Affective Encounters (LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology)

Against the background of China's rapidly growing, and sometimes highly controversial, activities in Africa, this book is among the first of its kind to systematically document Sino-African interactions at the everyday level. 
Based on sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork at two contrasting sites in Lusaka, Zambia―a Chinese state-sponsored educational farm and a private Chinese family farm―Di Wu focuses on daily interactions among Chinese migrants and their Zambian hosts. Daily communicative events, e.g. banquets, market negotiations, work-place disputes, and various social encounters across a range of settings are used to trace the essential role that emotion/affect plays in forming and reproducing social relations and group identities among Chinese migrants. Wu suggests that affective encounters in everyday situations―as well as failed attempts to generate affect―should not be overlooked in order to fully appreciate Sino-African interactions. 
Deeply researched and with rich ethnographic detail, this book will be relevant to scholars of anthropology, international development, and others interested in Sino-African relations.

Wu, Di

Reference

Routledge

Data Mining with Python: Theory, Application, and Case Studies (Chapman & Hall/CRC The Python Series)

Data is everywhere and it’s growing at an unprecedented rate. But making sense of all that data is a challenge. Data Mining is the process of discovering patterns and knowledge from large data sets, and Data Mining with Python focuses on the hands-on approach to learning Data Mining. It showcases how to use Python Packages to fulfill the Data Mining pipeline, which is to collect, integrate, manipulate, clean, process, organize, and analyze data for knowledge. 
The contents are organized based on the Data Mining pipeline, so readers can naturally progress step by step through the process. Topics, methods, and tools are explained in three aspects: “What it is” as a theoretical background, “why we need it” as an application orientation, and “how we do it” as a case study. 
This book is designed to give students, data scientists, and business analysts an understanding of Data Mining concepts in an applicable way. Through interactive tutorials that can be run, modified, and used for a more comprehensive learning experience, this book will help its readers to gain practical skills to implement Data Mining techniques in their work.

Data Mining with Python (Chapman & Hall/CRC The Python Series)

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

Chapman and Hall/CRC

BiteSize Python for Absolute Beginners (Chapman & Hall/CRC The Python Series)

As an introduction to Python, this book allows readers to take a slow and steady approach to understanding Python code, explaining concepts, connecting programming with real-life examples, writing Python programs, and completing case studies. 
While there are many books, websites, and online courses about the topic, we break down Python programming into easily digestible lessons of less than 5 minutes each, following our BiteSize approach. Each lesson begins with a clear and short introduction to the topic. This gives you a strong base to start from and gets you ready for deeper learning. Then, you will see coding demonstrations that show the ideas discussed. These examples are simple and useful, helping you really understand the concepts. You’ll then practice tasks at different difficulty levels, so you can test your knowledge and increase your confidence. You’ll also play with case studies to solve real-world problems. Tips are included to show how you can incorporate generative AI into your learning toolkit, using it for feedback, practice exercises, code reviews, and exploring advanced topics. Recommended AI prompts can help you identify areas for improvement, review key concepts, and track your progress. 
This book is designed for absolute beginners with no prior programming experience. It is ideal for individuals with busy schedules or limited time for studying.

Against the background of China's rapidly growing, and sometimes highly controversial, activities in Africa, this book is the first of its kind to systematically document Sino-African interactions at the everyday level. Based on months of ethnographic fieldwork at two contrasting sites in Zambia--a Chinese state-sponsored educational farm and a private Chinese family farm--Di Wu focuses on the daily interactions of Chinese migrants with their Zambian hosts. Di Wu uses daily communicative events, e.g. meals and banquets, and social encounters across a range of settings, to trace the essential role that emotion affect plays in forming and reproducing relations and groups among Chinese migrants. On the one hand, these migrants say they feel anxious when dealing with local people and that this unease is what hinders their interactions with Zambians. Against arguments about Chinese sociality that overwhelmingly focus on its instrumentality, Wu argues that emotion affect is constitutive of the process of (re)producing Chinese social ties and social groups. The author also suggests that, in order to fully appreciate the current Sino-African interaction, stories of affective encounters in everyday situations, and also of failed attempts to generate affect, should not be overlooked. Deeply researched and with rich detail, this will be of interest to students of anthropology, international development studies, and sino-Africa relations.

Qigong Journey brings students of Asian culture, Daoist philosophy, and the mind/body wellness connection directly into the mind of a master. Through the unparalleled knowledge and openness of Dr. Baolin Wu, take a journey through the many layers of the Daoist qigong experience. In this expansive volume, filled with personal anecdotes of life in the White Cloud Monastery, lies an in-depth exploration of the holistic and lyrical Daoist worldview, a shamanic experience both pragmatic and poetic. Discover the connection between the history and traditions of ancient understanding and the daily life we all lead today. The book is a practical manual detailing a complete, eight hundred year old protective qigong practice from the founder of the White Cloud Monastery itself, preserved in silence by the members of the White Cloud Monastery community until today. With painstaking, step-by-step instructions and beautiful illustrations by Oliver Benson, our beloved Qi Gong for Total Wellness artist, the goal of this book is to present the next level of Nine Palaces Daoist Qigong. Using a guided series of breath, visualization and internal isometric strengthening exercises, it is a life-changing physical training, focused on securing one's body and consciousness in the midst of the very real health challenges, hardships and volatility of today's world.

Qigong Journey: Nine-Five Maintenance of Qi

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Wu, Baolin

Eckstein, Jessica

Exercise & Fitness

Three Pines Press

This book aims to understand public diplomacy by examining its practice. In particular, it focuses on the implementation of educational and exchange programs by the US Departments of State and Defense toward China. Implementation is the focal point of this study and is utilized both as a practical process and a methodology. It refers to the process of translating a public diplomacy policy goal--the specific order given to a governmental institution in order to achieve a general foreign policy objective--into public diplomacy practices and impact. In addition, it refers to a research method that centers implementation and accepts the prerequisite of discretion from studies of policy implementation. This book maps out where and by whom implementation discretion is exercised in public diplomacy. It argues that public diplomacy is in the eye of the beholder, and that its meanings can vary significantly according to different actors.

U.S. Public Diplomacy Towards China: Exercising Discretion in Educational and Exchange Programs (Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy)

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Wu Di said I know how you were left over, wont you feel sharp pain when hearing this? The seemingly toneless family dialogue and event is pricking your heart and reminding you of the fact that you are left over. Any problem-solving is like disease curing. Wu Di is just the best love doctor though very sharp. In this book, Wu cited tens of real cases from reform of single girls, to marriage battle, and analyzed them one by one to point out the crux and give correspondent prescriptions. Love letter is absolutely to read; complex to solve; and love doctor to visit.

I Know How You Are Left Over (Chinese Edition)

Guangming Daily Press

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Affective Encounters (LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology)

Data Mining with Python (Chapman & Hall/CRC The Python Series)

Data Mining with Python: Theory, Application, and Case Studies (Chapman & Hall/CRC The Python Series)

BiteSize Python for Absolute Beginners (Chapman & Hall/CRC The Python Series)

BiteSize Python for Absolute Beginners (Chapman & Hall/CRC The Python Series)

Affective Encounters (LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology)

Qigong Journey: Nine-Five Maintenance of Qi

U.S. Public Diplomacy Towards China: Exercising Discretion in Educational and Exchange Programs (Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy)

U.S. Public Diplomacy Towards China: Exercising Discretion in Educational and Exchange Programs (Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy)

I Know How You Are Left Over (Chinese Edition)