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Languages : en
Pages : 902
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Reminiscence of a Roving Scholar
Author: Peng Yoke Ho
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9812565884
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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This fascinating book presents the unusual career of a scientist of Chinese Malaysian origin, Ho Peng Yoke, who became a humanist and rendered his services to both Eastern and Western intellectual worlds. It describes how Ho adapted to working under changing social and academic environments in Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Hong Kong and England. His activities also covered East Asia, Europe and North America.Ho Peng Yoke worked in collaboration with Joseph Needham of Cambridge over different periods spanning half a century in the monumental series Science and Civilization in China. Ho subsequently succeeded Needham as Director of the Needham Research Institute, where he held the post for 12 years. In the introduction to the final volume of that series, the Oxford scholar Mark Elvin remarked that Ho ?had long piloted the ship through difficult times.? This book tells the story and more.
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9812565884
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This fascinating book presents the unusual career of a scientist of Chinese Malaysian origin, Ho Peng Yoke, who became a humanist and rendered his services to both Eastern and Western intellectual worlds. It describes how Ho adapted to working under changing social and academic environments in Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Hong Kong and England. His activities also covered East Asia, Europe and North America.Ho Peng Yoke worked in collaboration with Joseph Needham of Cambridge over different periods spanning half a century in the monumental series Science and Civilization in China. Ho subsequently succeeded Needham as Director of the Needham Research Institute, where he held the post for 12 years. In the introduction to the final volume of that series, the Oxford scholar Mark Elvin remarked that Ho ?had long piloted the ship through difficult times.? This book tells the story and more.
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 902
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 902
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Memoirs of the Lives and Writings of Those Eminent Divines, who Convened in the Famous Assembly at Westminster, in the Seventeenth Century
Author: James Reid
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Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott Bart. A new edition, complete in one volume
Author: John Gibson Lockhart
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Languages : en
Pages : 840
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Languages : en
Pages : 840
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Memoirs of Eminent Teachers and Educators
Author: Henry Barnard
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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God's Child
Author: Sharon Casey Grisham
Publisher: Infinity Publishing
ISBN: 0741422808
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Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Publisher: Infinity Publishing
ISBN: 0741422808
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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The Life and Public Career of Daniel Webster
Author: Samuel P. Lyman
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Category : Cabinet officers
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Category : Cabinet officers
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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The Book Buyer
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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The Educational Times, and Journal of the College of Preceptors
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Memoirs of the Lives and Writings of Those Eminent Divines, who Covened in the Famous Assembly at Westminster, in the Seventeenth Century
Author: James Reid
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Category : Christian biography
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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Category : Christian biography
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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