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Book cover of Biofluid Mechanics

Biofluid Mechanics

An Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, Macrocirculation, and Microcirculation

by Mary D. Frame, Ph.D. University of Missouri, Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011

Both broad and deep in coverage, Rubenstein shows that fluid mechanics principles can be applied not only to blood circulation, but also to air flow through the lungs, joint lubrication, intraocular fluid movement and renal transport. Each section initiates discussion with governing equations, derives...
Book cover of Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Wong Kar-wai’s controversial film, Happy Together, was released in Hong Kong just before the handover of power in 1997. The film shows two Chinese gay men in Buenos Aires and reflects on Hong Kong’s past and future by probing masculinity, aggression, identity, and homosexuality. It also gives...
Book cover of Enriching Lives
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Insurance is one of Hong Kong’s oldest industries. In the nineteenth century the lucrative trade between China and Europe carried many risks—piracy, warfare, fire, loss of goods, and other mishaps. Dozens of different insurance firms—some home-grown, others imported—established themselves...
Book cover of Women and Dramatic Production 1550 - 1700
by Alison Findlay, Gweno (University Of Ripon And York St John) Williams, Stephanie (University Of Sunderland) Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014

There is a traditional view that women were absent from the field of dramatic production in the early modern period because of their exclusion from professional theatre. Women and Dramatic Production 1550-1700 challenges this view and breaks new ground in arguing that, far from writing in closeted...
Book cover of Hydrodynamic Fluctuations in Fluids and Fluid Mixtures
by Jose M. Ortiz de Zarate, Doctor en Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Complutense
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2006

This book deals with density, temperature, velocity and concentration fluctuations in fluids and fluid mixtures. The book first reviews thermal fluctuations in equilibrium fluids on the basis of fluctuating hydrodynamics. It then shows how the method of fluctuating hydrodynamics can be extended to...
Book cover of Tales from No. 9 Ice House Street
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

In Tales from No. 9 Ice House Street, Patrick Yu takes up his story as he returns to Hong Kong to become the first Chinese Crown Counsel. Thereafter he tells of the years in which he established himself as a most successful advocate in private practice. His story is enriched with anecdotes of his...
Book cover of The British Presence in Macau, 1635-1793
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

For more than four centuries, Macau was the centre of Portuguese trade and culture on the South China Coast. Until the founding of Hong Kong and the opening of other ports in the 1840s, it was also the main gateway to China for independent British merchants and their only place of permanent residence....
Book cover of Humour in Chinese Life and Culture
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This volume covers modern and contemporary forms of humour in China’s public and private spheres, including comic films and novels, cartooning, pop songs, internet jokes, and advertising and educational humour. The second of two multidisciplinary volumes on humour in Chinese life and letters, this...
Book cover of Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths
by Vitalij K. Pecharsky, Karl A. Gschneidner, B.S. University of Detroit 1952Ph.D. Iowa State University 1957
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011

This continuing authoritative series deals with the chemistry, materials science, physics and technology of the rare earth elements. Volume 38 of the Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earth incorporates a recapitulation of the scientific achievements and contributions made by the late...
Book cover of Tort Law in Hong Kong
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This is one in a series of books providing readers with an overview of the more frequently encountered legal principles. This book focuses on the common law tort principles which apply in the territory. As a basic version, this publication provides a general introduction. This book’s organizational...
Book cover of Word on the Street Instant Anthology
by York University
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017

This is anthology is created during the Word on the Street Festival in Toronto by students from the Writing Department at York University. Anyone could submit work for publication. The work had to be related to WOTS. It could be a reaction to a reading, event, an author, a happening, the contours...
Book cover of The Classical Gardens of Shanghai
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

In The Classical Gardens of Shanghai, Shelly Bryant looks at five of Shanghai’s remaining classical gardens through their origins, changing fortunes, restorations, and links to a wider Chinese aesthetic. Shanghai’s classical gardens are as much text as space; they exist in art, poetry, and literature...
Book cover of The Practice of Constitutional Development

The Practice of Constitutional Development

Vincent Ostrom's Quest to Understand Human Affairs

by Donald Lutz, Ronald J. Oakerson, Vincent Ostrom
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008

This edited collection further expands our knowledge about what comprises a successful constitution in both theory and application. Building on the research and analysis of Vincent Ostrom, who as one of America's leading scholars on constitutions has spent a lifetime writing about constitutions in...
Book cover of Resource Based Learning
by Brown, Sally (Educational Development Advisor, University of Northumbria)
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

Resource-based learning has emerged as a response to the changing expectations of students. This text provides strategies for its implementation, development evaluation and discusses the implications for resource centres.
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