Mandarin is the most widely spoken language globally, with its roots deeply embedded in Chinese history. It originated from northern dialects and was established as the official language of China in the early 1900s. Today, more than a billion people speak Mandarin, making it an important language to learn.This guide is ideal for beginners, making it easy to start learning Mandarin Chinese. Whether you plan to visit China, converse with Mandarin-speaking acquaintances, or simply gras...

This audio course is designed to teach children essential Mandarin Chinese phrases for communicating with their grandparents, helping them connect more deeply with their cultural heritage. Chinese, spoken by over a billion people and one of the oldest continuously used languages, holds great importance in family and cultural traditions. Through this course, children will learn basic phrases like greetings, expressing love, and sharing stories in Mandarin or Cantonese, depending on their fa...

This audio course is specifically designed for medical and healthcare professionals who interact with Mandarin-speaking patients, their families, and caregivers. Across seven focused sessions, this course provides a comprehensive approach to mastering essential Mandarin language skills tailored to the healthcare setting.The course also provides an introduction to fundamental Mandarin phrases that are universally applicable, ensuring that learners build a solid foundation in the lang...

Avec la mondialisation qui affaiblit leurs frontières et leurs souverainetés, les États seraient-ils désormais marginaux sur la scène du monde ? Le débat sur « la fin des États » a pu le laisser croire ; mais on assisterait plutôt à une prolifération des « désirs d’États », divers et contradictoires. Politique étrangère s’interroge sur le rôle et le destin de ces États, si différents selon leurs histoires et leurs environnements.États à reconstruire (Syrie, Irak), chancela...

Developing countries have for decades been trying to catch up with the industrialized high-income countries, but only a few have succeeded. Historically, structural transformation has been a powerful engine of growth and job creation. Traditional development aid is inadequate to address the bottlenecks for structural transformation, and is hence ineffective. In this book, Justin Yifu Lin and Yan Wang use the theoretical foundations of New Structural Economics to examine South-South develop...

Einstein's Special Relativity (E-SR) is the cornerstone of physics. De Sitter invariant SR (dS/AdS-SR) is a natural extension of E-SR, hence it relates to the foundation of physics. This book provides a description to dS/AdS-SR in terms of Lagrangian-Hamiltonian formulation associated with spacetime metric of inertial reference frames.One of the outstanding features of the book is as follows: All discussions on SR are in the inertial reference frames. This is a requirement due to the first...

Volcanic gas reservoirs are the new natural gas frontier. Once thought too complex, too harsh on the drilling bit, and too difficult to characterize, reservoir engineers and petroleum geologists alike now manage more advanced seismic and logging tools, making these "impossible" field developments possible. Bridging meaningful information about these complicated provinces and linking various unconventional methods and techniques, Volcanic Gas Reservoir Characterization: - Describes a set of...

This book focuses on the mathematical and physical foundations of remote sensing digital image processing and introduces key algorithms utilized in this area. The book fully introduces the basic mathematical and physical process of digital imaging, the basic theory and algorithm of pixel image processing, and the higher-order image processing algorithm and its application. This book skillfully and closely integrates theory, algorithms, and applications, making it simple for readers to unde...

A leading authority's answer to today's global economic challengesIn Global Economy in Turbulent Times, Harvard economist Dr. See-Yan Lin offers his timely and incisive views on today's key economic issues. Adapted from his hugely popular column in the Malaysia Star newspaper, these articles offer fresh and entertaining perspectives on perennial economic problems. The discussion covers the world economy, with particular attention to the US, EU, Japan, and ...

This book analyzes the national economic system with systematic theory and defines the object of research as "the movement and laws of the national economic system." This book also proceeds a more in-depth study of the four relations concerning the reproduction. It examines the interdependent relations among population, economy, society, resources and environment, as well as the interactions among demographic reproduction, material product reproduction, spiritual and cultural reproduction ...

With the unique chemical and physical properties of cold atmospheric plasmas enabling its recent applications in biomedicine, plasma medicine has established itself as a new scientific field, combining plasma physics, engineering, medicine, and bioengineering. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of the non-thermal plasmas and plasma devices used in plasma medicine. Several chapters are devoted to the analysis of the mechanisms of plasma interaction with canc...

Globalization and Agriculture: Redefining Unequal Development focuses on the development of national agriculture of nine countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia from two different and complementary angles. One angle is the opportunities created by globalization for agricultural production and how the countries have dealt with the expansion of the world, as a consequence of the world market. The other angle is the social and economic consequences of globalization for agricultural and r...