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Book cover of Urbanization and Party Survival in China
by Xiaofen Chen, Qiang Fang, Zhaohui Hong
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016

While the Chinese urban movement has successfully transferred surplus labor from the countryside to urban industries that urgently require free and cheap labor, numerous problems have arisen as a result of the unprecedented huge-scale process. Such conditions such as overcrowding, substandard housing,...
Book cover of A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Ninth Edition
by Kate L. Turabian, Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018

When Kate L. Turabian first put her famous guidelines to paper, she could hardly have imagined the world in which today’s students would be conducting research. Yet while the ways in which we research and compose papers may have changed, the fundamentals remain the same: writers need to have a strong...
Book cover of The 1928 Book of Common Prayer
by Oxford University Press
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 1993

The 1928 Book of Common Prayer is a treasured resource for traditional Anglicans and others who appreciate the majesty of King James-style language. This classic edition features a Presentation section containing certificates for the rites of Baptism, Confirmation, and Marriage. The elegant burgundy...
Book cover of Environmental Pollution and Control
by P Aarne Vesilind, J. Jeffrey Peirce, Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1998

Complex environmental problems are often reduced to an inappropriate level of simplicity. While this book does not seek to present a comprehensive scientific and technical coverage of all aspects of the subject matter, it makes the issues, ideas, and language of environmental engineering accessible...
Book cover of All Things Dusk
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Winner of the Hong Kong University International Poetry Prize 2014
Book cover of State University of New York at Cobleskill
by State University of New York at Cobleskill Alumni Association
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015

As an alternative to high school for young men interested in agriculture, the State Agricultural and Technology College at Cobleskill opened the doors of its only building to a class of 10 in 1916. It was an experiment at the time, although now it would be part of New York's BOCES (Board of Cooperative...
Book cover of Hong Kong Land for Hong Kong People
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Hong Kong is one of the world’s most densely populated cities. Land supply, property values, and housing provision are inextricably linked with the city’s economic growth and questions of economic equality. In Hong Kong Land for Hong Kong People, Yue Chim Richard Wong traces the history of Hong...
Book cover of The Faculty Mentor's Wisdom

The Faculty Mentor's Wisdom

Conceptualizing, Writing, and Defending the Dissertation

by Tricia Browne-Ferrigno, Angela Calabrese Barton, Paula A. Cordeiro
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010

This book focuses on using faculty mentoring to empower doctoral students to successfully complete their doctoral studies. The book is a collection of mentoring chapters showcasing professors and dissertation advisors from the most prestigious universities in the United States. They provide an extraordinary...
Book cover of University of Chicago Law Review: Volume 81, Number 2 - Spring 2014
by University of Chicago Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014

The second issue of 2014 features articles and essays from recognized legal scholars. Contents include these Articles: * "Group to Individual (G2i) Inference in Scientific Expert Testimony," David L. Faigman, John Monahan & Christopher Slobogin * "Game Theory and the Structure...
Book cover of University of Chicago Law Review: Volume 81, Number 4 - Fall 2014
by University of Chicago Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014

The fourth issue of 2014 features articles and essays from recognized legal scholars, as well as extensive student research. Contents include: Articles: * The Legal Salience of Taxation, by Andrew T. Hayashi * Tax-Loss Mechanisms, by Jacob Nussim & Avraham Tabbach * Regulating Systemic...
Book cover of Biofluid Mechanics

Biofluid Mechanics

An Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, Macrocirculation, and Microcirculation

by David Rubenstein, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015

Biofluid Mechanics: An Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, Macrocirculation, and Microcirculation shows how fluid mechanics principles can be applied not only to blood circulation, but also to air flow through the lungs, joint lubrication, intraocular fluid movement, renal transport among other specialty...
Book cover of Fixing Inequality in Hong Kong
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

When discussing inequality and poverty in Hong Kong, scholars and politicians often focus on the failures of government policy and push for an increase in social welfare. Richard Wong argues in Fixing Inequality in Hong Kong that universal retirement support, minimum wage, and standard hours of work...
Book cover of Small Arms Survey 2015

Small Arms Survey 2015

Weapons and the World

by Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015

The Small Arms Survey 2015 examines the role of weapons and armed violence in humanity's appropriation of the earth's wildlife and mineral riches - in Africa, where the poaching of elephants and rhinos is becoming increasingly militarised, and near resource extraction sites around the world. In addition...
Book cover of Merchants of War and Peace
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Merchants of War and Peace challenges conventional arguments that the major driving forces of the First Opium War were the infamous opium smuggling trade, the defence of British national honour, and cultural conflicts between ‘progressive’ Britain and ‘backward’ China. Instead, it argues that...
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