Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer. In this intimate memoir, Shen Fu recounts the domestic and romantic joys of his marriage to Yun, the beautiful and artistic girl he ...
A thorough introduction to the theory and study of electromagnetism, with numerous practical examples and applications. A comprehensive approach to electromagnetics is documented, beginning with Maxwell's equations, the study of dynamics and later covering statistics. This allows students to work with electromagnetic concepts using relatively ...
The purpose of this textbook, primarily aimed at first-year undergraduates in Programming, is, firstly, to teach students how to write a correct program, together with the proof of its correctness; and secondly, to show several basic methods of constructing effective algorithms. A well-structured problem/solution format is used, and the theory is ...
Shen Tong was a driving force behind the Tiananmen Square demonstrations that electrified the world in the spring of 1989. Almost a Revolution is his stirring behind-the-scenes acount of those fateful days, when he and his fellow students courageously demanded that their cries for reform be heard.
Readers contemplate true love, intimacy, and how love is expressed and received in their marriage. The book addresses attitudes that are helpful for dealing with obstacles and fears that hinder intimacy. The rhythms, cycles, and stages in a marriage are discussed to provide awareness for a married couple. The wants, needs, and requirements for the ...
The need for improved mathematics education at the high school and college levels has never been more apparent than in the 1990s. As early as the 1960s, I.M. Gelfand and his colleagues in the USSR thought hard about this same question and developed a style for presenting basic mathematics in a clear and simple form that engaged the curiosity and ...
This brand-new manual prepares students for a subject that has recently been added to the Advanced Placement program. Separate sections review all parts of the new exam: Listening, Reading, Writing, Grammar, Speaking, and Culture. Each section also includes exercises, and the listening and reading sections include practice questions with answer ...
A hen eagerly awaits the arrival of her first chick, with only one small dilemma--she doesn't know how to get her egg to hatch. Readers can play along with the would-be mother through such actions as touching the warm blanket she has knitted and even feeling the chick's downy feather when he is finally born. Color illustrations accompany the text.
Feng shui is the ancient Chinese art of life-space design. Incorporating Taoist philosophy and practical experience, feng shui is the art and science behind the material world of Asia, woven into the basic fabric of almost all residential and commercial architecture. The purpose behind feng shui is to balance the energy in those places where we ...
Both general and child/adolescent psychiatrists will find the third edition of this book valuable in preparing for their re-certification exams. The last ten years have brought tremendous changes to the field of child and adolescent psychiatry. The revision of this book incorporates recent information from AACAP's Practice Parameters, and review ...
A hilarious romp through one little girl's bad day-she wakes up on the wrong side of the bed, and all day the three Grumpies: Grumpy, Grumpier and Grumpiest, follow her around. She tries everything to get rid of them: stomping, hollering, and even ignoring them. But they only grin and retaliate by tripping her or splattering paint on her brand-new ...
This book is an introduction to a new rapidly developing theory of quantum computing. It begins with the basics of classical theory of computation: Turing machines, Boolean circuits, parallel algorithms, probabilistic computation, NP-complete problems, and the idea of complexity of an algorithm. The second part of the book provides an exposition ...
Aiming to improve work efficiency in such areas as tillage in agriculture, earth-moving in civil engineering, and tunnel-making in sea-bed operations, this work offers an introduction to Finite Element Method (FEM) analysis of soil-machine systems. It explains the advantage of FEM's numerical approach over traditional analytical and empirical ...
In 1966, twelve-year-old Fan Shen, a newly minted Red Guard, plunged happily into China's Cultural Revolution. Disillusion soon followed, then turned to disgust and fear when Shen discovered that his compatriots had tortured and murdered a doctor whose house he'd helped raid and whose beautiful daughter he secretly adored. A story of coming of age ...
Fu Ssu-nien, scholar, and political and social critic, was one of the most colourful, influential intellectual figures in twentieth-century China. Wang Fan-sen's biography of Fu's life and contributions offers an in-depth examination of his role in intellectual development in modern China. Fu's life in many ways embodied the dilemma faced by ...
Simon Pig has the perfect plan to make Sally Goose do all the work. Soon poor Sally is rushing round planting carrots, making a scarecrow and even clipping Simon's nails. But when it's finally Sally's turn to play, she thinks of a great way to get her own back.
This fully illustrated, step-by-step guide to simple pain relief covers everything from headaches to back pain to tennis elbow, all using Oriental massage and pressure techniques. Full-color illustrations and diagrams throughout.
"A Tiger's Heart" chronicles Shen's rise from poverty in the rice fields of rural China to a successful career in business in the early days of the country's economic boom, illustrating the massive economic and social changes that have taken place in China over the past several decades.
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