Author:
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN: 9789289308786
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Yearbook of Immigration Statistics
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naturalization
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naturalization
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
People Weekly Yearbook 2000
Author: Eric Levin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781883013851
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Looks at celebrities who have made news during 1998, including John F. Kennedy Jr., Regis Philbin, Susan Lucci, and Jennifer Lopez.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781883013851
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Looks at celebrities who have made news during 1998, including John F. Kennedy Jr., Regis Philbin, Susan Lucci, and Jennifer Lopez.
Formula 1 - 2002 World Championship Yearbook
Author: Giorgio Stirano
Publisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 9780896586079
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This is the world's best-selling Formula 1 yearbook: a magnificently produced photographic review of the entire World Championship season, combined with detailed reports and analyses of each of the seventeen Grand Prix races around the world. For each race a two-page spread shows the starting line-up, a detailed account of the race and the result, a description of the circuit, the weather conditions on the day of the race, and the particular issues and talking points that dominated discussion at the time. Other chapters focus on the key issues of the season, lavishly illustrated with photographs. One chapter is devoted to the return of Formula 1 to the USA, and a brief account of its history there. Finally, the book contains an editorial by Giorgio Stirano devoted to the story of technical development of tires and suspension, as well as a 120-page portfolio of glorious color photographs covering the entire season, and 16 pages of superb cutaway section drawings of the main competing cars. No follower of Formula 1 should be without this definitive record of a memorable World Championship season! Superb photography, complete race summaries, inside stories, and technical cut-away drawings of the cars. The world's best-selling racing annual devoted exclusively to Formula 1. For racing enthusiasts.
Publisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 9780896586079
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This is the world's best-selling Formula 1 yearbook: a magnificently produced photographic review of the entire World Championship season, combined with detailed reports and analyses of each of the seventeen Grand Prix races around the world. For each race a two-page spread shows the starting line-up, a detailed account of the race and the result, a description of the circuit, the weather conditions on the day of the race, and the particular issues and talking points that dominated discussion at the time. Other chapters focus on the key issues of the season, lavishly illustrated with photographs. One chapter is devoted to the return of Formula 1 to the USA, and a brief account of its history there. Finally, the book contains an editorial by Giorgio Stirano devoted to the story of technical development of tires and suspension, as well as a 120-page portfolio of glorious color photographs covering the entire season, and 16 pages of superb cutaway section drawings of the main competing cars. No follower of Formula 1 should be without this definitive record of a memorable World Championship season! Superb photography, complete race summaries, inside stories, and technical cut-away drawings of the cars. The world's best-selling racing annual devoted exclusively to Formula 1. For racing enthusiasts.
The Discworld Thieves' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2002
Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 9780575071049
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The latest in the highly-successful series of Discworld diaries, featuring extensive original material by Terry Pratchett. The Thieves¿ Guild celebrates its 21st anniversary with its first Yearbook, featuring an address from Lord Vetinari himself, who encouraged the setting-up of the Guild to avoid the random, unfair and disorganised crime which, until his ascent to power, plagued the great city of Ankh-Morpork. Now crime is legal, organised and run to an annual budget and everyone is happy ¿ well, almost everyone: woe betide the unlicensed thief, highwayman or slipperlegger who tries to do business without Guild approval! Stunningly illustrated, as in previous years, by Paul Kidby.
Publisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 9780575071049
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The latest in the highly-successful series of Discworld diaries, featuring extensive original material by Terry Pratchett. The Thieves¿ Guild celebrates its 21st anniversary with its first Yearbook, featuring an address from Lord Vetinari himself, who encouraged the setting-up of the Guild to avoid the random, unfair and disorganised crime which, until his ascent to power, plagued the great city of Ankh-Morpork. Now crime is legal, organised and run to an annual budget and everyone is happy ¿ well, almost everyone: woe betide the unlicensed thief, highwayman or slipperlegger who tries to do business without Guild approval! Stunningly illustrated, as in previous years, by Paul Kidby.
Achieving the Objectives 2003
Author:
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN: 9789289308786
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN: 9789289308786
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
A Wayfaring Stranger
Author: Veronika Kusz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520972260
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
On March 10, 1948, world-renowned composer and pianist Ernst von Dohnányi (1877−1960) embarked for the United States, leaving Europe for good. Only a few years earlier, the seventy-year-old Hungarian had been a triumphant, internationally admired musician and leading figure in Hungarian musical life. Fleeing a political smear campaign that sought to implicate him in intellectual collaboration with fascism, he reached American shores without a job or a home. A Wayfaring Stranger presents the final period in Dohnányi’s exceptional career and uses a range of previously unavailable material to reexamine commonly held beliefs about the musician and his unique oeuvre. Offering insights into his life as a teacher, pianist, and composer, the book also considers the difficulties of émigré life, the political charges made against him, and the compositional and aesthetic dilemmas faced by a conservative artist. To this rich biographical account, Veronika Kusz adds an in-depth examination of Dohnányi’s late works—in most cases the first analyses to appear in musicological literature. This corrective history provides never-before-seen photographs of the musician’s life in the United States and skillfully illustrates Dohnányi’s impact on European and American music and the culture of the time.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520972260
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
On March 10, 1948, world-renowned composer and pianist Ernst von Dohnányi (1877−1960) embarked for the United States, leaving Europe for good. Only a few years earlier, the seventy-year-old Hungarian had been a triumphant, internationally admired musician and leading figure in Hungarian musical life. Fleeing a political smear campaign that sought to implicate him in intellectual collaboration with fascism, he reached American shores without a job or a home. A Wayfaring Stranger presents the final period in Dohnányi’s exceptional career and uses a range of previously unavailable material to reexamine commonly held beliefs about the musician and his unique oeuvre. Offering insights into his life as a teacher, pianist, and composer, the book also considers the difficulties of émigré life, the political charges made against him, and the compositional and aesthetic dilemmas faced by a conservative artist. To this rich biographical account, Veronika Kusz adds an in-depth examination of Dohnányi’s late works—in most cases the first analyses to appear in musicological literature. This corrective history provides never-before-seen photographs of the musician’s life in the United States and skillfully illustrates Dohnányi’s impact on European and American music and the culture of the time.
Against the Law
Author: Ching Kwan Lee
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520250974
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This powerful study opens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of capitalism in the world's most dynamic and populous country. Based on remarkable fieldwork and extensive interviews in Chinese textile, apparel, machinery, and household appliance factories, Against the Law dissects the world of Chinese workers today and finds a rising tide of labor unrest mostly hidden from the world's attention. Intense working-class agitation is being spurred by massive unemployment of Mao's socialist proletariat in the northern rustbelt and by the exploitation of millions of young workers in the southern sunbelt. Providing a broad comparative political and economic analysis of the vast mosaic of this labor struggle together with unprecedented fine-grained ethnographic detail, the book portrays the multi-faceted humanity of the Chinese working class as their stories unfold in bankrupt state factories and global sweatshops, in crowded dormitories and remote villages, at heroic moments of street protests as well as in quiet disenchantment with the corrupt officialdom and the fledgling legal system.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520250974
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This powerful study opens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of capitalism in the world's most dynamic and populous country. Based on remarkable fieldwork and extensive interviews in Chinese textile, apparel, machinery, and household appliance factories, Against the Law dissects the world of Chinese workers today and finds a rising tide of labor unrest mostly hidden from the world's attention. Intense working-class agitation is being spurred by massive unemployment of Mao's socialist proletariat in the northern rustbelt and by the exploitation of millions of young workers in the southern sunbelt. Providing a broad comparative political and economic analysis of the vast mosaic of this labor struggle together with unprecedented fine-grained ethnographic detail, the book portrays the multi-faceted humanity of the Chinese working class as their stories unfold in bankrupt state factories and global sweatshops, in crowded dormitories and remote villages, at heroic moments of street protests as well as in quiet disenchantment with the corrupt officialdom and the fledgling legal system.
Government, Business, and the Politics of Interdependence and Conflict across the Taiwan Strait
Author: J. Tian
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403982848
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Explains the complex and paradoxical process of economic integration and political divergence in current relations between Taiwan and mainland China. It analyzes the dynamics of economic statecraft on both sides and the conflicts between state objectives and business interests in the context of globalization and regional economic integration.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403982848
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Explains the complex and paradoxical process of economic integration and political divergence in current relations between Taiwan and mainland China. It analyzes the dynamics of economic statecraft on both sides and the conflicts between state objectives and business interests in the context of globalization and regional economic integration.
Upgrading China's Information and Communication Technology Industry
Author: Cassandra C. Wang
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814407690
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This book effectively challenges the conventional wisdom regarding the cluster-innovation relationship and provides convincing evidence to show that the prevailing theoretical models derived from AngloOCoAmerican experiences cannot be uncritically applied to Chinese reality. This book introduces a new theory of state-firm coordination to explain why and how some Chinese ICT firms have turned out to be more innovative than others. Perspectives from the viewpoint of economic geography, institutional economics, political science, and regulation theory have been provided to throw light on the enigma that is China's ICT industry. Empirically, the book provides state-of-the-art findings to clarify the confusion and misunderstanding about the exact nature of the ICT industry in China. This book has essentially set a new baseline and made definitive contribution to knowledge production about China's economic geography. Methodologically, it shows how original, critical, and independent research can be undertaken effectively and innovatively through cross-disciplinary theoretical interaction, deductive reasoning with hypotheses testing, combination of multiple means of data collection; integration of quantitative and qualitative methods; and structured presentation of research findings with extensive tabular, graphic, and cartographic illustrations.
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814407690
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This book effectively challenges the conventional wisdom regarding the cluster-innovation relationship and provides convincing evidence to show that the prevailing theoretical models derived from AngloOCoAmerican experiences cannot be uncritically applied to Chinese reality. This book introduces a new theory of state-firm coordination to explain why and how some Chinese ICT firms have turned out to be more innovative than others. Perspectives from the viewpoint of economic geography, institutional economics, political science, and regulation theory have been provided to throw light on the enigma that is China's ICT industry. Empirically, the book provides state-of-the-art findings to clarify the confusion and misunderstanding about the exact nature of the ICT industry in China. This book has essentially set a new baseline and made definitive contribution to knowledge production about China's economic geography. Methodologically, it shows how original, critical, and independent research can be undertaken effectively and innovatively through cross-disciplinary theoretical interaction, deductive reasoning with hypotheses testing, combination of multiple means of data collection; integration of quantitative and qualitative methods; and structured presentation of research findings with extensive tabular, graphic, and cartographic illustrations.
China's Rise in the Global South
Author: Dawn C. Murphy
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503630609
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
As China and the U.S. increasingly compete for power in key areas of U.S. influence, great power conflict looms. Yet few studies have looked to the Middle East and Africa, regions of major political, economic, and military importance for both China and the U.S., to theorize how China competes in a changing world system. China's Rise in the Global South examines China's behavior as a rising power in two key Global South regions, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa. Dawn C. Murphy, drawing on extensive fieldwork and hundreds of interviews, compares and analyzes thirty years of China's interactions with these regions across a range of functional areas: political, economic, foreign aid, and military. From the Belt and Road initiative to the founding of new cooperation forums and special envoys, China's Rise in the Global South offers an in-depth look at China's foreign policy approach to the countries it considers its partners in South-South cooperation. Intervening in the emerging debate between liberals and realists about China's future as a great power, Murphy contends that China is constructing an alternate international order to interact with these regions, and this book provides policymakers and scholars of international relations with the tools to analyze it.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503630609
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
As China and the U.S. increasingly compete for power in key areas of U.S. influence, great power conflict looms. Yet few studies have looked to the Middle East and Africa, regions of major political, economic, and military importance for both China and the U.S., to theorize how China competes in a changing world system. China's Rise in the Global South examines China's behavior as a rising power in two key Global South regions, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa. Dawn C. Murphy, drawing on extensive fieldwork and hundreds of interviews, compares and analyzes thirty years of China's interactions with these regions across a range of functional areas: political, economic, foreign aid, and military. From the Belt and Road initiative to the founding of new cooperation forums and special envoys, China's Rise in the Global South offers an in-depth look at China's foreign policy approach to the countries it considers its partners in South-South cooperation. Intervening in the emerging debate between liberals and realists about China's future as a great power, Murphy contends that China is constructing an alternate international order to interact with these regions, and this book provides policymakers and scholars of international relations with the tools to analyze it.