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  • The Origin of the Rice Culture

    by Zheng Yunfei ...
    Translated by Xia Gan ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book undertakes an in-depth exploration of the pivotal role of rice, which is the world's most essential food crops, sustaining over half of the global populace. It meticulously analyzes how rice cultivation constitutes the material bedrock and defining characteristic in the evolution of Asian civilization. Additionally, it scrutinizes rice culture, which holds sway as the traditional ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

  • Adaptive Modelling, Estimation and Fusion from Data

    A Neurofuzzy Approach

    by Chris Harris, Xia Hong, Qiang Gan ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    In a world of almost permanent and rapidly increasing electronic data availability, techniques of filtering, compressing, and interpreting this data to transform it into valuable and easily comprehensible information is of utmost importance. One key topic in this area is the capability to deduce future system behavior from a given data input.This book brings together for the first time the ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

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  • Portraits of Trees of Hong Kong and Southern China

    by Sally Bunker, Richard M.K. Sanders, Chun-Chiu Pang ...
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  • Permafrost and Culture

    Global Warming and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russian Federation (Study Guide for Environmental Education)

    by Hiroki Takakura, Yoshihiro Iijima, Vanda Ignatieva, Alexander Fedorov, Masanori Goto, Toshikazu Tanaka ...
    Series Book 26 - Center for Northeast Asian Studies Report
    This book is an attempt to understand the impact of Climate Change on the Arctic human societies from the indigenous perspectives, by focusing on the peoples living in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) of the Russian Federation. Historically, and also today, the livelihood of the Sakha people is closely related to permafrost. Scientific evidence shows that the thawing of the permafrost through ... Read more

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  • The Paleoanthropology of Eastern Asia

    by Christopher J. Bae ...
    Research in human evolution in Asia has long been thought to lag far behind similar research in Africa and Europe. However, the limited dissemination of findings is often to blame, rather than a lack of scholarship. The Paleoanthropology of Eastern Asia attempts to rectify this misconception by synthesizing research on human evolution in eastern Asia into a single authoritative and definitive text ... Read more

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  • Rooted in Time

    Living Fossils and Other Tenacious Plants

    by Carole T. Gee ...
    An intriguing portrait of persistent plants with deep roots that have survived eons on earth, featuring exquisite watercolors and numerous color photos.Plants are tenacious organisms. Their green ancestors were among the earliest living beings on Earth, while clubmosses and ferns that arose 400 million years ago still thrive in the moist understory of temperate and tropical forests. Plants like ... Read more

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    by Sung Kwun Chough ...
    Written by one of Korea's most respected earth scientists, Geology and Sedimentology of the Korean Peninsula analyzes sedimentary facies, basin evolution, and sequence stratigraphy to provide answers to depositional processes and environmental changes through the Earth's history, including tectonic events, climate changes, and sea-level fluctuations. This is one of the first books covering the ... Read more

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  • Regional Geological Survey of Hanggai, Xianxia and Chuancun, Zhejiang Province in China

    1:50,000 Geological Maps

    by Jianfang Zhang, Chaohui Zhu, Longwu Wang, Xiaoliang Cai, Ruijun Gong, Xiaoyou Chen, Jianguo Wang, Mingguang Gu, Zongyao Zhou, Yuandong Liu ...
    Series series The China Geological Survey Series
    This Open Access book introduces readers to the regional geology of Hanggai, Xianxia and Chuancun, the area between China's northern Zhejiang Province and southern Anhui Province and explores the strata, magmatic rocks and tectonic structures in 1:50,000 scale geological maps. Based on studies of multiple stratigraphic divisions, the standard stratigraphic section of the upper Ordovician ... Read more

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  • Birds of Stone

    Chinese Avian Fossils from the Age of Dinosaurs

    by Luis M. Chiappe, Meng Qingjin ...
    Captivating photographs of the world’s most detailed bird fossils illuminate the early diversity of avifauna.When fossils of birds from China’s Jehol region first appeared in scientific circles, the world took notice. These Mesozoic masterpieces are between 120 and 131 million years old and reveal incredible details that capture the diversity of ancient bird life. Paleontologists all over the ... Read more

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  • Chinese Fossil Vertebrates

    by Spencer Lucas ...
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  • Fossil Mammals of Asia

    Neogene Biostratigraphy and Chronology

    Edited by Xiaoming Wang, Lawrence Flynn, Mikael Fortelius ...
    Fossil Mammals of Asia, edited by and with contributions from world-renowned scholars, is the first major work devoted to the late Cenozoic (Neogene) mammalian biostratigraphy and geochronology of Asia. This volume employs cutting-edge biostratigraphic and geochemical dating methods to map the emergence of mammals across the continent. Written by specialists working in a variety of Asian regions, ... Read more

    $135.19 CAD