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This thesis presents an in-depth, high-resolution observational study on the very beginning of the formation process: the fragmentation of dense molecular clouds known as infrared dark clouds (IRDCs). Using the Submillimeter Array (SMA) and Very Large Array (VLA) radio interferometers, the author h... More

This book aims to give an overview of recent developments in indoor near-infrared optical wireless communication technologies and systems, including basic theories, operating fundamentals, system architectures, modelling, experimental demonstrations, advanced techniques, and most recently, the resea... More

Buddha says: Red powder like a skeleton, the human world is hell. Buddha said: I do not go to hell, who goes to hell? As a good monk who respected buddha and loved buddhas, Lin Kong ran down the mountain without any hesitation. With the hot-bloodedness of a virgin who had been holding back for twent... More

Buddha says: Red powder like a skeleton, the human world is hell. Buddha said: I do not go to hell, who goes to hell? As a good monk who respected buddha and loved buddhas, Lin Kong ran down the mountain without any hesitation. With the hot-bloodedness of a virgin who had been holding back for twent... More

Buddha says: Red powder like a skeleton, the human world is hell. Buddha said: I do not go to hell, who goes to hell? As a good monk who respected buddha and loved buddhas, Lin Kong ran down the mountain without any hesitation. With the hot-bloodedness of a virgin who had been holding back for twent... More

Buddha says: Red powder like a skeleton, the human world is hell. Buddha said: I do not go to hell, who goes to hell? As a good monk who respected buddha and loved buddhas, Lin Kong ran down the mountain without any hesitation. With the hot-bloodedness of a virgin who had been holding back for twent... More

Buddha says: Red powder like a skeleton, the human world is hell. Buddha said: I do not go to hell, who goes to hell? As a good monk who respected buddha and loved buddhas, Lin Kong ran down the mountain without any hesitation. With the hot-bloodedness of a virgin who had been holding back for twent... More

Buddha says: Red powder like a skeleton, the human world is hell. Buddha said: I do not go to hell, who goes to hell? As a good monk who respected buddha and loved buddhas, Lin Kong ran down the mountain without any hesitation. With the hot-bloodedness of a virgin who had been holding back for twent... More

Buddha says: Red powder like a skeleton, the human world is hell. Buddha said: I do not go to hell, who goes to hell? As a good monk who respected buddha and loved buddhas, Lin Kong ran down the mountain without any hesitation. With the hot-bloodedness of a virgin who had been holding back for twent... More

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the exact boundary controllability of nodal profile, a new kind of exact boundary controllability stimulated by some practical applications.   This kind of controllability is useful in practice as it does not require any precisely given final state to b... More

This book seeks to generalize techniques and experiences in designing and analyzing cryptographic schemes for blockchain. It devotes three chapters to review the background and basic knowledge, four chapters to discuss specific types of cryptographic primitive design for blockchain, one chapter to d... More

Ethical dimensions of qualitative research are constantly emerging and shifting. This volume identifies relevant ethical principles that can guide novice researchers through the research process with the necessary wisdom and insight to shape a project in sound, meaningful, and thoughtful ways. Well ... More

The first textbook to teach students how to build data analytic solutions on large data sets using cloud-based technologies. This is the first textbook to teach students how to build data analytic solutions on large data sets (specifically in Internet of Things applications) using cloud-based techno... More

From # 1 Essence best-selling Crime Novelist K'Wan comes a tale of forbidden love, high stakes murder and the robbery gone bad that set it all in motion, Diamonds and Pearl.They say that good girls like bad boys, and this was especially true for Pearl Stone. A child born of privilege to a drug baron... More

#1 Essence bestselling author K’Wan returns with The Diamond Empire, the explosive, hard-hitting follow-up novel to the street love story Diamonds and Pearl.It’s about to be an all-out war. While an ambitious rival has taken over Diamonds’s crew, Diamonds lies in wait in exile, carefully planning hi... More

After the incredible success of Animal, K'wan is back with the second, bloody installment in the new Animal saga. Secrets are revealed, sides are chosen and bodies are dropped...it's on!The man ordered to take Animal from the world turns out to be the man who brought him into it. Animal finds himsel... More

What would you do if you felt like you were dying and the only thing that could save you was the very thing that was killing you?Persia Chandler doesn't know the meaning of the world struggle. After the arrest of her notorious father, she is whisked away from Harlem, the only place she has ever call... More

Bernadette "Bernie" Hunt prides herself on never settling. In school, she was always at the top of her class, and after graduating from Spellman with honors she landed a job at one of Atlanta's top marketing firms. She lives by her father's motto: the best of everything, or nothing at all.Bernie exc... More

Two lives . . . two paths . . . one tragic outcome. The Fix 2 is in and the game is afoot!The past few months have been a living hell for Persia. Seemingly overnight, she has fallen from grace and found herself scraping rock bottom, all in the name of two lovers--Chucky and cocaine. One was ... More

In the history of New York City’s underworld, there have been a host of criminal figures whose exploits have gone on to inspire. Their stories are told on street corners and in back alleys. One of them is Jonas Rafferty, known among friends and enemies alike as Wrath.Jonas, the only boy in a family ... More

What would you do if you felt like you were dying and the only thing that could save you was the very thing that was killing you?Persia Chandler doesn't know the meaning of the world struggle. After the arrest of her notorious father, she is whisked away from Harlem, the only place she has ever call... More

''K'wan does a masterful job of keeping readers on their toes right up to the very last page.'-Publishers Weekly Animal 4 Re-Issue featuring Bonus material. From the moment Animal's former lover Red Sonja showed up on his doorstep, he knew trouble wouldn't be far behind. It wasn't because the last t... More

Top-notch street lit...one of the top urban fiction novels of the year." - Library JournalAll he ever wanted to be was a Good Son ...Shai Clark was an all-American basketball player with aspirations of one day making it to the NBA, but that all changed when his father was viciously murdered and he f... More

This book surveys the complicated history of U.S.-Chinese relations. After two brief chapters providing historical context, the focus shifts to the mid-twentieth century, the wartime alliance, the war's bitter aftermath, and the decades since World War II, including the path from normalisation to Ch... More

This book explores U.S.-China relations, the most important bilateral relationship in the world, under the leadership of President Barack Obama. Obama took office just as China’s rise to global power accelerated; his decisions set the stage for a new era in U.S.-China relations . In Part I, the book... More