Book Description
Extraordinary political and economic changes have rocked the Republic of Korea over the past fifty years. John Oh, a Korean-born political scientist, has written a clear and insightful account of government and politics throughout this turbulent period. His chronological and thematic study analyzes both the conflicts between authoritarian forces and populist/democratic elements and the nation's determined efforts to achieve economic growth. In relating Korea's transformation to a democratic society and an industrial state, Oh explains how the country's politics and economy are interrelated. He covers the launching of the first democratic republic, the emergence of military regimes, and the growth of the middle class and the civil society. He also reveals the causes of collusion between political and economic groups which led to corruption, structural anomalies, and economic crises. Korean Politics is the first English-language book to draw on original Korean-language sources including testimonies from the trials of former presidents in its analysis of their military-dominated governments. The book concludes with succinct discussions on the first peaceful transfer of power to an opposition leader, Kim Dae-jung. Timely and authoritative, it is an ideal classroom text and an indispensable reference on contemporary Korea.
Average customer rating:
|
China's Economic Development and Democratization (The Chinese Economy Series)
Yanlai Wang
Manufacturer: Ashgate Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
 Economic Conditions
| Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Popular Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Economic Conditions
| International
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Democracy
| Political Doctrines
| Political Science
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
All Titles
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
ASIN: 0754636208 |
Book Description
This quick, easy--yet exceptionally substantive--introduction to the Third World is designed to help readers gain a clearer perspective of the basics and true nature of developing countries as background for either working with Third World countries in any capacity or filling in background for a general understanding history and current events. Looks at the history, structure, culture, politics and quarrels of four developing countries--China, Brazil, South Africa, and Iran--examining their progress and problems, and underscoring the fact that democracy in the Third World is difficult, but possible, and that what West Europe and North America did first (and it wasn't quick or easy for them either) most of the Third World will accomplish in the twenty-first century. For international businesses that need quick intro to the Third World for staffers, and for general readers interested in the Third World.
Product Description
This book contains revised papers from the 17th International Conference on Asian affairs held at St. John's University in 1999. The papers look at such things as democratization and political participation in Taiwan during the 1990s; recent political policies in China; economic growth and change in the Strait region; and economic development of both Taiwan and China since the Asian financial crisis so crippled many countries in that region.
Book Description
In Rules versus Relationships, John M. Conley and William M. O'Barr examine the experiences of litigants seeking redress of everyday difficulties through the small claims courts of the American legal system. The authors find two major and contrasting ways in which litigants formulate and express their problems in terms of specific rule violations and seek concrete legal remedies that would mend soured relationships and respond to their personal and social needs.
Average customer rating:
- TheWayOutOfCapitalism'sCrisisForUs,TheWorkingPeople
- For a Workers' and Farmers' Government
- Alliance with farmers decisive for workers in the USA
|
The Crisis Facing Working Farmers (New International, No 4)
Doug Jenness
Manufacturer: Pathfinder Press (NY)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
General
| Popular Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Industrial Relations
| Industries & Professions
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Politics
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Agricultural Sciences
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0873486390 |
Customer Reviews:
TheWayOutOfCapitalism'sCrisisForUs,TheWorkingPeople.......2002-10-25
It is family farmers, not Big agri-Business, that produces most of the food and fiber grown and raised in this country.The superrich that own the banks, fertlizer and seed corporations, etc. that exploit small farmers also own the Democrat and Republican politicians that don't even claim to care a fig about small farmers til election time.Their hog superfarms, for just one example, are monuments to capitalist greed, stupidity, and pollution of everything they touch.This book explains that working people in city and country, in our unions and in fighting farmers organizations-like today's National Black Farmers and Agriculturalists' Association-have got to unite and fight our common enemy and take government power out of the capitalists' hands.The authors also explain we must identify and unite with our friends around the world, like Malcolm X taught--other workers and farmers just like us-- against our enemy in the world: imperialism,in the first place the Yanqui-U.S. Empire.As we enter the new Great Depression and face the continual string of U.S, wars against OUR people, the working people, around the world that go along with, this book's use of the lessons of Cuba's land reform, with speeches by Fidel Castro, could not be more timely.As timely is the 1985 document adopted by the Socialist Workers Party, which explains how the experience of being industrial workers, unionists, and fighters for our class as a whole , after a long absence from those unions, led to that party's call for a workers and farmers government as its most important campaigning slogan and goal.The resolution also explains why the middle-class groups calling themselves "The Left" in this country were/are only pushing for band-aids to cover the abcesses of the system.Must reading for today's and tommorow's fighters for fundamental social change.
For a Workers' and Farmers' Government.......2002-09-13
"The Fight for a Workers' and Farmers' Government in the U.S." is a key article in this collection. It is based on the fact that farmers who hire no labor but work their own land have common interests with workers. Both are exploited by giant agribusinesses and are in debt slavery to the capitalist banks.
In this article, Jack Barnes presents a convincing argument for the correctness of the strategy of the Socialist Workers Party to "educate and organize the working class to establish a workers' and farmers' government that will abolish capitalism in the United States and join in the world-wide struggle for socialism."
Alliance with farmers decisive for workers in the USA.......2002-08-20
The big battles between farmers and banks, farmers and agribusiness that opened in the late 1970s and early 1980s helped the Socialists Workers Party reconsider the decisive role of farmers and their struggle to the struggle for Socialism in America, and indeed the world.
Two articles in this issue of the New International from 1985 record this new understanding. "Forging a Fighting Worker-Farmer Alliance" by Doug Jenness analyzes how farmers are exploited by big business, how they have begun to fight back, and how workers need to join and support their struggle. "The Workers' and Farmers' Government in the United States" by SWP National Secretary Jack Barnes, is a speech changing the SWP's constitution to call for a workers and farmers government in this country. Barnes' speech in particular integrates the experiences of the Cuban, Nicaraguan and Grenadian revolutions on the common fight of workers and exploited farmers with the battles workers and farmers face in the USA.
Added to these two speeches are two speeches on the alliance between workers and farmers in Cuba by Fidel Castro and a resolution on "The Agrarian Question and Relations to the Peasantry," a resolution adopted by the Cuba Communist Party in 1975.
Along with these articles on the alliance between workers and farmers, this issue contains "Revolutionary Per4spective and Leninist Continuity in the United States," the central political resolution adopted at the SWP's august 1984 convention surveying world and US politics in the early Reagan years.
Average customer rating:
|
A Guide to Reproduction: Social Issues and Human Concerns
Irina Pollard
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
General
| Biology
| Biological Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Pathophysiology
| Basic Science
| Medicine
| Subjects
| Books
Physiology
| Basic Science
| Medicine
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Medicine
| Subjects
| Books
Reproduction
| Reproductive & Sexual
| Medicine
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Biology
| Biological Sciences
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
Pathophysiology
| Basic Sciences
| Medical
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
Physiology
| Basic Sciences
| Medical
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0521418623 |
Book Description
Reproduction plays a huge part in many people's lives, but often little is understood about the biological processes involved and the larger impact of reproductive choices. This book offers an accessible, comprehensive introduction to this fascinating subject. Irina Pollard takes a unique, interdisciplinary perspective, describing in detail the biology of human reproduction, but also covering in depth the impact of procreational behavior on human social structures, the environment, and health. This compelling and authoritative account is the first to draw together in a single volume these two disparate yet intimately connected strands of the story of human reproduction. The book covers fertility and infertility, sexual behavior and pheromones, sperm creation, maternal physiology during pregnancy, fetal development, the biology of breast feeding, and the impact of parental behavior on the physiology of the newborn, as well as population dynamics, artificial control of fertility, the AIDS epidemic, the effects of nutrition and exercise on reproductive behavior, and the causes of birth defects, including abuse of substances such as nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine. This book is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate students studying biology, medicine, anthropology, human ecology, population dynamics, and public health. It is also an engrossing and enlightening source of information for a wide range of general readers including prospective parents, pregnant mothers, teenagers, and anyone wishing a concise, up-to-date review of human reproductive biology.
Average customer rating:
|
Corrosive Agents & Their Interaction With Materials: Carboxylic Acid Esters, Drinking Water, Nitric Acid (The Dechema Corrosion Handbook)
Manufacturer: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
Reference
| Subjects
| Books
| Almanacs & Yearbooks
| Atlases & Maps
| Books on CD
| Books on Cassette
| Business Skills
| Careers
| Catalogs & Directories
| Consumer Guides
| Dictionaries & Thesauruses
| Education
| Encyclopedias
| Etiquette
| Foreign Languages
| Fun Facts
| Genealogy
| General
| Job Hunting
| Large Print
| Law
| Publishing & Books
| Quotations
| Spanish-Language Reference
| Study Guides
| Test Prep Central
| Words & Language
| Writing
General & Reference
| Chemistry
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Engineering
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Materials Science
| Engineering
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
Materials
| Chemical
| Engineering
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
General & Reference
| Chemistry
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Arts & Photography
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 3527266615 |
Book Description
This textbook contains a wealth of information essential for successful experiments at low temperatures. The first chapters describe the low-temperature properties of liquids and solid matter, including liquid helium. The major part of the book is devoted to refrigeration techniques and the physics on which they rely, the definition of temperature, thermometry, and a variety of design and construction techniques. The lively style and practical orientation of this text make it easy to read and particularly useful to anyone beginning research in low-temperature physics. Low-temperature scientists will find it of great value due to its extensive compilation of materials data and relevant new results from thermometry and materials properties, as well as many additional references to the recent literature. Problems are included as well. In addition, this edition also describes newly developed low temperature experimentation techniques and new materials properties.
from a reader's comments at Amazon.com:
"Frank Pobell's book is essentially the bible for building cryostats. If you are in need of a low temperature system and the organization that you are working with doesn't know about Pobell's book, you should look for another vendor."
Customer Reviews:
The bible for building low temperature cryostats.......2001-04-24
If you want to build a low temperature cryostat you need this book. If you are having a cryostat built and your subcontractor doesn't know about Pobell, you need to find another subcontractor.
The bible for building low temperature cryostats.......2001-04-24
If you want to build a low temperature cryostat you need this book.
The bible for building low temperature cryostats.......2001-04-24
Frank Pobell's book is essentially the bible for building cryostats. If you are in need of a low temperature system and the organization that you are working with doesn't know about Pobell's book, you should look for another vendor.
Average customer rating:
|
Theory of Nonequilibrium Superconductivity (International Series of Monographs on Physics)
Nikolai B. Kopnin
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
Superconductivity
| Electrical & Electronics
| Engineering
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Physics
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
Solid State Physics
| Physics
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Physics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Solid-State Physics
| Physics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Condensed Matter
| Solid-State Physics
| Physics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Electromagnetism
| Physics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Radioactivity
| Nuclear Physics
| Physics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Physics
| Sciences
| New & Used Textbooks
| Stores
| Books
All Titles
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
ASIN: 0198507887 |
Book Description
This is the first text on the modern theory of superconductivity. It deals with the behaviour of superconductors in external fields varying in time, and with transport phenomena in superconductors. The book starts with the fundamentals of the first-principle, microscopic theory of superconductivity, and guides the reader through the modern theoretical analysis directly to applications of the theory to practical problems. The reader of this book will learn about the methods of quantum field theory applied to nonstationary superconductivity in their most advanced formulation, namely about the so-called semi-classical version of the real-time Green's function technique applied to the celebrated Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer model of superconductivity. A considerable part of the book is devoted to vortex dynamics, dealing with the behaviour of superconductors in the most practical situation when they carry electric currents in the presence of a magnetic field.
Book Description
Considered a masterpiece, this story was written in 1921, and is set in the China of 1911: the period of the old-democratic revolution. It concerns the tragedy of Ah Q, a farm laborer who suffers a lifetime of humiliation and persecution, dreams of revolution, and ends up on the execution ground. The story colorfully reflects the rural conditions in semi-feudal and semi-colonial China, and brings to life the time's sharp class contradictions and the peasant masses' demand for revolution. Its simplicity and directness of style, and the beauty of Lu Hsun's language, place The True Story of Ah Q high among literary works of the time for both content and style.
Download Description
After Ah Q had kowtowed and complied with the Chao family's terms, he went back as usual to the Tutelary God's Temple. The sun had gone down, and he began to feel that something was wrong. Careful thought led him to the conclusion that this was probably because his back was bare. Remembering that he still had a ragged lined jacket, he put it on and lay down, and when he opened his eyes again the sun was already shining on the top of the west wall. He sat up, saying, "Curse it. . . ."
Customer Reviews:
Absolutely masterpiece........2003-01-25
A must-see work. The most well-known short works in China by the greatest writer Mr. Lu Xun in China's history. Try to ask any people from mainland China, I am sure 99% of them have read this story of Ah-Q.
Ah-Q is the most famous character in China. This short novel reflects the status of the whole society in early 20th century, which was in the end of the last feudalistic Dynasty in China.
Beyond propaganda: The reality of village life in China.......2000-11-22
The Chinese communist party likes to claim Lu Xun as a precursor to later social critics who wrote along party lines. He definitely does not belong in that category. The cover of the English translation, published by the Foreign Languages Press Beijing,(not this edition) claims that his story, set in the China of 1911, reflects "the sharp class contradictions and the peasant masses' demand for revolution". Nothing could be farther from the truth. There are no peasants in Lu Xun's story who demand a revolution. On the contrary, when revolution "arrives" in the towns, it is the officials of the crumbling Ming Dynasty in the village who try to jump on the new train first. The peasants are dumbfounded, but essentially, they do not care. Ah Q is a day laborer who lives on the odd jobs he gets from time to time in his small village. He is an optimistic, naive peasant inclined to turn his daily humiliations into imaginary "victories" When he commits the mistake of confessing his love to a lowly female employee in the household of a wealthy official by saying "sleep with me", he is ostracised by the whole village and forced to steal in order to survive. Finally, he leaves the village. He returns as a man with money, and suddenly gains the respect of the villagers and the local officials. Later, however, he commits another mistake. He tells that the gained the money by selling stolen goods. In the end, he is executed because the officials decide that he has robbed the house of an official.
Lu Xun tells the story in a very detached manner, never interfering with comments of his own. He is very sarcastic: the final chapter which tells of the execution of Ah Q is titled "The Grand Finale". Ah Q is depicted as a likeable fool, stumbling through life and thrown about by chance events and his own clumsiness. The world of the village is one of pettiness, slander, envy, opportunistic cowardness, intellectual tedium, and everyday muddling through. The revolution never has any meaning to the village, other than an interference of the balance of power, an external event to which the poor and the less poor have to adapt in order to survive. Ah Q seems to me to be a symbol for China in the early years of the 20th century: a naive peasant who dreams of great things but finally stumbles helplessly to a bitter end.
The cover text of the Chinese edition concludes that it "was the author's sincere hope that the broad masses of peasants, victims of feudal oppression and imperialist aggression, might be aroused and rise in resistance against them." My own overall impression of the atmosphere in Ah Q's village is one of stifling inertia where everyone was caught in a net of inhibiting relationships and only looked for his own (and his family's) improvement in social status. No masses, no arousal. A sad story, but a true one, I guess.
Average customer rating:
|
True Story of Ah Q, The
Lu Hsun
Manufacturer: Foreign Language Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Chinese
| Classics
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: B000K8FSOK |
Product Description
The story traces the adventures of Ah Q, a man from the peasant class with little education and no definite work. Ah Q is famous for "spiritual victories", Lu Xun's euphemism for self-talk and self-deception even when faced with extreme defeat or humiliation. Ah Q is a bully of the less fortunate but fearful of those who are above him in rank, strength or power. Lu Xun exposes Ah Q's extreme faults as symptomatic of the Chinese attitudes of his time. The ending of the piece is equally poignant and satirical.
Average customer rating:
|
TRUE STORY OF AH Q
LU HSUN
Manufacturer: Cheng & Tsui Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MBJVR0 |
Average customer rating:
|
The True Story of Ah Q
Lu Hsun
Manufacturer: Foreign Languages Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000PS0IY0 |
Average customer rating:
|
True Story of Ah Q
Manufacturer: China Books & Periodicals
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0835104087 |
Average customer rating:
|
The True Story of Ah Q
Lu Hsun
Manufacturer: Foreign Languages Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MAOV0I |
Average customer rating:
|
The true story of Ah Q
Lu Hsun
Manufacturer: FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UDSZG8 |
Average customer rating:
|
The True Story of Ah Q
Xun Lu
Manufacturer: Foreign Languages Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
Literary Theory
| History & Criticism
| United States
| World Literature
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
Contemporary
| General
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 7119012053 |
Books:
- Lectures in Canadian Labour and Working-Class History
- Lingering Crisis of Youth Unemployment
- Living Wage : Building a Fair Economy
- Manpower Policies and Programs: A Review, 1935-75
- Measuring employment effects in the regulatory process : recommendations and background study (SuDoc Y 3.EM 7/3:9/34)
- Mediating the Transition: Labour Markets in Central and Eastern Europe : Forum Report of the Economic Policy Initiative No. 4 (Economic Policy Initiative)
- Meeting The Needs Of Employees W/disabilities
- Microfinance Investment Funds: Leveraging Private Capital for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
- Mismatch Explanations of European Unemployment: A Critical Evaluation (European and Transatlantic Studies)
- Nearly out of Heart and Hope: The Puzzle of a Colonial Labourer's Diary
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- C.A.R.E. Packages for the Workplace: Dozens of Little Things You Can Do To Regenerate Spirit At Work
- Barnyard in Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Rabbits, Goats, She
- African American Art and Artists, Revised and Expanded Edition
- A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900
- After the Affair: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful
- Anesthesiology Review
- Adventures with a Texas Naturalist
- Think Naked: Childlike Brilliance in the Rough Adult World
- 200 Modelos De Curriculum
- Warrior Spirit Running to the Sound of Gunfire
Han Unbound: The Political Economy of South Korea
Understanding Korean Politics: An Introduction (Suny Series in Korean Studies)
Korea's Democratization
The Philippines: A Singular and a Plural Place (Nations of the Modern World)
The Politics of Indonesia
