Exploring multimodality in English language teaching textbooks, this book focusses on how language and image are co-deployed within these resources in order to create and convey interpersonal meaning. Presenting cutting-edge research in appraisal studies and multimodal discourse analysis, Yumin Chen uses systemic functional linguistics and social semiotics to investigate how different voices are introduced and aligned inter-modally in textbooks, extending the appraisal systems of engagemen...

In today’s finance industry, data-driven decision-making is essential. Financial Data Science with Python: An Integrated Approach to Analysis, Modeling, and Machine Learning bridges the gap between traditional finance and modern data science, offering a comprehensive guide for students, analysts, and professionals.This book equips readers with the tools to analyze complex financial data, build predictive models, and apply machine learning techniques to rea...

Most AP Psych review books give you everything. This one gives you what's on the exam.The AP Psychology exam has been completely redesigned. Five units. Digital format. Two new free-response question types. Most review guides haven't caught up. Score 5 on AP Psych was written from the ground up for the current exam — and nothing else.Written by an educational psychologist with over a decade of AP Psychology teaching experience, this focused guide cuts throu...

*Stop Overthinking: A Simple Guide to Peace of Mind***Are you tired of feeling trapped in a whirlwind of endless thoughts, worries, and "what ifs"? Do you long for a calmer, more focused mind but aren’t sure where to start? In *Stop Overthinking: A Simple Guide to Peace of Mind*, Dr. Sara Chen, a Certified Relaxation Therapist & Wellness Coach, provides a compassionate and practical roadmap to help you break free from the grips of overthinking and reclaim your mental clarity.

A CT scan revealed Dr. James Chen, a Miami physician, had a cancerous, inoperable, tumor behind his nose. The prognosis was bleak. Dr. Chen had eight weeks to live.Dr. Chen and his sons, Chris and Gordon, looked for a miracle. Chris was completing a cardiology fellowship. Gordon was finishing medical school. They knew what they were up against. Even still, they were shocked when a local oncologist told them, “The first available appointment is in six weeks.”James and his so...

Animal welfare has attracted attention in Australia in recent decades, yet the policy-making process remains poorly understood. Peter Chen explores the history of animal welfare in Australia, examines public opinion and media coverage of key issues, and comprehensively maps the policy domain. He shows how policy is made and implemented, and how diverse social, ethical and economic interests interact to produce a complex and unpredictable political climate.

This book addresses important advances in diverse quantization phenomena. Theory of Magnetoelectric Properties of 2D Systems develops the generalized tight-binding model in order to comprehend the rich quantization phenomena in 2D materials. The unusual effects, taken into consideration simultaneously, mainly come from the multi-orbital hybridization, the spin-orbital coupling, the intralayer and interlayer atomic interactions, the layer number, the stacking configuration, the sit...

There is growing acceptance among pragmaticians that identity is often (de)constructed and negotiated in communication in order to impact the outcome of the interaction. Filling an important gap in current research, this book offers the first systematic, pragmatic theory to account for the generative mechanisms of identity in communication.Using data drawn from real-life communicative contexts in China, Xinren Chen examines why identity strategies are adopted, how and why identitie...

By investigating the Southern Weekly Incident, in which censorship of the prominent Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly triggered mass online contention in Chinese society, Resistance in Digital China examines how Chinese people engage in resistance on digital networks whilst cautiously safeguarding their life under authoritarian rule.Chen's in-depth analysis of the Southern Weekly Incident ties together overlapping debates in internet studies, Chi...

Learn how to bring about significant personal transformation and growth with ease and become your best self without finding your purpose first!Drawing on decades of leadership experience, Dr Jefferson Yu-Jen Chen and Anne Duggan explore how the principles of disruption can be applied to get what you want in life and become your best-self. They question conventional thinking around purpose and the importance that it plays in achieving success.In an insightful, practical and ...

This book is the textbook that I used to train church workers in China, so it may be more relevant to domestic workers. I have also used this book to train new deacons in our church, and the results were quite good. The principle of this book is that only a truly born-again and saved Christian can be a true co-worker of God, and he or she must be clear that God has called him twice. He or she must also be a good brother or sister and a good servant in the church in order to be a church lea...

Most Christians know they should understand what the whole Bible teaches about God, Christ, salvation, and the end times — but few have six months to work through a thousand-page systematic theology. Concise Systematic Theology was written to close that gap: a complete, doctrinally serious walk through all nine major branches of theology, condensed into a course any Sunday school class, small group, or individual reader can actually finish.Written by Elder Dr. Mike Jun...