In 1979, China established four Special Economic Zones (SEZs) which offered financial inducements to foreign investors. 14 coastal cities were included in the mid 1980s, but by 1985, these SEZs were corrupt and problem-ridden. This text discusses what went wrong and the relevance of the SEZs.
The manifest strength of the medieval period has always been the ways in which particular thinkers negotiated the twin criteria of reason and faith. What seemed to the Enlightenment a weakness appears to our time as a virtuoso performance. Less well-known in the West has been the inherently interfaith and intercultural character of the discussion.This collection of essays, which originated in 1987 at a symposium titled "God and Creation: An Ec...
The manifest strength of the medieval period has always been the ways in which particular thinkers negotiated the twin criteria of reason and faith. What seemed to the Enlightenment a weakness appears to our time as a virtuoso performance. Less well-known in the West has been the inherently interfaith and intercultural character of the discussion.This collection of essays, which originated in 1987 at a symposium titled "God and Creation: An Ec...
Peasant rebellions are uncommon, and the author explores the alternative forms of struggle which they use to achieve their aims. Seven countries are studied for research purposes, Poland, India, Egypt, Colombia, China, Nicaragua and Zimbabwe.
The Soviet Union is a multinational state, with about half of the country's population being ethnically Russian. The advent of glasnost, and moves toward democratization and decentralization has unleashed the expression of national sentiments and interests in the USSR.
The seven "business novels" translated in this collection represent a genre in Japan, "keizai-shosetsu", that is extremely popular among Japanese businessmen, their wives, students, and other professionals. It is aimed at students and business counterparts in the West.
This "Festschrift" honours the contribution of Geoffrey H.Moore to the study of business cycles. The study of business cycles now encompasses the global economic system, and this book attempts to further the frontiers of knowledge in this area.
This is an examination of the crucial formative period of Chinese attitudes toward nuclear weapons, the immediate post-Hiroshima/Nagasaki period and the Korean War. It also provides an account of US actions and attitudes during this period and China's response.
An entrepreneurial and engineering genius, Leroy Hill left his mark on 20th century aviation. But that was just the beginning. As a gifted Berkeley engineering graduate in the late teens, Hill succeeded in reengineering the famous 'Liberty Engine' of World War I to fit into the legendary fighter DH-4, or 'Flying Coffin'.
In this book Richard J. Mouw, one of the foremost thinkers in the field of Christian ethics, develops a constructive theological ethic, employing primarily Calvinist themes. Exploring issues that are at the intersection of philosophical and theological discussions, he sets forth an ethical perspective in which obedience to divine commands occupies a central place. After responding to some secularist objections to divine command theory, Mouw lo...
This collection of essays is a tribute to Stillman Drake by some of his friends and colleagues, and by others on whom his work has had a formative influence. It is difficult to know him without succumbing to his combination of discipline and enthusiasm, even in fields remote from Renaissance physics and natural philosophy, and so he should not be surprised in this volume to see emphases and methods congenial to him, even on topics as remote as...
Presents detailed discussions on the systematic, ecological, and evolutionary implications of the pollination of terrestrial orchids of Southern Australia and the Mediterranean, variation and diversity in deep-sea echinoids, the molecular evolution of the alcohol dehydrogenase genes in Drosophila,
It has long been a dream to realize machines with flexible visual perception capability. Research on digital image processing by computers was initiated about 30 years ago, and since then a wide variety of image processing algorithms have been devised. Using such image processing algorithms and advanced hardware technologies, many practical ma chines with visual recognition capability have been implemented and are used in various fields: opti...
This book is the outcome of a decade of research on the neu roanatomical mechanisms of learning in the young laboratory rat. It is essentially a discourse on the functional organization of the brain in relation to problem-solving ability and intelli gence. During the period between 1980 and 1989, well over 1000 weanling albino rats were subjected to localized brain damage (or sham operations in the case of the controls) under deep anesthesia...
Es darf wohl davon ausgegangen werden, daß die Institution des Beratungslehrers ein zwar noch junger, inzwischen jedoch fester Bestandteil im Schulsystem der Bundesrepublik Deutschland geworden ist. Trotz der institutionellen Verankerung im Schulsystem liegen fUr Baden-WUrttemberg, abgesehen von Informationen in nichtveröf fentlichten Oberschulamtsberichten , bislang keine empirischen Untersuchungen zum Tätigkeitsfeld von Beratungslehrern vor...
This text explores the means, processes and mechanisms by which plants change the orientation and juxtapositions of various organs in order to optimize their harvest of energy, and examines the major stumuli which provokes such responses.
