calvin Ren (Ren Kewen); Judy, Calvin's Chinese-American... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Genetic Analyses of Wheat and Molecular Marker-Assisted Breeding, Volume 2
While focusing on various interactions between trait genes/QTL and dynamic expressions of conditional QTL genes, this book also discusses aspects of molecular marker-assisted breeding, and applications of molecular markers associated with yield, quality, physiology and disease resistance in wheat. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Internetworked World
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 15th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2016, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS, in Dublin, Ireland, in December 2016. WeB 2016 provided a forum for scholars to exchange ideas and share results from the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Digital Transformation: 16th Workshop On E-business, Web 2017, Seoul, South Korea, December 10, 2017, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #328)
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 16th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2017, which took place in Seoul, South Korea, in December 2017. The purpose of WeB is to provide an open forum for e-Business researchers and practitioners world-wide, to share topical research findings, explore ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The Ecosystem of e-Business: 17th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2018, Santa Clara, CA, USA, December 12, 2018, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #357)
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 17th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2018, which took place in Santa Clara, CA, USA, in December 2018. The purpose of WeB is to provide an open forum for e-Business researchers and practitioners world-wide, to share topical research findings, explo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Smart Business: 18th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2019, Munich, Germany, December 14, 2019, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #403)
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 18th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2019, which took place in Munich, Germany, in December 2019. The purpose of WeB is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss findings, novel ideas, and lessons learned to address major ch... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Genetic Analyses of Wheat and Molecular Marker-Assisted Breeding, Volume 2: Conditional QTL Analysis and MAS
While focusing on various interactions between trait genes/QTL and dynamic expressions of conditional QTL genes, this book also discusses aspects of molecular marker-assisted breeding, and applications of molecular markers associated with yield, quality, physiology and disease resistance in wheat. I... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
A Representation of Nationhood in the Museum: The National Museum of Korea (Routledge Research on Museums and Heritage in Asia)
A Representation of Nationhood in the Museum examines how the National Museum of Korea, as a national repository of material culture and the state’s premier exhibition facility, has shaped and been shaped by Korean nationalism. Exploring the processes by which the museum has discovered and inter... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020