Lu Li: 16 books
Rural Voices
Language, Identity, and Social Change across Place
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
In this interdisciplinary volume, sociolinguists and sociologists explore the intersections of language, culture, and identity for rural populations around the world. Challenging stereotypical views of rural backwardness and urban progress, the contributors reveal how language is a key mechanism for...
Education and Social Media
Toward a Digital Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the future of education, including social media usage, new norms of knowledge, privacy, copyright, and MOOCs.
How are widely popular social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram transforming how teachers teach, how kids learn,...
Dragons with Clay Feet?
Transition, Sustainable Land Use, and Rural Environment in China and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2007
Dragons with Clay Feet? presents state-of-the-art research on the impact of ongoing and anticipated economic policy and institutional reforms on agricultural development and sustainable rural resource in two East-Asian transition (and developing) economies—China and Vietnam. The contributions to...
Data you need to know about China
Research Report of China Household Finance Survey•2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Since the beginning of the 21st century, China has been experiencing a dramatically rapid economic development. What is the real life of Chinese people like under China’s steady GDP fast growth? How rich are the rich and how poor are the poor? This book provides first-hand data on standards of living...
Ionic Liquids
Physicochemical Properties
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2009
This comprehensive database on physical properties of pure ionic liquids (ILs) contains data collected from 269 peer-reviewed papers in the period from 1982 to June 2008. There are more than 9,400 data points on the 29 kinds of physicochemical properties for 1886 available ionic liquids, from which...
Ethnic China
Identity, Assimilation, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
There are some serious concerns and critical questions about the on-going minority protesting in China, such as Tibetan monks’ self-immolations, Muslims’ suicide bombings, and Uyghur large-scale demonstrations. Why are minorities such as the Uyghur dissatisfied, when China is rising as a world...
Southeast Asian Ecocriticism
Theories, Practices, Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Southeast Asian Ecocriticism presents a timely exploration of the rapidly expanding field of ecocriticism through its devotion to the writers, creators, theorists, traditions, concerns, and landscapes of Southeast Asian countries. While ecocritics have begun to turn their attention to East and South...
Global tea science
Current status and future needs
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
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Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
The nineteenth-century roots of environmental writing in American literature are often mentioned in passing and sometimes studied piece by piece. Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature brings together numerous explorations...
Globalization and Agriculture
Redefining Unequal Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Globalization and Agriculture: Redefining Unequal Development focuses on the development of national agriculture of nine countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia from two different and complementary angles. One angle is the opportunities created by globalization for agricultural production and...
Asian/Americans, Education, and Crime
The Model Minority as Victim and Perpetrator
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Asian/Americans, Education, and Crime: The Model Minority as Victim and Perpetrator analyzes Asian/Americans’ interactions with the U.S. criminal justice system as perpetrators and victims of crime. This book contributes to a limited amount of scholarly writing so that researchers, policymakers,...
by Han-Xiong Li, XinJiang Lu
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Most existing robust design books address design for static systems, or achieve robust design from experimental data via the Taguchi method. Little work considers model information for robust design particularly for the dynamic system. This book covers robust design for both static and dynamic systems...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of rice Volume 1
Breeding for higher yield and quality
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Rice is one of the most important foods in the world. As the demand for rice continues to increase, there is an urgent need to increase yields in the face of such challenges as climate change, threats from pests and diseases and the need to make cultivation more resource-efficient and sustainable.
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by Daniel Lu, Yi (Grace) Li, C.P. Wong
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
“Electrical Conductive Adhesives with Nanotechnologies” begins with an overview of electronic packaging and discusses the various adhesives options currently available, including lead-free solder and ECAs (Electrically Conductive Adhesives). The material presented focuses on the three ECA categories...
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