Wu: 544 books
Information Acquisitions and Sharing through Inter-Organizational Collaboration
Impacts of Business Performance in China
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Interorganizational cooperation between partners, markets, and business leaders is an important facet of business and maintaining organizational competitiveness. Understanding how to effectively collaborate with partners in other organizations is an important skill for the success of all parties....
Mobile Cloud Computing
Foundations and Service Models
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Mobile Cloud Computing: Foundations and Service Models combines cloud computing, mobile computing and wireless networking to bring new computational resources for mobile users, network operators and cloud computing providers.
The book provides the latest research and development insights on...
Dying to Eat
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Food has played a major role in funerary and memorial practices since the dawn of the human race. In the ancient Roman world, for example, it was common practice to build channels from the tops of graves into the crypts themselves, and mourners would regularly pour offerings of food and drink into...
Noble Metal Noble Value
Ru-, Rh-, Pd-catalyzed Heterocycle Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Heterocyclic chemistry constitutes the largest branch of chemistry, covering almost two-thirds of literature in the field. In addition, around 90% of naturally-occurring molecules have heterocycles as their core structure. Therefore, as a central part of organic chemistry, the discovery of new methodologies...
by Jie Wu
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Future requirements for computing speed, system reliability, and cost-effectiveness entail the development of alternative computers to replace the traditional von Neumann organization. As computing networks come into being, one of the latest dreams is now possible - distributed computing.
Distributed...
The Great Dragon Fantasy
A Lacanian Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
China has undergone a unique path of development in the post-Maoist era. Especially, the last decade witnessed China's rapid rise to economic wealth and superpower status vis-à-vis the severe developmental predicaments of the West (financial crises, socio-political turbulences, etc.). This book analyzes...
by Arif Asif, Anil K. Agarwal, Alexander Yevzlin
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
A complete guide to every aspect of interventional nephrology—an essential text for students, residents, fellows, and clinicians
This timely resource examines all relevant aspects of interventional nephrology, from the history of nephrology to the principles governing the latest vascular...
World Century Compendium to TCM
Volume 1: Fundamentals of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), with a history of thousands of years, is the crystallization of the ancient Chinese's experiences in their struggle against diseases. It is also an integral part of the Chinese's splendid culture. Under the influence and direction of classic Chinese philosophies,...
by Xu Ze, Xu Jie, Bin Wu
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Immunotherapy has the potential to literally end cancer as we know it, noted Vice President Joe Biden, who came to the Johns Hopkins in late April in 2016. We are excited about cancer immunotherapy is the excellent way to help the cancer patients to live longer and to have better quality of life because...
by Wu Cheng'en
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Journey to the West is one of the greatest treats in Chinese literature. A fantastic tale of the Buddhist monk Xuanzang as he travels west in search of Buddhist sutras with his three disciples. This compact classic relates how Sun Wukong comes into existence in the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit, and...
by Simon Wu, Kay Adshead
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
The Oikos Project and the two plays Oikos and Protozoa are an attempt to take responsibility for creating a different future in relation to the coming threat of climate change. Can we createa future based less on material gain and more on being in sympathy with our only planet?
OIKOS Salil,...
A Hundred Flowers Blossoming
A Collection of Literary Essays Written by Chinese Scholars
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
A Hundred Flowers Blossoming is a collection of literary essays written by faculty members of Xi'an International Studies University, China with two distinctive features. The first one is a Chinese perspective on Western literary works, which is normally not found in the scholarship in the West. The...
Educational Journeys, Struggles and Ethnic Identity
The Impact of State Schooling on Muslim Hui in Rural China
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This book examines how state schooling in China has economically, culturally, and ideologically had an impact on and gradually transformed a traditional Muslim Hui village in rural Northwestern China. By discussing the interpretation and appropriation of dominant educational discourse of “quality”...
The Man with the Compound Eyes
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
When a tsunami sends a massive island made entirely of trash crashing into the Taiwanese coast, two very different people—an outcast from a mythical island and a woman on the verge of suicide—are united in ways they never could have imagined. Here is the English-language debut of a new and exciting...