Chinese Stories for Language Learners: Elementary – Volume 2 is the exciting continuation of the most beloved Chinese story series for learners! This new volume is designed especially for those who love learning the Chinese language and culture through rich, engaging stories.Extensive and enjoyable reading and listening is one of the most effective ways to build vocabulary, internalize sentence structures, and gain cultural insight. That’s why we’ve followed the ap...

Chinese Stories for Language Learners: Elementary – Volume 1 is a bilingual Chinese–English audiobook designed especially for beginner Mandarin learners who love discovering language through stories.This collection features 25 simple yet engaging narratives, including Chinese folktales, idioms, fables, proverbs, myths, and light-hearted modern stories.Extensive and enjoyable listening is one of the most effective ways to bu...

Unlock the Wisdom of Sun Tzu—While Mastering Mandarin Chinese!Step into the world of ancient Chinese strategy with The Art of War for Language Learners—a unique bilingual Chinese-English audiobook that blends timeless wisdom with modern Mandarin Chinese language learning.Narrated by the authors themselves, LingLing and Huw, this edition brings Sun Tzu’s legendary classic to life with clear, line-by-line nar...

The inside story of the US–China trade war, "especially insightful on how the contradictory natures of Trump and Xi have impeded understanding" ( The Boston Globe).This book reveals how relations between China and the United States unraveled, darkening prospects for global peace and prosperity, told by two Wall Street Journal reporters—one a Pulitzer Prize winner based in Washington, DC, the other in Beijing—who have had more access to the decision...

Reveals the role of time in reproducing inequalities as students navigate rural-to-urban, cross-border, and transnational higher education.Winner of the 2026 Best Book Award presented by the Higher Education Special Interest Group of the Comparative and International Education SocietyCan a student inherit time? What difference does time make to their educational journeys and outcomes? The Time Inheritors draws on n...

Comprehensive resource discussing specific challenges and control solutions associated with operating inverter-based resources in weak grid scenariosWeak Grid Integration of Inverter-Based Resources delves into current operational challenges and control solutions associated with inverter-based resources (IBR) in weak grid scenarios, with real-world examples included throughout to elucidate key concepts. The book introduces the control architecture of IBR p...

Wind Energy Systems: Modeling, Analysis and Control with DFIG provides key information on machine/converter modelling strategies based on space vectors, complex vector, and further frequency-domain variables. It includes applications that focus on wind energy grid integration, with analysis and control explanations with examples. For those working in the field of wind energy integration examining the potential risk of stability is key, this edition looks at how wind energy is modelled, wha...

Additive Manufacturing of Continuous Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites the additive manufacturing of continuous fiber reinforced polymer composites (CFRPCs), discussing their mechanical behavior, manufacture, structure, performance, and application. The raw materials involved, manufacturing processes for specific CFRPCs (thermoplastic, thermosetting, self-reinforcing), modeling, design, and failure analysis of these materials are each covered at length. An entire chapter is dedicated to ...

Renewable energy sources interface with the ac grids via inverters are termed inverter-based resources (IBRs). They are replacing traditional fossil fuel-based synchronous generators at a dazzling speed. In turn, unprecedented dynamic events have occurred, threatening power grid reliability. Modeling and Stability Analysis of Inverter-Based Resources provides a fundamental understanding of IBR dynamics.Developing reliability solutions requires a thorough understand...

Materials metrology, a burgeoning branch of the field, is a subject of intense scrutiny by both researchers and stakeholders. The focal points of their attention are twofold: understanding the objectives of material metrology research and determining effective methods for utilizing its findings. Researchers and stakeholders delve into the intricacies of ensuring traceability of complex units from equipment and maintaining consistency in measurement results across various methods. The appli...

Particular focus on development of the chicken gut microbiome over the lifetime of the birdReviews interactions between pathogens and the gut and the role of antibiotics in this processComprehensive review of research on efficacy of poultry feed additives: probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics, antimicrobials, essential oils and other botanicals, cereal grains

This book is the fourteenth volume in the Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine series and is essential for Chinese medicine practitioners interested in treating unipolar depression using Chinese medicine. It uses a 'whole evidence' approach and provides an in-depth analysis of Chinese medicine treatments for depression, including a summary of Chinese medicine treatments used in classical Chinese medicine literature, as well as treatments that have been tested in clinical trials.High-qu...