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A Woman Without a Purse by Lady J.By: Kiu Kan Jane Yuen‐PivinA Woman Without a Purse is the autobiography of Lady J.'s Christian Life before and after she met her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Lady J. shares how Jesus changed her life and guided her to help others to come to know him. Lady J. hopes this work will encourage others to let Jesus Christ into their lives. About the AuthorLady J. was active in her church and home bible study groups....

This book offers a comprehensive overview of how inclusion for students with special educational needs (SEN) has developed and is continuing to evolve in mainstream schools across the Asia-Pacific region. The authors provide an applied analysis of inclusive education in 10 geographical settings, covering legislative, historical, and cultural perspectives. A diverse range of factors that influence inclusive policy-to-practice implementation in ...

Ashton's lost a tooth and now he can't wait for the tooth fairy to visit! But the little boy has a lot of questions that his mom can't answer. Where do tooth fairies come from? How do they get here? How do they know when a child has lost a tooth? Maybe if he writes the tooth fairy a letter, he'll get some answers. As Ashton sleeps soundly, a strange purple light appears at his window. It's soon joined by a green and a soft pink glow. Do tooth ...

A light, literary take on an animal book for grown-ups, a tongue-in-cheek self-help column with lessons drawn from nature, a sort of hitchhiker's guide to the more-than-human world--Isaac Yuen's Utter, Earth is a celebration, through wordplay and earthplay, of our planet's riotous wonders. In a time of dirges and elegies for the natural world, Utter, Earth features odes to sloths, tributes to trilobites, and ringing endorsements for lichen. Fo...

What does it really mean to be a demon? The school menace, Murk, has it out for Alex, but after a chance encounter his low-level meanness turns into something far more sinister. When Alex finds a massive beat-up dog left behind by Murk and his gang in the woods, he realizes that the dog is... special. As Alex and Shade forge an unbreakable telepathic bond, their destinies become intertwined with forces beyond their understanding. As the m...

The Smart Sustainability Transformation Playbook aims to demystify the socio-technical systems and processes of sustainability transitions through the study of 12 smart cities -- Auckland, Boston, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Medellin, Melbourne, Milan, Seoul, Tokyo, and Vancouver, selected from the IMD-SUTD 2021 Smart City Index. The selection encompasses a range of smart cities and developments on selected critical areas in e...

This book offers a unique focus on the well-being of Chinese and South/Southeast Asian students in the context of Hong Kong, and in particular the experience of integrating these young people into its schooling system. Yuen uses a narrative method that captures and offers a vivid insight into the actual experience of students from disadvantaged backgrounds, whilst providing fascinating comparisons between students coming from Mainland China an...

Chien Fu ist ein tollpatschiger Taugenichts, der als Laufbursch einer Kung-Fu-Schule von allen nur gepiesackt wird. Bis er einem alten Bettler hilft, der sich als gesuchter Rebell und Grossmeister Pei Ching Yen entpuppt. Von ihm lernt Chien Fu die sogenannte "Schlangentechnik", die ihn zum Ausnahmekämpfer macht, aber auch die Auferksamkeit von Pei Chings Häschen auf ihn lenkt..... Ohne dezidiert zur Reihe zu gehören, bildet "Die Schlange im sc...

Life is a gift. A fleeting, complicated, painful gift. Life holds death, it holds struggle with God, and it holds precious relationships we easily take for granted. And with every event that threatens life as we know it, our perspective on it changes, whether it's a pandemic, a shift of politics, the tragedy of war, or personal loss. This Too Shall Pass is an exploration of life-sorrowful, mysterious, funny, and beautiful-through a collection ...

This book introduces some recent developments in Bayesian real-time system identification. It contains two different perspectives on data processing for system identification, namely centralized and distributed. A centralized Bayesian identification framework is presented to address challenging problems of real-time parameter estimation, which covers outlier detection, system, and noise parameters tracking. Besides, real-time Bayesian model cl...

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Kids Financial Study is a book by a kid sharing with other kids what he has learned about money. He considers it to be an introduction to money from a Christian perspective. The author shares wisdom he has learned through the Bible and practical applications he has learned through life experiences. Through this book kids will learn how to spend, give and save their money according to God's ways. He hopes this book will be the beginning of a jo...

Anticipation of adventure pushes a young man to head to sea to work on ships. This narrative describes the process of pursuing a seagoing position, chronologizing over three decades of his career and of running the latitudes and longitudes around the world. Sailing on a large spectrum of vessels, including freighters, tankers, bulk carriers, and cruise ships, the book describes the changes experienced within the industry, ranging from navigati...

Optical second harmonic and sum-frequency generation has evolved into a useful spectroscopic tool for material characterization, especially as a viable and powerful technique for probing surfaces and interfaces. This book serves as an introduction on the technique. It provides a comprehensible description on the basics of the technique and gives detailed accounts with illustrating examples on the wide range of applications of the technique. It...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of how inclusion for students with special educational needs (SEN) has developed and is continuing to evolve in mainstream schools across the Asia-Pacific region. The authors provide an applied analysis of inclusive education in 10 geographical settings, covering legislative, historical, and cultural perspectives. A diverse range of factors that influence inclusive policy-to-practice implementation in ...

Have you ever wondered why some people avoid conflicts or confrontations at all costs? Why does anyone want to participate in those life-threatening acts? Never been able to understand why some people are always doing and doing and doing things? Can you imagine the emotions, thoughts, and body sensations that run through a person who cannot tolerate mistakes? Do you feel that nobody really understands you? Have you ever wondered how some peopl...

As the People's Republic's seemingly inexorable rise to economic and military power continues, never has the need for a better grasp of Chinese strategic thought by the West been more acute. In Deciphering Sun Tzu, Derek Yuen seeks to reclaim for the reader the hidden contours and lost Chinese and Taoist contexts of Sun Tzu's renowned treatise The Art of War, a literary classic and arguably one of the most influential books ever written. He al...

This book illustrates tensions, absences, and unresolved challenges experienced in research - experiences that are so often left out of the conventional, smooth, and linear discussion of research that generally appears in academic publications.

Marrying personal stories, interviews, and statistics, Stronger Together is author Stephanie Yuen's candid memoir that shares a personal journey with Alopecia, an autoimmune condition that causes hair to fall out. As the reader, you will dive deep into Yuen's chronicles as well as fellow Alopecian's inspiring stories, where Yuen takes you on a unique voyage of her life events and breaks down the societal stigmas surrounding bald men and women....

Dance instructor and journalist John Yuen details for the first time how Canadians who dance for social reasons have made a phenomenon of our times: a fun activity, exceptional exercise, spiritual awakening, and a therapeutic medium. The Wondrous World of Social Dancing in Canada: Come Dance Ballroom, Salsa, Square-Dance and Argentine Tango with Me! takes a deep dive into the social dance subculture to show the true nature of Canadians' interp...