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Neoliberal Urbanism, Contested Cities and Housing in Asia (The Contemporary City)
Considering Asian cities ranging from Taipei, Hong Kong and Bangkok to Hanoi, Nanjing and Seoul, this collection discusses the socio-political processes of how neoliberalization entwines with local political economies and legacies of ‘developmental’ or ‘socialist’ statism to produce urban contestati... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Visitor Experience Design (Cabi Series In Tourism Management Research Ser.)
by Pierre Benckendorff • Wei Liu • Xiang Li • Ying Wang • Júlio Mendes • Ana Claudia Campos • I-Ling Chen • Peiyi Ding • Rouven Doran • Afiya Holder • Shan Jiang • Svein Larsen • Dung Le • Kuan-Huei Lee • Shanshi Li • Brent Moyle • Liubov Skavronskaya • Beverley Sparks • Patricia Valle • Gabby Walters • Katharina Wolff • Laurie Wu • Lihua GaoMost discussion of visitor experiences uses a behavioural or managerial approach where the way the visitor thinks is ignored - it's a black box. Visitor Experience Design is the first book of its kind to examine best practice in creating and delivering exciting and memorable travel and visitation e... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
The Future of United States, China, and Taiwan Relations
by Denny Roy • Cheng-Yi LinRelations across the Taiwan Strait were unstable for decades before May 2008. Several acknowledged "crises" raised the possibility of war between China and the US and/or Taiwan and at times political disputes wracked the US-Taiwan relationship. Nevertheless, the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) of 1979 ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Rise of China: Beijing’s Strategies and Implications for the Asia-Pacific (Politics in Asia)
Despite the growing internal social unrest and disparity of economic development, the People’s Republic of China is the third largest world economy and the second largest defense spender. Showing no clear signs of slowing down, China’s rise is seen as both an opportunity and a challenge by the major... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Perceptual Image Coding with Discrete Cosine Transform
by Ee-Leng Tan • Woon-Seng GanThis book first introduces classic as well as recent computational models for just-noticeable-difference (JND) applications. Since the discrete cosine transform (DCT) is applied in many image and video standards (JPEG, MPEG-1/2/4, H. 261/3), the book also includes a comprehensive survey of computat... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Flying High, Landing Low: Strengths and Challenges for U.S. Air Transportation
The U.S. air transportation system flies high on some indicators, mostly involving capacity to take to the air, but lands low on others, mostly involving ground facilities and processes. This note provides an overview of the history and current state of air transportation in the U.S., covering indus... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Educational Policy Innovations
This volume presents how high performing education systems over the world are constantly innovating their educational policies to nurture their citizens for the challenges of the future economy and the anticipation of the unknown. This volume includes a state-of-the-art review of the literature in ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Lee Kuan Yew’s Educational Legacy
The late Mr Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015) laid the foundations for the creation of a first-world education system in Singapore. Like many other issues concerning the country, his ideas for education were transported in a red box, which he took with him wherever he went, even up to his last days. Inside... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Teacher Education in the 21st Century
This book examines the evolution and innovation of teacher education in Singapore in the 21st century. It covers teacher education reforms in the conceptualising and implementing of the Teacher Education for the 21st Century (TE21) Model and discusses curriculum improvements that are aligned to new... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Intellectual Property Rights and Emerging Technology: 3D Printing in China
3D printing poses many challenges to the traditional law of intellectual property (IP). This book develops a technical method to help overcome some of these legal challenges and difficulties. This is a collection of materials from empirical interviews, workshops and publications that have been carri... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Supporting and Learning from Academics: EMI Toolkit
This book draws on real-world case studies to highlight key challenges and support the crafting of relevant and contextual responses. There is increasing pressure on academics and teaching staff to provide high-quality teaching and delivery in English. More than an edited volume, it offers a true di... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
Empowered Educators: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World
by A. Lin Goodwin • Linda Darling-Hammond • Ee-Ling Low • Carol Campbell • Ann McIntyre • Dion Burns • Karen Hammerness • Mistilina Sato • Ken ZeichnerDiscover how high-performing systems shape teaching quality around the world Producing highly skilled and committed teachers is not the work of a single innovative school or the aggregation of heroic individuals who succeed against the odds. In high-performing countries, the opportunities for teache... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Singapore Math and Science Education Innovation: Beyond PISA (Empowering Teaching and Learning through Policies and Practice: Singapore and International Perspectives #1)
This edited volume explores key areas of interests in Singapore math and science education including issues on teacher education, pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, teaching practices, applied learning, ecology of learning, talent grooming, culture of science and math, vocational education and STEM. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Intersections in Language Planning and Policy: Establishing Connections in Languages and Cultures (Language Policy #23)
This volume encompasses the range of issues encountered by language scholars who teach and research in departments of languages and cultures within the higher education system, predominantly in Australia, but touching other universities worldwide. Related studies on language planning, methodology or... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Widows' Words: Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between
by Alice Goode-Elman • Kelli Dunham • Penelope Dugan • Melanie K Finney • Ellen Schrecker • Raquel Ramkhelawan • Maxine Marshall • Lauren Vanett • Alice Derry • Michele Neff Hernandez • Elisa Clark Wadham • Deborah E Kaplan • P. C. Moorehead • Mimi Schwartz • Anne Bernays • Edie Butler • Debby Mayer • Sonia Jaffe Robbins • Barbara Marwell • Maggie Madagame • Roni Sherman Ramos • Doris Friedensohn • Nancy H Womack • Joan Michelson • Tracy Milcendeau • Merle Froschl • Andrea Hirshman • Molly A McEneny • Heather Slawecki • Kathleen Fordyce • Patricia Life • Nancy Shamban • Susanne Braham • Alice Radosh • Parvin Hajizadeh • Jean Y Leung • Joan Gussow • Kathryn Temple • Carrie L West • Lise Menn • Christine Silverstein • Tara SabharwalBecoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words. Some were widowed young, while others were married... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Gray Love: Stories About Dating and New Relationships After 60
by Sarah Dunn • Natasha Josefowitz • Erica Manfred • Jonathan Ned Katz • David Levy • Dustin Beall Smith • Paul Lauter • Barbara Abercrombie • Irvin Peckham • Susan Ostrov Weisser • Amy Rogers • Phyllis Carito • Mimi Schwartz • Doris Friedensohn • Nan Bauer-Maglin • Daniel E. Hood • Alice F. Freed • Cynthia McVay • Neil Stein • Laura Broadwell • Stephanie M. Brown • Elizabeth Locke • Candida B. Korman • Margie Kaplan • Hedva Lewittes • Rett Zabriskie • William Wiesner • Phyllis Bogen • Judith Ugelow Blak • Linda Wright Moore • Jean Y. Leung • Jan Jacobson • Stephanie Speer • Sandi Goldie • Jim Bronson • Vincent Valenti • Stacey Parkins Millett • Eugene Roth • Isabel Hill • Susan O’Malley • Susan Bickley • Bonnie Fails • Angela Page • Tierl Thompson • Idris WaltersGray Love narrates stories about the most common themes – searching for and (perhaps) finding love. Forty-five men and women between ages 60 and 94 from diverse backgrounds talk about dating, starting or ending a relationship, embracing life alone or enjoying a partnered one. The longing for connect... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
Climate, Ticks and Disease (CABI Climate Change Series #18)
by Charles Hart • Peter Cox • A. Townsend Peterson • Nicholas Johnson • Wei Liu • Jianhong Wu • Richard Wall • Domenico Otranto • Agustín Estrada-Peña • Jeremy Gray • Abdul Jabbar • Jolyon M. Medlock • Sunit Kumar Singh • Giovanni Benelli • Peter Irwin • Richard Bishop • Xue Zhang • Hao Li • DeMar Taylor • Deborah Hemming • Saeed Alasmari • Neil Alexander • Abdelghafar Alkishe • Reiko Arai • Armanda Bastos • Gervasio Henrique Bechara • John Beier • Joshua Benoit • Dennis Bente • Adrien Blisnick • René Bødker • Fernando Boinas • Sarah Bonnet • Nathalie Boulanger • Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz • Alexandre Rodrigues Caetano • Cyril Caminade • Jirí Cerny´ • Roxanne Albertha Charles • Ali Reza Chavshin • Rosalind Cornforth • Neil Coughlan • Lauren Culler • Milan Daniel • Vlasta Danielova • Mona Dehhaghi • Maria Diuk-Wasser • James P Duffy • Olivier Duron • Lars Eisen • Rebecca Eisen • Jana Elsterová • Koray Ergünay • Li-Qun Fang • Natalia Fernández-Ruiz • Erol Fikrig • Serhii Filatov • Durland Fish • Janet Foley • José De Fuente • Roman Ganta • Aysen Gargili Keles • Robin Beat Gasser • Abdul Ghafar • Naftaly Githaka • Lucy Gilbert • Maryna Golovchenko • Yuval Gottlieb • Ernest Gould • Libor Grubhoffer • Gilles J. Guillemin • Kayleigh M. Hansford • John E. Healy • Stephen Higgs • Andrew Hoodless • Yan-Jang S. Huang • Bernard Hudson • Chris Huntingford • Esther Kanduma • Sirri Kar • Maria Kazimirova • Neil Kaye • Thomas C. Kelly • Lene Jung Kjaer • Agatha Onyemowo Kolo • Eduard Korenberg • Nina Król • Chi-Chien Kuo • Timothy J. Kurtti • Xavier De Lamballerie • Patrick A. Leighton • L. Robbin Lindsay • Geoffrey E. Lynn • Ilya Maclean • Ben J. Mans • Maristela Martins de Camargo • Karen D. McCoy • Ulrike G. Munderloh • Atle Mysterud • Sukanya Narasimhan • Anna Obiegala • Dasiel Obregón Alvarez • Nick H. Ogden • Mari H. Ogihara • Stefan Vilges Oliveira • Charlotte Oskam • Kennan J. Oyen • Neha Pandey • Hamed Kazemi Panahi • John H. Pettersson • Martin Pfeffer • L. Paul Phipps • Heather J. Plumpton • Tatjana Pustahija • Ram Raghavan • Ryan O.M Rego • Annapaola Rizzoli • Isobel Ronai • Franz Rubel • Natalie Rudenko • Benjamin Ruiwen • Rufus Sage • Abdallah M. Samy • Gustavo Seron Sanches • Isabel Kinney Santos • Marcello Otake Sato • Megumi Sato • Richard Schloeffel • Seyyed Javad Seyyed-Zadeh • Ladislav Šimo • Daniel E. Sonenshine • Morgan Sparey • Frederic Stachurski • Snorre Stuen • Matias Pablo Szabó • Mike Teglas • Sam R. • Saravanan Thangamani • Georgia Titcomb • Attila J. Trájer • Michael Turell • Rika Umemiya-Shirafuji • Dana L. Vanlandingham • Laurence Vial • Margarita Villar • André B. Wilke • G. R. Wint • Zbigniew ZajacThis book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022