Chen Chen: 1169 books

The Chinese have, since ancient times, professed a non-litigious outlook. Similarly, their preference for mediation has fascinated the West for centuries. Mediation has been popularized by the Chinese who subscribe to the Confucian notions of harmony and compromise. It has been perpetuated in the...

This gripping episode is the second in the series and the sequel to Legend of the Red Ruby. Having found the red ruby, Ava is living a much more comfortable life. Yet, she continues to miss her dear mother terribly. Loading up her trusty camel Sandstorm, Ava and her best friend, Mohammad, set off...

Ecocriticism is a mode of interdisciplinary critical inquiry into the relationship between cultural production, society, and the environment. The field advocates for the more-than-human realm as well as for underprivileged human and non-human groups and their perspectives. Taiwan is one of the earliest...

First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Reading in a Second Language offers a comprehensive survey of the phenomenon and process of reading in a second language, with graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and applied psychology as its primary audience. The book explores reading...

A young girl living amongst ancient Egypts golden pyramids is haunted by a story of a stolen red ruby that holds the key to one familys destiny. After her mothers death, Ava and her father struggle to make ends meet. With barely enough food to keep them fed, Ava starts out on the adventure of a lifetime...

Two human siblings, Alexis and Varren, sixteen and seventeen years old, live in a mythical land called Ithaca, where six groups dominate the world: elves, dwarves, gnomes, were-creatures, dragons, and humans. The siblings lead a normal life until it is revealed to them that a rebellion exists against...

“Goh-Goh is angry at you for not being a good Little Sister. Wah. . . . Why are you so selfish? You know you are not supposed to anger bad spirits during Ghost Month.” I sputtered, “You think Goh-Goh is a bad spirit? A gwai?” “Ai-yah. Don’t call them that. Do you want to...

Hotshot lawyer Lucas Wilde is on a fast track to becoming NYC's next district attorney. Taking a break to attend his best friend's wedding, he is dismayed to learn the groom has plans to set him up with someone. In the aftermath of a failed marriage, Lucas has no intention of dating. He's not sure...

The true measure of any society is how it treats its children, who are in turn that society’s future. Making use of data from the longitudinal Chinese Family Panel Studies survey, the authors of this timely study provide a multi-faceted description and analysis of China’s younger generations....

Linking the two areas together, this book presents the latest research and development, so as to highlight the potential of information visualisation as an enabling technology in the design of new generations of virtual environments. This will be an invaluable source of reference for courses in information...

Improvement of injection molding processes remains a topic of great interest in both industry and research institutions. This book introduces the analysis of the molding process from a systems technology point of view.It is divided into four parts: the first part provides general background to introduce...

Superb archive of more than 1,100 illustrations, grouped chronologically according to dynastic era, depicts dragons, tigers, fish, birds, horses, butterflies, waterfowl, and a host of other creatures — real and mythical. Exotic images are easily adaptable for use as spot illustrations, borders, and other graphic elements.

This book presents an overview of copula theory and its application in hydrology, and provides valuable insights, useful methods and practical applications for multivariate hydrological analysis using copulas. In addition, it extends the traditional bivariate model to trivariate or multivariate models....