This book introduces a comprehensive conceptual framework which examines the impact of ecological modernization on city branding, using Chinese megacity regions as examples.

The book studies Friday and Foe in tandem with Robinson Crusoe to explore how these re-visions, through deconstructive freeplay, transform the logocentric repressive structure represented by Defoe’s text into open-ended…

These findings are organized according to major correlates of social disorganization, including unemployment, marriage and family, residential stability, ethnic heterogeneity, social equality, social capital, social control, social isolation and social…

A much-needed account of the hierarchy of justice that defines China's unique political-legal culture.

To many outsiders, China has an image as a realm of Oriental despotism where law is…

The successive chapters offer a theoretical frame of linear vibrations and waves, covering the models of vibration systems, the vibration analysis of discrete systems, the natural vibrations of one-dimensional structures…

The book focuses on the application of nanotechnologies in scaffold-guided tissue regeneration and in drug delivery systems for use in immunotherapy and overcoming drug resistance in cancer treatment. multiple functions…

This book investigates the best strategies for poverty alleviation in post-disaster urban environments, and the conditions necessary for the success and scaling up of these strategies.