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Here at last is a book which all cooks need to know about the fast-growing list of Asian vegetables found in Asian grocery stores and specialty gourmet shops.With attractive watercolors and photographs, A Cook's Guide to Asian Vegetables helps you identify more than 170 vegetables and vegetable prod... More

This edited volume explores how success is conceptualized and represented in texts for young people in Asia. The essays in this collection examine how success for children relates to education, family, gender, race, class, community, and the nation. It answers the following questions: How is success... More

This book addresses the urgent issue of massive and inefficient energy consumption by data centers, which have become the largest co-located computing systems in the world and process trillions of megabytes of data every second. Dynamic provisioning algorithms have the potential to be the most viabl... More

This book provides energy efficiency quantitative analysis and optimal methods for discrete manufacturing systems from the perspective of global optimization. In order to analyze and optimize energy efficiency for discrete manufacturing systems, it uses real-time access to energy consumption informa... More

This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview on soils of Taiwan. It includes sections on soil research history, climate, geology, geomorphology, major soil types, soil maps, soil properties, soil classification, soil fertility, land use and vegetation, soil management, soils and human... More

The crown prince waved his hand to order his subordinates to retreat. His eyes were filled with malice.He had thought that by allowing someone to raid the southwest, he would be able to catch Cheng Zheng's weakness and capture him in one fell swoop. Who knew which segment would go wrong? He actually... More

It is often assumed that privatization leads to profit, and that well-delineated property rights and a strong private sector will help boost an economy. This book investigates the property rights in Chinese enterprises in the reform era, finding that distinction between the public and the private ar... More

Who the heck wanted to die? After the autopsy, the medical examiner was woken up in his dream. He really wanted to throw a scalpel at her. Just when he was about to open his eyes and perform the live spring palace, he had actually become Yuwen Qingying.It was one thing for Yuwen Xiangyu's daughter t... More

China has witnessed numerous incidents of social protests over the past three decades. Protests create uncertainty for authoritarian governments, and the Chinese government has created, strengthened, and coordinated multiple dispute-resolution institutions to manage social conflicts and protests. Ac... More

Kalman filtering algorithm gives optimal (linear, unbiased and minimum error-variance) estimates of the unknown state vectors of a linear dynamic-observation system, under the regular conditions such as perfect data information; complete noise statistics; exact linear modeling; ideal well-conditione... More

This volume is a collection of original studies based on one of the first research programs on comparative analysis of social capital. Data are drawn from national representative samples of the United States, China and Taiwan. The three societies selected for study allow the examination of how polit... More

Oh as long as she becomes the empress she can stay with the emperor s brother every day a girl s feelings the oriental purple clear became the queen of xuanyuan the original day of the proud daughter of her but after a short three years of happiness pain tasted the taste of purgatory on earth power ... More

Oh as long as she becomes the empress she can stay with the emperor s brother every day a girl s feelings the oriental purple clear became the queen of xuanyuan the original day of the proud daughter of her but after a short three years of happiness pain tasted the taste of purgatory on earth power ... More

Oh as long as she becomes the empress she can stay with the emperor s brother every day a girl s feelings the oriental purple clear became the queen of xuanyuan the original day of the proud daughter of her but after a short three years of happiness pain tasted the taste of purgatory on earth power ... More

A sword that could shatter the stars, a sword beam that could shatter the void, and a body of prideful bones that could trample the world; this was a world of experts. The young man, Shi Ling, walked out from here and stepped onto a path that belonged to him, the God Slaughtering Path.... More

A sword that could shatter the stars, a sword beam that could shatter the void, and a body of prideful bones that could trample the world; this was a world of experts. The young man, Shi Ling, walked out from here and stepped onto a path that belonged to him, the God Slaughtering Path.... More

A sword that could shatter the stars, a sword beam that could shatter the void, and a body of prideful bones that could trample the world; this was a world of experts. The young man, Shi Ling, walked out from here and stepped onto a path that belonged to him, the God Slaughtering Path.... More

A sword that could shatter the stars, a sword beam that could shatter the void, and a body of prideful bones that could trample the world; this was a world of experts. The young man, Shi Ling, walked out from here and stepped onto a path that belonged to him, the God Slaughtering Path.... More

This book focuses on the integration of information and communication technologies (ICT) into K-12 education. It documents the authors' reflections on the approaches and issues that have facilitated implementation of ICT integration in education as well as their experience in integrating ICT in edu... More

By focusing on the social and cultural life of post-1965 Taiwan immigrants in Queens, New York, this book shifts Chinese American studies from ethnic enclaves to the diverse multiethnic neighborhoods of Flushing and Elmhurst. As Hsiang-shui Chen documents, the political dynamics of these settlements... More

A beautifully photographed and designed cookbook and guide to the cultural phenomenon that is boba, or bubble tea--featuring recipes and reflections from The Boba Guys tea shops.Andrew Chau and Bin Chen realized in 2011 that boba--the milk teas and fruit juices laced with chewy tapioca balls from Ta... More

Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) is defined as the study of the development and use of advanced information systems and technologies for national, international, and societal security-related applications. With the rise of global terrorism, the field has been given an increasing amount of... More

Opinion mining is a prevalent research issue in many domains. In the financial domain, however, it is still in the early stages. Most of the researches on this topic only focus on the coarse-grained market sentiment analysis, i.e., 2-way classification for bullish/bearish. Thanks to the recent finan... More

This book examines the development of Chinese children’s literature from the late Qing to early Republican era. It highlights the transnational flows of knowledge, texts, and cultures during a time when children’s literature in China and the West was developing rapidly. Drawing from a rich archive o... More

Since the late 1970s, China has experienced an unprecedented pace of urbanization. In 1978, only 17.8% of the population resided in urban areas, but by 2013 the level of urbanization had reached 53.8%. During the same period, China also enjoyed spectacular economic growth. China had become the secon... More