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 The next in the Babysitters Club Graphic Novel series -
originally written by Ann M Martin and adapted by Cynthia Yuan
Cheng! Stacey is so excited! Her friends from The Baby-sitters Club
are coming to New York City for a long weekend. It's going to be
perfect: a party and a sleepover on Friday night, a big
baby-sitting job on Saturday, and lots of sightseeing throughout.
But it turns out that the baby-sitters are way out of place in the
big city. Mary Anne sounds like a walking guidebook, Dawn is afraid
of everything, Kristy can't keep her mouth shut, Claudia is jealous
of Laine - Stacey's New York best friend -Â and Mallory and
Jessi feel intimidated by Stacey's classmates. With ten kids to
baby-sit and a full schedule of activities, how will Stacey keep
the weekend from becoming a complete disaster? a brand-new story
from the original author the series that has been entertaining
children for generations full-colour graphic novel
A LATEST BSC GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTED BY NEWCOMER CYNTHIA YUAN CHENG
Mary Anne should never have thrown away that chain letter she got
in the mail. Ever since she did, bad things have been happening to
everyone in the Baby-sitters Club. With Halloween coming up, Mary
Anne's even more worried -- what kind of spooky thing will happen
next? Then Mary Anne finds a new note in her mailbox: Wear this
bad-luck charm , it says. OR ELSE. Mary Anne has to follow the
note's instructions. But who sent the charm? And why did they send
it to Mary Anne?
China's Economic Development, 1950-2014: Fundamental Changes and
Long-Term Prospects is a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of
Chinese economic development from 1950-2014 focusing on current
world-wide attention to the economic reform. Chu-yuan Cheng covers
a wide range of topics, including the cultural effects and
ideological influences on China's economic development; the process
of China's transition from a planned to a market economy,
leadership changes and the root of the Cultural Revolution; the
machine-building industry and scientific and engineering manpower
in China; China's new development plans in the twenty-first century
and the process and consequence of the "Quiet Revolution"; the
international economic relations including the U.S.-China,
Sino-Japanese economic relations and access to WTO; economic
relations across the Taiwan Strait and the formation of the Greater
China Economic Sphere; and the long-term development prospect of
the Chinese economy in the twenty-first century and beyond.
Machine learning methods have lowered the cost of exploring new
structures of unknown compounds, and can be used to predict
reasonable expectations and subsequently validated by experimental
results. As new insights and several elaborative tools have been
developed for materials science and engineering in recent years, it
is an appropriate time to present a book covering recent progress
in this field. Searchable and interactive databases can promote
research on emerging materials. Recently, databases containing a
large number of high-quality materials properties for new advanced
materials discovery have been developed. These approaches are set
to make a significant impact on human life and, with numerous
commercial developments emerging, will become a major academic
topic in the coming years. This authoritative and comprehensive
book will be of interest to both existing researchers in this field
as well as others in the materials science community who wish to
take advantage of these powerful techniques. The book offers a
global spread of authors, from USA, Canada, UK, Japan, France,
Russia, China and Singapore, who are all world recognized experts
in their separate areas. With content relevant to both academic and
commercial points of view, and offering an accessible overview of
recent progress and potential future directions, the book will
interest graduate students, postgraduate researchers, and
consultants and industrial engineers.
The 1989 prodemocracy movement in the People's Republic of China
and the subsequent crackdown were marked by many dramatic
reversals. Supported at first by several thousand Beijing
University students, the movement quickly attracted millions of
followers and developed into a nationwide mass movement. The
jubilant mood during the short-lived freedom in Tiananmen Square
turned into despair over the unnecessary bloodshed. The event
raised many deeply disturbing questions: Was the massacre necessary
and justified? What is the historical significance of this
movement? Which path will the PRC follow in the decade ahead?
Although no one had anticipated the tragic outcome, the popular
unrest was not totally unexpected. When I read the news of 200,000
Beijing students and residents, in open defiance of the
government's order, staging a largescale demonstration on Apri120,
I knew a confrontation between the people and the government was
inevitable.
China's Economic Development, 1950-2014: Fundamental Changes and
Long-Term Prospects is a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of
Chinese economic development from 1950-2014 focusing on current
world-wide attention to the economic reform. Chu-yuan Cheng covers
a wide range of topics, including the cultural effects and
ideological influences on China's economic development; the process
of China's transition from a planned to a market economy,
leadership changes and the root of the Cultural Revolution; the
machine-building industry and scientific and engineering manpower
in China; China's new development plans in the twenty-first century
and the process and consequence of the "Quiet Revolution"; the
international economic relations including the U.S.-China,
Sino-Japanese economic relations and access to WTO; economic
relations across the Taiwan Strait and the formation of the Greater
China Economic Sphere; and the long-term development prospect of
the Chinese economy in the twenty-first century and beyond.
This book demonstrates how two goals – the substitution of
socialist views for embedded traditional values, and the use of
China's actual and potential economic surpluses – have together
formed the features of China's economic development.
This volume focuses on Sun Yat-sen's social, political, and
economic ideas as seen in his major work, The Three Principles of
the People, which discusses nationalism, democracy, and people's
welfare, examining his doctrines as well as a his ideas with other
contemporary ideologies.
How has the government of the PRC transformed traditional economic
institutions into a socialist, central-planning system? What has
been the impact of this transformation on China's economic growth?
What is the essence of the Chinese development model and how
successfully has it functioned during the past three decades? What
are the prospects for t
Machine learning methods have lowered the cost of exploring new
structures of unknown compounds, and can be used to predict
reasonable expectations and subsequently validated by experimental
results. As new insights and several elaborative tools have been
developed for materials science and engineering in recent years, it
is an appropriate time to present a book covering recent progress
in this field. Searchable and interactive databases can promote
research on emerging materials. Recently, databases containing a
large number of high-quality materials properties for new advanced
materials discovery have been developed. These approaches are set
to make a significant impact on human life and, with numerous
commercial developments emerging, will become a major academic
topic in the coming years. This authoritative and comprehensive
book will be of interest to both existing researchers in this field
as well as others in the materials science community who wish to
take advantage of these powerful techniques. The book offers a
global spread of authors, from USA, Canada, UK, Japan, France,
Russia, China and Singapore, who are all world recognized experts
in their separate areas. With content relevant to both academic and
commercial points of view, and offering an accessible overview of
recent progress and potential future directions, the book will
interest graduate students, postgraduate researchers, and
consultants and industrial engineers.
This book provides a study of the causes of the 1989 spring unrest
in China from various angles such as social, economic, political,
intellectual, and military. It is concerned with why Tiananmen
Square massacre occurred and what factors are likely to shape the
People's Republic of China future.
This study presents an empirical analysis of the changes in British
work experiences and employment relationships between the 1980s and
1990s. Drawing on the Employment in Britain survey it examines the
impact of new technologies, the emergence of new management
policies, the changing forms of employment contract, and the growth
of job insecurity on people's experience of employment. The authors
focus on the implications these developments have for the ways in
which skills and work tasks have been changing, the nature of
control at work, the degree of participation in decision-making,
and the flexibility demanded at work. They assess whether there has
been a tendency towards either a polarization or convergence of
employment experiences between men and women, and between
occupational classes. They offer fresh insight into how the
changing quality of work in recent years has affected employee's
involvement in their jobs and organizations, the stress they
experience at work, and the propensity for absenteeism and staff
turnover.
This masterly new study presents the first large-scale empirical
analysis of the changes in British work experiences and employment
relationships between the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on the
Employment in Britain surveya national survey providing the richest
source of evidence to date about individuals' experience of
employmentit examines the impact of new technologies, the emergence
of new management policies, the changing forms of employment
contract, and the growth of job insecurity on people's experience
of employment. The authors focus on the implications these
developments have for the ways in which skills and work tasks have
been changing, the nature of control at work, the degree of
participation in decision-making, and the flexibility demanded at
work. They assess whether there has been a tendency towards either
a polarization or convergence of employment experiences between men
and women, and between occupational classes. They offer fresh
insight into how the changing quality of work in recent years has
affected employee's involvement in their jobs and organizations,
the stress they experience at work, and the propensity for
absenteeism and staff turnover. While the study provides strong
evidence of a marked trend towards upskilling, the authors take
issue with the argument that a new type of employment relationship
is emerging, arguing instead that the restructuring of the
employment relationship has, in fact, reinforced traditional lines
of division in the workforce.
Economic development in mainland China during the first two decades
of Communist control provides a typical example for the difficult
task to transform a vast underdeveloped agrarian economy into a
modern industrial one. In the first half of this period, a series
of massive transformations of social and economic institutions was
accompanied by a drafted industrialization program; the result was
an impressive speed-up in economic growth. The second decade
witnessed an economic crisis (1960-62) and a political upheaval
(1966-68). These disruptions marred the economic performance over
the period as a whole. Consequently, the long-term growth rate
appears to have been only moderate. The Economy of Communist China
reviews selected aspects of the economy. After examining the
development strategy, it analyzes the quantitative trends and the
structural changes. The book goes on to analyze the key factors
contributing to the earlier growth and the elements responsible for
the later disruption and finally assesses the impact of the
Cultural Revolution on the Chinese economy and the prospects of the
current Third Five-Year Plan. The text includes a bibliography of
selected materials on Chinese economic development.
The considerable interest in graphene and 2D materials is sparking
intense research on layered materials due to their unexpected
physical, electronic, chemical, and optical properties. This book
will provide a comprehensive overview of the recent and
state-of-the-art research progress on layered materials for energy
storage and other applications. With a brief introduction to
layered materials, the chapters of this book gather various
fascinating topics such as electrocatalysis for fuel cells,
lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries, photovoltaic devices,
thermoelectric devices, supercapacitors and water splitting. Unique
aspects of layered materials in these fields, including novel
synthesis and functionalization methods, particular physicochemical
properties and consequently enhanced performance are addressed.
Challenges and perspectives for layered materials in these fields
will also be presented. With contributions from key researchers,
Layered Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion will be of
interest to students, researchers and engineers worldwide who want
a basic overview of the latest progress and future directions.
Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is considered to be the
fastest methodology to be used in order to improve business process
in a current fast-changing environment. BPR attempts to achieve
dramatic improvements in critical measures of performance by using
the power of modern information technology (IT) fundamentally to
rethink and radically to redesign the business process. However,
many construction industries proposed BPR to evaluate the business
process, not to redesign the business process. This study focuses
on the idea of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) in applying
benchmarking philosophy to redesign the business process.
Identifying, and adapting the best-practice process are the
important factors of benchmarking. Therefore, an accurate analysis
of the gaps between best-practice processes and benchmarking
company process is essential for the redesign of business
processes. This research integrates BPR philosophy, semantic
similarities concept and trend model concept to develop a
benchmarking-oriented process reengineering (BOPR) method that
enables a project team to determine the most suitable process from
the best practice company.
China's efforts to stimulate industrial development and economic
growth through the allocation of investments are analyzed. Cheng
concludes with an overall assessment of the distinctive features of
the allocation pattern. Includes 41 statistical tables.
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