Li: 1151 books
A Rising China and Security in East Asia
Identity Construction and Security Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2008
This volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the security discourse of Chinese policy elites on the major powers in East Asia in relation to China’s self-perception as a rising power. It is the first book-length study that utilizes International Relations theories systematically...
by James R. Griesemer, Joan Roughgarden, Ofer Feinerman
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Broad perspective on collectivity in the life sciences, from microorganisms to human consensus, and the theoretical and empirical opportunities and challenges.
Many researchers and scholars in the life sciences have become increasingly critical of the traditional methodological focus on the...
Wondering and Wandering in the West
A Foreign Scholar’S Record from Oxford and Columbia Universities
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Visiting scholar Li Qingjuan came a long way from China to the Western world for a total of fifteen months of study. Her study began at Oxford University in the United Kingdom and finished at the Columbia University in the United States. This book does not only cover her inspiration during her time...
Triumph of the Heart
The Story of Statins
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
Over 25 million people in the U.S. alone have benefited from statins--such drugs as Lipitor, Zocor, Crestor, Pravachol, and other cholesterol-lowering medicines--in preventing stroke, heart attack, and other forms of coronary heart disease. But how did these remarkable, life-saving drugs come into...
by Zongxing Li
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
This thesis confirms many changes, including sharp temperature rise, interannual variability of precipitation, extreme climate events and significant decreases of sunshine duration and wind speed in southwestern China, and systemically explores the action mechanism between large-scale atmospheric...
by Nathalia Li
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
Cody is a dealer in Vegas. When a guy from his past appears and seems to recognize him, Cody decides he has to leave town. Unexpectedly, his 15 year old neighbor, Estelle, who has a crush on him, wants to leave with him which is a problem both practical and legal.
Spiaking English
A Companion to how Singaporean communicate
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Singlish is a punchy and witty patois used in Singapore. It mixes English with words, phrases, and syntaxes from the languages of different ethnic groups living in the country. This fascinating feature of Singaporean life favours efficient communication and humour and is well-loved by many. Spiaking...
Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America
Emergence, Survival, and Fall
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
This book presents a new theory for why political regimes emerge, and why they subsequently survive or break down. It then analyzes the emergence, survival and fall of democracies and dictatorships in Latin America since 1900. Scott Mainwaring and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán argue for a theoretical approach...
The Judicial System and Reform in Post-Mao China
Stumbling Towards Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This comprehensive study examines the development and changing characteristics of the judicial system and reform process over the past three decades in China. As the role of courts in society has increased so too has the amount of public complaints about the judiciary. At the same time, political...
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by Li Lan Chan
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
This first manual (of three) provides a spiritual foundation from which you, the reader, can progress and grow on your spiritual path—which no longer can be differentiated from everyday life. For most, their spiritual life and their everyday lives have merged.
Originally written as a manual...
La social-démocratie quand même
Un demi-siècle d'expériences réformistes
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1980
Qu’est-ce que la social-démocratie aujourd’hui ? Une impasse ou une voie d’avenir pour les pays développés ou en voie de développement ? Les sociaux-démocrates ont, sur d’autres variétés socialistes ou eurocommunistes à la mode, l’avantage redoutable d’exister. On peut en effet...
Mao's China and the Sino-Soviet Split
Ideological Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The Sino-Soviet split in the 1960s was one of the most significant events of the Cold War. Why did the Sino-Soviet alliance, hailed by its creators as "unbreakable", "eternal", and as representing "brotherly solidarity", break up? Why did their relations eventually evolve into open hostility and military...
Inorganic Two-dimensional Nanomaterials
Fundamental Understanding, Characterizations and Energy Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Inorganic 2D nanomaterials, or inorganic graphene analogues, are gaining great attention due to their unique properties and potential energy applications. They contain ultrathin nanosheet morphology with one-dimensional confinement, but unlike pure carbon graphene, inorganic two-dimensional nanomaterials...
Green Processes
Green Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Edited by Professor CJ Li, one of the leading international experts in the fields of Green Chemistry and Green Synthesis, this volume presents such hot topics as synthesis without protecting groups, multi-component reactions, and synthesis in green solvents.
The Handbook of Green Chemistry...