A white bone brush, drawing out all the forms in the world. It was a piece of brown paper, stating that the world was clean and turbid. Grandfather is a painter, but what he drew wasn't what you could see … Fusheng new work, please support! It was 8 AM, 10 PM, and 12 PM. Please look forward to it! Fushe's new book is open. "Metamorphosis", please pay attention!

A white bone brush, drawing out all the forms in the world. It was a piece of brown paper, stating that the world was clean and turbid. Grandfather is a painter, but what he drew wasn't what you could see … Fusheng new work, please support! It was 8 AM, 10 PM, and 12 PM. Please look forward to it! Fushe's new book is open. "Metamorphosis", please pay attention!

A young man who had been inextricably linked with the number 12 since birth had died on his twelfth day of life and his grandfather on his twelfth birthday. Now, on his twenty-fourth birthday, what would happen? One imprint, one year old, one dead. Two Wheels Breaking Three Souls, who knows what happened in the fourth seal?

Ethnobiology and Development in Asia: The Belt and Road Initiative offers a groundbreaking perspective on the interplay between traditional knowledge, cultural practices, and biological resources along historical and contemporary trade routes across Asia. Against the backdrop of an interlinked climate, biodiversity, and land degradation crisis, generating robust knowledge that includes local and indigenous perspectives is crucial. This book explores how communities across diverse ...

Ethnobiology and Development in Asia: The Belt and Road Initiative offers a groundbreaking perspective on the interplay between traditional knowledge, cultural practices, and biological resources along historical and contemporary trade routes across Asia. Against the backdrop of an interlinked climate, biodiversity, and land degradation crisis, generating robust knowledge that includes local and indigenous perspectives is crucial. This book explores how communities across diverse ...

Origins of Chinese Food Culture brings you through origins, history, customs and fascinating tales behind the intricate and perplexing labyrinth of customs and taboos and the art and science of Chinese food culture. With this well-illustrated and easy-to-read voulme, understanding Chinese culture has never been easier.

Tea and wine have a long history in China. In fact, both have become firmly entrenched in the culture and customs of the Chinese people, featuring prominently in the traditional rites of ancestral worship and social situations.

This book presents an intensive study on the biogeochemical cycle of mercury in a river-reservoir system in Wujiang River Basin, the upper branch of the Yangtze River. Six reservoirs located in the mainstream of the Wujiang River and their corresponding inflow/outflow rivers were selected for inclusion in this study, which was conducted by researchers from the Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The concentration and distribution of Hg in reservoirs (the water column, s...

This is a thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded edition of a classic illustrated introduction to the structural materials in natural organisms and what we can learn from them to improve man-made technology--from nanotechnology to textiles to architecture. Julian Vincent's book has long been recognized as a standard work on the engineering design of biomaterials and is used by undergraduates, graduates, researchers, and professionals studying biology, zoology, engineering, and biologica...

Soil Magnetism: Applications in Pedology, Environmental Science and Agriculture provides a systematic, comparative, and detailed overview of the magnetic characterization of the major soil units and the observed general relationships, possibilities, and perspectives in application of rock magnetic methods in soil science, agriculture, and beyond. Part I covers detailed magnetic and geochemical characterization of major soil types according to the FAO classification system, with Part II cov...

Active Coatings for Smart Textiles presents the latest information on active materials and their application to textiles in the form of coatings and finishes for the purpose of improving performance and creating active functional effects. This important book provides detailed coverage of smart coating types, processes, and applications. After an introduction to the topic, Part One introduces various types of smart and active coatings, including memory polymer coatings, durable and self-cle...

This book explores the structure-property-process relationship of biomaterials from engineering and biomedical perspectives, and the potential of bio-inspired materials and their applications. A large variety of natural materials with outstanding physical and mechanical properties have appeared in the course of evolution. From a bio-inspired viewpoint, materials design requires a novel and highly cross disciplinary approach. Considerable benefits can be gained by providing an integrated ap...