In his groundbreaking leadership book, John Wang, a top empowerment coach to Asian American professionals across Fortune 500 companies, offers research-backed guidance for Asian Americans to embody their most confident selves in business, relationships, and their everyday lives.Asians today are smashing box office records, winning Oscars, dominating global music charts, and reaching the office of vice president of the United States. Yet studies show Asian American ...

This insightful Research Handbook examines the role of Information Systems & Technology (IS&T) across multiple fields including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, business intelligence and mobile communication. It discusses the ethical implications of IS&T, including risks to privacy and security, and outlines potential solutions to these challenges.Contributing authors illustrate the complex and rapidly evolving state of the field, analysing case studies that demonstrate th...

This incisive Research Handbook on Information Systems and Society (ISS) explores the role of Information Systems in contemporary and future societies, outlining the key sectors in which they are used and also examining their potential negative impacts, such as privacy violations, fake news and hate speech.Expert scholars dissect ISS from an interdisciplinary perspective, considering their uses across a range of sectors including healthcare, education and disaster manageme...

Originally published in 1983, the purpose of Teacher and Student Perceptions: Implications for Learning was to advance the emerging interdisciplinary dialogue regarding the origin and consequences of performance perceptions in school settings. The book is organized into three major sections. Section I deals with students’ and teachers' interpretation of achievement-related behaviors. Section II treats the impact of performance expectations in classrooms, and Section III contains w...

Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion is the first edited volume that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies, media, and transmedialities of Chinese animation, from early animated special effects to socialist classics, from computer-generated-imagery (CGI) blockbusters to edgy independent films, and from stop-motion to virtual reality.Its fifteen chapters, grouped under the five themes of junctures, gender, identities,...

Library Supply Chain Management for Collection Services of Academic Libraries: Solving Operational Challenges and Enhancing User Productivity contains three sections, each comprised of several topical chapters on a particular subject. Part One explains why supply chain management is vital to libraries. Part Two builds on Part One, beginning with a classic supply chain model, including its brief history and current development. Part Three suggests a theoretical supply chain model based on e...

In his groundbreaking leadership book, John Wang, a top empowerment coach to Asian American professionals across Fortune 500 companies, offers research-backed guidance for Asian Americans to embody their most confident selves in business, relationships, and their everyday lives.Asians today are smashing box office records, winning Oscars, dominating global music charts, and reaching the office of vice president of the United States. Yet studies show Asian American ...

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This volume outlines a comprehensive journey into how geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) is reshaping our understanding of people and places. Merging traditional geographic inquiry with AI technologies, it offers a holistic view of digital tools and advanced algorithms that redefine human geography. Across twenty‐eight chapters, the book chronicles the evolution of geographic thought into the GeoAI era. Innovative methodologies—from explainable spatial analysis and natural language...

Designing new products and improving existing ones is a continual process. Industrial design engineering is an industrial engineering process applied to product designs that are to be manufactured through techniques of production operations. Excellent industrial design engineering programs are essential for the nation’s industry to succeed in selling useful and ecologically justifiable and usable products on a market flooded with goods and services. This unique text on industrial design en...

Green Energy Economies offers insight into the major drivers that are shaping a new future powered by clean energy sources. Assembling cutting-edge researchers as contributors, the book provides a comprehensive account of the shift underway, examining in detail the complexities and intricacies involved with such a transition. The book first details the promises and problems of a green energy transition. Next, it explores the economic benefits that a comprehensive strategy toward a green en...

This book delivers a practical, forward-looking guide to cutting-edge developments at the intersection of information science, computing, and technology, equipping readers to bridge theoretical advancements with real-world application. By prioritizing actionable insights over abstract theory, it addresses the gap between rapid tech evolution and the need for accessible, applicable knowledge for professionals and learners alike.Rather than organizing content by traditional subdiscip...