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  • Japan: A Documentary History

    A Documentary History

    by David J. Lu ...
    An updated edition of David Lu's acclaimed "Sources of Japanese History", this book presents in a student-friendly format original Japanese documents from Japan's mythological beginnings through 1995. Covering the full spectrum of political, economic, diplomatic as well as cultural and intellectual history, this classroom resource offers insight not only into the past but also into Japan's ... Read more

    $384.77 CAD

  • Japan: A Documentary History: v. 1: The Dawn of History to the Late Eighteenth Century

    A Documentary History

    by David J. Lu ...
    An updated edition of David Lu's acclaimed "Sources of Japanese History", this two volume book presents in a student-friendly format original Japanese documents from Japan's mythological beginnings through 1995. Covering the full spectrum of political, economic, diplomatic as well as cultural and intellectual history, this classroom resource offers insight not only into the past but also into ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Japan: A Documentary History: Vol 2: The Late Tokugawa Period to the Present

    A Documentary History

    by David J. Lu ...
    An updated edition of David Lu's acclaimed "Sources of Japanese History", this two volume book presents in a student-friendly format original Japanese documents from Japan's mythological beginnings through 1995. Covering the full spectrum of political, economic, diplomatic as well as cultural and intellectual history, this classroom resource offers insight not only into the past but also into ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Body Unbound

    Literary Approaches to the Classical Corpus

    Edited by Katherine Lu Hsu, David Schur, Brian P. Sowers ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the body’s physical limits and the ways in which the confines of the body are delineated, transgressed, or controlled in literary and philosophical texts. Drawing on classics, philosophy, religious studies, medieval studies, and critical theory and examining material ranging from Homer to Game of Thrones, this volume facilitates an interdisciplinary investigation into how the ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD

  • Public Communication in the Time of COVID-19

    Perspectives from the Communication Discipline on the Pandemic

    by Jim A. Kuypers, Shristi Bhochhibhoya, Dennis D. Cali, Amber Davisson, Michael Eisenstadt, Rebekah L. Fox, Michelle Gibbons, Michael Horning, Justin W. Kirk, Kimberly Kulovitz0, Nneka Logan1, Yu Lu2, Benjamin Medeiros3, David R. Nelson4, Youngju Shin5, Brandi Watkins6, Chelsea Woods7, Ann E. Burnette8, David R. Dewberry9, Robert C. Rowland0 ...
    This collection, edited by Jim A. Kuypers, analyzes genres of public communication to examine how the pandemic has impacted specific areas of scholarship within the communication discipline. Contributors begin each chapter by acknowledging the parameters of their sub-discipline and then discussing key elements being affected by the pandemic and pandemic responses. Viewing the pandemic through the ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Advanced Biometrics

    by David Zhang, Guangming Lu, Lei Zhang ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book describes a range of new biometric technologies, such as high-resolution fingerprint, finger-knuckle-print, multi-spectral backhand, 3D fingerprint, tongueprint, 3D ear, and multi-spectral iris technologies. Further, it introduces readers to efficient feature extraction, matching and fusion algorithms, in addition to developing potential systems of its own. These advanced biometric ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • 3D Biometrics

    Systems and Applications

    by David Zhang, Guangming Lu ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Automatic personal authentication using biometric information is becoming more essential in applications of public security, access control, forensics, banking, etc. Many kinds of biometric authentication techniques have been developed based on different biometric characteristics. However, most of the physical biometric recognition techniques are based on two dimensional (2D) images, despite the ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Double Luck: Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan

    by Chi-Fa Lu, Becky White ...
    Narrated by David A. Conatser ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 55 min

    Born in war-torn China in 1942, Chi Fa was orphaned at the age of three. He was shuffled from relative to relative and sold to an abusive Communist village chief. At the age of nine, he was the caretaker for a mute epileptic. He briefly found a loving home as a kitchen helper to a nearly blind neighbor, only to lose this haven after nearly burning down her hut. Following a harrowing escape from ... Read more

    $20.61 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Economic Growth Engine For China, A: Escaping The Middle-income Trap By Not Doing More Of The Same

    by Wing Thye Woo, Ming Lu, Jeffrey David Sachs, Zhao Chen ...
    This volume is a report by leading international economic experts on China's economic priorities in the coming years. From various aspects of the domestic and foreign situation, China has now reached a critical juncture in its economic development. Unless China is able to overcome the difficulties in undertaking further reforms in the next ten years, China would be caught in the middle-income trap ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

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  • History of Japan

    Revised Edition

    by Richard Mason, J. G. Caiger ...
    A classic of Japanese history, this book is the preeminent work on the history of Japan.Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume, comprehensive account of Japan's history. Starting in ancient Japan during its early pre-history period, A History of Japan covers every important aspect of history and culture through feudal Japan to the post-Cold War period and the collapse of ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Expulsions

    Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy

    by Saskia Sassen ...
    Soaring income inequality and unemployment, expanding populations of the displaced and imprisoned, accelerating destruction of land and water bodies: today’s socioeconomic and environmental dislocations cannot be fully understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, according to Saskia Sassen. They are more accurately understood as a type of expulsion—from professional livelihood, from ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • My Land and My People

    The Original Autobiography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet

    by Dalai Lama ...
    Schooled behind ancient palace walls to become the leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama has become a spiritual leader to the world and a leading civil rights advocate. My Land and My People tells the story of his life.In the Himalayan City of Lhasa, the four-year-old son of a humble farmer sat on a huge, gilded throne. His childhood would be unimaginable in both its isolation and a people's adoration. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD