Emperor Ch'ien-lung, who ruled China from 1736 to 1795, amassed an extensive collection of Chinese art which today forms the core of the holdings of the National Palace Museum, Taipei. Drawing on this rich resource, this work provides a history of imperial Chinese art and culture from the Neolithic period to 18th century. It reproduces some of the ...
This book is a revised and updated English edition of a textbook that has grown out of several years of teaching. The term "inorganic" is used in a broad sense as the book covers the structural chemistry of representative elements (including carbon) in the periodic table, organometallics, coordination polymers, host-guest systems and ...
"The book is of enormous consequence and potential value. The Java 2 Platform Security represents an advance of major proportions, and the information in this book is captured nowhere else." --Peter G. Neumann, Principal Scientist, SRI International Computer Science Lab, author of Computer-Related Risks, and Moderator of the Risks Forum "Profound! ...
Tomorrow's homes and small offices will use Service Gateways to enable, integrate, and manage all voice, data, Internet, and multimedia communications, and to deliver high-value services from security to energy control, health care monitoring to e-commerce. The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) establishes standard Java-based APIs for every ...
"Possessing the Past" accompanies a major exhibition in 1996 at the Metropolitan Museum in New York as well as museums in Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.
This volume delivers all the information you need to get started, including an overview of P2P distributed computing, an explanation of the JXTA Project's new platform, and ways that developers can become a part of the development effort. The book introduces major concepts in a hands-on way by explaining them in context to the shell, and contains ...
For centuries opera companies have mesmerized audiences with their elaborately costumed and made-up characters and the pageantry of their productions combining music and voice with dance and gesture. Because of its venerable tradition, many of the operas have historical and military themes, which are still performed today. As in the past, the ...
Relations between China and the United States have been of central importance to both countries over the past half century. Offers the first multinational, multi archival review of the history of Chinese-American conflict and cooperation in the 1970s.
Relations between China and the United States have been of central importance to both countries over the past half-century, as well as to all states affected by that relationship - Taiwan and the Soviet Union foremost among them. Only recently, however, has the opening of archives made it possible to research this history dispassionately. This ...
Earth observation technology for GIS interacts with space, computer, communication, remote sensing, and information technologies, and plays an increasingly significant role in earth science studies for GIS, resource inventory and management, and the development of a sustainable environment and community. "Geospatial Technology for Earth ...
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Kuang-Chao Fan, Guo Jia Zi Ran Ke Xue Ji Jin Wei Yuan Hui (China), Tohoku Daigaku, Zhongguo ji liang ce shi xue hui., Guo li Taiwan da xue., International Committee on Measurements and Instrumentation, Hefei gong ye da xue.
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Stephen Addiss, Qichang Dong, Wai-kam Ho, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, N.Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, Guo li Beiping gu gong bo wu yuan, Shanghai bo wu guan
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