Take Your Ministry Beyond Cultural Competence to Cultural FluencyIn Thriving Intercultural Ministry, specialist Pablo Kim Sun draws on years of intercultural ministry experience to guide churches and ministries beyond multicultural good intentions to genuine intercultural transformation. He offers a trauma-informed, embodied approach, addressing how cultural displacement and discrimination live in bodies and systems across generations, and how intercultura...

It’s time for phase three of Natsuki’s Rainbow-Colored Youth Plan!After a turbulent winter, the seasons turn once more, bringing Natsuki back to spring. His usual group has been split up into different homerooms, but that won’t change the bonds they’ve built...right? At least his new classmates seem fun. On top of all that, Natsuki’s hell-bent on taking the band seriously and must practice like crazy for the rapidly approaching music festival. Will Natsuki be able to successfully j...

Intended for researchers and practitioners alike, this book covers carefully selected yet broad topics in optimization, machine learning, and metaheuristics. Written by world-leading academic researchers who are extremely experienced in industrial applications, this self-contained book is the first of its kind that provides comprehensive background knowledge, particularly practical guidelines, and state-of-the-art techniques. New algorithms are carefully explained, further elaborated with ...

This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of how FinTech, social innovation, and inclusive partnerships can drive sustainable development on a global scale. It delves into the transformative potential of Alipay, the world's largest FinTech platform, and its role in achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through innovative fintech solutions.

In Caohai Wetland in Guizhou, China, twelve-year-old Xiaoxi lives with her grandmother while her parents work far from home. Among the reeds, the water, and the black-necked cranes that return each winter, she finds comfort, wonder, and a deep connection to the place around her.But when a factory is planned near the marsh, Xiaoxi is drawn into a painful conflict: the project could bring jobs closer to home, yet it could also harm the cranes' fragile refuge. As the wetland begins to ...

Who are our enemies? And what would it mean to love them?Hyung Jin Kim Sun leads us on an exploration of God’s call to love our enemies. What did Jesus demonstrate and teach about loving enemies? How is nonviolence connected to Christian faith and spirituality? Isn’t violence sometimes necessary? Does loving our enemies really work? What is the goal of enemy love and how can it be applied in our everyday lives? This book won’t answer every question about a Christia...

Hyung Jin Kim Sun is a Mennonite. He was born in Paraguay and raised by a Korean immigrant family, before attending an evangelical seminary in the United States. There he joined a Mennonite church, though he often returned from gatherings feeling uneasy. Most Mennonites he met were white, with European heritage, and their faith community was often their ethnic community as well. As a Korean-Paraguayan, Kim Sun felt that he would never be Mennonite enough. This crisis of religious identity ...

This book provides an exploration of China’s evolving role in global governance and sustainable development, offering unique insights from over thirty leading scholars from most leading universities in China and beyond. Through a multidisciplinary lens, the volume delves into key themes such as global financial systems, climate governance, transnational environmental policies, and China’s contributions to global infrastructure, health, and AI governance. It analyzes theoretical frameworks—...

This book provides an in-depth examination of recent research advances in cloud-edge-end computing, covering theory, technologies, architectures, methods, applications, and future research directions. It aims to present state-of-the-art models and optimization methods for fusing and integrating clouds, edges, and devices.Cloud-edge-end computing provides users with low-latency, high-reliability, and cost-effective services through the fusion and integration of clouds, edges, and de...

Natsuki plunges into his second summer vacation with fresh aspirations for the future. The Rainbow-Colored Youth Plan is proceeding without a hitch—his band is unified once more, his relationship with Hikari is strong, and each day is fulfilling. Everything should be great, but Natsuki’s been having enigmatic dreams of a life with a girl who isn’t Hikari. Unbeknownst to him, those blissful dreams just might spell trouble for his current reality. Life is a constant series of choices. Can Na...

Featuring translations of terms from Korean, Chinese and Japanese this dictionary is a must have for any serious martial arts practitioner.The modern martial artist requires more than a mere vocabulary listing. The modern practitioner wants an indepth exploration not only of the equivalency of meaning but also the cultural and historical background of the terms relevant to the martial arts. To answer that need, this dictionary includes:Over 7,100 of ...

This book reviews China’s industrialization from the perspective of inclusiveness, and discusses the challenges arising from its industrialization process and how the Chinese people view and seek to overcome these challenges. By examining China’s industrialization in the context of the global economy, it reveals how China should be further integrated into and contribute to the great endeavor of worldwide industrialization and human development in the new era of economic globalization, allo...