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Clearing the Mind for Creativity

By: John Kao

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Clearing the Mind for Creativity

By: John Kao

John Kao learned a lot about creativity and innovation during his years teaching at the Harvard Business School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab but also as a serial entrepreneur, psychiatrist, movie producer, and jazz pianist. He wrote about the topic in Jamming--The Art and Discipline of Business Creativity, a BusinessWeek bestseller that has been published in more than a dozen languages. Now, he’s distilling what he knows into a series of brief, practical guides. The topic of this one is how to clear the mind to make way for creativity and the great ideas that follow. Come with me to Harvard. My classroom is like many others at the business school. The setting is casual and comfortable, yet conducive to drama. I lower the lights and ask my students to shut their eyes. “Picture yourself in five years,” I tell them. “Are you alone or with another person? Where do you live? Where do you work? What are you doing right now? What do you smell? What do you taste? Touch the object nearest you. What do you feel?” My students smile. I know what they are experiencing. They are playing parts in a mental performance. Initially, they are surprised by what they are imagining, but soon they are engrossed. One is walking through Washington’s corridors of power. Another is climbing an Alpine rock face. Another is standing in the Shanghai Stock Exchange. After five minutes or so, I turn up the lights and ask how they feel. They are energized, emotional, inspired....

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Innovation Nation

How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back

By: John Kao

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Innovation Nation

How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back

By: John Kao

Not long ago, Americans could rightfully feel confident in our preeminence in the world economy. The United States set the pace as the world's leading innovator: from the personal computer to the internet, from Wall Street to Hollywood, from the decoding of the genome to the emergence of Web 2.0, we led the way and the future was ours. So how is it, bestselling author and leading expert on innovation John Kao asks, that today Finland is the world's most competitive economy? That U.S. students rank twenty-fourth in the world in math literacy and twenty-sixth in problem-solving ability? That in 2005 and 2006 combined, in a reverse brain drain, 30,000 highly trained professionals left the United States to return to their native India? Even as the United States has lost standing in the world community because of the war in Iraq, Kao warns, the country is losing its edge in economic leadership as well. The future of our prosperity, and of our national security, is at serious risk. But it doesn't have to be this way. Based on his in-depth experience advising many of the world's leading companies and studying cutting-edge innovation "best practices" in the most dynamic hot spots of innovation both in the United States and around the world, Kao argues that the United States still has the capability not only to regain our competitive edge, but to take a bold step out ahead of the global community and secure a leadership role in the twenty-first century. We must, though, take serious and concerted action fast. First offering a stunning, troubling portrait of just how serious is the erosion in recent years of U.S. competitiveness in innovation, Kao then takes readers on a fascinating tour of the leading innovation centers, such as those in Singapore, Denmark, and Finland, which are trumping us in their more focused and creative approaches to fueling innovation. He then lays out a groundbreaking plan for a national innovation strategy that would empower the United States to actually innovate the process of innovation: to marshal our vast resources of talent and infrastructure in the particular ways that his studies of innovation have shown lead to transformative results. Innovation Nation is vital reading for all those Americans who are troubled by the great challenges the United States faces in the ever-more-competitive economy of our twenty-first-century world.

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Simon and Schuster

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141655257X

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Jamming

Art and Discipline of Corporate Creativity, The

By: John Kao

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Jamming

Art and Discipline of Corporate Creativity, The

By: John Kao

In today's competitive environment, creativity is no longer an option. Companies that understand how to manage creativity in their people, organize for creative results and willingly implement good new ideas will triumph. In Jamming, John Kao also offers an approach that demystifies a topic traditionally confounding to businesspeople everywhere. He begins by showing how creativity, like the musical discipline of jazz, has a vocabulary and a grammar. It is a process, and because of that it can be observed, analyzed, understood, replicated, taught and managed. He explains how creativity needs a particular environment in which to blossom and grow. Like musicians in a jam session, a group of businesspeople can take an idea, challenge one another's imagination and produce an entirely new set of possibilities. Kao reveals how managers can stimulate creativity in their employees, explores the impact of information technology on creativity, looks at the globalization of creativity and shows how to ensure the loyalty of people who design, build and deliver today's vital products and services.

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0887308643

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The Future is Yours to Invent

By: John Kao

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The Future is Yours to Invent

By: John Kao

John Kao, a master of innovation, shows how you can put your life and business on a trajectory to uncommon success. The journey begins with a conceptual prototype of your own making and ends with you realizing your ambition. Representatives of our newest client, a pharmaceutical maker, arrived this morning at 7:45--six executives, all eager to get started. They stared at the emptiness of our white walls but said nothing. I asked them to explain what brought them to us. "It’s simple," one of them said, knowing it wasn’t simple at all. "We’re a $40 billion-a-year corporation, and we want to keep growing at 7 percent annually. In other words, we need another $2.8 billion in sales every year." I tapped the calculator on my iPhone. "That’s about $54 million a week," I said. "We don’t care about some $100 million opportunity," the man went on. "Only mega-ideas will do." "What you need," I said, "is the equivalent of two dozen blockbuster movies a year.

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Jamming

Art and Discipline of Business Creativit

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Jamming

Art and Discipline of Business Creativit

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We Are All Producers Now

By: John Kao

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We Are All Producers Now

By: John Kao

Every era has its model of business practice. In the 1950s, it was the organization man. In the 1970s, it was the gamesman. Going forward, the model is the producer. The reason is simple: The world is nothing if not unstable. In this absurdist jungle, trust was a quaint anachronism. Contracts for millions of dollars were actually written on the back of a napkin, notwithstanding Samuel Goldwyn’s famous observation that verbal agreements aren’t worth the paper they are written on. Sometimes, just a handshake sufficed. When doors opened, it was not because of the quality of your ideas or the strength of your talent, but on the basis of your relationships. Your most valuable asset was your Rolodex, and ours wasn’t full of the right numbers.

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Are You a Producer?

By: John Kao

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Are You a Producer?

By: John Kao

In terms of ambition and organization, producing a complex movie in 2010--something at the level of Where the Wild Things Are--is, in some ways, similar to producing the first conquest of the South Pole, as Amundsen did in 1911. Each venture required a magnetic producer able to envision an alluring goal, raise money, recruit talent, set rigorous standards, and lead an elite team through enormous physical and emotional hardship to a glorious finale. John Kao embodies the qualities that make that possible. Every era has its archetype of the successful business practitioner, the figure who steps forward in answer to the attitudes and issues of the times. In the fifties, the organization man (and it was always a man) with his orderly and structured regimen, symbolized the large corporation, which itself was modeled after the industrial factory. As an acolyte of the mechanical age in which the organization man lived, he drove the top-down organization hard to achieve peak performance. In the seventies, the organization man was replaced by the gamesman. He was adept at guerrilla warfare and could make his way through the corporate jungle largely unscathed. The rigid architecture so prized by the organization man no longer worked in the more flexible and decentralized environment of that era. The end of the twentieth century was dominated by what novelist Tom Wolfe dubbed the masters of the universe--near-infallible leaders who lived and led in larger-than-life style.

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The Cambridge History of China: pt. 1. The Sung Dynasty and its precursors, 907-1279

By: Denis Crispin Twitchett,John K. Fairbank

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The Cambridge History of China: pt. 1. The Sung Dynasty and its precursors, 907-1279

By: Denis Crispin Twitchett,John K. Fairbank

This first of two volumes on the Sung Dynasty (960-1279) and its Five Dynasties and Southern Kingdoms precursors presents the political history of China from the fall of the T'ang Dynasty in 907 to the Mongol conquest of the Southern Sung in 1279. Its twelve chapters survey the personalities and events that marked the rise, consolidation, and demise of the Sung polity during an era of profound social, economic, and intellectual ferment. The authors place particular emphasis on the emergence of a politically conscious literati class during the Sung, characterized by the increasing importance of the examination system early in the dynasty and on the rise of the tao-hsueh (Neo-Confucian) movement toward the end. In addition, they highlight the destabilizing influence of factionalism and ministerial despotism on Sung political culture and the impact of the powerful steppe empires of the Khitan Liao, Tangut Hsi Hsia, Jurchen Chin, and Mongol Yüan on the shape and tempo of Sung dynastic events

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Branches of Heaven

A History of the Imperial Clan of Sung China

By: John W. Chaffee

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Branches of Heaven

A History of the Imperial Clan of Sung China

By: John W. Chaffee

By the end of the Sung dynasty (960-1279), known descendants of the three Chao brothers who had founded the dynasty numbered over 20,000. Unlike the rulers of many other Chinese dynasties, however, the Sung emperors were not plagued by challenges to their rule from their relatives. So successful was Sung policy on the imperial clan that it would serve as a model for the subsequent Ming and Ch'ing dynasties. How the Sung created a social and political asset in the imperial clan while neutralizing it as a potential threat is the story of this book. This study of the imperial clan as an institution analyzes the history, its political tile and the lifestyle of its members, focusing on their residence patterns, marriages and occupations.

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1684173329

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Learn Japanese

New College Text; Volume 3

By: John Young,Kimiko Nakajima-Okano

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Learn Japanese

New College Text; Volume 3

By: John Young,Kimiko Nakajima-Okano

After fifteen printings, the Learn Japanese: College Text series has been substantially revised. The incorporated revisions grew out of the authors' decade and more of classroom experience. Revisions were also made in accordance with recommendations proposed by instructors who have used the Learn Japanese series. The new edition, which reflects recent trends in language teaching, continues to emphasize an integrated approach in which speaking, hearing, reading, and writing Japanese all contribute to the language learning process. - The most significant improvement is the addition of Culture Notes to help clarify the sociolinguistic context in which the language is used. Since Japanese modes of communication are highly situational, the student of Japanese needs to be made aware of the different contexts in which speakers interact. Culture Notes, used in conjunction with Grammar Notes, Dialogs, and Useful Expressions, show how an understanding of cultural values and human relationships can enhance the student's mastery of language skills. - A new approach to language learning is used throughout the revised edition. The new sociolinguistic approach (which encourages the "generation of discourse") is integrated with the original pattern approach (which encourages the "generation of sentences"). - Many components of the first edition, such as Sentence Patterns, Grammar Notes, and Reviews, have been revised and/or rearranged. The result is a clearer, more natural, and more functional presentation of the Japanese language. The four volumes of Learn Japanese: New College Text were prepared by the Asian Division of the University of Maryland University College and are published by the University of Hawaii Press.

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Chiplet Design and Heterogeneous Integration Packaging

By: John H. Lau

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Chiplet Design and Heterogeneous Integration Packaging

By: John H. Lau

The book focuses on the design, materials, process, fabrication, and reliability of chiplet design and heterogeneous integraton packaging. Both principles and engineering practice have been addressed, with more weight placed on engineering practice. This is achieved by providing in-depth study on a number of major topics such as chip partitioning, chip splitting, multiple system and heterogeneous integration with TSV-interposers, multiple system and heterogeneous integration with TSV-less interposers, chiplets lateral communication, system-in-package, fan-out wafer/panel-level packaging, and various Cu-Cu hybrid bonding. The book can benefit researchers, engineers, and graduate students in fields of electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, materials sciences, and industry engineering, etc.

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9811999171

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A Ming Society

T'ai-ho County, Kiangsi, in the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries

By: John W. Dardess

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A Ming Society

T'ai-ho County, Kiangsi, in the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries

By: John W. Dardess

John Dardess has selected a region of great political and intellectual importance, but one which local history has left almost untouched, for this detailed social history of T'ai-ho county during the Ming dynasty. Rather than making a sweeping, general survey of the region, he follows the careers of a large number of native sons and their relationship to Ming imperial politics. Using previously unexplored primary sources, Dardess details the rise and development of T'ai-ho village kinship, family lineage, landscape, agriculture, and economy. He follows its literati to positions of prominence in imperial government. This concentration on the history of one county over almost three centuries gives rise to an unusually sound and immediate understanding of how Ming society functioned and changed over time. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.

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Božija Rijeè za današnji svijet

By: John Stott

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Božija Rijeè za današnji svijet

By: John Stott

Ništa nije važnije od slušanja, razumijevanja i izvršavanja Božje Riječi. Naši životi i lokalne crkve ovise o tome za svoj život, zdravlje i rast. John Stott je svjetski poznat zbog svoje posvećenosti Bibliji, u svom propovijedanju, kao i u svom životu. U ovoj poticajnoj knjizi, Stott jezgrovito prikazuje silu, autoritet i relevantnost Biblije za svakog kršćanina – u svakoj kulturi i u svakoj generaciji. • Šta je svrha Božje Riječi? • Kako nas upućuje na Krista? • Koji je njen odnos sa Duhom Svetim? • Kako oblikuje crkvu? • I šta ona predstavlja za kršćansko učeništvo? Autor odgovara na ova pitanja jednostavno i jasno, požurujući nas da čujemo i vršimo Božju riječ u svijetu današnjice.

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1839735627

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HBR's 10 Must Reads for Healthcare Leaders Collection

By: Harvard Business Review,Thomas H. Lee,Daniel Goleman,Peter F. Drucker,John P. Kotter

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HBR's 10 Must Reads for Healthcare Leaders Collection

By: Harvard Business Review,Thomas H. Lee,Daniel Goleman,Peter F. Drucker,John P. Kotter

The one collection every healthcare leader needs. The landscape of today's healthcare industry is constantly changing, and it's your job to lead your team to success. This collection from Harvard Business Review offers the ideas and strategies to help get you there. HBR's 10 Must Reads for Healthcare Leaders Collection includes the popular books HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership for Healthcare, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy for Healthcare, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Innovation, and HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management. This unique compilation offers insights from world-class experts on making the leap from being a good practitioner to being a great leader, leading effectively through times of rapid change, and achieving the best healthcare outcomes at the lowest cost. The collection includes forty articles selected by HBR's editors from renowned thought leaders including Michael Porter, Peter Drucker, John Kotter, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Jim Collins, W. Chan Kim, and Renee Mauborgne, plus the bonus article "Engaging Doctors in the Health Care Revolution," by Thomas H. Lee, MD, and Toby Cosgrove, MD. HBR's 10 Must Reads for Healthcare Leaders Collection is an invaluable resource for any doctor or hospital administrator looking to grow as a leader and to having a positive impact on colleagues and patients alike. HBR's 10 Must Reads series is the definitive collection of ideas and best practices for leaders at every level. These books offer essential reading selected from the pages of Harvard Business Review on topics critical to the success of every manager. Each book is packed with advice and inspiration from leading experts such as Clayton Christensen, Peter Drucker, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, John Kotter, Michael Porter, Daniel Goleman, Theodore Levitt, and Rita Gunther McGrath.

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1633698440

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Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier, 1600-1800

By: John Robert Shepherd

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Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier, 1600-1800

By: John Robert Shepherd

A Stanford University Press classic.

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Stanford University Press

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0804720665

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Topics In Modern Physics: Solutions To Problems

By: John Dirk Walecka,Paolo Amore

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Topics In Modern Physics: Solutions To Problems

By: John Dirk Walecka,Paolo Amore

Our understanding of the physical world was revolutionized in the twentieth century — the era of “modern physics”. Two books by the second author entitled Introduction to Modern Physics: Theoretical Foundations and Advanced Modern Physics: Theoretical Foundations, aimed at the very best students, present the foundations and frontiers of today's physics. Many problems are included in these texts. A previous book by the current authors provides solutions to the over 175 problems in the first volume.A third volume Topics in Modern Physics: Theoretical Foundations has recently appeared, which covers several subjects omitted in the essentially linear progression in the previous two. This book has three parts: part 1 is on quantum mechanics, part 2 is on applications of quantum mechanics, and part 3 covers some selected topics in relativistic quantum field theory. Parts 1 and 2 follow naturally from the initial volume. The present book provides solutions to the over 135 problems in this third volume.The three volumes in this series, together with the solutions manuals, provide a clear, logical, self-contained, and comprehensive base from which students can learn modern physics. When finished, readers should have an elementary working knowledge in the principal areas of theoretical physics of the twentieth century.

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World Scientific Publishing Company

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9814618977

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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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Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police

By: John Leo

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Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police

By: John Leo

A satirist in the tradition of Mark Twain and H.L. Mencken, John Leo has been long entertaining his readers by pillorying the worst excesses of the Political Correctness movement while lifting high the standard of common sense. This collection of editorials is Leo at his best-bitingly funny and with a keen moral edge." -Relgion and Liberty

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Transaction Publishers

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1412845386

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Mencius On The Mind

Experiments in Multiple Definition

By: John Constable

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Mencius On The Mind

Experiments in Multiple Definition

By: John Constable

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Death in the Rising Sun

By: John Creasey

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Death in the Rising Sun

By: John Creasey

Towards the end of World War II elements of the German High Command flee to Japan. Dr. Palfrey leaves for the East disguised as a German officer. He seeks ‘The Colony of the Fourth Reich’ believed to be situated in China. His disguise uncovered, he must find a way out with vital information that will affect the whole outcome of the war.

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0755137132

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Ancient Southeast Asia

By: John Norman Miksic,Goh Geok Yian

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Ancient Southeast Asia

By: John Norman Miksic,Goh Geok Yian

Ancient Southeast Asia provides readers with a much needed synthesis of the latest discoveries and research in the archaeology of the region, presenting the evolution of complex societies in Southeast Asia from the protohistoric period, beginning around 500BC, to the arrival of British and Dutch colonists in 1600. Well-illustrated throughout, this comprehensive account explores the factors which established Southeast Asia as an area of unique cultural fusion. Miksic and Goh explore how the local population exploited the abundant resources available, developing maritime transport routes which resulted in economic and cultural wealth, including some of the most elaborate art styles and monumental complexes ever constructed. The book’s broad geographical and temporal coverage, including a chapter on the natural environment, provides readers with the context needed to understand this staggeringly diverse region. It utilizes French, Dutch, Chinese, Malay-Indonesian and Burmese sources and synthesizes interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives and data from archaeology, history and art history. Offering key opportunities for comparative research with other centres of early socio-economic complexity, Ancient Southeast Asia establishes the area’s importance in world history.

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1317279034

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Riots, Pogroms, Jihad

Religious Violence in Indonesia

By: John T. Sidel

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Riots, Pogroms, Jihad

Religious Violence in Indonesia

By: John T. Sidel

In October 2002 a bomb blast in a Balinese nightclub killed more than two hundred people, many of them young Australian tourists. This event and subsequent attacks on foreign targets in Bali and Jakarta in 2003, 2004, and 2005 brought Indonesia into the global media spotlight as a site of Islamist terrorist violence. Yet the complexities of political and religious struggles in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country in the world, remain little known and poorly understood in the West. In Riots, Pogroms, Jihad, John T. Sidel situates these terrorist bombings and other "jihadist" activities in Indonesia against the backdrop of earlier episodes of religious violence in the country, including religious riots in provincial towns and cities in 1995-1997, the May 1998 riots in Jakarta, and interreligious pogroms in 1999-2001. Sidel's close account of these episodes of religious violence in Indonesia draws on a wide range of documentary, ethnographic, and journalistic materials. Sidel chronicles these episodes of violence and explains the overall pattern of change in religious violence over a ten-year period in terms of the broader discursive, political, and sociological contexts in which they unfolded. Successive shifts in the incidence of violence-its forms, locations, targets, perpetrators, mobilizational processes, and outcomes-correspond, Sidel suggests, to related shifts in the very structures of religious authority and identity in Indonesia during this period. He interprets the most recent "jihadist" violence as a reflection of the post-1998 decline of Islam as a banner for unifying and mobilizing Muslims in Indonesian politics and society. Sidel concludes this book by reflecting on the broader implications of the pattern observed in Indonesia both for understanding Islamic terrorism in particular and for analyzing religious violence in all its varieties.

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1501729896

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Chinese-Soviet Relations, 1937-1945

The Diplomacy of Chinese Nationalism

By: John W. Garver

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Chinese-Soviet Relations, 1937-1945

The Diplomacy of Chinese Nationalism

By: John W. Garver

During the Sino-Japanese war of 1937-1945, the Chinese people suffered great degradation at the hands of the Japanese. The spectacle of China's debasement as well as the very real prospect of the restoration of alien rule incensed nationalist passions throughout China. As the military, economic, and political crises deepened, three different Chinese regimes emerged--the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Chinese Nationalist Party or Kuomintang (KMT), and the pro-Japanese government headed by Wang Jingwei--all competing for nationalist legitimacy. Through an exhaustive and meticulous examination of available resources, John Garver here illuminates the complicated relationship between these different variants in Chinese nationalism and the Soviet Union during this period. In doing so, Garver elucidates the diplomacy of Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Nationalists, the inner history of Chinese Communist relations with the Soviet Union, and the intersection of these two themes within the larger context of international relations in East Asia and the world.

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Oxford University Press

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0195363744

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Japanese in a Flash Volume 2

Learn Japanese Characters with 448 Kanji Flash Cards Containing Words, Sentences and Expanded Japanese Vocabulary

By: John Millen

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Japanese in a Flash Volume 2

Learn Japanese Characters with 448 Kanji Flash Cards Containing Words, Sentences and Expanded Japanese Vocabulary

By: John Millen

Tuttle is pleased to offer Tuttle Japanese in a Flash Volume 2, an excellent Japanese language learning resource for students of Japanese. Consisting of a complete boxed set of Japanese flash cards for Japanese word recognition, vocabulary building, review and recall, Tuttle Japanese in a Flash Volume 2 provides a full range of features to assist beginning and intermediate learners, especially when used in conjunction with Volume 1. Contains 448 flash cards presenting the most common Japanese words and phrases used in everyday speech. Related terms, frequently–used expressions and extended vocabulary are given for each item. Sample sentences demonstrate how to use each main entry. All vocabulary items are presented in Japanese script as well as their romanized form.

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1462915388

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9781462915385

The Hong Kong Filmography, 1977-1997

A Reference Guide to 1,100 Films Produced by British Hong Kong Studios

By: John Charles

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The Hong Kong Filmography, 1977-1997

A Reference Guide to 1,100 Films Produced by British Hong Kong Studios

By: John Charles

Thanks to the successes of directors and actors like John Woo, Jackie Chan, and Chow Yun-Fat, the cinema of Hong Kong is wildly popular worldwide, and there is much more to this diverse film culture than most Western audiences realize. Beyond martial arts and comedy, Hong Kong films are a celebration of the grand diversity and pageantry of moviemaking--covering action, comedy, horror, eroticism, mythology, historical drama, modern romances, and experimental films. Information on 1,100 films produced in British Hong Kong from 1977 to 1997 is included here.

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McFarland

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147660262X

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9781476602622

Fan-Out Wafer-Level Packaging

By: John H. Lau

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Fan-Out Wafer-Level Packaging

By: John H. Lau

This comprehensive guide to fan-out wafer-level packaging (FOWLP) technology compares FOWLP with flip chip and fan-in wafer-level packaging. It presents the current knowledge on these key enabling technologies for FOWLP, and discusses several packaging technologies for future trends. The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) employed their InFO (integrated fan-out) technology in A10, the application processor for Apple’s iPhone, in 2016, generating great excitement about FOWLP technology throughout the semiconductor packaging community. For many practicing engineers and managers, as well as scientists and researchers, essential details of FOWLP – such as the temporary bonding and de-bonding of the carrier on a reconstituted wafer/panel, epoxy molding compound (EMC) dispensing, compression molding, Cu revealing, RDL fabrication, solder ball mounting, etc. – are not well understood. Intended to help readers learn the basics of problem-solving methods and understand the trade-offs inherent in making system-level decisions quickly, this book serves as a valuable reference guide for all those faced with the challenging problems created by the ever-increasing interest in FOWLP, helps to remove roadblocks, and accelerates the design, materials, process, and manufacturing development of key enabling technologies for FOWLP.

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319

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Springer

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9811088845

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9789811088841

Managing Credit Risk

The Great Challenge for Global Financial Markets

By: John B. Caouette,Edward I. Altman,Paul Narayanan,Robert Nimmo

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Managing Credit Risk

The Great Challenge for Global Financial Markets

By: John B. Caouette,Edward I. Altman,Paul Narayanan,Robert Nimmo

Managing Credit Risk, Second Edition opens with a detailed discussion of today’s global credit markets—touching on everything from the emergence of hedge funds as major players to the growing influence of rating agencies. After gaining a firm understanding of these issues, you’ll be introduced to some of the most effective credit risk management tools, techniques, and vehicles currently available. If you need to keep up with the constant changes in the world of credit risk management, this book will show you how.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111816069X

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9781118160695

Imigranti

Povratak U Hrvatsku

By: John Schissler Jr.

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Imigranti

Povratak U Hrvatsku

By: John Schissler Jr.

Ratni zloini ne zavravaju zajedno s ratom. U ovom memoaru istraite i proivite nedae koje je doivio autor, hrvatski imigrant, te njegova obitelj, kada su u poslijeratnoj Europi postali glavni akteri u okrutnom kazalitu rata, i kako su preivjeli. U ovoj istinitoj prii, autor ispreplie priu o svom povratku u rodno mjesto u Hrvatskoj i svoju prolost u istom tom mjestu. Svi lijepi dogaaji i osjeaji koji su vezani za posjet Velikoj Pisanici 2015. godine jak su kontrast onim mranim vremenima os 1943. do 1950. godine kada je obitelj bila prisiljena napustiti svoj dom i otisnuti se na putovanje puno straha, opasnosti, bolesti i smrti u ratom razdorenoj Europi. Autorovo znaajno hodoae u Hrvatsku 2015. godine otkrilo je brojne ljepote i ari te zemlje, ali i slui kao podsjetnik na novo vienje i preispitivanje problema imigracije i obitelji. Nakon svog povratka kui, autor potvruje tezu, ali nas i podsjea na to da smo svi mi imigranti – taj lonac za taljenje u kojem se mijeaju razliite kulture i narodnosti je ono to Ameriku ini toliko snanom.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1984576909

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9781984576903

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