Sima Qian (145?-90? BCE) was the first major Chinese historian. His "Shiji," or "Records of the Grand Historian," documents the history of China and its neighboring countries from the ancient past to his own time. These three volumes cover the Qin and Han dynasties.
For advanced undergraduate or first-year graduate courses in CAD/CAM, manufacturing systems, and manufacturing control in industrial and mechanical engineering departments. Using a strong science-based and analytical approach, this text provides a modern description of CAM from an engineering perspective to include design specification, process ...
Li Po (AD 701-62) and Tu Fu (AD 712-70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po, a legendary carouser, was an itinerant poet whose writing, often dream poems or spirit-journeys, soars to sublime heights in its descriptions of natural scenes and powerful emotions. His sheer escapism and joy is ...
This book integrates the theory and practice of distributed operating systems and algorithms. It combines coverage of distributed operating systems and distributed algorithms, allowing instructors to cover the algorithms involved in distributed operating systems with optional depth as desired and motivate the study of distributed algorithms by ...
The 16 chapters translated herein continue the biographies of individuals in pre-Han China presented in volume seven of "The Grand Scribe's Records". The reader is introduced to the major supporters and rivals of the founders of the Han Dynasty: the generals, advisors, strategists, and ministers who helped to shape the foundations of the first ...
History's first amateur photographers lived at the beginning of this century, when photography was just one of many technologies that were dramatically altering the ways people related to themselves and to others. This book contains 89 of the many thousands of images taken by them, or of them by professional photographers. Together with a simple ...
In "Columbia: Final Voyage" aerospace writer Philip Chien, who has over 20 years' experience covering the US space program, provides a unique insight into the crew members who lost their lives in the Columbia disaster. Chien interviewed all seven crew members several times and got to know them as individuals. He reviews in detail their training, ...
Volume One of Flight features stories by professionals and non-professionals alike, all playing on the theme of flight in its many incarnations. From the maiden voyage of a home-built plane to the adventures of a young courier and his flying whale to a handful of stories about coming of age and letting things go, this first volume of Flight is ...
The 2nd Edition of this heralded companion to "Braunwald's Heart Disease" explores the molecular mechanisms of cardiology and the scientific advances that are changing the practice of cardiology today. International experts discuss the role of genetics in cardiovascular disease; the molecular basis of ischemic disease, thrombosis and hypertension; ...
With increasing frequency, readers of literature are encountering barely intelligible, sometimes unrecognisable languages created by combining one or more languages with English. Evelyn Ch'ien argues that weird English constitutes the new language of literature, implicitly launching a new literary theory. Weird English explores experimental and ...
This is an engagingly written memoir, originally published in English in 1990, by one of China's finest writers. Born in 1910, Hsiao Ch'ien joined the Communist Youth League and participated in demonstrations against the government before working with Edgar Snow as a translator and publishing his own fiction. He has worked in England and America, ...
This book covers a broad range of topics involving supercritical carbon dioxide from theoretical studies to applications in separations, materials science and reactivity and catalysis.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Technologies for E-Services, TES 2001, held in Rome, Italy, in September 2001. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. Among the topics addressed are b2b protocols, inter-enterprise process execution, ...
The world's largest, fastest developing market--China--is a place of seduction, opportunity, mystery, and allure. And for business, much of the allure is in the numbers. Five thousand years of history. More than 20 percent of the planet's population. Two hundred million people learning English. Three hundred million Internet users. Four hundred ...
'Readers will find this book useful as a guide to understanding Asian business from both the macroscopic and microscopic standpoints...Any company that wishes to win in Asia must properly develop and train its managers to think strategically and to execute effectively. This book is one of the best available to help serve this purpose' - Koh Boon ...
A comprehensive treatment of the science, technology, and regulation of rate-controlled administration of therapeutic agents, with coverage of the basic concepts, fundamental principles, biomedical rationales, and potential applications. This revised and updated edition (first in 1982) incorporates
Delve into a world of kelpies, mermaids, selkeis, ghosts, warlords, and fairies. This collection puts forward Celtic tales previously unrecorded or only found in obscure compilations. Mostly collected by the author on her ancestral home of the Isle of Barra in the Hebrides, these lesser-known tales from Scotland, Ireland, and Wales are supported ...
For Taiwanese photographer Chien-Chi Chang, "Double Happiness" is an extremely personal project: "For years, my folks had been bugging me to get married," he says, "and I wanted to show them how I view marriage in Taiwan. I'm not anti-marriage . . . but I had to do something to protest." That was in 1994, and thus began Chang's fascination with ...
This book focuses on a specific engineering problem that is and will continue to be important in the forthcoming information age: namely, the need for highly integrated radio systems that can be embedded in wireless devices for various applications, including portable mobile multimedia wireless communications, wireless appliances, digital cellular ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Mobile Data Access, MDA'99, held in Hong Kong, China, in December 1999.The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a total of 39 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on wireless networks and communications, transaction ...
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