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4030, a novel

By: Shalou Li

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4030 By: Shalou Li In 4030, a novel and book one of a trilogy, Shalou Li explores nature and humanity’s relevance to the environment and to each other. Set over two thousand years in the future, 4030 presents a story of humanity and artificial intelligence, of good versus evil, and of despair versus hope.

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Ethnoburb

The New Ethnic Community in Urban America

By: Wei Li

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Ethnoburb

The New Ethnic Community in Urban America

By: Wei Li

Winner of the 2009 Book Award in Social Sciences, Association for Asian American Studies This innovative work provides a new model for the analysis of ethnic and racial settlement patterns in the United States and Canada. Ethnoburbs—suburban ethnic clusters of residential areas and business districts in large metropolitan areas—are multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural, multilingual, and often multinational communities in which one ethnic minority group has a significant concentration but does not necessarily constitute a majority. Wei Li documents the processes that have evolved with the spatial transformation of the Chinese American community of Los Angeles and that have converted the San Gabriel Valley into ethnoburbs in the latter half of the twentieth century, and she examines the opportunities and challenges that occurred as a result of these changes. Traditional ethnic and immigrant settlements customarily take the form of either ghettos or enclaves. Thus the majority of scholarly publications and mass media covering the San Gabriel Valley has described it as a Chinatown located in Los Angeles’ suburbs. Li offers a completely different approach to understanding and analyzing this fascinating place. By conducting interviews with residents, a comparative spatial examination of census data and other statistical sources, and fieldwork—coupled with her own holistic view of the area—Li gives readers an effective and fine-tuned socio-spatial analysis of the evolution of a new type of racially defined place. The San Gabriel Valley tells a unique story, but its evolution also speaks to those experiencing a similar type of ethnic and racial conurbation. In sum, Li sheds light on processes that are shaping other present (and future) ethnically and racially diverse communities. The concept of the ethnoburb has redefined the way geographers and other scholars think about ethnic space, place, and process. This book will contribute significantly to both theoretical and empirical studies of immigration by presenting a more intensive and thorough "take" on arguments about spatial and social processes in urban and suburban America.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824830652

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Myth Or Reality

Adaptive Strategies of Asian Americans in California

By: Enrique T. Trueba,Henry T. Treuba,Li-Rong Lilly Cheng,Kenji Ima

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Myth Or Reality

Adaptive Strategies of Asian Americans in California

By: Enrique T. Trueba,Henry T. Treuba,Li-Rong Lilly Cheng,Kenji Ima

Presents the reality of Asian successes and problems and challenges faced by immigrants in the USA. Case studies and episodes are presented and the book shows data that calibrates the differential success of various Asian populations and the need to assist those who are less successful.

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Taylor & Francis

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Shang Yun-Xiang Style Xingyiquan

The Foundations and Subtleties of Xingyiquan Training

By: Li Wen-Bin,Shrang Zhi-Rong,Li Hong

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Shang Yun-Xiang Style Xingyiquan

The Foundations and Subtleties of Xingyiquan Training

By: Li Wen-Bin,Shrang Zhi-Rong,Li Hong

A modern classic, Shang Yun-Xiang Style Xingyiquan is essential for Xingyiquan practitioners and a useful guide for any practitioner of the Chinese martial arts. While focusing on Shang-style Xingyiquan (derived from author Li Wen-Bin's training under Grandmaster Shang Yun-Xiang), this book clearly breaks down the fundamentals of those movements and forms found in all of Xingyiquan (and other internal martial arts). Rather than simply presenting the traditional, often-cryptic poetry or "songs" to impart martial concepts, Li goes into great detail to explain to readers of all levels the finer points of Xingyi training. Featuring hundreds of original photographs and step-by-step explanation of movements, Shang Yun Xiang Style Xingyiquan is an excellent companion to Xingyiquan training of any style or school. Table of Contents Chapter 1 In Search of the Missing Points in the Origin of Xing Yi Quan Techniques Chapter 2 Features of Shang Yun-Xiang Style Xing Yi Quan Chapter 3 The Foundation for Xing Yi Gong Fu Chapter 4 Wu Xing Quan 五行拳（Five Element Fist） Chapter 5 Jin Tui Lian Huan Quan 进退连环拳 ( Advance & Retreat Linking Fist) Chapter 6 Traditional Xing Yi Weapons

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North Atlantic Books

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1583947590

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The Huaqiao Warriors

Chinese Resistance Movement in the Philippines, 1942-45

By: Yuk-wai Yung Li

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The Huaqiao Warriors

Chinese Resistance Movement in the Philippines, 1942-45

By: Yuk-wai Yung Li

Among the extremely limited English language literature on the Chinese resistance movement in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation, this book is unique in making use of documents from the United States National Archives, supplemented by memorials and articles recently published in China and the Philippines. While the reliability of these original sources is questionable, the difficulty of interpreting these sources was dealt with openly and effort was made to compare contradictory accounts objectively. Meanwhile, the characteristics of the Chinese resistance movement were summarized in its historical social context, and the long-term effect of the resistance movement on the Chinese community in the Philippines was addressed. The book thus fills an important gap in Philippine historiography on the Second World War and in the understanding of the Philippine Chinese community and the effect of Japanese occupation upon it.

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622093736

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IBM Power System E950: Technical Overview and Introduction

By: Scott Vetter,James Cruickshank,Volker Haug,Yongsheng Li (Victor),Armin Röll,IBM Redbooks

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IBM Power System E950: Technical Overview and Introduction

By: Scott Vetter,James Cruickshank,Volker Haug,Yongsheng Li (Victor),Armin Röll,IBM Redbooks

This IBM® RedpaperTM publication gives a broad understanding of a new architecture of the IBM Power System E950 (9040-MR9) server that supports IBM AIX®, and Linux operating systems. The objective of this paper is to introduce the major innovative Power E950 offerings and relevant functions: The IBM POWER9TM processor, which is available at frequencies of 2.8 - 3.4 GHz. Significantly strengthened cores and larger caches. Supports up to 16 TB of memory, which is four times more than the IBM POWER8® processor-based IBM Power System E850 server. Integrated I/O subsystem and hot-pluggable Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) Gen4 slots, which have double the bandwidth of Gen3 I/O slots. Supports EXP12SX and ESP24SX external disk drawers, which have 12 Gb Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interfaces and support Active Optical Cables (AOCs) for greater distances and less cable bulk. New IBM EnergyScaleTM technology offers new variable processor frequency modes that provide a significant performance boost beyond the static nominal frequency. This publication is for professionals who want to acquire a better understanding of IBM Power SystemsTM products. The intended audience includes the following roles: Clients Sales and marketing professionals Technical support professionals IBM Business Partners Independent software vendors (ISVs) This paper expands the current set of Power Systems documentation by providing a desktop reference that offers a detailed technical description of the Power E950 server. This paper does not replace the current marketing materials and configuration tools. It is intended as an extra source of information that, together with existing sources, can be used to enhance your knowledge of IBM server solutions.

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IBM Redbooks

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0738457094

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Critical Companion to John Steinbeck

A Literary Reference to His Life and Work

By: Jeffrey D. Schultz,Luchen Li

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Critical Companion to John Steinbeck

A Literary Reference to His Life and Work

By: Jeffrey D. Schultz,Luchen Li

Celebrates the American writer who in his works confronted and explored the social fabric of the United States in the early 20th century. More than 500 entries include synopses of his novels, short stories, and nonfiction; descriptions of his characters, details about family, friends, and associates.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438108508

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Drug Delivery Applications of Noninvasive Imaging

Validation from Biodistribution to Sites of Action

By: Chun Li,Mei Tian

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Drug Delivery Applications of Noninvasive Imaging

Validation from Biodistribution to Sites of Action

By: Chun Li,Mei Tian

Cost-effective strategies for designing novel drug delivery systems that target a broad range of disease conditions In vivo imaging has become an important tool for the development of new drug delivery systems, shedding new light on the pharmacokinetics, biodistribution, bioavailability, local concentration, and clearance of drug substances for the treatment of human disease, most notably cancer. Written by a team of international experts, this book examines the use of quantitative imaging techniques in designing and evaluating novel drug delivery systems and applications. Drug Delivery Applications of Noninvasive Imaging offers a full arsenal of tested and proven methods, practices and guidance, enabling readers to overcome the many challenges in creating successful new drug delivery systems. The book begins with an introduction to molecular imaging. Next, it covers: In vivo imaging techniques and quantitative analysis Imaging drugs and drug carriers at the site of action, including low-molecular weight radiopharmaceuticals, peptides and proteins, siRNA, cells, and nanoparticles Applications of imaging techniques in administration routes other than intravenous injection, such as pulmonary and oral delivery Translational research leading to clinical applications Imaging drug delivery in large animal models Clinical applications of imaging techniques to guide drug development and drug delivery Chapters are based on a thorough review of the current literature as well as the authors' firsthand experience working with imaging techniques for the development of novel drug delivery systems. Presenting state-of-the-technology applications of imaging in preclinical and clinical evaluation of drug delivery systems, Drug Delivery Applications of Noninvasive Imaging offers cost-effective strategies to pharmaceutical researchers and students for developing drug delivery systems that accurately target a broad range of disease conditions.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118356837

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A Glossary of Political Terms of the People's Republic of China

By: Gucheng Li

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A Glossary of Political Terms of the People's Republic of China

By: Gucheng Li

A glossary of political terms of the People's Republic of China is a collection of 560 important and frequently-used Chinese political terms and phrases that appeared between 1949 and 1990. Each entry begins with an explanation of the term and its origin, a description of how and under what circumstances the term was used, and a discussion of the changes of meaning over the years, as well as the political and social significance of the words."--Jacket.

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Chinese University Press

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9622016154

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The Handbook of Training Technologies

An Introductory Guide to Facilitating Learning with Technology -- From Planning Through Evaluation

By: William J. Rothwell,Marilynn N. Butler,Daryl L. Hunt,Jessica Li,Cecilia Maldonado,Karen Peters

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The Handbook of Training Technologies

An Introductory Guide to Facilitating Learning with Technology -- From Planning Through Evaluation

By: William J. Rothwell,Marilynn N. Butler,Daryl L. Hunt,Jessica Li,Cecilia Maldonado,Karen Peters

This important resource offers an understanding of the basic principles that underlie training methods and the use of technology training in the workplace. The authors provide a primer for the four pervading and more advanced technologies used in business training—the Internet, computer-based training, knowledge management systems, and decision support tools. Appropriate for those who have little or no formal training in educational technology, this book addresses such topics as the decision to use, the pros and cons for using, and presentation strategies for media as varied as the Internet, teleconferencing, videoconferencing, satellite distance learning, and electronic performance support systems. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

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0787982253

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Investment Aftercare Explained

A Guide for FDI Practitioners and Policymakers on How to Grow and Retain Investors

By: Carolina Arriagada Peters,David Coble,Toby X. Li,Brendan Lewis

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Investment Aftercare Explained

A Guide for FDI Practitioners and Policymakers on How to Grow and Retain Investors

By: Carolina Arriagada Peters,David Coble,Toby X. Li,Brendan Lewis

This book is the first to systematically map the last step of the foreign investor’s journey, usually referred to as post-investment, aftercare or business retention and expansion. It provides a wide range of approaches and strategies for host economies to better retain foreign investors, encourage follow-on expansions and achieve greater local economic embeddedness through a multi-stakeholder dialogue, leading to improvement of the overall business climate. Global foreign direct investments reached US$1.5 trillion in 2019, but this figure reduced by over 42% in 2020, due to the pandemic. Against this backdrop, retaining established investors became even more important. Numerous organisations all over the world are dedicated to attracting foreign companies to invest in their markets. Facilitating this effort is a dynamic and competitive industry that involves international organisations supporting capacity building, think tanks, academia and consultants. However, once foreign companies decide to invest, a critical question arises: how can host economies grow and retain these foreign investments? Many host governments could do much better, as there is very little post-investment support for these foreign companies to help them grow their businesses throughout different stages of investment, business and economic cycles. This is where aftercare comes in. In this book, the authors include diverse examples from around the world to demonstrate aftercare best practices in action. This book is an essential read for all public administration staff related to FDI attraction and promotion, practitioners in the private sector and FDI consultants. It will also be of great interest to multilateral organisations seeking to organise seminars and training courses for capacity building. The book will also benefit researchers, academics and postgraduate students of international relations, foreign trade and internationalisation. For further information, see www.aftercareexplained.com.

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Routledge

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1000469921

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IBM Technical Computing Clouds

By: Dino Quintero,Rodrigo Ceron Ferreira de Castro,Murali Dhandapani,Rodrigo Garcia da Silva,Amitava Ghosal,Victor Hu,Hua Chen Li,Kailash Marthi,Shao Feng Shi,Stefan Velica,IBM Redbooks

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IBM Technical Computing Clouds

By: Dino Quintero,Rodrigo Ceron Ferreira de Castro,Murali Dhandapani,Rodrigo Garcia da Silva,Amitava Ghosal,Victor Hu,Hua Chen Li,Kailash Marthi,Shao Feng Shi,Stefan Velica,IBM Redbooks

This IBM® Redbooks® publication highlights IBM Technical Computing as a flexible infrastructure for clients looking to reduce capital and operational expenditures, optimize energy usage, or re-use the infrastructure. This book strengthens IBM SmartCloud® solutions, in particular IBM Technical Computing clouds, with a well-defined and documented deployment model within an IBM System x® or an IBM Flex SystemTM. This provides clients with a cost-effective, highly scalable, robust solution with a planned foundation for scaling, capacity, resilience, optimization, automation, and monitoring. This book is targeted toward technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT Specialists) responsible for providing cloud-computing solutions and support.

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IBM Redbooks

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0738438782

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The Father of Non-Han Chinese Linguistics Li Fang-Kuei

A Pioneer in the Study of Minority Languages in China

By: Peter Li

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The Father of Non-Han Chinese Linguistics Li Fang-Kuei

A Pioneer in the Study of Minority Languages in China

By: Peter Li

What is linguistics? What does a linguist do? . . . He studies the way people speak. . . . What! Thats ridiculous? Who does not know how to speak except a deaf-mute? What is there to study? Li Fang-Kuei, one of the foremost Chinese linguists in the world, encountered the skepticism of his prospective mother-in-law in the 1920s when he returned to China and wished to ask her daughters hand in marriage. Li studied general linguistics at the University of Chicago with Edward Sapir. His research in American Indian languages took him into the wilds of northern Canada; his study of non-Han ethnic minority languages in China took him to the borders of Tibet, Thailand and Vietnam. Lis career as a scholar, linguist, and adventurer from his idyllic years of study in America, through the war-torn years in China, and peaceful retirement in Hawaii, is tantalizingly sketched in this chronological biography.

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AuthorHouse

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1524603732

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9781524603731

Numeral Classifiers in Chinese

The Syntax-Semantics Interface

By: XuPing Li

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Numeral Classifiers in Chinese

The Syntax-Semantics Interface

By: XuPing Li

This book studies the syntax and semantics of numeral classifiers in Mandarin and other Chinese languages. It explores how Chinese classifiers are semantically interpreted in syntactic contexts and how semantic functions of classifiers are realized at the syntactic level. The book is a contribution to formal Chinese linguistics, and to the understanding of grammatical properties of nominal phrases in Chinese and East Asian languages.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110289334

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9783110289336

Monitoring with Ganglia

By: Matt Massie,Bernard Li,Brad Nicholes,Vladimir Vuksan

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Monitoring with Ganglia

By: Matt Massie,Bernard Li,Brad Nicholes,Vladimir Vuksan

Taking dynamic host and application metrics at scale"--Cover.

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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1449329705

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Covid-19 From Traditional Chinese Medicine Perspective: Severe Clinical Cases In The Context Of Syndrome Differentiation

By: Luqi Huang,Hao Li,Wensheng Qi,Zhixu Yang,Qing Miao

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Covid-19 From Traditional Chinese Medicine Perspective: Severe Clinical Cases In The Context Of Syndrome Differentiation

By: Luqi Huang,Hao Li,Wensheng Qi,Zhixu Yang,Qing Miao

Traditional Chinese Medicine has played an important role in the treatment of COVID-19 in China. As the first batch of national Chinese medicine team in China, the authors shared their experience of treating severe COVID-19 cases with TCM at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak in China. Twenty severe cases have been selected and reported in this book. The medical history, inspection results and treatment rationales have been described in detail, adequately illustrated with color pictures of the tongues.The book is organized as follows: The etiology and pathogenesis from TCM perspectives are comprehensively discussed in the introduction. Part I includes various theories of different experts. Part II presents reports of the clinical cases one by one.

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World Scientific

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9811228760

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9789811228766

China’s New World Order

Changes in the Non-Intervention Policy

By: Li, Hak Y.

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China’s New World Order

Changes in the Non-Intervention Policy

By: Li, Hak Y.

This discerning book examines China’s newly developed soft-intervention policy towards North Korea, Myanmar and the two Sudans by examining China’s diplomatic statements and behaviours. It also highlights the Chinese soft-intervention policy in economic manipulation and diplomatic persuasion in the recent generations of Chinese leadership under Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1786437333

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IBM Software Defined Environment

By: Dino Quintero,William M Genovese,KiWaon Kim,Ming Jun MJ Li,Fabio Martins,Ashish Nainwal,Dusan Smolej,Marcin Tabinowski,Ashu Tiwary,IBM Redbooks

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IBM Software Defined Environment

By: Dino Quintero,William M Genovese,KiWaon Kim,Ming Jun MJ Li,Fabio Martins,Ashish Nainwal,Dusan Smolej,Marcin Tabinowski,Ashu Tiwary,IBM Redbooks

This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces the IBM Software Defined Environment (SDE) solution, which helps to optimize the entire computing infrastructure--compute, storage, and network resources--so that it can adapt to the type of work required. In today's environment, resources are assigned manually to workloads, but that happens automatically in a SDE. In an SDE, workloads are dynamically assigned to IT resources based on application characteristics, best-available resources, and service level policies so that they deliver continuous, dynamic optimization and reconfiguration to address infrastructure issues. Underlying all of this are policy-based compliance checks and updates in a centrally managed environment. Readers get a broad introduction to the new architecture. Think integration, automation, and optimization. Those are enablers of cloud delivery and analytics. SDE can accelerate business success by matching workloads and resources so that you have a responsive, adaptive environment. With the IBM Software Defined Environment, infrastructure is fully programmable to rapidly deploy workloads on optimal resources and to instantly respond to changing business demands. This information is intended for IBM sales representatives, IBM software architects, IBM Systems Technology Group brand specialists, distributors, resellers, and anyone who is developing or implementing SDE.

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IBM Redbooks

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0738440442

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9780738440446

Fictionality and Reality in Narrative Discourse

A Reading of Four Contemporary Taiwanese Writers

By: Li-fen Chen

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Fictionality and Reality in Narrative Discourse

A Reading of Four Contemporary Taiwanese Writers

By: Li-fen Chen

This dissertation is an attempt to define a Chinese "modernism," exemplified by the narrative practices of four major writers in Taiwan today, from the perspective of comparative literature and recent development of literary theory. I propose that modernity of Taiwanese fiction is not so much a result of Western influences as an evolution of Chinese narrative tradition itself. To argue my point I delineate a poetics of Chinese narrative, from which I devise a method of reading and a criterion of evaluation for contemporary Taiwanese fiction in defining its achievement and historical significance. This study of Taiwanese fiction also aims at providing a better understanding of fundamental aesthetic assumptions of Western "modernism" in the context of its own literary tradition. Chapter One, "Introduction," investigates the theoretical foundation and its line of development in Western and Chinese poetics respectively. It first examines the Platonic view of mimesis and Aristotelian aesthetic view of fictionality and their influence on the critical tradition, the continuity of the ancient battle between philosophy and poetry as seen in the structuralist and deconstructionist theories, then the relationship between subjective fictionality and ironic objectivity in Chinese poetics, the continuity of the dilemma in the Chinese novelists in their dual allegiance to the ideal and the real. A final section gives a critical overview of the literary scene in Taiwan. The following four chapters provide examples of the internal tension between fictionality and ironic awareness in the Taiwanese modernist texts. I suggest that instead of stretching the metaphorical potential of fiction to a highly intellectualized abstraction or playing down the interpretive claims of fiction by dramatizing its vulnerability like their Western counterpart, the Taiwanese modernists create their texts on the borderline between the high and the low. Self-assertive as well as self-denying, each of them confronts his own intellectual vision with paradox and ambivalence. In Ch'en Ying-chen, this is expressed as a battle between a lyrical vision of ideological values and an instinctive self-clowning, in Ch'i-teng Sheng, as a form of competition between pattern and contingency, in Wang Chen-ho, as a celebration and abuse of the fictionality of fiction, and in Wang Wen-hsing, an intense self-parody. I conclude that the sensitivity to the irrational and contradiction, inherent with a resistance to didacticism, constitutes the best part of the Chinese humanistic tradition, which is continuously enriched with new dimensions by the contemporary Taiwanese writers.

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Universal-Publishers

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1581120826

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IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack on z Systems V4.2

By: Bill White,Li Yong Li,Bo Chang Liu,Roberto Mosqueda,Livio Sousa,Qi Ye,IBM Redbooks

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IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack on z Systems V4.2

By: Bill White,Li Yong Li,Bo Chang Liu,Roberto Mosqueda,Livio Sousa,Qi Ye,IBM Redbooks

IBM® Cloud Manager with OpenStack for z SystemsTM, V4.2 is an easy-to-use cloud management solution that serves as a control point for cloud managed resources based on the OpenStack Juno distribution. IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack for z Systems, V4.2 can operate as a cloud management hub that can manage IBM z SystemsTM, IBM Power SystemsTM, and x86 resources from a central point of control. This IBM Redbooks® publication gives a broad understanding of the architecture for IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack for z Systems, V4.2, and how it can be implemented and deployed to support cloud services on the z Systems platform. This publication also helps you plan, install, configure, and use IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack for z Systems, V4.2. It focuses on planning and design of your cloud environment on z Systems, as well as the installation and configuration definitions that are necessary to build and manage cloud resources under IBM z/VM®. This information is useful to IT architects and system administrators who plan for and install IBM Cloud Manage with OpenStack for z Systems. The reader is expected to have a good understanding of IBM z SystemsTM hardware, IBM z/VM, Linux on z Systems, and cloud concepts.

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IBM Redbooks

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0738440973

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Basic Chinese

A Grammar and Workbook

By: Yip Po-Ching,Don Rimmington,Zhang Xiaoming,Rachel Henson,Yip Li Quzhen

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Basic Chinese

A Grammar and Workbook

By: Yip Po-Ching,Don Rimmington,Zhang Xiaoming,Rachel Henson,Yip Li Quzhen

This handy, topic-based dictionary covers a broad range of vocabulary in romanized Mandarin Chinese (pinyin) and English that beginning students need to know. This handy, topic-based dictionary covers a broad range of vocabulary in romanized Mandarin Chinese (pinyin) and English that beginning students need to know.

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Routledge

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1134028814

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The Best Little Doctor

Volume 5

By: Li ChenAi

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The Best Little Doctor

Volume 5

By: Li ChenAi

Chen Mo, who was the eldest senior brother of the Mysterious Doctor Sect, was kicked down the mountain by his wretched master. He originally thought that he could only set up stalls in the city to treat her illness, but because of fate, he saved the life of the missy and became her personal doctor. From then on, the village met with the water dragon, in the city mixed with the wind and water!

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Funstory

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1649200218

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Wintry Night

By: Qiao Li

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Wintry Night

By: Qiao Li

Rhe novel traces the fortunes of three generations of the Peng family on Taiwan from the 1890s to World War II.

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Columbia University Press

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0231122012

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9780231122016

Conservation Effectiveness and Concurrent Green Initiatives

By: Li An,Conghe Song,Qi Zhang,Eve Bohnett

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Conservation Effectiveness and Concurrent Green Initiatives

By: Li An,Conghe Song,Qi Zhang,Eve Bohnett

The book examines concurrent green initiatives and their spillover effects on environmental conservation and management to reveal their impact on conservation effectiveness, drawing on a range of international case studies. Green initiatives are programs, payments, or endeavors that restore, sustain, or improve nature’s capacity, with examples including payments for ecosystem services and the development of nature reserves and protected areas. This book explicitly examines concurrent green initiatives, where initiatives overlap either geographically or in terms of recipients of multiple payments. The book provides a detailed analysis of case studies in the USA and China, including the USA-based Conservation Reserve Program and the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, and the China based Grain-to-Green Program and the Forest Ecological Benefit Compensation Fund. Through this comparison, the book shows the impact of concurrent green initiatives, including additional or unintended benefits for conservation and local communities as well as negative spillover effects. The book complements these case studies by drawing on other global examples ranging in size from local to continental, including planting native trees and shrubs in Australia and green initiatives in the Baltic Sea region. Overall, this book demonstrates the importance of analyzing concurrent green efforts to better understand both the positive and negative impacts to ensure the optimal effectiveness of these policies and programs for conservation and environmental management. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental conservation and management, land use, ecosystem services and environmental policy, as well as policymakers and practitioners working on environmental initiatives and programs.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000689182

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9781000689181

Invincible War God

Volume 3

By: Li Du

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Invincible War God

Volume 3

By: Li Du

Vampires were reborn in a different world. They used their twin heavenly souls to shock the world. From then on, they began to rise to greatness. They went from useless trash to the top of the world, rising step by step to the pinnacle of martial arts.

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Funstory

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1647573696

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International Sport Management

By: Eric MacIntosh,Gonzalo Bravo,Ming Li

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International Sport Management

By: Eric MacIntosh,Gonzalo Bravo,Ming Li

International Sport Management is the first comprehensive textbook devoted to the organization, governance, business activities, and cross-cultural context of modern sport on an international level. As the sport industry continues its global expansion, this textbook serves as an invaluable guide for readers as they build careers that require an international understanding of the relationships, influences, and responsibilities in sport management. Through a systematic presentation of topics and issues in international sport, this textbook offers a long-overdue guide for students in this burgeoning subfield in sport management. Editors Li, MacIntosh, and Bravo have assembled contributors from all corners of the globe to present a truly international perspective on the topic. With attention to diversity and multiple viewpoints, each chapter is authored by distinguished academics and practitioners in the field. A foreword by esteemed sport management scholar Dr. Earle Zeigler emphasizes the importance of a dedicated study of the issues in international sport management. All chapters in the text use a global perspective to better showcase how international sport operates in various geopolitical environments and cultures. The text is arranged in five parts, each serving a unique purpose: •To outline the issues associated with international sport management •To examine sport using a unique perspective that emphasizes its status as a global industry •To introduce the structure of governance in international sport •To examine the management essentials in international sport •To apply these strategies in the business segments of sport marketing, sport media and information technology, sport facilities and design, sport event management, and sport tourism Written to engage students, International Sport Management contains an array of learning aids to assist with comprehension of the material. It includes case studies and sidebars that apply the concepts to real-world situations and demonstrate the varied issues, challenges, and opportunities affecting sport management worldwide. Chapter objectives, key terms, learning activities, summaries, and discussion questions guide learning in this wide-ranging subject area. In addition, extensive reference sections support the work of practitioners in the field. With International Sport Management, both practicing and future sport managers can develop an increased understanding of the range of intercultural competencies necessary for success in the field. Using a framework of strategic and total-quality management, the text allows readers to examine global issues from an ethical perspective and uncover solutions to complex challenges that sport managers face. With this approach, readers will learn how to combine business practices with knowledge in international sport to lead their current and future careers. International Sport Management offers readers a multifaceted view of the issues, challenges, and opportunities in international sport management as well as the major functional areas that govern international sport. The text provides students, academics, and practitioners with critical insights into the practice of business as it applies to international sport.

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Human Kinetics

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149258990X

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Empty Logic

Madhyamika Buddhism from Chinese Sources

By: Hsueh-li Cheng

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Empty Logic

Madhyamika Buddhism from Chinese Sources

By: Hsueh-li Cheng

“Covers the basic philosophy and arguments of Mādhyamika, as well as discussing its possible influence on other forms of Buddhist thought, including Zen.”—Journal of Chinese Philosophy The chief purpose of Empty Logic is to expound the Mādhyamika philosophy of emptiness as presented in Chinese sources and to clarify misconceptions about this important Buddhist ideology. It is an attempt to present the earlier Chinese San-lun exposition of Nāgārjuna’s thought. To followers of Mādhyamika, the doctrine of emptiness is not a metaphysical theory; rather it is essentially a way of salvation. Few people know that one of the most significant outcomes of Nāgārjuna’s teaching was the creation of Zen (Ch’an) Buddhism in China. In this work, Hsueh-li Cheng provides a general background of Buddhism to give a historical perspective of Mādhyamika thought and development. After exploring the various meanings and use of emptiness in the process of salvation and illustrating the relationship between Mādhyamika and Zen, Cheng investigates how Mādhyamikas addresses the concepts of reality, God, and knowledge. There follows a brief comparison between Nāgārjuna’s, Kant’s, and Wittgenstein’s philosophies to suggest the unique nature of Nāgārjuna’s teaching and explain why his beliefs cannot be classified alongside the other two thinkers. Teaching emptiness as the middle way, the revolutionary Mādhyamika branch of Buddhism offers a singular and fascinating path to achieving liberation from the evil and suffering of the world.

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Open Road Media

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1504078888

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9781504078887

Yang Style Tai Ji Quan

A Beginner’s Guide

By: Zhen Hu ,Shizu Xu ,Hon k. Lee ,Wanling Li

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Yang Style Tai Ji Quan

A Beginner’s Guide

By: Zhen Hu ,Shizu Xu ,Hon k. Lee ,Wanling Li

This book teaches what is still the most commonly known tai ji quan style in the world—the Yang family tai ji quan, with a focus on the 40 Movement Routine. A distinguishing feature of the modern Yang style tai ji quan is that because of its simple, gentle movements, it can be learned and practiced by people of virtually all ages and body constitutions. As a means of health cultivation, tai ji quan enhances coordination, strength and flexibility, and harmonizes both the body and mind, which is why it is known to promote mental and physical wellbeing as well as prevent disease. With step-by-step instructions and ample photographs of each posture, this book is the perfect companion for the beginner. We are sorry that the DVD content are not included.

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PMPH-USA

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7117133538

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9787117133531

IBM Systems Director VMControl Implementation Guide on IBM Power Systems

By: Dino Quintero,Lutz Denefleh,Marius Ileana,Guilherme G. Felix,Ming Jun Li,Ashu Tiwary,IBM Redbooks

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IBM Systems Director VMControl Implementation Guide on IBM Power Systems

By: Dino Quintero,Lutz Denefleh,Marius Ileana,Guilherme G. Felix,Ming Jun Li,Ashu Tiwary,IBM Redbooks

This IBM® Redbooks® publication helps you install, tailor, and configure a solution with IBM Systems Director VMControl so that you can move beyond simply managing virtualization to using virtualization to better manage your IT infrastructure. This book describes how the combination of IBM Systems Director and VMControl reduces the total cost of ownership of a virtualized environment by decreasing management costs, increasing asset use, and linking infrastructure performance to business goals. This book provides a broad understanding on how VMControl simplifies the management of virtual environments across multiple virtualization technologies and hardware platforms, freeing you from silos of virtualization and delivering enterprise-wide visibility and control. A leading multi-platform virtualization management solution, VMControl is now available in three Editions (Express, Standard, and Enterprise) to best match your virtualized environment. In addition, this book describes the VMControl Enterprise Edition plug-in for IBM Systems Director, which uses a workload-optimized approach to decrease infrastructure costs and improve service levels. With VMControl Enterprise Edition, you can manage system pools with the simplicity of managing a single system, an essential capability for moving to cloud computing and a dynamic infrastructure.

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IBM Redbooks

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073843423X

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9780738434230

World Atlas of Oil and Gas Basins

By: Guoyu Li

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World Atlas of Oil and Gas Basins

By: Guoyu Li

Professor Li’s World Atlas of Oil and Gas Basins is a fresh and comprehensive treatise of the distribution of the world’s hydrocarbon reserves. The Atlas highlights the geographical, sedimentary and geological features of the basins, using a combination of maps and stratigraphic diagrams to depict the history, prospectivity and commercial production capacity of the reserves on a continental and country-by-country basis. The Atlas is an essential reference source for petroleum geologists and reservoir engineers working in hydrocarbon exploration and production. It is also a valuable and original teaching aid for university graduate and postgraduate courses. The Atlas provides a welcome addition to the global database of the world’s energy resources and is therefore an indispensable source of information for the formulation of future strategies to exploit oil and gas reserves. Written by one of China’s foremost petroleum geologists, the Atlas provides a rare analysis of the industry from the perspective of the country whose demand for oil and gas is set to become the largest in the next few decades. It is an important and vital scholarly work.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444390058

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9781444390056

Chinese Medicinal Herbs

A Modern Edition of a Classic Sixteenth-century Manual

By: Shizhen Li,Porter Smith,George Arthur Stuart

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Chinese Medicinal Herbs

A Modern Edition of a Classic Sixteenth-century Manual

By: Shizhen Li,Porter Smith,George Arthur Stuart

Two Western doctors assembled this updated edition of a massive sixteenth-century document, annotating their translation with their own observations. A treasury of tried-and-true wisdom from centuries of practical experience, it has served as a basis for modern-day organic medicine and has enormous value for practitioners of alternative healing methods.

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Courier Corporation

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048642801X

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9780486428017

IPv6 Core Protocols Implementation

By: Qing Li,Tatuya Jinmei,Keiichi Shima

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IPv6 Core Protocols Implementation

By: Qing Li,Tatuya Jinmei,Keiichi Shima

IPv6 was introduced in 1994 and has been in development at the IETF for over 10 years. It has now reached the deployment stage. KAME, the de-facto open-source reference implementation of the IPv6 standards, played a significant role in the acceptance and the adoption of the IPv6 technology. The adoption of KAME by key companies in a wide spectrum of commercial products is a testimonial to the success of the KAME project, which concluded not long ago. This book is the first and the only one of its kind, which reveals all of the details of the KAME IPv6 protocol stack, explaining exactly what every line of code does and why it was designed that way. Through the dissection of both the code and its design, the authors illustrate how IPv6 and its related protocols have been interpreted and implemented from the specifications. This reference will demystify those ambiguous areas in the standards, which are open to interpretation and problematic in deployment, and presents solutions offered by KAME in dealing with these implementation challenges. - Covering a snapshot version of KAME dated April 2003 based on FreeBSD 4.8 - Extensive line-by-line code listings with meticulous explanation of their rationale and use for the KAME snapshot implementation, which is generally applicable to most recent versions of the KAME IPv6 stack including those in recent releases of BSD variants - Numerous diagrams and illustrations help in visualizing the implementation - In-depth discussion of the standards provides intrinsic understanding of the specifications

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Elsevier

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0080495885

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9780080495880

Enchantment and Disenchantment

Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature

By: Wai-yee Li

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Enchantment and Disenchantment

Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature

By: Wai-yee Li

In a famous episode of the eighteenth-century masterpiece The Dream of the Red Chamber, the goddess Disenchantment introduces the hero, Pao-yü, to the splendors and dangers of the Illusory Realm of Great Void. The goddess, one of the divine women in Chinese literature who inspire contradictory impulses of attachment and detachment, tells Pao-yü that the purpose of his dream visit is "disenchantment through enchantment," or "enlightenment through love." Examining a range of genres from different periods, Wai-yee Li reveals the persistence of the dialectic embodied by the goddess: while illusion originates in love and desire, it is only through love and desire that illusion can be transcended. Li begins by defining the context of these issues through the study of an entire poetic tradition, placing special emphasis on the role of language and of the feminine element. Then, focusing on the "dream plays" by T'ang Hsien-tsu, she turns to the late Ming, an age which discovers radical subjectivity, and goes on to explore a seventeenth-century collection of classical tales, Records of the Strange from the Liao-chai Studio by P'u Sung-ling. The latter half of the book is devoted to a thorough analysis of The Dream of the Red Chamber, the most profound treatment of the dialectic of enchantment and disenchantment, love and enlightenment, illusion and reality. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400863325

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9781400863327

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