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In her previous life, she saved him, trusted him, loved him, and traded her life for him.He lied to her, betrayed her, destroyed her, and killed her with his own hands.She cursed him for having an immortal body, but he suffered from the pain of the burning heart day and night, and his soul was torme... More

In the Immortal World, a rather strange baby's immortal bone was removed by a mysterious man, returning him to the human world. He originally wanted to let him experience the suffering of reincarnation and become a nobody, but he never would have thought that this act of kindness would shock the hea... More

In the Immortal World, a rather strange baby's immortal bone was removed by a mysterious man, returning him to the human world. He originally wanted to let him experience the suffering of reincarnation and become a nobody, but he never would have thought that this act of kindness would shock the hea... More

This book investigates the higher education system in Germany and China, and analyzes the differences between academic higher education and application-oriented higher education. It explores the past, present, and future of application-oriented higher education in these two countries, and discusses ... More

This book focuses on urban morphology and its application to urban conservation and management. The rapid disappearance of historical urban landscapes, especially in developing countries, is largely attributed to the lack of historic awareness and broad-brush demolition and redevelopment in urban de... More

This book answers the question of how to design a sharing system that can promote sustained, meaningful, and socially constructive sharing practices in today’s cities. To do so, it constructs a framework for practical inquiry into the design of sharing systems. Further, the book invites readers to c... More

Flexible Batteries highlights the key advances in flexible batteries, a booming new direction in the energy storage field. The authors first introduce lithium-ion batteries, which are currently the most widely used batteries. Flexible aqueous batteries such as aqueous lithium-ion, sodium-ion, and... More

I used Jingu Bang, Seventy-Two Transformations, Fighting Clouds, and Fiery Eyes of the Golden Eyes as much as I could. Great Sage Qitian wanted to pretend to take me flying, but the condition was actually to find a woman with three moles on her chest … Previous Chapter Next Chapter Advertisement Ple... More

At the crossroads of artificial intelligence, manufacturing engineering, operational research and industrial engineering and management, multi-agent based production planning and control is an intelligent and industrially crucial technology with increasing importance. This book provides a complete o... More

This thesis presents an accurate and advanced numerical methodology to remedy difficulties such as direct numerical simulation of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), grid generation processes in tokamak fusion facilities, and the coupling between the surface tension... More

By virtue of several theoretical models and hypotheses, this book is one of the earliest studies which systematically investigates the structure and changes of China’s financial institutions. To begin with, it examines the relation between state utility function and China’s economic growth, and rev... More

This book focuses on the behavior and impact of trace metals in the environment by studying typical cases from China such as the Hetao Area of the Yellow River, Shanghai, and Nanjing. Based on samples and experiments on the behavior of pollutants, it systematically discusses the regulation of trace ... More

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.... More

Drawing from global insights and the education supply and demand theory, this book investigates migrant children’s education in China, as well as the educational financial policies, which serves as both a background and possible solutions. From a comparative perspective, the education fiscal polici... More

THE GREY MANE OF MORNING is a prequel--a tale of one of the earliest heroes of an enchanted land, of a time before the world was even given the name of Vandarei.... More

[from inside flaps] Red Moon and Black Mountain is a truly extraordinary first novel, a thrilling Sword-and-Sorcery tale that raises the art of fantasy to new heights. It transports the reader into an incredible, but totally convincing, world of black magic where the powers of darkness are awakenin... More

A collection of Carlos Bulosan's short stories, essays, poetry, and correspondence.... More

This book includes essays of the narrative of Filipino lives in the United States to provoke interrogation of the conventional wisdom and a critique of the global system of capital. It helps in constituting the Filipino community as an agent of historic change in a racist society.... More

Before the arrival of the twenty-first century, Taiwan was widely regarded as a successful model of a country which had not only transformed herself from an underdeveloped economy into a high-tech industrialised island, but had also undergone a revolution from an authoritarian regime to a democratic... More

In Racism and Cultural Studies E. San Juan Jr. offers a historical-materialist critique of practices in multiculturalism and cultural studies. Rejecting contemporary theories of inclusion as affirmations of the capitalist status quo, San Juan envisions a future of politically equal and economical... More

This collection provides a bracing window into some of the central ideas to have emerged from within grassroots struggles from 2006 to 2010. Rethinking Our Dance, the second of two volumes, offers a wide range of essays from frontline activists in Afghanistan, Argentina, Brazil, Niger, and Taiwan, a... More

China is a country that is rich in antiquities, but it is also a victim of looting that occurred during the period from the First Opium War to the end of the Japanese Occupation (1840–1945) when innumerable cultural objects were lost overseas. The Chinese Government insists on asserting its interest... More

This book demonstrates that solar energy, the most abundant and clean renewable energy, can be utilized to drive methane activation and conversion under mild conditions. The book reports that coupling solar energy and thermal energy can significantly enhance methane conversion at mild temperatures u... More

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2021, held online as part of SCF 2021, during December 10-14, 2021.The 6 full papers and 1 short paper presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. They deal with the latest fu... More

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2022, held as part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2022, held in Honolulu, HI, USA, in December 2022. The 8 full papers and 1 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed a... More