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  • The Missing Class

    Portraits of the Near Poor in America

    by Katherine Newman, Victor Tan Chen ...
    Fifty-seven million Americans-including 21 percent of the nation's children-live a notch above the poverty line, and yet the challenges they face are largely ignored. While government programs assist the poor, and politicians woo the more fortunate, the "Missing Class" is largely invisible and left to fend for itself.Missing Class parents often work at a breakneck pace to preserve the progress ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Handbook on Unemployment and Society

    Edited by Victor T. Chen, Sabina Pultz, Ofer Sharone ...
    The Handbook on Unemployment and Society explores how labor market institutions, policy regimes, and societal norms shape the experiences of unemployed people across various cultural contexts. It highlights how unemployment experiences are not usually driven by individual factors, but rather by broader structural forces.Contributing authors demonstrate how the disconnection from secure and ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Everyone Lives Under the Same Blue Sky

    by Victor Jia-Jie Chen ...
    Everyone lives under the same sky.How could my living under it be for nothing?Only by understanding the principles between Heaven and humanitycan one comprehend the power of creation and transformation.Fame and achievement go to the wine cup.Talent and accomplishment enter into poetry.I reckon that the joy found in leisureis unmatched by the wholeness I have attained.<... ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cut Loose

    Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair Economy

    by Victor Tan Chen ...
    Years after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment. Cut Loose provides a vivid and moving account of the experiences of some of these men and women, through the example of a historically important group: autoworkers. Their well-paid jobs on the assembly lines built a strong middle class in the decades after ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Emerging Nanoelectronic Devices

    Edited by An Chen, James Hutchby, Victor Zhirnov, George Bourianoff ...
    Emerging Nanoelectronic Devices focuses on the future direction of semiconductor and emerging nanoscale device technology. As the dimensional scaling of CMOS approaches its limits, alternate information processing devices and microarchitectures are being explored to sustain increasing functionality at decreasing cost into the indefinite future. This is driving new paradigms of information ... Read more

    $147.99 CAD

  • City, Society, and Digital Transformation

    Proceedings of the 2022 INFORMS International Conference on Service Science

    Edited by Robin Qiu, Wai Kin Victor Chan, Weiwei Chen, Youakim Badr, Canrong Zhang ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book showcases recent research advances in service science and related fields. Including selected papers from the 2022 INFORMS International Conference on Service Science, held in Shenzhen, China from July 2 to 4, 2022, the book presents new theories and empirical results in the emerging, interdisciplinary field of digital transformation and society. Incorporating research, education and ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • Recent Advances in Mechanisms, Transmissions and Applications

    Proceedings of the Fifth MeTrApp Conference 2019

    Edited by Delun Wang, Victor Petuya, Yan Chen, Shudong Yu ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Gathering the proceedings of the conference MeTrApp 2019, this book covers topics such as mechanism and machinery design, parallel manipulators, robotics and mechatronics, control applications, mechanical transmissions, cam and gear mechanisms, and dynamics of machinery. MeTrApp 2019 provided researchers, scientists, industry experts, and graduate students from around the globe with a platform to ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • New Media and Learning in the 21st Century

    A Socio-Cultural Perspective

    Edited by Tzu-Bin Lin, Victor Chen, Ching Sing Chai ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume brings together conceptualizations and empirical studies that explore the socio-cultural dimension of new media and its implications on learning in the 21st century classroom. The authors articulate their vision of new-media-enhanced learning at a global level. The high-level concept is then re-examined for different degrees of contextualization and localization, for example how a ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Smart Grid Inspired Future Technologies

    Second EAI International Conference, SmartGIFT 2017, London, UK, March 27–28, 2017, Proceedings

    Edited by Eng Tseng Lau, Michael K.K. Chai, Yue Chen, Oliver Jung, Victor C.M. Leung, Kun Yang, Sandford Bessler, Jonathan Loo, Tomonori Nakayama ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the Second EAI International Conference on Smart Grid Inspired Future Technologies, SmartGIFT 2017, held in London, UK, in March 2017. The revised full papers are presented in four tracks: Track 1 - Communications, Networks and Architectures; Track 2 - Smart Control and Operation; Track 3 - Grid and Components; and Track 4 - Data Management ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Cloud Computing

    5th International Conference, CloudComp 2014, Guilin, China, October 19-21, 2014, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Min Chen, Victor C.M. Leung, Jiafu Wan, Roy Xiaorong Lai ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing, CloudComp 2014, held in Guilin, China, in October 2014. The 25 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions and cover topics such as mobile cloud computing, services, applications, IoT on cloud, architectures and big data, cloud-assisted ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Cloud Computing

    4th International Conference, CloudComp 2013, Wuhan, China, October 17-19, 2013, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Victor C.M. Leung, Min Chen ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing, Cloud Comp 2013, held in Wuhan, China, in October 2013. The 28 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and cover topics such as mobile cloud computing, services, applications, IoT on cloud, architectures and big data, cloud ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Organizational Imaginaries

    Tempering Capitalism and Tending to Communities through Cooperatives and Collectivist Democracy

    Edited by Katherine K. Chen, Victor Tan Chen ...
    Series Book 72 - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
    Our everyday lives are structured by the rhythms, values, and practices of various organizations, including schools, workplaces, and government agencies. These experiences shape common-sense understandings of how 'best' to organize and connect with others. Today, for-profit managerial firms dominate society, even though their practices often curtail information-sharing and experimentation, ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD