This book makes a unique contribution to classroom assessment literature, linking teacher-friendly examples to scholarly work and current research in the field, and providing comprehensive, hands-on information on core concepts in accessible terms. E...

The Norwegian government declared 2008 to be Mangfoldsaret or The Year of Cultural Diversity, in hopes of creating a more inclusive and multicultural arts scene. This study investigates the year through the lens of institutional theatres in Oslo, with focus on Ibsen performance....

Realizing that the increasing cross-generational diversities of the Chinese women’s role practices along with China’s economic reform and integration into the world economy are to a great extent worth to be explored and noticing the small scale of academic literature to this issue, the focus of this book, therefore, is to analyze the altering and c...

Wind turbine blades suffer from relatively high failure rates resulting in long downtimes. The motivation of this research is to improve the reliability of wind turbine blades via non-destructive evaluation (NDE) for the early warning of faults and condition-based maintenance....

This collection of original essays examines the social and political consequences of the globalization of the apparel industry in Asia, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and the United States....

This book documents the evolution of modern Chinese banking, from the establishment in 1897 of the first Chinese bank (along a Western model), to the abrupt interruption in 1937 of professional banking by the Japanese invasion....