This new book is the first full account, inside or outside government, of China’s efforts to acquire foreign technology.Based on primary sources and meticulously researched, the book lays bare China’s efforts to prosper technologically through others' achievements. For decades, China has operated an elaborate system to spot foreign technologies, acquire them by all conceivable means, and convert them into weapons and competitive goods—without compensating the owners. The director o...

The Archimedes device.Throughout history, the protectors of its secrets have sacrificed their fortunes, their happiness, and even their lives. And when the device comes unexpectedly into the life of Rebecca Sanders, its effect is no less profound.Rebecca's journey begins with the unsettling disappearance of her mother, a respected Princeton professor. The only hints to her whereabouts are a series of clues left by an unknown scribe more than 500 years ago.To track d...

Do your punishments stop working the moment you turn your back?Are you tired of the daily power struggles? Do you threaten, yell, and take away privileges, only to watch your child repeat the exact same misbehavior the next day? If you are exhausted by the cycle of fear-based compliance, you are not alone.You cannot punish a child into having good character.Traditional discipline relies on external control and intimidation. It teach...

Despite annual predictions of its demise, email marketing remains one of the most important tools for businesses and other organizations. The reason is simple. Other communication tools, including social and digital media channels, cannot duplicate or recreate the unique capabilities of email marketing. This book is for those who wish to learn more about how email marketing works, whether as students, teachers, or practitioners. The authors recap the history of email and email marketing an...

Stop surviving the daily chaos. Start designing your Family Operating System.Is your household running on fumes? Do you spend your days putting out fires, managing endless schedules, and collapsing from decision fatigue? Love is the foundation of a family, but love alone is not an operational strategy. You cannot solve parental burnout with willpower or a bubble bath.The Family Culture Code: Design Your Family Operating System. Automate Logistics. Build...

Students in Japan, China, and Korea are among the world's top performers on standardized math and science tests. The nations of East Asia are also leading manufacturers of consumer goods that incorporate scientific breakthroughs in telecommunications, optics, and transportation. Yet there is a startling phenomenon known throughout Asia as the "creativity problem." While East Asians are able to use science, they have not demonstrated the ability to invent radically new systems and paradigms...

Stop punishing a nervous system in crisis.Your child isn't "naughty," "aggressive," or "difficult." When a child constantly crashes into walls, melts down over sock seams, or acts physically before they have the time to think, you are witnessing a biological reality: their nervous system is either starved for input or paralyzed by it.You cannot discipline a sensory need out of a child. Telling a sensory-seeking child to "sit still" and "use their words" is ...

Students in Japan, China, and Korea are among the world's top performers on standardized math and science tests. The nations of East Asia are also leading manufacturers of consumer goods that incorporate scientific breakthroughs in telecommunications, optics, and transportation. Yet there is a startling phenomenon known throughout Asia as the "creativity problem." While East Asians are able to use science, they have not demonstrated the ability to invent radically new systems and paradigms...

Emotions are feelings that we cant hide. No matter how much we try we have to express them. Love, Anger, Hate, Joy, Sadness, Gratefulness, Passion, is just some of the emotions we go through every hour, minute, second in a day. And we should never hide what we feel. Let it out. Be you, Do you, and live you. Emotion is a book of poems describing what the majority of us go through every day. What we fear, our desires, fi rst love, friendship and much more. Its a book that will have you think...

How would your life be if you didn’t have constant worries about your about food, your eating patterns, or your body? How would your life be if you loved your body a little bit more than you do now?Have you gone from diet to diet, but nothing seemed to work? Or perhaps there are times when the number on the scales made you excited and confident, but it lasted for a short while because whatever you did to reduce your weight was not sustainable. You got disappointed ...

This book analyzes China’s foreign technology acquisition activity and how this has helped its rapid rise to superpower status.Since 1949, China has operated a vast and unique system of foreign technology spotting and transfer aimed at accelerating civilian and military development, reducing the cost of basic research, and shoring up its power domestically and abroad—without running the political risks borne by liberal societies as a basis for their creative developments. While dis...

This book provides a comprehensive account of Chinese AI in its various facets, based on primary Chinese-language sources.China’s rise as an AI power is an event of importance to the world and a potential challenge to liberal democracies. Filling a gap in the literature, this volume is fully documented, data-driven, and presented in a scholarly format suitable for citation and for supporting downstream research, while also remaining accessible to laypersons. It brings together 15 r...