C Han: 18 books
Moved to Action
Motivation, Participation, and Inequality in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Wealthy, educated, and more privileged people are more likely to participate and be represented in politics than their poorer, less educated, and less privileged counterparts. To reduce these inequalities, we need a better understanding of how the disadvantaged become motivated to participate. Moved...
Scattering and Dynamics of Polymers
Seeking Order in Disordered Systems
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Scattering is a very powerful tool to study the structure of polymers. Written by highly regarded and respected scientists in the field, this book presents the latest developments in the field of scattering in a uniform, systematic manner. This volume arms readers with both theoretical and experimental...
Metaphor and Entertainment
A Corpus-Based Approach to Language in Chinese Online News
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Metaphor and Entertainment presents the very first, large-scale exploration of metaphor in Chinese online entertainment news, one of the most vibrant and controversial news genres in contemporary China.
Geisha of a Different Kind
Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
In gay bars and nightclubs across America, and in gay-oriented magazines and media, the buff, macho, white gay man is exalted as the ideal—the most attractive, the most wanted, and the most emulated type of man. For gay Asian American men, often viewed by their peers as submissive or too ‘pretty,’...
Maya and the Turtle
A Korean Fairy Tale
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
**WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL 2013-2014 MORNING CALM MEDAL**
This multicultural children's book presents a heartwarming Korean fairy tale about a little girl and a fortunate encounter.
Poverty is all Maya has ever known, but she doesn't allow it to stop her from caring for her father,...
by Pol Antràs, Ngo Van Long, Sebastian Benz
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Theoretical and empirical perspectives on the fragmentation of production processes across borders, shedding light on global sourcing decisions and their economic effects.
Recent decades have seen a fragmentation of production processes across borders, as firms find it increasingly profitable...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of oil palm Volume 2
Diseases, pests, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Oil palm is widely cultivated in tropical countries for use in food processing, personal care products and other applications such as biodiesel. Cultivation faces a range of challenges such as its environmental impact (e.g. in deforestation and biodiversity loss) as well threats from pests and diseases....
Clinical Acupuncture
Scientific Basis
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Acupuncture is rapidly moving out of the arena of "alternative" medicine, in large part because it is grounded more firmly than other alternative treatments in research. This book provides readers with the up-to-date information on the clinical bases of acupuncture.
Chinese Models of Development
Global, Local, and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This book approaches Chinese development from theoretical, historical, and comparative perspectives. Scholars in political science, sociology, economics, and history will find it useful for teaching and research purposes, and it is appropriate for courses in Chinese politics, comparative politics, foreign policy analysis, and political economy of East Asia.
Reviving Legitimacy
Lessons for and from China
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
The Chinese government has attempted to bolster its legitimacy as a political response to emerging social, cultural, political, economic, environmental challenges and crises experienced during market-oriented reforms and rapid modernization in China. However, contrary to the Western preference for...
by Jisheng Han, B. Pomeranz, Kang Tsou
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Scientific Bases of Acupuncture summarizes the major scientific advances from 1976 - 1988 on the mechanisms of acupuncture. Outstanding researchers from Western countries, Japan and China report their findings in the format of review articles. The individual reviews summarize each author's personal research while also referring to the overall literature in the field of acupuncture and TENS.
Dancing with the Dragon
China's Emergence in the Developing World
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
For the past several decades, China has been transforming itself from an isolated and backward agrarian society into an economic superpower with global interests and responsibilities. Over 300 million Chinese have been lifted out of poverty and China now enjoys the fastest growing and third largest...
Territories of Poverty
Rethinking North and South
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront...
Explorations in Information Space
Knowledge, Agents, and Organization
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2007
With the rise of the knowledge economy, the knowledge content of goods and services is going up just as their material content is declining. Economic value is increasingly seen to reside in the former - that is, in intangible assets - rather than in the latter. Yet we keep wanting to turn knowledge...
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