Poon: 22 books
Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period
Colonialism and the Politics of Performance
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Angelia Poon examines how British colonial authority in the nineteenth century was predicated on its being rendered in ways that were recognizably 'English'. Reading a range of texts by authors that include Charlotte Brontë, Mary Seacole, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, and H. Rider Haggard,...
Looptail
How One Company Changed the World by Reinventing Business
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Much in the same vein as DELIVERING HAPPINESS, LOOPTAIL combines both Bruce Poon Tip's extraordinary first-person account of his entrepreneurial instincts to start and develop G Adventures, a highly-successful international travel adventure company, and along the way, he reveals his unusual management...
Manga Classics: Great Expectations
Great Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Charles Dickens's Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an English orphan who rises to wealth, deserts his true friends, and becomes humbled by his own arrogance. It also introduces one of the more colorful characters in literature: Miss Havisham. Dickens set Great Expectations during the...
by Jono Poon, Ich Loc
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Do you wake up every day feeling miserable?
Are you doing the same things over and over again, while feeling completely empty inside?
Do you feel like your life has no purpose?
Are you simply existing, one tiring day after another?
Do you feel like every time you decide to make a change, life seems...
by Edwin Poon
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
The 'Awakening' of China: Western Concepts of China in the Early 20th Century' explores the reasoning behind the concept of "China's Awakening" at a time when China was weak, divided and dominated by western imperialism. Battered by the Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the fall...
The Political Future of Hong Kong
Democracy within communist China
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
On July 1st, 2007, Hong Kong celebrated the 10th anniversary of its return to the People’s Republic of China, but the past decade has been a bumpy ride for both the Hong Kong people and the central leaders in China. In fact, in 2003 Beijing had already succumbed to public pressure within the fairly...
Harmful Natural Chemicals and Radiation in the Environment
Stories, History and What You Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
This unique volume provides in layman's terms, without sacrificing scientific facts, the health hazards and potential dangers of naturally occurring substances that are around us everyday. The comprehensive coverage includes compounds (e.g. arsenic, lead), gases (e.g. hydrogen sulphide, ozone) and...
by Venus Poon
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
A short story of erotic adventures, from a very unique point of view.
Manga Classics: The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
On the very day of his wedding to the beautiful Mercedes, a young merchant sailor named Edmond Dantès is falsely imprisoned for life, laying to waste his plans of marriage and hard-earned fortune. Following several long years in prison he has managed to escape and reinvent himself as the mysterious...
Green Phoenix
A Novel of the Woman Who Re-Made Asia, Empress Xiaozhuang
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
With the fate of East Asia hanging in the balance, one Mongolian woman manipulated her lovers, sons and grandsons through war and upheaval to create an empire that lasted for 250 years. The Green Phoenix tells the story of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, born a Mongolian princess who became a consort...
by Dave Poon
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
This book is a beginner's guide, which has a comprehensive and step-by-step approach to building Drupal websites with fields. The book has examples, quizzes, and challenges for self-assessment and plenty of screenshots for easier and quicker understanding. This book is designed primarily for people who...
International Trade
The Basics
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Trade impacts on the lives of all global citizens, influencing the range of commodities available for consumption and where those commodities are produced. Driven increasingly by market exchange, trade shapes the nature of work and how the costs and benefits of that work are distributed around the...
Living Digital 2040
Future of Work, Education, and Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Countries, cities, and companies are investing in smart cities and digital economies.
How can people thrive as their lives are disrupted and transformed?
Will jobs be created or destroyed?
Will digital divides narrow or widen in education and healthcare?
Living Digital 2040 provides practical...
by Ting-Chung Poon, Taegeun Kim
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This invaluable second edition provides more in-depth discussions and examples in various chapters. Based largely on the authors' own in-class lectures as well as research in the area, the comprehensive textbook serves two purposes. The first introduces some traditional topics such as matrix formalism...
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