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Book cover of Popularization and People (1911-1962)
by Finn Aaserud, Ph.D. History of Sciences, Johns Hopkins University (1984)
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013

The Niels Bohr Collected Works are now complete with the publication of Volume 12, Popularization and People (1911-1962). Niels Bohr is generally regarded as one of the most influential physicists of the twentieth century. The following are only some of the high points. In 1913, Bohr proposed...
Book cover of The Mont Reid Surgical Handbook E-Book
by The University of Cincinnati Residents, Amy Makley, MD
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017

Essential reading for residents and medical students, this popular handbook is a must-have resource for convenient, quick access to information on managing common surgical problems. Written by current surgery residents at the University of Cincinnati, the completely updated 7th Edition focuses on...
Book cover of Learning and Teaching in the Chinese Classroom
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Learning and Teaching in the Chinese Classroom provides an essential starting point for understanding the contexts of learning and teaching in the Chinese classroom. Drawing upon recent research in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and China, this book aims to bridge the gap between traditional texts on...
Book cover of Enclave to Urbanity
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Cross-cultural relations are spatial relations. Enclave to Urbanity is the first book in English that examines how the architecture and the urban landscape of Guangzhou framed the relations between the Western mercantile and missionary communities and the city’s predominantly Chinese population....
Book cover of Presenting the Past
by Larry J. Zimmerman, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2003

Using the right media, archeologists can and must educate and excite the people who need their information. Larry Zimmerman's earnestly engaging guide to reporting archaeological findings argues that communication is one of archaeology's primary tasks. He offers advice on working with colleagues,...
Book cover of Empires of Panic
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Empires of Panic is the first book to explore how panics have been historically produced, defined, and managed across different colonial, imperial, and post-imperial settings—from early nineteenth-century East Asia to twenty-first-century America. Contributors consider panic in relation to colonial...
Book cover of Electing Hong Kong's Chief Executive
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

In 2007, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region held its first-ever contested election for Chief Executive, selected by 800 members of an Election Committee drawn from roughly 7% of the population. The outcome was a foregone conclusion, but the process allowed a pro-democracy legislator to obtain...
Book cover of South Africa, Past, Present and Future

South Africa, Past, Present and Future

Gold at the End of the Rainbow?

by Tony Binns, Alan (St Mary'S University College) Lester, Etienne (Rhodes University
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014

This is the first book to combine a discussion of post-apartheid development initiatives with an extended historical analysis of South Africa's dynamic race, class, gender and ethnic identities. Bringing together the research of an historical geographer and two development geographers, the book enables...
Book cover of The Lone Flag
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

When Hong Kong fell to the Japanese on Christmas Day 1941, Macao was left as a tiny isolated enclave on the China coast surrounded by Japanese-held territory. As a Portuguese colony, Macao was neutral, and John Reeves, the British Consul, could remain there and continue his work despite being surrounded...
Book cover of The Australian Pursuit of Japanese War Criminals, 19431957
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Previous scholarship on trials of war criminals focused on the legal proceedings with only tacit acknowledgement of the political and social context. Dean Aszkielowicz argues in The Australian Pursuit of Japanese War Criminals, 19431957: From Foe to Friend that the trials of Class B and Class C Japanese...
Book cover of Signals and Systems using MATLAB
by Luis Chaparro, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018

Signals and Systems Using MATLAB, Third Edition, features a pedagogically rich and accessible approach to what can commonly be a mathematically dry subject. Historical notes and common mistakes combined with applications in controls, communications and signal processing help students understand and...
Book cover of Melancholy Drift
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Ma offers an innovative study of three provocative Chinese directors: Wong Kar-wai, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Tsai Ming-liang. Focusing on the highly stylized and nonlinear configurations of time in each director’s films, she argues that these directors have brought new global respect for Chinese cinema...
Book cover of Hong Kong Internment, 1942-1945
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Hong Kong Internment, 19421945: Life in the Japanese Civilian Camp at Stanley tells the story of the more than three thousand non-Chinese civilians: British, American, Dutch and others, who were trapped in the British colony and interned behind barbed wire in Stanley Internment Camp from 1942 to 1945....
Book cover of Revolutions as Organizational Change
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

By comparing peasant revolutions in Hunan and Jiangxi between 1926 and 1934, Revolutions as Organizational Change offers a new organizational perspective on peasant revolutions. Utilizing newly available historical materials in the People’s Republic of China in the reform era, it challenges the...
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