Cheng Books

I like this book very much! This is the most comprehensive Handbook to leadfree soldering I have ever seen. I learned a lot from this book and it is very useful for my jobs. I carry it with me when I am at work. I open this book when I have problems, and it can always help me find the solutions. I recommend this book to all the manufacturing engineers and managers who are designing and making electronics products.

This is a very special book!
The focus of this book is on leadfree soldering: from chip-level interconnects, IC packaging, printed circuit board (PCB) fabrication, to PCB assemblies. It provides many useful information and engineering data related to leadfree soldering. These include: design, material selection, process development, equipment selection, manufacturing, and reliability of leadfree soldering. I found these information very useful for my job as an R&D engineer.

This book is very unique!
Even it's focus is on leadfree sodering, however, this book talks about the major problems created by leadfree soldering. These include halogen-free molding compounds for plastic packages and halogen-free epoxy resins for PCBs. This information helps me to design my electronic and photonic products so they can withstand the leadfree soldering environments.

This book is wonderful!
One of the alternatives to leadfree soldering is to use conductive adhesives. This book talks about this very important subject in great details. I enjoy very much in reading the technical contents underlining this technology.

Overall, this is a great book! I would like to recommend to everyone who is working in electronic and optoelectronic products. Hats off to the authors for writing such a comprehensive handbook on leadfree soldering. Congratulations!

I've gone over various growth-oriented books, and many of them have great points and strategies. But "Extreme Revenue Growth" is the one seminal piece that not only unifies the concepts in other books, but adds a good amount of insights on its own to bring a whole that really shows you the way on how to go about growth in a real, sustained way, and gives insight on many factors that are usually overlooked elsewhere.

The book is sized like a standard paperback non-fiction business book, but it's like every single word counted and carried so much impact that while you'll come out of it absolutely pleased (and happy in the thought that books should be "complete" on their own without being a hook for another), it's just so insightful that a part of you wishes for more.

Victor Cheng has great credentials having been part of McKinsey and being its youngest associate at his time there, and has taken his experience and consultation credentials, and then Fortune 500 company lessons with and combined them with experience and lessons of running various sized businesses to produce the one accelerated growth book to end all business growth books. Many other "growth" books aren't really about business growth but standard fare on sales and almost boilerplate cliches and platitudes ("Treat customers well and they'll beat a path to your door," etc. etc.), this one really shows you the way on how and why, the practice and theory behind the concepts, and is an absolute gem.

I wish I'd had this book 18 months ago. Victor has made what is an incredibly daunting task - starting/running a company seem very easy and uncomplicated. He explains it in such a way that anyone can understand it.

As founder of two startup companies in Austin, TX called Invodo.com, I found his suggestions on the hiring process spot on and very useful.

This is an excellent book and I highly recommend reading it and using it as a resource.

Gard M.
Austin, TX

It is a very nice book for a beginner. It is a well-organized and excellent text covering fully up-to-date treatment of genetic algorithms in industrial engineering and operationas research. Especially, its unique, creative and intuitive approach makes the complex subject transparent and understandable. I fond the book very much and used the materials in my classes.

This is a very nice book for beginners. It is a well-organized and excellent text covering fully up-to-date treatment of genetic algorithms in industrial engineering and operationas research. Especially, its unique, creative and intuitive approach makes the complex subject transparent and understandable. I fond the book very much and used the materials in my classes.

Green Mountain, White Cloud by Francois Cheng adds a stunning novel to Cheng's growing body of truly great work. He has now been translated into English covering Chinese poetics, the written/painting arts of China, the relationship between calligraphy and poetry, friendship, totalitarianism, and now love -- love beyond understanding.

One constant in his work are the conflicts between tradition and modernism and the working out of healing through art and love.
The binding of tradition and the chaos of modernism interact like Yin and Yang.

Green Mountain, White Cloud is a brief novel set in the late days of Ming China just before its collapse and the disaster of colonial control of China lasting until the 1900s.

The title of this book comes from the core concepts of Chinese art -- mountains and waters (clouds are a special mysterious form of water). Mountains standing for the Yang energy -- men and their constant strength and clouds for the Ying power of the water and feminine. Water in all its forms has the power of the river and the ocean to flow and change. Mountains give birth the the water and water gives birth the mountains.

Possibly the greatest philosophical statment of the Eastern worldview is Dogen's Mountains and Rivers Sutra playing out the the entirety of multidimensional existence in short talk/essay on Buddhist teaching. The import and context of Cheng's novel can be viewed, at a distance, through Dogen's lens. It is a reflection on the teaching process that Cheng follows: to read this Chinese novel written in French and translated into English we must study an obscure text from the Japanese Middle Ages.

The story can be read, like the other Cheng novel in English, The River Below -- at several levels. In this book we have:
good and evil, loss and gain, masculine and feminine, gradual and transcending enlighment, the Oxhearing stages of the path to enlighenment, Zen koans, human love, Buddhist pure intent, traditional Chinese healing, and Christian love.

An interesting part of the novel is the Buddhist/Taoist/Confucian world crossing paths with the Christian mission. Buddhist concerns for other beings, taoist concepts of dialetics, and Confucian concerns with human character are displayed against the mysterious faith of a couple of Christians and their concern with the Father in Heaven and love for the Son of God.

At bottom this is a book about pure love and its great power.

Green Mountain, White Cloud by Francois Cheng adds a stunning novel to Cheng's growing body of truly great work. He has now been translated into English addressing Chinese poetics, the written/painting arts of China, the relationship between calligraphy and poetry, friendship, totalitarianism, and now love -- love beyond understanding.

One constant in his work are the conflicts between tradition and modernism and the working out of healing through art and love.
The binding of tradition and the chaos of modernism interact like Yin and Yang.

Green Mountain, White Cloud is a brief novel, of about 200 pages, set in the late days of Ming China just before its collapse and a time where the Chinese were aliens in thier own land.

The title of this book comes from the core concepts of Chinese art -- mountains and waters (clouds are a special mysterious form of water). Mountains standing for the Yang energy -- men and their constant strength and clouds for the Ying power of the water and feminine. Water in all its forms has the power of the river and the ocean to flow and change. Mountains give birth the the water and water gives birth the mountains.

Possibly the greatest philosophical statment of the Eastern worldview is Dogen's Mountains and Rivers Sutra playing out the the entirety of multidimensional existence in short talk/essay on Buddhist teaching. The import and context of Cheng's novel can be viewed, at a distance, through Dogen's lens. It is a reflection on the teaching process that Cheng follows: to read this Chinese novel written in French and translated into English we must study an obscure text from the Japanese Middle Ages.

The story can be read, like the other Cheng novel in English, The River Below -- at several levels. In this book we have:
good and evil, loss and gain, masculine and feminine, gradual and transcending enlighment, the Oxhearing stages of the path to enlighenment, Zen koans, human love, Buddhist pure intent, traditional Chinese healing, and Christian love.

An interesting part of the novel is the Eastern world crossing paths with the Christian mission. Buddhist concerns for other beings, taoist concepts of dialetics, and Confucian concerns with human character are displayed against the mysterious faith of a couple of Christians and their concern with the Father in Heaven and love for the Son of God.

At bottom this is a book about pure love and its great power.

This book literally is the only and best way to learn Chinese. The reason why I bought this book is because my friend goes to Albany High School and they make you get this book. Now he has this book and knows sooo Much Chinese. He didn't even take the course though. He just studied at home and learned it. Then I started to look at it and I started to learn so much, so I had to own my own copy. I bought this one and the Hanyu: For intermediate Students stage 1.
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK IF YOU WANT TO LEARN CHINESE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a good book for beginning Chinese students. The exercises are clear and the book is laid out in a logical progression. Since Chinese is a tone language, you need to have a teacher to actually learn how to pronounce the tones, but this book will teach you the symbols and hanyu.

Sarah is trying to be your typical fourth grader. That is not so easy when you are just about the only Asian American at school. Sarah's best friend is suddenly ripped from her life. Her father is often absent. She has enough trouble. Then, Ting /Tina, a new girl from China, joins her class. Tina also misses her best friend and has her own share of troubles. Cheng has a wonderful writing style and a unique voice. Karen, East Asian Children's Books.

Ten-year-old Sarah misses her best friend terribly, but finds herself paired with a new girl in school who has just arrived from China. Sarah resents the pairing with another Asian student - and finds their common cultural roots still don't make up for the fact she's been raised in America and Tina is a newcomer. A reluctant friendship forms as the two find close ties to bind them in Honeysuckle House's inviting story of friendship.

This book is full of "real" information for college bound students. Even though it targets the international student, and is invaluable in that arena, it is equally valuable for American high school students as they prepare to go to college. The book includes basic information for first-time living experiences, study skills, building good relationships with professors, extra-curricular activities, applying for scholarships, working for extra money, and social life--all subjects needed by students moving away from home for the first time. Reading the book helps excite students about attending college. It is a first-rate gift from parents and grandparents who hope their offspring will succeed in college one day.

This is a well written and very readable reference that should be required reading for any international student considering a university education in the United States. Ms Yap is a down-to-earth charming young woman who's 'been there, done that'.

While her experiences reflect her Asian background, I found most of her recommendations apply equally well to my own from Northern Italy.

I highly recommend this book.

This definitive three volume set of 'Journey To The West' by Wu Cheng'en is a must read for anyone interested in fantasy and Chinese mythology. 'Journey To The West' has everything from monkey mayhem to monsters, and magic. The quest for the sacred Buddhist sutras in India makes for an exciting journey filled with danger, demons and damsels. If you love classic Chinese literature or Buddhism, then you have to read 'Journey To The West'. I understand that in 2001, a TV movie entitled, 'The Monkey King' is scheduled for released. The following is a summary of the movie: "American journalist Nick Orton is caught up in the world of Chinese gods and monsters while on a search for the long lost manuscript to 'Hsi Yu Chi' (The Journey to the West) by Wu Ch'eng En. He is accompanied on his journey by a humanoid ape with incredible strength and magical powers, a humanoid pig-man, and his brother-in-arms, an ex-cannibal. Based on one of the greatest stories in Chinese history." (Lawrence De Meza from imdb.com) So what are you waiting for, buy it now and read it before 'Monkey King' mania sweeps the States!

This book is one of the Four Great Novels in China. Everybody in China know this story. Sun WuKong--the monkey, Zhu Bajie--the pig, everybody like them. Though it was written in 1570s, it is still a great book for children.

Our local library purchased this book as a resource after our family adopted from Kazakhstan and requested information about the country. We were so excited to find that this was really a very good book to give solid background information about the country. We traveled a second time to Kazakhstan to adopt another child and checked this book out several times for our 4 year old so that he could have a better idea what he would be seeing when we arrived in Kazakhstan. I read it myself a couple of times and found that I learned a lot of the basics about the country that I had not been able to learn elsewhere. Nice photos, easy to understand and written in such a way as it is not overly simplified so adults don't feel insulted reading it.

We first checked this out from our local library and had to have a copy of our own. The book was classified as "Junior", but it is an excellent overview for adults also.

This is one of the most beautifully illustrated books I have ever seen. I love the gorgeous illustrative techniques in the book- the combination of drawing/paint and collage of photos of actual fabrics for the characters' clothes, the real photo of stamp used in the picture frame, etc. The book is full of girl characters who are active: scooping, piling, dumping, mounding, buying oatmeal, using imagination. Two spunky elderly ladies who travel far to celebrate their sister's birthday. Beautiful interaction between generations, and nice message about community.

Andrea Cheng does a delightful job of taking a topic that is sometimes "scary" for children--that of the elderly. She shows the world from two points of view and then bridges those worlds in a touching, gentle way. Just when you think this might have a pitiful ending, there's a fun twist that leaves the reader deeply satisfied. A wonderful read that any children with an aging neighbor, relative, or grandparent will want to read again and again.