Chen Chen: 1169 books
If Nuns Were Wives
A Handbook on Marriage from the Perspective of a Nun
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
A unique guide to bringing faith, devotion, and reverence to your marriage—by a wife and mother who almost took her holy vows.
At one time, Shani Chen wanted nothing more than to renounce wordly life by becoming a nun. But after years of following a devoutly religious path, it was the nuns themselves...
by Wai Kai Chen
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2004
The Electrical Engineer's Handbook is an invaluable reference source for all practicing electrical engineers and students. Encompassing 79 chapters, this book is intended to enlighten and refresh knowledge of the practicing engineer or to help educate engineering students. This text will most likely...
Manipulating Globalization
The Influence of Bureaucrats on Business in China
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The era of globalization saw China emerge as the world's manufacturing titan. However, the "made in China" model—with its reliance on cheap labor and thin profits—has begun to wane. Beginning in the 2000s, the Chinese state shifted from attracting foreign investment to promoting the...
by Lung-chu Chen
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
For a country of its size, Taiwan has a tremendous influence on world affairs and U.S. policy. The U.S.-Taiwan-China Relationship in International Law and Policy describes the central issues animating the dynamic U.S.-Taiwan-China relationship and the salient international and domestic legal issues...
Human Rights and World Public Order
The Basic Policies of an International Law of Human Dignity
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
In 1980, Professors McDougal, Lasswell, and Chen published the original edition of Human Rights and World Public Order to present a "comprehensive framework of inquiry" from which to approach international human rights law, and international law, and inadequacies therein in the discourse of that time...
by Jack Chen
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
This eBook edition appears to coincide with the acquisition of the Exclusion/Inclusion Exhibition from the New York Historical Society by the Chinese Historical Society of America in San Francisco (CHSA).
“Before World War I, when Chinese contributed importantly to the building of America...
The Transformation of Governance in Rural China
Market, Finance, and Political Authority
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The outbreak of organised, violent peasant protests across the Chinese countryside from the late 1990s to early 2000s has attracted much scholarly interest. In this study, An Chen endeavours to understand from these protests the question of the Chinese government's control in the countryside and the...
Toward Better Governance in China
An Unconventional Pathway of Political Reform
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
Toward Better Governance in China takes a fresh look at the latest efforts made by Chinese leaders to promote governance-based reform. It asserts that the improvement of governance has now become one of the breakthrough points of the much anticipated political reform. Although the Chinese government...
I Wanna Be Well
How a Punk Found Peace and You Can Too
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
A punk rocker’s guide to grow, learn, and appreciate the present moment—in short, to live a life that doesn’t totally suck.
All Miguel Chen ever wanted was to be happy. Just like everyone else.
But—also like everyone else—he’s suffered. A lot. Running from difficult personal...
Why isn't my child talking?
The story of one mother's journey
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
All kids develop differently and at their own pace. But what if the child is two or three and not saying words? What if everyone said not to worry…that the kid would talk when they were ready?
Lisa Chen went through this exact issue with her daughter. In light of everyone telling her differently,...
Measuring Shadows
Kepler’s Optics of Invisibility
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
In Measuring Shadows, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Kepler’s Optics is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his scientific epistemology. He explores Kepler’s radical break from scientific and epistemological traditions and shows how the seventeenth-century...
by Ran Chen
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2004
From one of China's most celebrated contemporary novelists comes this riveting tale of a young woman's emotional and sexual awakening. Set in the turbulent decades of the Cultural Revolution and the Tian'anmen Square incident, A Private Life exposes the complex and fantastical inner life of a young...
God Speaks in Silence
Poems for All Seasons
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Dr. Chen has distilled his lifes thoughts as a medical doctor, contemplating the memory of pain and suffering of thousands of patients through the years and as a pioneering scientist in cancer research and in the understanding of organismal developmental processes.
This little distillate of...
Governance, Social Control and Legal Reform in China
Community Sanctions and Measures
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
This book outlines how community sentences and early release options are administered in China. Chen provides empirical insights into the emerging community sector of the Chinese penal system, and illustrates how Chinese criminal courts decide between imprisonment and community sentences. Drawing...