Peter Chen: 13 books
A Scholar's Path
An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poems and Prose of Chen Qing ShanA Pioneer Writer of Malayan-Singapore Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
English translation and appreciation by Peter Chen and Michael Tan
Reviewed by Chan Chiu Ming
An original English translation from the Chinese text:
Comprises 60 poems (85 verses) and three prose compositions
Opens a window to the heart and mind of a Chinese scholar who lived from the...
by Stuart A. Newman, James Allen Evans, Jeffrey C. Schank
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Empirical and philosophical perspectives on scaffolding that highlight the role of temporal and temporary resources in development across concepts of culture, cognition, and evolution.
"Scaffolding" is a concept that is becoming widely used across disciplines. This book investigates common...
Perovskite Solar Cells
Principle, Materials and Devices
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Energy and climate change are two of the most critical issues nowadays. These two topics are also correlated to each other. Fossil fuels are the main energy supplies that have been used in modern history since the industrial revolution. The impact of CO2 emission has been a major concern for its effect...
Civic Media
Technology, Design, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life.
Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation,...
by Mark Wheatley, Steve Haynie, Peter Snejbjerg
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Finally—we learn the history behind the Black Hood itself! Is there any truth to the claims Nate has made about its power? There must be, or The Web wouldn’t have snuck into Nate’s house…
by Erika Balsom, Kenneth Berger, Susie Bright
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us...
How Does Foster Care Work?
International Evidence on Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
How Does Foster Care Work? is an international collection of empirical studies on the outcomes of children in foster care. Drawing on research and perspectives from leading international figures in children's services across the developed world, the book provides an evidence base for programme planning,...
by Muhammad Rafiq Abuturab, He Wenqi, Ali Mansour
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
New image-processing tools and data-processing network systems have considerably increased the volume of transmitted information such as 2D and 3D images with high resolution. Thus, more complex networks and long processing times become necessary, and high image quality and transmission speeds are...
by Chih-Jou Jay Chen, Jianyu He, Shu Keng
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Since the Chinese economic reform was realized in the early 1990s, a significant revolution has been launched socially, economically, and politically in China. At present, China is an indispensable actor in the international arena, so that the transitionsdomestically bring about substantial influence...
X-Ray Free Electron Lasers
Applications in Materials, Chemistry and Biology
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
The ultra-bright femtosecond X-ray pulses provided by X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) open up opportunities to study the structure and dynamics of a wide variety of systems beyond what is possible with synchrotron sources. This book introduces the principles and properties of currently operating...
Preventive Measures
Building Risk Assessment and Crisis Early Warning Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 1998
State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan. The international consequences of such crises are profound, often threatening...
Lifelong Machine Learning
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Lifelong Machine Learning, Second Edition is an introduction to an advanced machine learning paradigm that continuously learns by accumulating past knowledge that it then uses in future learning and problem solving. In contrast, the current dominant machine learning paradigm learns in isolation: given...
Ecocriticism in Taiwan
Identity, Environment, and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Ecocriticism is a mode of interdisciplinary critical inquiry into the relationship between cultural production, society, and the environment. The field advocates for the more-than-human realm as well as for underprivileged human and non-human groups and their perspectives. Taiwan is one of the earliest...