Li Wang: 62 books
Dragons with Clay Feet?
Transition, Sustainable Land Use, and Rural Environment in China and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2007
Dragons with Clay Feet? presents state-of-the-art research on the impact of ongoing and anticipated economic policy and institutional reforms on agricultural development and sustainable rural resource in two East-Asian transition (and developing) economies—China and Vietnam. The contributions to...
by Tatsien Li, Ke Wang, Qilong Gu
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the exact boundary controllability of nodal profile, a new kind of exact boundary controllability stimulated by some practical applications. This kind of controllability is useful in practice as it does not require any precisely given final state to...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of soybeans Volume 1
Breeding and cultivation techniques
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Soybeans are one of the most widely-grown crops in the world. As the world’s main source of vegetable protein, they have a wide range of food and non-food uses. Current yields need to increase significantly to meet growing demand but in a way that reduces input use, does not damage the environment...
by Zijun Cao, Yu Wang, Dianqing Li
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
This is the first book to revisit geotechnical site characterization from a probabilistic point of view and provide rational tools to probabilistically characterize geotechnical properties and underground stratigraphy using limited information obtained from a specific site. This book not only provides...
Chinese Investigative Journalists' Dreams
Autonomy, Agency, and Voice
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This edited volume brings together scholars positioned in and outside of China, including former Chinese journalists, in a comprehensive and in-depth study of Chinese investigative journalists’ dreams, work practices, and strategies. It is the first book that systematically addresses the roles and...
by William H. Mobley, Ming Li, Ying Wang
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Volume 7 of "Advances in Global Leadership" includes timely and impactful chapters on various concepts and processes associated with leading across cultures and other boundaries. In these times of accelerating complexity and global inter-connectedness, a deeper understanding of the multiple...
Tales from the Development Frontier
How China and Other Countries Harness Light Manufacturing to Create Jobs and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Despite widespread agreement among economists that labor-intensive manufacturing has contributed mightily to rapid development in China and other fast-growing economies, most developing countries have had little success in raising the share of manufacturing in production, employment, or exports. Tales...
Key Diagnostic Features in Uroradiology
A Case-Based Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
This book presents a wealth of images of the different diseases and conditions encountered in the field of uroradiology with the aim of enabling the reader to recognize lesions, to interpret them appropriately and to make correct diagnoses. The images have been selected because they depict typical...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize Volume 2
Cultivation techniques, pest and disease control
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
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Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33
Theatres of War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Volume 33 of Theatre History Studies explores war. War is a paradox—horrifying and compelling, galvanizing and devastating, a phenomenon that separates and decimates while at the same time creating and strengthening national identity and community bonds. War is the stuff of great drama.
War and...
by Bing Guan, Taihui Guo, Zhonghua Guo
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This volume theorizes the concept of citizenship in contemporary China by probing into the formation of Chinese citizenship and synthesizing the practices of citizenship by different social groups. The first section, “Imagining Chinese Citizenship,” analyses how Chinese citizenship was first imagined...
Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age
The 2009 Presidential Election Uprising in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Focusing on the Iranian presidential elections of 2009 and ensuing demonstrations in major cities across Iran and world, Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age provides a balanced discussion of the role and impact of modern communication technologies, particularly the novel utilization of 'small...
Crowdsourced Data Management
Hybrid Machine-Human Computing
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
This book provides an overview of crowdsourced data management. Covering all aspects including the workflow, algorithms and research potential, it particularly focuses on the latest techniques and recent advances. The authors identify three key aspects in determining the performance of crowdsourced...
Education and Training for Rural Transformation
Skills, Jobs, Food and Green Future to Combat Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
**This book **explores how education along with training and skill development are vital to building a sustainable future.
While half of the world’s population now is urban, in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the proportions of rural people range from 55 to 70 per cent. In this...