Song Guo & Zhihao Qu 
Edge Learning for Distributed Big Data Analytics [PDF ebook] 
Theory, Algorithms, and System Design

Amidst rising global inequality, migration, climate change, health pandemics, and deepening poverty, it is time to redirect our economy towards more sustainable and socially just processes and outcom …

In this new book on native butterflies we look at the lifecycle of the butterfly alongside many other fascinating facts, all brought to life by the brilliant photography of Andrew Fusek Peters.With c …

Bees are a fascinating and indispensable group of insects, but many species are in decline, and efforts to help determine distributions and changes in abundance have to date been compromised by a ser …

Research Methods for Operations and Supply Chain Management, third edition, is a toolkit of research approaches primarily for advanced students and beginner researchers, but also a reference book for …

This book utilises expectancy–value theory and undermining effect of extrinsic reward theory to examine the impact of the Central Government-Funded Teacher Education (CGFTE) policy on Chinese pre-ser …

Since its independence in 1951, Libya has experienced rapid economic and social change. Many of these developments, though dramatic, have not been comprehensively documented until now. One of the pro …

Approximately one million innocent Indonesians were killed by their fellow nationals, neighbours and kin at the height of an anti-communist campaign in the mid-1960s. This book investigates the profo …

Energy policy is a key area in each of the world»s economies. The oil shocks of the 1970»s emphasised how important energy had become. In recent years a growing awareness of environmental issues ha …

Using the case study of Laos, a small landlocked country in Southeast Asia that has seen some of the world’s most brutal forms of poverty and violence, this book examines the power of traditional and …

This second edition of Understanding Chinese Society provides a comprehensive, readable, and well-grounded introduction to the key issues affecting contemporary China. A thorough analysis is undertak …