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Trees Without Wind: A Novel (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
by Rui LiUnfolding in the tense years of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Trees Without Wind takes place in a remote Shanxi village in which a rare affliction has left the residents physically stunted. Director Liu, an older revolutionary and local commune head, becomes embroiled in a power struggle with... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Microwave Bandpass Filters for Wideband Communications
This book will appeal to scientists and engineers who are concerned with the design of microwave wideband devices and systems. For advanced (ultra)-wideband wireless systems, the necessity and design methodology of wideband filters will be discussed with reference to the inherent limitation in fract... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Algorithms for Data and Computation Privacy
by Rui Li • Alex X. LiuThis book introduces the state-of-the-art algorithms for data and computation privacy. It mainly focuses on searchable symmetric encryption algorithms and privacy preserving multi-party computation algorithms. This book also introduces algorithms for breaking privacy, and gives intuition on how to d... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Regenerative Strategies for the Treatment of Knee Joint Disabilities
This book presents regenerative strategies for the treatment of knee joint disabilities. The book is composed of four main sections totaling 19 chapters which review the current knowledge on the clinical management and preclinical regenerative strategies. It examines the role of different natural... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
The “Hand-eye-brain” System of Intelligent Robot: From Interdisciplinary Perspective of Information Science and Neuroscience (Research on Intelligent Manufacturing)
This book reports the new results of intelligent robot with hand-eye-brain, from the interdisciplinary perspective of information science and neuroscience. It collects novel research ideas on attractive region in environment (ARIE), intrinsic variable preserving manifold learning (IVPML) and biologi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Business Trends in the Digital Era: Evolution of Theories and Applications
This book introduces 10 mega business trends, ranging from big data to the O2O model. By mining and analyzing mountains of data, the author identifies these 10 emerging trends and goes to great lengths to explain and support his views with up-to-date cases. By incorporating the latest developments... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Climate Change Impacts on Hydrological Processes and Sediment Dynamics: The Proceedings of The Second International Young Scientists Forum on Soil and Water Conservation and ICCE symposium 2018, 27–31 August, 2018, Moscow (Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences)
This book offers a collection of conference articles presented at the Second International Young Scientists Forum on Soil and Water Conservation and ICCE symposium 2018 “Climate Change Impacts on Sediment Dynamics: Measurement, Modelling, and Management” held at Moscow from 27 to 31 August 2018. Thi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Metal and Bone Drilling - The Thermal Aspects
This book introduces state-of-the-art experimental and numerical methods and examples for evaluating the drilling performance of engineering and biological materials, particularly in thermal aspects. The authors use a common pathway to present the technological and analytical methods for both indust... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems: 11th EAI International Conference, BROADNETS 2020, Qingdao, China, December 11–12, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #355)
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems, Broadnets 2020, which took place in Qingdao, China, in December 2020. The 13 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 subm... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Soft-Switching Technology for Three-phase Power Electronics Converters (IEEE Press Series on Power and Energy Systems)
Soft-Switching Technology for Three-phase Power Electronics Converters Discover foundational and advanced topics in soft-switching technology, including ZVS three-phase conversion In Soft-Switching Technology for Three-phase Power Electronics Converters, an expert team of researchers delivers a comp... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems: 10th EAI International Conference, Broadnets 2019, Xi’an, China, October 27-28, 2019, Proceedings (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #303)
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems, Broadnets 2019, which took place in Xi’an, China, in October 2019. The 19 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submiss... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Global Degradation of Soil and Water Resources: Regional Assessment and Strategies
This book focuses on soil and water conservation at global scale. It is a serious environmental problem that will threaten the socio-economic well-being of the majority of global population in future. The book examines the current situation of land degradation in multiple regions of the world and of... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Entropy Guided Transformation Learning: Algorithms and Applications
Entropy Guided Transformation Learning: Algorithms and Applications (ETL) presents a machine learning algorithm for classification tasks. ETL generalizes Transformation Based Learning (TBL) by solving the TBL bottleneck: the construction of good template sets. ETL automatically generates templates u... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Aloft
Set on affluent Long Island, "Aloft" follows the life of a suburban, upper-middle-class man during a time of family crisis. Jerry Battle's favorite diversion is to fly his small plane over the neighboring towns and villages. When his daughter and her fiancé arrive from Oregon to announce their marri... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
On Such a Full Sea: A Novel
From the beloved award-winning author of Native Speaker and The Surrendered, a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America. <p><p> On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standin... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Native Speaker
From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers#151;featuring cover art by Jessica Hische It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustra... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1995 -
A Gesture Life
Franklin Hada has lived for 30 years in Bedley Run, New York. He has been respected and has been able to keep his dark secret. Now his adopted daughter and her son enter his life. Can he keep his respectability or will his life unravel?... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
Managing Convergence in Innovation: The new paradigm of technological innovation (Routledge Frontiers of Business Management)
by Kong-Rae LeeTechnology in several forms, especially Information Technology (IT), has a strong tendency to converge at varying degrees. This phenomenon of converging innovation is likely to deepen and widen in the future due to intense competition in global markets. Asian manufacturing firms in particular lead t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Deconstructing LEGO: The Medium and Messages of LEGO Play
This book investigates a paradox of creative yet scripted play—how LEGO invites players to build ‘freely’ with and within its highly structured, ideologically-laden toy system. First, this book considers theories and methods for deconstructing LEGO as a medium of bricolage, the creative reassembly o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
The Routledge International Handbook of Race, Culture and Mental Health (Routledge International Handbooks)
This handbook presents a thorough examination of the intricate interplay of race, ethnicity, and culture in mental health – historical origins, subsequent transformations, and the discourses generated from past and present mental health and wellness practices. The text demonstrates how socio-cult... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Native Speaker
In New York, a Korean-American undercover operative is sent to spy on a rising politition. In the process, he must deal with identity and cultural conflicts as well as the death of his young son. Winner of the 1995 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. table end... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1995 -
My Year Abroad: A Novel
&“Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee today?&” — Los Angeles Times&“One of our most silken storytellers.&” —The Boston Globe &“An extraordinary book, acrobatic on the level of the sentence, symphonic across its many movements—and this is a book that moves…My Year Abroad is a wild ride—a ca... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
On Such A Full Sea: A Novel
On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane. Stepping from the realistic and historical territories of his previous work, Lee brings us into a world created ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
The Surrendered
June Han has forged a life thousands of miles from her birthplace: she has built a business in New York, survived a husband, borne a child. But her past holds more secrets than she has ever been able to tell, and thirty years after her escape from war-ravaged Korea, the time has come for her to conf... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Introduction to Quantum Computing (The Materials Research Society Series)
by Ray LaPierreThis book provides a self-contained undergraduate course on quantum computing based on classroom-tested lecture notes. It reviews the fundamentals of quantum mechanics from the double-slit experiment to entanglement, before progressing to the basics of qubits, quantum gates, quantum circuits, quantu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021