Comprising one volume ofFunctional and Modified Polymeric Materials, Two-Volume Set, this curated collection of papers by Professor Eli Ruckenstein and co-workers discusses the merits of concentrated emulsion polymerization systems, as well as their ability to yield a broad variety of products with high synthetic efficiency. Comprised of carefully curated chapters previously published by these pioneering scientists in the field, this volume offers a comprehensive ...

For decades, tree planting and forestry have been pivotal to Chinese environmentalism. During the Mao era, while forests were razed to fuel rapid increases in industrial production, the "Greening the Motherland" campaign promoted conservationist tree-planting nationwide. Contested Environmentalisms explores the seemingly contradictory rhetoric and desires of Chinese conservation from the early twentieth century through to the present.Drawing on literary, cinematic, scienti...

The United States may be headed toward a disastrous conflict with China unless Washington updates its understanding of contemporary Chinese societyAfter four decades of engagement, the United States and China now appear to be locked on a collision course that has already fomented a trade war, seems likely to produce a new cold war, and could even result in dangerous military conflict. The current deterioration of the bilateral relationship is the culmination of year...

The two-volume set LNAI 15497 and LNAI 15498 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, BICS 2024, held in Hefei, China, during December 6–8, 2024.The 56 full papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 124 submissions.These papers deal with various aspects of brain inspired cognitive systems, focusing on latest advancements in brain-inspired computing; artificial intelli...

Who will govern China at the dawn of the twenty-first century? What are the social backgrounds and career paths of the new generation of leaders? How do they differ from their predecessors in their responses to perplexing economic and sociopolitical challenges? Drawing upon a wealth of both quantitative and qualitative data on the so-called fourth generation of leaders-those who were young during the Cultural Revolution-Cheng Li sheds valuable light on these key questions. He shows that th...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Computation and Systems, ICCCS 2025, held in Chengdu, China, November 22–23, 2025.The 79 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 199 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Cognitive computing and Multimodal information processingPart II: Intelligent robotics

China's momentous socioeconomic transformation is not taking place in an intellectual vacuum: Chinese scholars and public intellectuals are actively engaged in fervent discussions about the country's domestic and foreign policies, demographic constraints, and ever-growing integration into the world community. This book focuses on China's major think tanks where policies are initiated, and on a few prominent thinkers who influence the way in which elites and the general public understand an...

【Book introduction】How does life come into being? Where does one go after death? Is there a path that leads to true happiness? Why is it so difficult to master our emotions? And how might we begin to transform our destiny? These are not idle questions — they are the deepest longings of the human heart. What if the answers were closer than we imagined? Each of us carries, right within our own being, eight distinct minds. By understanding how these eight minds work, ...

"Covers the basic philosophy and arguments of Mādhyamika , as well as discussing its possible influence on other forms of Buddhist thought, including Zen." — Journal of Chinese PhilosophyThe chief purpose of Empty Logic is to expound the Mādhyamika philosophy of emptiness as presented in Chinese sources and to clarify misconceptions about this important Buddhist ideology. It is a...

The two-volume set LNAI 15497 and LNAI 15498 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, BICS 2024, held in Hefei, China, during December 6–8, 2024.The 56 full papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 124 submissions.These papers deal with various aspects of brain inspired cognitive systems, focusing on latest advancements in brain-inspired computing; artificial intelli...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Computation and Systems, ICCCS 2025, held in Chengdu, China, November 22–23, 2025.The 79 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 199 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Cognitive computing and Multimodal information processingPart II: Intelligent robotics

This book provides a multifaceted examination of solid waste management methods, the preparation, properties, and application of solid waste materials in the remediation of various environmental media, as well as the combination of solid waste materials and artificial intelligence.Based on the latest research results and cutting-edge technologies from around the world, the contributors combine the design principles of solid waste materials with application examples, including a com...