Chen Chen: 1169 books
Sex Trafficking
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Global estimates of human trafficking range from 600,000 to four million victims each year with the majority being victims of sex trafficking. This strikingly large range belies the difficulty in gathering, defining, and accountability of sex-trafficking data. Victims of sex trafficking may be forced...
How Does Foster Care Work?
International Evidence on Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
How Does Foster Care Work? is an international collection of empirical studies on the outcomes of children in foster care. Drawing on research and perspectives from leading international figures in children's services across the developed world, the book provides an evidence base for programme planning,...
Flash and Ambient Lighting for Digital Wedding Photography
Creating Memorable Images in Challenging Environments
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Preparing wedding photographers to navigate these once-in-a-lifetime events, this resource acknowledges the highly emotional clients, shifts in natural lighting, and changes in location that come with the territory. Showcasing countless techniques for shooting with flash by itself, ambient light alone,...
by Jeff Chen
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2009
Widow of Que-Moy weaves the romance and tragedy of two young lovers on Que-Moy, an island adjacent to Mainland China, during the tumultuous confrontations between Chiang Kai-Sheks nationalist regime and Chairman Maos revolutionaries. Draped with the exotic Chinese culture, this romantic and passionate...
Transformations of Urbanising Delta Landscape
An Historic Examination of Dealing with the Impacts of Climate Change for the Kaoping River Delta in Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
This book argues that the floods following extreme precipitation result not only from very heavy rainfall but also from the significant impact of human activities on natural water systems. While most literature emphasises that the increasing magnitude of storm rainfall extends beyond the original...
Professional HDR Photography
Achieve Brilliant Detail and Color by Mastering High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Postproduction Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Building on a professional photographer's on-the-job experience using the high dynamic range (HDR) imaging technique, which captures an astounding range of tones that far exceeds the native abilities of any camera, this guide shows serious photographers how a more sophisticated approach to HDR can produce...
The Complete Book of Chinese Knotting
A Compendium of Techniques and Variations
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Bring the ancient beauty of Chinese knots into any craft practice, and learn the many uses this intricate art form can have in your own home and style.
The Complete Book of Chinese Knotting is the culmination of 20 years of research into the ancient art of Chinese knot tying, presented in a...
Kalman Filtering
with Real-Time Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
This new edition presents a thorough discussion of the mathematical theory and computational schemes of Kalman filtering. The filtering algorithms are derived via different approaches, including a direct method consisting of a series of elementary steps, and an indirect method based on innovation...
Creative Wedding Album Design with Adobe Photoshop
Step-By-Step Techniques for Professional Digital Photographers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Pairing photographic creativity with digital-manipulation techniques, this unique manual teaches the use of Photoshop to design artful, distinctive, and compelling wedding albums. Showing that the artistic process need not stop at the click of the shutter, the steps for album creation are detailed reviewing...
by Zhi Ning Chen, Kwai-Man Luk
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Design Antennas for Modern Wireless Communications Systems
Written by a global team of expert contributors, this book offers complete details on the wide range of antennas used in today's wireless communication networks. Coverage includes the most popular applications in WWAN (GSM, CDMA, and...
by Jonas X. Yuan, Xinsheng Chen, Frank Yu
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
This is a basic tutorial that teaches you how to use the tools provided by Liferay to create your own applications. It covers a lot of the material that has API references and documentation of the architecture and illustrates its key concepts with examples.If you have basic knowledge of Java Web applications,...
by Tianyou Li, Qiujin Lin, Genghuang Chen
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Excellent reference outlining the technical basis and working principles of live-line working, with current application technology, tools and working methods
Introduces live-line working technology for the operation and maintenance of medium and low voltage power distribution networks, covering...
by Robert Chen
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Part of Packts Beginners Guide series, each chapter follows the creation of a fictional neighbourhood site to demonstrate an aspect of Liferay portal with practical examples, screenshots, and step-by-step instructions. All you need in order to benefit from the Liferay Beginners Guide is programming experience....
by Stefan M. Moser, Po-Ning Chen
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
This easy-to-read guide provides a concise introduction to the engineering background of modern communication systems, from mobile phones to data compression and storage. Background mathematics and specific engineering techniques are kept to a minimum so that only a basic knowledge of high-school...