Chang: 469 books

This book details polysaccharides and other important biomacromolecules covering their source, production, structures, properties, and current and potential application in the fields of biotechnology and medicine. It includes a systematic discussion on the general strategies of isolation, separation...

Research continues to uncover early childhood as a crucial time when we set the stage for who we will become. In the last decade, we have also seen a sudden massive shift in America’s racial makeup with the majority of the current under-5 age population being children of color. Asian and multiracial...

This illustrated encyclopedia examines the unique influence and contributions of women in every era of American history, from the colonial period to the present. It not only covers the issues that have had an impact on women, but also traces the influence of women's achievements on society as a whole....

This book contributes to an understanding of how globalization affects the lives of ordinary people. Since the middle of the twentieth century Taiwan has undergone a remarkably rapid change from a poor, mostly rural society to a thriving industrial, mostly urban one. Because of its openness to global...

Shanghai, 1930s. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. He is determined to resist his family’s efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry her. But dark circumstances—a lustful brother-in-law, a treacherous sister,...

This collection seeks to broaden the discussion of the child image by close analysis of the child and childhood as depicted in non-Western cinemas. Each essay offers a counter-narrative to Western notions of childhood by looking critically at alternative visions of childhood that does not privilege...

台灣詩人在國際努力開拓空間，是推展台灣意象的整體事功，期待如此能開創台灣文學的長久景象，並能奠定寶貴的歷史意義，使台灣文學在世界文壇上佔有一席之地。──叢書策劃／李魁賢長期書寫記錄高雄的詩人李昌憲，將親身的觀察詩意化。早年任職於加工出口區的經歷，成為筆尖下的工廠記事、水泥高樓與臨時工的故事。後期收錄的詩句因行旅而開闊眼界，他參觀美麗島站、行走於茶山、描寫人與海以及古道。《愛河...

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...

A breath of fresh Dorothy Lamour air. 'Dorothy Lamour' (December 10, 1914 – September 22, 1996) was an American female actor and vocalist. She is finest recalled for materializing in the Road to... Films, a serials of prosperous farces leading Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. This book is your ultimate resource...

This book is your ultimate Richard Gere resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Richard Gere's whole picture right away. Get countless Richard...

No other single volume reference to the Jehol site and its fossils exists and nowhere is there such a collection of fine photos of the fossils concerned. This book has pieced together the most up-to-date information on the Jehol Biota, a place that has shown the world some of the most astonishing...

Pechino, marzo 1852: durante la selezione delle consorti imperiali, lo sguardo dell’imperatore Xianfeng si posa su una sedicenne dai tratti non belli, forse, ma senza dubbio affascinanti. Di lì a poco, il cenno di approvazione del Figlio del Cielo schiuderà le porte della Città Proibita alla donna...

The Sutra of 108 Songs - Sutra(經) means Buddhist Canon. - Song(頌) means Gatha. - It has 25 Chapters + 108 Songs = 133 Verses . It is a Chong-Gyuhng(總經) which means Comprehensive Canon. - Comprehensive Canon means it is...

With Foreword by Michael Porter Following the success of the First Edition published in 2000, this extended edition of From Adam Smith to Michael Porter: Evolution of Competitiveness Theory provides a thorough explanation of the evolution of international competitiveness theories and their...