Purple tells the story of Blue as he seeks friends to mix with in the world of colours. Ridiculed by the family of warm colours and left alone by the neutrals, Blue finally stumbles upon the truth of his intrinsic beauty and finds a friend in Red. But will the rest allow Red to mix with Blue? Inspired by the dynamics in the colour-wheel, this childhood allegory explores the developmental stage of socialisation through key themes of friendship, acceptance, discrimination, and the celebration of diversity. Purple asks aloud the question in the heart of anyone who has ever wanted a friend: Do we lose ourselves or be transformed by the power of friendship? How far will we go to be accepted? 《紫》讲述的是小蓝在彩色世界里找朋友一起玩的故事。 被暖色家族嘲弄,被中性色孤立,小蓝最终才偶然地发现 自己的内在美,并找到愿意与它做朋友的小红。 不过,其他颜色愿意让小红和小蓝一起玩吗? 故事灵感取自于彩色轮的活力,这本儿童寓意故事从友谊、认同、歧视和表扬多元性的关键主题来探索社会主义的发展阶段。 对想交朋友的人们,《紫》要大家在心中大声地问:友谊的力量是让我们迷失自我,还是得到蜕变?我们要怎么做才可以得到认可?
This book discusses China’s tax system, presenting a comprehensive and systematic research based on a multidisciplinary approach involving economics, finance, political science, sociology, law, public administration, history, and econometrics.With China moving toward the rule of law, this book proposes reforms to the tax laws and the stratified governance with a view to achieving tax neutrality, law-based taxation, tax equality and tax burden stability. It focuses on clarifying the implications, extension, nature, and features of a law-based tax system as well as the logical relationships between the optimization of the tax system structure, modern governance, law-based tax administration, as well as the tax-sharing system of tax collection and the rule of tax law. It suggests that optimizing the tax structure, reforming the tax-sharing system, improving local taxes, and restructuring the tax collection and management system will push China's tax system toward sound design and rule of law.This book is intended for scholars specializing in China’s tax system and general readers interested in China’s economy.
Three years ago, a calamity had descended upon South Stream City, and she had become a true god of pests. Everyone had to avoid her.Three years later, in order to achieve her goal, she resolutely took the initiative to express her goodwill towards the rich and powerful, and unintentionally climbed up the ranks of the Bai Empire's wealthiest, Master Bai.From then on, no one dared to say no to Nanxi who ran amok in Qingcheng!"Third Master, Young Mistress beat up the daughter of the richest man in Qingcheng and broke three of her ribs.""Call that rich guy over here, I want to talk to him.""Lord Third," said Meng Hao, his voice cool. "The Young Lady went to business, and lost a hundred million.""Give her another billion!"Afterwards, the man at the apex of South Stream had returned.They had agreed to make use of each other. He had helped her find her fiance while she had helped him find her child's mother. However ...
Three years before the September 11 bombing of the World Trade Center-a Chinese military manual called Unrestricted Warfare touted such an attack-suggesting it would be difficult for the U.S. military to cope with. The events of September ll were not a random act perpetrated by independent agents. The doctrine of total war outlined in Unrestricted Warfare clearly demonstrates that the People's Republic of China is preparing to confront the United States and our allies by conducting "asymmetrical" or multidimensional attack on almost every aspect of our social, economic and political life.
Three years ago, a calamity had descended upon South Stream City, and she had become a true god of pests. Everyone had to avoid her.Three years later, in order to achieve her goal, she resolutely took the initiative to express her goodwill towards the rich and powerful, and unintentionally climbed up the ranks of the Bai Empire's wealthiest, Master Bai.From then on, no one dared to say no to Nanxi who ran amok in Qingcheng!"Third Master, Young Mistress beat up the daughter of the richest man in Qingcheng and broke three of her ribs.""Call that rich guy over here, I want to talk to him.""Lord Third," said Meng Hao, his voice cool. "The Young Lady went to business, and lost a hundred million.""Give her another billion!"Afterwards, the man at the apex of South Stream had returned.They had agreed to make use of each other. He had helped her find her fiance while she had helped him find her child's mother. However ...
Pediatrics in Chinese Medicine is different from any English TCM pediatrics textbook available today, and also different from standard TCM pediatrics textbooks as written in China. As an important part of TCM clinical medicine, the essence of TCM pediatrics emphasizes the overall concept of treatment based on pattern differentiation as associated with the interchange of yin and yang, integration of form and spirit, zang-fu organ and channel theory, formulas studies, and dietary therapy and nursing, all of which guide the clinical practice of TCM pediatrics. On the basis of traditional textbooks on TCM pediatrics, and in consideration of our readership, we have added extra material on acupuncture and Tui Na. In the process of selecting diseases, we have listed those for which TCM treatments are effective and distinctive, while also taking into account the worldwide incidence of childhood diseases. For the student’s convenience, the appendices include the dosages of Chinese medicinals and formulas, patent Chinese medicines for common pediatric diseases, an index of diseases names, and commonly used English and Chinese terms. We are sorry that the DVD content are not included.
This book highlights recent advances in novel optical fiber sensing technology and systems, using distributed fiber sensing technology based on chaotic lasers. Upon introducing the basic theory of chaotic laser, a novel light source, the book summarizes new frontier technologies, and presents photonic integration and sensing applications. The book elaborates on new technologies of distributed optical fiber sensors and its engineering applications, as well as narrow-linewidth fiber laser for optical fiber sensing. This book is of great reference for researchers and professionals in the area of optics and optoelectronics.
This book aims to evaluate and improve the state of charge (SOC) and state of health (SOH) of automotive lithium-ion batteries. The authors first introduce the basic working principle and dynamic test characteristics of lithium-ion batteries. They present the dynamic transfer model, compare it with the traditional second-order reserve capacity (RC) model, and demonstrate the advantages of the proposed new model. In addition, they propose the chaotic firefly optimization algorithm and demonstrate its effectiveness in improving the accuracy of SOC and SOH estimation through theoretical and experimental analysis. The book will benefit researchers and engineers in the new energy industry and provide students of science and engineering with some innovative aspects of battery modeling.
This book begins with the fundamentals of the generalized inverses, then moves to more advanced topics. It presents a theoretical study of the generalization of Cramer's rule, determinant representations of the generalized inverses, reverse order law of the generalized inverses of a matrix product, structures of the generalized inverses of structured matrices, parallel computation of the generalized inverses, perturbation analysis of the generalized inverses, an algorithmic study of the computational methods for the full-rank factorization of a generalized inverse, generalized singular value decomposition, imbedding method, finite method, generalized inverses of polynomial matrices, and generalized inverses of linear operators. This book is intended for researchers, postdocs, and graduate students in the area of the generalized inverses with an undergraduate-level understanding of linear algebra.
The market changes faster than marketing. In essence, marketing strategy has undergone only two eras, the entity era and the bit era, also known as the industrial age and the digital age. In the age of digital society, all CEOs, CMOs and senior marketing executives must consider how to change their strategies, improve the role of marketing and adopt emerging technological and data tools to integrate with the Internet. The goal of digital marketing strategy is not to disrupt existing marketing strategies, but to complement, integrate and develop the two at the same time.In this book, the authors provide detailed discussion and practical analysis on the relationship between marketing and digital technologies and propose a marketing implementation framework for digital strategy platforms. Standing for Recognize, Reach, Relationship and Return, the 4R system is a powerful strategic trading tool for digital implementation, especially for CEOs and CMOs. All other tools, such as data platforms, content marketing, DSP digital advertising and digital marketing ROI design essentially serve the 4R system. As such, the authors advocate for firms to restructure their digital marketing strategy around the 4R system.
Three years ago, a calamity had descended upon South Stream City, and she had become a true god of pests. Everyone had to avoid her.Three years later, in order to achieve her goal, she resolutely took the initiative to express her goodwill towards the rich and powerful, and unintentionally climbed up the ranks of the Bai Empire's wealthiest, Master Bai.From then on, no one dared to say no to Nanxi who ran amok in Qingcheng!"Third Master, Young Mistress beat up the daughter of the richest man in Qingcheng and broke three of her ribs.""Call that rich guy over here, I want to talk to him.""Lord Third," said Meng Hao, his voice cool. "The Young Lady went to business, and lost a hundred million.""Give her another billion!"Afterwards, the man at the apex of South Stream had returned.They had agreed to make use of each other. He had helped her find her fiance while she had helped him find her child's mother. However ...
She was immortal and did not die of old age. She used a knife in her hand to unravel all the mysteries around her. He, the current prince, calmly played chess with every move he made. A broken piece of jade pushed the two unrelated people together. She gave up love and wanted nothing more than to find a way to live. Facing each other day and night, a deep love, hand in hand and retreat, cutting through thorns and thorns. Power conspiracy, mystery, who was the most important person!
2020 Facsimile of the 1999 Edition. Unrestricted Warfare is a book on military strategy written in 1999 by two colonels in the People's Liberation Army. Its primary concern is how a nation such as the People's Republic of China can defeat a technologically superior opponent (such as the United States) through a variety of strategies. Rather than focusing on direct military confrontation, this book instead examines a variety of other means. Such means include using International Law (see Lawfare) and a variety of economic means to place one's opponent in a weakened position and circumvent the need for direct military action. Of the various strategies discussed perhaps the most relevant is that of attacking networks. Networks are increasingly important in not only data exchange but also transportation, financial institutions, and communication. Attacks that disable networks can easily hamstring large areas of life that are dependent on them for coordination. One example of network warfare would be shutting down a network that supplies power. If there is a significant failure in the power grid caused by the attack, massive power outages could result, crippling industry, defense, medicine, and all other areas of life. The English translation of the book was made available by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service in 1999. Errors in translations are the sole responsibility of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service and not of Albatross Publishing.
She was immortal and did not die of old age. She used a knife in her hand to unravel all the mysteries around her. He, the current prince, calmly played chess with every move he made. A broken piece of jade pushed the two unrelated people together. She gave up love and wanted nothing more than to find a way to live. Facing each other day and night, a deep love, hand in hand and retreat, cutting through thorns and thorns. Power conspiracy, mystery, who was the most important person!
This is a story about the steel mainland legend in the tens of millions of years ago a powerful dragon appeared from nowhere class invasion of the human world people in all think mankind will perish master steel stand out to resist the attack of the dragon class of success and in the tens of millions of years dragon plot and trap to give the human to set in slowly yu shilong class once again raised up this time the dragon class with a matchless confidence into the human world he thinks he is going to dominate the world but steel master is renewed and see with destiny together young master and steel for integration on the road to battle with dragons
She was the greedy and deceitful marriage mute, he was the aloof and aloof young master of the palace. After the wedding, she had been extremely cautious and had not dared to take even half a step further. Instead, he turned into a pup. Please touch, please hug! Yin Yinan was confused, yet she heard the soul torture from her husband. "I heard that you were close to the main physician yesterday?" "..." Who told you that? She really wanted to retort, but she was too troubled to say anything! The next day, young master Gong personally gave her a brand. On it was written: "Wife of Gong Bingye, please stay away from me, male!
She was the greedy and deceitful marriage mute, he was the aloof and aloof young master of the palace. After the wedding, she had been extremely cautious and had not dared to take even half a step further. Instead, he turned into a pup. Please touch, please hug! Yin Yinan was confused, yet she heard the soul torture from her husband. "I heard that you were close to the main physician yesterday?" "..." Who told you that? She really wanted to retort, but she was too troubled to say anything! The next day, young master Gong personally gave her a brand. On it was written: "Wife of Gong Bingye, please stay away from me, male!
A monarch is usually born, a member of parliament or a president is usually elected, but a regional leader in China is usually orchestrated to replace his or her predecessor through an opaque process and for reasons not normally made public. The professional trajectories of Chinese regional leaders are mysterious in many ways. Their promotions and demotions can be "predictable" in terms of their age, gender, nationality, education, factions, and previous engagements in the political system. Yet, speaking of their capability, performance, opportunities and arrangements, their future can also be "unexpected". Such arrangements are always originated from the Organization (zuzhi) which represents the Chinese Communist Party. What are the factors the organization considers in order to make its final decisions on nominating and appointing a regional leader? Today’s regional leaders of China will very likely become the central leaders of China in the future. By making an empirical analysis of Chinese regional leaders’ political mobility, Qiao establishes a descriptive political mobility model that reveals leadership trajectories in Chinese politics.
The sophistication of Ancient Chinese Architecture gives it a special place within the architecture of the world. There are magnificant imperial palaces, solemn and breathtaking imperial tombs, mysterious sacrificial and ancestral altars and temples as well as a variety of vernacular dwellings of natural simplicity. Religious buildings are dotted about the country, with a riotous profusion of Buddhist, Taoist and Islamic temples or mosques. On top of all this, city walls and fortifications, civic buildings for miscellaneous purposes are rich in variety and form impressive landmarks. A fascinating tour of the architectural and artistic highlights of China’s rich cultural heritage in 10 volumes.
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