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Golden Terrace: Volume 2 (Paperback)
Cang Wu Bin Bai; Translated by E Danglars; Edited by Molly Rabbitt
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Romain Duris, John Malkovich, Evangeline Lilly, Pascale Bussiéres, Sara Waisglass, …
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Psychological drama starring John Malkovich and Romain Duris. New
York lawyer Nathan (Duris) learns from unconventional Doctor Kay
(Malkovich) that his life may be coming to an end. Nathan is
successful in his profession but he has recently divorced Claire
(Evangeline Lilly), the love of his life. At first he is not
convinced by the mysterious doctor, who suggests he should put his
life in order before it is too late, but as strange events unfold,
Nathan begins to sense that maybe he really isn't long for this
world.
Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful
introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and
law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to
be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of
the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject
areas. This Advanced Introduction provides a critical review and
discussion of research concerning spatial statistics,
differentiating between it and spatial econometrics, to answer a
set of core questions covering the geographic-tagging-of-data
origins of the concept and its theoretical underpinnings,
conceptual advances, and challenges for future scholarly work. It
offers a vital tool for understanding spatial statistics and
surveys how concerns about violating the independent observations
assumption of statistical analysis developed into this discipline.
Key Features: A concise overview of spatial statistics theory and
methods, looking at parallel developments in geostatistics and
spatial econometrics, highlighting the eclipsing of centography and
point pattern analysis by geostatistics and spatial autoregression,
and the emergence of local analysis Contemporary descriptions of
popular geospatial random variables, emphasizing one- and
two-parameter spatial autoregression specifications, and Moran
eigenvector spatial filtering coupled with a broad coverage of
statistical estimation techniques A detailed articulation of a
spatial statistical workflow conceptualization The helpful insights
from empirical applications of spatial statistics in agronomy,
criminology, demography, economics, epidemiology, geography,
remotely sensed data, urban studies, and zoology/botany, will make
this book a useful tool for upper-level students in these
disciplines.
The scope and depth of family business research have been quickly
expanding in the last two decades. The editors and contributors to
this book present eight recent studies examining the impact of
external or internal family conditions on the innovation, growth,
and succession of family firms in Asia. By examining the influence
of families on firm behaviors and decisions, researchers have been
pushing the boundaries of this field. As researchers develop a
better understanding of how families influence their businesses,
the family conditions, including the properties and dynamics of
families, have been found to play significant roles in the business
decisions. In addition, globalization as a pressing issue has
brought new opportunities and challenges to families and their
businesses. This volume comprises diverse topics, including less
commonly examined issues such as kinship, immigrant family
enterprises, and family asset management. This book is a rich
resource for researchers, students, and family business
consultants.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
The importance of the region that is recognised today as Saudi
Arabia (with its neighbours) can hardly be underestimated, let
alone overlooked by the rest of the world, not merely because of
its geographical location and religious significance to a large
segment of the world's population due to the location of Islam's
two holiest shrines in Makkah and al-Madinah, and for economic and
political reasons too, for it has the world's largest known
reserves of energy. This book attempts to trace and explain the
rise, fall - then rise and fall again - and rise of the Saudi
polity in the Arabian Peninsula, and explores the role played
throughout these evengts by Shaykh Muhammad bin Abdal-Wahhab and
his 'Call' for religious and social reform. Not since the writings
of Philby five decades ago has a book exploring the history of such
a politically important and sensitive region, and in such a
comprehensive and academic manner, appeared on the scene. Supported
by maps and illustrations, and written by an insider who has
resided in the Kingdom for over four decades, the book is a
fascinating eye-opener and historical reference, bringing almost
all the known original indigenous Arabic and other source material
into full purview.
The book systematically introduces the basic contents of data
science, including data preprocessing and basic methods of data
analysis, handling special problems (e.g. text analysis), deep
learning, and distributed systems.In addition to systematically
introducing the basic content of data science from a theoretical
point of view, the book also provides a large number of data
analysis practice cases.
Much has been written about the role and presence of the Arabs in
the world at the beginning of this millennium, and their ability to
meet the challenges overwhelming our planet, bristling as it is
with science, technology and latest lethal weapons. Now this new
book by Sheikh Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber penetrates to the heart of
the Arab situation by a new route, hitherto uncharted. The author
gives us a practical and precise summary of his own contemporary
Arab experience from an intercontinental perspective, notable for
its success, variety and modernity. Sheikh Mohamed has been able to
scale the peaks of international corporate and institutional life,
and impose his presence and voice upon them. Here, in a
distillation of wisdom drawn from a unique career, he presents us
with a practical account of the lessons of his success, so that
they can be applied to economic and social institutions and thence
to society at large. This book is a translation of the Arabic
original, first published in 2009. It therefore pre-dates the
events of the`Arab Spring' and other recent upheavals in the Arab
world. Its insights are none-theless valid, and are just as
applicable to the Arab world today as they were four years ago.
Indeed, they have taken on extra urgency in the light of the
author's prescient diagnosis of the Arab peoples' thirst for
democracy, human rights and proper citizenship in their own
countries. SHEIKH MOHAMED BIN ISSA AL JABER was born in Jeddah,
Saudi Arabia, in 1959, and is today a prominent international
businessman and philanthropist. He is founder and chairman of the
MBI Group, a worldwide investment institution operating in the
hospitality, real estate, finance, oil and gas, and food
industries, as well as the founder and sole patron of the MBI Al
Jaber Foundation, a UK-registered charity focused on building
bridges between the Middle East and the wider world. Among many
other roles he is Special Envoy of the Director General of UNESCO
for tolerance, democracy and peace, official UN spokesman for good
governance, founder of the London Middle East Institute at SOAS,
and a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. With a Foreword by
Professor Michael Worton.
What do economic chaos and uncertainties mean in rational or
irrational economic theories? How do simple deterministic
interactions among a few variables lead to unpredictable complex
phenomena? Why is complexity of economies causing so many conflicts
and confusions worldwide?This book provides a comprehensive
introduction to recent developments of complexity theory in
economics. It presents different models based on well-accepted
economic mechanisms such as the Solow model, Ramsey model, and
Lucas model. It is focused on presenting complex behaviors, such as
business cycles, aperiodic motion, bifurcations, catastrophes,
chaos, and hidden attractors, in basic economic models with
nonlinear behavior. It shows how complex nonlinear phenomena are
identified from various economic mechanisms and theories. These
models demonstrate that the traditional or dominant economic views
on evolution of, for instance, capitalism market, free competition,
or Keynesian economics, are not generally valid. Markets are
unpredictable and nobody knows with certainty the consequences of
policies or other external factors in economic systems with simple
interactions.
This book provides a novel theoretical framework to explain the
real source of competitive advantage of Chinese manufacturing. More
importantly, such a framework can be generalized to analyze the
potential of catch-up for large emerging economies in the
globalization era. The book also provides insights for policy
makers to rethink their design of policies.The rise of
Made-in-China products has been widely attributed to low labour
cost advantage and imitation advantage. However, as these two
advantages are nearly innate to all late-developing countries, they
cannot be regarded as the key factors that drive the rapid growth
of China's manufacturing industry, or China's economy, over the
past few decades. In this book, the author proposed a theory —
'the catch-up ladders theory', to explain the rise of China's
manufacturing industry. The manufacturing advancement of any
country is in essence a process of catching-up in both market and
technology, during which enterprises will form a ladder-like
holistic structure due to their differences in capabilities,
technology and market positioning. In light of this, the continuity
of the catch-up ladder will greatly determine the catch-up
efficiency of an industry and even a country at large. Such a
perspective is more applicable to large emerging economies,
especially those with over one hundred million population and thus
huge potential domestic market demand.
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Golden Terrace: Volume 1 (Paperback)
Cang Wu Bin Bai; Translated by E Danglars; Edited by Molly Rabbitt
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Handbook of Thermoset-Based Biocomposites is a three-volume set
that provides a comprehensive review on the recent developments,
characterization, and applications of natural fiber-reinforced
biocomposites. An in-depth look at hybrid composites, nanofillers,
and natural fiber reinforcement is divided into three books on
polyester, vinyl ester, and epoxy composites. The volumes explore
the widespread applications of natural fiber-reinforced polyester,
vinyl ester, and epoxy composites ranging from the aerospace
sector, automotive parts, construction and building materials,
sports equipment, and household appliances. Investigating the
physio-chemical, mechanical, and thermal properties of these
composites, the volumes also consider the influence of
hybridization, fibre architecture, and fibre-ply orientation. This
three-volume set serves as a useful reference for researchers,
graduate students, and engineers in the field of composites.
International trade in the 21st century is characterized by the
emergence and development of Global Value Chains. With the reform
and opening-up deepening, China has become an important participant
and practitioner of global value chains, a staunch supporter and
defender of the multilateral trading system, and a contributor to
and beneficiary of economic globalization. This book provides an
insightful analysis of the pathways for China to upgrade in global
value chains based on the country's opening strategy from the
perspectives of tariff, trade facilitation, foreign direct
investment, outward direct investment, opening-up of the service
industry, and servitization in the manufacturing industry. It also
offers best practices for theoretical and empirical studies in
global value chains with sophisticated and widely-used econometric
methods.
This contemporary introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine
(TCM) is written in a lively and lucid way for the general reader
interested in holistic healing and internal harmony. It also
explains TCM to the Western physician: medical concepts are
presented in a way that does not conflict with knowledge of
biomedicine, helping them appreciate TCM as complementary
healthcare.Beginning with an outline of fundamental entities qi,
blood and essence, the book then expounds TCM models of yin yang,
the five elements and TCM syndromes that form the basis of
diagnosis and therapy. Delightful chapters on the healing wonders
of herbs and recipes come with instructions for preparing delicious
food and teas. Explanations of acupuncture, chronic disease
management and yangsheng (life cultivation) enlighten with simple
yet profound ideas underlying this ancient science. They reveal how
TCM retains an irreplaceable role in healthcare despite impressive
advances in modern medicine.The materials in the book have been
used in well-received public courses in Chinese medicine that the
authors have taught for over a decade.
This contemporary introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine
(TCM) is written in a lively and lucid way for the general reader
interested in holistic healing and internal harmony. It also
explains TCM to the Western physician: medical concepts are
presented in a way that does not conflict with knowledge of
biomedicine, helping them appreciate TCM as complementary
healthcare.Beginning with an outline of fundamental entities qi,
blood and essence, the book then expounds TCM models of yin yang,
the five elements and TCM syndromes that form the basis of
diagnosis and therapy. Delightful chapters on the healing wonders
of herbs and recipes come with instructions for preparing delicious
food and teas. Explanations of acupuncture, chronic disease
management and yangsheng (life cultivation) enlighten with simple
yet profound ideas underlying this ancient science. They reveal how
TCM retains an irreplaceable role in healthcare despite impressive
advances in modern medicine.The materials in the book have been
used in well-received public courses in Chinese medicine that the
authors have taught for over a decade.
In China, lots of excellent maths students take an active part in
various maths contests and the best six senior high school students
will be selected to form the IMO National Team to compete in the
International Mathematical Olympiad. In the past ten years China's
IMO Team has achieved outstanding results - they won the first
place almost every year.The authors of this book are coaches of the
China national team. They are Xiong Bin, Yao Yijun, Qu Zhenhua et
al. Those who took part in the translation work are Zhao Wei and
Zhou Tianyou.The materials of this book come from a series of two
books (in Chinese) on Forward to IMO: A Collection of Mathematical
Olympiad Problems (2019-2020). It is a collection of problems and
solutions of the major mathematical competitions in China. It
provides a glimpse of how the China national team is selected and
formed.
In China, lots of excellent maths students take an active part in
various maths contests and the best six senior high school students
will be selected to form the IMO National Team to compete in the
International Mathematical Olympiad. In the past ten years China's
IMO Team has achieved outstanding results - they won the first
place almost every year.The authors of this book are coaches of the
China national team. They are Xiong Bin, Yao Yijun, Qu Zhenhua et
al. Those who took part in the translation work are Zhao Wei and
Zhou Tianyou.The materials of this book come from a series of two
books (in Chinese) on Forward to IMO: A Collection of Mathematical
Olympiad Problems (2019-2020). It is a collection of problems and
solutions of the major mathematical competitions in China. It
provides a glimpse of how the China national team is selected and
formed.
In China, lots of excellent maths students take an active part in
various maths contests and the best six senior high school students
will be selected to form the IMO National Team to compete in the
International Mathematical Olympiad. In the past ten years China's
IMO Team has achieved outstanding results - they won the first
place almost every year.The authors of this book are coaches of the
China national team. They are Xiong Bin, Yao Yijun, Qu Zhenhua, et
al. Those who took part in the translation work are Wang Shanping
and Chen Haoran.The materials of this book come from a series of
two books (in Chinese) on Forward to IMO: A Collection of
Mathematical Olympiad Problems (2017-2018). It is a collection of
problems and solutions of the major mathematical competitions in
China. It provides a glimpse of how the China national team is
selected and formed.
In China, lots of excellent maths students take an active part in
various maths contests and the best six senior high school students
will be selected to form the IMO National Team to compete in the
International Mathematical Olympiad. In the past ten years China's
IMO Team has achieved outstanding results - they won the first
place almost every year.The authors of this book are coaches of the
China national team. They are Xiong Bin, Yao Yijun, Qu Zhenhua, et
al. Those who took part in the translation work are Wang Shanping
and Chen Haoran.The materials of this book come from a series of
two books (in Chinese) on Forward to IMO: A Collection of
Mathematical Olympiad Problems (2017-2018). It is a collection of
problems and solutions of the major mathematical competitions in
China. It provides a glimpse of how the China national team is
selected and formed.
Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful
introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and
law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to
be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of
the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject
areas. This Advanced Introduction provides a critical review and
discussion of research concerning spatial statistics,
differentiating between it and spatial econometrics, to answer a
set of core questions covering the geographic-tagging-of-data
origins of the concept and its theoretical underpinnings,
conceptual advances, and challenges for future scholarly work. It
offers a vital tool for understanding spatial statistics and
surveys how concerns about violating the independent observations
assumption of statistical analysis developed into this discipline.
Key Features: A concise overview of spatial statistics theory and
methods, looking at parallel developments in geostatistics and
spatial econometrics, highlighting the eclipsing of centography and
point pattern analysis by geostatistics and spatial autoregression,
and the emergence of local analysis Contemporary descriptions of
popular geospatial random variables, emphasizing one- and
two-parameter spatial autoregression specifications, and Moran
eigenvector spatial filtering coupled with a broad coverage of
statistical estimation techniques A detailed articulation of a
spatial statistical workflow conceptualization The helpful insights
from empirical applications of spatial statistics in agronomy,
criminology, demography, economics, epidemiology, geography,
remotely sensed data, urban studies, and zoology/botany, will make
this book a useful tool for upper-level students in these
disciplines.
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