Chen: 1169 books
The Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Chinese
Textbook Level 1, Traditional Characters
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Chinese is a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chinese study which takes students from complete beginner to post-intermediate level. Designed to build a strong foundation in both the spoken and written language it develops...
Emma
Mandarin Companion Graded Readers: Level 1, Traditional Chinese Edition
Language: Chinese
Release Date: September 4, 2017
***Traditional Chinese Edition***
Clever, rich, and single, the beautiful Ān Mò (Emma Woodhouse) is focused on her career as fashion designer in the glamor of 21st-century Shanghai. She sees no need for romance in her life, but when she tries to find a boyfriend for her new friend Fangfang...
The Prince and the Pauper
Mandarin Companion Graded Readers: Level 1, Traditional Chinese Edition
Language: Chinese
Release Date: March 31, 2017
**Traditional Chinese Edition**
During a chance encounter, two nearly identical boys, one a poor beggar and the other a prince, decide to exchange places. The pauper, now living in the royal palace, is constantly filled with the dread of being discovered for who and what he really is while...
Quick English Sentences
Writing Effective Sentences and Paragraphs
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
This book helps beginning English Writer and those who wish to reinforce writing fundamentals. A Step-by-step process guides through English sentence construction, emphasizing the most fundamental grammar rules. Eight parts of speech are covered: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions,...
by Gang Chen
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
To understand China’s climate change policy is not easy, as the country itself is a paradox actor in global climate political economy: it used to take very suspicious stand on the scientific certainty of climate change, but recently it has become a signatory and firm supporter of the Kyoto Protocol;...
Acting Otherwise
The Institutionalization of Women's / Gender Studies in Taiwan's Universities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Acting Otherwise concerns the strategies of action that have been used by feminist scholars to attain the institutionalization of women's/gender studies in universities.
by Qinhua Zheng, Li Chen, Daniel Burgos
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
This book aims at discussing the development of MOOCs in China in relation to MOOCs in other countries or areas. Based on the history of MOOCs, we summarize and compare the development of MOOCs in China and other countries with empirical evidence from a comprehensive investigation about MOOCs in Asian,...
Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting
Standards, Experimental Methods, and Protocols
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
This book outlines many of the techniques involved in materials development and characterization for photoelectrochemical (PEC) – for example, proper metrics for describing material performance, how to assemble testing cells and prepare materials for assessment of their properties, and how to perform...
by Claudia Ross, Pei-Chia Chen, Baozhang He
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The Routledge Course in Mandarin Chinese is a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chinese study. Designed to build a strong foundation in both the spoken and written language it develops all the basic skills such as pronunciation, character writing, word use and...
by Zhongping Tan, Lai-Xi Wang, Michael Boyce
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Glycans play a vital role in modulating protein structure and function from involvement in protein folding, solubility and stability to regulation of tissue distribution, recognition specificity, and biological activity. They can act as both positive and negative regulators of protein function, providing...
by Bing Chen, Michael Phiri
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This work aims to deepen our understanding of the role played by technical guidelines and tools for the design, construction and operation of healthcare facilities, ultimately establishing the impact of the physical environment on staff and patient outcomes. Using case studies largely drawn from the...
Tropical Urban Heat Islands
Climate, Buildings and Greenery
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2008
Conventional air conditioning is not a sustainable solution to the challenge of a hot or humid climate. The climate problem is compounded in so-called Urban Heat Islands, urban areas where the air can be 3–5°C hotter than its surrounding areas and where pollution levels are consequently raised.
Including...
Representing Agency in Popular Culture
Children and Youth on Page, Screen, and In Between
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen and In-Between addresses the intersection of children’s and youth’s agency and popular culture. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children’s lives,...
Chinese Urban Design
The Typomorphological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
The traditional Chinese city is undergoing an identity crisis. With the rapid development taking place, there is growing conflict between this new building and the existing urban heritage. An appropriate approach, both in design and in legislation, is urgently needed to deal with this problem. Furthermore,...