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Social Work for Child Poverty-Alleviation

by Fan Wu ...

Translated by Yongzhi Liu, Tingting Yu ...

Series series Poverty-Alleviation and Social Work in China
This book is to reflect on the achievements and challenges of current poverty-alleviation practices for children in China, in order to understand and clarify the function, intervention strategies and development direction of social work in child poverty-alleviation. It systematically presents the theoretical framework and practical path of social work in child poverty-alleviation. The book has ... Read more

$116.09 USD

This book is to reflect on the achievements and challenges of current poverty-alleviation practices for children in China, in order to understand and clarify the function, intervention strategies and development direction of social work in child poverty-alleviation. It systematically presents the theoretical framework and practical path of social work in child poverty-alleviation. The book has
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February Flowers

by Fan Wu ...

Set in modern China, February Flowers tells the stories of two young women's journeys to self-discovery and reconciliation with the past.Seventeen-year-old Ming and twenty-four-year-old Yan have very little in common other than studying at the same college. Ming, idealistic and preoccupied, lives in her own world of books, music, and imagination. Yan, by contrast, is sexy but cynical, beautiful ... Read more

$13.99 USD

Set in modern China, February Flowers tells the stories of two young women's journeys to self-discovery and reconciliation with the past.Seventeen-year-old Ming and twenty-four-year-old Yan have very little in common other than studying at the same college. Ming, idealistic and preoccupied, lives in her own world of books, music, and imagination. Yan, by contrast, is sexy but cynical, beautiful
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Beautiful as Yesterday

A Novel

by Fan Wu ...

Mary and Ingrid are sisters who were born and brought up in China but now reside in the United States. Mary is the older of the two; seemingly a devoted wife, mother, and churchgoer. Yet she is tormented by adultery, a grudge toward her parents, and her despair at work. Her estranged sister Ingrid has never settled for anything; she prefers her bohemian friends’ culture to her own, and is haunted ... Read more

$15.99 USD

Mary and Ingrid are sisters who were born and brought up in China but now reside in the United States. Mary is the older of the two; seemingly a devoted wife, mother, and churchgoer. Yet she is tormented by adultery, a grudge toward her parents, and her despair at work. Her estranged sister Ingrid has never settled for anything; she prefers her bohemian friends’ culture to her own, and is haunted
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Game Theoretic Approaches for Spectrum Redistribution

by Fan Wu ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This brief examines issues of spectrum allocation for the limited resources of radio spectrum. It uses a game-theoretic perspective, in which the nodes in the wireless network are rational and always pursue their own objectives. It provides a systematic study of the approaches that can guarantee the system’s convergence at an equilibrium state, in which the system performance is optimal or sub ... Read more

$49.49 USD

This brief examines issues of spectrum allocation for the limited resources of radio spectrum. It uses a game-theoretic perspective, in which the nodes in the wireless network are rational and always pursue their own objectives. It provides a systematic study of the approaches that can guarantee the system’s convergence at an equilibrium state, in which the system performance is optimal or sub
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Imagining Futures of Experimental Media

by Aaditya Aggarwal, Angel Callander, Lena Chen, Eli Hirtle, Gladys Lou, Renata Azevedo Moreira, Divine Ndemeye, Dhvani Ramanujam, Darian Razdar, Cody Rooney, Elida Schogt, Fan Wu, and more ...

Series Book 1 - Pleasure Dome E-Book, Digital Now Series
Pleasure Dome (Artists Film Exhibition Group of Ontario) is pleased to announce the launch of its very first e-book, Imagining Futures of Experimental Media (2023), published in collaboration with the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition and OddSide Arts. Edited by Aaditya Aggarwal, Elida Schogt, and Fan Wu and featuring contributions by artists and writers, this digital publication was made ... Read more

$7.37 USD

Pleasure Dome (Artists Film Exhibition Group of Ontario) is pleased to announce the launch of its very first e-book, Imagining Futures of Experimental Media (2023), published in collaboration with the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition and OddSide Arts. Edited by Aaditya Aggarwal, Elida Schogt, and Fan Wu and featuring contributions by artists and writers, this digital publication was made
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Social Work in Mental Health Settings

International Perspectives on Practice

by Fan Wu, Miao Jian, Shuting Yuan, Jim Campbell, Bodil Irene Høyer, Christos Panagiotpoulos, Jeanette Copperman, Anna Sklair, Laura Tucker, Hannah Jobling, Martin Webber, Ippokratis Efstathiou, Bill Penson, Darren Hill, Patricia Carlisle, Danielle McIlroy, Lorna Montgomery, Paul Best, Gloria Kirwan, Calvin Swords, Tali-Noy Hindi, Ayelet Gur, Cristina Tilli, Barbara Rosina, Maria Patrizia Favali, Alan Maddock, Jean Pierre Wilken, Simona Karbouniaris, Svetlana Kolpakova, Vicky Soutar, Damien Taylor, Lyndon Joel Gumbs, Yu-Ching Liu, Stefan Sjöström, Maria Lúcia T. Garcia, Rita C. Cavalcante Lima, Eduardo Mourão Vasconcelos, Fabiola Xavier Leal, Gary Spolander, Dagny Adriaenssen Johannessen, Joakim Finne ...

Series series Research in Social Work
Social Work in Mental Health Settings brings together leading academics and practitioners to explore how mental health social work is shaped and practised around the world. In so doing, it responds to a striking lack of comparative literature in the field and offers readers a timely, global perspective on this important area of practice.Combining macro-level analyses with in-depth country case ... Read more

$40.49 USD

Social Work in Mental Health Settings brings together leading academics and practitioners to explore how mental health social work is shaped and practised around the world. In so doing, it responds to a striking lack of comparative literature in the field and offers readers a timely, global perspective on this important area of practice.Combining macro-level analyses with in-depth country case
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Modeling and State Estimation of Automotive Lithium-Ion Batteries

by Shunli Wang, Fan Wu, Jialu Qiao, Carlos Fernandez, Josep M Guerrero ...

This book aims to evaluate and improve the state of charge (SOC) and state of health (SOH) of automotive lithium-ion batteries.The authors first introduce the basic working principle and dynamic test characteristics of lithium-ion batteries. They present the dynamic transfer model, compare it with the traditional second-order reserve capacity (RC) model, and demonstrate the advantages of the ... Read more

$115.99 USD

This book aims to evaluate and improve the state of charge (SOC) and state of health (SOH) of automotive lithium-ion batteries.The authors first introduce the basic working principle and dynamic test characteristics of lithium-ion batteries. They present the dynamic transfer model, compare it with the traditional second-order reserve capacity (RC) model, and demonstrate the advantages of the
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Imagining Futures of Experimental Media

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Pleasure Dome is pleased to announce the launch of its very first e-book and accompanying audiobook, Imagining Futures of Experimental Media (2023). Edited by Aaditya Aggarwal, Elida Schogt, and Fan Wu, and designed by Rupali Morzaria, this digital publication was made possible through the generosity of the Canada Council of the Arts’s Strategic Funds & Initiatives: Digital Now Grant.Contributions ... Read more

$0.99 USD

Pleasure Dome is pleased to announce the launch of its very first e-book and accompanying audiobook, Imagining Futures of Experimental Media (2023). Edited by Aaditya Aggarwal, Elida Schogt, and Fan Wu, and designed by Rupali Morzaria, this digital publication was made possible through the generosity of the Canada Council of the Arts’s Strategic Funds & Initiatives: Digital Now Grant.Contributions
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Religion and Charity

The Social Life of Goodness in Chinese Societies

by Robert P. Weller, C. Julia Huang, Keping Wu, Lizhu Fan ...

Free markets alone do not work effectively to solve certain kinds of human problems, such as education, old age care, or disaster relief. Nor have markets ever been the sole solution to the psychological challenges of death, suffering, or injustice. Instead, we find a major role for the non-market institutions of society - the family, the state, and social institutions. The first in-depth ... Read more

$109.09 USD

Free markets alone do not work effectively to solve certain kinds of human problems, such as education, old age care, or disaster relief. Nor have markets ever been the sole solution to the psychological challenges of death, suffering, or injustice. Instead, we find a major role for the non-market institutions of society - the family, the state, and social institutions. The first in-depth
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The Identity of Zhiqing

The Lost Generation

by Weiyi Wu, Fan Hong ...

Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
Outside China, little is known about the process and implications of the Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside (UMDC) Movement, a Chinese state policy from 1967 to 1979 in which more than 16 million secondary school-leavers in different cities were relocated to rural areas. The Movement shaped the lives of these young people and assigned them a shared group identity: Zhiqing, or the ... Read more

$45.99 USD

Outside China, little is known about the process and implications of the Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside (UMDC) Movement, a Chinese state policy from 1967 to 1979 in which more than 16 million secondary school-leavers in different cities were relocated to rural areas. The Movement shaped the lives of these young people and assigned them a shared group identity: Zhiqing, or the
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Local Image Descriptor: Modern Approaches

by Bin Fan, Zhenhua Wang, Fuchao Wu ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book covers a wide range of local image descriptors, from the classical ones to the state of the art, as well as the burgeoning research topics on this area. The goal of this effort is to let readers know what are the most popular and useful methods in the current, what are the advantages and the disadvantages of these methods, which kind of methods is best suitable for their problems or ... Read more

$49.49 USD

This book covers a wide range of local image descriptors, from the classical ones to the state of the art, as well as the burgeoning research topics on this area. The goal of this effort is to let readers know what are the most popular and useful methods in the current, what are the advantages and the disadvantages of these methods, which kind of methods is best suitable for their problems or
... Read more
Achieving carbon-negative bioenergy systems from plant materials

by Dr Daniel Kulas, Dr Donald R. Fosnacht, Dr Dan Zeng, Dr Daidi Fan, Dr Le Wu, Dr Yuqi Wang, Dr Rahmath Abdulla, Prof B. Brian He, Dr Dev Shrestha, Dr Paul Robson, Dr Maria Puig-Arnavat, Dr Astley Hastings, Dr John Clifton-Brown, Dr Jon McCalmont, Dr John Fike, Dr Vance Owens, Dr David Parrish, Dr Rana Genedy, Prof. M. Weih, Dr P.-A. Hansson, Dr J. A. Ohlsson, Dr Tobias Pape Thomsen, Dr M. Sandgren, Dr A. Schnürer, Dr A.-C. Rönnberg-Wästljung, Dr Jay Liu, Dr Peyman Fasahati, Dr Zsuzsa Sárossy, Dr Rasmus Østergaard Gadsbøll, Dr Lasse Røngaard Clausen, Dr Jesper Ahrenfeldt, Prof David Shonnard, Dr Olumide Winjobi, Dr Boris Brigljević ...

Series Book 64 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Focus on net carbon capture bioenergy technologies which fully address the challenge of climate changeFocus on optimising use of co-products and non-food plant materialsReviews of key technologies and products cover both principles and practical applications, including case studies ... Read more

$175.49 USD

Focus on net carbon capture bioenergy technologies which fully address the challenge of climate changeFocus on optimising use of co-products and non-food plant materialsReviews of key technologies and products cover both principles and practical applications, including case studies
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