You didn't lose yourself in one dramatic moment. You lost pieces of yourself in thousands of small ones — the phone calls answered before you'd finished deciding, the plans changed before you'd admitted you didn't want to change them, the opinion swallowed because saying it out loud felt like too much of a risk. *When You Finally Choose Yourself* is not another book that tells you to "set boundaries" and leaves you to figure out how, alone, in the actual moment it matters. It goes earlier ...

There is a decision you have already made.You have the plan, the numbers, the qualifications, the lease you have read twice. What you do not have is the sentence, said out loud, by somebody else, that would make it official. So you ask. You ask your father. You ask a friend who knows about these things. You ask a consultant you pay four hundred dollars an hour. You ask, and you keep asking, and eleven months go by.The Woman Who Needs No Permi...

This book explores the relationship between China and international norms through the lens of The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).Presenting seven case studies, this book highlights China’s stances toward international norms that govern different international issues. The case studies reveal that the normative function of the networks built under the BRI is limited and contains noticeable variations between domestic norms and international ones in China, resulting in implementation ...

This book assesses the global significance of China’s decade-long campaign to reduce poverty. After showing how the country’s unique approach to poverty alleviation brought about unparalleled progress toward achieving both the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the authors shed light on how China’s experience can help other countries around the globe as they try to permanently rid humanity of the scourge of poverty under ever more challenging ...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2021, held in Sydney, Australia in February 2022.*The 26 full papers presented together with 35 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections in Part I, including: Healthcare, Education, Web Application and On-device application.* The conference was originally planned for December 20...

This book provides a comprehensive research on the financial development characteristics of the Zhuhai-Macao city cluster in the integration of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. Focusing on the positioning of Zhuhai and Macao in Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the book examines the financial cooperation path of Zhuhai to support the synergistic development of Macao's special financial markets, industries and institutions. This cooperation path use...

Demonstrates how a popular commodity has reshaped borders, traditions, and geopoliticsFrom misty mountain oolongs to the global boba boom, Taiwan’s teas carry far more than flavor. They embody contested borders, evolving identities, and the complexities of nationhood. Routes of Taiwan Tea traces tea varieties, processing expertise, and merchants across Taiwan and Southeast Asia to reveal how a simple leaf has become a force in global politics.Drawi...

There is a sentence you say when the subject of your own life comes up, and you have said it so long that you no longer hear it as a sentence. It starts with when, or once, or after. When the children are older. Once the project is handed over. After the verdict. When my mother no longer needs me.You did not refuse anything. You rescheduled. And a rescheduled no is still a no, and it is the more durable kind, because a no can be argued with and a when cannot. There is nothing to pu...

There is a version of your working life that has no number attached to it.The recall that was never issued. The client who did not leave. The audit that did not fail. The two weeks in 2020 when you made eleven decisions at night and nobody has ever asked what they were. You cannot put a non-event into a system. There is no field for it, and a thing with no field is a thing with no price, and a thing with no price is a thing you eventually stop believing in yourself.The Work...

The mayor died with a blueberry muffin in his hand.Yue Lin came home to Willow Hollow to do one thing: reopen her mother's bakery, keep her head down, and leave again before anyone got attached. She has done this before. She is very good at it.Then Douglas Pemberton sat down on the bench outside her front door at four-thirty in the morning and never got up.The muffin in his hand was wrapped in Yue's paper band. Her name was on it. The whole town recognized it in und...

There is a sentence you did not say last week, and you can still remember where you were standing when you decided not to say it.That is not a failure of confidence. Confidence is a feeling, and a feeling cannot be consulted in the four seconds before you speak. Shrinking is a grammar. It has a shape, it happens in five places you can locate, and a sentence can be changed at the moment of use in a way that a feeling never can.The Space You Were Told Not to Take starts from ...

What happens when you have spent years being the woman everyone can count on—and quietly lost track of yourself? The Woman You Become is a gentle, practical guide for women who look capable on the outside but feel disconnected from their own wants, boundaries, and direction. It is for the woman who says yes too quickly, carries other people's emotions, keeps postponing what matters to her, or wonders why a life that looks fine still does not feel like hers. Through vivid everyday situation...