Wang: 1062 books
by Hsiu-Huei Wang
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Taiwan's specific situation in Asia is the source of its thorn past. Situated in the South East of China, Taiwan was at the crossroads of many maritime routes and squeezed between its neighbors, China and Japan. After centuries of foreign occupation, Taiwan has a unique history. Taiwan, Art and Civilization...
Research on Translator and Interpreter Training
A Collective Volume of Bibliometric Reviews and Empirical Studies on Learners
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
This book comprehensively examines the development of translator and interpreter training using bibliometric reviews of the state of the field and empirical studies on classroom practice. It starts by introducing databases in bibliometric reviews and presents a detailed account of the reasons behind...
Travels in Paradox
Remapping Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
This innovative volume focuses on tourism through the twin lenses of cultural theory and cultural geography. Presenting a set of innovative case studies on tourist destinations around the world, the contributors explore the paradoxes of the tourist experience and the implications of these paradoxes...
Classical Chinese Poetry in Singapore
Witnesses to Social and Cultural Transformations in the Chinese Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
As the essence of Chinese traditional culture, classical Chinese poetry in Singapore played a very important role in the social and cultural development of Singapore’s Chinese community. Numerous poems depicted the unique scenery of tropical rainforest and the customs with a Nanyang flavor, recorded...
by Elizabeth Arndt, Jake Dailey, George Dibley
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
What can you remember of your childhood? This was the question put to a number of ‘seniors’ asked to start from as far back as they could get, and go as far as the onset of adolescence. Their answers are in this unusual book.
Topics naturally include their physical self; their parents, siblings,...
by Yuan Wang
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
The studies in this dissertation aim at advancing our scientific understandings about physical processes involved in the aerosol-cloud-precipitation interaction and quantitatively assessing the impacts of aerosols on the cloud systems with diverse scales over the globe on the basis of the observational...
by Fuxue Zhang, Wei Zhang, Guosheng Wang
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
This book comprehensively and systematically introduces readers to the theories, structures, performance and applications of non-driven mechanical and non-driven micromechanical gyroscopes.
The book is divided into three parts, the first of which mainly addresses mathematic models, precision,...
Conceptualizing Copyright Exceptions in China and South Africa
A Developing View from the Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This book critically evaluates the current copyright law system in a digital environment from a comparative perspective. Since many developing countries modelled their copyright laws on more advanced jurisdictions, they have not benefitted from such a law as much as intended due to their inherently...
Household and Living Arrangement Projections
The Extended Cohort-Component Method and Applications to the U.S. and China
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book presents an innovative demographic toolkit known as the ProFamy extended cohort-component method for the projection of household structures and living arrangements with empirical applications to the United States, the largest developed country, and China, the largest developing country....
by Thierry Mr. Tressel, Shengzu Mr. Wang, Joong Shik Kang
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Imbalances within the euro area have been a defining feature of the crisis. This paper provides a critical analysis of the ongoing rebalancing of euro area deficit economies (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain) that accumulated large current account deficits and external liability positions...
Education and Training for Rural Transformation
Skills, Jobs, Food and Green Future to Combat Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
**This book **explores how education along with training and skill development are vital to building a sustainable future.
While half of the world’s population now is urban, in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the proportions of rural people range from 55 to 70 per cent. In this...
by Linda N. Groat, David Wang
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
A practical guide to research for architects and designers—now updated and expanded!
From searching for the best glass to prevent glare to determining how clients might react to the color choice for restaurant walls, research is a crucial tool that architects must master in order to effectively...
Internationalization within Higher Education
Perspectives from Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
This book discusses what internationalization practices are and the different ways that they are being implemented by higher education institutions in Japan, from a bottom-up perspective. It reflects the current situation faced by many Japanese universities in the context of the changing landscape...
Multinational Corporation Subsidiaries in China
An Empirical Study of Growth and Development Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
This comprehensive study examines the global strategies of multinational corporations (MNCs), the strategic evolution and the categories of their subsidiaries in China based on 150 MNCs. It is the first large-scale project of this nature to be conducted. The research has significant bearing on strategic...