Christianity Today Book Award Finalist—Missions/Global ChurchReader's Choice Award WinnerThroughout China's rapidly growing cities, a new wave of unregistered house churches is growing. They are developing rich theological perspectives that are both uniquely Chinese and rooted in the historical doctrines of the faith. To understand how they have endured despite government pressure and cultural marginalization, we m...

In den schnell wachsenden Städten Chinas entsteht gleichzeitig eine große Anzahl von wachsenden, nicht registrierten Hauskirchen. Angesichts des äußeren Drucks entwickeln diese jungen Gemeinden theologische Perspektiven, die sowohl einzigartig chinesisch als auch zutiefst in den biblischen Lehren des historischen Christentums verwurzelt sind. Um zu verstehen, wie sie trotz der Anfeindung durch die Regierung und dem Abdrängen an den kulturellen Rand überlebt haben, müssen wir sowohl ihre be...

This book focuses on supply chain management, specifically resilience modeling and recovery strategies for disruptions. It combines multi-level analysis (system, product, event, network) with practical tools such as knowledge graphs, optimization techniques, and risk management frameworks. Key features include a structured, visual approach to complex concepts and multiple recovery dimensions (short-term fixes, product redesign, hierarchical optimization, control support). Blending theory w...

This book introduces the current state of research on dark energy. It consists of three parts. The first part is for preliminary knowledge, including general relativity, modern cosmology, etc. The second part reviews major theoretical ideas and models of dark energy. The third part reviews some observational and numerical works. The aim of this book is to provide a sufficient level of understanding of dark energy problems, so that the reader can both get familiar with this area quickly and...

This book investigates in detail model-based fault diagnosis methods, including observer-based residual generation, residual evaluation based on threshold computation, observer-based fault isolation strategies, observer-based fault estimation, Kalman filter-based fault diagnosis methods, and parity space approach. Studies on model-based fault diagnosis have attracted engineers and scientists from various disciplines, such as electrical, aerospace, mechanical, and chemical engineering. Purs...

"Yi-Chuan" è un testo che dà nuova luce a una delle figure più leggendarie e tra i più famosi combattenti cinesi di Kung Fu.Wang Xiang Zhai fu capace di misurarsi, vincendoli, in innumerevoli combattimenti attraverso i quali potè sperimentare l’efficacia del suo metodo, l’Yi-Chuan, un condensato di forza fisica e mentale sorretto da tecniche di meditazione.Lo spirito del ricercatore è legato alia necessità di avere delle risposte e, ...

Early Rain Chinese House Church and the Imprisonment of Pastor Wang Yi offers reveals the untold story of Pastor Wang Yi and the early members of Early Rain Church, offering a powerful collective testimony of faith and resistance within China's underground church movement.Lin Lu, a founding member, shares a deeply personal account of their courageous stand for religious freedom-and the heavy price paid for proclaiming their faith publicly. Her narrative draws a str...

While bok choy is now a staple on Western grocery store shelves, other Asian vegetables remain unknown—even though they’re delicious, nutritious, and easy to grow in northern climates.Caroline, Stéphanie, and Patricia Wang, three sisters of Cantonese descent, have made it their mission to introduce gardeners, cooks, and vegetable lovers of all flavours to wider sources of sustenance.Organized around fifteen Asian vegetables that are presented according to t...

This Festschrift reflects Professor Wang Yi's contributions to the fields of formal methods, real-time systems and scheduling, and multicore systems.Wang Yi received a PhD in Computer Science from Chalmers University of Technology in 1991, since 2000 he has been Chair in Embedded Systems at Uppsala University. He has not only pushed the boundaries of theoretical research but also pioneered practical implementations in software tools that have had a profound impact on both academia ...

Today, consumers of video games spend over $22.4 billion each year; using more complex and multi-layered strategies, game developers attempt to extend the profitability of their products from a simple one-time sale, to continuous engagement with the consumer. The Evolution and Social Impact of Video Game Economics examines paradigmatic changes in the economic structure of the video game industry from a media effects and game design perspective. This book explores how game develope...

This groundbreaking book analyzes the dramatic impact of Han Chinese migration into Inner Mongolia during the Qing era. In the first detailed history in English, Yi Wang explores how processes of commercial expansion, land reclamation, and Catholic proselytism transformed the Mongol frontier long before it was officially colonized and incorporated into the Chinese state. Wang reconstructs the socioeconomic, cultural, and administrative history of Inner Mongolia at a time of unprecedented C...

This unique and comprehensive introduction offers an unrivalled and in-depth understanding of the computational-based thermodynamic approach and how it can be used to guide the design of materials for robust performances, integrating basic fundamental concepts with experimental techniques and practical industrial applications, to provide readers with a thorough grounding in the subject. Topics covered range from the underlying thermodynamic principles, to the theory and methodology of ther...