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  • LEED GA Mock Exams: Questions, Answers, and Explanations: A Must-Have for the LEED Green Associate Exam, Green Building LEED Certification, and Sustainability

    by Gang Chen ...
    From this book, you will be able to:Identify your weakness through practice questionsLearn to work well under the pressure of timed testsCheck your responses against the solutionsUnderstand the solutions for the difficult questions through the explanationsFully understand the scope, difficulty level, and format of the LEED Green Associate Exam ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China in the Era of Xi Jinping

    Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges

    by Robert S. Ross, Jo Inge Bekkevold, Zhiyue Bo, Yongnian Zheng, Cuifen Weng, Barry Naughton, Joseph Fewsmith, Stig Stenslie, Gang Chen0, Linda Jakobson1, Andrew Nathan2, Helge Hveem3, T J. Pempel4, Mingjiang Li5 ...
    Since becoming president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping has emerged as China's most powerful and popular leader since Deng Xiaoping. The breathtaking economic expansion and military modernization that Xi inherited has convinced him that China can transform into a twenty-first-century superpower.In this collection, leading scholars from the United States, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Red Madrasa School under Mao

    (A Feature Screenplay)

    by Greg Gang Chen ...
    Life in twentieth-century Communist China is not easy for its people who must navigate through hardships, oppression, and many other complex challenges. Within five original screenplays, Greg Gang CHEN shares insights into the lives of diverse characters demonstrating the resilience of the human spirit, despite the obstacles standing in the way: After intellectuals settle in a village in the late ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Metal Oxide-Based Thermoelectric Materials

    Edited by Jai Singh, Khalid Bin Masood, Ajaya Kumar Singh, Zhi-Gang Chen ...
    Series series Metal Oxides
    Thus far the top-performing thermoelectric materials have included toxic elements or materials that are not abundant or expensive and difficult to produce. Consequently metal oxide materials are now being investigated as potential thermoelectric materials. Metal Oxide-Based Thermoelectric Materials reviews the characteristics of metal oxide materials in comparison to other materials utilized for ... Read more

    $247.49 USD

  • Managing Public Pension Plans

    Decisions, Challenges, and Reforms

    by Gang Chen, Trang Hoang, Carol Ebdon ...
    Series series Routledge Public Budgeting and Finance
    This book provides an in-depth explanation of public pension plan management and the decision-making processes surrounding pension policies within state and local governments in the United States. It addresses the intricate balance between securing retirement benefits for public employees and ensuring the fiscal sustainability of pension systems and their sponsoring governments. The book begins ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Political Implications of China's Technocracy in the Reform Era

    by Gang Chen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book focuses on the evolution of technocracy in contemporary Chinese politics and its implications in China’s elite politics and policymaking. The rise of technocracy in contemporary Chinese politics is not only attributed to the meritocratic tradition based on civil service exams in ancient China but also tied to the current authoritarian political system that relies on the top-down cadre ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Blockchains

    Decentralized and Verifiable Data Systems

    by Pingcheng Ruan, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh, Dumitrel Loghin, Meihui Zhang, Gang Chen ...
    Series series eBColl Synthesis Collection 11
    This book takes readers through the sensational history of blockchains and their potential to revolutionize database systems of the future. In order to demystify blockchains, the book capitalizes on decades of research and field testing of existing database and distributed systems and applies these familiar concepts to the novel blockchain system. It then utilizes this framework to explore the ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Individual Retweeting Behavior on Social Networking Sites

    A Study on Individual Information Disseminating Behavior on Social Networking Sites

    by Juan Shi, Kin Keung Lai, Gang Chen ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores and analyzes influential predictors and the underlying mechanisms of individual content sharing/retweeting behavior on social networking sites (SNS) from an empirical perspective. Since Individual content sharing/ retweeting behavior expedites information dissemination, it is a critical mechanism of information diffusion on Twitter.Individual sharing/retweeting behavior does not ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Politics of Renewable Energy in China

    by Chen Gang ...
    Series series New Horizons in Environmental Politics series
    In this book, Chen Gang examines the real-world effectiveness of China's approach to the promotion of green technologies and practices, and discusses the political landscape in which it is situated.Politics of Renewable Energy in China questions the wisdom of hailing China as a model for authoritarian environmental governance with an up-to-date examination of the subject. It provides readers with ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Politics of Disaster Management in China

    Institutions, Interest Groups, and Social Participation

    by Gang Chen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    In China’s 4,000-year-long history and modern development, natural disaster management has been about not only human combat against devastating natural forces, but also institutional building, political struggle, and economic interest redistribution among different institutional players. A significant payoff for social scientists studying disasters is that they can reveal much of the hidden nature ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Circularity of Plastics

    Sustainability, Emerging Materials, and Valorization of Waste Plastic

    Edited by Zibiao Li, Jason Y.C. Lim, Chen-Gang Wang ...
    Circularity of Plastics: Sustainability, Emerging Materials, and Valorization of Waste Plastic takes an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to circularity and sustainability in plastics, with an emphasis on plastic waste and end-of-life treatment and options for recycling, re-use, valorization and development of biomass-based polymers. The book introduces key concepts of sustainable materials, ... Read more

    $215.99 USD

  • Soft Power

    China's Emerging Strategy in International Politics

    by Jianfeng Chen, Xiaohe Cheng Xiaogang Deng, Yong Deng, Zhongying Pang, Ignatius Wibowo, Lening Zhang, Yongjin Zhang, Gang Chen, Joshua Kurlantzick, Suisheng Zhao, Zhiqun Zhu ...
    Soft power has become a very popular concept in international affairs, appearing in government policy papers, academic discussions, and the popular media. In China, soft power has become one of the most frequently used phrases among political leaders, leading academics, and journalists. Defined against hard power, which often involves threat and coercion, soft power applies attraction, persuasion, ... Read more

    $47.79 USD