The year 2003 marked the fiftieth anniversary of James Watson's and Francis Crick's discovery of the structure of DNA, which began a revolution in the biological sciences and radically altered the way humans view life and themselves. In this poetic account Erwin Fleissner, an eminent cancer researcher and teacher, offers a personal and professional reflection on the most significant developments in molecular genetics and cell biology over the past fifty years. Vital Harmonies is a sweeping look at these crucial scientific advances and an insider's perspective on what scientists have actually learned from them. Contrasting the humanistic side of scientific research with more deterministic or "mechanical" explanations of life processes, Fleissner discusses everything from natural selection to the tradition of rational inquiry stemming from the Enlightenment. He goes on to describe the structures of macromolecules and their "organizing" principles as well as cancer genes, stem cells, and the Human Genome Project. He also explores neuronal cells and the emergence of consciousness and how biological evolution is the foundation of our personal reality as well as our global responsibility. Fleissner asserts that scientific investigations cannot negate our essential "humanness" nor should the public fear them. Taking an optimistic perspective, he argues that a deeper knowledge of ourselves as biological entities will provide us, ultimately, with greater health, serenity, and self-knowledge. Vital Harmonies gives readers, whatever their background, an engaging analysis of some of the most important questions facing humanity today.
Five hundred years ago, the most outstanding disciple under the Grand Yi Sect, Zhong Ming, was killed by the Chou Clan's leader, Ouyang Duan, while he was cultivating in seclusion. At this critical moment, Zhong Ming forced out his three souls. Thus, after his three souls had wandered around the world for hundreds of years, in the end, on a pitch-black night, they possessed a body that belonged to Zhong Wentao, who was born on the same day as the son of the next year. From then on, Zhong Wentao was no longer the diaosi Zhong Wentao. He was a genius doctor with superb medical skills. His path of life had skyrocketed. He would beat up the second generation, pick up beauties, take revenge for his blood feud, and become famous throughout the world ...
The mountain was full of foxes and the world was full of strange talk. The trashy Daoist Priest had taken the Demon Emperor's daughter in order to earn her reputation of being rich. The girl with the twin sabers had vowed to be the number one person in the martial arts world. The old man, who was wearing a noose around his neck on a snowy night, said he had killed too many people in his life.Furthermore, that seemingly philistine old Daoist can ascend on his seat and fight the Demon Emperor alone for three hundred miles. The king of the Rakasha Kingdom looked very pretty, but he liked to wear a yaksha mask. This was an era where demons and humans coexisted together, the so-called evil deeds were done! However, the shackles on his body made him unable to breathe.This world was not that good, but it was not that bad either.
Xiao Yueze was originally her good friend's fiancé. Once, her good friend accidentally jumped into the sea to commit suicide because he lost his virginity in a bar, while Xiao Yueze blamed all the crimes on her. The wedding night. He was like an enraged lion, his hands tightly gripped around her neck, and killing intent raged in his eyes, "From tonight onwards, your good days will come to an end ...
Brimming with verve and dramatic incident, Singapore: A Biography offers fresh insights into the life story of this island city-state through the personal experiences of the workers, adventurers, rulers and revolutionaries who have shaped its history over the last seven centuries. The authors, drawing on research undertaken in collaboration with the National Museum of Singapore, have woven together ancient chronicles, eyewitness accounts, oral histories and even modern radio and television broadcasts to create a vivid and compelling narrative that brings the past back to life. Grounded in scholarship yet fired by the imagination, this book reveals the Singapore story to have been as rich, diverse and multilayered as the city-state is prosperous, ordered and successful today.
At ten years old, the mother who was carrying her little brother was strangled to death right in front of her eyes. Three years later, the Han WanRong who raised her was beaten into the cold palace and burned to death. The princess of the cold palace was designed to be close to her, betraying her former lover. He was the Left Xian Prince of the Huns, but he pushed her into the arms of the Chanyu. When I first met Chanyu Tangli Gu, I had been accused of being unfaithful, and I abandoned him like a pair of old shoes. Being a widow once again, how could he endure being sent to the Chanyu's son's red silk cloth? Ninja, just for revenge, sent troops to Da Kang, to see his former lover again, but they were enemies on both sides. He had killed all of his enemies, yet now, he suddenly looked back. Where was his beauty? Where did she go?
An accident through to another world proud of him to stand here nature to be strong but one after another plot to make him deeply tired but he wants to become strong because he has friends to protect there are like people to love bully them die this is the motivation and courage of longyuan to live when longyuan was also betrayed by his girlfriend when he will not be despair of the world only blame their love when in another world the person who really loves appears he wants to guard him every minute and every second
As Su Qinghuan put her hands on her hips, she said, "With medical skills in hand, I have all the skills in the world!" What? You're accusing me of not marrying seventeen? No problem, buy a sickly guy, sit and wait to become a widow, earn a chastity memorial archway! However, with a change in his bearing, how did he become a powerful general? Su Qing Huan: Hey, hey, hey. You took the wrong script. This is Tian Wen! The female lead likes to take off the tease, kind-hearted and tough; the male lead is overbearing and affectionate, playing the pig to eat the tiger; Joy and tears, sorrow and joy, but deep love never let down.
Two major features of international relations at the beginning of the 21st century are global governance and the rise of China. Global governance, advocating global norms, requires intervention into sovereign domains in defiance of those norms. However, an ascendant China adheres to a classic stance on sovereign integrity which prohibits such intervention. Whether or not China will ultimately Sinicize global governance or become assimilated into global norms remains both a theoretical and a practical challenge. Both challenges come from China’s alternative style of global governance, which embodies the doctrine of 'balance of relationship,' in contrast with the familiar international relations embedded in ’balance of power’ or ’balance of interest.’ An understanding of China’s intervention policy based upon the logic of balance of relationship is therefore the key to tackling the anxiety precipitated by these theoretical as well as practical challenges.
Give me a little sunshine, I can be brilliant, binding an empty hold, I can give the world a new sky! His right hand held the scalpel, his left hand held the high-tech, cutting through thorns and thorns, reneging on the marriage with the crown prince, reviving the house of the Marquis, holding hands with lovers, blocking people's path to murder, killing gods and gods! Gold is mine, home is mine, country is mine, you are mine, mine or mine!
The cultural landscape plays a momentous role in the transmission of Christianity. Consequently, the global expansion of the church has led to the increasing diversification of world Christianity. As a result, scholars are turning more and more to native cultures as the point of focus. This study examines how this new discourse evolved as well as presenting a missional methodology based on the study of the native landscapes of Korea. Kale Yu argues that the process of formulating and communicating Christianity was less consistent than is usually supposed. By immersing the reader in the thought and lived experience of various Korean contexts, Professor Yu recreates the diversity of cultural landscapes experienced by Korean Christians of different periods in history. The result is a new interpretation of cross-cultural missional interactions.
At the peak of Mount Kunlun, at the precipice of a tall cliff, a fierce wind blew. A full moon hung high above the vast curtain of darkness. A woman covered in blood stumbled as she stepped on the broken stones. In the end, she had nowhere to retreat to ...
The first book in English on Chinese-language media in Australia, Digital Transnationalism explores the challenges, opportunities and development of this sector against the backdrop of China’s rise, its soft power agenda, and renewed hostility between China and the global West. Situated in the Australian context, this study nevertheless is essential to understand the complex and evolving nature of Chinese-language digital media, and the role they play in fostering digital transnationalism among first-generation Chinese migrants across the globe.
China’s development momentum will last for 200 more years. This book focused on China’s Economic System Reform and Opening-up to the Outside World, and answered the why, when, who, where, and how? The author used his observation and analysis to break down the Reform step by step. The story started from China’s national situation, followed by the kick-off, the operation, the policy, the little-known side of the senior decision-making process, and the organizational behaviors of the Communist Party of China. The Destiny of Chinese Nation and the development strategy are the unique achievements in China Studies. In 2009, the author presided over the program “The Planning of Economic and Cultural Industries Development of Xuanwu District, Beijing, 2009–2015.” He anticipated that the population of the Beijing metropolitan area shall be 70–100 million, and pointed out the necessity to build one more international airport in South Beijing. He also concluded the program “World Metropolis, Humanistic Beijing, and the Planning of the Cultural Finance during 2010–2015” by the same inferences. In 2014, the construction of Xiong An New District began. The Beijing Economic Circle has brought the prediction of 100-million population close to reality. On September 25, 2019, Beijing Da Xing International Airport was officially opened to traffic.
This volume examines the Chinese foreign policy framework today and traces its evolution since the post-Mao era. Through the consideration of China's relations with the major powers and its management of various challenges ranging from territorial disputes to energy security, it investigates China's pursuit of major power status and influence in peaceful international scenarios.The author critically analyzes China's foreign policy from Chinese leaders' evolving worldview of the changing international environment. As China emerges as a major power and the second largest economy in the world, anyone interested in international politics and scenarios as well as China's foreign policy needs a basic, insightful reference book like this.
First published in 1993. The Cultural Revolution (CR) was undoubtedly one of the most tumultuous and dramatic periods of China's modern history. It was marked by violence, factionalism and economic disruptions. The cataclysm it created had traumatic effects on the majority of the Chinese people, both in their private and professional lives. In this study, the author's emphasise the primordial role of Mao Zedong in instigating and prolonging the Cultural Revolution.
An ancient cauldron would refine a world; a brush would draw all the creatures in the world; a long sword would cut down 3,000 great daos; a legend would narrate all the love in one lifetime; and the Nine Heavens Starfield, the Cosmic Star, would depict a young man's path to the pinnacle under the heavens!
An Authorlink Top Five Book of 2020 As a fearless poet and prolific essayist and critic, Liu Xiaobo became one of the most important dissident thinkers in the People's Republic of China. His nonviolent activism steered the nation's prodemocracy currents from Tiananmen Square to support for Tibet and beyond. Liu undertook perhaps his bravest act when he helped draft and gather support for Charter 08, a democratic vision for China that included free elections and the end of the Communist Party's monopoly on power. While imprisoned for "inciting subversion of state power," Liu won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. He was granted medical parole just weeks before dying of cancer in 2017. The Journey of Liu Xiaobo draws together essays and reflections on the "Nelson Mandela of China." The Dalai Lama, artist and activist Ai Weiwei, and a distinguished list of leading Chinese writers and intellectuals, including Zhang Zuhua, the main drafter of Charter 08, and Liu Xia, the wife of Liu Xiaobo, and noted China scholars, journalists, and political leaders from around the globe, including Yu Ying-shih, Perry Link, Andrew J. Nathan, Marco Rubio, and Chris Smith illuminate Liu's journey from his youth and student years, through his indispensable activism, and to his defiant last days. Many of the pieces were written immediately after Liu's death, adding to the emotions stirred by his loss. Original and powerful, The Journey of Liu Xiaobo combines memory with insightful analysis to evaluate Liu's impact on his era, nation, and the cause of human freedom.
Pluriversalism within International Relations and the literature on Chinese international relations each embrace ideas of relation and difference. While they similarly strive for recognition by Western academics, they do not seriously engage with each other. To the extent that either succeeds in winning recognition, it ironically reproduces Western centrism and the binary of the Western versus the non-Western. In Relations and Roles in China's Internationalism, author Chih-yu Shih demonstrates, through a critical translation exercise, that Confucian themes enable both the critique and realignment of liberal thought, allowing all of us, including the members of Confucianism and the neo-liberal order, to understand how we adapt to and coexist with each another. In the end, Confucianism not only informs the pluriversal necessity that all are bound to be related but also de-nationalizes China's internationalism.
A comprehensive guide to 3D MEMS packaging methods and solutions Written by experts in the field, Advanced MEMS Packaging serves as a valuable reference for those faced with the challenges created by the ever-increasing interest in MEMS devices and packaging. This authoritative guide presents cutting-edge MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) packaging techniques, such as low-temperature C2W and W2W bonding and 3D packaging. This definitive resource helps you select reliable, creative, high-performance, robust, and cost-effective packaging techniques for MEMS devices. The book will also aid in stimulating further research and development in electrical, optical, mechanical, and thermal designs as well as materials, processes, manufacturing, testing, and reliability. Among the topics explored: Advanced IC and MEMS packaging trends MEMS devices, commercial applications, and markets More than 360 MEMS packaging patents and 10 3D MEMS packaging designs TSV for 3D MEMS packaging MEMS wafer thinning, dicing, and handling Low-temperature C2C, C2W, and W2W bonding Reliability of RoHS-compliant MEMS packaging Micromachining and water bonding techniques Actuation mechanisms and integrated micromachining Bubble switch, optical switch, and VOA MEMS packaging Bolometer and accelerameter MEMS packaging Bio-MEMS and biosensor MEMS packaging RF MEMS switches, tunable circuits, and packaging
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