This is not a book just about flying a single engine airplane around the world. This is the book about identifying the “Big Hairy Audacious Goal” in our lives and finding a way to accomplish it through focus and discipline. The author accomplished three dreams: the dream of coming to the U.S. and getting an MBA degree (when he hardly spoke any English); the dream of starting a company and becoming a self-made millionaire (when he had no money, no business plan, no investors, no social network, and no experience); the dream of becoming the first Chinese citizen to fly a single-engine airplane around the world (when he had barely 200 hours of flying time and two years of flying experiences). By sharing these stories, the author challenges everyone to think about one question: “What would you attempt to do if you knew you couldn’t fail?”

The controversy of Mao Zedong's merits and demerits can be completely put to an end because this book makes final conclusions. The book looks impartially at Mao Zedong's life from a common people to a leader, measures his political decisions with political morality, and tests his political legacy with the track of the Communist Party of China for nearly half a century. The extreme left wing will not be satisfied with this book, which don’t regard him as a demigod, but confronts Mao's character flaws, cognitive mistakes, decision-making blame, and serious setbacks. The extreme right wing won't like this book because the book completely shows Mao Zedong's historical achievements and believes that Mao is still a giant who has changed the history of China and the world, and a phenomenal leader who has influenced the structure of long-term civilization. No matter who is satisfied or not, facts speak louder than words.

San Zang has known from the beginning of the journey to the West that Sun Wu Kong's short temper and violent tendencies could be as great a threat to their mission as any monster or demon. Now, a second Sun Wu Kong appears, and it is immediately clear that he embodies all of Wu Kong's worst traits. But the scariest thing may just be that even the Goddess of Mercy cannot tell the two Wu Kongs apart.

A longtime student of the taiji grand master Yang Cheng-Fu, Chen Wei-Ming became famous himself as a scholar, martial artist, and proponent of the Yang style of t'ai chi. In the 1920s, he wrote a number of influential books on taiji, among them Taiji Sword (1927), which detailed a rare method of fencing. Translated here for the first time, this book serves as both a historical document and a training manual for an increasingly popular sport.

This text presents a comprehensive mathematical theory for elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic differential equations. It compares finite element and finite difference methods and illustrates applications of generalized difference methods to elastic bodies, electromagnetic fields, underground water pollution, and coupled sound-heat flows.

San Zang and his disciples have crossed the border into India, and their journey's conclusion is drawing closer by the hour. But being in a new country doesn't mean they won't encounter the same old villains, and the four companions will have to call on everything they've learned to ensure the journey doesn't end before their final destination is reached.

Chinese cities have been expanding since the early 1980s under trends of rapid modernization, urbanization and globalization. Since then they have changed dramatically, and have in the process lost many of their traditional environments and spatial characteristics. Urban planners and designers have been and are facing unprecedented challenges in China. They not only have to learn to understand the constantly emerging new urban mechanisms, and seek balance among stakeholders, but they also need to cope with the political pressures and the changing context under often extreme time pressure. In such circumstances, future- and design-oriented analysis based on a designerly way of thinking is useful - if not indispensable - for understanding the existing city and deciding on its transformations in a responsible and accountable way that is communicable among designers and with the public. This is especially so, in light of the growing awareness - also in China - of the value and importance of local urban identity, that is always - at least partially - based on history. In this atlas the Delft method of historical morphological analysis is applied to the city of Wuhan, valuing the importance of and finding meaning in the local urban identity of a city with a population over 11 million with a floating population of 14 million. The series of maps show the urban development, covering a century and a half.

Building upon the fundamental principles of decision theory, Decision-Based Design: Integrating Consumer Preferences into Engineering Design presents an analytical approach to enterprise-driven Decision-Based Design (DBD) as a rigorous framework for decision making in engineering design. Once the related fundamentals of decision theory, economic analysis, and econometrics modelling are established, the remaining chapters describe the entire process, the associated analytical techniques, and the design case studies for integrating consumer preference modeling into the enterprise-driven DBD framework. Methods for identifying key attributes, optimal design of human appraisal experiments, data collection, data analysis, and demand model estimation are presented and illustrated using engineering design case studies. The scope of the chapters also provides: A rigorous framework of integrating the interests from both producer and consumers in engineering design, Analytical techniques of consumer choice modelling to forecast the impact of engineering decisions, Methods for synthesizing business and engineering models in multidisciplinary design environments, and Examples of effective application of Decision-Based Design supported by case studies. No matter whether you are an engineer facing decisions in consumer related product design, an instructor or student of engineering design, or a researcher exploring the role of decision making and consumer choice modelling in design, Decision-Based Design: Integrating Consumer Preferences into Engineering Design provides a reliable reference over a range of key topics.

This book is a must-read for any aspiring IP lawyer... it is a useful manual with accurate and current information, as and when you need it - The Law Society Gazette Provides up-to-date coverage and analysis of the intellectual property laws applicable to all forms of computer software, placing the law in the context of computer use, examining copyright, database rights, patents, trade marks, design rights and the law of confidence. Updates to the 8th edition include: - a new chapter on Intellectual Property and AI - a number of cases on FRAND licensing in relation to telecommunications standards technologies, including Unwired Planet v Huawei - the effects of Brexit on intellectual property regulations - developments in the EU, US and other jurisdictions This book can either be read from cover to cover as a thorough introduction to the subjects addressed or be used as a very useful starting point for a specialist practitioner faced with a particular problem on a particular case. With this in mind, this book is an essential addition to any IT and IP practitioner's bookshelf, as well as a useful textbook for non-specialists, advanced undergraduates and taught in postgraduate IT and IP courses.

For advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Hospitality Management With the latest developments in global hospitality operations and contemporary management principles, this book provides an international perspective on the hospitality and tourism industries. It provides a cultural context throughout, including cultural recognition and respect, and developing practices. Case studies include Marriott, Hilton, Intercontinental, McDonald's and Starbucks.