Product Description: This book is among the first to theoretically and empirically examine what and how Western expatriate managers learn and develop from their international assignments in China. The book draws on literature associated with expatriate studies, experiential learning theory, and knowledge acquisition to develop an expatriate learning process model...read more

Product Description: Encounters Audio CD-ROM accompanies the lessons in the bestselling textbooks Encounters I and II: A Cognitive Approach to Advanced Chinese. Chapters include sections on vocabulary; texts, stories, and dialogues; grammar; listening comprehension; and songs...read more

Product Description: Encounters is the advanced-level Chinese text series to accompany the popular Interactions and Connections textbooks. Encounters carries over methods and themes developed in those beginning and intermediate texts, with greater emphasis on reading comprehension and real-world texts...read more

Product Description: A story of adjustment, acceptance, and belonging emerges from the settings of Red China and contemporary Mapleton, Ontario. Lily, a young immigrant, is trying to make it on her own - and succeeding in her own way. Through Lily's challenging relationship with her mother and with the vibrant and quirky Chinese community in Mapleton, we witness unexpected changes and challenges as she copes with her new environment and the transformation of her spirit and soul...read more

Product Description: Fully Tuned Radial Basis Function Neural Networks for Flight Control presents the use of the Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural networks for adaptive control of nonlinear systems with emphasis on flight control applications. A Lyapunov synthesis approach is used to derive the tuning rules for the RBF controller parameters in order to guarantee the stability of the closed loop system...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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