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  • Murder at the Red Dragon

    The Fuside Mysteries, #1

    by Ming Tian ...
    Series Book 1 - The Fuside Mysteries
    At sixty-two, Zhai Hong has three great ambitions in life:Run the most popular mahjong house in town.Live to be a hundred.And buy a 49,999-yuan miracle mattress that promises to fix every ache, pain and dodgy artery in her body.The first two seem achievable.The third is going to require a lot of mahjong customers.Then one of her regulars drops dead at the Red Dragon.And the police say he was ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Middler’s Library: Surviving the Sea of Chinese Web Novels

    The Middler’s Library, #1

    by Ming Tian ...
    Series Book 1 - The Middler’s Library
    So you want to read Chinese web novels… but where do you even start?Don't worry—I've done the awkward, baffling, and occasionally mind-blowing reading for you.Inside, you'll find curated, candid (and yes, occasionally savage) reviews of the gems and grenades in China's massive web fiction universe. Whether you're here for futuristic mecha battles, post-apocalyptic survival, or xianxia cultivation ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Middler’s Library: From Rum Doodle to Vogons — A Middler’s Guide to British Comic Fiction

    The Middler’s Library, #2

    by Ming Tian ...
    Series Book 2 - The Middler’s Library
    So you like books that make you laugh — but British comedy often feels like another language.Welcome to Book 2 of The Middler's Library: eight careful, affectionate reviews of comic English novels that surprised me, confused me, and made me laugh out loud.From the mountaineering parody of The Ascent of Rum Doodle to the cosmic absurdity of The Hitchhiker's Guide series, these essays explain what's ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Middler’s Library: Time-Travellers, Eunuchs and Dragons — A Middler’s Reading Guide to Chinese Alternate History Web Novels

    The Middler’s Library, #3

    by Ming Tian ...
    Series Book 3 - The Middler’s Library
    I grew up with two languages and one cultural identity crisis – and heaps of curiosity. This book is my attempt to make sense of Chinese history, palace gossip and the sprawling world of serialised web fiction — so you don't have to start from zero.Inside you'll find short, sharp reviews of Ming-era alternate histories and web novels (from feel-good power fantasies to dark palace dramas), ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bayesian Missing Data Problems

    EM, Data Augmentation and Noniterative Computation

    by Ming T. Tan, Guo-Liang Tian, Kai Wang Ng ...
    Bayesian Missing Data Problems: EM, Data Augmentation and Noniterative Computation presents solutions to missing data problems through explicit or noniterative sampling calculation of Bayesian posteriors. The methods are based on the inverse Bayes formulae discovered by one of the author in 1995. Applying the Bayesian approach to important real-wor ... Read more

    $130.53 CAD

  • The Proceedings of 2025 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Transportation

    Volume VII

    Edited by Shu-Feng Wang, Zhihong Li, Mingyang Pei, Wenhui Zhang, Tianli Tang, Ying Rong ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book reflects the latest research trends, methods, and experimental results in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Transportation, which covers abundant state-of-the-art research theories and ideas. As a vital research area that is highly relevant to current developments in a number of technological domains, the topics covered include Autonomous Transportation Systems, ... Read more

    $382.99 CAD

  • Lost Bodies: Poems between Portugal and Home

    by Heng Siok Tian, Phan Ming Yen, Yong Shu Hoong, Yeow Kai Chai ...
    Four writers.Three travelling in Portugal.One staying behind to care for his ailing mother.One long-distance writing affair.The passing of the mother together with memories of other losses and absences come together in Lost Bodies, a meditation on the transience of time and love and an invitation to get away—physically or spiritually—from worldly concerns to explore a different history, a ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Grains in China

    Foodgrain, Feedgrain and World Trade

    by Zhang-Yue Zhou, Wei-Ming Tian ...
    This book addresses the dynamics of China's grain production, consumption and trade with a particular emphasis on China's demand for feedgrain vis-a-vis its demand for foodgrain and the likely implications of this on the international grain trade given that China is now a member of the WTO. The book provides the reader with insight into the latest developments in China's foodgrain and feedgrain ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Internet Video Data Streaming

    Energy-saving and Cost-aware Methods

    by Xinming Zhang, Ye Tian, Min Zhao ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book investigates the problem of reducing operating cost for a video streaming content delivery network (CDN), including both the CDN’s energy and traffic costs. It first introduces the key issues and design choices of representative real-world CDNs, and discusses the energy saving techniques for data centers and CDNs. Then, based on a measurement study on a large video streaming CDN, it ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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  • Probabilistic Machine Learning

    An Introduction

    by Kevin P. Murphy ...
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  • Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM 2022)

    Edited by Jun Yang, Anuranjan Misra, Bijay Kumar Kandel ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This is an open access book.Management science aims to study the dynamic study of human use of limited resources in management activities to achieve organizational goals: complex and innovative social behavior and its laws. And engineering management refers to the management of important and complex new products, equipment and devices in the process of development, manufacturing and production, ... Read more

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