New Releases by Jen Wang

From New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow, the story of a girl who gets into gaming—and ends up on a globe-spanning crusade to stop exploitation online.

A collection of seven new stories by comics artists centers on a central theme of finding a hidden door.

It''s been called one of Asia''s "miracle economies". The beauty of its mountains and rivers was astounding enough to attract the Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese navies.And, since, then it has produced everything from boba tea to famous director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) to millions of exported goods. This is Taiwan. It''s where East meets West-and it has a lot to offer curious travelers.Whether you''re a backpacker trekking through Asia on a budget, a business traveler coming to Taipei for a week of luxury, a descendant visiting the land of your ancestors, or someone who''s curious about the history, culture, food, and people of this unique island-Taipei: Footsteps will help you experience Taiwan from the perspective of a local.Written and designed by a team of five local college students who researched every corner of the island over a period of eighteen months, this book includes listings and descriptions of both popular and lesser-known tourist sites. It also features easy-to-use guides and maps.In Taipei: Footsteps, discover for yourself why this island has captured the imagination of so many people around the world.

The story of two very different people: KoKo, a twenty-something free spirit living her life to the max, and Jon, a quiet average guy who has given up his own dreams to move to Peru with his girlfriend. When the two meet, they find themselves rethinking their own lives.

Abstract: In 1984, Patterson and Piatetski-Shapiro constructed cuspidal distinguished representations on the three-fold covers of GL(3). Their construction is based on the work of Kazhdan and Patterson on metaplectic forms and the method of the converse theorems given by Jacquet, Piatetski-Shapiro, and Shalika. These distinguished representations can be viewed as generalizations of classical theta functions. This dissertation consists of two parts. In the first part, we apply the approach of Patterson and Piatetski-Shapiro to the case of the two fold cover of GL(2). We show that each Hecke character corresponds to a distinguished representation on the two-fold cover of GL(2). If the Hecke character is odd, then the corresponding distinguished representation is cuspidal. The same result has been obtained by Gelbart and Piatetski-Shapiro with a different approach using Weil representations. In the second part, we make progress toward generalizing the work of Patterson and Piatetski-Shapiro to the case of the four-fold cover of GL(4). The goal is to develop the relevant local Rankin-Selberg theory, adapt the converse theorem of Cogdell and Piatetski-Shapiro to the metaplectic setting and verify the analytic information needed to construct cuspidal distinguished representations by the converse theorem.

We show that investment under financing constraints can be modeled as a one-sided deviation from a frictionless investment level, and that effects of financing constraints can be identified and quantified by imposing a distributional assumption on the effects. Panel data on Taiwanese manufacturing firms between 1989 and 1996 are used in the estimation. This period chronicles important financial reforms in the Taiwanese markets, thus providing a unique opportunity to test the financing constraint hypothesis. Estimation results show that cash flow not only have the first order effect of reducing the level of constraints, but also has the second order effect of reducing the variance of the constraints. The use of the quantitative measures of financing constraints in the post-estimation analysis yields two interesting findings: (1) Some of the sorting criteria used in the literature do not have significant and monotonic relationships with the degrees of financing constraint, resulting in problematic sample separations. (2) The effects of financial liberalization in Taiwan are such that the investment efficiency improved over time for a typical firm, and the improvement was particularly large for smaller firms.

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