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Book cover of Understanding and Creating Digital Texts

Understanding and Creating Digital Texts

An Activity-Based Approach

by Richard Beach, Professor Emeritus of English Education, University of Minnesota
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014

Given the increased use of digital reading and writing tools in the classroom, this book provides secondary and college English language arts teachers with activities and classroom examples for using a range of different digital tools—blogs, wikis, websites, annotations, Twitter, mapping, forum...
Book cover of Harbin to Hanoi
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Colonial powers in China and northern Vietnam employed the built environment for many purposes: as an expression of imperial aspirations, a manifestation of supremacy, a mission to civilize, a re-creation of a home away from home, or simply as a place to live and work. In this volume, scholars of...
Book cover of Colony, Nation, and Globalisation
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The literature of Malaysia and Singapore, the multicultural epicenter of Asia, offers a rich body of source material for appreciating the intellectual heritage of colonial and postcolonial Southeast Asia. Focusing on themes of home and belong, Eddie Tay illuminates many aspects of identity anxiety...
Book cover of Digital Signal Processing

Digital Signal Processing

Fundamentals and Applications

by Lizhe Tan, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018

Digital Signal Processing: Fundamentals and Applications, Third Edition, not only introduces students to the fundamental principles of DSP, it also provides a working knowledge that they take with them into their engineering careers. Many instructive, worked examples are used to illustrate the material,...
Book cover of Poverty in the Midst of Affluence
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Hong Kong is among the richest cities in the world. Yet over the past 15 years, living conditions for the average family have deteriorated despite a robust economy, ample budget surpluses, and record labour productivity. Successive governments have been reluctant to invest in services for the elderly,...
Book cover of Intimating the Sacred
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Religion has featured in Anglophone literature in Malaysia from colonial times to the present. In Intimating the Sacred, Andrew Hock Soon Ng considers the practice of everyday religiosity as represented in literature, which is often starkly opposed to the impression created by religious rhetoric promoted...
Book cover of Pacific Crossing
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

During the nineteenth century tens of thousands of Chinese men and women crossed the Pacific to work, trade, and settle in California. Drawn initially by the gold rush, they took with them skills and goods and a view of the world which, though still Chinese, was transformed by their long journeys...
Book cover of Essential Japanese Kanji Volume 2

Essential Japanese Kanji Volume 2

(JLPT Level N4) Learn the Essential Kanji Characters Needed for Everyday Interactions in Japan

by University of Tokyo, Kanji Research Group
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016

Essential Japanese Kanji, Volume 2 is an easy approach to learning the most basic kanji encountered in everyday situations in Japan. This new edition Packed with fun quizzes and useful exercises and has been repackaged in a more compact, value-for-money size while losing none of the content...
Book cover of Nurturing Pillars of Society
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The younger generation—those under the age of 25—accounts for more than a quarter of Hong Kong’s population. A much-misunderstood group, these people have special characteristics and needs, and some are particularly vulnerable. Substance abuse among young people is on the rise, and juveniles...
Book cover of Early Psychosis Intervention
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Taking into account cultural differences between Asian and Western patients, this book focuses on delivery of effective treatment at an early stage in psychosis, especially for young people. It pays particular attention to early intervention programmes established in Hong Kong and Singapore, and assesses...
Book cover of Narratives of Free Trade
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This collection of essays discusses the first commercial encounters between a China on the verge of social transformation and a fledgling United States struggling to assert itself globally as a distinct nation after the Revolutionary War with Great Britain. In early accounts of these encounters, commercial...
Book cover of Contact Moments
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This book sheds light on ‘contact moments’ between Japanese male-queer culture and that of the West in the postwar period, and critiques various contemporary examples of persistent Orientalism and nativism. Focusing on a range of Japanese as well as English male-queer materials including magazines,...
Book cover of Portugal, China and the Macau Negotiations, 1986-1999
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

On 20 December 1999 the city of Macau became a Special Administrative Region of China after nearly 450 years of Portuguese administration. Drawing extensively on Portuguese and other sources, and on interviews with key participants, this book examines the strategies and policies adopted by the Portuguese...
Book cover of Schooling and Equality

Schooling and Equality

Fact, Concept and Policy

by Cole, Mike (Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Brighton)
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013

This text covers the range of equality issues in school level education from the perspective and needs of educators, trainee teachers and students of education. It uses a blend of issues, concepts, facts and research to open up key issues and consider policy developments in the field.
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