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She snuck into a mansion and accidentally watched a show of the Spring Palace. When she was about to make her move, she was discovered. As a thief, she failed her first record and as the CEO, he swore to catch her and let her know how amazing she was …... More

She snuck into a mansion and accidentally watched a show of the Spring Palace. When she was about to make her move, she was discovered. As a thief, she failed her first record and as the CEO, he swore to catch her and let her know how amazing she was …... More

She snuck into a mansion and accidentally watched a show of the Spring Palace. When she was about to make her move, she was discovered. As a thief, she failed her first record and as the CEO, he swore to catch her and let her know how amazing she was …... More

She snuck into a mansion and accidentally watched a show of the Spring Palace. When she was about to make her move, she was discovered. As a thief, she failed her first record and as the CEO, he swore to catch her and let her know how amazing she was …... More

These proceedings gather a selection of refereed papers presented at the 1st Vietnam Symposium on Advances in Offshore Engineering (VSOE 2018), held on 1–3 November 2018 in Hanoi, Vietnam.The contributions from researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and entrepreneurs address technological and pol... More

Conspiracy theories spread more widely and faster than ever before. Fear and uncertainty prompt people to believe false narratives of danger and hidden plots, but are not sufficient without considering the role and ideological bias of the media. This timely book focuses on making sense of how and wh... More

In order to help her father-in-law pay his debts, the ordinary wage earner, Yang Xiaoqing, had embarked on the path of a surrogate pregnancy …... More

As a result of new research, we can now paint a more complex picture of peoples and cultures in the south Atlantic, from the earliest period of the slave trade up to the present. The nine papers in this volume indicate that a dynamic and continuous movement of peoples east as well as west across the... More

Regression Methods for Medical Research provides medical researchers with the skills they need to critically read and interpret research using more advanced statistical methods. The statistical requirements of interpreting and publishing in medical journals, together with rapid changes in science an... More

This book challenges the widely held belief that Hong Kong's political culture is one of indifference. The term "political indifference" is used to suggest the apathy, naivete, passivity, and utilitarianism of Hong Kong's people toward political life. Taking a broad historical look at political part... More

Hong Kong’s ‘Umbrella Revolution’ has been widely regarded as a watershed moment in the polity’s post-1997 history. While public protest has long been a routine part of Hong Kong’s political culture, the preparedness of large numbers of citizens to participate in civil disobedience represented a new... More

After being dumped by her cheating boyfriend, Maggie Tyler's inner crazy person is about to be unleashed. Once free, Crazy Lady wreaks havoc on Maggie's orderly life. By the time she wrestles the monster back into its cage, Maggie is fired from her cushy position as an executive assistant. Out of wo... More

This book is based on the empirical work of a large-scale project to investigate the possible impacts of diversified forms of parental involvement on children and school by first exploring through a series of ethnographic case studies how principals, teachers and parents perceive and act on parental... More

Randomised Clinical Trials: Design, Practice and Reporting provides a detailed overview of the methodology for conducting clinical trials, including developing protocols, data capture, randomisation, analysis and reporting. Assuming no prior background, this user-friendly resource describes the stat... More

This book makes a valuable and original contribution to the study of strategic thinking of one of the greatest naval theoreticians of all time. Rather than taking one of Mahan’s many works and reprinting it, this volume offers a unique collection of articles and chapters from many books by Mahan, s... More

A report from the International Monetary Fund.... More

Explains the horrendous and evil history that was being made in Cambodia during 70's and 80's. This biography is about an educated Cambodian family who was exiled from Phnom Penh, along with the entire city full of inhabitants by The Khmer Rouge.... More

This two-volume set, LNCS 11641 and 11642, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2019, held in Chengdu, China, in August 2019. The 42 full papers presented together with 17 short papers, and 6 demonstration papers were carefully r... More

This two-volume set, LNCS 11641 and 11642, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2019, held in Chengdu, China, in August 2019. The 42 full papers presented together with 17 short papers, and 6 demonstration papers were carefully r... More

This book analyzes Hong Kong's basic political institutions, mediating institutions and political actors, specific policy areas, and its relationships with the international community and the Mainland China. The politics of the HKSAR have often been turbulent in the decade since the 1997 handover. ... More

Now in its fourth and extended edition, Sample Sizes for Clinical, Laboratory and Epidemiology Studiesincludes the sample size software (SSS) and formulae and numerical tables needed to design valid clinical studies. The text covers clinical as well as laboratory and epidemiology studies and contain... More

This book provides statisticians and researchers with the statistical tools - equations, formulae and numerical tables - to design and plan clinical studies and carry out accurate, reliable and reproducible analysis of the data so obtained. There is no way around this as incorrect procedure in clini... More

Why and how has civic engagement emerged in the policy process of Hong Kong as an Asian semi-democratic state? This book attempts to answer this question through examining six cases that straddle diverse policy domains. It identifies three explanatory factors, namely, the profile of a policy domain,... More

When it comes to strategy, how should we define victory? For centuries, Eastern and Western thinkers have grappled with this question, offering different answers. What can we learn from this difference? In The Art of Strategy, Moon provides a novel and systematic integration of the two dominant fram... More

Bring a Fantasy World of Enchanting Beings to Life! Angels, faeries and mermaids have engaged the imaginations and enchanted the brushes of artists for centuries. Now you can evoke the spirit of these mythical creatures and create fantastic works of ethereal art in watercolor. Step by inspired s... More