Wang Li: 62 books
Achieving sustainable cultivation of soybeans Volume 1
Breeding and cultivation techniques
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Soybeans are one of the most widely-grown crops in the world. As the world’s main source of vegetable protein, they have a wide range of food and non-food uses. Current yields need to increase significantly to meet growing demand but in a way that reduces input use, does not damage the environment...
by Zijun Cao, Yu Wang, Dianqing Li
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
This is the first book to revisit geotechnical site characterization from a probabilistic point of view and provide rational tools to probabilistically characterize geotechnical properties and underground stratigraphy using limited information obtained from a specific site. This book not only provides...
Chinese Investigative Journalists' Dreams
Autonomy, Agency, and Voice
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This edited volume brings together scholars positioned in and outside of China, including former Chinese journalists, in a comprehensive and in-depth study of Chinese investigative journalists’ dreams, work practices, and strategies. It is the first book that systematically addresses the roles and...
by William H. Mobley, Ming Li, Ying Wang
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Volume 7 of "Advances in Global Leadership" includes timely and impactful chapters on various concepts and processes associated with leading across cultures and other boundaries. In these times of accelerating complexity and global inter-connectedness, a deeper understanding of the multiple...
Tales from the Development Frontier
How China and Other Countries Harness Light Manufacturing to Create Jobs and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Despite widespread agreement among economists that labor-intensive manufacturing has contributed mightily to rapid development in China and other fast-growing economies, most developing countries have had little success in raising the share of manufacturing in production, employment, or exports. Tales...
Key Diagnostic Features in Uroradiology
A Case-Based Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
This book presents a wealth of images of the different diseases and conditions encountered in the field of uroradiology with the aim of enabling the reader to recognize lesions, to interpret them appropriately and to make correct diagnoses. The images have been selected because they depict typical...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize Volume 2
Cultivation techniques, pest and disease control
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
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Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33
Theatres of War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Volume 33 of Theatre History Studies explores war. War is a paradox—horrifying and compelling, galvanizing and devastating, a phenomenon that separates and decimates while at the same time creating and strengthening national identity and community bonds. War is the stuff of great drama.
War and...
by Bing Guan, Taihui Guo, Zhonghua Guo
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This volume theorizes the concept of citizenship in contemporary China by probing into the formation of Chinese citizenship and synthesizing the practices of citizenship by different social groups. The first section, “Imagining Chinese Citizenship,” analyses how Chinese citizenship was first imagined...
Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age
The 2009 Presidential Election Uprising in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Focusing on the Iranian presidential elections of 2009 and ensuing demonstrations in major cities across Iran and world, Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age provides a balanced discussion of the role and impact of modern communication technologies, particularly the novel utilization of 'small...
Crowdsourced Data Management
Hybrid Machine-Human Computing
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
This book provides an overview of crowdsourced data management. Covering all aspects including the workflow, algorithms and research potential, it particularly focuses on the latest techniques and recent advances. The authors identify three key aspects in determining the performance of crowdsourced...
Asian/Americans, Education, and Crime
The Model Minority as Victim and Perpetrator
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Asian/Americans, Education, and Crime: The Model Minority as Victim and Perpetrator analyzes Asian/Americans’ interactions with the U.S. criminal justice system as perpetrators and victims of crime. This book contributes to a limited amount of scholarly writing so that researchers, policymakers,...
by Ghulam Ali, Yu Bin, Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Since the end of the Cold War, the new Chinese leadership generation has had to promulgate new guiding principles for handling global diplomacy which acknowledges China's new position. Given the dramatic changes in the international system and its domestic economic success for the growing 'China's...
Water Cycle Management
A New Paradigm of Wastewater Reuse and Safety Control
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
This book focuses on environmental engineering, and on wastewater treatment and reuse in particular, which is a vital aspect for countries and regions suffering from water shortages. It introduces a new water cycle management concept for designing water systems that mimic the hydrological cycle, where...