L Chan: 33 books
Insignia: Chinese Fantasy Stories
The Insignia Series, #2
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2019
INSIGNIA Vol.2 includes 7 Chinese fantasy stories with a mix of urban, literary, contemporary, myth-based, and historical fantasy pieces.
Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era
The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Digital and social media are increasingly integrated into the dynamics of protest movements around the world. They strengthen the mobilization power of movements, extend movement networks, facilitate new modes of protest participation, and give rise to new protest formations. Meanwhile, conventional...
The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes
Biblical Studies and Ethics for Real Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes are often considered significant texts for the Christian moral life. However, most interpretations of these passages either focus on the original meaning of the text or how the texts should impact ordinary living today.
In The Ten Commandments and the...
by Rhonda Parrish, Sara Cleto, Brittany Warman
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Sirens are beautiful, dangerous, and musical, whether they come from the sea or the sky. Greek sirens were described as part-bird, part-woman, and Roman sirens more like mermaids, but both had a voice that could captivate and destroy the strongest man. The pages of this book contain the stories of...
by Helen S. L., M.B.B.S., F.R.C.P.(C)
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2007
Cancer is one of the world's most dreaded diseases. Yet the past two decades have seen major revolutions in cancer therapy and steadily growing hopes for a cure. This book, written in easily understood language, provides an extensive look at the way medical professionals are treating the disease today....
Waiting
An Anthology of Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
The verb esperar means to wait. It also means to hope.—“The Past Was a Small Notebook, Much Scribbled-Upon”, Cora Siré Waiting, that most human of experiences, saturates all of our lives. We spend part of each day waiting—for birth, death, appointments, acceptance, forgiveness, redemption....
Open Development
Networked Innovations in International Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Experts explore current theory and practice in the application of digitally enabled open networked social models to international development.
The emergence of open networked models made possible by digital technology has the potential to transform international development. Open network structures...
Choral Counting & Counting Collections
Transforming the PreK-5 Math Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
*“This book is about the counting that you already do with your students and about counting in ways you have not yet imagined.” * —from the Introduction
How...
by Dr. Ian G. Baird, Corey L. Bell, Dr. Stephen C. Berkwitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...
Women of Color and Social Media Multitasking
Blogs, Timelines, Feeds, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Women of Color and Social Media Multitasking: Blogs, Timelines, Feeds, and Community explores and critically analyzes the motivations and uses of social media by women of color. This edited collection seeks to determine how, and why, women of color make strategic use of social media as a social, professional,...
Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality
Queer Students of Color and Anti-Oppressive Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2001
In recent years, researchers have considerably expanded our understanding of the experiences of students of color and of students who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning (ie. Queer). They have provided us with rich resources for addressing racism and heterosexism; however, few...
by K K Phua, L C Kwek, N P Chang;A H Chan
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Professor Freeman Dyson, a great physicist, thinker and futurist, has been very active in scientific, literary and public policy activities throughout his career. As a tribute to him on the occasion of his 90th birthday and to celebrate his lifelong contributions in physics, mathematics, astronomy,...
Media, Social Mobilisation and Mass Protests in Post-colonial Hong Kong
The Power of a Critical Event
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Since 2003, Hong Kong has witnessed a series of large-scale protests which have constituted the core of a reinvigorated pro-democracy movement. What drove tens of thousands of citizens to the street on a yearly basis to protest? What were the social and organizational bases of the protest movement?...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of oil palm Volume 1
Introduction, breeding and cultivation techniques
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Oil palm is widely cultivated in tropical countries for use in food processing, personal care products and other applications such as biodiesel. Cultivation faces a range of challenges such as its environmental impact (e.g. in deforestation and biodiversity loss) as well threats from pests and diseases....