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Celestial Lancets

A History and Rationale of Acupuncture and Moxa

By: Gwei-Djen Lu,Joseph Needham

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Celestial Lancets

A History and Rationale of Acupuncture and Moxa

By: Gwei-Djen Lu,Joseph Needham

Using modern knowledge to shed light on ancient techniques, this text examines two of the earliest therapeutic techniques of Chinese medicine: acupuncture and moxibustion. Acupuncture is the implantation of very thin needles into subcutaneous connective tissue and muscle at a great number of different points on the body's surface; moxibustion is the burning of Artemisia tinder (moxa) either directly on the skin or just above it. For 2500 years the Chinese have used both techniques to relieve pain and to heal a wide variety of illnesses and malfunctions. Providing a full historical account of acupuncture and moxibustion in the theoretical structure of Chinese medicine, Doctors Lu and Needham combine it with a rationale of the two techniques in the light of modern scientific knowledge.

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1136612556

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Networking And Mobile Computing

Third International Conference, ICCNMC 2005, Zhangjiajie, China, August 2-4, 2005, Proceedings

By: Xicheng Lu

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Networking And Mobile Computing

Third International Conference, ICCNMC 2005, Zhangjiajie, China, August 2-4, 2005, Proceedings

By: Xicheng Lu

Welcome to Zhangjiajie for the 3rd International Conference on Computer Network and Mobile Computing (ICCNMC 2005). We are currently witnessing a proliferation in mobile/wireless technologies and applications. However, these new technologies have ushered in unprecedented challenges for the research community across the range of networking, mobile computing, network security and wireless web applications, and optical network topics. ICCNMC 2005 was sponsored by the China Computer Federation, in cooperation with the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society. The objective of this conference was to address and capture highly innovative and stateof-the-art research and work in the networks and mobile computing industries. ICCNMC 2005 allowed sharing of the underlying theories and applications, and the establishment of new and long-term collaborative channels aimed at developing innovative concepts and solutions geared to future markets. The highly positive response to ICCNMC 2001 and ICCNMC 2003, held in Beijing and Shanghai, respectively, encouraged us to continue this international event. In its third year, ICCNMC 2005 continued to provide a forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners from around the world to report on new advances in computer network and mobile computing, as well as to identify issues and directions for research and development in the new era of evolving technologies.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540281029

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Island on the Edge

Taiwan New Cinema and After

By: Chris Berry,Feii Lu

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Island on the Edge

Taiwan New Cinema and After

By: Chris Berry,Feii Lu

This is the first English-language anthology on the Taiwan New Cinema and its legacy. It is an exciting collection which covers all the major filmmakers from Hou Hsiao Hsien and Edward Yang to Ang Lee and more. Gathering a range of essays that analyze individual films produced since the advent of the Taiwan New Cinema in the early 1980s, it aims to complement Feii Lu’s Taiwan Cinema: Politics, Economics, Aesthetics, translated by Chris Berry (Duke University Press and Hong Kong University Press, forthcoming). Taiwan and its internationally renowned cinema ar " on the edge" in more ways than one. For all of its history the island has been on the edge of larger geopolitical entities, subjected to invasions, migrations, incursions, and pressures. On the other hand, as one of the "Little Tiger" economies of Asia, it has been on the cutting edge of the Asian economic boom and of technological innovation; in recent years it has pioneered democratization of authoritarian regimes in East Asia.

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622097154

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Rumor in Early Chinese Empires

By: Zongli Lu

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Rumor in Early Chinese Empires

By: Zongli Lu

A major historical study of the formation, spread and impact of rumor in the early Chinese empires.

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Cambridge University Press

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110847926X

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Sweet Marriage in Golden Age: War Young Pet's Addiction

Volume 9

By: Lu SanSheng

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Sweet Marriage in Golden Age: War Young Pet's Addiction

Volume 9

By: Lu SanSheng

In the chaos of the night, she had mistakenly provoked the young master Zhan, who possessed monstrous power in the capital, and mistook his identity. When they met again six years later, she would never have imagined that he would become her brother-in-law! At the entrance to the Civil Affairs Bureau, she took the initiative to climb on her brother-in-law in order to take revenge on her sister, who had bullied her before. "You kicked Lu Yaqing, and married me. How about it?" "Very good!" After she had succeeded in digging her way through the wall, she left with a pat on her butt ...

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Funstory

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1649915888

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Combat Techniques of Taiji, Xingyi, and Bagua

Principles and Practices of Internal Martial Arts

By: Lu Shengli

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Combat Techniques of Taiji, Xingyi, and Bagua

Principles and Practices of Internal Martial Arts

By: Lu Shengli

The combat techniques of Tai Ji, Ba Gua, and Xing Yi were forbidden during China's Cultural Revolution, but the teachings of grandmaster Wang Pei Shing have survived. This comprehensive guide, written by one of his students, selects core movements from each practice and gives the student powerful tools to recognize the unique strategies and skills, and to develop a deeper understanding, of each style. It contains complete instructions for a 16-posture form to gain mastery of combat techniques. The book helps practitioners achieve a new level of practice, where deeply ingrained skills are brought forth in a more fluid, intuitive, and fast-paced fashion.

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Blue Snake Books

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1583941452

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The Global Circulation of Chinese Materia Medica, 1700–1949

A Microhistory of the Caterpillar Fungus

By: Di Lu

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The Global Circulation of Chinese Materia Medica, 1700–1949

A Microhistory of the Caterpillar Fungus

By: Di Lu

This book explores the dissemination of knowledge around Chinese medicinal substances from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries in a global context. The author presents a microhistory of the caterpillar fungus, a natural, medicinal substance initially used by Tibetans no later than the fifteenth century and later assimilated into Chinese materia medica from the eighteenth century onwards. Tracing the transmission of the caterpillar fungus from China to France, Britain, Russia and Japan, the book investigates the tensions that existed between prevailing Chinese knowledge and new European ideas about the caterpillar fungus. Emerging in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Europe, these ideas eventually reached communities of scientists, physicians and other intellectuals in Japan and China. Seeking to examine why the caterpillar fungus engaged the attention of so many scientific communities across the globe, the author offers a transnational perspective on the making of modern European natural history and Chinese materia medica.

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Springer Nature

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303124723X

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Weird Confucius

Unorthodox Representations of Confucius in History

By: Zhao Lu

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Weird Confucius

Unorthodox Representations of Confucius in History

By: Zhao Lu

Spanning antiquity until the present, Zhao Lu analyses the eclectic and fictitious representations of Confucius that have been widely celebrated by communities of people throughout history. While mainstream scholarship mostly considers Confucius in terms of his role as a celebrated man of wisdom and as a teacher with a humanistic worldview, Zhao addresses the weirder representations. He considers depictions of Confucius as a prophet, a fortune-teller, a powerful demon hunter, a shrewd villain of 19th century American newspapers, an embodiment of feudal evils in the Cultural Revolution, and as a cute friend. Zhao asks why some groups would risk contradicting the well-accepted image of Confucius with such representations and shows how these illustrations reflect the specific anxieties of these communities. He reveals not only how people across history perceived Confucius in diverse ways, but more importantly how they used Confucius in daily life, ranging from calming their anxiety about the future, to legitimizing a dynasty, stereotyping Chinese people, and even to forging a new sense of history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350327581

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Bungee Jumping

Book 1

By: Lu Shan

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Bungee Jumping

Book 1

By: Lu Shan

The host, senior diplomat Zhong Liang, was alone, ordered to come to the Pacific Ocean to represent the small tropical island country Yoshido to build the embassy in Yoshido on his own. Yoshido was a small island country. The environment was closed, there were few people, and the people were rough. Zhong Liang's work in Jido was faced with heavy pressure, danger, and huge loneliness. He condensed the sense of responsibility, honor, and noble sentiments of a diplomat. Bungee jumping was an annual traditional gathering on Yoshido Island, and young men were all enthusiastically participating. Bungee jumping was a metaphor, showing the ups and downs of diplomatic work and dangers.

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Funstory

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1637884230

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Crime Files

Volume 5

By: Lu XiaoChuan

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Crime Files

Volume 5

By: Lu XiaoChuan

Police officer Lu Xiaochuan was involved in a strange skinning case when he followed his father to the north. Only when the facts of the case gradually became clear did the crowd realize that this was only the beginning of an ancient mystery ... A book, sixteen cases, showing you the deepest darkness of human nature, making you understand the other side of the world that few people know about.

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1648979092

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An Investigation of Various Linguistic Changes in Chinese and Naxi

By: Jung-yao Lu

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An Investigation of Various Linguistic Changes in Chinese and Naxi

By: Jung-yao Lu

The comparative analysis of historical linguistics focuses on reconstructing ancient patterns based on diachronic records and typological data from several languages or dialects in a language group. The ultimate aim of the comparative reconstruction which requires significant cross-linguistic observation and theoretical reasoning is to demonstrate the historical process of language changes. This book considers the diachronic development of both the Chinese language and the Naxi language, focusing particularly upon six contentious linguistic issues that are associated with various linguistic changes in most areas of the grammar of these languages, including phonological changes, semantic changes, syntactic changes, and contact-induced changes. These linguistic issues are: (1) tonal splits in proto-checked syllables and subgrouping of Loloish; (2) the semantic development of RETURN–还 in Chinese; (3) the semantic development of TAKE–把 in Chinese; (4) the development of agentive passive markers in certain dialects of Chinese; (5) definiteness and nominalization, relativization, and genitivization in Chinese; and (6) the development of nominalization, relativization, and genitivization in Naxi. This volume provides new methods and perspectives through which these issues can be analyzed and resolved on the basis of typological and diachronic evidence. It uses cross-linguistic data from Chinese and the Tibeto-Burman languages in order to reconstruct various diachronic developments in Chinese and Naxi.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443852228

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Museums in China

Power, Politics and Identities

By: Tracey Lie Dan Lu

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Museums in China

Power, Politics and Identities

By: Tracey Lie Dan Lu

From the earliest museums established by Western missionaries in order to implement religious and political power, to the role they have played in the formation of the modern Chinese state, the origin and development of museums in mainland China differ significantly from those in the West. The occurrence of museums in mainland China in the late nineteenth century was primarily a result of internal and external conflicts, Westernization and colonialism, and as such they were never established solely for enjoyment and leisure. Using a historical and anthropological framework, this book provides a holistic and critical review on the establishment and development of museums in mainland China from 1840 to the present day, and shows how museums in China have been used by a wide range of social, political, and state actors for a number of economic, religious, political and ideological purposes. Indeed, Tracey L-D Lu examines the key role played by museums in reinforcing social segmentation, influencing the economy, protecting cultural heritage and the construction and enhancement of ethnic identities and nationalism, and how they have throughout their history helped the powerful to govern the less powerful or the powerless. More broadly, this book provides important comparative insights on museology and heritage management, and questions who the key stakeholders are, how museums reflect broader social and cultural changes, and the relationship between museum and heritage management. Drawing on extensive archival research and anthropological fieldwork, as well as the author’s experience working as a museum curator in mainland China in the late 1980s, Museums in China such will be of great interest to students and scholars working across museology, heritage studies, tourism studies Chinese culture and Chinese history.

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1134081553

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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 4, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts

By: Joseph Needham,Ho Ping-Yu,Lu Gwei-Djen,Nathan Sivin

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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 4, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts

By: Joseph Needham,Ho Ping-Yu,Lu Gwei-Djen,Nathan Sivin

The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, is subdivided into parts for ease of assimilation and presentation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of alchemy, early chemistry, and chemical technology (which includes military invention, especially gunpowder and rockets; paper and printing; textiles; mining and metallurgy; the salt industry; and ceramics).

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Cambridge University Press

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052108573X

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9780521085731

Transnational Chinese Cinemas

Identity, Nationhood, Gender

By: Sheldon H. Lu

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Transnational Chinese Cinemas

Identity, Nationhood, Gender

By: Sheldon H. Lu

Zhang Yimou's first film, Red Sorghum, took the Golden Bear Award in 1988 at the Berlin International Film Festival. Since then Chinese films have continued to arrest worldwide attention and capture major film awards, winning an international following that continues to grow. Transnational Chinese Cinemas spans nearly the entire length of twentieth-century Chinese film history. The volume traces the evolution of Chinese national cinema, and demonstrates that gender identity has been central to its formation. Femininity, masculinity and sexuality have been an integral part of the filmic discourses of modernity, nationhood, and history. This volume represents the most comprehensive, wide-ranging, and up-to-date study of China's major cinematic traditions. It is an indispensable source book for modern Chinese and Asian history, politics, literature, and culture.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824865294

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9780824865290

The Reborn Landlord Lady

Volume 2

By: Lu ShiNv

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The Reborn Landlord Lady

Volume 2

By: Lu ShiNv

See how Gao Gan trained to become a landlady See how an illegitimate daughter cultivates to become a bookworm "With space in hand, you can cultivate your fields, and you can gain wisdom from trading with the system." Demonic spirits are not scary. What's scary is the fake benefactor who promises to help you with a smile The woman she had been grateful to for so many years was the devil who had killed them both ... In the end, it was all because she was the daughter of the third child who failed to ascend to the throne ... She is the so-called crystal of love of the failed product I've tasted all the pain and suffering I can imagine To start over again, she thought, it's hard to be a good person, but it's easier to learn to be a bad person ... The System was right next to her, but she was the top student in the academy. She was the unbefitting one ...

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1636890962

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True to Her Word

The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China

By: Weijing Lu

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True to Her Word

The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China

By: Weijing Lu

This book is a comprehensive study of faithful maidenhood in late imperial China from the vantage points of state policy, local history, scholarly debate, and the faithful maiden’s own subjective point of view.

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Stanford University Press

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0804758085

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9780804758086

In Pursuit of the Great Peace

Han Dynasty Classicism and the Making of Early Medieval Literati Culture

By: Zhao Lu

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In Pursuit of the Great Peace

Han Dynasty Classicism and the Making of Early Medieval Literati Culture

By: Zhao Lu

Examines the Great Peace (taiping), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, and its impact on literati lives in Han China. Through an examination of the Great Peace (taiping), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, Zhao Lu describes the transformation of literati culture that occurred during the Han Dynasty. Driven by anxiety over losing the mandate of Heaven, the imperial court encouraged classicism in order to establish the Great Peace and follow Heaven’s will. But instead of treating the literati as puppets of competing and imagined lineages, Zhao uses sociological methods to reconstruct their daily lives and to show how they created their own thought by adopting, modifying, and opposing the work of their contemporaries and predecessors. The literati who served as bureaucrats in the first century BCE gradually became classicists who depended on social networking as they traveled to study the classics. By the second century CE, classicism had dissolved in this traveling culture and the literati began to expand the corpus of knowledge beyond the accepted canon. Thus, far from being static, classicism in Han China was full of innovation, and ultimately gave birth to both literary writing and religious Daoism. “Zhao’s study presents a model of intellectual history. Smartly written, it excels in connecting the analysis of specific texts and concepts with broader trends in the social-political realm. His work helps demythologize Chinese thought and makes it legible to scholars around the world.” — Miranda Brown, University of Michigan

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SUNY Press

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1438474911

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9781438474915

Forensic Linguistics in China

Origins, Progress, and Prospects

By: Yuan Chuanyou,Xu Youping,Lu Nan

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Forensic Linguistics in China

Origins, Progress, and Prospects

By: Yuan Chuanyou,Xu Youping,Lu Nan

This Element offers a comprehensive examination of forensic linguistics in China. It traces the origins of the field in the 1980s and 1990s, and highlights the progress made in the 2000s, with a focus on the work of influential scholars such as Pan Qingyun, Wang Jie, Du Jinbang, Liao Meizhen, Yuan Chuanyou, and Wang Zhenhua. It discusses the development of Discourse Information Theory, the Principle of Goal, Functional Forensic Discourse Analysis, and Legal Discourse as a Social Process. It also analyses studies on language evidence and explores legal translation. It discusses emerging research areas, including cyberbullying language research, internet court discourse analysis, authorship analysis, expert assistance systems, and speaker identification and evidence of forensic phonetics. This Element provides valuable insights into the growth and potential of forensic linguistics in China, serving as a comprehensive resource for scholars, researchers, and practitioners interested in the intersection of language and law.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009192744

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The 1937 – 1938 Nanjing Atrocities

By: Suping Lu

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The 1937 – 1938 Nanjing Atrocities

By: Suping Lu

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the Nanjing Massacre, together with an in-depth analysis of various aspects of the event and related issues. Drawing on original source materials collected from various national archives, national libraries, church historical society archives, and university libraries in China, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom and the United States, it represents the first English-language academic attempt to analyze the Nanjing Massacre in such detail and scope. The book examines massacres and other killings, in addition to other war crimes, such as rape, looting, and burning. These atrocities are then explored further via a historical analysis of Chinese survivors’ testimony, Japanese soldiers’ diaries, Westerners’ eyewitness accounts, the news coverage from American and British correspondents, and American, British and German diplomatic dispatches. Further, the book explores issues such as the role and function of the International Committee for Nanking Safety Zone, burial records of massacre victims, post-war military tribunals, controversies over the Nanjing Massacre, and the 100-Man Killing Contest. This book is intended for all researchers, scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, and members of the general public who are interested in Second World War issues, Sino-Japanese conflicts, Sino-Japan relations, war crimes, atrocity and holocaust studies, military tribunals for war crimes, Japanese atrocities in China, and the Nanjing Massacre.

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Springer Nature

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9811396566

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Deadly Plot

Volume 4

By: Lu XiaoChuan

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Deadly Plot

Volume 4

By: Lu XiaoChuan

A "meticulously planned murder plot," a conspiracy that spanned tens of years! From the moment a famous actress' nude 'died in the hotel, a splendid revenge' assassination 'was quietly unveiled! A police officer who was expelled from the police force, a police officer who was in active service but had a dishonorable past, and a retired spy who was both righteous and evil but could not differentiate between the two, met each other on the killing stage. Truth, evil, lies, deceit. Where would one find the light of justice in this place filled with unknown dangers? With a single thought, he would become the Great Wisdom, and with a single thought, he would become the Great Wisdom. Everything was for nothing.

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Funstory

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1648977669

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Handsome Divine Sovereign

Volume 10

By: Lu GeEnKe

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Handsome Divine Sovereign

Volume 10

By: Lu GeEnKe

What?!" Because she looks too adorable, the Demon Princess wants to snatch me back to be her younger sister's consort? No! I am a man of principle! He wouldn't be a pretty boy! He was going to cheat some things before thinking of a way to escape! "What?!" Because your talent is too good, senior, you want to frame me and collude with the demon race? So what if he fell off the cliff? I have the main character halo, so I will naturally have the help of a noble! "What?!" You say that there is no God in this world? Alright, then I'll be first! A protagonist who relied on his face to pretend to be tender wasn't anything special ... [Close]

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1648976158

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Cloud Computing

Business Trends and Technologies

By: Igor Faynberg,Hui-Lan Lu,Dor Skuler

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Cloud Computing

Business Trends and Technologies

By: Igor Faynberg,Hui-Lan Lu,Dor Skuler

Cloud Computing: Business Trends and Technologies provides a broad introduction to Cloud computing technologies and their applications to IT and telecommunications businesses (i.e., the network function virtualization, NFV). To this end, the book is expected to serve as a textbook in a graduate course on Cloud computing. The book examines the business cases and then concentrates on the technologies necessary for supporting them. In the process, the book addresses the principles of – as well as the known problems with – the underlying technologies, such as virtualization, data communications, network and operations management, security and identity management. It introduces, through open-source case studies (based on OpenStack), an extensive illustration of lifecycle management. The book also looks at the existing and emerging standards, demonstrating their respective relation to each topic. Overall, this is an authoritative textbook on this emerging and still-developing discipline, which •Guides the reader through basic concepts, to current practices, to state-of-the-art applications. •Considers technical standards bodies involved in Cloud computing standardization. •Is written by innovation experts in operating systems and data communications, each with over 20 years’ experience in business, research, and teaching.

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1118501217

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Multi-Level Decision Making

Models, Methods and Applications

By: Guangquan Zhang,Jie Lu,Ya Gao

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Multi-Level Decision Making

Models, Methods and Applications

By: Guangquan Zhang,Jie Lu,Ya Gao

This monograph presents new developments in multi-level decision-making theory, technique and method in both modeling and solution issues. It especially presents how a decision support system can support managers in reaching a solution to a multi-level decision problem in practice. This monograph combines decision theories, methods, algorithms and applications effectively. It discusses in detail the models and solution algorithms of each issue of bi-level and tri-level decision-making, such as multi-leaders, multi-followers, multi-objectives, rule-set-based, and fuzzy parameters. Potential readers include organizational managers and practicing professionals, who can use the methods and software provided to solve their real decision problems; PhD students and researchers in the areas of bi-level and multi-level decision-making and decision support systems; students at an advanced undergraduate, master’s level in information systems, business administration, or the application of computer science.

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3662460599

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Online Visual Tracking

By: Huchuan Lu,Dong Wang

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Online Visual Tracking

By: Huchuan Lu,Dong Wang

This book presents the state of the art in online visual tracking, including the motivations, practical algorithms, and experimental evaluations. Visual tracking remains a highly active area of research in Computer Vision and the performance under complex scenarios has substantially improved, driven by the high demand in connection with real-world applications and the recent advances in machine learning. A large variety of new algorithms have been proposed in the literature over the last two decades, with mixed success. Chapters 1 to 6 introduce readers to tracking methods based on online learning algorithms, including sparse representation, dictionary learning, hashing codes, local model, and model fusion. In Chapter 7, visual tracking is formulated as a foreground/background segmentation problem, and tracking methods based on superpixels and end-to-end deep networks are presented. In turn, Chapters 8 and 9 introduce the cutting-edge tracking methods based on correlation filter and deep learning. Chapter 10 summarizes the book and points out potential future research directions for visual tracking. The book is self-contained and suited for all researchers, professionals and postgraduate students working in the fields of computer vision, pattern recognition, and machine learning. It will help these readers grasp the insights provided by cutting-edge research, and benefit from the practical techniques available for designing effective visual tracking algorithms. Further, the source codes or results of most algorithms in the book are provided at an accompanying website.

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9811304696

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Earthquake Disaster Simulation of Civil Infrastructures

From Tall Buildings to Urban Areas

By: Xinzheng Lu,Hong Guan

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Earthquake Disaster Simulation of Civil Infrastructures

From Tall Buildings to Urban Areas

By: Xinzheng Lu,Hong Guan

Based on more than 12 years of systematic investigation on earthquake disaster simulation of civil infrastructures, this book covers the major research outcomes including a number of novel computational models, high performance computing methods and realistic visualization techniques for tall buildings and urban areas, with particular emphasize on collapse prevention and mitigation in extreme earthquakes, earthquake loss evaluation and seismic resilience. Typical engineering applications to several tallest buildings in the world (e.g., the 632 m tall Shanghai Tower and the 528 m tall Z15 Tower) and selected large cities in China (the Beijing Central Business District, Xi'an City, Taiyuan City and Tangshan City) are also introduced to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed computational models and techniques. The high-fidelity computational model developed in this book has proven to be the only feasible option to date for earthquake-induced collapse simulation of supertall buildings that are higher than 500 m. More importantly, the proposed collapse simulation technique has already been successfully used in the design of some real-world supertall buildings, with significant savings of tens of thousands of tons of concrete and steel, whilst achieving a better seismic performance and safety. The proposed novel solution for earthquake disaster simulation of urban areas using nonlinear multiple degree-of-freedom (MDOF) model and time-history analysis delivers several unique advantages: (1) true representation of the characteristic features of individual buildings and ground motions; (2) realistic visualization of earthquake scenarios, particularly dynamic shaking of buildings during earthquakes; (3) detailed prediction of seismic response and losses on each story of every building at any time period. The proposed earthquake disaster simulation technique has been successfully implemented in the seismic performance assessments and earthquake loss predictions of several central cities in China. The outcomes of the simulation as well as the feedback from the end users are encouraging, particularly for the government officials and/or administration department personnel with limited professional knowledge of earthquake engineering. The book offers readers a systematic solution to earthquake disaster simulation of civil infrastructures. The application outcomes demonstrate a promising future of the proposed advanced techniques. The book provides a long-awaited guide for academics and graduate students involving in earthquake engineering research and teaching activities. It can also be used by structural engineers for seismic design of supertall buildings.

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Springer

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9811030871

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Double Ring of Yin and Yang

Volume 1

By: Lu Shang

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Double Ring of Yin and Yang

Volume 1

By: Lu Shang

Huayu commercial building is almost the largest enterprise in downtown t therefore the industry of lin feng now involves any industry in downtown t cultural publishing and so on are all closely related come is a successful man may not be negative but for yu linzhe peak he is a person alone so far there has been no families of their own and with almost no lover president of hua yu building come little sex scandal which makes their those competitors in the business world can t attack lin zhefeng in this respect

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384

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Funstory

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1647879434

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Traditional Chinese Medicine

An Authoritative and Comprehensive Guide

By: Henry C. Lu

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Traditional Chinese Medicine

An Authoritative and Comprehensive Guide

By: Henry C. Lu

The wisdom of 4,000 years of traditional Chinese medicine, with its accompanying philosophies, continues to gain popularity in Western culture even with many Western medical practitioners. In this book, Dr. Lu familiarizes us with the thirteen syndromes identified in Chinese medicine but incorporates more familiar Western medical terminology. The result is a handbook that straddles both traditions. Dr. Lu provides treatments for everything from bronchitis, cirrhosis, and chronic hepatitis to hypertension, osteoporosis, and sciatica-conditions that plague us and are often untreatable with conventional Western medical techniques. In addition to providing help for chronic ailments, Dr. Lu offers treatments for problems that affect men or women specifically, with sections on diseases of the prostate gland and impotence, pre- and postnatal care, and PMS and menopause. Also included are guidelines and specific instructions for using exercises, herbal cures, acupuncture, and food cures that are not as drastic or invasive as Western medicine, yet can be very effective while producing very few side effects. Many of the techniques not only rejuvenate the body and sustain it when it has undergone long-term stress but also help maintain lifelong good health through the balancing of the body's complex systems. Both preventative and curative, Traditional Chinese Medicine provides an alternative method for achieving and maintaining good health. Book jacket.

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Basic Health Publications, Inc.

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1591201322

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9781591201328

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