Chan: 600 books
China's Workers Under Assault: Exploitation and Abuse in a Globalizing Economy
Exploitation and Abuse in a Globalizing Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This important book contains case studies with substantive analysis of Chinese workers in a variety of settings: state enterprises, urban collectives, township and village enterprises, domestic private enterprises, and foreign funded enterprises. The cases include urban workers migrant workers from...
by Ming K. Chan, Alvin Y. So
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Hong Kong has undergone sweeping transformation since its return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. This is a multidisciplinary assessment of the new regime and key issues, challenges, crises and opportunities confronting the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).
Managing aviation maintenance organizational errors and risks
A focus on the importance of safety awareness to enhance performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Sociology - Work, Profession, Education, Organisation, grade: 90%, University of Newcastle, course: Masters Of Aviation Management, language: English, abstract: To manage risks and errors, there must be a good understanding, not just...
by Janis Fischer CHAN
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
The latest tools and techniques for accomplishing more in less time with fewer resources. In today’s competitive global environment—where people at all levels need to accomplish more, in less time, with fewer resources—the ability to manage priorities is a key element in personal and professional...
IAENG Transactions on Engineering Sciences
Special Issue for the International Association of Engineers Conferences 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Two large international conferences on Advances in Engineering Sciences were held in Hong Kong, March 12–14, 2014, under the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2014), and in London, UK, 2–4 July, 2014, under the World Congress on Engineering 2014 (WCE 2014)...
Fundamentals of Wavelets
Theory, Algorithms, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Most existing books on wavelets are either too mathematical or they focus on too narrow a specialty. This book provides a thorough treatment of the subject from an engineering point of view. It is a one-stop source of theory, algorithms, applications, and computer codes related to wavelets. This second...
by andrew k. chan
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
If you can handle the truth, face the music and take on the worst in the many battles of life, this book is for you. Its purpose is to share with you the insights the author has gained from his many trials and tribulations. He was almost beaten, relegated to living and struggling as an unhappy individual....
by Meng Chan
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
There was always a tradition of mysticism in religious music writing. For example. Cathedrals were built to facilitate the resonance of the perfect intervals, or try to, with the belief that the perfect intervals are holy and pure. Also, religious compositions often include cryptic symbols and images...
How to Become a Unscrambler
How to Become a Unscrambler
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
This publication will teach you the basics of how to become a Unscrambler. With step by step guides and instructions, you will not only have a better understanding, but gain valuable knowledge of how to become a Unscrambler
by Winnie Chan
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
This materialist study of the short story’s development in three diverse magazines reveals how, at the dawn of modernism, commercial pressures prompted modernist formal innovation in popular magazines, whilst anti-commercial opacity paradoxically formed the basis of an effective marketing strategy...
Communication, Digital Media, and Popular Culture in Korea
Contemporary Research and Future Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
In recent decades, Korean communication and media have substantially grown to become some of the most significant segments of Korean society. Since the early 1990s, Korea has experienced several distinctive changes in its politics, economy, and technology, which are directly related to the development...
Hmong Means Free
Life in Laos and America
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
This collection of evocative personal testimonies by three generations of Hmong refugees is the first to describe their lives in Laos as slash-and-burn farmers, as refugees after a Communist government came to power in 1975, and as immigrants in the United States. Reflecting on the homes left behind,...
The Future of Translation Technology
Towards a World without Babel
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Technology has revolutionized the field of translation, bringing drastic changes to the way translation is studied and done. To an average user, technology is simply about clicking buttons and storing data. What we need to do is to look beyond a system’s interface to see what is at work and what...
by Emily Ying Yang Chan
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
The pressure of climate change, environmental degradation, and urbanisation, as well as the widening of socio- economic disparities have rendered the global population increasingly vulnerable to the impact of natural disasters. With a primary focus on medical and public health humanitarian response...