Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!

You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.

Sign up

Journey of a Thousand Miles
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

Journey of a Thousand Miles

Born into poverty in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, Ruey Yu overcame near-starvation during the Second World War. Destiny, however, had other plans for him: he was to become an award-winning biochemist, then the co-founder of what would soon become the multi-million-dollar skin care company NeoStrata. After living through the Second World War and the post-war military dictatorship of General Chiang Kai-Shek, Dr. Yu won a coveted post-graduate scholarship to study chemistry at the University of Ottawa. He subsequently took up a research position at the renowned Skin and Cancer Hospital (Temple University) in Philadelphia, where he collaborated with pre-eminent dermatologist Dr. Eugene Van Scott to...

China's Highway of Information and Communication Technology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 209

China's Highway of Information and Communication Technology

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2009-12-18
  • -
  • Publisher: Springer

Based on first-hand information obtained from Chinese and Foreign enterprises and institutions in the Chinese ICT industry, this book presents a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of Chinese ICT industrial sector. It especially analyzes the strengths, weaknesses, and threats facing both the Chinese enterprise and western multinationals.

Nanoscience
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Nanoscience

This volume will present critical and comphrehensive reviews examining the latest research and developments in nanoscience in accessible articles. Quantum dot synthesis, soft lithography and graphene will feature in the debut volume, along with perspectives on research in China and India.

The Toxicology and Biochemistry of Insecticides
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

The Toxicology and Biochemistry of Insecticides

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2014-11-24
  • -
  • Publisher: CRC Press

Despite their potentially adverse effects on nontarget species and the environment, insecticides remain a necessity in crop protection as well as in the reduction of insect-borne diseases. The Toxicology and Biochemistry of Insecticides provides essential insecticide knowledge required for the effective management of insect pests. Continuing as the

Revival: The Tragedy of Ah Qui (1930)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 95

Revival: The Tragedy of Ah Qui (1930)

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2018-12-20
  • -
  • Publisher: Routledge

Short stories translated from the Chinese by J.B. Kyn Yn Yu and from the French by E.H.F. Mills

神女
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 132

神女

A primary theme of the book is the effect of recent and ongoing law reform on Hong Kong commercial law. Many of the authors discuss proposals by the Law Reform Commission or other bodies. The authors also make their own proposals for improving Hong Kong's legislation and case law.

Guan Yu
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Guan Yu

Guan Yu was a minor general in the early third century CE, who supported one of numerous claimants to the throne. He was captured and executed by enemy forces in 219. He eventually became one the most popular and influential deities of imperial China under the name Lord Guan or Emperor Guan, of the same importance as the Buddhist bodhisattva Guanyin. This is a study of his cult, but also of the tremendous power of oral culture in a world where writing became increasingly important. In this study, we follow the rise of the deity through his earliest stage as a hungry ghost, his subsequent adoption by a prominent Buddhist monastery during the Tang (617-907) as its miraculous supporter, and his...

G.W. Moore's Ethiopian anecdotes and goaks
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 112

G.W. Moore's Ethiopian anecdotes and goaks

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 1869
  • -
  • Publisher: Unknown

None

Vocabulary and Handbook of the Chinese Language
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 568

Vocabulary and Handbook of the Chinese Language

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 1872
  • -
  • Publisher: Unknown

None

Computer Vision - ACCV 2012 Workshops
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 639

Computer Vision - ACCV 2012 Workshops

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2013-03-27
  • -
  • Publisher: Springer

The two volume set, consisting of LNCS 7728 and 7729, contains the carefully reviewed and selected papers presented at the nine workshops that were held in conjunction with the 11th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2012, in Daejeon, South Korea, in November 2012. From a total of 310 papers submitted, 78 were selected for presentation. LNCS 7728 contains the papers selected for the International Workshop on Computer Vision with Local Binary Pattern Variants, the Workshop on Computational Photography and Low-Level Vision, the Workshop on Developer-Centered Computer Vision, and the Workshop on Background Models Challenge. LNCS 7729 contains the papers selected for the Workshop on e-Heritage, the Workshop on Color Depth Fusion in Computer Vision, the Workshop on Face Analysis, the Workshop on Detection and Tracking in Challenging Environments, and the International Workshop on Intelligent Mobile Vision.