The Complete Works of Xiang LiuThis Complete Collection includes the following titles:--------1 - 新序2 - 列女傳3 - 列仙傳4 - 說苑, Volume 1-45 - 說苑, Volume 5-86 - 說苑, Volume 9-127 - 說苑, Volume 13-168 - 說苑, Volume 17-209 - 說苑

Reviews latest research on zoonoses affecting poultry meat such as Salmonella and Campylobacter as well as methods for their control on the poultry farm and in the slaughterhouseSummarises advances in understanding and optimising poultry quality traits such as flavour, colour, tenderness, shelf life and nutritional qualityDiscusses developments in measuring and reducing the environmental impact of poultry production

The Zhan Guo Ce, also known in English as the Strategies of the Warring States, is an ancient Chinese text that contains anecdotes of political manipulation and warfare during the Warring States period (5th to 3rd centuries bc).[1] It is an important text of the Warring States Period as it describes the strategies and political views of the School of Diplomacy and reveals the historical and social characteristics of the period.The Zhan Guo Ce recounts the history of the Warring Stat...

秦王征服楚国，项羽国破家亡。祖父项燕和父亲项仲被逼死、杀死，对秦廷满怀深仇大恨。为逃生和报仇雪恨，项羽跟随叔父项梁浪迹天涯。此期间，项羽眼界逐渐开阔，心胸更加宽广，在叔父教导下迅速成长起来。同时，和虞姬相爱又失散。秦始皇晏驾，胡亥谋朝篡位，政治黑暗，民不聊生，陈胜吴广起义。刚开始，义军顺天行事，一派兴旺发达。后陈胜自立为王，私心滋长，渐失人心，终被杀害。义军在秦大将章邯讨伐下失利，转入低潮。陈胜吴广起事不久，项梁、项羽也于吴中会稽高举反秦大旗。他们杀死郡守殷通，挥师北上，击败部分秦军，采纳范增建议，立故楚皇室后裔熊心为楚怀王，恢复了楚政权。同时，刘邦押送民工赴咸阳建造阿房宫，民工逃跑不少，自知无法交差，不得已造反。当看到项梁项羽力量强大时，刘邦归附了他们。楚军讨伐秦打了不少胜战，项梁不免有些轻敌，加之孤军深入，不幸在定陶惨遭袭击殉难。韩信东征，得到魏、代、赵等地。这些日子，项羽和刘邦在荥阳、成皋等地多次交锋。刘邦屡战屡败，项羽则被刘邦、彭越牵着鼻子走，战到广武，两军对峙下来。形势发展，韩信攻...

For many years, political leaders and analysts have debated the impacts of China’s rise on the stability of the existing international system. International observers have also debated whether China would be a status quo power or a revisionist power, and whether China would observe the rules and regulations of international institutions and regimes. China Joins Global Governance: Cooperation and Contentions, edited by Mingjiang Li, provides an insightful contribution to our understanding o...

It’s been estimated that around 24 billion tonnes of fertile topsoil is lost each year due to historic and ongoing pollution. With increasing pressure placed upon land as a resource, there is an urgent need to make better use of existing agricultural land, as well as remediate contaminated land for farming use.Contaminants in agricultural soils: Challenges and solutions provides a comprehensive overview of the major types of contaminants in agricultural soils. It considers...

The presence and history of Islam in China is not well-known. Since its arrival into China during the Tang dynasty (618–907 CE), Islam and its traditions have become an inextricable part of the fabric of the Chinese tradition. By the time of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644 CE), Chinese Islam had evolved its own indigenous identity and, by the seventeenth century, specifically Chinese formulations of Islamic teachings began to emerge. This edited volume presents the most authoritative contempor...

This volume examines concepts of central planning, a cornerstone of political economy in Soviet-type societies. It revolves around the theory of “optimal planning” which promised a profound modernization of Stalinist-style verbal planning. Encouraged by cybernetic dreams in the 1950s and supporting the strategic goals of communist leaders in the Cold War, optimal planners offered the ruling elites a panacea for the recurrent crises of the planned economy. Simultaneously, their planning pro...

Most discussion of visitor experiences uses a behavioural or managerial approach where the way the visitor thinks is ignored - it's a black box. Visitor Experience Design is the first book of its kind to examine best practice in creating and delivering exciting and memorable travel and visitation experiences from a cognitive psychological perspective - it opens the black box. The chapters draw on recent findings from cognitive psychology, cognitive science and neuroscience to provide a bas...

This book investigates the soft robotic manipulators in detail, including a systematic review of soft manipulators, integrated designs of structure and actuation, modeling and implementation of soft manipulators, structural optimizations, and experimental validations. The soft robotic manipulator, which has advantages of low-weight, flexibility, safe physical interaction, shows a wide prospect in both industry and family applications. In the Web of Science database, the search terms or sea...

This book focuses on anti-disturbance intrusion- and fault-tolerant consensus control for MASs. The main feature of this book is the successful introduction of event-triggered distributed adaptive feedback control methodology, observer technology, and sliding mode technology to solve the problem of anti-disturbance, intrusion-tolerant, and fault-tolerant control of MAS. Meanwhile, pinning control strategies are proposed to realize the cluster consensus control of MAS. In addition, based on...

Algae are sunlight-driven cell factories, and can efficiently absorb CO2 and convert light energy to chemical energy such as lipid, starch and other carbohydrates and release O2. Algal feedstock is a promising resource for bioproduct production, given its high photosynthetic efficiency for producing biomass compared to conventional crops. Microalgae can be used for flue-gas and wastewater bioremediation. This book highlights recent breakthroughs in the multidisciplinary areas of algal biot...