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This book explores the significance of the Fukushima nuclear
plant's meltdown for Asian energy politics. As East Asian countries
make the transition from fossil fuels, nuclear power occupies a
significant role, with dozens of reactors under construction in
China alone. But as Fukushima reveals, nuclear power brings with it
significant risks. In this book, a team of Chinese public
intellectuals contemplate what the Fukushima saga means for Chinese
energy futures.
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Emerging Technologies for Education - Second International Symposium, SETE 2017, Held in Conjunction with ICWL 2017, Cape Town, South Africa, September 20-22, 2017, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
Tien-Chi Huang, Rynson Lau, Yueh-Min Huang, Marc Spaniol, Chun-Hung Yuen
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop
proceedings of the Second International Symposium, SETE 2017, held
in conjunction with ICWL 2017, Cape Town, South Africa, in
September 2017. The 52 full and 13 short papers were carefully
reviewed and selected from 123 submissions. This symposium attempts
to provide opportunities for the crossfertilization of knowledge
and ideas from researchers in diverse fields that make up this
interdisciplinary research area.
This is a new release of the original 1944 edition.
This book touches on women groups engaged in poultry production and
marketing in the rural communities of the Gambia. This study
focuses on rural women using poultry as their business commodity
for income generation activity thus reducing poverty and increasing
household food and nutritional security. The information in this
book would be useful and can serve as a guide to young scholars and
researchers in the field of agribusiness management and other
fields related to agricultural development.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
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rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
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rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
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rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
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The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic silently started in early
2020, and no one was prepared for it. Unlike the outbreak of SARS
in 2002-2003, a similar coronavirus, it was less contagious than
COVID-19, but tended to be more deadly. The COVID-19 virus is much
more contagious with a relatively lower chance of causing death.
Nevertheless, it is still one of the most dangerous viruses in
human history. Studies of COVID-19 have attracted tremendous
attention from academia and governments. However, they tend to
focus on the fields of biology, virology, public health, and
psychology instead of the politics, policies, and political
attitudes related to the pandemic. Of course, it is critical to
understand the nature of this virus and seek proper policy remedies
to stop the pandemic and help citizens to regain their everyday
lives, but how the pandemic has affected the public and their views
toward politics is equally important as it will determine political
outcomes in the near future. We compare the impact of the COVID-19
pandemic on public opinion, the dynamics of party politics in
Taiwan, and some of its strategic neighbors.
Huang's book analyzes the major Neo-Confucian philosophers from the
eleventh to the sixteenth centuries. Focusing on metaphysical,
epistemological, and ethical philosophical issues, this study
presents the historical development of the Neo-Confucian school, an
outgrowth of ancient Confucianism, and characterizes its thought,
background, and influence. Key concepts—for example ^Utai-ji
(supreme ultimate), ^Uxin (mind), and ^Uren (humanity)—as
interpreted by each thinker are discussed in detail. Also examined
are the two major schools that developed during this period,
Cheng-Zhu, School of Principle, and Lu-Wang, School of Mind. These
schools, despite different philosophical orientations, were
convinced that their common goal, to bring about a harmonious
relationships between man and the universe and between man and man,
could be achieved through different ways of philosophizing. To
understand the Chinese mind, it is necessary to understand
Neo-Confucianism as a reformation of early Confucianism. This
analytical presentation of major Neo-Confucian philosophers, from
the eleventh to the sixteenth centuries, examines Zhou Dun-yi
(1017-1073), Shao Yong (1011-1077), Zhang Zai (1020-1077), Cheng
Hao (1032-1085), Cheng Yi (1033-1107), Zhu Xi (1130-1200), Lu
Xiang-shan (1139-1193), and Wang Yang-ming (1427-1529). With its
focus on metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical philosophical
issues, Huang's study presents the historical development of the
Neo-Confucian school, an outgrowth of ancient Confucianism, and
characterizes its thought, background, and influence. Key
concepts—for example, ^Utai-ji (supreme ultimate), ^Uxin (mind),
and ^Uren (humanity)—as interpreted by each thinker are discussed
in detail. The two major schools that developed during these six
centuries are examined as well. Lu-Wang, School of Mind, developed
in criticism of Cheng-Zhu, School of Principle. The two schools,
despite different approaches toward their philosophical pursuits,
were convinced that their common goals, to bring about harmonious
relationships between man and the universe and between man and man,
could be achieved through different ways of philosophizing. To
understand the Chinese mind, it is necessary to understand
Neo-Confucianism as a reformation of early Confucianism. Scholars
of Eastern religions and philosophy will appreciate the objective
interpretations of each thinker's philosophy, for which pertinent
passages spoken by each man have been selected and translated by
the author from the original Chinese, and the comparisons of the
Neo-Confucian philosophies with those of the West. An introduction
provides the historical background in which to study the rise of
Neo-Confucianism. The study is organized ehronologically and
includes a glossary of terms and a bibliography which serves as a
helpful guide for further research.
Reformers have promoted mixed-member electoral systems as the "best
of both worlds." In this volume, internationally recognized
political scientists evaluate the ways in which the introduction of
a mixed-member electoral system affects the configuration of
political parties. The contributors examine several political
phenomena, including cabinet post allocation, nominations,
preelectoral coalitions, split-ticket voting, and the size of party
systems and faction systems. Significantly, they also consider
various ways in which the constitutional system-especially whether
the head of government is elected directly or indirectly-can modify
the incentives created by the electoral system. Part I of the book
provides an in-depth comparison of Taiwan and Japan, both of which
moved from single nontransferable vote systems to mixed-member
majoritarian systems. These cases demonstrate that the higher the
payoffs of attaining the executive office and the greater the
degree of cross-district coordination required to win it, the
stronger the incentives for elites to form and stay in the major
parties. In such a context, a country will move rapidly toward a
two-party system. In Part II, the contributors apply this
theoretical logic to other countries with mixed-member systems and
find that executive competition has the same effect on legislative
electoral rules in countries as disparate as Thailand, the
Philippines, New Zealand, Bolivia, and Russia. The findings
presented here demonstrate that the success of electoral reform
depends not only on the specification of new electoral rules per se
but also on the political context-and especially the constitutional
framework-within which such rules are embedded.
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