China in the 21st Century, Paperback

Reducere. The Chinese system is like no other known to man, now or in history. This book explains how the system works and where it may be moving. Drawing on...

China Rising: Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations CHINA RISING, the latest book by the author of 44 Days Backpacking in China: The Middle King...

Focusing on Chinese-American ventures, this expanded and revised edition chronicles the investments that have marked China's astonishing growth in ...

Reducere. A snobbish French executive arrives in Shanghai with his expensive shoes and ties, expecting a short career-boosting posting before returning to Pa...

In a world that has returned to great power rivalry, understanding the grand strategy of these powers is crucial. This book introduces ten key term...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the invasion and occupation written by Japanese and Chinese officers and civilians *Includes online resour...

Reducere. What's Whole in Whole Language in the 21st Century? includes a new introduction by Ken Goodman, commentary by Michael Rosen, and excerpts from a se...

Reducere. The United States' approach to China since the Communist regime in Beijing began the period of reform and opening in the 1980s was based on a promi...

This book is a global comparative history of how "soft power" came to define the interregnum between the celebration of global capitalism in the 19...

DescriptionMaris Boyd Gillette's groundbreaking study tells the story of Jingdezhen, China's porcelain capital, from its origins in 1004 in Song dy...

Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Though both nations...

The Fight for China's Future throws light on the quintessence of 21st century Chinese politics through the prism of the struggle between the Chines...

DescriptionGlobalization has transformed how nations, firms and workers compete in the international economy over the past half century. This book ...

China's rapid rise is doubtless the most significant economic and geopolitical event in the 21st century. What has led to its rise? What does it me...

Reducere. Set in China, and ripped from today's headlines, comes a pulse-pounding debut that reinvents the spy thriller for the 21st century.A lone man, Pean...

Reducere. During a century of colonialism, Burma was plundered for its natural resources and remade as a racial hierarchy. Over decades of dictatorship, it s...

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"Dazzling...Riveting." --New York Times Book Review "Chen has one of the year's big debut books." --Philadelphia Inquirer "Gripping and illuminatin...

Reducere. DescriptionThis Chinese treatise on war was written by Sun Tzu in the 6th century B.C. Each one of the 13 chapters is devoted to a different aspect...

DescriptionA man who has come from nothing, from poverty and loss, finds himself a beautiful wife, his dream love. When she vanishes without a trac...

Reducere. DescriptionZen koans, beginning some 1500 years ago, refer to stories or questions arising in encounters between monks and old Chinese and Japanese...

Told in dual narrative, This Is My Brain in Love is a stunning YA contemporary romance, exploring mental health, race, and, ultimately self-accepta...

Reducere. Since the beginning of organized societies, power and leadership have operated in human hierarchies, which are concentrating power in an accelerati...

Reducere. Seventeen hard science fiction tales by today's top authorsHard science fiction is the literature of change, rigorously examining the impact-both b...

Libman and Obydenkova reveal how legacies of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) have survived in the politics, economic development, cu...

Confucianism is the guiding creed for a quarter of mankind, yet hardly anyone has explained it in plain terms -- until now. Written in a style both...

Starting from the key concept of geo-economics, this book investigates the new power politics and argues that the changing structural features of t...

Reducere. DescriptionIs America in jeopardy?Any day, America could be held hostage over critical minerals used in all advanced technologies due to the decade...

Reducere. New York Times bestselling author Greg Bear's Eon is now available for the first time in trade paperback.The 21st century was on the brink of nucle...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is expected to add more to global GDP by 2030 than the current output of China and India, combined. It is set to be th...

This book was written to provide the reader with a firm understanding of the realities of the current Department of Defense space deterrence concep...

Reducere. DescriptionStreams in the Desert is a daily devotional that was originally published by Lettie Burd Cowman in 1925. She was co-founder of the Orien...

Reducere. "Still Searching for Pipe Dreams" is the second in a series following Rick Newcombe's first book, the best-selling "In Search of Pipe Dreams." Why ...

The Greatest Western Writers Of The 21st Century Smoke Jensen was a towering Western hero. Now his two freewheeling, long-lost nephews, Ace and Cha...

Reducere. Soul Mind Body Medicine is a revolutionary new book that puts breakthrough healing science at your fingertips. It moves beyond the familiar concept...