This book concentrates on exploring the changing relationship between the state and working women in Taiwan by incorporating social, economic, political and ideological factors into the historical analysis.  Meer

This book documents the evolution of modern Chinese banking, from the establishment in 1897 of the first Chinese bank along a Western model, to the abrupt interruption of professional banking by the Japanese invasion in 1937.  Meer

Focusing on optical fibers, Foundations for Guided Wave Optics is divided into three sections: integrated optics, fiber optics, and the pulse evolution and broadening in fibers.  Meer

This book documents the evolution of modern Chinese banking, from the establishment in 1897 of the first Chinese bank along a Western model, to the abrupt interruption of professional banking by the Japanese invasion in 1937.  Meer

Examining the law of export credit insurance and export credit guarantees, this book clarifies the legal nature of ECI and ECGs as insurance and guarantees respectively by comparing their legal characteristics regarding contract formation process, terms and conditions, duty of fair presentation, claim handling process and subrogation and recoveries.  Meer

Examining the law of export credit insurance and export credit guarantees, this book clarifies the legal nature of ECI and ECGs as insurance and guarantees by comparing contract formation processes, terms and conditions, duty of fair presentation, claim handling processes and subrogation and recoveries.  Meer

This book presents a detailed, thorough and theoretical study on experimental Xiqu performances that have taken place in recent decades in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.  Meer

This book presents the latest developments and innovations in clean energy engineering. It offers case studies on advances in clean energy technology, evaluates sustainable methods for increasing energy efficiency, and examines current concepts and solutions to global energy storage and energy-saving issues.  Meer

With an increasing number of elders moving into nursing homes, the shift from family to nursing home care calls for an exploration of caregiving decision-making in urban China.  Meer

This book concentrates on exploring the changing relationship between the state and working women in Taiwan by incorporating social, economic, political and ideological factors into the historical analysis.  Meer

Full of skin-crawling folk horror and sapphic romance, this feral fairytale and standalone follow-up to GORGEOUS GRUESOME FACES follows a reclusive songstress and her bodyguard who must unravel the occult mysteries of their past to escape from a cursed island.  Meer

There are several reasons why a consolidation of recent advances in our understanding of the interaction of diarrhea and malnutrition is indi­ cated and timely.  Meer

The first section in Volume 1 describes the fundamentals of nutrition and aging which include research strategies for the study of nutrition and aging.  Meer

In the first section of Volume 2, toxicological factors affecting nutritional status are discussed. Medications and alcohol may affect nutritional status.  Meer

This book, written by our distinguished colleague and friend, Professor Han-Lin Chen of the Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, presents, for the first time in book form, his extensive work on complex harmonic splines with applications to wavelet analysis and the numerical solution of boundary integral equations.  Meer

Squid Game meets Wilder Girls in debut horror-romance set in a glittering, cut-throat world of K-pop rivalry. A disgraced idol comes face-to-face with the demons of her past when she enters a competition that turns out to be a deadly trap.  Meer