Only decades ago, the population of Guangzhou was almost wholly Chinese. Today, it is a truly global city, a place where people from around the world go to make new lives, find themselves, or further their careers. A large number of these migrants are small-scale traders from Africa who deal in Chinese goods—often knockoffs or copies of high-end branded items—to send back to their home countries. In The World in Guangzhou, Gordon Mathews explores the question of how the city becam...

Historical stories of China during WWII, records of music, poetry and other war time media works during the Japanese army invasion.

Créez votre propre serveur VPN sécurisé dans le cloud ou sur Raspberry PiCe guide complet et pratique vous montre comment créer et personnaliser votre propre serveur VPN avec IPsec (IKEv2), OpenVPN et WireGuard. Basé sur 10 ans de développement open source auquel des millions d'utilisateurs dans le monde font confiance, ce livre couvre tout ce dont vous avez besoin pour déployer, configurer et gérer un environnement VPN sécurisé et...

2003 - It wasn't supposed to go like this. No one expected things to fall apart so spectacularly. Such seemingly small slights build like an avalanche. Rick and Alan never thought they could lose so much so fast. The High Fives Down The I-5 Tour became The Fall To The Fifth Level of Hell. What lessons will they learn and hold onto as they struggle to come to terms with all of their bad decisions?A prequel to the author's novel, "MECHANISM".

Pour Mulan, la famille, c’est sacré. Malgré sa personnalité fougueuse et parfois maladroite, si éloignée de celle de Xiu, sa sœur douce et gracieuse, les deux jeunes femmes sont très liées.Lorsque Xiu est mordue par une araignée venimeuse, Mulan, prête à tout pour la sauver, n’hésite pas une seconde et fonce chercher l’aide d’un guérisseur renommé.Mais elle doit rapidement se rendre à l’évidence : il ne s’agit pas de la morsure d'une simple araignée – et cet étrange guérisseu...

Presents applied theory and advanced simulation techniques for electric machines and drivesThis book combines the knowledge of experts from both academia and the software industry to present theories of multiphysics simulation by design for electrical machines, power electronics, and drives. The comprehensive design approach described within supports new applications required by technologies sustaining high drive efficiency. The highlighted framework considers the ...

Taking account of modern digital era, the emergence of Internet has brought a new scenario of ecology in project management (PM), its methodology, platform, procedures and tools are subjected to subversive changes. So a monograph of Project Management Under Internet Era is urgently needed for renewing concepts in our PM community. The concept of how PM is implemented on the virtual platform through Internet, which is widely used in PM community based on knowledge economy; meanwhile, it is ...

What would you do if you lost someone you love? Would you lock yourself away from the world? Or would you climb into a van with five friends and go on tour with them? Follow Alan as he travels with his best friend, Rick - and Rick's band mates, as Alan struggles with grief, violent concert goers, drug addled promoters, and visits with old friends.

From New York Times bestselling creators Emmy Award–winning actor Henry Winkler and children’s book author Lin Oliver comes a hysterical chapter book adventureWhen the Pond Squad is invited to participate in the Emerald Pond Games, they can’t wait to compete. Playing sports, making new friends, and spending time with Maxwell—Emerald Pond’s cool mallard duck—sounds like a perfect afternoon to Willow.But when Maxwell...

From New York Times bestselling creators—Emmy Award–winning actor Henry Winkler, children’s book author Lin Oliver, and Caldecott Medal–winning author-illustrator Dan Santat—comes a hysterical, full-color chapter-book adventureWillow Feathers McBeaver is ready to live out her rock star dreams . . . but her singing voice has her fellow Dogwood Pond residents swimming for the hills.Willow needs a lot of practice, so Beaver McBeaver offers to build her a soundproof studio in t...

Ce livre a hérité et développé les principes fondamentaux du marxisme et a analysé la structure historique du monde en utilisant la dialectique matérialiste et prévoit la direction que prend le mouvement socialiste et les moyens de réaliser le communisme.Cela compense non seulement la partie dynamique horizontale de la théorie marxiste, mais indique également une voie logique pour le développement de la société humaine.En outre, il prédit la proposition et la pratique de " la Ceinture écon...

When Taddy the Tadpole goes missing, Detective Duck and her friends in the Pond Squad are on the case. What first seemed like a simple search and rescue mission gets more complicated when her friends find a pipe leaking a strange brown liquid along with a cluster of peculiar blue-green plants that makeit difficult for the pond creatures to breathe.Fortunately, Detective Duck is on the job, solving these puzzling mysteries before they get out of hand and destroy their habitat...