Wu: 544 books
by Peng Wu
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Building information modelling (BIM) is a set of interacting policies, processes and technologies that generates a methodology to manage the essential building design and project data in digital format throughout the building's life cycle. BIM, makes explicit, the interdependency that exists between...
Daoist Meditation
The Purification of the Heart Method of Meditation and Discourse on Sitting and Forgetting (Zuò Wàng Lùn) by Si Ma Cheng Zhen
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
Master Cherng's translation of Discourse on Sitting and Forgetting, an 8th century classic text on meditation by Si Ma Cheng Zhen, is accompanied by his extensive explanatory commentary, unique in its ability to make this complex text accessible to the Western reader.
In the introduction to...
Restructuring the Chinese City
Changing Society, Economy and Space
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
A sea of change has occurred in China since the 1978 economic reforms. Bringing together the work of leading scholars specializing in urban China, this book examines what has happened to the Chinese city undergoing multiple transformations during the reform era, with an emphasis on new processes of...
Rhetorics of Whiteness
Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Winner, CCCC Outstanding Book Award in the Edited Collection Category, 2018
With the election of our first black president, many Americans began to argue that we had finally ended racism, claiming that we now live in a postracial era. Yet near-daily news reports regularly invoke white as a...
by Yulin Wu, Shengcai Li, Shuhong Liu
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Vibration of Hydraulic Machinery deals with the vibration problem which has significant influence on the safety and reliable operation of hydraulic machinery. It provides new achievements and the latest developments in these areas, even in the basic areas of this subject.
The present book covers the...
Lean and Cleaner Production
Applications in Prefabrication to Reduce Carbon Emissions
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
This book explains how in moving towards Cleaner Production, the Lean Production Philosophy can be applied to reduce carbon emissions in prefabrication - one major source of the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions which contribute to global climate change. This book examines theories and principles in...
by Bin Wu, Yongqiang Lang, Navid Zargari
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
The book presents the latest power conversion and control technology in modern wind energy systems. It has nine chapters, covering technology overview and market survey, electric generators and modeling, power converters and modulation techniques, wind turbine characteristics and configurations, and...
The Two-Dimensional Ising Model
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
"Of all the systems in statistical mechanics on which exact calculations have been performed," declare the authors of this text, "the two-dimensional Ising model is not only the most thoroughly investigated; it is also the richest and most profound." Originally published in 1973,...
by Desheng Dash Wu, David L. Olson
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
This book is a comprehensive guide to several aspects of risk, including information systems, disaster management, supply chain and disaster management perspectives. A major portion of this book is devoted to presenting a number of operations research models that have been (or could be) applied to...
Flourishing for Sports
Well-Being of a Sportsman from Perspectives of Positive Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
This book is about flourishing of life in the field of sports. It contains the latest concepts about psychological well-being, from the perspectives of positive psychology. Unlike most of the psychological books about sports, which usually focus on achieving sporting success and excellence, this book...
Warring over Valor
How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United States between World War I and the present, Warring over Valor provides fresh perspectives on the history of American military heroism. The book offers...
by Wu Tingfang
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Transformative Imagery
Cultivating the Imagination for Healing, Change, and Growth
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Guided imagery is a transformative practice for reducing stress, healing mind and body, and improving performance. This definitive collection brings together leading pioneers in the field of guided imagery to share its theory, practice and history.
Readers are introduced to the extensive uses...
by Kam-wah Chan, Kim-wah Chung, Keqing Han
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Social Policy and Change in East Asia is a collection of essays from a group of indigenous East Asian social policy researchers who met bi-annually to discuss social development issues. The book’s focus is the policy responses of respective East Asian government since the 2008 financial tsunami...