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First Published in 2005. Part of a series on Economic History, this
book looks at Tropical Development from 1880 to 1913. These essays
were prepared during the year 1967-8 for the tropics modern
economic development began in the last quarter of the nineteenth
century with its revolutionary reduction of transport costs and
heavy international flow of capital.
First Published in 1973. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Originally published in 1918. While it requires little thought to
recognize in Hecatacus a figure of importance in his day, an
appraisal in detail of his contribution to science and history is a
matter of considerable difficulty. This book includes a general
survey of him as well as chapters on Hecataeus as Historian of
Egypt, and the objections to this view.
First Published in 2005. Part of a series on Economic History, this
book looks at Tropical Development from 1880 to 1913. These essays
were prepared during the year 1967-8 for the tropics modern
economic development began in the last quarter of the nineteenth
century with its revolutionary reduction of transport costs and
heavy international flow of capital.
This book will help IT and business operations managers who have
been tasked with addressing security issues. It provides a solid
understanding of security incident response and detailed guidance
in the setting up and running of specialist incident management
teams. Having an incident response plan is required for compliance
with government regulations, industry standards such as PCI DSS,
and certifications such as ISO 27001. This book will help
organizations meet those compliance requirements.
Originally published in 1918. While it requires little thought to
recognize in Hecatacus a figure of importance in his day, an
appraisal in detail of his contribution to science and history is a
matter of considerable difficulty. This book includes a general
survey of him as well as chapters on Hecataeus as Historian of
Egypt, and the objections to this view.
First Published in 1973. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Rhythm and Transforms is a book that explores rhythm in music, its
structure and how we perceive it. The book will be bought by
engineers interested in acoustic signal processing as well as
musicians, composers and computer scientists. Anyone interested in
the scientific basis of music from psychologists to the designers
of electronic musical instruments will be interested in this book.
William Arthur Cornaby (1860 1921) was born in London and educated
at the School of Mines before training as a Methodist minister. In
1885 Cornaby was sent as a missionary to Wuhan, central China, and
A String of Chinese Peach-Stones (1895) was inspired by his
experiences. Cornaby explains that his title suggests that the
reader possesses 'a collection of desiccated tales, legends, and
the like, picked up here and there along the highways and byways of
China'. Cornaby's work covers the period 1849 1867, and discusses
the major episodes of the Taiping Rebellion (1850 1864) as well as
providing a detailed account of village life in central China, with
its farm work, foods, festivals, customs and rituals that remains
of interest to anthropologists and historians today. Cornaby's aim
was to educate his English readers and to interest them in the
culture that so dominated his own life and work.
A London-born Wesleyan Methodist missionary, William Arthur Cornaby
(1860 1921) spent over thirty years in China, where he edited The
Chinese Christian Review, and, from 1905, the Ta Tung Pao, a weekly
magazine targeted at Chinese officials and scholars. His many books
on Chinese culture and civilisation, including A String of Chinese
Peach-Stones (1895) and Rambles in Central China (1896), provide
detailed sketches of Chinese rural life and customs. The later
China Under the Search-Light, first published in 1901, uses Western
clich s about China as a point of departure to offer a more nuanced
understanding of the underlying facts and problems specific to
Chinese society. In this book, Cornaby discusses contemporary
topics such as overcrowding in Shanghai, mandarins, and Buddhism.
He also scrutinises newspapers, novels, and aesthetic traditions,
offering an elementary introduction to Chinese culture as perceived
by a nineteenth-century British missionary.
Rhythm and Transforms is a book that explores rhythm in music,
its structure and how we perceive it. The book will be bought by
engineers interested in acoustic signal processing as well as
musicians, composers and computer scientists. Anyone interested in
the scientific basis of music from psychologists to the designers
of electronic musical instruments will be interested in this
book.
First published in 1956, but still relevant and thought-provoking
today, this book is an absolute revelation on test flying with the
British aircraft organisations and manufacturers in the 1950s.
Written from the pilots viewpoint, with refreshing candour and
honesty which allegedly cost him his job at the Daily Express this
account details what really went on behind the scenes in the
defence world. Waterton pulls no punches in recounting the non
co-operation of civil servants and designers in improving/altering
recognised faults (often minor) when developing aircraft to the
cost of lives lost. Mainly centring on his work with the mighty
Gloster Meteor and the Javelin interceptors, this is an astonishing
insight into the workings of the aircraft industry. Uncomfortable
reading for many, it was seen by his supporters as a wake-up call
at a time when British ingenuity and prowess were being overtaken
by the Americans and Russians.
This book will help IT and business operations managers who have
been tasked with addressing security issues. It provides a solid
understanding of security incident response and detailed guidance
in the setting up and running of specialist incident management
teams. Having an incident response plan is required for compliance
with government regulations, industry standards such as PCI DSS,
and certifications such as ISO 27001. This book will help
organizations meet those compliance requirements.
w. A. Poucher's original 'Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps', first
published in 1923, were the first comprehensive text books to deal
exclusively with the work of the perfume and cosmetic industry, and
received recognition and approval throughout the world. Their
success and popularity was due primarily to the fact that they
provided a practical guide not only to those engaged in the
industry, but to a section of readers interested in the mystique
and romance which at that time was associated with the perfume and
cosmetic arts. It was also an outstanding feature that the books
were easily readable, subject matter being expressed in a clear and
under- standable fashion without the frills of pseudo-science or
advanced technology. In revising Volume III and editing Volume I it
has been my aim to continue in the pattern and style of their
author, and to this end I have not intended to write a new book,
but have attempted a true revision, and it is a remarkable fact
that many of the original writings made nearly 50 years ago can
still apply to an industry which since that time has developed
beyond recognition.
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The Tongue Of Fire
William Arthur
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R605
Discovery Miles 6 050
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Do rich industrial nations underestimate the threat to their
economic stability posed by demands for a new international
economic order? Are the developing countries wrong to assume that
their economic advancement depends on a transfer of wealth from the
richer nations? Sir W. Arthur Lewis's provocative analysis of the
present economic order and its origins suggests that the answer to
both questions is yes. Professor Lewis perceptively illuminates
aspects of recent economic history that have often been overlooked
by observers of international affairs. He asks first how the world
came to be divided into countries exporting manufactures and
countries exporting primary commodities. High agricultural
productivity and a good investment climate allowed countries in
Northwest Europe to industrialize rapidly, while the favorable
terms of trade they enjoyed assured them and the temperate lands to
which Europeans migrated of continuing dominance over the tropical
countries. At the core of the author's argument lies the contention
that as the structure of international trade changes, the tropical
countries move rapidly toward becoming net importers of
agricultural commodities and net exporters of manufactures. Even
so, they continue to depend on the markets of the richer countries
for their growth, and they continue to trade on unfavorable terms.
Both of these disadvantages, he concludes, stem from large
agricultural sectors with low productivity and will disappear only
as the technology of tropical food production is revolutionized.
Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
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