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Miriam Van hee is tans een van die mees gelese digters in die Lae
Lande. In hierdie keuse uit haar poesie het Daniel Hugo, die
vertaler, hom in sy keuse eerstens laat lei deur die
vertaalbaarheid van die verse, maar ook probeer om die Afrikaanse
leser ’n oorsig te bied van haar werk. Van hee se poesie is so
gestroop soos takke wat hulle blare verloor in die herfs, die
seisoen wat dikwels in haar gedigte genoem word. Stemmings van
stilte, afwagting en leegheid is oorheersend. Al is die landskappe
waaroor sy skryf, met sneeu bedek, en al is die stede en huise
waarin die verse geplaas word, die van ’n vreemde land, sal die
Suid-Afrikaanse leser die emosies van verlies, weemoed en verlange
maklik kan herken en daarmee identifiseer. Daniel Hugo slaag
uitmuntend daarin om die delikate wereld van hierdie Vlaamse
woordkunstenaar in glashelder Afrikaans oor te sit.
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You Are a Little Seed
Sook-Hee Choi; Illustrated by Sook-Hee Choi; Translated by Jieun Kiaer
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Worsies groei nie aan bome of iewers onder die grond nie. Worsies
word gemaak van varke. Dit is nou eenmaal so. Hierdie boek gaan oor
kampioenworsies. Dit gaan ook oor 'n vergete oupa, wat vroeer 'n
slagter was, die liewe varkie Knor en die Worswedstryd van die Eeu.
As jy nie van wors hou nie, moet jy liewer nie hierdie boek lees
nie. En as jy wel van wors hou, eintlik ook nie … Of juis? Jy sien:
Bette Babs kry op haar verjaardag 'n varkie van haar oupa. Sy noem
hom Knor. Dit lyk miskien of Bette 'n oulike oupa het, maar het hy
Knor vir haar gegee omdat hy wil inskryf vir die VVVVVV, die
Vereniging Vir Vleisware Van Vars Varke, se worswedstryd?
This book makes the bold attempt at proposing a new general theory
of economic development founded on the fact-based perspective of
economic behaviour. The main premise is that economic institutions
and policies must embody 'economic discrimination' if there is to
be any chance of real economic development. By economic
discrimination, the author means 'treating differences differently'
by selecting and supporting economic entities and behaviour that
contribute positively to the economy. By presenting a general
theory that goes beyond mainstream and ad hoc economic theories,
Sung-Hee Jwa provides a new way to look at capitalism beyond the
Marxian interpretation, explaining why some economies develop and
others don't. The book identifies markets, government and
corporations as the 'holy trinity of economic development', that
is, the three most important institutions that must work together
via economic discrimination to steer the economy towards real
transformative progress. It also warns against the current trend of
economic egalitarianism or 'not treating differences differently'
because it destroys economic incentives and results in an array of
economic problems including growth stagnation and worsening income
distribution. The theory presented in this book and its
implications for development management will be an invaluable
resource for development economists, scholars, instructors,
researchers and policymakers.
This book presents Korea's economic strategy to meet the emerging
challenges, as it recovers from the 1997 financial crisis and moves
on into the globalization and information era. For important policy
areas, the authors evaluate existing policies, and offer proposals
for new strategic direction that can achieve sustainable and
equitable economic growth for Korea. A considerable majority of the
contributing authors are involved in formulating economic strategy
as policy advisors to the Korean government, and they bring to
their chapters extensive experience and insights regarding Korean
government policies that are rarely available to readers in such a
comprehensive form. The book therefore offers a timely, practical,
and unique analysis of all aspects of the Korean economy.
Academics, policy practitioners, and others with interests in the
Korean economy, Asian economies, development studies, and a broad
sweep of other issues concerning structural reform will find in
this volume a gold mine of detail and opinion.
This text deals with the basic concepts of the law and explains the
operation of the law and the administration of justice. It features
practical exercises at the end of each chapter to help the student
develop the ability to analyse information and apply knowledge.
Another feature is the appendixes in which step-by-step
explanations are given of how to research and apply primary sources
of the law such as statutes and decisions in court.
Economists have long recognized the gains from international trade.
The question is, does international trade - or more broadly,
globalization - increase growth? Notwithstanding the debates, there
are still many questions, old and new, need to be explored in order
to improve our understanding on various aspects of globalization,
including its consequences. This book addresses some of these
questions, utilizing micro datasets of some East Asian countries.
The focus on East Asia is particularly interesting for the reason
that most of these countries have relatively more opened economy
and experienced a rapid de facto integration quite recently. The
book puts forward questions which are related to the relationship
between globalization on the one hand, and firm performance,
activities, or characteristics, on the other. The chapters draw
recent theoretical framework from the relevant literatures, and
then empirically test - mostly by econometric analysis - the
hypotheses on these relationships. The extent or magnitude of the
globalization impact is also demonstrated by the means of
descriptive analysis. Finally, there are useful insights for policy
decision-makers to be drawn from the empirical results. The book
presents rigorous empirical analysis based on recent theoretical
framework in international economics, focusing on the highest
growing region in the world. The use of micro-data analysis - a key
feature of this book - gives us much richer information on various
issues of globalization. This book, therefore, should be of the
interest to scholars and postgraduate students of international
economics, development economics, and East Asian economics.
Learn the how, when, and why of entering Asian markets Retailers
entering Asia are faced with not only a consumer and retail culture
very different from their own, but with a variety of cultures that
vary greatly among countries within the continent. International
Retailing Plans and Strategies in Asia examines the strategies of
Western retailers entering into Asian markets and provides specific
case examples showing why some companies have failed in Asiaas well
as factors that helped others succeed. Important concepts for
international retailers exploring Asian markets are clearly
explained, and the material is particularly relevant to current WTO
and UNCTAD debates about the globalization of retail markets.
Helpful tables, charts, and illustrations make complex information
easy to access and understand. International Retailing Plans and
Strategies in Asia examines: how foreign investment influences
domestic retail systems how strategies for entering European
markets can be adapted and applied to various Asian markets the
important practice of incorporating local cultural values into
trading relationships in Asian markets the investment of Japanese
retailers in China and the trend toward internationalization in
Asia by Asian retailers the evolution of foreign investment in
Koreawith a look at foreign firms' specific investment strategies
issues of local competition and the need for foreign firms to adapt
to local consumer cultures, particularly as analyzed in case
studies of Metro Cash and Carry, Toys R Us, and Carrefour what
understanding foreign markets means in terms of adaptation and
success for retailers and wholesalers The material in these pages
will help to inform business decisions about how to (and how not
to) enter foreign markets and whether or not it is proper for
governments to intervene. The chapters in this book, originally
presented as papers at a workshop held at Chung-Ang University in
Seoul in November 2003, address issues of diversity in
international retailing and distribution in Asia. International
Retailing Plans and Strategies in Asia is designed to be essential
reading for international marketing students, retail researchers,
business managers, and policymakers, and to be a useful addition to
university business school library collections.
In Borderland Dreams June Hee Kwon explores the trajectory of the
“Korean dream†that has fueled the massive migration of Korean
Chinese workers from the Korean Autonomous Prefecture of Yanbian in
northeast China to South Korea since the early 1990s. Charting the
interplay of bodies, money, and time, the ethnography reveals how
these migrant workers, in the course of pursuing their borderland
dreams, are transformed into a transnational ethnicized class. Kwon
analyzes the persistent desire of Korean Chinese to “leave to
live better†at the intersection between the neoliberalizing
regimes of post-socialist China and of post–Cold War South Korea.
Scrutinizing the tensions and affinities among the Korean Chinese,
North and South Koreans, and Han Chinese whose lives intertwine in
the borderland, Kwon captures the diverse and multifaceted
aspirations of Korean Chinese workers caught between the ascendant
Chinese dream and the waning Korean dream.
An in-depth investigation of the complex relationships among food,
culture, and society, Communicating Food in Korea features
contributors from a variety of disciplines, including economics,
political science, communication studies, nutrition research,
tourism research, and more. Each chapter presents a unique
interpretation of food's economic, political, and sociocultural
relevance. Situated in Korea's shifting historical contexts,
contributors explore themes, such as colonialism, food symbolism,
gastronationalism, multiculturalism, food tourism, food security,
and food sovereignty to research the ways food intersects with
social issues in Korean society.
This assemblage of feminist theologies represents a series of vital
entanglements. Chapters are written from different cultures,
geographies and discourses and brought together around themes as
specific and wide-ranging as immigration detention, hate crime,
discrimination, rites of marriage and partnership, and artistic and
religious imagination. The contributors variously echo, celebrate,
question and contradict each other. Despite the complexity and
allied as they are with liberation, decolonial, ecological, queer
and other theologies, these perspectives seek not only to confront
and resist the problems, oppressions, and omissions of hegemonic
theologies but also to realize better worlds.
Are new ideas needed to disentangle the uses and abuses of the idea
of civil society both in South Asia and beyond? This book seeks to
explore this question by reviewing the debate on civil society
mainly in India but also in Pakistan. Civil society is a term that
has a rich history in European political and social thought since
the 17th century. Yet it has also become shorthand either for
groups who place themselves in opposition to state elites or for
non- governmental organizations that initiate, often in partnership
with international agencies, programmes of economic and social
development that to a greater or lesser extent are distanced from
the state. The purpose of this collection of essays, initially
presented at a seminar in 2018 in Hyderabad in South India, is to
explore these disconnects and to see if concepts of civil society
can be developed that go with the grain of South Asia's political
and historical experience. Some of the chapters in this edited
volume focus specifically on theoretical dimensions, while others
take case studies from India and Pakistan. The chapters in this
book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of
Civil Society.
Microeconomic Theory: A Heterodox Approach develops a heterodox
economic theory that explains the economy as the social
provisioning process at the micro level. Heterodox microeconomics
explores the economy with a focus on its constituent parts and
their reproduction and recurrence, their integration qua
interdependency by non-market and market arrangements and
institutions, and how the system works as a whole. This book deals
with three theoretical concerns. Due to the significance of the
price mechanism to mainstream economics, a theoretical concern of
the book is the business enterprise, markets, demand, and pricing.
Also, since heterodox economists see private investment,
consumption and government expenditures as the principal directors
and drivers of economic activity, a second theoretical concern is
business decision-making processes regarding investment and
production, government expenditure decisions, the financing of
investment, the profit mark-up and the wage rate, and taxes.
Finally, the third theoretical concern of the book is the
delineation of a non-equilibrium disaggregated price-output model
of the social provisioning process. This book explores the
integration of these various theories with a theoretical model of
the economy and how this forms a theory that can be identified as
heterodox microeconomics. It will be of interest to both
postgraduates and researchers.
This book is the first general and extensive review on the
algorithmics and mathematical results of beyond planar graphs. Most
real-world data sets are relational and can be modelled as graphs
consisting of vertices and edges. Planar graphs are fundamental for
both graph theory and graph algorithms and are extensively studied.
Structural properties and fundamental algorithms for planar graphs
have been discovered. However, most real-world graphs, such as
social networks and biological networks, are non-planar. To analyze
and visualize such real-world networks, it is necessary to solve
fundamental mathematical and algorithmic research questions on
sparse non-planar graphs, called beyond planar graphs.This book is
based on the National Institute of Informatics (NII) Shonan Meeting
on algorithmics on beyond planar graphs held in Japan in November,
2016. The book consists of 13 chapters that represent recent
advances in various areas of beyond planar graph research. The main
aims and objectives of this book include 1) to timely provide a
state-of-the-art survey and a bibliography on beyond planar graphs;
2) to set the research agenda on beyond planar graphs by
identifying fundamental research questions and new research
directions; and 3) to foster cross-disciplinary research
collaboration between computer science (graph drawing and
computational geometry) and mathematics (graph theory and
combinatorics). New algorithms for beyond planar graphs will be in
high demand by practitioners in various application domains to
solve complex visualization problems. This book therefore will be a
valuable resource for researchers in graph theory, algorithms, and
theoretical computer science, and will stimulate further deep
scientific investigations into many areas of beyond planar graphs.
This book examines driving factors and the effects of globalisation
on economic development through firm and product-level data. The
book is organised into four themes, i.e., productivity, innovation,
wage and income gap, and within-firm reallocation of resources. The
comprehensiveness and richness of firm and product-level data shed
light upon the channels through which trade and investment affect
firms' competitiveness and unveil factors shaping firms'
heterogeneous responses towards globalisation. The book looks at
Asian economies as well as Australia and how they have experienced
substantial structural change and become more integrated into the
global economy and will be a useful reference for those who are
interested in learning more about the relationship between
globalisation and firm performance. This book will appeal to policy
makers and researchers interested in the impact of globalisation on
firm performance.
This book provides an overview of distributed control and
distributed optimization theory, followed by specific details on
industrial applications to smart grid systems. It discusses the
fundamental analysis and design schemes for developing actual
working smart grids and covers all aspects concerning the
conventional and nonconventional methods of their use. Hybrid
Intelligence for Smart Grid Systems provides an overview of a smart
grid, along with its needs, benefits, challenges, and existing
structure and describes the inverter topologies adopted for
integrating renewable power, and provides an overview of its needs,
benefits, challenges, and possible future technologies. This
pioneering book is a must-read for researchers, engineering
professionals, and students, giving them the tools needed to move
from the concept of a smart grid to its actual design and
implementation. Moreover, it will enable regulators, policymakers,
and energy executives to understand the future of energy delivery
systems towards safe, economical, high-quality power delivery in a
dynamic and demanding environment.
Korean Morphosyntax: Focusing on Clitics and Their Roles in Syntax
presents a theory-neutral comprehensive analysis of Korean
morphosyntax for advanced students and scholars of Korean language
and linguistics. This book focuses on the morphosyntactic status of
particles in Korean and highlights how this understanding allows
for a proper analysis of sentences. As the significance of clitics
in Korean has not been highlighted by previous works in such depth,
this book offers the first comprehensive study of this aspect of
the Korean language. The new observations offered here will allow
readers to correctly identify the basic units of syntax and to
properly analyze sentences in Korean. This book will be of interest
to graduates and scholars interested in Korean linguistics and
morphosyntax.
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Here I Am (Paperback)
Patricia Hee Kim; Illustrated by Sonia Sanchez
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Newly arrived from their faraway homeland, a boy and his family
enter into the lights, noise, and traffic of a busy city in this
dazzling wordless picture book. The language is unfamiliar. Food,
habits, games and gestures are puzzling. The boy clings tightly to
his special keepsake from home and wonders how he will find his
way. How will he once again become the happy, confident child he
used to be? Walk in his shoes as he takes the first tentative steps
towards discovering joy in his new world. A poignant and affirming
view of the immigrant experience.
Although collaborations for local and regional economic development
have been popular in recent years, it is not yet wholly clear when
or how such efforts bring successful outcomes. Using an integrative
conceptual framework for collaborative governance, this innovative
collection provides a systematic and interdisciplinary analysis of
real-world collaborative networks for local and regional economic
development. Focusing on a wide range collaborative economic
development in diverse cities and regions in USA, Canada, Germany,
India, Italy, and South Korea, the chapters explore what forces
motivate the emergence of collaborative economic development
efforts. Each chapter explores the factors which contribute to or
hinder collaborative governance efforts for economic development
and identifies lessons for overcoming challenges to creating
communities that are economically resilient, environmentally
sustainable and politically engaged in the era of globalization. By
focusing on collaborative governance and its implications for the
ability of policies to meet the challenges of the 21st century, it
provides lessons for researchers in public management, urban
planning/development, public policy, and political science, as well
as practitioners interested in promoting local economic
development.
Henry James and the Media Arts of Modernity: Commercial
Cosmopolitanism turns to the author's late fiction, letters, and
essays to investigate his contribution to the development of an
American cosmopolitan culture, both in popular and high art. The
book contextualizes James's writing within a broader cultural and
social history to uncover relationships among increasingly
sensory-focused media technologies, mass-consumer practices, and
developments in literary style when they spread to Europe at the
inception of the era of big business. Combining cultural studies
with neoclassical Marxism and postcolonial theory, the study
addresses a gap in scholarship concerning the rise of literary
modernism as a cosmopolitan phenomenon. Although scholars have
traditionally acknowledged the international character of artists'
participation in this movement, when analyzing the contributions of
American expatriate writers in Europe, they generally assume an
unequal degree of reciprocity in transatlantic cultural exchange
with European artists being more influential than American ones.
This book argues that James identifies a cultural form of American
imperialism that emerged out of a commercialized version of
cosmopolitanism. Yet the author appropriates the arts of modernity
when he realizes that art generated with the mechanized principles
of mass-production spurred a diverse range of aesthetic responses
to other early-twentieth century technological and organizational
innovations.
Crafting Collaborative Research Methodologies demonstrates a number
of collaborative, visual and narrative methods that explore the
promises and the ethical, relational complexities inherent in
collaborative research. It engages with both the potentials and
complexities of doing collaborative analysis and offers a medley of
methods for analysis. These methods revolve around co-produced
texts from Peru, Denmark and Bolivia, and involve images, memory
work and practical approaches to intersectionality thinking.
Through detailed explorations of the complex interweaving of issues
of meaning-making, difference and the co-production of knowledges,
dynamics of social exclusion and segregation become visible in the
nexus between evocation and interpretation. Christina Hee Pedersen
takes up the poststructuralist challenge of including researcher
subjectivity as part of the analysis and, through a lively writing
style, the reader is invited to engage in this analysis of the
performativity of selves. This book can inspire analytical thinking
for researchers and advanced students interested in expanding the
rich dialogues among feminists doing poststructuralist and
interdisciplinary inquiry, and for all students of qualitative and
collaborative methodologies.
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