Flexible manipulators play a critical role in applications in a diverse range of fields, such as construction automation, environmental applications, and space engineering. This title presents analysis, data and insights suitable for researchers and engineers working on the optimization and control [...]

Presents the knowledge and the advances in intelligent systems. In this book, the topics include data management, data and text mining for Intelligence and Security Informatics applications, deception and intent detection, terrorist and criminal social network analysis, and public health and bio-sec[...]

Technological advances in the electronics industry have made it difficult to access test nodes. New testing methods are needed and increasingly emphasis is placed on the development of such methods. This book provides an introduction to these and other testing techniques.[...]

Award-winning author Jonathan D. Spence paints a vivid picture of an obscure place and time: provincial China in the seventeenth century. Life in the northeastern county of T'an-ch'eng emerges here as an endless cycle of floods, plagues, crop failures, banditry, and heavy taxation. Against this turb[...]

Piano Time 3 builds on the techniques acquired in Piano Time 1 and 2, introducing new keys, semiquavers (sixteenth notes) in varous rhythmic patterns, triplets, and a variety of finger-twister exercises. It also practices the Alberti bass, scales with hands together on the melodic minor scale, and s[...]

This work provides the investing public, real estate practitioners, regulators and real estate and finance academics with up-to-date information on what modern scholarly research tells us about Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). REITs are credited to allow institutional and individual investors [...]

The Autobiographical Self in Time and Culture traces the developmental, social, cultural, and historical origins of the autobiographical self - the self that is made of memories of the personal past and of the family and the community.[...]

With the accelerating integration of China into the global economy, there is a thirst to understand Chinese leadership styles and how Chinese employees like to be managed. There is no doubt that China can be a difficult and risky market for foreign businesses, with many surprises, disappointments an[...]

Xiaoming Wang and Richard H. Tedford have spent the past 20 years studying the evolutionary history of the family Canidae. Both are well known for having established the modern framework for the evolutionary relationship of canids. Combining their research with Mauricio Anton's impeccable reconstruc[...]

Set in post-World War II Shanghai, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the longtong, the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods. Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao seeks fame in the Mi[...]