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Sino–Malay Trade and Diplomacy from the Tenth through the Fourteenth Century

By: Derek Heng

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Sino–Malay Trade and Diplomacy from the Tenth through the Fourteenth Century

By: Derek Heng

China has been an important player in the international economy for two thousand years and has historically exerted enormous influence over the development and nature of political and economic affairs in the regions beyond its borders, especially its neighbors. Sino–Malay Trade and Diplomacy from the Tenth through the Fourteenth Century examines how changes in foreign policy and economic perspectives of the Chinese court affected diplomatic intercourse as well as the fundamental nature of economic interaction between China and the Malay region, a subregion of Southeast Asia centered on the Strait of Malacca. This study’s uniqueness and value lie in its integration of archaeological, epigraphic, and textual data from both China and Southeast Asia to provide a rich, multilayered picture of Sino–Southeast Asian relations in the premodern era. Derek Heng approaches the topic from both the Southeast Asian and Chinese perspectives, affording a dual narrative otherwise unavailable in the current body of Southeast Asian and China studies literature.

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Ohio University Press

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0896804755

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9780896804753

The Price of Victory

The 1997 Singapore General Election and Beyond

By: Derek Da Cunha

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The Price of Victory

The 1997 Singapore General Election and Beyond

By: Derek Da Cunha

In the months leading up to the 1997 Singapore General Election, many observers were already billing it in terms of a "watershed" election that would chart the course of Singapore politics well into the 21st century. The ruling People's Action Party had seen its popular vote slide in the previous three successive elections and was determined to stem, if not decisively reverse, that slide. On the other hand, the opposition parties were determined to hand the ruling party a fourth successive reduction in its vote and, through that, establish a long-term trend in decline in support for the PAP. The outcome of the election, which was bitterly fought, will indeed have major implications for Singapore politics well into the new millennium. This book analyses the significant aspects of the election campaign, provides a host of interpretations for the election results, sets out alternative explanations to certain political phenomena given by other observers, and details some of the key implications the outcome of the elections will have for the Singapore body politic, in particular, and society at large, in general.

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Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

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981305588X

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9789813055889

Debating Singapore

Reflective Essays

By: Derek Da Cunha

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Debating Singapore

Reflective Essays

By: Derek Da Cunha

Debating Singapore, a volume of thirty-one essays, offers perceptive observations, acerbic commentary and judicious critiques from academics and professionals on key economic, social and cultural issues that have shaped discourse on Singapore since 1990. Written between 1990 and 1994, these concise essays capture the essence of debate during a particular moment in time. They also convey a sense of the rapidity with which change, in both tangible and intangible dimensions, takes place in the Singapore of the 1990s.

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Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

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9813016825

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9789813016828

Breakthrough 2.0: Singaporeans Push For Parliamentary Democracy

By: Derek Da Cunha

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Breakthrough 2.0: Singaporeans Push For Parliamentary Democracy

By: Derek Da Cunha

Some six decades of socialisation by the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) has ingrained in a majority of Singaporeans the instinct that it is not unusual to give up certain personal liberties for the greater good as long as the PAP State ensures the material well-being of Singaporeans. The general election of 2020 (GE2020) during the COVID-19 pandemic, put this social compact between the people and the State to the test. Significant job losses, wage cuts, and an erosion of personal wealth — due to measures to counter the pandemic — cut substantially into the PAP popular vote nationally, and resulted in an unprecedented 10 candidates from the opposition Workers' Party (WP) being elected to Parliament. GE2020 confirmed the trend from GE2011, when the WP first made a breakthrough, that Singaporeans will only accept a party in moderate opposition to the PAP. This narrative differs markedly from conventional wisdom.Breakthrough 2.0 explores the aforementioned phenomena. The book analyses critically the issues surrounding parliamentary elections in Singapore. It also focuses on issues not explored by many other observers, namely voter psychology; election processes; and, party branding. A comparative analysis of election practices and processes in other jurisdictions is also employed to determine where parallels can or cannot be drawn with the situation in Singapore.The author has had direct access to personalities across the political parties. Consequently, he utilises primary sources, supported by evidence, in sketching out backstories to events which exposes certain myths that were prevailing in social media in the months running up to GE2020.

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World Scientific

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9811227292

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9789811227295

Historical Dictionary of International Organizations in Asia and the Pacific

By: Derek McDougall

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Historical Dictionary of International Organizations in Asia and the Pacific

By: Derek McDougall

Historical Dictionary of International Organizations in Asia and the Pacific, Second Edition covers global, international, and regional organizations in Asia and the Pacific, and encompasses both governmental and non-governmental organizations. This second edition covers the history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, thematic topics, and major international issues affecting the region. This book is a valuable tool for anyone seeking details about international organizations in Asia and the Pacific, and the international context within which those organizations function.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0810880385

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9780810880382

Becoming a Successful Illustrator

By: Derek Brazell,Jo Davies

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Becoming a Successful Illustrator

By: Derek Brazell,Jo Davies

Get ready to enter the working world of illustration with this freshly updated second edition of Brazell and Davies's Becoming a Successful Illustrator. This edition features even more 'Spotlight on...' sections, with advice from practicing illustrators as well as the people that commission them. You can enjoy added coverage in fields such as moving image, character illustration and social media. There are also new exercises to get you started planning and building your business, and over 200 inspirational examples of artwork, most of which are new to this edition. You can expect practical tips on how to seek work, how to market yourself and how to run your illustration business in an enterprising way, with advice that will prove useful long after your first commission. Building on the resources of the first edition, this continues to be the must-have guide to practicing professionally as an illustrator. Featured illustrators include: Millie Marotta Mark Ulriksen Natsko Seki Ellen Weinstein Stephen Collins ... and many more Featured topics include: Finding clients Agency representation Fields of work Financial and legal requirements Skills in art and design Self-promotion Showing work Managing your business

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350030813

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9781350030817

Poorly Soluble Drugs

Dissolution and Drug Release

By: Gregory K. Webster,Robert G. Bell,J. Derek Jackson

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Poorly Soluble Drugs

Dissolution and Drug Release

By: Gregory K. Webster,Robert G. Bell,J. Derek Jackson

This book is the first text to provide a comprehensive assessment of the application of fundamental principles of dissolution and drug release testing to poorly soluble compounds and formulations. Such drug products are, vis-à-vis their physical and chemical properties, inherently incompatible with aqueous dissolution. However, dissolution methods are required for product development and selection, as well as for the fulfillment of regulatory obligations with respect to biopharmaceutical assessment and product quality understanding. The percentage of poorly soluble drugs, defined in classes 2 and 4 of the Biopharmaceutics Classification System (BCS), has significantly increased in the modern pharmaceutical development pipeline. This book provides a thorough exposition of general method development strategies for such drugs, including instrumentation and media selection, the use of compendial and non-compendial techniques in product development, and phase-appropriate approaches to dissolution development. Emerging topics in the field of dissolution are also discussed, including biorelevant and biphasic dissolution, the use on enzymes in dissolution testing, dissolution of suspensions, and drug release of non-oral products. Of particular interest to the industrial pharmaceutical professional, a brief overview of the formulation and solubilization techniques employed in the development of BCS class 2 and 4 drugs to overcome solubility challenges is provided and is complemented by a collection of chapters that survey the approaches and considerations in developing dissolution methodologies for enabling drug delivery technologies, including nanosuspensions, lipid-based formulations, and stabilized amorphous drug formulations.

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CRC Press

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1315340860

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9781315340869

Procurement Systems

A Cross-Industry Project Management Perspective

By: Derek Walker,Steve Rowlinson

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Procurement Systems

A Cross-Industry Project Management Perspective

By: Derek Walker,Steve Rowlinson

Innovative and novel, this book extends its coverage of the topic well beyond the conventional themes of project solicitation and proposal evaluation. Using extensive experience gathered over five years of teaching postgraduate courses, Walker and Rowlinson build on Procurement Systems: A Guide to Best Practice in Construction to present a comprehensive and coherent volume that is invaluable to the wider project management community. Cross-disciplinary in approach, coverage includes general historical issues and practical discussions of different types of projects and their procurement needs. It provides and discusses cutting-edge research and thought leadership on issues such as: stakeholder management ethics and corporate governance issues business strategy implications on procurement e-business innovation and organizational learning cultural dimensions human resource development. Helping readers to design project procurement implementation paths that deliver sustainable value, this indispensable volume is key reading for students, lecturers and professionals working in or studying project management.

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Routledge

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1134117922

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9781134117925

Heavenly Clockwork

The Great Astronomical Clocks of Medieval China

By: Joseph Needham,Ling Wang,Derek John de Solla Price

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Heavenly Clockwork

The Great Astronomical Clocks of Medieval China

By: Joseph Needham,Ling Wang,Derek John de Solla Price

A reissue with a foreword and supplement, of a modern classic published in 1960. The invention of the mechanical clock was one of the most important turning points in the history of science and technology. This study revealed six centuries of mechanical clockwork preceding the first mechanical escapement clocks of the West of about AD 1300. Detailed and fully illustrated accounts of elaborate Chinese clocks are accompanied by a discussion of the social context of the Chinese inventions and an assessment of their possible transmission to medieval Europe. For this revised edition, Dr Joseph Needham has contributed a new foreword on recent research and perceptions. In a supplement John H. Combridge details a modern reconstruction of Su Sung's timekeeping device, which together with textual studies modifies our understanding of this important early technology.

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CUP Archive

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0521322766

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9780521322768

Our World This Century

New Edition for GCSE

By: Derek Benjamin Heater,Derek Heater

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Our World This Century

New Edition for GCSE

By: Derek Benjamin Heater,Derek Heater

Our World This Century covers events up to 1995 in a simple and direct text, illustrated with cartoons, photographs, charts and diagrams which aid understanding.

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Oxford University Press

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0199133247

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9780199133246

Vault Guide to the Top Financial Services Employers

By: Derek Loosvelt

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Vault Guide to the Top Financial Services Employers

By: Derek Loosvelt

From the author of the Vault Guide to the Top 50 Banking Employers, now in its 9th edition, this Guide profiles 55 employers, including American Express, AIG, Capital One, Fidelity, FleetBoston, GE Capital, Prudential, Vanguard Group, and Visa. The inside scoop on what it's like to work and what it takes to get hired there. Based on interviews and surveys of actual employees.

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Vault Inc.

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1581314167

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9781581314168

Sampans, Banyans and Rambutans

A Childhood in Singapore and Malaya

By: Derek Tait

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Sampans, Banyans and Rambutans

A Childhood in Singapore and Malaya

By: Derek Tait

One man's story of an experience shared by thousands of children. The idyllic upbringing of the child of a Navy officer in Malaya and Singapore during the 1960s.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445625415

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9781445625416

Getting Illustration Clients

By: Jo Davies,Derek Brazell

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Getting Illustration Clients

By: Jo Davies,Derek Brazell

The commissioning process can be a confusing maze for the commercial illustrator just starting out so let Getting Illustration Clients be your beacon for success. Written by the duo that brought you Becoming a Successful Illustrator, here Jo Davies and Derek Brazell demystify the commissioning process for commercial illustration, from the point of the view of those hiring and briefing freelance illustrators: the art editors, the designers, the agents and more. With insider tips that will make your work garner attention and satisfy the needs of the brief, each section is beautifully illustrated with full-colour examples of projects typical to main areas of practice from around the globe. Organised with key action points and summaries, as well as case studies from commissioning professionals for Harper Collins, VMLR&Y Wooga Games, and many more. Supporting exercises support Jo and Derek's guidance, to be used off the shelf by students, graduates and early-career professionals working independently. For the practicing illustrator, who want to see the commissioning process from 'the other side', you will always have to hand expert advice on what clients want, how commissioning works and how to get your work noticed. For lecturers in illustration, this is your go-to recommend for recent graduates looking for advice on the working world of commercial illustration.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350147001

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9781350147003

Law Relating to Banking in Hong Kong

By: Derek Roebuck

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Law Relating to Banking in Hong Kong

By: Derek Roebuck

Produced in collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Bankers Hong Kong Centre, this book is indispensable to students sitting for the institute's examination from September 1992 onwards, and to anyone involved in the banking industry in Hong Kong. Banking regulations and the law on securities, negotiable instruments, business associations, and insolvency are discussed.

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622093531

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9789622093539

Chaucer

The Earlier Poetry : a Study in Poetic Development

By: Derek Traversi

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Chaucer

The Earlier Poetry : a Study in Poetic Development

By: Derek Traversi

This book traces through Chaucer's earlier poems the development of his understanding of the creative possibilities and the limitations of his art. The discussion includes authority and experience in three works, and demonstrates how the creative process defined in the study led to the masterpiece Troilus and Criseyde.

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University of Delaware Press

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0874133068

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9780874133066

Joyce Effects

On Language, Theory, and History

By: Derek Attridge

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Joyce Effects

On Language, Theory, and History

By: Derek Attridge

This is a series of connected essays by one of today's leading commentators on James Joyce.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521777887

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9780521777889

Southeast Asian Interconnections

Geography, Networks and Trade

By: Derek Heng

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Southeast Asian Interconnections

Geography, Networks and Trade

By: Derek Heng

Since the late first millennium CE, Maritime Southeast Asia has been an inter-connected zone, with its societies and states maintaining economic and diplomatic relations with both China and Japan on the east, and the Indian Sub-Continent and Middle East on the west. This global connectedness was facilitated by merchant and shipping networks that originated from within and outside Southeast Asia, resulting in a trans-regional economy developing by the early second millennium CE. Sojourning populations began to appear in Maritime Southeast Asia, culminating in records of Chinese and Indian settlers in such places as Sumatra, Malay Peninsula and the Gulf of Siam by the mid-first millennium CE. At the same time, information of products that were harvested in Southeast Asia began to be appropriated by pockets of society in China, the India and the Middle East, resulting in the production of new knowledge and usages for these products in these markets.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108903479

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The Future Now

How to Use All Methods of Prediction from Astrology to Tarot to Discover Your Future

By: Derek Parker,Julia Parker

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The Future Now

How to Use All Methods of Prediction from Astrology to Tarot to Discover Your Future

By: Derek Parker,Julia Parker

Step-by-step instructions for every predictive technique, including I Ching, astrology, palmistry, graphology, crystals, tarot cards, tea leaves, runes, biorhythms, dreams, and more. (Divination)

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Fireside Books

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0133458938

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Traveler's Companion Guide to China 1998-99

By: Derek Maitland,Chris Taylor

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Traveler's Companion Guide to China 1998-99

By: Derek Maitland,Chris Taylor

China, isolated from the rest of the world for more than three decades by a painful but phenomenal social revolution, has emerged as today's new frontier of international tourism, the mecca of more than a million jet-set and backpack pilgrims a year. Travel in China is challenging, but the reward for the tourist who understands and accepts this challenge is one of the most exciting and memorable experiences of a lifetime. And the Traveler's China Companion offers the opportunity to touch the soul of China and its teeming millions - not only its grand cultural treasures and relics but also the simplicity, generosity and hospitality of the ordinary Chinese people. Within this volume you'll find stunning photographs, clear and easy-to-follow maps, and detailed information on where to eat, shop, sleep and play. You'll also find sections on handy tourist information such as Visa requirements, exchange rates and tips on getting around in this amazing country.

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0762702494

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9780762702497

Traveler's China Companion

By: Derek Maitland,Chris Taylor

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Traveler's China Companion

By: Derek Maitland,Chris Taylor

Packed Z99 gorgeous color photos these guides offer all the information a traveler needs including trip planning and on-the-road advice to make your vacation memorable

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0762708956

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9780762708956

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