Find out the compelling personal journey of artist and filmmaker Yi Zhou in her latest book, "The Art of Triumph: Trauma, Sex, and Art." This raw and inspiring educational and entertainment book delves into the depths of overcoming abuse and the transformative power of creativity and sharing. Through her intimate exploration of past traumas, Yi Zhou offers readers not just a glimpse of her past experiences, but a beacon of hope and a toolkit for survival.Each page serves as a testam...

Mom makes the difficult decision to "hide" in her room. While Mom self-isolates, six-year-old Nina has to tackle new things for herself. It’s hard, but Nina knows the distance between her and Mom is only temporary.

In today's world, where artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, shaping every facet of our lives and businesses, "AI Native Enterprise" emerges as an indispensable guide for visionary leaders seeking to navigate the journey towards integrating AI at the heart of their business strategy. This book advocates for AI-Native thinking, a transformative approach that embeds AI into the very DNA of business, marking a shift towards next-generation enterprises....

Bridges are subject to daily and seasonal temperature fluctuations. The temperature variations can affect bridge materials and structural integrity, often interacting with other loads and masking their effects. Understanding temperature behaviors is crucial for accurate load assessment and bridge performance evaluation.This book comprehensively studies temperature behaviors of bridges, covering beam, arch, cable‑stayed, and suspension bridges using analytical, numerical, and field ...

Dive headfirst into the electrifying universe of AI with "Prompt Design Patterns" - the ultimate blueprint for sculpting unparalleled human-AI dialogues. Tailored with precision for pros, novices, and everyone with a spark of AI curiosity, this tome unlocks the secrets of 23 transformative prompt design patterns, offering a seamless fusion of art and science.Highlights of This AI Gem:Elevate Your Craft: Traverse from ...

Mom makes the difficult decision to "hide" in her room. While Mom self-isolates, six-year-old Nina has to tackle new things for herself. It’s hard, but Nina knows the distance between her and Mom is only temporary.

Chinese for Working Professionals is for learners who intend to use Chinese in a multinational global workplace. It has eight thematic units focusing on developing learners’ transferrable skills in addition to expanding the cross-cultural competences required in a real-world work-place.Key features:Topical themes expose the ongoing changes in China for working professionals such as career preparation, economic development, business etiquet...

Seen from “inside the IAU,” this book tells the in-depth story of a major crisis in which China “divorced” from the International Astronomical Union in 1960 as a protest against the admission of Taiwan. This happened to all the scientific unions at the same time, and to the Olympic Games, which, unexpectedly, would serve as a laboratory for the “reconciliation” which took place following the re-opening of China to the world 20 years later.The so-called “China conflict” is the most ...

This book presents the exceptional biography of the 20th century Chinese astronomer Cheng Maolan, who came to France in 1926 on a China-France cooperation program to do his PhD with the idea of returning to China after a few years. Instead, he lived two lives. He first stayed in France and studied astronomy in Lyon, the “Silk city”, where he suffered the hardships of the German occupation, but also witnessed the construction of the Haute-Provence Observatory. After the war, he started a pr...

Pipe failures in water distribution systems can have a serious impact and hence it’s important to maintain the condition and integrity of the distribution system. This book presents a whole-life cost optimisation model for the rehabilitation of water distribution systems. It combines a pipe breakage number prediction model with a pipe criticality assessment model, which enables the creation of a well-constructed and more tightly constrained optimisation model. The pipe breakage number pred...

This book focuses on nonlinear wave equations, which are of considerable significance from both physical and theoretical perspectives. It also presents complete results on the lower bound estimates of lifespan (including the global existence), which are established for classical solutions to the Cauchy problem of nonlinear wave equations with small initial data in all possible space dimensions and with all possible integer powers of nonlinear terms.Further, the book proposes the gl...