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This study systematically investigates the development process, major characteristics and weak links of China's poverty alleviation experience and conducts a comparative analysis of poverty alleviation cases. It also accurately presents the internal logic and core elements of China's poverty allevi... More

This book explores how Chinese students abroad may suffer stress, and how they conceptualize and adapt to stress in the American higher education environment. To do so, it adopts a mixed methods design: the sequential explanatory design, which is characterized by the collection and analysis of quan... More

The book discusses data and energy integrated communication networking technologies, including the latest research contributions in this promising area. It firstly provides an overview of data and energy integrated communication networks (DEINs) and introduces the key techniques for enabling integra... More

Offering an example for transnational cooperation and successful reduction of a neglected tropical disease, this volume shows how Chinese scientists and local physicians controlled schistosomiasis in Zanzibar. Over a four-year study, local medical specialists and the population of Zanzibar were taug... More

Nanometre scale cellulose fibres, or nanocellulose, are emerging materials for various advanced applications. Nanocellulose and Sustainability: Production, Properties, Applications, and Case Studies provides a comprehensive overview of nanocellulose production, nanocellulose properties and nanocellu... More

Modern Condensed Matter Physics brings together the most important advances in the field of recent decades. It provides instructors teaching graduate-level condensed matter courses with a comprehensive and in-depth textbook that will prepare graduate students for research or further study as well as... More

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Smart Grid Inspired Future Technologies, SmartGIFT 2016, held in May 2016 in Liverpool, UK. Smart grid is the next generation electric grid that enables efficient, intelligent, and economical power genera... More

<P>This integrated, global collection of primary source documents illustrates the variety of experiences on the part of men and women who have made history; and is designed with introductions and questions, to make main points clear to students. <P>Organized chronologically and focusing on global th... More

Proceedings USB Flash Drive distributed free of charge to participants in the SMARTGIFT 2017 conference.... More

He was unbridled as he slashed his sword through the heavens! He exuded an evil aura, and his eyes flashed like lightning across the nine heavens. He was free and unfettered, with beauties as numerous as the clouds and flowers surrounding him. He was tyrannical, and wherever he passed, not a single ... More

He was unbridled as he slashed his sword through the heavens! He exuded an evil aura, and his eyes flashed like lightning across the nine heavens. He was free and unfettered, with beauties as numerous as the clouds and flowers surrounding him. He was tyrannical, and wherever he passed, not a single ... More

He was unbridled as he slashed his sword through the heavens!He exuded an evil aura, and his eyes flashed like lightning across the nine heavens.He was free and unfettered, with beauties as numerous as the clouds and flowers surrounding him.He was tyrannical, and wherever he passed, not a single bla... More

He was unbridled as he slashed his sword through the heavens!He exuded an evil aura, and his eyes flashed like lightning across the nine heavens.He was free and unfettered, with beauties as numerous as the clouds and flowers surrounding him.He was tyrannical, and wherever he passed, not a single bla... More

He was unbridled as he slashed his sword through the heavens!He exuded an evil aura, and his eyes flashed like lightning across the nine heavens.He was free and unfettered, with beauties as numerous as the clouds and flowers surrounding him.He was tyrannical, and wherever he passed, not a single bla... More

Reading 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

Jaguar 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

“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

"This is a very timely book. With the recapitalization and reform of China's banking sector now well under way, the banks are on the brink of a new era of growth and expansion. This work is the definitive reference on the banking sector in China, and is an essential tool for anyone seeking to unders... More

He could control a loli with a pen and make her a wife on a martial arts bed. To be a bodyguard for a beauty for a hundred days and even warm her bed for a part-time job at night, wasn't such a job satisfying even to the gods?... More

He could control a loli with a pen and make her a wife on a martial arts bed. To be a bodyguard for a beauty for a hundred days and even warm her bed for a part-time job at night, wasn't such a job satisfying even to the gods?... More

A report from the International Monetary Fund.... More

How to Organize Yourself will help you to dramatically improve the way you work. With great tips on how to determine your goals, prioritize your tasks and manage your time, it also includes practical advice on how to: focus on the things that produce results; overcome distractions; build positive wo... More

How to Organize Yourself will help you to dramatically improve the way you work. With great tips on how to determine your goals, prioritize your tasks and manage your time, it also includes practical advice on how to: focus on the things that produce results; overcome distractions; build positive wo... More

Dramatically improve the way you work with great tips on how to determine goals, prioritize tasks, overcome distractions; build positive work habits and adjusting to working at home.This fully updated 7th edition now features even more practical exercises, useful templates and top tips to help you g... More

How to Organize Yourself will help you to dramatically improve the way you work. With great tips on how to determine your goals, prioritize and manage your time, it also includes practical advice on how to: focus on the things that produce results; overcome distractions; build positive work habits; ... More