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The Method of Chinese Wrestling

By: Tong Zhongyi

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The Method of Chinese Wrestling

By: Tong Zhongyi

One of the art's earliest and most complete training manuals, The Method of Chinese Wrestling explores all aspects of this ancient fighting system, including solo training, training with equipment, constructing training apparatus, application of techniques, and the rules of competition. Throwing, gripping, and falling techniques are revealed in minute detail, and in accompanying photographs, the author and his top students illustrate the methods described. Both a fascinating historical document and a practical training guide, the book is an essential reference for anyone interested in the martial arts.

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North Atlantic Books

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1556436092

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Emperors of China

By: Tommy Tong

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Emperors of China

By: Tommy Tong

This historically accurate educational series on China for Children continues with a look at some of the most famous leaders of Chinas past. From the first emperor who was buried in a city of clay and ten thousands terracotta soldiers to protect him over 2000 years ago to the last emperor deposed in suit & tie during the early 1900s, come explore these fascinating stories with your own little emperors and empresses. As always, Tommys books are worded with little ones in mind, yet provide enough educational nutrition for the whole family. Isnt it time to learn more about the most populous country in the world, one that is on course to boast the largest economy in the world once again after nearly two centuries of slumber?

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493150804

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9781493150809

Almost a Revolution

By: Tong Shen,Marianne Yen

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Almost a Revolution

By: Tong Shen,Marianne Yen

An eyewitness account of Tiananmen Spring, available once again to commemorate the ten year anniversary of these historic events of China's recent past

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University of Michigan Press

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0472085573

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9780472085576

The Marketing Playbook

Five Battle-Tested Plays for Capturing and Keeping the Leadin Any Market

By: John Zagula,Rich Tong

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The Marketing Playbook

Five Battle-Tested Plays for Capturing and Keeping the Leadin Any Market

By: John Zagula,Rich Tong

Every company needs to figure out the best way to beat the competition. What do you do if the other guy is already dominating the market? Should you challenge them head on or lie low for a while? Should you offer customers high-end features or a low-end price? Or both? During their years at Microsoft, John Zagula and Richard Tong answered such questions so effectively that they helped Microsoft Office and Windows grow from a 10 percent to 90 percent market share. As venture capitalists, Zagula and Tong have continued to test and perfect their system with hundreds of companies of all sizes and at all stages. Now they’re sharing their best ideas and methods in an easy-to-apply book that will be enormously helpful to marketers in every industry and leaders in every size company. The Marketing Playbook explains the five basic strategies for a competitive market—The Drag Race Play, The Best of Both Play, The High-Low Play, The Platform Play, and The Stealth Play. It illustrates how each one works, how to pick the best one for a given situation, and then how to implement it effectively in the real world. Just like a great sports coach with a well-designed playbook, managers who read this book will have the tools, tips, and tricks they need to leapfrog market research, craft a smart strategy, motivate their team, and start scoring major points with customers and against the opposition.

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Penguin

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1440684979

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9781440684975

Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore

By: Tong Chee Kiong

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Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore

By: Tong Chee Kiong

Through a cultural analysis of the symbols of death - flesh, blood, bones, souls, time numbers, food and money - Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore throws light upon the Chinese perception of death and how they cope with its eventuality. In the seeming mass of religious rituals and beliefs, it suggests that there is an underlying logic to the rituals. This in turn leads Kiong to examine the interrelationship between death and the socioeconomic value system of China as a whole.

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Routledge

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1135798435

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9781135798437

Finance and Society in 21st Century China

Chinese Culture versus Western Markets

By: Junie T. Tong

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Finance and Society in 21st Century China

Chinese Culture versus Western Markets

By: Junie T. Tong

In this revealing book Junie Tong reflects on the role of banking and finance in China. The author adopts a critical perspective that views the societal as well as economic functioning of banking and finance. Finance and Society in 21st Century China considers how far the modern economy is disconnected from Chinese culture and history and the problems this separation may cause. She questions the common assumption that China has outgrown its reliance on its Western counterparts. The author believes that the country is still very much dependent on exports and foreign investments and any radical or rapid reduction in either would have serious adverse consequences for China's sustainable economic growth. To provide a model for 'finance and society' that integrates culture and economy, Tong draws on the seminal work of Belgian economist, banker and social commentator, Bernard Lietaer, who has focused on cultural forces and the future of money in the world, generally. Using representative case studies for illustration, Tong applies Lietaer's work in a specifically Chinese context, highlighting the need to root finance and enterprise in the rhythms and forces within Chinese culture to avoid future chaos and achieve socio-economic stability in a country now so critical to global well-being.

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CRC Press

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1317135210

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9781317135210

Help! I'm Growing Old

Tips on Embracing & Enjoying Your Senior Years

By: Tong-Ik Chuah

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Help! I'm Growing Old

Tips on Embracing & Enjoying Your Senior Years

By: Tong-Ik Chuah

Growing old is not easy. Faced with issues such as retirement, declining physical health and the loss of peers, many find the later years daunting. Urged on by a desire to help others, author Chuah Tong-Ik spent a year researching on aging-related topics and has sieved out useful tips into this compact primer. This comprehensive book also features discussion questions to help readers understand the implications of aging. Help! I’m Growing Old speaks like an old friend, caring and concerned for the reader. So pick this book up, and discover new joys in your senior years!

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Graceworks

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9810988931

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9789810988937

Believe in You

How to get good luck and fortune

By: Tong Wang

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Believe in You

How to get good luck and fortune

By: Tong Wang

How to change your fate and become lucky? Through the author's summary and refinement over the past 10 years of many sources of complicated and obscure ancient wisdom, he has condensed them in this book with an easy-to-understand modern language.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3946935265

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9783946935261

Threshold Models in Non-linear Time Series Analysis

By: H. Tong

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Threshold Models in Non-linear Time Series Analysis

By: H. Tong

In the last two years or so, I was most fortunate in being given opportunities of lecturing on a new methodology to a variety of audiences in Britain, China, Finland, France and Spain. Despite my almost Confucian attitude of preferring talking (i.e. a transient record) to writing (i.e. a permanent record), the warm encouragement of friends has led to the ensuing notes. I am also only too conscious of the infancy of the methodology introduced in these notes. However, it is my sincere hope that exposure to a wider audience will accelerate its maturity. Readers are assumed to be familiar with the basic theory of time series analysis. The book by Professor M.B. Priestley (1981) may be used as a general reference. Chapter One is addressed to the general question: "why do we need non-linear time series models?" After describing some significant advantages of linear models, it singles out several major limitations of linearity. Of course, the selection reflects my personal view on the subject, which is only at its very beginning, although there does seem to be a general agreement in the literature that time irr'eversibility and limit cycles are among the most obvious.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1468478885

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9781468478884

Understanding Criminal Investigation

By: Stephen Tong,Robin P. Bryant,Miranda A. H. Horvath

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Understanding Criminal Investigation

By: Stephen Tong,Robin P. Bryant,Miranda A. H. Horvath

This comprehensive volume deciphers investigative process and practice, providing an authoritative insight into key debates and contemporary issues in crime investigations Provides critical examination of investigative practice by focusing on the key issues and debates underpinned by academic literature on crime investigation Outlines the theoretical explanations that provide an understanding of crime investigation and the context in which investigators operate Illustrates the practical relevance of theoretical contributions to crime investigation Places clear emphasis on the multi-disciplinary nature of crime investigation

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John Wiley & Sons

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047068237X

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9780470682371

The 5-Minute Consult Clinical Companion to Women's Health

By: Kelly A. McGarry,Iris L. Tong

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The 5-Minute Consult Clinical Companion to Women's Health

By: Kelly A. McGarry,Iris L. Tong

The 5-Minute Consult Clinical Companion to Women's Health is a quick-reference guide to the diagnosis and management of symptoms and disorders that commonly occur in women. Written by both primary care physicians and obstetrician-gynecologists, the book covers disorders that are unique to women, occur disproportionately in women, or have a different clinical presentation, course, and/or prognosis in women. The contributors present practical, up-to-date, evidence-based information in a format designed for rapid consultation. New features include: · All topics presented in a 2-page spread, formatted using the 5-Minute Clinical Consult template for quick reference · Strength of all key recommendations in the diagnosis and treatment sections are classified using the SORT Taxonomy from the American Academy of Family Physicians · Updated treatment and therapy · Clinical pearls highlighting key recommendations

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451116543

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9781451116540

Identity and Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia

Racializing Chineseness

By: Chee Kiong Tong

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Identity and Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia

Racializing Chineseness

By: Chee Kiong Tong

Modern nation states do not constitute closed entities. This is true especially in Southeast Asia, where Chinese migrants have continued to make their new homes over a long period of time, resulting in many different ethnic groups co-existing in new nation states. Focusing on the consequences of migration, and cultural contact between the various ethnic groups, this book describes and analyses the nature of ethnic identity and state of ethnic relations, both historically and in the present day, in multi-ethnic, pluralistic nation states in Southeast Asia. Drawing on extensive primary fieldwork in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines, the book examines the mediations, and transformation of ethnic identity and the social incorporation, tensions and conflicts and the construction of new social worlds resulting from cultural contact among different ethnic groups.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9048189098

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9789048189090

Mechanical Design and Manufacturing of Electric Motors

By: Wei Tong

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Mechanical Design and Manufacturing of Electric Motors

By: Wei Tong

1. Focuses on practical design and manufacturing process 2. Contains Industrial working experiences 3. Includes innovations in development of electric machines 4. Includes read-to-implement solutions in electric machine design 5. Discusses state-of-the-art technology in modern electric machine design

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CRC Press

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1000555046

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9781000555042

Chinese Street Opera in Singapore

By: Tong Soon Lee

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Chinese Street Opera in Singapore

By: Tong Soon Lee

Fostering national culture in Singapore through Chinese street opera performance

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University of Illinois Press

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0252032462

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9780252032462

Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems

By: Guowei Cai,Ben M. Chen,Tong Heng Lee

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Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems

By: Guowei Cai,Ben M. Chen,Tong Heng Lee

Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems explores the research and development of fully-functional miniature UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) rotorcraft, and provides a complete treatment of the design of autonomous miniature rotorcraft UAVs. The unmanned system is an integration of advanced technologies developed in communications, computing, and control areas, and is an excellent testing ground for trialing and implementing modern control techniques. Included are detailed expositions of systematic hardware construction, software systems integration, aerodynamic modeling; and automatic flight control system design. Emphasis is placed on the cooperative control and flight formation of multiple UAVs, vision-based ground target tracking, and landing on moving platforms. Other issues such as the development of GPS-less indoor micro aerial vehicles and vision-based navigation are also discussed in depth: utilizing the vision-based system for accomplishing ground target tracking, attacking and landing, cooperative control and flight formation of multiple unmanned rotorcraft; and future research directions on the related areas.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0857296353

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9780857296351

The Shun Lee Cookbook

Recipes from a Chinese Restaurant Dynasty

By: Michael Tong

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The Shun Lee Cookbook

Recipes from a Chinese Restaurant Dynasty

By: Michael Tong

Until the 1960s, nearly all Chinese food served in the United States was Cantonese. Egg Foo Yung. Barbecued Spareribs. Egg Drop Soup. But with the opening of his Shun Lee restaurants more than forty years ago, Michael Tong and his chefs introduced the spicy regional foods of Sichuan and Hunan and the red-cooked dishes of Shanghai to New Yorkers—and eventually to all of the United States. Crispy Orange Beef. Lake Tung Ting Prawns. Crispy Sea Bass. Dry Sautéed String Beans. Hot and Sour Cabbage. Scallion Pancakes. These dishes originated at Shun Lee, and are now on nearly every Chinese restaurant menu across North America. Now, in his first cookbook, Tong shares his most popular recipes from the Hunan, Sichuan, and Shanghai regions of China. Who says Chinese food is difficult to prepare at home? With The Shun Lee Cookbook, even novices have nothing to worry about. All the recipes have been tested and modified for home kitchens. If adapting a recipe for the home—like Beijing duck—proved to be impossible, Tong omitted it. The result is a collection of easy-to-make but dazzling dishes. And perhaps the best part is that they can all be made with ingredients found in supermarkets everywhere. Chinese favorites such as Hot and Sour Soup, Sichuan Boiled Dumplings, Dry Sautéed Green Beans, and Kung Pao Shrimp are included. There are also new dishes such as Peppery Dungeness Crab, Singapore-Style Rice Noodles with Curry, Red-Cooked Beef Short Ribs, and Hunan Lamb with Scallions. In addition to the recipes The Shun Lee Cookbook includes tips for stocking home pantries with Chinese staples, and there are more than fifty color photographs of the finished dishes throughout. Why order takeout when you can take home The Shun Lee Cookbook?

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Harper Collins

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0062045911

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9780062045911

The Color of Earth

By: Tong-hwa Kim

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The Color of Earth

By: Tong-hwa Kim

Contains graphic sexual topics.

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Macmillan

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1596434589

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9781596434585

Colloquial Cantonese

By: Keith S. T. Tong,Gregory James

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Colloquial Cantonese

By: Keith S. T. Tong,Gregory James

A "complete language course". Material from the book reinforces the tapes but also contains a variety of additional exercises, useable with other Cantonese courses.

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Psychology Press

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0415082021

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9780415082020

Globalizing Feminist Bioethics

Crosscultural Perspectives

By: Rosemarie Putnam Tong

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Globalizing Feminist Bioethics

Crosscultural Perspectives

By: Rosemarie Putnam Tong

Globalizing Feminist Bioethics is a collection of new essays on the topic of international bioethics that developed out of the Third World Congress of the International Association of Bioethics in 1996. Rosemarie Tong is the primary editor of this collection, in which she, Gwen Anderson, and Aida Santos look at such international issues as female genital cutting, fatal daughter syndrome, use of reproductive technologies, male responsibility, pediatrics, breast cancer, pregnancy, and drug testing.

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Routledge

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0429979800

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9780429979804

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (The Comic / Manhua) Vol. 6

By: Mo Xiang Tong Xiu,Luo Di Cheng Qiu

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Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (The Comic / Manhua) Vol. 6

By: Mo Xiang Tong Xiu,Luo Di Cheng Qiu

To escape the villainous scheming of Xue Yang, A-Qing is determined to flee, and take her companion Xiao Xingchen along with her. But Xiao Xingchen cannot shake his sense of responsibility--he resolves to stay behind and confront Xue Yang alone. That's when Xue Yang reveals the truth behind their Night Hunts, and all the horrible things he's tricked Xiao Xingchen into doing for so many years. Battle is joined between old friends and fated rivals! Back in the present, Wei Wuxian watches their tragic history unfold, and is left with a single thought. To set things right, he must kill Xue Yang.

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Seven Seas Entertainment

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9798891608498

Integral Equation Methods for Electromagnetic and Elastic Waves

By: Weng Cho Chew,Mei Song Tong,Bin Hu

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Integral Equation Methods for Electromagnetic and Elastic Waves

By: Weng Cho Chew,Mei Song Tong,Bin Hu

Integral Equation Methods for Electromagnetic and Elastic Waves is an outgrowth of several years of work. There have been no recent books on integral equation methods. There are books written on integral equations, but either they have been around for a while, or they were written by mathematicians. Much of the knowledge in integral equation methods still resides in journal papers. With this book, important relevant knowledge for integral equations are consolidated in one place and researchers need only read the pertinent chapters in this book to gain important knowledge needed for integral equation research. Also, learning the fundamentals of linear elastic wave theory does not require a quantum leap for electromagnetic practitioners. Integral equation methods have been around for several decades, and their introduction to electromagnetics has been due to the seminal works of Richmond and Harrington in the 1960s. There was a surge in the interest in this topic in the 1980s (notably the work of Wilton and his coworkers) due to increased computing power. The interest in this area was on the wane when it was demonstrated that differential equation methods, with their sparse matrices, can solve many problems more efficiently than integral equation methods. Recently, due to the advent of fast algorithms, there has been a revival in integral equation methods in electromagnetics. Much of our work in recent years has been in fast algorithms for integral equations, which prompted our interest in integral equation methods. While previously, only tens of thousands of unknowns could be solved by integral equation methods, now, tens of millions of unknowns can be solved with fast algorithms. This has prompted new enthusiasm in integral equation methods. Table of Contents: Introduction to Computational Electromagnetics / Linear Vector Space, Reciprocity, and Energy Conservation / Introduction to Integral Equations / Integral Equations for Penetrable Objects / Low-Frequency Problems in Integral Equations / Dyadic Green's Function for Layered Media and Integral Equations / Fast Inhomogeneous Plane Wave Algorithm for Layered Media / Electromagnetic Wave versus Elastic Wave / Glossary of Acronyms

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Morgan & Claypool Publishers

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1598291483

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9781598291483

Data Mining

Concepts and Techniques

By: Jiawei Han,Jian Pei,Hanghang Tong

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Data Mining

Concepts and Techniques

By: Jiawei Han,Jian Pei,Hanghang Tong

Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Fourth Edition introduces concepts, principles, and methods for mining patterns, knowledge, and models from various kinds of data for diverse applications. Specifically, it delves into the processes for uncovering patterns and knowledge from massive collections of data, known as knowledge discovery from data, or KDD. It focuses on the feasibility, usefulness, effectiveness, and scalability of data mining techniques for large data sets. After an introduction to the concept of data mining, the authors explain the methods for preprocessing, characterizing, and warehousing data. They then partition the data mining methods into several major tasks, introducing concepts and methods for mining frequent patterns, associations, and correlations for large data sets; data classificcation and model construction; cluster analysis; and outlier detection. Concepts and methods for deep learning are systematically introduced as one chapter. Finally, the book covers the trends, applications, and research frontiers in data mining. - Presents a comprehensive new chapter on deep learning, including improving training of deep learning models, convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, and graph neural networks - Addresses advanced topics in one dedicated chapter: data mining trends and research frontiers, including mining rich data types (text, spatiotemporal data, and graph/networks), data mining applications (such as sentiment analysis, truth discovery, and information propagattion), data mining methodologie and systems, and data mining and society - Provides a comprehensive, practical look at the concepts and techniques needed to get the most out of your data - Visit the author-hosted companion site, https://hanj.cs.illinois.edu/bk4/ for downloadable lecture slides and errata

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Morgan Kaufmann

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0128117613

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9780128117613

Disorder Under Heaven

Collective Violence in the Ming Dynasty

By: James Tong

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Disorder Under Heaven

Collective Violence in the Ming Dynasty

By: James Tong

A monumental study of collective violence in the premodern world, this book analyzes all instances of rebellion and banditry recorded in 1,097 countries in China during the 277 years of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). The assembled evidence constitutes the largest annual, county-level time-series on collective violence events in any part of the world, and the 630 recorded cases are used to test the major social science theories on the origins of collective violence. Using systematic data collected from local gazetteers on natural calamities, size of harvests, famine relief, physical terrain, local construction, and troop deployment, the author advances and validates a rational-choice argument that violence increased when survival in a subsistence economy became uncertain and the likelihood of punishment was low. Analyzing the administrative effectiveness and coercive capacity of the Ming state, the author also finds evidence to support a complementary structuralist explanation for increased collective violence in times of lax rulers, state insolvency, and inadequate welfare and tax policies. After an introductory chapter, the author explicates the main theoretical and methodological issues of collective violence and sketches the empirical pattern of rebellions and banditry, differentiating them by the level of threat they posed to the regime and by the sociopolitical profile of participating groups. In the next four chapters, he relates the Ming empirical configuration to four theoretical frameworks for collective violence: rational choice,which includes the issue of motive and choice—why people chose to become bandits; opportunity, in which the level of Ming collective violence is treated to variations in a regime's coercive capacity; social change, which is used to shed light on food riots, anti-tax rebellions, and conflict between employers and employees and between natives and outsiders; and class conflict, which prompts the author to assess the Marxist explanation for collective violence by investigating revolts of commoners against imperial clansmen, bondservants against masters, and tenants against landlords. The final chapter presents how the author's conclusions on why and how people became outlaws in the Ming and points the questions for future research.

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Stanford University Press

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0804766762

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9780804766760

Classical and Computational Solid Mechanics

By: Yuan-cheng Fung,Pin Tong

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Classical and Computational Solid Mechanics

By: Yuan-cheng Fung,Pin Tong

This invaluable book has been written for engineers and engineering scientists in a style that is readable, precise, concise, and practical. It gives first priority to the formulation of problems, presenting the classical results as the gold standard, and the numerical approach as a tool for obtaining solutions. The classical part is a revision of the well-known text Foundations of Solid Mechanics, with a much-expanded discussion on the theories of plasticity and large elastic deformation with finite strains. The computational part is all new and is aimed at solving many major linear and nonlinear boundary-value problems.

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World Scientific

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9810241240

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9789810241247

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (The Comic / Manhua) Vol. 3

By: Mo Xiang Tong Xiu,Luo Di Cheng Qiu

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Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (The Comic / Manhua) Vol. 3

By: Mo Xiang Tong Xiu,Luo Di Cheng Qiu

Wei Wuxian's studies come to an abrupt end when he picks a fight with a young master of the Jin Clan. A lifetime later, he wakes from his dream of days gone by to find he's still unraveling the mystery of the ghost arm. Following their latest lead, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji arrive in Qinghe, where they must contend with strange tombs interring sabers, terrifying man-eating walls, and bizarre sewn-up corpses. But that's not even the worst of it. Wei Wuxian's true identity has been revealed! How will he settle his past scores?

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Seven Seas Entertainment

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ISBN 13

9798891600164

Feminist Thought, Student Economy Edition

A More Comprehensive Introduction

By: Rosemarie Tong

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Feminist Thought, Student Economy Edition

A More Comprehensive Introduction

By: Rosemarie Tong

This book provides a clear, comprehensive, and incisive introduction to the major traditions of feminist theory, from liberal feminism, radical feminism, and Marxist and socialist feminism to care-focused feminism, psychoanalytic feminism, women of color feminisms, and ecofeminism.

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Routledge

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0429973462

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9780429973468

Chinese Beliefs and Practices in Southeast Asia

By: Hock-Tong Cheu

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Chinese Beliefs and Practices in Southeast Asia

By: Hock-Tong Cheu

This book consists of fifteen chapters which can be divided into five major themes: (i) Chinese religion, (ii) Chinese attitudes toward religion, (iii) Chinese spirit cults in Malaysia, (iv) the development of local spirit cults, and (v) major festivals celebrated in Malaysia. The first section deals with three Chinese religious traditions in Malaysia, in particular, and other countries like Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand in Southeast Asia, in general. The second section attempts to discuss on Chinese attitudes towards religion, Chinese religious conception and its implication in their social life, and how Confucian ethics have contributed to the economic success of the Chinese in Malaysia. The Third section seeks to examine the various aspects of the Nine Emperor Gods, the Datuk Kong (Malay keramat), and the spread of Malay and Chinese spirit cults to Sabah, East Malaysia. The fourth section deliberates on three major processes of change in the development of spirit cults in Malaysia: the localization of Chinese locality cults, including Tudigong and Dabogong, the Sinicization of the Malay keramat, and the indigenization or desinicization of an aboriginal Datuk Seman in Broga, Selangor. And the last section winds up with the practical aspects of celebrating festivals in Malaysia and other parts of Southeast Asia, with special emphasis on festivals in general in the Chinese calendar, the festival of the Nine Emperor Gods in Southeast Asia, and the socio-psychological aspects of the Nine Emperor Gods Vegetarian Festival in Thailand.

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1543765513

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9781543765519

Morality and Justice

Reading Boylan's 'A Just Society'

By: John-Stewart Gordon, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania

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Morality and Justice

Reading Boylan's 'A Just Society'

By: John-Stewart Gordon, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania

The essays in this book engage the original and controversial claims from Michael Boylan's A Just Society. Each essay discusses Boylan's claims from a particular chapter and offers a critical analysis of these claims. Boylan responds to the essays in his lengthy and philosophically rich reply.

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Lexington Books

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1461633826

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Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (The Comic / Manhua) Vol. 5

By: Mo Xiang Tong Xiu,Luo Di Cheng Qiu

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Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (The Comic / Manhua) Vol. 5

By: Mo Xiang Tong Xiu,Luo Di Cheng Qiu

Seeking the truth behind Xiao Xingchen's death, Wei Wuxian uses the dangerous power of "Empathy" to gaze into the past. He discovers that years ago, the newly blinded Xiao Xingchen journeyed to the remote countryside, where he and a girl named A-Qing became inseparable. Unfortunately, the peace they found together did not last--everything changed after they saved a mortally wounded man. That man was Xue Yang, a villain who used charm to hide his bitterly cold heart. Weaving a web of lies and deceit, Xue Yang joined their quiet life while secretly scheming for a bloody encounter between old friends and foes!

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Seven Seas Entertainment

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9798891604674

Revenge of the Forbidden City

The Suppression of the Falungong in China, 1999-2005

By: James W. Tong

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Revenge of the Forbidden City

The Suppression of the Falungong in China, 1999-2005

By: James W. Tong

The Falungong movement originated in 1992 as a system of breathing exercises designed to promote health and well-being. Riding on the coattails of the qigong fever that swept through China, it attracted an extensive following until 1994, when the Chinese government suppressed the qigong movement. A series of protest rallies by Falungong organizations against local government repression set in motion an upward conflict spiral that culminated in the siege of the Party headquarters in Beijing on April 25, 1999, by more than 20,000 Falungong practitioners. Revenge of the Forbidden City begins with the shock of the Politburo against such insolent defiance, resolving to retaliate against the Falungong, a retaliation that represented "the most serious political incident" since the Tiananmen upheaval in 1989. James W. Tong reveals how the Chinese government's relentless, sustained repression of the Falungong movement typifies its response towards perceived internal threats. Though many claim that the Democratic reforms in China have eroded the government's ability to monitor and control its citizens, the success of the campaign to eradicate Falungong indicates otherwise: the government effectively implemented a multifaceted offensive involving unsparing suppression, pervasive propaganda, and coercive conversion. The successful execution of this complex campaign reveals the resilience of China's authoritarian institutions. Using empirical evidence and thorough analysis, Tong reveals the Chinese state's formidable ability to crush dissent and provides a cogent rebuttal to those who claim that the Communist government is on the verge of collapse. The definitive account of China's response to Falungong, Revenge of the Forbidden City is essential for any scholar interested in how the Chinese state actually operates.

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Oxford University Press

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019970368X

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Policies for Macrofinancial Stability

How to Deal with Credit Booms

By: Mr.Bas B. Bakker,Mr.Giovanni Dell'Ariccia,Mr.Luc Laeven,Jérôme Vandenbussche,Ms.Deniz Igan,Mr.Hui Tong

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Policies for Macrofinancial Stability

How to Deal with Credit Booms

By: Mr.Bas B. Bakker,Mr.Giovanni Dell'Ariccia,Mr.Luc Laeven,Jérôme Vandenbussche,Ms.Deniz Igan,Mr.Hui Tong

This note explores the costs and benefits of different policy options to reduce the risks associated with credit booms, drawing upon several country experiences and the findings from econometric analysis.

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International Monetary Fund

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1475504748

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Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide

A Distributed Real-Time Search and Analytics Engine

By: Clinton Gormley,Zachary Tong

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Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide

A Distributed Real-Time Search and Analytics Engine

By: Clinton Gormley,Zachary Tong

Whether you need full-text search or real-time analytics of structured data—or both—the Elasticsearch distributed search engine is an ideal way to put your data to work. This practical guide not only shows you how to search, analyze, and explore data with Elasticsearch, but also helps you deal with the complexities of human language, geolocation, and relationships. If you’re a newcomer to both search and distributed systems, you’ll quickly learn how to integrate Elasticsearch into your application. More experienced users will pick up lots of advanced techniques. Throughout the book, you’ll follow a problem-based approach to learn why, when, and how to use Elasticsearch features. Understand how Elasticsearch interprets data in your documents Index and query your data to take advantage of search concepts such as relevance and word proximity Handle human language through the effective use of analyzers and queries Summarize and group data to show overall trends, with aggregations and analytics Use geo-points and geo-shapes—Elasticsearch’s approaches to geolocation Model your data to take advantage of Elasticsearch’s horizontal scalability Learn how to configure and monitor your cluster in production

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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1449358500

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9781449358501

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