Wang: 1062 books
Corruption and Governmental Legitimacy
A Twenty-First Century Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This volume considers corruption as a multidimensional, complex phenomenon in which various forms of corruption may overlap at any given time. Extending the seemingly paradoxical notion of “legal corruption” to such settings as the USA, Spain, and the Czech Republic, the book seeks to augment...
by Xiaohu (Shawn) Wang, K K Fung
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This title was first published in 1977
Urban Villages in the New China
Case of Shenzhen
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Focusing on Shenzhen as a representation of the general urban village phenomenon in China, this book considers the impact of China’s economic reform on urbanization and urban villages over the past three decades. Shenzhen’s urban villages are some of the first of their kind in China, unique in...
Creative Involvement
The Evolution of China's Global Role
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This book continues the "creative involvement" proposition put forward in Creative Involvement: A New Direction in China's Diplomacy with new cases and stories to enrich its content. It discusses China's global role, and explores its root cause of formation, development stages, and future...
Physics of Lakes
Volume 3: Methods of Understanding Lakes as Components of the Geophysical Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
The ongoing thread in this volume of Physics of Lakes is the presentation of different methods of investigation for processes taking place in real lakes with a view to understanding lakes as components of the geophysical environment. It is divided into three parts. Part I is devoted to numerical modeling...
The Global Monsoon System
Research and Forecast
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
This book is the third edition of a book series on the state of the science of monsoon research and forecasting. The series is updated approximately every five years based on the invited reviews of the World Meteorological Organization's International Workshop on Monsoons (IWM). The third edition...
Internal Combustion Processes of Liquid Rocket Engines
Modeling and Numerical Simulations
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
This book concentrates on modeling and numerical simulations of combustion in liquid rocket engines, covering liquid propellant atomization, evaporation of liquid droplets, turbulent flows, turbulent combustion, heat transfer, and combustion instability. It presents some state of the art models and...
Commutative Algebra
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The purpose of this book is twofold: to present some basic ideas in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry and to introduce topics of current research, centered around the themes of Gröbner bases, resultants and syzygies. The presentation of the material combines definitions and proofs with an emphasis...
Water Cycle Management
A New Paradigm of Wastewater Reuse and Safety Control
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
This book focuses on environmental engineering, and on wastewater treatment and reuse in particular, which is a vital aspect for countries and regions suffering from water shortages. It introduces a new water cycle management concept for designing water systems that mimic the hydrological cycle, where...
The Dawn Angiosperms
Uncovering the Origin of Flowering Plants
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Angiosperms are the most diversi ed plant group in the world, being represented by ca 300,000 species in about 400 families. Like all of Life, including ourselves, they have had their own history and gone through many evolutionary stages before they arrived at their current forms. The origin of Angiospermae...
The Dawn Angiosperms
Uncovering the Origin of Flowering Plants
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
This book discusses the controversial and conflicting hypotheses on the origin of angiosperms, which was generally assumed to be restricted to the Cretaceous and later ages. Since publishing the first edition of “The Dawn of Angiosperms” in 2010, several important advances have been made in this...
by Chunying Chen, Haifang Wang
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
An overview of biomedical applications and the toxicity properties of carbon nanomaterials aimed at helping to avoid detrimental health effects while laying the groundwork for further research in this highly relevant field.
Summarizing recent research, the book starts with the synthesis and functionalization...
by W. L. Araújo, C. Nick, F. T. Delazari
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Tomatoes are the second most important vegetable crop in the world after potatoes. Originating in South America, they are now grown widely around the world. As the population continues to grow, there is a need to increase yields in the face of such challenges as climate change, threats from pests...
by V. Pérez, Dr J. I. Hormaza, Dr Noris Ledesma
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Mangoes are one of the most important and widely-cultivated fruits in tropical as well as sub-tropical regions. There have been a number of recent developments with the potential to improve crop yields and quality. There has been new research in understanding the physiology of tree and fruit development...