Take a journey with the master, Lian Quan Zhen!From landscapes and architecture to people and animals, Lian Quan Zhen has painted it all. Inside "Chinese Watercolor Journeys with Lian Quan Zhen," you will see beautiful paintings in both the Chinese and Western styles. Filled with tips and stories, y[...]
Volume I highlights the association of the cellular prion protein (PrPC) with copper and zinc, the potential roles of PrPC in Alzheimer's disease and cancers, insoluble PrPC, PMCA, molecular and cellular mechanisms of PrPSc formation and clearance, possible co-factors involved in the conversion of P[...]
Volume II features a variety of animal and human prion diseases, including the newly-identified atypical forms of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and scrapie in animals, and variably protease-sensitive prionopathy in humans, prions in the environment, Tau pathology in human prion disease, transmiss[...]
A do-it-yourself collection of innovative, high-quality projects for electronics enthusiasts Build Your Own Transistor Radios pushes the envelope of DIY radio designs. Ronald Quan, an electronics engineer with more than 65 patents, presents a range of projects, suitable for advanced beginners and mo[...]
Discover the inner-workings of electronics through innovative hands-on experiments Are you fascinated by the power of even the smallest electronic device? Electronics from the Ground Up guides you through step-by-step experiments that reveal how electronic circuits function so you can advance your [...]
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 [...]
Technology-whether crude tools in the Stone Age or smart phones in the twenty-first century-has always found its way into our everyday lives, as we work and play. But how does that technology influence and change our society? In Technology and Society, a new text in the Themes in Canadian Sociology [...]
Quan Barry's luminous fiction debut brings us the tumultuous history of modern Vietnam as experienced by a young girl born under mysterious circumstances a few years before the country's reunification, a child gifted with the otherworldly ability to hear the voices of the dead.
At the peak of t[...]
"This book focuses on the exciting topic on self-organized organic semiconductors - from materials to device applications. It offers up-to-date and accessible coverage of self-organized semiconductors for organic chemistry, polymer science, liquid crystals, materials science, material engineering, e[...]
Providing a reference on a field undergoing exponential growth, this book addresses the topology and structural characteristics of quadruplexes, their interactions with small ligands and biologically relevant cations and proteins, their possible biological roles, and the potential small-ligand drugs[...]
Contains all the techniques, methods and results developed so far in a bid to solve the famous CDC conjecture.[...]
Growth against Democracy: Savage Developmentalism in the Modern World, by H.L.T. Quan is a compelling interrogation of the ways in which we have thought about modernity, capitalism, and democracy, and how those ideas inform neoliberal economics, diplomacy, and impact human life. To explicate contemp[...]
Winner of the 2010 Donald Hall Prize in PoetryIn her third poetry collection, Quan Barry explores the universal image of war as evidenced in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as Vietnam, the country of her birth. In the long poem "meditations" Barry examines her own guilt in initially supporting the inva[...]
There has been concerted effort across scientific disciplines to develop artificial materials and systems that can help researchers understand natural stimuli-responsive activities.[...]
Minimum stroke - maximum effectLearn how to make each brushstroke count when painting classically beautiful landscapes using a combination of traditional and modern watercolor techniques.Master artist and teacher Lian Quan Zhen shows how to blend Eastern and Western art theories, materials and techn[...]
Introduces theosophical concepts which Judge wrote for 'Kate Field's Washington'.
"Classical northern Wu style Tai ji quan teaches the traditional formwork and fighting skills of imperial banner guard, preserved by the students of Yang Lu Chan, who guarded the Emperor in Beijing"--Provided by publisher.[...]