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  • Distributed Source Coding

    Theory and Practice

    by Shuang Wang, Yong Fang, Samuel Cheng ...
    Distributed source coding is one of the key enablers for efficient cooperative communication. The potential applications range from wireless sensor networks, ad-hoc networks, and surveillance networks, to robust low-complexity video coding, stereo/Multiview video coding, HDTV, hyper-spectral and multispectral imaging, and biometrics.The book is divided into three sections: theory, algorithms, and ... Read more

    $139.99 CAD

  • Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States

    by Irene Cheng, Brigitte Fielder, Jennifer Greiman, Kya Mangrum, Kelli Morgan, Janet Neary, Adena Spingarn, Cheryl Spinner, Christine Yao0, Kirsten Pai Buick1, Martha J. Cutter2, Wyn Kelley3 ...
    Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States is a collection of twelve essays by cultural critics that exposes how fraught relations of identity and race appear through imaging technologies in architecture, scientific discourse, sculpture, photography, painting, music, theater, and, finally, the twenty-first century visual commentary of Kara Walker. Throughout these essays, the racial ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia

    Practice and Experience

    Edited by Kim Cheng Patrick Low, Samuel O. Idowu, Sik Liong Ang ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book presents a rich collection of research studies on the theory and practice of CSR in Asia. It includes valuable contributions of practice-oriented researchers from various Asian countries such as Brunei, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore, and from several non-Asian countries, such as Australia, Canada and the USA. The book presents a comprehensive overview of ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Immersive Journalism

    Virtual Reality and the Future of the News Industry

    by Tomás Dodds, Samuel Akpe, Jan Lauren Boyles, Kaixin Cheng, Andrea Hudson, Samantha-Kaye Johnston, Seok Kang, Zixuan Li, Tijmen Koppelaar, Desmond Onyemechi Okocha0, Ivanka Pjesivac1, Valeria Resendez2, Ana Luisa Sánchez Laws3, Daniela Schlütz4, Alan Shipman5, Marc Verboord6, Ann Vogel7, Moritz Wever8, Shangyuan Wu9, Wang Ngai Yeung0 ...
    Series series Studies in New Media
    This volume explores the rise of immersive technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and 360 videos in the newsroom and how they affect newsmaking for journalists, news sources, and audiences. As these technologies offer journalists new and exciting opportunities to connect more deeply, emotionally, and presently with their audience, they also introduce unique ethical and practical ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Dancing with the Dragon

    China's Emergence in the Developing World

    by Dennis Hickey, Muhamad Al-Olimat, Jih-Un Kim, Eric Kiss, Han Lheem, Jing Men, Chung-chian Teng, Enyu Zhang, Kate Zhou, Joseph Y.U. Cheng0, Samuel C.Y. Ku1, Shiping Hua2 ...
    Series series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
    For the past several decades, China has been transforming itself from an isolated and backward agrarian society into an economic superpower with global interests and responsibilities. Over 300 million Chinese have been lifted out of poverty and China now enjoys the fastest growing and third largest economy on earth. Not surprisingly, numerous changes in China's foreign relations have accompanied ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

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  • China Goes Global: The Partial Power

    The Partial Power

    by David Shambaugh ...
    Most global citizens are well aware of the explosive growth of the Chinese economy. Indeed, China has famously become the "workshop of the world." Yet, while China watchers have shed much light on the country's internal dynamics--China's politics, its vast social changes, and its economic development--few have focused on how this increasingly powerful nation has become more active and assertive ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The China Challenge

    Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power

    by Thomas J. Christensen ...
    “A standout . . . a balanced, informative, and highly intelligent guide to dealing with China.”—Fareed ZakariaMany see China as a rival superpower to the United States and imagine the country’s rise to be a threat to U.S. leadership in Asia and beyond. Thomas J. Christensen argues against this zero-sum vision. Instead, he describes a new paradigm in which the real challenge lies in dissuading ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Inside China's Grand Strategy

    The Perspective from the People's Republic

    by Ye Zicheng ...
    Series series Asia in the New Millennium
    China's enormous size, vast population, abundant natural resources, robust economy, and modern military suggest that it will emerge as a great world power. Inside China's Grand Strategy: The Perspective from the People's Republic offers unique insights from a prominent Chinese scholar about the country's geopolitical ambitions and strategic thinking. Ye Zicheng, professor of political science in ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Beijing Consensus

    Legitimizing Authoritarianism in Our Time

    by Stefan Halper ...
    Beijing presents a clear and gathering threat to Washington -- but not for the reasons you think. China's challenge to the West stems from its transformative brand of capitalism and an entirely different conception of the international community. In The Beijing Consensus, a leading expert in international relations presents a coherent integration of the many sides of U.S.-China relations. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • China's Foreign Policy

    by Stuart Harris ...
    Series series China Today
    China’s inexorable rise as a major world power is one of the defining features of the contemporary political landscape. But should we heed the warnings of a so-called ‘China threat?’ Is China set to become the next superpower? Or will its ambitions be tempered by economic and political realities both at home and abroad?In this insightful and balanced analysis, noted China expert Stuart Harris ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Tangled Titans

    The United States and China

    Edited by David Shambaugh ...
    Tangled Titans offers a current and comprehensive assessment of the most important relationship in international affairs—that between the United States and China. How the relationship evolves will have a defining impact on the future of world politics, the Asian region, and the citizens of many nations. In this definitive book, leading experts provide an in-depth exploration of the historical, ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • China's World

    The Foreign Policy of the World's Newest Superpower

    by Professor Kerry Brown ...
    In the next decade China's actions on the world stage will affect us all. A new superpower, with the largest population and GDP on the globe, there are now fears that China is becoming more assertive. Here, award-winning China expert Kerry Brown guides us through China's foreign policy, from its skirmishes with US Navy destroyers in the South China Sea to its arguments with Japan over the Senkaku ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD