Zhang: 830 books
Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability
Theory, Practice, and Product
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Cultural sustainability is a very important aspect of the overall sustainability framework and is regarded as the fourth pillar alongside the other three: environmental, economic, and social sustainability. However, the concept is neither fully explored, nor widely accepted or recognized. This book...
The Constitution of China
A Contextual Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This book on China's constitution and its tradition of constitutionalism is one of the first in the English language, and as such provides a much needed overview of China's constitutional history and present arrangements. The nine chapters are divided into three parts. The first part (Chapters 1 &...
by Dinghua Zhang, Yunyong Cheng, Ruisong Jiang
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Focusing on the theory and techniques of digital design and manufacturing for turbine blade investment casting, this book systematically summarizes the advances in applications in this field. It describes advanced digital design theory and methods and provides practical technical references for investment...
by Zhang Jiong
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Marxism initiated a new era not only for people to fight for socialist future, but also for each discipline of sciences to witness profound changes. In such a context, literature, which has always been closely related to politics, will inevitably move toward a new direction.
This book is composed...
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 Futaba Fujie, Ping Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2014
Covering Walks in Graphs is aimed at researchers and graduate students in the graph theory community and provides a comprehensive treatment on measures of two well studied graphical properties, namely Hamiltonicity and traversability in graphs. This text looks into the famous Kӧnigsberg Bridge...
Organometallic Chemistry
Volume 41
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
With the increase in volume, velocity and variety of information, researchers can find it difficult to keep up to date with the literature in their field. This interdisciplinary field has the potential to provide answers to problems and challenges faced in catalysis, synthetic organic chemistry and...
Metacognitive and Cognitive Strategy Use in Reading Comprehension
A Structural Equation Modelling Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
This book examines the relationship between Chinese college-level test takers' strategy use and reading test performance using a Structural Equation Modelling Approach. With a large sample of Chinese college-level test takers, the book investigates the underlying structure of the EFL reading test....
by Rae Chandran, Yizhao Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
What is not known about me is that I was greatly influenced by the understandings and philosophy of the magi who were the followers of the sacred fire. I had thoughts put into my mind while I slept and during times of deep silence about the sacredness of all life and about how to accept things in...
Confucian Image Politics
Masculine Morality in Seventeenth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
During the Ming-Qing transition (roughly from the 1570s to the 1680s), literati-officials in China employed public forms of writing, art, and social spectacle to present positive moral images of themselves and negative images of their rivals. The rise of print culture, the dynastic change, and the...
Theorizing Pedagogical Interaction
Insights from Conversation Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Pedagogical interaction can be observed through many different landscapes, such as the graduate seminar, the writing skills center, the after-school literacy program, adult ESL classrooms, and post-observation conferences. By viewing these settings through the lens of conversation analysis, this volume...
Computational Approaches in the Transfer of Aesthetic Values from Paintings to Photographs
Beyond Red, Green and Blue
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This book examines paintings using a computational and quantitative approach. Specifically, it compares paintings to photographs, addressing the strengths and limitations of both. Particular aesthetic practices are examined such as the vista, foreground to background organisation and the depth planes....
Strangers in the City
Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and Social Networks Within China’s Floating Population
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
With rapid commercialization, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migration policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China’s “floating population,” have streamed into large cities seeking employment and a better life. This massive flow of rural migrants directly challenges...
Growing Green
The Economic Benefits of Climate Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Pollution from fossil fuels and degraded natural lands are raising the earth’s temperature. The evidence of the causes of global warming is clear, as are its consequences. The economic impacts of climate change are already apparent and they threaten development gains. Extreme weather events have...