Recent Trends in Cold-Formed Steel Construction discusses advancements in an area that has become an important construction material for buildings. The book addresses cutting-edge new technologies and design methods using cold-formed steel as a main structural material, and provides technical guidance on how to design and build sustainable and energy-efficient cold-formed steel buildings.  Meer

The 1989 prodemocracy movement in the People's Republic of China and the subsequent crackdown were marked by many dramatic reversals. Supported at first by several thousand Beijing University students, the movement quickly attracted millions of followers and developed into a nationwide mass movement.  Meer

This book demonstrates how two goals – the substitution of socialist views for embedded traditional values, and the use of China's actual and potential economic surpluses – have together formed the features of China's economic development.  Meer

How has the government of the PRC transformed traditional economic institutions into a socialist, central-planning system? What has been the impact of this transformation on China’s economic growth?  Meer

This book provides a study of the causes of the 1989 spring unrest in China from various angles such as social, economic, political, intellectual, and military.  Meer

Recent Trends in Cold-Formed Steel Construction, Second Edition focuses on the application and use of this important construction material. In this updated edition, new chapters take on these developments, offering updates on cutting-edge new technologies and design methods for using cold-formed steel as a structural material and providing technical guidance on how to design and build sustainable and energy-efficient cold-formed steel buildings.  Meer

The first comprehensive study of Taiwanese Southern Min (TSM) phonology, this book covers rarely explored topics like the phonological system of TSM, interfaces, rhythms, and the iGeneration dialectal variety.  Meer

This detailed book provides state-of-art computational approaches to further explore the exciting opportunities presented by single-cell technologies.  Meer

This book provides a complete picture of the Chinese economy over the past six decades, focusing on the recent comprehensive reform program and current international evaluations of China's long-term economic prospects.  Meer

Substrate Integrated Antennas and Arrays provides a single source for cutting-edge information on substrate integrated circuits (SICs), substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) feeding networks, SIW slot array antennas, SIC traveling-wave antennas, SIW feeding antennas, SIW monopulse antennas, and SIW multibeam antennas.  Meer

Recognising the benefits of improved control, the second edition of Autotuning of PID Controllers provides simple yet effective methods for improving PID controller performance.  Meer

Recognising the benefits of improved control, the second edition of Autotuning of PID Controllers provides simple yet effective methods for improving PID controller performance.  Meer

This textbook gives a complete and fundamental introduction to the properties of III-V compound semiconductor devices, highlighting the theoretical and practical aspects of their device physics.  Meer

This volume examines the Chinese foreign policy framework today and its evolution in the post-Mao era.  Meer

This book presents an anti-intellectualist view of how the cognitive-mental dimension of human intellect is rooted in and interwoven with our embodied-internal components including emotion, perception, desire, etc.  Meer

This book contains MATLAB programs to demonstrate the numerical algorithms, the analytical approaches, and the physical principles.  Meer