This is a pocket-sized guide for crocheters on the go that provides more than 75 brilliant tips and techniques. Crocheters of all levels will appreciate the solid techniques, time-saving shortcuts and advice offered. Lily Chin is a famous crocheter, and is regarded as the fastest crocheter in the wo[...]

One of the most influential books in human history, in a revelatory new translation The book that the Chinese have returned to repeatedly for reflection, renewal, and validation of their own views, "The Analects" was compiled by the disciples of Confucius, China's earliest teacher and moral thinker[...]

Provides fresh approaches and various applications to advance the understanding of crack formation and propagation. With applications in composite materials, layered structures, and microelectronic packaging among others, this title is suitable for those who are studying or applying concepts of frac[...]

Provides information on the development and experimental work on the synthesis, properties, and applications of nanocrystalline materials. This book focuses on 1D semiconducting oxides and carbon nanotubes, 2D graphene sheets and 0D nanoparticles (metals and inorganic semiconductors).[...]

This book analyzes the determinants of happiness for both the rich and the poor in the developing regions of Asia, Latin America and Africa. Explanatory variables include education, health and income as well as demographic and social variables. The book highlights the overwhelming importance of heal[...]

Many Latino and Chinese women who immigrated to New York City over the past two decades found work in the garment industry-an industry well known for both hiring immigrants and its harsh working conditions. Today the garment industry is one of the largest immigrant employers in New York City and wor[...]

For more than two thousand years, Confucius has been a fundamental part of China's history. Yet despite this fame, Confucius the man has been elusive, and what could be called a definitive biography does not exist. In this book, the scholar and writer Ann-Ping Chin has negotiated the reconstructions[...]

Marilyn Chin is a poet acclaimed by Adrienne Rich for her "powerful, uncompromised, and unerring" poems. Dancing brilliantly between Eastern and Western forms, fusing ancient Chinese history and contemporary American popular culture, she is one of the most celebrated Asian-American poets writing tod[...]