This book reviews current research on the key types of contaminants in agricultural soils, including heavy metals, antibiotic and pesticide residues, as well as recent advances in bioremediation and phytoremediation…

A comprehensive discussion of how countries embrace branding as a crucial element in their pursuit of soft power and why certain nation-branding efforts succeed while others fail through the example…

Features selected translations from the writings of Lu Xiangshan; Wang Yangming; and the Platform Sutra, a work which had profound influence on neo-Confucian thought. This book offers insights into the…

This book makes an argument for paying serious attention to the full complexity, formal and social, of Asian American poetry-and of minority poetry-and for rethinking how we read American poetry…

While bok choy is now a staple on Western grocery store shelves, other Asian vegetables remain unknown-even though they're delicious, nutritious, and easy to grow in northern climates.

Caroline, Stphanie…

Provides systematic design approaches for the identification, control, and recognition of nonlinear systems in uncertain environments. This book introduces the concepts of deterministic learning theory and then discusses the persistent…

Generalized Measure Theory examines the relatively new mathematical area of generalized measure theory. The latter involves several types of integrals: Sugeno integrals, Choquet integrals, pan-integrals, and lower and upper integrals.

How can we engineer systems capable of cocktail party listening? Human listeners are able to perceptually segregate one sound source from an acoustic mixture, such as a single voice from…