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Captures the personalities, politics, and power plays behind the burgeoning growth of the Honolulu Marathon and provides a unique lens for understanding the complex history of the sport itself. Drawn from revealing interviews with those closest to the event, as well as exhaustive research, Michael Tsai presents an insider's account of the event's growth.

Kellee S. Tsai is Professor of Political Science at The Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Back-Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China, also from Cornell.

Many networked computer systems are far too vulnerable to cyber attacks that can inhibit their functioning, corrupt important data, or expose private information. Not surprisingly, the field of cyber-based systems is a fertile ground where many tasks can be formulated as learning problems and approached in terms of machine learning algorithms. This book contains original materials by leading researchers in the area and covers applications of d...

Kellee S. Tsai is Professor of Political Science at The Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Back-Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China, also from Cornell.

The field of integrated- or guided-wave optics has experienced significant and continuous growth since its inception in the late 1960s. There has been a considerable increase in research and development activity in this field worldwide and some significant advances in the realization of working in­ tegrated optic devices and modules have been made in recent years. In fact, there have already been some commercial manufacturing and technical ap­...

Kellee S. Tsai draws upon her unparalleled fieldwork in China's world of shadow finance to challenge conventional ideas about the political economy of development. Business owners in China, she shows, have mobilized local social and political resources in innovative ways despite the absence of state-directed credit or a well defined system of private property rights. Entrepreneurs and local officials have been able to draw on the uncertainly o...

The book is an account of Taiwan's evolving national consciousness told through the biography of its former President Lee Teng-hui - the central figure in the island's political transformation over the past two decades. In describing the broader historical and social context of the various stages of Lee's life, the book also analyzes Taiwan's own evolution during the past century as a Japanese colony, a Leninist party-state dictatorship, and t...

Currently, when designers develop a building designproject, different representations are used for different buildingsubsystems, such as spatial system, electrical system, lighting system, hydraulic system and HVAC. These representations are mainly used in thefinal design documentation stage. This book presents a qualitativeapproach to the development of a unified energy-based representationfor building analysis called qualitative Archi Bond G...

Many networked computer systems are far too vulnerable to cyber attacks that can inhibit their functioning, corrupt important data, or expose private information. Not surprisingly, the field of cyber-based systems turns out to be a fertile ground where many tasks can be formulated as learning problems and approached in terms of machine learning algorithms. This book contains original materials by leading researchers in the area and covers app...

An Institute of Medicine report has concluded that 'there is a lack of knowledge and awareness about chronic viral hepatitis on the part of health-care and social-service providers. This book features a group of experts in this field to present their expertise about this disease.