This concise, self-contained and cohesive book focuses on commonly used and recently developed methods for designing and analyzing high-throughput screening (HTS) experiments from a statistically sound basis. Combining ideas from biology, computing and statistics, the author explains experimental de[...]

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of geochemical kinetics - the application of chemical kinetics to geological problems, both theoretical and practical. "Geochemical Kinetics" balances the basic theories of chemical kinetics with a thorough examination of advanced theories developed by ge[...]

The first major monograph on Zhang Xiaogang (b. 1958), a leading Chinese contemporary artist, world-renowned for his haunting, surrealist works. Both a retrospective of his paintings and a biography of his dramatic life, Zhang Xiaogang: Disquieting Memories is a key resource for academia and art ent[...]

Provides an in-depth and engaging account of the novel ways in which Chinese society is responding to its environmental crisis.[...]

The infamous Nanjing Massacre of 1937, in which the Japanese Imperial Army raped and slaughtered countless Chinese citizens on the eve of World War II, has been described in well-publicized books from various Chinese, Japanese and German perspectives. But this collection of first-hand testimony from[...]

Shi Zhi has been a major force in Chinese poetry since 1968, when several of his poems were circulated as secret handwritten manuscripts in the midst of China's Cultural Revolution. He gave voice to the aspirations of dispirited youth, and although once relegated to obscurity, he is today celebrated[...]

Offers comprehensive coverage of various kinds of industrial control systems to help engineers and researchers correctly and efficiently implement their projects. This guide covers working at the device and machine level as well as the wider environments of plant and enterprise.[...]

A guide covering issues in wireless mesh networks. It explores the various key challenges in diverse scenarios as well as other standards, including capacity and scalability. It focuses on concepts, effective protocols proposals, system integration, performance analysis techniques, simulation, exper[...]

In Inside China's Automobile Factories, Lu Zhang explores the current conditions, subjectivity, and collective actions of autoworkers in the world's largest and fastest-growing automobile manufacturing nation. Based on years of fieldwork and extensive interviews conducted at seven large auto factori[...]

DEVELOPING CHINESE FLUENCY is a rigorous communication skills training program that seeks to systematically expand the intermediate learners' vocabulary, and help them achieve advanced level proficiency in the oral and written use of the language -- particularly in the areas of description, comparis[...]