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Book review: 'When China Rules the World' by Martin Jacques - washingtonpost.comMartin Jacques, a British news columnist, became fascinated by the manic modernization underway in China when he visited there in 1993. He saw construction cranes working round the clock, roads streaming with trucks and carts, and peasant women balancing wares on either end of a bamboo pole. The ...
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The Story of the Stone (25 Profound Works of Literary Genius)Also known as The Dream of the Red Chamber, this five volume work combines a Buddhist and Taoist cosmology and an 18th century aristocratic family saga in China. At the center of the story is Bao-yu, a precocious, spoiled, and undisciplined boy and his romantic affinity to his poetry-loving, ...
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Grace Under PressureWorld Class Leadership Course “There are no bad regiments in the French Army -- although some regiments fail because they are commanded by bad colonels.” Napoleon Bonaparte -- Maxims Of War Wild Ducks Some years ago I heard what was soon to become the ...
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The Miller|Hull Partnership: Public Works and Pugh + Scarpa: Report 2005The buildings of Seattle's Miller|Hull Partnership would hardly, if ever, be mistaken as the buildings of Los Angeles firm Pugh Scarpa, and vice-versa. Yet the two firms share certain characteristics: a deep-rooted (not greenwashed) sustainability, socially responsible design, a regional ...
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Grace Under PressureGRACE UNDER PRESSURE World Class Leadership Course “There are no bad regiments in the French Army -- although some regiments fail because they are commanded by bad colonels.” Napoleon Bonaparte -- Maxims Of War ...
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Inevitable Kindle 2 Knock Off Spotted in China - Ebooks - GizmodoFinally, we have ourselves a proper Kindle 2 knockoff, courtesy of—who else?—the Chinese.
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Peak Oil News: Book Review: BlackoutUnder the surface we seem to have a lot of it. It’s fairly inexpensive but this is changing as demand rises to meet increased energy needs especially in countries like China. So we have a lot, its cheap, let’s use it, what’s the problem? Right? Wrong!
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Journalism's Courageous, Cantankerous Hero : NPRH.G. Wells was wrong. A good biographer doesn't have to be a "conscientious enemy" of his subject. Take American Radical, D.D. Guttenplan's valentine to the iconic investigative reporter I.F. Stone. A compelling account of an anti-establishment journalist who became a Washington insider, the ...
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Unhappy China, and why it is cause for unhappinessWhen I first heard about the book Unhappy China, I thought it was probably about how laid-off workers were unhappy, or about how peasants who had lost their land were unhappy. Maybe it was about how college graduates searching for work were unhappy, about how stock market investors were unhappy, ...
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Time to acknowledge science's debt to Islam? - science-in-society - 25 February 2009 - New ScientistTwo new books argue that Islam had more to contribute to science than history usually suggests - In the first part of Science and Islam, a fascinating and clearly written book, Ehsan Masood tells how Islam spread rapidly from the 7th century onward, from the west of China to the south of Spain. ...
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