A renowned Feng Shui practitioner discusses his technique in this special guide, sharing secrets of the Taoist tradition.Today the art of Feng Shui, once shrouded in secrecy and superstition, is taking on new life as a powerful, practical method for enhancing one's career, health and personal growth. Unfortunately, these techniques, as taught in the U.S.A., tend to be filled with incomplete, incorrect and unnecessarily complex information.Now Dr. Baolin Wu,...

A guide to the ancient art of Qi Gong by a modern master.Qi Gong for Total Wellness is a clear, illustrated guide to Qi Gong, the ancient self-healing art that combines breathing, posture, movement, and visualization to build vitality and improve health. Taoist master and medical doctor Baolin Wu presents, for the first time in the West, the complete nine Palaces Solar Qi Gong system. This one-thousand-year-old discipline from the White Cloud Monastery of ...

Following the first and second quantum revolutions, quantum information theory has expanded beyond the field of physics into numerous other interdisciplinary areas. This book provides a comprehensive philosophical exploration of quantum mechanics and quantum information.The author examines key concepts such as quantum reality, quantum entanglement, quantum information, the quantum world, quantum computing, and quantum matter, while also extending quantum mechanical theory to encomp...

Preventive Diplomacy (PD) has been recognized as a useful tool to address security issues in the Asia-Pacific region. To explore a PD mode compatible with the regional situation step by step on the basis of consensus has become the common will of the regional countries. Since the region is facing various new challenges, this requires innovation in theories and practices of PD. Focusing on the practice of preventive diplomacy, this book conducts empirical and comparative studies on the appl...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering, TASE 2025, held in Limassol, Cyprus, during July 14–16, 2025.The 20 full papers, 1 short paper, 2 invited papers were carefully selected from 66 submissions.The papers present the latest developments in formal and theoretical software engineering methods and techniques.They are grouped in topical sections on program verification; verificati...

The rapid progress of mobile, wireless communication and embedded micro-sensing MEMS technologies has brought about the rise of pervasive computing. Wireless local-area networks (WLANs) and wireless personal-area networks (WPANs) are now common tools for many people, and it is predicted that wearable sensor networks will greatly improve everyday li

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, ATVA 2022, held in Beiging, China in October 2022. The symposium is dedicated to promoting research in theoretical and practical aspects of automated analysis, verification and synthesis by providing an international venue for the researchers to present new results. The 21 regular papers presented together with 5 tool papers and 1 invited paper were care...

Over the past two decades, there has been a shift in research and industrial practice, and products traditionally manufactured primarily from wood are increasingly combined with other nonwood materials of either natural or synthetic origin. Wood and other plant-based fiber is routinely combined with adhesives, polymers, and other "ingredients" to produce composite materials.Introduction to Wood and Natural Fiber Composites draws together widely scattered information concer...

Developing sufficient energy resources to replace coal, oil and gas is a globally critical necessity. Alternatives to fossil fuels such as wind, solar, or geothermal energies are desirable, but the usable quantities are limited and each has inherent deterrents. The only virtually unlimited energy source is nuclear energy, where safety of infrastructure systems is the paramount concern.Infrastructure Systems for Nuclear Energy addresses the analysis and design of infrastruc...

This book reflects how the concern regarding the effects of radiation exposure in patients and health personnel involved in cardiac electrophysiology (EP) has inspired new developments in cardiac electrophysiology procedures without the use of fluoroscopy. This innovative method has become a subspecialty within electrophysioloy with several EP laboratories around the world adopting an exclusive non-fluoroscopy approach. It features guidance on how to use three dimensional (3D) navigation s...

This collection of papers comprises over ten papers published in recent years, with topics on new phenomena, new problems, new thinking, and new views in the fields of “barrier-free communication”, “new technologies and new media”, “Internet and society”, etc. They present and reflect on the new developments and new trends of current Chinese media research from different aspects, and to a certain extent outline and depict the landscape of the accelerating informatization of the Chinese soc...

**The enthralling conclusion to Judy I. Lin's Book of Tea duology—A Magic Steeped in Poison and A Venom Dark and Sweet—is sure to enchant fans of Adrienne Young and Leigh Bardugo.A great evil has come to the kingdom of Dàxi. The Banished Prince has returned to seize power, his rise to the dragon throne aided by the mass poisonings that have kept the people bound in fear and distrust.Ning, a young but powerful shénnóng-shi—a wielder of magic using ...