Bai Lu tells the story of her rebelliousness against first the Confucian and then the Communist way of life and the discrimination she endured because of her class background and gender. This is a book about a bold, honest, fascinating woman of China and opens up doors closed to us about Chinese culture during Mao's era. It also reveals cultural differences which help us understand what motivates others who have grown up in an ambiance and era different from ours. Although historical, this book reads like an interesting novel.

Fractional calculus and its applications are fascinating research areas in many engineering disciplines. This book is a comprehensive collection of research from the author's group, which is one of the most active in the fractional calculus community worldwide and is the birthplace of one of the four MATLAB toolboxes in fractional calculus, the FOTF Toolbox. The book presents high-precision solution algorithms for a variety of fractional-order differential equations, including nonlinear, delay, and boundary value equations. Currently, there are no other universal solvers available for the...