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The Master Switch
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.95In this age of an open Internet, it is easy to forget that every American information industry, beginning with the telephone, has eventually been taken captive by some ruthless monopoly or cartel. With all our media now traveling a single network, an unprecedented potential is building for centralized control over what Americans see and hear. Could... more...
Applied Geostatistics with SGeMS
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 46.00A step-by-step user guide to geostatistical modeling for Earth Science graduates and researchers, and professional practitioners. more...
The Monkey King's Amazing Adventure
Tuttle Publishing 2012; US$ 16.95Join the Monkey King on his fantastic travels in this exciting version of the traditional Chinese folktale Monkey King's Amazing Adventures. This legend has delighted countless generations, and this lovely retelling is a wonderful introduction for a new generation of readers. more...
The Third Son
Algonquin Books 2013; US$ 24.95In the middle of a terrifying air raid?in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, Saburo, the least-favored son of a Taiwanese politician, runs through a peach forest for cover. It?s there that he stumbles upon Yoshiko, whose descriptions of her loving family are to Saburo like a glimpse of paradise. Meeting her is a moment he will remember forever, and for years... more...
Amino Acids
CRC Press 2013; US$ 99.95This up-to-date book presents basic concepts and recent advances in amino acid biochemistry and nutrition, providing comprehensive coverage of developments over the past 45 years. It includes information on absorption, metabolism, and excretion of amino acids while addressing protein quality and requirements. The text discusses metabolic pathways of... more...
The Chinese City
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 48.95China?s cities are home to 10 percent of the world?s population today. They display unprecedented dynamism under the country?s surging economic power. Their remarkable transformation builds on immense traditions, having lived through feudal dynasties, semicolonialism, and socialist commands. Studying them offers a lens into both the complex character... more...
Nutritional and Physiological Functions of Amino Acids in Pigs
Springer 2013; US$ 149.99This book provides developmental data regarding piglets (with a focus on the gastrointestinal tract), data related to amino acid metabolism in pigs, data related to nutritional and physiological functions of amino acids in pigs, nutritional requirements for amino acids in pigs, signaling roles of amino acids, methodological aspects in amino acid research... more...
Handbook of Counseling and Psychotherapy in an International Context
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 59.95Many factors in the world today, such as globalization and a rise in immigration, are increasing the need for mental health practitioners to acquire the ability to interact effectively with people of different cultures. This text will be the most comprehensive volume to address this need to date, exploring the history, philosophy, processes, and trends... more...
Sustainable Development in Rural China
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 185.00Sustainable development in marginal areas, especially in those where rural poverty and environmental degradation are interwoven, is a great concern of development agencies worldwide, and much effort is put into development programmes, technology transfer schemes and so on. The problem is particularly acute in China, where increasing regional differences... more...
Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882-1941
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 178.00This book examines how Chinese family and business networks, focused around activities such as revenue farming, including opium, the rice trade, and pawnbroking, and related legal and labour organization activities, were highly influential in the process of state formation in Malaya. It shows how Chinese family and business networks were flexible... more...









