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  • Breakneck

    China's Quest to Engineer the Future

    by Dan Wang ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERShortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year AwardOne of The New Yorker's Best Books of the Year • One of NPR's "Books We Love" of 2025 • A Financial Times Best Book of the Year • An August 2025 Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book • One of Bookbub's Best Nonfiction of 2025 • A China Books Review Best Book of 2025 • An Inc. Best Business Book ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Lyric Personhood

    On the Aesthetics of Being Someone in the West

    by Dan Wang ...
    A new theory of personhood makes the case that a "person" has always been an aesthetic category, not just a legal, political, or moral one.What does it mean to be a person? One might think of the possession of certain rights, having the capacity for love, or being self-determined. But if words like "person" or "love" seem to carry an internal meaning, where does this meaningfulness come from? ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Demoralization of Teachers

    Crisis in a Rural School in China

    by Dan Wang ...
    Series series Emerging Perspectives on Education in China
    The educational system in China is marked by its dramatic inequality between rural and urban schools. The challenges facing rural schools are usually understood as disadvantages in funding, facilities, and staffing, which consequently result in undesirable student performance in general. This book, however, penetrates these phenomena on the surface and brings forth a much deeper moral crisis in ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Sublinear Algorithms for Big Data Applications

    by Dan Wang, Zhu Han ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    The brief focuses on applying sublinear algorithms to manage critical big data challenges. The text offers an essential introduction to sublinear algorithms, explaining why they are vital to large scale data systems. It also demonstrates how to apply sublinear algorithms to three familiar big data applications: wireless sensor networks, big data processing in Map Reduce and smart grids. These ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Fetal Origin of Diseases

    Edited by Hui Wang, Liaobin Chen, Dan Xu ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book covers two decades of the author’s studies about fetal-originated diseases. It contains researches from the aspects of multiple inducing factors of fetal-originated diseases, including prenatal xenobiotic exposure, nutritional deficiency and other adverse environment during pregnancy. The authors introduce a series of animal models for studying the fetal origin of a variety of metabolic ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Functional Inorganic Materials for Tumor Diagnostics and Therapy

    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the application of functional inorganic materials in the tumors diagnosis and therapy. The book addresses the pressing need for advanced and precise methods in tumor diagnosis and therapy. By integrating functional nanomaterials into tumor diagnosis and therapy, this book aims to advance the field and provide new avenues for improving ... Read more

    $197.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Breakneck

    China's Quest to Engineer the Future

    by Dan Wang ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 59 min

    For close to a decade, technology analyst Dan Wang―"a gifted observer of contemporary China" (Ross Douthat)―has been living through the country's astonishing, messy progress. China's towering bridges, gleaming railways, and sprawling factories have improved economic outcomes in record time. But rapid change has also sent ripples of pain throughout the society. This reality―political repression and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Treatment and Utilization of Combustion and Incineration Residues

    Edited by Lei Wang, Dan Tsang, Jianhua Yan ...
    Treatment and Utilization of Combustion and Incineration Residues introduces state-of-art strategies for combustion and incineration solid residue management and utilization. The book also reviews current technologies for pollutant removal and control of combustion and incineration residues. Recycling ashes and slags in sustainable construction materials are also evaluated on environmental impacts ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Big Data

    9th CCF Conference, BigData 2021, Guangzhou, China, January 8–10, 2022, Revised Selected Papers

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th CCF Conference on Big Data, BigData 2021, held in Guangzhou, China, in January 2022. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic BigData 2021 was postponed to 2022.The 21 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. They present recent research on theoretical and technical aspects on big data, as well as on digital ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Future of Tourism Marketing

    Edited by Seongseop (Sam) Kim, Dan Wang ...
    Marketing in the tourism and hospitality industry has transformed with the development of digital marketing tools and the evolution of social culture. Recently, the advent of new technologies such as smartphones, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, robots, and new GIS systems has created more possibilities for marketing innovations. Advancements in information technology are leading to ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Systems

    15th EAI International Conference, QShine 2019, Shenzhen, China, November 22–23, 2019, Proceedings

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th EAI International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Networks, QShine 2019, held in Shenzhen, China, in November 2019. The 16 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers are organized thematically in tracks, starting with mobile systems, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Cell-Inspired Materials and Engineering

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book highlights cutting-edge studies in the development of cell-inspired biomaterials and synthetic materials that manipulate cell functions and provide the next generation with contemporary tools for treating complex human diseases. It explores the convergence of synthetic materials with cell and molecular biology and surveys how functional materials, when patterned with spatial and temporal ... Read more

    $170.09 USD