Dire au revoir ne fut pas ce qu’il pensait que ce serait...Il y a quinze ans, l’amant et âme soeur de Timothy Rush, Basho Sakai, fut assassiné lors d’un voyage à Tokyo avec sa famille. Le coeur de Timothy n’a jamais cessé de battre pour l’homme qui fut son premier et dernier amour, comparant tous les autres à Basho, le poète sensible et sublime qui avait volé son coeur. Finalement, toujours en deuil et sans espoir, Timothy se rend de Londres à Tokyo afin de dire un dernier adieu. P...

The aim of health protection is to prevent and manage outbreaks of communicable and environmental diseases, and to make us better at responding to emergencies and disasters. This includes working with diseases and injuries from environmental hazard exposures and climate change. Essentials for Health Protection: Four Key Components is a guide to the reality of the field, and a discussion of how we can improve our present and future. Based on public health theories and illustrated b...

This book provides a theoretical framework and related technical skills for investigating climate change and its public health consequences and responses with a focus on urban settings, and in particular Hong Kong, a subtropical metropolis in Asia.Specifically, the book examines the impact of climate change on health in terms of mortality, hospital admissions and help-seeking, as well as key response strategies of adaptation and mitigation. Many existing books tend to consider the ...

Disaster Public Health and Older People introduces professionals, students and fieldworkers to the science and art of promoting health and well-being among older people in the context of humanitarian emergencies, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income country settings.Older people face specific vulnerabilities in physical, mental and social well-being during disasters. They are likely to experience socio-economic marginalisation, isolation, inaccessible informat...

This is a story about a man who is favored by the gods and is given a gift for all humanity.

Luna and Leona Dark are sisters who love supernatual beings and stories. One day the sisters stumble upon the supernatural world and discover that vampires, werewolves, ghouls, and every other creature imaginable exist. Shortly after the two join the magical world and eventually they uncover a dangerous betrayal within their new world and their long awaited destiny. The Dark sisters uncover romance, danger, self discovery, and new friendships a long the way of their epic journey. Please en...

This book provides insights into China’s energy consumption and pollution as well as its energy saving policies. It explores energy saving ways and argues for an energy consumption revolution, which includes technologies to improve transportation resource efficiency, modification of existing transportation infrastructure and structure.This book uses various analytical models to study the relationships within the transportation system. It also includes comparative analysis of China,...

Understand a new set of tools for incorporating additive manufacturing into designAdditive Manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, is a method for building three-dimensional objects by layering materials. It has revolutionized every area of the manufacturing industry, permitting the rapid and precise fabrication of complex objects constructed of heterogeneous materials and with varied applications. The race is now on for design principles and technologies to keep...

Tai Chi Chuan não é um pacote de conhecimento definitivo e acabado, e como arte é difícil de ser descrito. Da concepção e da sua evolução ao longo da História, houve muitos autores anônimos e outros renomados. Mesmo o nome Tai Chi Chuan (Taijiquan) não foi pré-concebido, e fixou-se como tal somente a partir do final do século XIX e início do século XX. Na origem da sua história recebeu influência de exercícios milenares de respiração, da imitação dos movimentos de animais, da medicina trad...

This volume brings together international experts to provide fresh perspectives on geopolitical concerns in the South China Sea.The book considers the interests and security strategies of each of the nations with a claim to ownership and jurisdiction in the Sea. Examining contexts including the region’s natural resources and China’s behaviour, the book also assesses the motivations and approaches of other states in Asia and further afield.This is an accessible, even-handed ...

Although Christianity has been a minority religion in Chinese societies, Christians have been powerful catalysts of social activism in seeking to establish democracy and rule of law in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and diasporic communities. The chapters gathered in this collection reveal the vital influence of Christian individuals and groups on social, political, and legal activism in Chinese societies. Written from a range of disciplinary and geographical perspectives, the chapters...

Lee Kuan Yew through the Eyes of Chinese Scholars is a compilation of essays by highly-respected Chinese scholars in which they evaluate the life, work and philosophy of Lee Kuan Yew, founding Prime Minister of Singapore. Presenting a range of views from a uniquely Chinese/Asian perspective, this book provides valuable insights for those who wish to gain a fuller and deeper understanding of Lee Kuan Yew — the man, as well as Singapore — his nation.Marking the momentous event of his death a...