S Chen: 42 books
by Chris Rhatigan, Ron Earl Phillips, Preston Lang
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Deadlines is a tribute anthology dedicated to the memory of writer and crime fiction enthusiast, William E. Wallace. A career journalist, Wallace got a first-hand look at the darker side of humanity working at various papers in California before settling at the San Francisco Chronicle. Upon retiring,...
The Changing Landscape of Work and Family in the American Middle Class
Reports from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
This collection explores the dynamics of the modern, middle-class American family and its near-constant state of transition. The editors introduce the book by situating it within the context of work, family, and ethnographic research on middle-class families in the United States. Emerging and established...
Globalization and Agriculture
Redefining Unequal Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Globalization and Agriculture: Redefining Unequal Development focuses on the development of national agriculture of nine countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia from two different and complementary angles. One angle is the opportunities created by globalization for agricultural production and...
Leadership of Chinese Private Enterprises
Insights and Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
This original book presents in-depth research into thirteen successful Chinese private enterprises through interviews with their founder-entrepreneurs. While Chinese economic growth has focused primarily on governmental policies and institutional factors, Leadership of Chinese Private Enterprises...
Disability and the Environment in American Literature
Toward an Ecosomatic Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This book includes a collection of essays that explore the relationship between Disability Studies and literary ecocriticism, particularly as this relationship plays out in American literature and culture. The contributors to this collection operate from the premise that there is much to be gained...
by Zong-Ming Li, Jennifer S Wayne, Chih-Hwa Chen;Kirstin Woo
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
This is a compilation of tributes to a gentleman who has impacted the field of biomedical engineering and musculoskeletal science for four decades through his research, his guidance and mentorships, his friendships, and his love for the field, family, and friends. It provides readers with a view of...
by Ruey S. Tsay, Rong Chen
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
A comprehensive resource that draws a balance between theory and applications of nonlinear time series analysis
Nonlinear Time Series Analysis offers an important guide to both parametric and nonparametric methods, nonlinear state-space models, and Bayesian as well as classical approaches to...
Development-Induced Displacement in India and China
A Comparative Look at the Burdens of Growth
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
The world seems to have recently discovered India and China as major players in Asia, and political and economic connections between the two countries are rapidly growing. Beyond the fashionable phenomenon, the two countries have much in common and many shared experiences. Both are developing countries...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of potatoes Volume 2
Production, storage and crop protection
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Comprehensive coverage of improvements in cultivation techniques across the potato value chain, from yield modelling to post-harvest storage
Detailed review of the main fungal, bacterial and viral diseases affecting potatoes
Assesses the environmental impact of potato cultivation
A Guide to Successful Business Relations With the Chinese
Opening the Great Wall's Gate
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Introduces and analyzes the Chinese people, their ideas, behavior, and cultural roots. It not only provides a sufficient theoretical basis for understanding this population, but also focuses on the various vivid practical experiences of everyday and business life. A Guide to Successful Business Relations...
Aging Heroes
Growing Old in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Despite the increasing number and variety of older characters appearing in film, television, comics, and other popular culture, much of the understanding of these figures has been limited to outdated stereotypes of aging. These include depictions of frailty, resistance to modern life, and mortality....
CAD and Robotics in Architecture and Construction
Proceedings of the Joint International Conference at Marseilles, 25–27 June 1986
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
After two decades, data processing has finally, and probably forever, found its niche among civil engineering and construction (CEC) professionnals, through word processors, digitizing tables, management software, and increasingly via drawing software and computer-aided design (CAD), recently, robots...
by Dr. Stuart F. Chen-Hayes, Melissa S. Ockerman, Dr. Erin Chase McCarty Mason
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
School counseling strategies that promote student success!
So much is expected to prepare today’s students for success—academic achievement, career and college readiness, emotional and social competency, just to name a few. School counselors can make an enormous positive difference...
Alternative Approaches in Music Education
Case Studies from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Explore the creative ways music educators across the country are approaching emerging practices in music teaching and learning. Outlined in twenty-five unique case studies, each program offers a new perspective on music teaching and learning, often falling outside the standard music education curriculum....