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Exposed to powerful new economic forces, and undergoing dramatic
ownership reforms and technological changes, China's industries are
modernizing at a breakneck pace. In many industries, the outcomes
have been chaotic and poorly aligned with societal objectives. This
book analyses the transformation and modernization of China's
industries through a detailed investigation of the wool and wool
textile industries. The authors argue that to remain
internationally competitive in the post WTO accession era, Chinese
industries need to confront a critical new phase in the
modernization process - that of improving management practices and
industry co-ordination. Modernizing China's Industries is a
comprehensive, integrated and in-depth investigation of industry
transformation and modernization. The extensive first-hand
research, across a range of industry segments and participants,
spans almost two decades. The analysis reveals much about industry
modernization and transition in China for a broad range of
industries and therefore provides invaluable information for
developing strategies and accessing opportunities within China.
This book offers unique insights for academics and researchers in
Asian studies, transition studies and industrial transformation, as
well as policymakers and industry leaders interested in both the
intricacies and mega-forces involved in China's industrial
modernization. The comprehensive industry analysis also provides a
valuable reference for professionals in the increasingly
China-centric world of wool and wool textiles as well as offering
insights for other textile industry professionals.
This comprehensive book unravels the complexities of the grassland
systems of Mongolia and northern China to identify the ways in
which policies and incentives can be strengthened to improve
grassland condition and herder livelihoods. Through an
interdisciplinary lens, combining environmental economics and
grassland science, contributors unpack the preferences, attitudes
and behavioural responses of Asian grassland actors to new and
alternative policies. Offering a comparative analysis of policies
and incentives in China and Mongolia, chapters focus on
understanding ex ante behavioural responses, arguing convincingly
for a mix of incentives and associated policy measures that can
both improve grassland conditions and align with the preferences of
herders and officials. Featuring a unique interdisciplinary focus
and comparative approach, this book is crucial reading for
grassland and rangeland scientists in China, Mongolia and beyond as
well as grassland officials seeking new policies and a better
understanding of their impact. Academics and researchers of the
environment and ecology in China, Mongolia and Asia more broadly
will also find this book a fascinating insight into environmental
livelihoods and contemporary grassland experiences. Contributors
include: J. Addison, K. Behrendt, J. Bennett, C. Brown, D. Bukhbat,
L. Dorjburegdaa, U. Gombosuren, Q. Guanghua, H. Guodong, X. Hou, G.
Jargalsaihan, D. Kemp, P. Li, E.-O. Lkhagvadorj, S. Waldron, B.
Zhang, J. Zhang, Y. Zhang, M. Zhao Mengli, W. Zhongwu
Proposed energy resource development in the arid western United
States raises a number of potential problems for an environment
that does not have a great deal of resiliency. Projected population
increases associated with large-scale development activities may go
beyond the capacity of small, isolated rural communities to absorb
them; and constraints on western agricultural and industrial
development-for example, demands for water already exceeding the
supply available-also limit energy development. The authors of this
wide-ranging book first evaluate western energy resources, then
objectively discuss the consequences of development on the region's
physical and social environments. Among the questions they consider
are: Who will reap the economic benefits of development, and who
will bear the environmental costs? What will be the effects on the
environment? The social structure? The quality of life? Are open
spaces a national treasure in their present form, or should they be
regarded as space available for development? What are the unique
demands of reclamation in the arid west? And, given the recent
trend of western states-rights militancy and shifts of population
to the southwest, what impact will new federal and state policies
have on resource management?
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Handbook of Ion Sources (Paperback)
Bernhard Wolf; Contributions by Reinhard Becker, Timothy W. Jolly, Junzo Ishikawa, Peter Strehl, …
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The Handbook of Ion Sources delivers the data needed for daily work
with ion sources. It also gives information for the selection of a
suitable ion source and ion production method for a specific
application. The Handbook concentrates on practical aspects and
introduces the principle function of ion sources. The basic plasma
parameters are defined and discussed. The working principles of
various ion sources are explained, and examples of each type of ion
source are presented with their operational data. Tables of ion
current for various elements and charge states summarize the
performance of different ion sources. The problems related to the
production of ions of non-gaseous elements are detailed, and data
on useful materials for evaporation and ion source construction are
summarized. Additional chapters are dedicated to extraction and
beam formation, ion beam diagnosis, ion source electronics, and
computer codes for extraction, acceleration, and beam transport.
Emittance and brilliance are described and space charge effects and
neutralization discussed. Various methods for the measurement of
current, profile, emittance, and time structure are presented and
compared. Intensity limits for these methods are provided for
different ion energies. Typical problems related to the operation
of ion source plasmas are discussed and practical examples of
circuits are given. The influence of high voltage on ion source
electronics and possibilities for circuit protection are covered.
The generation of microwaves and various microwave equipment are
described and special problems related to microwave operation are
summarized. The Handbook of Ion Sources is a valuable reference on
the subject, of benefit to practitioners and graduate students
interested in accelerators, ion implantation, and ion beam
techniques.
A groundbreaking history of fengshui’s roles in public life and
law during China’s last imperial dynasty Today the term fengshui,
which literally means “wind and water,†is recognized around
the world. Yet few know exactly what it means, let alone its
fascinating history. In Laws of the Land, Tristan Brown tells the
story of the important roles—especially legal ones—played by
fengshui in Chinese society during China’s last imperial dynasty,
the Manchu Qing (1644–1912). Employing archives from Mainland
China and Taiwan that have only recently become available, this is
the first book to document fengshui’s invocations in Chinese law
during the Qing dynasty. Facing a growing population, dwindling
natural resources, and an overburdened rural government, judicial
administrators across China grappled with disputes and petitions
about fengshui in their efforts to sustain forestry, farming,
mining, and city planning. Laws of the Land offers a radically new
interpretation of these legal arrangements: they worked. An
intelligent, considered, and sustained engagement with fengshui on
the ground helped the imperial state keep the peace and maintain
its legitimacy, especially during the increasingly turbulent
decades of the nineteenth century. As the century came to an end,
contentious debates over industrialization swept across the
bureaucracy, with fengshui invoked by officials and scholars
opposed to the establishment of railways, telegraphs, and
foreign-owned mines. Demonstrating that the only way to understand
those debates and their profound stakes is to grasp fengshui’s
longstanding roles in Chinese public life, Laws of the Land
rethinks key issues in the history of Chinese law, politics,
science, religion, and economics.
The Death of Christian Britain examines how the nation s
dominant religious culture has been destroyed. Callum Brown
challenges the generally held view that secularization was a long
and gradual process dating from the industrial revolution. Instead,
he argues that it has been a catastrophic and abrupt cultural
revolution starting in the 1960s. Using the latest techniques of
gender analysis, and by listening to people's voices rather than
purely counting heads, the book offers new formulations of religion
and secularization.
In this expanded second edition, Brown responds to commentary on
his ideas, reviews the latest research, and provides new evidence
to back his claims.
China accounts for around one-eighth of the world's grassland and
almost all of its grasslands are being degraded. The authors
analyse how China is grappling with the complex ecological and
livelihood problems these pastoral areas present. The sustainable
development of these extremely poor, culturally sensitive,
strategically important and extremely diverse western pastoral
areas poses one of the foremost challenges confronting the Chinese
government. This much-needed study provides a unique examination of
the intricate web of policies and institutions that now impact on
grassland degradation and sustainable development in China's
pastoral region. Understanding this complex matrix and its impact
on the management of people, livestock, grasslands, markets and
industry structures is crucial in charting a way forward. The
authors argue that the aim should be to manage these inter-locking
complex systems in a manner that takes advantage of the
opportunities that technology present to achieve sustainable use of
the grasslands. Whilst their analysis is especially relevant to how
China pursues the high priority national goal of 'Developing the
West', it also reveals much about how China addresses other serious
environmental problems that involve disadvantaged groups. With its
multi-disciplinary approach, the book will be invaluable and
fascinating reading for academics and researchers of Chinese
studies, development studies, ecosystem sustainability and natural
resource management. Based on extensive first-hand fieldwork in the
grasslands over two decades, the practical detail in this book will
also be warmly welcomed by consultants and officials in NGOs and
other international agencies charged with planning and executing
pastoral development projects in China, Central Asia and Mongolia.
The power of modernity to secularise has been a foundational idea
of the western world. Both social science and church history
understood that the Christian religion from 1750 was deeply
vulnerable to industrial urbanisation and the Enlightenment. But as
evidence mounts that countries of the European world experienced
secularising forces in different ways at different periods, the
timing and causes of de-Christianisation are now widely seen as far
from straightforward. Secularisation in the Christian World brings
together leading scholars in the social history of religion and the
sociology of religion to explore what we know about the decline of
organised Christianity in Britain, Europe, the United States,
Canada and Australia. The chapters tackle different strands,
themes, comparisons and territories to demonstrate the diversity of
approach, thinking and evidence that has emerged in the last 30
years of scholarship into the religious past and present. The
volume includes both new research and essays of theoretical
reflection by the most eminent academics. It highlights historians
and sociologists in both agreement and dispute. With contributors
from eight countries, the volume also brings together many nations
for the first consolidated international consideration of recent
themes in de-Christianisation. With church historians and cultural
historians, and religious sociologists and sociologists of the
godless society, this book provides a state-of-the-art guide to
secularisation studies.
Postmodernism is an essential approach to History. This is the
first dedicated primer on postmodernism for the historian. It
offers a step-by-step guide to postmodern theory, includes a guide
to how historians have applied the theory, and provides a review of
why its critics are wrong. In simple and clear language, it takes
the reader through the chain of theory that developed in the 20th
century to become now, in the early 21st century, the leading
stimulant of new forms of research in History. With separate
chapters on The Sign, The Discourse, Post/Structuralism, The Text,
The Self, and Morality, this book will encourage a new critical
awareness of Theory when reading books of History, and when writing
essays and dissertations. Armed with the principal ideas of
Saussure, Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida, the historians can
formulate how to combine empirical History with the excitement of
fresh perspectives and new skills, merged in the new moral impetus
of the postmodern condition. Designed for the beginner this is the
essential postmodern starting point.
The power of modernity to secularise has been a foundational idea
of the western world. Both social science and church history
understood that the Christian religion from 1750 was deeply
vulnerable to industrial urbanisation and the Enlightenment. But as
evidence mounts that countries of the European world experienced
secularising forces in different ways at different periods, the
timing and causes of de-Christianisation are now widely seen as far
from straightforward. Secularisation in the Christian World brings
together leading scholars in the social history of religion and the
sociology of religion to explore what we know about the decline of
organised Christianity in Britain, Europe, the United States,
Canada and Australia. The chapters tackle different strands,
themes, comparisons and territories to demonstrate the diversity of
approach, thinking and evidence that has emerged in the last 30
years of scholarship into the religious past and present. The
volume includes both new research and essays of theoretical
reflection by the most eminent academics. It highlights historians
and sociologists in both agreement and dispute. With contributors
from eight countries, the volume also brings together many nations
for the first consolidated international consideration of recent
themes in de-Christianisation. With church historians and cultural
historians, and religious sociologists and sociologists of the
godless society, this book provides a state-of-the-art guide to
secularisation studies.
The Death of Christian Britain examines how the nation's
dominant religious culture has been destroyed. Callum Brown
challenges the generally held view that secularization was a long
and gradual process dating from the industrial revolution. Instead,
he argues that it has been a catastrophic and abrupt cultural
revolution starting in the 1960s. Using the latest techniques of
gender analysis, and by listening to people's voices rather than
purely counting heads, the book offers new formulations of religion
and secularization.
In this expanded second edition, Brown responds to commentary on
his ideas, reviews the latest research, and provides new evidence
to back his claims.
This title was first published in 2003. The greatest challenge
facing China today is to curb the growing economic divide between
urban and rural people. Achieving this requires that the rural
economy in general, and rural industries in particular, transform
rapid growth into sustained development. However, policy makers are
struggling to modernise rural industries, such as the cattle and
beef industry, especially in a way that contributes to rural
incomes.A This book provides a systematic, detailed and up-to-date
analysis of how institutional and policy reforms impact on rural
and industry development in China. Academics, policy-makers and
others will find that this case study offers new insights into
China's rural economy, institutional change and transition process.
It will also be of interest to those concerned with ways to develop
livestock industries in a way that benefits rural communities.
Proposed energy resource development in the arid western United
States raises a number of potential problems for an environment
that does not have a great deal of resiliency. Projected population
increases associated with large-scale development activities may go
beyond the capacity of small, isolated rural communities to absorb
them; and constraints on western agricultural and industrial
development-for example, demands for water already exceeding the
supply available-also limit energy development. The authors of this
wide-ranging book first evaluate western energy resources, then
objectively discuss the consequences of development on the region's
physical and social environments. Among the questions they consider
are: Who will reap the economic benefits of development, and who
will bear the environmental costs? What will be the effects on the
environment? The social structure? The quality of life? Are open
spaces a national treasure in their present form, or should they be
regarded as space available for development? What are the unique
demands of reclamation in the arid west? And, given the recent
trend of western states-rights militancy and shifts of population
to the southwest, what impact will new federal and state policies
have on resource management?
You may not realize you are at the mercy of Time Bandits - people
who steal your precious time, not with malice or intention, but
with crippling effect on your own pursuits. They steal 40-60% of
your time. And because your worst Time Bandits are probably your
family, colleagues, clients, bosses, and friends, we can't just say
no - we would risk offending them, or worse, losing clients or
getting fired.
Thus, "The Time Bandit Solution" is a step-by-step lesson on how to
recover stolen time you never knew you had. It is designed to teach
you the arts and skills for graciously negotiating with the Time
Bandits to prevent interruptions from sapping your productivity and
satisfaction. The Time Bandit Solution also explains how the damage
they cause lingers well beyond the interruption itself, how the
stress of interruptions subtracts joy from your most important
endeavors, and how to redeploy the time you recover.
Do you often think or say, 'I have too much to do, and not enough
time to do it'? If so, this book is for you. If you find yourself
frustrated by too many interruptions and feel powerless to prevent
them, you want to read this book.
With "The Time Bandit Solution," you will free yourself from the
distress of unwanted, unnecessary and unproductive interruptions,
and recapture the time to do what you must and what you dream of
doing.
During the twentieth century, Britain turned from one of the most
deeply religious nations of the world into one of the most
secularised nations. This book provides a comprehensive account of
religion in British society and culture between 1900 and 2000. It
traces how Christian Puritanism and respectability framed the
people amidst world wars, economic depressions, and social protest,
and how until the 1950s religious revivals fostered mass
enthusiasm. It then examines the sudden and dramatic changes seen
in the 1960's and the appearance of religious militancy in the
1980s and 1990s. With a focus on the themes of faith cultures,
secularisation, religious militancy and the spiritual revolution of
the New Age, this book uses people's own experiences and the
stories of the churches to display the diversity and richness of
British religion. Suitable for undergraduate students studying
modern British history, church history and sociology of religion.
Postmodernism is an essential approach to History. This is the
first dedicated primer on postmodernism for the historian. It
offers a step-by-step guide to postmodern theory, includes a guide
to how historians have applied the theory, and provides a review of
why its critics are wrong. In simple and clear language, it takes
the reader through the chain of theory that developed in the 20th
century to become now, in the early 21st century, the leading
stimulant of new forms of research in History. With separate
chapters on The Sign, The Discourse, Post/Structuralism, The Text,
The Self, and Morality, this book will encourage a new critical
awareness of Theory when reading books of History, and when writing
essays and dissertations. Armed with the principal ideas of
Saussure, Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida, the historians can
formulate how to combine empirical History with the excitement of
fresh perspectives and new skills, merged in the new moral impetus
of the postmodern condition. Designed for the beginner this is the
essential postmodern starting point.
This title was first published in 2003. The greatest challenge
facing China today is to curb the growing economic divide between
urban and rural people. Achieving this requires that the rural
economy in general, and rural industries in particular, transform
rapid growth into sustained development. However, policy makers are
struggling to modernise rural industries, such as the cattle and
beef industry, especially in a way that contributes to rural
incomes.A This book provides a systematic, detailed and up-to-date
analysis of how institutional and policy reforms impact on rural
and industry development in China. Academics, policy-makers and
others will find that this case study offers new insights into
China's rural economy, institutional change and transition process.
It will also be of interest to those concerned with ways to develop
livestock industries in a way that benefits rural communities.
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Handbook of Ion Sources (Hardcover)
Bernhard Wolf; Contributions by Reinhard Becker, Timothy W. Jolly, Junzo Ishikawa, Peter Strehl, …
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R13,611
Discovery Miles 136 110
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The Handbook of Ion Sources delivers the data needed for daily work
with ion sources. It also gives information for the selection of a
suitable ion source and ion production method for a specific
application.
The Handbook concentrates on practical aspects and introduces the
principle function of ion sources. The basic plasma parameters are
defined and discussed. The working principles of various ion
sources are explained, and examples of each type of ion source are
presented with their operational data. Tables of ion current for
various elements and charge states summarize the performance of
different ion sources.
The problems related to the production of ions of non-gaseous
elements are detailed, and data on useful materials for evaporation
and ion source construction are summarized. Additional chapters are
dedicated to extraction and beam formation, ion beam diagnosis, ion
source electronics, and computer codes for extraction,
acceleration, and beam transport. Emittance and brilliance are
described and space charge effects and neutralization discussed.
Various methods for the measurement of current, profile, emittance,
and time structure are presented and compared. Intensity limits for
these methods are provided for different ion energies.
Typical problems related to the operation of ion source plasmas are
discussed and practical examples of circuits are given. The
influence of high voltage on ion source electronics and
possibilities for circuit protection are covered. The generation of
microwaves and various microwave equipment are described and
special problems related to microwave operation are
summarized.
The Handbook of Ion Sources is a valuable reference on the subject,
of benefit to practitioners and graduate students interested in
accelerators, ion implantation, and ion beam techniques.
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