Ho: 369 books
Practical Guide to Surgical and Endovascular Hemodialysis Access Management
Case Based Illustration
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
The renal failure and hemodialysis dependent population is increasing worldwide. Hemodialysis access is the life-line of these patients. Hemodialysis access related surgical and interventional procedures form a major demand to the healthcare services in many developed and developing countries. As...
What We Learned from PISA
The Outstanding Performance of Students in Hong Kong and East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
The outstanding performance of East Asian societies in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is one of the most widely discussed topics in international assessments. PISA is a worldwide study of scholastic performance, conducted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...
Borderland Roads
The Selected Poems of Ho Kyun
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
As writer, Kyun was an inheritor of the Chinese Tang style, becoming one of its first and foremost promulgators in Korea. The poems in this book portray issues of social justice, artistic legacy and purpose, and the daily life of a Korean nobleman in the middle years of Korea's Choson Dynasty. A selection...
Paper Sons and Daughters
Growing up Chinese in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Ufrieda Ho’s compelling memoir describes with intimate detail what it was like to come of age in the marginalized Chinese community of Johannesburg during the apartheid era of the 1970s and 1980s. The Chinese were mostly ignored, as Ho describes it, relegated to certain neighborhoods and certain...
Liquidated
An Ethnography of Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
Financial collapses—whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market—are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the abstract, all-powerful market to show how...
by Minfong Ho
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
A collection of three of award-winning author, Minfong Ho’s, most beloved and acclaimed books: Sing to the Dawn, Rice Without Rain and The Clay Marble. All three books are set in Southeast Asia, and each touches on a different theme: education, struggles for change both for country and within oneself....
Cassey Ho's Hot Body Year-Round
The POP Pilates Plan to Get Slim, Eat Clean, and Live Happy Through Every Season
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Cassey Ho, internationally renowned fitness instructor, is known for her irresistibly popular workout videos which have been shared millions of times online. She runs the #1 women's fitness channel on YouTube, Blogilates. Her unique format, POP Pilates© is a fusion of ab-chiseling, butt lifting,...
The Ocean in a Drop
Singapore: The Next Fifty Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
The IPS-Nathan Lectures series was launched by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) in 2014. It is part of the S R Nathan Fellowship for the Study of Singapore. The Fellowship was set up to fund further research into public policy, with the S R Nathan Fellow, who is appointed annually, delivering...
Unmaking China's Development
The Function and Credibility of Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Why would the removal of authoritarian institutions in some developing countries lead to sustained socio-economic crisis, while others experience explosive growth despite 'persisting' informal, insecure and rent-seeking institutional arrangements? A key to solving this enigma lies in understanding...
Making Mathematics More Practical
Implementation in the Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
The book Making Mathematics Practical (published by World Scientific in 2011) proposes a new paradigm in teaching problem solving in secondary school mathematics classrooms. It is a report of the research project “Mathematical Problem Solving for Everyone” (MProSE), which attempts to provide all...
by Peter Ho
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Peter Ho, former Head of the Singapore Civil Service, was the Institute of Policy Studies' 2016/17 S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore.
This book collects the four IPS-Nathan Lectures that he delivered between April and May 2017, and gathers highlights of his dialogues with the audience.
Ho...
by Jennifer Ann Ho
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an ambiguous racial category. Indeed, the 2010 U.S. Census lists twenty-four Asian-ethnic groups, lumping together under one heading people with dramatically different historical backgrounds and cultures. In Racial Ambiguity in Asian American...
by Jennifer Ann Ho, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Jennifer Ann Ho introduces readers to a “typical American” writer, Gish Jen, the author of four novels, Typical American, Mona in the Promised Land, The Love Wife, and World and Town; a collection of short stories, Who’s Irish?; and a collection of lectures, Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and...
by Anthony Ho
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
“By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, [and] prepared an ark.”
—Hebrews 11:7
Are we living again in the days of Noah—when another flood will suddenly burst upon the world with terrifying devastation? Anthony Ho believes so.
This time, however,...