Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker must stem the tide of the raging Clone Wars and forge a new bond as Jedi Knights. The Clone Wars have begun. Battle lines are being drawn throughout the galaxy. With every world that joins the Separatists, the peace guarded by the Jedi Order is slipping through their fingers....

This Springer Brief provides a comprehensive overview of the background and recent developments of big data. The value chain of big data is divided into four phases: data generation, data acquisition, data storage and data analysis....

The purpose of this study is to go beyond the conventional debate about whether China\"\"s rise will pose a threat to the rest of the world, and to see how China\"\"s security strategy has been created and modified by political elites during the reform period....

A growing reliance on the Internet as an information source when making choices about buying certain products raises the need for more research into electronic word of mouth. This study aims to contribute to the current scientific knowledge on how the valence of online reviews affects product performance....

Ovarian cancer is the leading cause of death from gynecologic malignancy in the United Kingdom and the 4th most common cause of cancer mortality in women. Approximately 1 in 48 women in the UK will develop ovarian cancer in their lifetime....

A global trend towards sustainable industry has highlighted a need to source energy and chemicals from renewable feed stocks. A move to farming short-rotation lignocellulosic biomass is one solution to the feed stock problem. However, it is also critical to use a fractionation technology that is appropriate to the biomass type and location....

The typical errors frequently committed by foreign Chinese students have been placed into 3 categories: grammatical errors, syntactical errors and punctuation errors. The book analyzes the causes of these errors and gives an instruction on how to correct them. It is a valuable reference tool for teachers and a reliable helper for self-study....

\"I strongly believe that education is the single most important job of the human race. I?m very excited that Education Nation is adding to the tools we are giving educators and many others to make change in their own communities.\" ?...

This volume looks at four main management systems in the East Asian region: Japanese, mainland Chinese, overseas Chinese and Korean. Through a comparative analysis of organizational structures, competitive strategies and cultural influences the workings of each system is made clear....

Ethnic Chinese control a staggering 98 percent of the East Asian economy outside Korea and Japan. For any company seeking to work with the Chinese, understanding the unique social and cultural values that underpin their commercial practices can make or break business dealings before they even get off the ground....

This book \"Vagary\" compiled and edited by Hanlin Chen for the humourous content, and be also been found out many glimpses into Chinese manners and customs....

Giving photographers the opportunity to more freely experiment with their images, this detailed guidebook demonstrates how to utilize RAW files and Adobe® Camera Raw®, a utility that comes with every copy of Adobe® Photoshop®. Digital photographs captured in the RAW format preserve all of the data recorded by the digital camera....