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    Mastering the Classic Forms of Tai Chi Chi Kung

    Explores the deep, internal work necessary for the effective practice of tai chi• Reveals the Taoist principles that gave birth to the Yang-style tai chi forms• Shows how tai chi can circulate powerful healing energies through the bodyTaoist adepts developed tai chi as both a martial art and a way to cultivate their physical body, energy body, and spirit body. Like all Taoist exercises, its main ... Read more

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  • Decomposition-based Evolutionary Optimization In Complex Environments

    Multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs) and uncertain optimization problems (UOPs) which widely exist in real life are challengeable problems in the fields of decision making, system designing, and scheduling, amongst others. Decomposition exploits the ideas of ‘making things simple’ and ‘divide and conquer’ to transform a complex problem into a series of simple ones with the aim of ... Read more

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  • Investigation and Assessment Technology for Typical Groundwater-contaminated Sites and Application Cases

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book introduces readers to environmental background investigation, pollution source intensity evaluation and risk assessment approaches used at three main types of groundwater-contaminated sites: municipal domestic waste landfills, hazardous waste landfills and oil-contaminated sites. In addition, typical contaminated sites throughout China are examined to demonstrate how these approaches can ... Read more

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  • Intangible Inheritance

    A Lyrical Memoir 2nd Edition

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    Intangible Inheritance is the story of a godly man whose faith is infectious and motivating, as well as a collection of a woman’s fond memories of her life and her religious beliefs in God.About the Author:Ellen Li Juan came to the US from mainland China in 1957. She completed her MA (Cornell University) in English literature. She was a devout Christian. At age 54, she died of liver cancer in ... Read more

    $8.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Winter Pasture

    One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders

    by Li Juan ...
    Translated by Jack Hargreaves, Yan Yan ...
    **Named one of The Washington Post's Best Travel Books of 2021."Winter Pasture is Li Juan's crowning achievement, shattering the boundaries between nature writing and personal memoir."—Smithsonian Magazine"Li Juan spent minus-20-degree nights with nomadic herders in the Chinese steppes. You’ll want to join her."—Laura Miller, Slate"Deeply moving...full of humor, introspection and glimpses into a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Critical Plant Studies in Taiwan

    Series series Critical Plant Studies
    Critical Plant Studies in Taiwan presents a historical overview of vegetal ecocriticism in Taiwan. Divided into 12 chapters, it examines the human-plant entanglements on the island. Covering a wide spectrum of topics, such as the imperial plant explorations, the military casuarina afforestation, the mangrove conservation movement, the ecofeminist rooftop garden, the Indigenous millet restoration, ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Winter Pasture

    One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders

    by Li Juan ...
    Narrated by Nancy Wu ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 25 min

    Li Juan and her mother own a small convenience store in the Altai Mountains in Northwestern China, where she writes about her life among grasslands and snowy peaks. To her neighbors' surprise, Li decides to join a family of Kazakh herders as they take their thirty boisterous camels, 500 sheep and over 100 cattle and horses to pasture for the winter. The so-called "winter pasture" occurs in a ... Read more

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  • LDPC Code Designs, Constructions, and Unification

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  • Ecocriticism in Taiwan

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    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Ecocriticism is a mode of interdisciplinary critical inquiry into the relationship between cultural production, society, and the environment. The field advocates for the more-than-human realm as well as for underprivileged human and non-human groups and their perspectives. Taiwan is one of the earliest centers for promoting ecocriticism outside the West and has continued to play a central role in ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Supply Chain Management

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Supply chain management contends with structures and processes for delivering goods and services to customers. It addresses the core functions of connected businesses to meet downstream demand. This innovative volume provides an authoritative and timely guide to the overarching issues that are ubiquitous throughout the supply chain. In particular, it addresses emerging issues that are applicable ... Read more

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  • Sovereign Financing and International Law

    The UNCTAD Principles on Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing

    The regulation of sovereign financing is a highly topical and significant issue, in the light of continuing global financial turmoil. This book assesses the role of international law in sovereign financing, addressing this issue from both legal and economic standpoints. It takes as a starting point the recent report 'Principles on Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing' by the United Nations ... Read more

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