Perfect for fans of Catherine Hapka — a heartwarming story about a girl who must find her voice, with lots of manatee and dolphin fun along the way! Becca Wong Walker may be so shy that most people at school think she doesn\"t speak at all, but why should she care? She has more important things to worry about....

The star of Marvel’s first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese immigrant, his battles with cultural stereotypes and his own identity, becoming a TV star, and landing the role of a lifetime....

Sarah’s devotional trilogy takes you back to a rural, impoverished China and the rise of the Christian faith (Vol. I), through an explosion of the gospel and the high price Sarah paid for spreading that message (Vol. II), and now, to her covert escape from China, to her final destination in a free America to continue to tell her story to the world....

This study seeks to address the issues in managing buyer-seller relationships specifically through the understanding the role of salesperson in the relationship-marketing context where value-adding service is highly expected from salesperson. A framework incorporating the constructs of Water- is proposed....

As special results in extensional setting, the mafic dykes comprise lamprophyres, dolerites and diabase porphyrites....

This book investigates factors predicting students’ retention and final grades in a community college online course. It aims to promote a better understanding of student characteristics that contribute to retention and academic success in community college online courses....

Negative pragmatic transfer has been repeatedly reported in learners’ L2 production. But what are transferred? How are they distributed? What are their communicative effects? These questions were not explicitly addressed to date and thus are the research questions of this book. Adult Chinese EFL learners were subjects of study....

This study explores metaphors we use to make sense of organizational reality. One hundred thirty-two mission statements collected across the University of North Carolina system comprise the textual source of analysis....

This research covers how high street fashion companies manage the new product development process to meet the demands of a new market.It give some definitions in the beginning of the literature review. And the primary research presents two case studies to help the reader understand the theories in the literature review....

It is very important to investigate residual stresses distribution in a railroad car wheel as it determines the performance and safety of the train. Compressive residual stresses are induced intentionally during manufacturing of a railroad car wheel surface to prevent the formation and growth of cracks in the wheel....

In the past, integrated circuit errors due to radiation phenomena were negligible, but with continuing technology scaling and low-power requirements, they became magnified to such a degree that they were able to alter the implemented behavior, causing a failure of the whole electronic circuit....

QUANTUM TURBULENCE : DECAY OF GRID TURBULENCE IN A DISSIPATIONLESS FLUID We produced grid turbulence in liquid helium at 520 mK to compare with classical experiments and theories. Above T = 1 K, with viscosity present, it has been shown that grid turbulence is equivalent to homogeneous isotropic turbulence in a classical fluid....

The reliable prediction of the seakeeping behavior of ships in real seas is a demanding task for naval architects and of great interest to ship owners/operators, as it affects both the design and operation of ships....

Over the last few decades, numerous experiments have been operated to search for dark matter, the mysterious component of the universe. The dark matter is unseen and only known by its gravitational effect, but it greatly outnumbers the normal matter concluded from a wide variety of evidence....

The Qinling Orogenic Belt is located in the central of China and distributes in east-west direction, there are large-scale igneous rocks within this belt, and they are very important record for orogenesis....