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Pains and Gains of Ethnic Multilingual Learners in China : An Ethnographic Ca…
This book introduces an ethnographic case study of two English majors of ethnic minority at YUN, a local university of nationalities in southwest China. Drawing on the theories of post-structuralism and critical multiculturalism, this book mainly studies two female multilingual individuals in Yunnan, China. By scrutinizing university policies, curriculum, personal learning histories, and by dis…
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- 978-981-10-0661-6
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- XXV, 202 halaman
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- Multilingual Education
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- 404.2 WAN p
Deformation and Failure Mechanism of Excavation in Clay Subjected to Hydrauli…
This book presents the latest experimental and numerical analysis work in the field of ground deformation and base instability of deep excavations in soft clay subjected to hydraulic uplift. The authors? latest research findings, based on dimensional analyses, well-instrumented full-scale field tests, systematic coupled-consolidation finite element analyses and centrifuge tests are reported. Th…
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- 9783662465073
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- XIV, 156
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- Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China
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- 413
Writing Pirates Vernacular Fiction and Oceans in Late Ming China
"In Writing Pirates, Yuanfei Wang connects Chinese literary production to emerging discourses of pirates and the sea. In the late Ming dynasty, so-called “Japanese pirates” raided southeast coastal China. Hideyoshi invaded Korea. Europeans sailed for overseas territories, and Chinese maritime merchants and emigrants founded diaspora communities in Southeast Asia. Travel writings, histories,…
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Pension Policy and Governmentality in China
Rapid economic growth is often a disruptive social process threatening the social relations and ideologies of incumbent regimes. Yet far from acting defensively, the Chinese Communist Party has lead a major social and economic transformation over forty years, without yet encountering fundamental challenges subverting its rule. A key question for political sociology is thus - how have the logics…
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- 9781909890893
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Creative Industries and Urban Spatial Structure Agent-based Modelling of the …
This book explores the dynamics of the interaction between the development of creative industries and urban land use in Nanjing, a metropolis and a growth pole in the Yangtze River Delta. In the last two decades, China's economy has been undergoing dramatic growth. Yet, accompanying with China's economic success is the disturbing environmental deterioration and energy concerns. These issues tog…
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- 9783319166100
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- XXII, 238
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- Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
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- 307.1216
Two Decades of Basic Education in Rural China Transitions and Challenges for…
This book examines how educational change has progressed in three contrasting areas spread across China since 1990, exploring key issues concerning rural education in poor, rich and minority areas. Of the three areas covered in this book, the first is a rich one near Beijing; the second is in the northwest in Shanxi on the Loess plateau; and the third is in Sichuan on the high plateau leading t…
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- 978-981-10-2120-6
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The Global Impact of Unconventional Shale Gas Development
This book discusses the economic, political, and environmental issues surrounding the international exploration and exploitation of conventional and unconventional natural gas. Shale gas development in recent years has changed the energy discussion in the US as existing reserves of natural gas coupled with horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing make exploitation of these reserves economic…
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- 978-3-319-31680-2
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- V, 249, 32 b/w illustrations
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- Natural Resource Management and Policy
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The Earliest Stages of Massive Clustered Star Formation: Fragmentation of Inf…
This thesis presents an in-depth, high-resolution observational study on the very beginning of the formation process: the fragmentation of dense molecular clouds known as infrared dark clouds (IRDCs). Using the Submillimeter Array (SMA) and Very Large Array (VLA) radio interferometers, the author has discovered a common picture of hierarchical fragmentation that challenges some of the leading t…
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- 978-3-662-44969-1
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- XX, 145, 14 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
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- Springer Theses
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Frontiers in Algorithmics
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Frontiers in Algorithmics, FAW 2015, held in Guilin, China, in July 2015. The 28 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. They deal with graph algorithms, approximation algorithms, combinatorial optimization, parameterized algorithms, and online algorithms.
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- 978-3-319-19647-3
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Plant Metabolomics; Methods and Applications
Ilmu pengetahuan hayati berkembang pesat setiap harinya. Peningkatan genomik dan teknik analisis terkait sangat mendorong perkembangan pesat transkriptomik, proteomik, metabolomik, dan fenomenik. Dengan demikian, sarana integrasi sistem dapat digunakan untuk mengungkapkan fenomena kehidupan di berbagai tingkatan. Pemikiran dan metode penelitian di atas melahirkan biologi sistem. Metabolomik mer…
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- 978-94-017-9291-2
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- 572.4 CHE p
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