In his memoir, Dr. Shium Andrew Chen recounts the fascinating story of his youth in pre-Communist China, his emigration to the United States, his significant contributions to the field of…

Contains topics that include the design of a country’s financial safety nets, the effective policies of acquiring failed banks in reducing moral hazard problems, the voluntary disclosure of real options…

Contains contributions on important topics in finance research. This volume includes topics such as the impact of reform in corporate governance, the stock price reactions to the joint venture announcements…

Modifying Food Texture, Volume 1: Novel Ingredients and Processing Techniques discusses texture as an important aspect of consumer food acceptance and preference, and the fact that specific consumer groups, including…

Asia is no longer simply the continent to which the world turns for outsourcing and off shoring of production, leaving retailing to Western countries. Asia now contains many of the…

Plants and plant-derived compounds and drugs are becoming more and more popular with increasing numbers of scientists researching plant analysis. The quality control of herbal drugs is also becoming essential…

This book is nothing less than a complete and comprehensive survey of the state-of-the-art of terrorism informatics. The book details three major areas of terrorism research: prevention, detection, and established…

In a field over-saturated with research on global cities and megacities, this is the first academic book to analyze specifically small cities and regions in New England. The book contains…