Li: 1151 books
Teaching and Learning with Technology
Proceedings of the 2016 Global Conference on Teaching and Learning with Technology (CTLT 2016)
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
This is the conference proceedings for the 2016 Global Conference on Teaching and Learning with Technology (CTLT 2016), hosted by Aventis School of Management, Singapore. It includes papers by a group of international academics and researchers. It covers the most interesting ideas and applications related to the innovative use of technology within different learning environments.
by Li Xing, Abdulkadir Osman Farah
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
This collection juxtaposes a variety of approaches about China and Africa, and their interrelations seeking to go beyond early, simplistic formulations. Perspectives informed by Polanyi advance nuanced analysis of varieties of capitalisms and double-movements. It seeks to put contemporary China-Africa...
Political Thought and China’s Transformation
Ideas Shaping Reform in Post-Mao China
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Since the late 1970s China has undergone a great transformation, during which time the country has witnessed an outpouring of competing schools of thought. This book analyzes the major schools of political thought redefining China's transformation and the role Chinese thinkers are playing in the post-Mao era.
The Little Red Dot
Reflections of Foreign Ambassadors on SingaporeVolume III
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
The first two volumes of The Little Red Dot series covered a wide range of views about Singapore's diplomacy by Singaporean diplomats. This new addition to the series offers a complementary perspective of Singapore and its bilateral relations, through the eyes of past heads of missions from foreign...
by Xiaofan Li, Shouting Gao
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
The book examines surface rainfall processes through cloud-resolving modeling and quantitative analysis of surface rainfall budget and summarizes modeling and analysis results in recent seven years. The book shows validation of precipitation modeling against observations and derives a set of diagnostic...
The Power of Ideas
The Rising Influence of Thinkers and Think Tanks in China
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
China's momentous socioeconomic transformation is not taking place in an intellectual vacuum: Chinese scholars and public intellectuals are actively engaged in fervent discussions about the country's domestic and foreign policies, demographic constraints, and ever-growing integration into the world...
Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development
Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development takes stock of cultural and environmental contexts in many different regions of the world by exploring literature and film. Artists and scholars working in the social ecology, environmental justice, and postcolonial arenas have long recognized that as soon...
Urbanism in the Preindustrial World
Cross-Cultural Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2009
A baseline study of the growth of preindustrial cities worldwide.
This work employs a subset of preindustrial cities on many continents to answer questions archaeologists grapple with concerning the populating and growth of cities before industrialization. It further explores how scholars differently...
by Songling Huang, Shen Wang, Weibin Li
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
This book introduces the fundamental theory of electromagnetic ultrasonic guided waves, together with its applications. It includes the dispersion characteristics and matching theory of guided waves; the mechanism of production and theoretical model of electromagnetic ultrasonic guided waves; the...
Water Cycle Management
A New Paradigm of Wastewater Reuse and Safety Control
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
This book focuses on environmental engineering, and on wastewater treatment and reuse in particular, which is a vital aspect for countries and regions suffering from water shortages. It introduces a new water cycle management concept for designing water systems that mimic the hydrological cycle, where...
Regulating Human Embryonic Stem Cell in China
A Comparative Study on Human Embryonic Stem Cell’s Patentability and Morality in US and EU
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
The general scope of the book is the patentability and morality of human embryonic stem cell research in US, EU and China. The book observes fraudsters operate unsafe human embryonic stem cell therapies and officialdom turns a blind eye to the immoral human embryonic stem cell research in China. The...
by W. L. Araújo, C. Nick, F. T. Delazari
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Tomatoes are the second most important vegetable crop in the world after potatoes. Originating in South America, they are now grown widely around the world. As the population continues to grow, there is a need to increase yields in the face of such challenges as climate change, threats from pests...
by Tim Li, Pang-chi Hsu
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
This textbook introduces fundamental dynamics of tropical atmosphere and ocean useful for advanced graduate courses in atmospheric and climate sciences. It presents an overview of simple atmospheric and oceanic models, as well as the observed phenomena associated with major climate modes in the tropics....
by Li-Ciao Hong
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
This book offers a new perspective on those El Niños that grow to extraordinary magnitudes, putting forward the claim that these “super El Niños” should be grouped into an isolated cluster. All known super El Niños exhibit pronounced features that are seldom seen in regular El Niños. Super...