Wong: 713 books
Emotional Intelligence at Work
18-year journey of a researcher
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Emotional intelligence is a very popular concept since it was made known to the general public in 1995. However, it was under severe criticisms among scientific researchers and a lot of them did not believe that it should be accepted by scientists as true knowledge.
The author of this book,...
Equalize Student Achievement
Prioritizing Money and Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
The challenge of proper school finance goes beyond having a balanced budget to finding strategies that maximize money to improve schools and equalize student achievement. School finance deals with how money works to support school operations and answer rigorous accountability such as the No Child...
Inclusive Growth
The Global Challenges of Social Inequality and Financial Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Inclusive growth ensures the benefits of a growing economy extend to all segments of society. Unleashing people’s economic potential starts with connecting them to the vital networks that power the modern economy. Implementing inclusive growth is a means of democratizing productivity and it is essential...
Chinatown Unbound
Trans-Asian Urbanism in the Age of China
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
‘Chinatowns’ are familiar places in almost all major cities in the world. In popular Western wisdom, the restaurants, pagodas, and red lanterns are intrinsically equated with a self-contained, immigrant Chinese district, an alien enclave of ‘the East’ in ‘the West’. By the 1980s, when...
Business Continuity Management System
A Complete Guide to Implementing ISO 22301
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
A business continuity management system (BCMS) is a management framework that prepares the organization by developing business continuity strategies to meet its business and statutory obligations during an incident. It is about optimizing service availability and preserving business performance to...
by Colin W. Evers, Kam-cheung Wong
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Leadership for Quality Schooling provides the latest thinking and research on school leadership from a range of international scholars in the field of educational administration. Because of the growing acceptance of school- based models of school management, there is now developing a greater focus...
Automotive Global Value Chain
The Rise of Mega Suppliers
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Today, some suppliers have grown increasingly powerful and in certain cases, earn revenues that rival or even exceed that of their automaker clients. In the pre-globalisation period, automakers wielded absolute power over their significantly smaller suppliers. This book reveals the upending of this...
Food Enzymes
Structure and Mechanism
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Food Enzymes: Structure and Mechanism is the first volume to bring together current information on the structures and mechanisms of important food enzymes. It provides an in-depth discussion of the dynamic aspects of enzyme structures and their relationship to the chemistry of catalysis. The book...
by Richard Beals, Roderick Wong
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
The subject of special functions is often presented as a collection of disparate results, rarely organized in a coherent way. This book emphasizes general principles that unify and demarcate the subjects of study. The authors' main goals are to provide clear motivation, efficient proofs, and original...
Theory of Nonlinear Structural Analysis
The Force Analogy Method for Earthquake Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
A comprehensive book focusing on the Force Analogy Method, a novel method for nonlinear dynamic analysis and simulation
This book focusses on the Force Analogy Method, a novel method for nonlinear dynamic analysis and simulation. A review of the current nonlinear analysis method for earthquake...
by Zhenghao Gan, Waisum Wong, Juin J. Liou
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2012
Proven processes for ensuring semiconductor device reliability
Co-written by experts in the field, Semiconductor Process Reliability in Practice contains detailed descriptions and analyses of reliability and qualification for semiconductor device manufacturing and discusses the underlying physics...
Learning in School-University Partnership
Sociocultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
This volume looks at school-university partnerships from sociocultural perspectives of learning that view participation in social practice as fundamental to the process of learning. Its two major themes – school-university partnership and sociocultural and social theories of learning – have both...
by Trin Aiyara, Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim, Ngeow Chow-Bing
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
In 2012, the Communist Party of China (CPC) inaugurated the Xi Jinping era when it elected him to be the General Secretary of the CPC. The following year Xi was elected President of the People’s Republic of China. The Xi Jinping era has seen a remarkable transformation of Chinese foreign policy,...
Electoral Politics in Post-1997 Hong Kong
Protest, Patronage, and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2015
This book offers a novel and parsimonious framework to help understand Hong Kong’s lengthy democratic transition by analyzing the electoral dynamics of the city’s competitive authoritarian political system, where pro-Beijing and pro-democracy parties have struggled to keep each other in check....