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  • Fault Diagnosis and Prognostics Based on Cognitive Computing and Geometric Space Transformation

    by Chen Lu, Laifa Tao, Jian Ma, Yujie Cheng, Yu Ding ...
    Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
    This monograph introduces readers to new theories and methods applying cognitive computing and geometric space transformation to the field of fault diagnosis and prognostics. It summarizes the basic concepts and technical aspects of fault diagnosis and prognostics technology. Existing bottleneck problems are examined, and the advantages of applying cognitive computing and geometric space ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • China Dream

    by Ma Jian ...
    Translated by Flora Drew ...
    Blending fact and fiction, this darkly comic fable “may be the purest distillation yet of Mr. Ma’s talent for probing the country’s darkest corners and exposing what he regards as the Communist Party’s moral failings” (Mike Ives, The New York Times).Called “Red Guards meet Kurt Vonnegut . . . powerful!" by Margaret Atwood on Twitter, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. Ma ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Beijing Coma

    A Novel

    by Ma Jian ...
    Dai Wei has been unconscious for almost a decade. A medical student and a pro-democracy protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, he was struck by a soldier's bullet and fell into a deep coma. As soon as the hospital authorities discovered that he had been an activist, his mother was forced to take him home. She allowed pharmacists access to his body and sold his urine and his left kidney to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Red Dust

    A Path Through China

    by Ma Jian ...
    In 1983, at the age of thirty, dissident artist Ma Jian finds himself divorced by his wife, separated from his daughter, betrayed by his girlfriend, facing arrest for “Spiritual Pollution,” and severely disillusioned with the confines of life in Beijing. So with little more than a change of clothes and two bars of soap, Ma takes off to immerse himself in the remotest parts of China. His journey ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Light Alloys

    Metallurgy of the Light Metals

    by Ian Polmear, David StJohn, Jian-Feng Nie, Ma Qian ...
    Light Alloys: From Traditional Alloys to Nanocrystals, Fifth Edition, covers the materials science, properties, manufacturing processes, and applications of key engineering metals in a single accessible volume. As use of these metals is now more widespread than ever, with routine use in motor vehicles and aircraft, this book includes materials characteristics and applications, heat treatment ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • The Dark Road

    A Novel

    by Ma Jian ...
    Translated by Flora Drew ...
    From one of world literature’s most courageous voices, a novel about the human cost of China’s one-child policy through the lens of one rural family on the run from its reachFar away from the Chinese economic miracle, from the bright lights of Beijing and Shanghai, is a vast rural hinterland, where life goes on much as it has for generations, with one extraordinary difference: “normal” parents are ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Noodle Maker

    A Novel

    by Ma Jian ...
    From Ma Jian, the highly acclaimed Chinese dissident, comes a satirical novel about the absurdities of life in a post-Tiananmen China.Two men meet for dinner each week. Over the course of one of these drunken evenings, the writer recounts the stories he would write, had he the courage: a young man buys an old kiln and opens a private crematorium, delighting in his ability to harass the corpses of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Being Online

    On Computing, Data, the Internet, and the Cloud

    by Jian Wang ...
    A pioneer of cloud computing and big data offers his vision of the future world taking shape around us.Jian Wang was the founder and architect of Alibaba's cloud and has been the driving force behind its technology innovations. He was also the founder of the City Brain initiative to develop a new digital infrastructure for sustainable cities. Being Online is his meditation on the moment we are in, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Monitoring and Early Warning Technologies on Karst Lands

    Surface Collapse and Groundwater Contamination

    by Xiaozhen Jiang, Mingtang Lei, Wanfang Zhou, Fubiao Zhou, Xiao Ma, Jianling Dai, Zongyuan Pan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book compiles a broad range of monitoring and early warning technologies focused on high-resolution in-situ water quality parameters at springs and monitoring wells. The surface collapses often cause severe damage to infrastructures, properties, and loss of lives, whereas contaminated groundwater poses risks to human health and the environment. Collapses are critical in karst systems, ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Three Dimensional Space-Time Analysis Theory of Geotechnical Seismic Engineering

    by Changwei Yang, Guotao Yang, Jianjing Zhang, Hongsheng Ma ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Written by respected experts, this book presents essential findings on the Wenchuan earthquake. It establishes a series of time–frequency analysis methods, and subsequently applies them to the layered site, slope, and earth-retaining wall. Further, it examines various cases and their solutions, and shares the results of numerous shaking-table tests and numerical simulations. As such, it is a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Soil, Fertilizer, and Plant Silicon Research in Japan

    by Jian Feng Ma, Eiichi Takahashi ...
    Silicon (Si) plays a significant role in the resistance of plants to multiple stresses including biotic and abiotic stresses. Silicon is also the only element that does not damage plants when accumulated in excess. However, the contribution of Si to plant growth has been largely ignored due to its universal existence in the earth's crust. From numerous intensive studies on Si, initiated in Japan ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Global tea science

    Current status and future needs

    by Dr Tapan Kumar Mondal, Dr M. A. Wijeratne, Prof. P. Okinda Owuor, Shipra Singh, Dr Anita Pandey, Lok Man S. Palni, Dr P. N. Bhattacharyya, S. R. Sarmah, Dr G. D. Sinniah, Dr Nalini C. Gnanapragasam, Dr A.K Barooah, Ting Zhang, Xiaojian Lv, Yin Xu, Lanying Xu, Tao Long, Prof. Chi-Tang Ho, Dr Shiming Li, Prof. Chung S. Yang, Dr Wenyan Han, Jian-Qiang Ma, Xin Li, Peng Yan, Liping Zhang, Golam Jalal Ahammed, Dr Thushari Lakmini Wijeratne, Dr Nikhil Ghosh Hajra, Dr Atik Dharmadi, Prof. Liang Chen, Dr Xinchao Wang, Xinyuan Hao, Lu Wang, Yajun Yang, Dr Mainaak Mukhopadhaya ...
    Series Book 41 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Reviews the latest advances in understanding tea genetics and genetic diversity and how this has informed advances in conventional, marker-assisted and transgenic breeding techniquesSummarises current best practice in cultivation techniques and the control of pests and diseasesFocuses on assessing the environmental impact of tea cultivation ... Read more

    $211.49 USD