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  • Systemic Yoyos

    Some Impacts of the Second Dimension

    by Yi Lin ...
    Series series Systems Evaluation, Prediction, and Decision-Making
    A Novel Method to Analyze Problems and Encourage Systemic ThinkingReal-Life Case Studies Illustrate the Application of the Systemic Yoyo Model in Diverse AreasWritten by the co-creator of the systemic yoyo model, Systemic Yoyos: Some Impacts of the Second Dimension shows how the yoyo model and its methodology can be employed to study many unsettled ... Read more

    $225.99 USD

  • Study Gods

    How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition

    by Yi-Lin Chiang ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Contemporary China
    How privileged adolescents in China acquire status and why this helps them succeedStudy Gods offers a rare look at the ways privileged youth in China prepare themselves to join the ranks of the global elite. Yi-Lin Chiang shows how these competitive Chinese high schoolers first become “study gods” (xueshen), a term describing academically high-performing students. Constant studying, however, is ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Calmness is a skill

    by Wing-Yi Lin ...
    Calmness Is a Skill is a personal journey into finding peace amidst life’s challenges. In this book, I share my own story — the struggles, the pressures, the times I felt lost and didn’t truly know myself — and how I developed a subconscious technique to cultivate inner calm. More than theory, this is a guide drawn from real experience, showing how anyone can train their mind, manage emotions, and ... Read more

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  • Theorizing Chinese Citizenship

    by Zhonghua Guo, Taihui Guo, Thomas Janoski, Kerry Kennedy, Hui Li, Samantha A. Vortherms, Canglong Wang, Ying Xia, Bin Xiao0, Yihan Xiong1, Yi Lin2, Zhenzhou Zhao3, Malgorzata Jakimów4, Bing Guan5 ...
    Series series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
    This volume theorizes the concept of citizenship in contemporary China by probing into the formation of Chinese citizenship and synthesizing the practices of citizenship by different social groups. The first section, “Imagining Chinese Citizenship,” analyses how Chinese citizenship was first imagined by means of translation and education at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Chinese ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Systems Science

    Methodological Approaches

    by Yi Lin, Xiaojun Duan, Chengli Zhao, Li Da Xu ...
    Series series Advances in Systems Science and Engineering (ASSE)
    By making use of the principles of systems science, the scientific community can explain many complicated matters of the world and shed new light on unsettled problems. Each real science has its own particular methodology for not only qualitative but also quantitative analyses, so it is important to understand the organic whole of systems research ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Systemic Principles of Applied Economic Philosophies II

    Value, Decision, and Large-Scale Business Forces

    by Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The objective of this book, the second volume of this monograph series, is to respond to the calls from front-line managers, entrepreneurs, and scholarly researchers to reconstruct the theories of economics and business so that the new theories will be more relevant to real life than the prevalent ones. Differing from what is presented in the first volume, this second volume emphasizes the ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Value in Business

    A Holistic, Systems-based Approach to Creating and Achieving Value

    by Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest, Yong Liu ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book uses a system-based approach to decipher and organize the concepts and conclusions relevant for creating and capturing value in business. It develops a scientific theory based on systems science and logical reasoning that is commonly employed in mathematics and natural science. The resulting new theory focuses on the organizational nature of the world and the organic and holistic feature ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Managerial Decision Making

    A Holistic Approach

    by Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest, Jeananne Nicholls, Kurt Schimmel, Sifeng Liu ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book develops a general theory of managerial decision making on the basis of a few elementary postulates. It employs logic as the method of reasoning, systems science in general and the systemic YoYo Model in particular, as the intuitive playground. By doing so, the authors take individually background-based guesswork out of processes of decision making. All established conclusions are ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • General Systems Theory

    Foundation, Intuition and Applications in Business Decision Making

    by Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book demonstrates the theoretical value and practical significance of systems science and its logic of thinking by presenting a rigorously developed foundation—a tool for intuitive reasoning, which is supported by both theory and empirical evidence, as well as practical applications in business decision making. Following a foundation of general systems theory, the book presents an applied ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Systemic Principles of Applied Economic Philosophies I

    Producers, Consumers, and the Firm

    by Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The objective of this book is to answer the calls from front-line managers, entrepreneurs, and scholarly researchers to reconstruct the theories of economics and business. Their request is for new theories to be more relevant to real life than the now-prevalent ones. To provide that answer, the book proposes to develop elementary postulates at the level of the four natural endowments of a business ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • A Systems Perspective on Financial Systems

    by Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest ...
    Series series Communications in Cybernetics, Systems Science and Engineering
    This book is devoted to a systems-theoretical presentation of the main results of applying the systemic yoyo model and relevant analytical tools to the topics of money and financial institutions. The author presents the main concepts and results of the subject matter in the language of systems science, which has in the past century prompted revolut ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • A Systemic Perspective on Cognition and Mathematics

    by Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest ...
    Series series Communications in Cybernetics, Systems Science and Engineering
    This book is devoted to the study of human thought, its systemic structure, and the historical development of mathematics both as a product of thought and as a fascinating case analysis. After demonstrating that systems research constitutes the second dimension of modern science, the monograph discusses the yoyo model, a recent ground-breaking deve ... Read more

    $94.99 USD