K K Chan: 27 books
Gynecologic and Obstetric Surgery
Challenges and Management Options
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Gynecologic and obstetric surgery is a craft that requires sound knowledge and skills. The specifics of each individual case must be understood to enable the best surgical management approach and to minimize complications. This resource book offers insightful management options to many of the challenges...
The Way I See It
A Candid Review of the Lessons from Life so Far
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
This book offers hope and inspiration to:
People who are visually impaired People who have other bodily impairments Parents who have a physically challenged child People who ponder about the purpose of life
Born with not one, but two rather restrictive birth defects, Joseph Chan faced...
The Hong Kong Reader: Passage to Chinese Sovereignty
Passage to Chinese Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This paperback reader provides the student and general reader with easy access to the major issues of the Hong Kong transition crisis. Contributors include both editors, as well as Frank Ching, Berry F. Hsu, Reginald Yin-wang Kwok, Peter Kwong, Julian Y.M. Leung, Ronald Skeldon, Alvin Y. So, Yun-wing...
Schools into Fields and Factories
Anarchists, the Guomindang, and the National Labor University in Shanghai, 1927–1932
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In this collaborative effort by two leading scholars of modern Chinese history, Ming K. Chan and Arif Dirlik investigate how the short-lived National Labor University in Shanghai was both a reflection of the revolutionary concerns of its time and a catalyst for future radical experiments in education....
Precarious Balance: Hong Kong Between China and Britain, 1842-1992
Hong Kong Between China and Britain, 1842-1992
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
This work closely considers the history and political importance of Hong Kong in the period 1842 to 1992.
Action Reconceptualized
Human Agency and Its Sources
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
The concept of action that requires philosophical analysis is one that concerns behavior characteristically found in humans. In Action Reconceptualized: Human Agency and Its Sources, David K. Chan examines the sources of human agency that are proposed in causal theories of action—namely desire,...
by K K Phua, L C Kwek, N P Chang;A H Chan
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Professor Freeman Dyson, a great physicist, thinker and futurist, has been very active in scientific, literary and public policy activities throughout his career. As a tribute to him on the occasion of his 90th birthday and to celebrate his lifelong contributions in physics, mathematics, astronomy,...
by Bertram K.C. Chan, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Since it first appeared in 1996, the open-source programming language R has become increasingly popular as an environment for statistical analysis and graphical output. This is the first textbook to present classical biostatistical analysis for epidemiology and related public health sciences to students...
Applied Probabilistic Calculus for Financial Engineering
An Introduction Using R
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Illustrates how R may be used successfully to solve problems in quantitative finance
Applied Probabilistic Calculus for Financial Engineering: An Introduction Using R provides R recipes for asset allocation and portfolio optimization problems. It begins by introducing all the necessary probabilistic...
by Ming K. Chan, Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China is located on the southeastern coast of China, and the Macao SAR can be found off of China's southern coast. Both regions have recently been released from European colonial rule: Hong Kong from British control in 1997 and...
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).
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....
The Mystery of Mind
A Systematic Account of the Human Mind Toward Understanding Its Own Realization
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2003
The Mystery of Mind is a systematic and critical introduction to the philosophy of mind. At issue is what is known as the mind-body problem. How does a body support a mind with its brain?
Pivotal to the book is the author's working out of an adverbial concept of mind that is user-friendly to...
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