Shan: 146 books

For centuries the island of Taiwan, 100 miles off the Asian mainland, has been a crossroads for traders and settlers, pirates and military schemers from around the world. Unlike China, with its long tradition of keeping foreigners out, Taiwan has a long history of interaction, both hostile and friendly,...

Das Buch beschreibt auf einfache und sanft ironische Weise, wie man die Malerei für sich entdecken kann. Die ersten naiven Schritte, die erste Freude am Tun und am Ergebnis. Was ist Form, Farbe, Raum, wie sollte man malen und vor allem, was sollte man malen, wenn alles bereits gemalt und erforscht...

Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Modern China collects essays from the scholars in their fields and examines the ongoing corruption in China by addressing this important topic from a historical perspective through a cooperative interdisciplinary research effort among Chinese-American scholars interested...

This book provides a comprehensive study in digital image interpolation with theoretical, analytical and Matlab® implementation. It includes all historically and practically important interpolation algorithms, accompanied with Matlab® source code on a website, which will assist readers to learn...

From the school teacher to the defense attorney, everyone has problems. When people like Melissa Fider and Fred Ethel relocate, they bring along more baggage than what’s in their suitcases. Hearts are broken, lives are lost, and freedom is on the line. In Madness and Murder, Dawn Clark creatively...

Die Autorin untersucht das Chinabild, das inländisch und international durch die Eröffnungszeremonie der Olympischen Spiele 2008 in Beijing vermittelt wurde. Die Volksrepublik nutzte diese markante Gelegenheit interkultureller Repräsentation, um der Weltöffentlichkeit ihr Wunschbild zu kommunizieren...