The dramatic autobiography of one of China's dedicated, courageous, and intensely persecuted house church leaders.
This is the gripping story of how God took a young, half-starved boy from a poor village in Henan province and placed him on the front line for Jesus, in the face of impossible odds[...]

Scientists have attributed more than 40 percent of the failures in new drug development to poor biopharmaceutical properties, particularly water insolubility. Issues surrounding water insolubility can postpone, or completely derail, important new drug development. Even much-needed reformulation of c[...]

Two generals of classical China summarize the principles of organization and leadership presented in Sun Tzu's "The Art of War," demonstrating their practical application in episodes from Chinese history[...]

The growth of social media over the last decade has revolutionized the way individuals interact and industries conduct business. Individuals produce data at an unprecedented rate by interacting, sharing, and consuming content through social media. Understanding and processing this new type of data t[...]

Describes a systematic program design method, starting with a clear specification of a computation and deriving an efficient implementation by step-wise program analysis and transformations.[...]

The fast multipole method is one of the most important algorithms in computing developed in the 20th century. Along with the fast multipole method, the boundary element method (BEM) has also emerged as a powerful method for modeling large-scale problems. BEM models with millions of unknowns on the b[...]

This book teaches software developers and students how to effectively deal with Oracle performance and scalability issues throughout the entire life cycle of developing Oracle-based applications. It fills the existing gap between CS student textbooks and practitioner-oriented reference books by incl[...]

This is an engineering reference book on hybrid vehicle system analysis and design, an outgrowth of the author's substantial work in research, development and production at the National Research Council Canada, Azure Dynamics and now General Motors. It is an irreplaceable tool for helping engineers [...]

Machining instability is a topical area, and there are a wide range of publications that cover the topic. However, many of these previous studies have started by assuming that the behavior of the system can be linearised.[...]

Nonlinear Finite Elements for Continua and Structures, 2nd Edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the methods and theory of nonlinear finite element analysis.[...]