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  • Healing with Poisons

    Potent Medicines in Medieval China

    by Yan Liu ...
    **Winner of the 2023 William H. Welch Medal, sponsored by the American Association for the History of MedicineA revealing study of risky cures in classical Chinese pharmacy**At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China’s formative era of pharmacy (200–800 CE), poisons were strategically deployed as healing agents to cure everything from chills to pains to epidemics ... Read more

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  • 传承中文 Modern Chinese for Heritage Beginners

    Stories about Us

    by Yan Liu, Jingjing Ji, Grace Wu, Min-Min Liang ...
    Modern Chinese for Heritage Beginners aims to serve as a stepping-stone for Chinese heritage language learners’ future Chinese learning, inspiring them to reflect on their identities, learn Chinese American history, and embrace their cultural heritage.The book starts with talking about individuals and families and then expands to the Chinese and Asian American communities in the U.S. and ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Empirical Likelihood and Quantile Methods for Time Series

    Efficiency, Robustness, Optimality, and Prediction

    by Yan Liu, Fumiya Akashi, Masanobu Taniguchi ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book integrates the fundamentals of asymptotic theory of statistical inference for time series under nonstandard settings, e.g., infinite variance processes, not only from the point of view of efficiency but also from that of robustness and optimality by minimizing prediction error. This is the first book to consider the generalized empirical likelihood applied to time series models in ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Practical Applications of Bayesian Reliability

    by Yan Liu, Athula I. Abeyratne ...
    Series series Quality and Reliability Engineering Series
    Demonstrates how to solve reliability problems using practical applications of Bayesian modelsThis self-contained reference provides fundamental knowledge of Bayesian reliability and utilizes numerous examples to show how Bayesian models can solve real life reliability problems. It teaches engineers and scientists exactly what Bayesian analysis is, what its benefits are, and how they can apply the ... Read more

    $105.00 USD

  • Modelling Urban Development with Geographical Information Systems and Cellular Automata

    by Yan Liu ...
    Urban development and migration from rural to urban areas are impacting prime agricultural land and natural landscapes, particularly in the less developed countries. These phenomena will persist and require serious study by those monitoring global environmental change. To address this need, various models have been devised to analyze urbanization a ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Advancing Library Services for Mobile Users

    by Yan Quan Liu ...
    As mobile technology becomes integral to everyday life, libraries rework their services to meet the needs of their users. Advancing library services for mobile users requires seamless, intuitive experiences that support research, learning, and engagement. From mobile-friendly catalogs and e-book platforms to personalized notifications and virtual assistance, libraries leverage innovative tools to ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Woven Arch Bridge

    Histories of Constructional Thoughts

    by LIU Yan ...
    Series series China Perspectives
    This book focuses on the woven arch bridge, an arch-shaped structure that is one of the most extraordinary timber building traditions of the world. The woven arch bridge exists widely in different cultures and its specific nature is conceptualized by the author as a kind of “universal uniqueness,” challenging widespread viewpoints on its origin and genealogy.Taking this argument as its main thread ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Law’s Impunity

    Responsibility and the Modern Private Military Company

    by Professor Hin-Yan Liu ...
    Series series Studies in International Law
    When faced with those who act with impunity, we seek the protection of law. We rely upon the legal system for justice, from international human rights law that establishes common standards of protection, to international criminal law that spearheads efforts to end impunity for the most heinous atrocities. While legal processes are perceived to combat impunity, and despite the ready availability of ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Holographic Duality in Condensed Matter Physics

    by Jan Zaanen, Yan Liu, Ya-Wen Sun, Koenraad Schalm ...
    A pioneering treatise presenting how the new mathematical techniques of holographic duality unify seemingly unrelated fields of physics. This innovative development morphs quantum field theory, general relativity and the renormalisation group into a single computational framework and this book is the first to bring together a wide range of research in this rapidly developing field. Set within the ... Read more

    $78.79 USD

  • A Dream of a Thousand Autumns - A Novel

    by Liu Yan Chang Ning ...
    A literary historical-fantasy novel set amid the fall and renewal of Great Yong. After the disastrous defeat and death of Jinghai Prince Cui Baye, his daughter Cui Ling enters a world of court intrigue, military crisis, hidden evidence, family revenge, imperial succession, and forbidden tenderness. Her bond with Xiao Zhuo develops through banquets, interrogations, poisoned arrows, public trials, ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Game Theory and AI for Security

    17th International Conference, GameSec 2026, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, October 26–28, 2026, Proceedings

    Edited by Mingyan Liu, Parinaz Naghizadeh, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, GameSec 2026, which took place in Ann Arbour, Michigan, USA, in October 2026.The 29 full papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Equilibrium Computation and Game ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval

    by Tie-Yan Liu ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Due to the fast growth of the Web and the difficulties in finding desired information, efficient and effective information retrieval systems have become more important than ever, and the search engine has become an essential tool for many people.The ranker, a central component in every search engine, is responsible for the matching between processed queries and indexed documents. Because of its ... Read more

    $134.09 USD