Peter Li: 16 books
The Father of Non-Han Chinese Linguistics Li Fang-Kuei
A Pioneer in the Study of Minority Languages in China
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
What is linguistics? What does a linguist do? . . . He studies the way people speak. . . . What! Thats ridiculous? Who does not know how to speak except a deaf-mute? What is there to study? Li Fang-Kuei, one of the foremost Chinese linguists in the world, encountered the skepticism of his prospective...
The Equity Myth
Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
The university is often regarded as a bastion of liberal democracy where equity and diversity are vigorously promoted. In reality, the university still excludes many people and is a site of racialization that is subtle, complex, and sophisticated. This book, the first comprehensive, data-based study...
Monitoring with Ganglia
Tracking Dynamic Host and Application Metrics at Scale
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Written by Ganglia designers and maintainers, this book shows you how to collect and visualize metrics from clusters, grids, and cloud infrastructures at any scale. Want to track CPU utilization from 50,000 hosts every ten seconds? Ganglia is just the tool you need, once you know how its main components...
by Robert W. Wilmott, MD, FRCP
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Now in a fully updated 9th Edition, Kendig's Disorders of the Respiratory Tract in Children, by Drs. Robert Wilmott, Andrew Bush, Robin Deterding, and Felix Ratjen,continues to provide authoritative, evidence-based information to residents, fellows, and practitioners in this wide-ranging specialty....
by Marvin D Feit, Peter K Li
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Rather than treating financial management as an independent administrative practice, Financial Management in Human Services provides students and social service administrators with a conceptual framework in which financial management is the major responsibility of an administration, not just a separate...
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...
Disrupted Economic Relationships
Disasters, Sanctions, Dissolutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Empirical studies and theoretical analyses examine the causes and consequences of disruptions in cross-border economic relationships, including political conflict, economic sanctions, and institutional collapse.
Cross-border economic relationships gradually strengthened in the decades after...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize Volume 2
Cultivation techniques, pest and disease control
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
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Écrits et entretiens
Souvenirs, propos et esquisses
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1985
Disciple de Gustav Mahler, chef reconnu de l’avant-garde dans les années vingt, avant de devenir un grand interprète du répertoire classique, Otto Klemperer fut l’une des personnalités les plus marquantes et les plus originales de la vie musicale occidentale pendant la première moitié de...
by Peter Mr. Clark, Shang-Jin Wei, Natalia Ms. Tamirisa
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
The effect of exchange rate volatility on trade flows was examined by a 1984 IMF study on G-7 countries. Over the past two decades, many developments in the world economy, such as the currency crises in the 1990s and increasing cross-border capital flows, may have exacerbated exchange rate volatility,...
Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33
Theatres of War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Volume 33 of Theatre History Studies explores war. War is a paradox—horrifying and compelling, galvanizing and devastating, a phenomenon that separates and decimates while at the same time creating and strengthening national identity and community bonds. War is the stuff of great drama.
War and...
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 Shu-Hong Yu, Vitaliy Budarin, Rafael Luque
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Porous carbon materials are at the heart of many applications, including renewable energy storage and generation, due to their superior physical properties and availability. The environmentally-friendly production of these materials is crucial for a sustainable future.
This book focuses on the transformation...
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...
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