Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • Sea Summit

    Poems

    by Yi Lu ...
    Translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain ...
    Translated to English, this collection of contemporary Chinese poetry examines humanity's relationship with nature and the ecological crisis.Influenced by both the "gray, sinister sea" near the village where Yi Lu grew up during the Cultural Revolution, and the beauty of the sea in the books she read as a child, Sea Summit is a collection of paradox and questioning. The sea is an impossible force ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Urban Governance

    Integrative Approaches and Emerging Trends towards Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chain Management

    This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the latest advancements in sustainable and resilient supply chain management. The chapters in this volume present a diverse range of topics, including innovative strategies for optimizing sustainable food supply chains through data envelopment analysis, dynamic multi-modal perspectives on global supply chain network configuration, and robust data ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • AI-enabled Technologies for Autonomous and Connected Vehicles

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book reports on cutting-edge research and advances in the field of intelligent vehicle systems. It presents a broad range of AI-enabled technologies, with a focus on automated, autonomous and connected vehicle systems. It covers advanced machine learning technologies, including deep and reinforcement learning algorithms, transfer learning and learning from big data, as well as control theory ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

  • Earthquake Disasters

    Prevention and Reconstruction

    This book explores practices and approaches on pre-disaster prevention and post-disaster reconstruction for vulnerable countries and areas enhancing earthquake disaster resilience.Destructive earthquakes have frequently occurred in urban or rural areas around the world, causing severe damage on human societies. Pre-earthquake prevention and post-earthquake reconstruction effect the disaster ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Pharmaceutical Perspectives of Cancer Therapeutics

    Edited by Yi Lu, Ram I. Mahato ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Pharmaceutical Perspectives of Cancer Therapeutics covers a wide variety of therapeutic approaches including gene therapy, immunological therapy; cancer vaccines; strategy for solid tumors as well as for hematological cancers; methods to suppress tumor angiogenesis and metastasis; development and utilization of relevant animal models; introduction of new concepts such as cancer stem cells and new ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Functional Nucleic Acids for Analytical Applications

    Edited by Yingfu Li, Yi Lu ...
    Series series Integrated Analytical Systems
    Nature has long used nucleic acid aptamers and enzymes for regulatory activities, such as the recently discovered “riboswitches” involved in gene expression. The existence of a large array of natural and artificial functional nucleic acids has generated tremendous enthusiasm and new opportunities for molecular scientists from diverse disciplines to devise new concepts and real applications that ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Surviving Democracy

    Mitigating Climate Change in a Neoliberalized World

    by Chien-Yi Lu ...
    Series series Environmental Politics
    Is democracy, in its neoliberalized form, responsible in part for bringing us to the brink of self-destruction and the policy inertia that is doing away with our chances of survival? Surviving Democracy probes the way democracy became neoliberalized and the role neoliberalized democracy plays in our dealings with—causing, understanding, denying, and mitigating—climate change.Defining neoliberalism ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Postmonolingual Critical Thinking

    Internationalising Higher Education Through Students’ Languages and Knowledge

    Maintaining English as the sole language of knowledge production and dissemination in universities that enrol students who speak multiple languages, and those students learning other languages, is questionable. This groundbreaking work calls into question the exclusive use of academic English in internationalising higher education teaching and research. By interrogating the dominant assumptions ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Public Performance Budgeting

    Principles and Practice

    Winner of the the inaugural 'Best Book Award' from the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management!Performance budgeting involves costs, from the drafting and passage of legal foundations, and the political capital and will to implement it, to training personnel to create a performance-oriented culture, and information technology requirements to track performance. Through comprehensive ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Innovative Approaches Towards Low Carbon Economics

    Regional Development Cybernetics

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Climate change is an inevitable and urgent global challenge with long-term implications for the sustainable development of all countries. To overcome this human crisis, the scientific consensus is driving global action towards low carbon economics. Though this action has to involve all sectors (industries, governments, and citizens) and at all levels (global, national and regional levels), the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Minimally Invasive Spinal Deformity Surgery

    An Evolution of Modern Techniques

    Contemporary spinal surgeons, whether orthopedic or neurosurgeons, are increasingly recognizing minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) as a desirable option to manage advanced degenerative diseases. MISS techniques minimize blood loss, surgical site pain, and speed recovery. Thus, the marriage of MISS with adult spinal deformity was a natural one. Currently, the techniques, technologies, and ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • The Politics of Locality

    Making a Nation of Communities in Taiwan

    by Hsin-Yi Lu ...
    Series series East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
    During the mid-1990s, Taiwan witnessed a remarkable proliferation of historical writings and cultural movements pertaining to 'the local'. 'Place (difang)' and 'community (shequ)' became two ubiquitous terms in the lexicon of being Taiwanese. This book is a critical examination of the socio-historical condition in which the discourse of local diversity emerged and gradually permeated Taiwan's ... Read more

    $70.99 USD