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The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free marketsOriginally published in 1776, Adam Smith‿s The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America‿s founders as a landmark work of Enlightenment thinking about national wealth, statecraft, and moral virtue. Today, Smith is one of the most influential icons of economic thought in America. Glory Liu traces how generations of Americans have read, reinterpreted, and w...

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Buddhism in Court is the first English language study of the legal interaction between Buddhism and the state in China. It uncovers a long-overlooked Buddhist campaign for clerical legal privileges that aimed to make ordained Buddhist monks and nuns immune from facing trials and punishment in the state court.

This fascinating autobiography offers not a success story, nor a paean to the resilience of the human spirit, nor a search for identity constrained by class, race, and gender or the other usual suspects, nor a tearjerker that engenders in the Western reader a sense of superiority or schadenfreude. Rather, it is a tale of the joys and hardships of simple living, of an enduring curiosity about the world, of teachers and friends, of marriage and ...

This book addresses the transdisciplinary subject of urban green space governance in Chinese cities through political sciences, organization theory, sociology, and new institutional economics lenses, with urban planning and ecology perspectives as research foundation and the science of climate change on health and wellbeing research background. It captivates readers by bringing answers to: 1) Why are urban green spaces such a highly contested ...

This unique volume covers two fundamental elements of computational methods - numbers and functions. It provides an in-depth discussion of the behaviors of numbers, including both real and complex numbers. The discussion leads to the important closure properties of numbers, ensuring solution consistence and existence, and also possible failure in numerical computations in science and engineering. This text then introduces types of functions th...

We're mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae, in a flash, we can reach the edge of the universe, or tunnel into a quark, or swim within a star-core. . . . We're as unassuming as fireflies, yet our numbers grow like grass in spring. We sci-fi fans are people from the future."-Cixin Liu, from the essay "Sci-Fi Fans"A VIEW FROM THE STARS features a range ...

When we think of educational inequalities, money often seems to be an obvious way of fixing them. After all, how else can schools be improved but through an influx of resources, be they aimed at updating old facilities, purchasing computers, or even acquiring new textbooks? But as Roseann Liu argues in "Designed to Fail, " even when schools do get desperately needed funding, much is broken about the way that resources are allocated, even when ...

When we think of educational inequalities, money often seems to be an obvious way of fixing them. After all, how else can schools be improved but through an influx of resources, be they aimed at updating old facilities, purchasing computers, or even acquiring new textbooks? But as Roseann Liu argues in "Designed to Fail, " even when schools do get desperately needed funding, much is broken about the way that resources are allocated, even when ...

Features - Worked examples - Clear programming code, usable by R novices - Without mathematical formulae - structural equation modeling - survival analysis - longitudinal analysis - multivariate analysis - GLM, Poisson regression, multilevel modeling - power analysis, reliability - Further reading recommendations in each chapter - Data sets on the website

Features - Worked examples - Clear programming code, usable by R novices - Without mathematical formulae - structural equation modeling - survival analysis - longitudinal analysis - multivariate analysis - GLM, Poisson regression, multilevel modeling - power analysis, reliability - Further reading recommendations in each chapter - Data sets on the website

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UNIQUE STUDY: This is the first book on an important part of the west coast's cultural fabric, the Cantonese Opera. The Chinese-American community will be proud to see such a beautiful treatment of this important legacy. THEATRE INTEREST: The book will have cross-over interest for those involved in the performing arts and fashion design. STRONG NARRATIVE: Beautifully written by April Liu -- she brings the players and the history to life in a w...