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  • Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown

    by Arnold Genthe, John Kuo Wei Tchen ...
    In 1895, a cultured, well-educated young German named Arnold Genthe arrived in San Francisco as a tutor to the son of an aristocratic family. Almost immediately, Genthe was attracted by Chinatown, or "Tangrenbu" — a teeming ten-block area of crowded buildings, narrow streets, and exotic sights and sounds in the shadow of Nob Hill.Fascinated by a living culture totally foreign to his experience, ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Advances in Chemical Engineering

    by James Wei, John L. Anderson, Morton M. Denn, John H. Seinfeld, George Stephanopoulos ...
    Series Book 19 - Advances in Chemical Engineering
    Advances in Chemical Engineering, Volume 19 reflects the major impact of chemical engineering on medical practice, with chapters covering polymer systems for controlled release, receptor binding and signaling,and transport phenomena in tumors. Other key topics include oil refining, pollution prevention in engineering design, and atmospheric dynamics. ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Discourse in Context: Contemporary Applied Linguistics Volume 3

    by Li Wei ...
    Series series Contemporary Applied Linguistics
    Featuring internationally renowned academics, this volume provides a snapshot of the field of applied linguistics, and illustrates how linguistics is engaging with the idea of 'context'. The book treats discourse as language in the contexts of its use in and above the level of the sentence and as systems of knowledge and beliefs.In using the term context(s), the book understands this as different ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities

    Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes

    by John Wei ...
    In Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities, John Wei brings light to the germination and movements of queer cultures and social practices in today’s China and Sinophone Asia. While many scholars attribute China’s emergent queer cultures to the neoliberal turn and the global political landscape, Wei refuses to take these assumptions for granted. He finds that the values and pitfalls of the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Racially Writing the Republic

    Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity

    by John Kuo Wei Tchen, Laura Janara ...
    Racially Writing the Republic investigates the central role of race in the construction and transformation of American national identity from the Revolutionary War era to the height of the civil rights movement. Drawing on political theory, American studies, critical race theory, and gender studies, the contributors to this collection highlight the assumptions of white (and often male) supremacy ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Cambridge History of Medieval Canon Law

    Edited by Anders Winroth, John C. Wei ...
    Canon law touched nearly every aspect of medieval society, including many issues we now think of as purely secular. It regulated marriages, oaths, usury, sorcery, heresy, university life, penance, just war, court procedure, and Christian relations with religious minorities. Canon law also regulated the clergy and the Church, one of the most important institutions in the Middle Ages. This Cambridge ... Read more

    $172.19 USD

  • Beyond Description

    Singapore Space Historicity

    Edited by Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Wei-Wei Yeo ...
    Series series Architext
    This book addresses issues of space, historicity, architecture and textuality by focusing on Singapore's singular position in the region and as a global city. The articles consider how various experiences of Singapore, both from within and from outside, help to complicate existing assumptions about global urbanism, postcolonialism, and architectural theory while producing challenging new ideas ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • Ceramics for Energy Conversion, Storage, and Distribution Systems

    by Mrityunjay Singh, Tatsuki Ohji, Alexander Michaelis ...
    Series Book 255 - Ceramic Transactions Series
    A collection of 25 papers presented at the 11th International Symposium on Ceramic Materials and Components for Energy and Environmental Applications (CMCEE-11), June 14-19, 2015 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Paper in this volume were presented in the below six symposia from Track 1 on the topic of Ceramics for Energy Conversion, Storage, and Distribution Systems:High-Temperature Fuel Cells and ... Read more

    $162.00 USD

  • Postcolonial Urbanism

    Southeast Asian Cities and Global Processes

    Edited by Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Wei Wei Yeo ...
    A common assumption about cities throughout the world is tht they are essentially an elaboration of the Euro-American model. Postcolonial Urbanism demonstrates the narrowness of this vision. Cities in the postcolonial world, the book shows, are producing novel forms of urbanism not reducible to Western urbanism. Despite being heavily colonized in the past, Southeast Asia has been largely ignored ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toward Poverty Reduction

    Edited by Steven Si, David Ahlstrom, Wei Jiang, John Cullen ...
    Ways in which poverty can be reduced in both countries and regions through business, entrepreneurship and government has been a hot issue for researchers and policymakers in recent years. Governments can play an important role in helping the poor people by non-profit organizations and others that help to seed business among the poor. Businesses increasingly also see the large number of people in ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • General Theory of Social Governance in China

    Edited by Liqun Wei ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book discusses the connotation and function of social governance and elaborates on social governance thought in classical Marxism, Mao Zedong’s social governance thought, and social governance thought in socialism with Chinese characteristics, especially in Xi Jinping’s New Era. Together, these components constitute the basic theory of social governance in China. Moreover, the book clarifies ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 1

    Climate Change and Engineering Geology

    Edited by Giorgio Lollino, Andrea Manconi, John Clague, Wei Shan, Marta Chiarle ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes and deals with climate change affecting different natural processes and environments, such as slope dynamics, water courses, coastal and marine environments, hydrological and littoral processes and permafrost terrain. Due to climate change, major effects are also expected on territorial planning and infrastructure, particularly in extreme climate ... Read more

    $188.09 USD