Ambitious, exotic, and a classic book club read, \"The Piano Teacher\" is a combination of \"Tenko\" meets \"The Remains of the Day\".Sometimes the end of a love affair is only the beginning…In 1942, Will Truesdale, an Englishman newly arrived in Hong Kong, falls headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy Liang, a beautiful Eurasian socialite....

Discover proven strategies for building powerful, world-class brands It\"s tempting to believe that brands like Apple, Nike, and Zappos achieved their iconic statuses because of serendipity, an unattainable magic formula, or even the genius of a single visionary leader....

Книга "East-Asian Primary Science Curricula. An Overview Using Revised Bloom's Taxonomy". ...

This is an essential article to understand what is happening to language choice and language shift among bar girls in Thailand and it has much wider implications to inform the field of sociolinguistics/sociology of language....

Coronary heart disease is a major cause of death worldwide. There were many therapeutic interventions developed over the past two decades but not all are successful....

The book has 2 studies examining core service value beliefs of mainland Chinese. A means-end value chain method was used in Study 1 and an experimental design in Study 2. Study 1 revealed 5 value themes: face concerns, equity, valued patron, ‘junzi’ aspiration and social harmony....

This book contains two parts. In each part, the use of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) materials to strengthen existing, structurally deficient steel girder bridge is summarized. Two bridges were strengthened using these materials in an effort to improve the live load carrying capacity of the bridges....

This book summarizes the development of an autonomous, continuous structural health monitoring (SHM) system that can be used to monitor typical girder bridges. The developed system features two key uses. First, the system can be integrated into an active bridge management system that tracks usage and structural changes....

After decades of the research and development, the piezoelectric materials have been integrated into interdisciplinary fields of research and applied in many branches of the industries. Today, due to the high demand on precise, compact and low power consumption devices, the fields of piezoelectrics are still growing very fast....

Solving food security issue in a food abundant world requires a new paradigm that walks away from a strict production perspective....

The increasing public concern about environment and energy sustainability has spurred strong interest in substituting the ever-dwindling petroleum resource with the renewable lignocellulosic biomass as the feedstock for fuels and chemical production....

Prevalent poverty in less developed countries is one of the most pressing issues of our time and economic development in these countries is necessary to bring them out of poverty. International trade is closely relevant to economic development and export facilitation and effective industrial policies have been the key to the successful development....

The Second Edition of the \"Handbook of Probiotics and Prebiotics\" brings together all the latest information and technology needed to develop successful probiotic and prebiotic products. From the laboratory to the marketplace, every phase of development is covered, including evaluating, testing, analyzing, manufacturing, and processing....

There is no progress without access to energy and no energy use without supporting technology. Only one sixth of the earth\'s population has an easy access to sufficient energy. The other five sixth will increase their demand for energy in the future. Theglobal environmental problems we face will increasingly affect our daily life....

Summary The book acts as a bridge between marketing and strategic management, as it is written from a strategic marketing perspective....