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  • The House Arrest of Zhang Xueliang

    A Memoir of Growing Up with China's Most Famous Political Prisoner

    by Bernard Liu ...
    A personal account of living with Chinese General Zhang Xueliang during the first twenty-five years of his house arrest in China and Taiwan.When Chinese General Zhang Xueliang kidnapped Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in the Xi’an Incident of 1936 and forced a truce between the Communists and the Nationalists to join forces to fight the Japanese, he changed the course of Chinese history. For his ... Read more

    $9.85 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Precision Irrigation for Agriculture

    Integrating Machine Learning and Optimal Control Strategies

    by Bernard Twum Agyeman, Jinfeng Liu ...
    Advanced methodologies in machine learning, optimal control, and agricultural water management to address irrigation scheduling in large-scale agricultureThrough a multidisciplinary approach, Precision Irrigation for Agriculture presents rigorous and practical methods that integrate machine learning, optimal control, and agricultural water management to design irrigation schedulers tailored for ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • Science Cultures in a Diverse World: Knowing, Sharing, Caring

    Edited by Bernard Schiele, Xuan Liu, Martin W. Bauer ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Science and technology culture is now more than ever at the very heart of the social project, and all countries, to varying degrees, participate in it: raising scientific literacy, improving the image of the sciences, involving the public in debates and encouraging the young to pursue careers in the sciences. Thus, the very destiny of any society is now entwined with its ability to develop a ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Combating Online Hostile Posts in Regional Languages during Emergency Situation

    First International Workshop, CONSTRAINT 2021, Collocated with AAAI 2021, Virtual Event, February 8, 2021, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Tanmoy Chakraborty, Kai Shu, H. Russell Bernard, Huan Liu, Md Shad Akhtar ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes selected and revised papers from the First International Workshop on Combating Online Hostile Posts in Regional Languages during Emergency Situation, CONSTRAINT 2021, Collocated with AAAI 2021, held as virtual event, in February 2021.The 14 full papers and 9 short papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 62 qualified submissions. The papers present ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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    by Qiu Xiaolong ...
    Series Book 3 - An Inspector Chen Investigation
    When the murder of a woman is reported to the Shanghai police while Inspector Chen is on vacation, Sergeant Yu is forced to take charge of the investigation. The victim, Yin Lige, a novelist known for her banned book, has been found dead in her tiny, humble room off the stairwell of a converted multi-family house. It seems that only a neighbor could have committed the crime, for the building is ... Read more

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  • The ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer Handbook

    by Karen Hulting, Mary McShane-Vaughn ...
    This updated handbook is ideal for working professionals who specialize in improving the reliability, maintainability, and safety of products, systems, and processes. Organized according to the 2025 ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) Body of Knowledge (BoK), the fourth edition of The ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer Handbook has been expanded to include new information, tools, and ... Read more

    $155.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges

    Edited by Ali Aslan Gümüsay, Emilio Marti, Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich, Christopher Wickert ...
    Series Book 79 - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.Societal grand challenges have moved from a marginal concern to a mainstream issue within the field of organization and management studies. Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges unpacks how diverse forms of organizing help tackle - or reinforce - grand challenges, while emphasizing the need for researchers to ... Read more

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  • Harness Oil and Gas Big Data with Analytics

    Optimize Exploration and Production with Data-Driven Models

    by Keith R. Holdaway ...
    Series series Wiley and SAS Business Series
    Use big data analytics to efficiently drive oil and gas exploration and productionHarness Oil and Gas Big Data with Analytics provides a complete view of big data and analytics techniques as they are applied to the oil and gas industry. Including a compendium of specific case studies, the book underscores the acute need for optimization in the oil and gas exploration and production stages and ... Read more

    $80.99 CAD

  • Designing Disorder

    Experiments and Disruptions in the City

    by Richard Sennett, Pablo Sendra ...
    Rethinking the open cityPlanners, privatisation, and police surveillance are laying siege to urban public spaces. The streets are becoming ever more regimented as life and character are sapped from our cities. What is to be done? Is it possible to maintain the public realm as a flexible space that adapts over time? Can disorder be designed?Fifty years ago, Richard Sennett wrote his groundbreaking ... Read more

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  • Knowledge and Institutions

    Edited by Johannes Glückler, Roy Suddaby, Regina Lenz ...
    Series Book 13 - Knowledge and Space
    This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as well as original empirical case studies on the emergence, maintenance and change of institutions as well as on their constraining and enabling effects on innovation, ... Read more

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  • Predictive and Optimised Life Cycle Management

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    Edited by Asko Sarja ...
    Predictive and Optimised Life-Cycle Management sets out methodologies to meet the demands of the current trend towards sustainable civil engineering and building.Encompassing all aspects of construction practice, from design through to demolition and the recycling of materials, Sarja provides tools for optimal property-value protection, including a description of an integrated and predictive Life ... Read more

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  • Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies

    Caring For (Big) Data?

    Edited by Marie Sandberg, Luca Rossi, Vasilis Galis, Martin Bak Jørgensen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This Open Access book investigates the methodological and ethical dilemmas involved when working with digital technologies and large-scale datasets in relation to ethnographic studies of digital migration practices and trajectories. Digital technologies reshape not only every phase of the migration process itself (by providing new ways to access, to share and preserve relevant information) but ... Read more

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