Li: 1151 books
by Indalecio Liévano Aguirre
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Bolívar (1783-1830) escrita por Indalecio Liévano Aguirre es sin duda, una de las biografías elaboradas con un enfoque seriamente objetivo y con profunda pasión grancolombiana. Es un texto de carácter clasico de la historiografía colombiana y continental.Dada la brillante carrera política,...
by Li Anshan
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
A History of Overseas Chinese in Africa to 1911 explores early Chinese knowledge of and contacts with Africa through Chinese literature on Africa and current archeological evidence, suggesting Sino-African trade existed as early as the seventh century. Li provides readers with an uncomplicated history...
The Clash of Capitalisms?
Chinese Companies in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Chinese foreign direct investment in the United States has generated intense debates. Some welcome it for the immediate benefits such as job creation; others view Chinese investments, especially those controlled by the Chinese government, as a critical threat. The debates have so far missed an important...
Ethnic China
Identity, Assimilation, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
There are some serious concerns and critical questions about the on-going minority protesting in China, such as Tibetan monks’ self-immolations, Muslims’ suicide bombings, and Uyghur large-scale demonstrations. Why are minorities such as the Uyghur dissatisfied, when China is rising as a world...
by Xiaobing Li
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Since the establishment of the Red Army in 1927, China's military has responded to profound changes in Chinese society, particularly its domestic politics, shifting economy, and evolving threat perceptions. Recently tensions between China and Taiwan and other east Asian nations have aroused great...
Culturally Contested Literacies
America's "Rainbow Underclass" and Urban Schools
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Culturally Contested Literacies is a vivid ethnographic account of the everyday cross-cultural living and schooling experiences of six culturally-diverse families in urban America. Documenting the ways in which these families learn about literacies and their meanings in relation to schools, inner...
by Dr Jun Li, Jun Li
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Rural enterprises have played an important role in the extraordinary success of China's economy over the last two decades. They have greatly increased off-farm employment in rural areas and brought substantially increased incomes and standards of living to many rural people. Jun Li provides a comprehensive...
Work Toward Reward
Building Business Value Today for a Well-Deserved Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
When youre finished, make sure you have
something to show for your efforts.
In Work Toward Reward, Chia-Li Chien, Succession Strategist at Value Growth Institute and award-winning author of Show Me the Money, presents the results of her Business Value Drivers Study. This two-year study reveals...
by Yuwei Hu, Fenghua Li, Dongxue Han
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
This book highlights the latest advances in the use of graphene and bio-compatible-material-decorated graphene to detect various targets (e.g. DNA, RNA, amino acids, peptides, proteins, enzymes, antigens, glucose, DA, AA, UA, ATP, NADH, gas, ions, etc.). It focuses on the specific interaction of these...
Cultural Foundations of Learning
East and West
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Western and East Asian people hold fundamentally different beliefs about learning that influence how they approach child rearing and education. Reviewing decades of research, Dr Jin Li presents an important conceptual distinction between the Western mind model and the East Asian virtue model of learning....
Democracy and Economic Openness in an Interconnected System
Complex Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
In this book, Quan Li and Rafael Reuveny combine the social scientific approach with a broad, interdisciplinary scope to address some of the most intriguing and important political, economic, and environmental issues of our times. Their book employs formal and statistical methods to study the interactions...
La gran burbuja del fútbol
Los modelos de negocio que oculta el deporte más importante del mundo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 14, 2016
En La gran burbuja del fútbol, el lector descubrirá las claves para comprender el complejo y fascinante entramado económico que mueve el fútbol, convertido hoy en día en la mayor industria global del entretenimiento.
«El fútbol es el vivo reflejo de la economía de un país.»
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by Lianwei Li
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Lianwei Li's Ph.D. thesis solves a long-standing problem in polymer physics: how does a hyperbranched chain pass through a cylindrical pore smaller than its size under an elongational flow field? The question was asked by the Nobel Laureate, the late Professor de Gennes in the 70s but has never been...
Comparative Encounters Between Artaud, Michaux and the Zhuangzi
Rationality, Cosmology and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"The encounter between different minds and perspectives across time and space has always haunted the literary and philosophical imagination. Just such an encounter is staged and played out in this comparative study, which connects the twentieth-century Francophone writers Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)...