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China has enjoyed heroic growth rates in the last twenty five years
of reform and transition, pulling more people out of poverty more
quickly than at any other time in human history. Nonetheless these
successes have had costs: today China is faced with increasing
environmental difficulties and there is a dangerous level of
inequality of income and wealth leading to large numbers of often
violent disputes and demonstrations in the countryside. This book
discusses the very latest issues relating to China's remarkable
economic growth. It provides comprehensive coverage of these
issues, including economic, political-economic, environmental and
philosophical questions, presenting material in as non-technical a
way as possible. The issues discussed reflect key concerns within
China itself at present. These focus not just on how to sustain
fast rates of economic growth but also on how to solve the problems
resulting from it, problems including widening levels of income
equality, new forms of environmental degradation to include water
shortages, health issues, governance dilemmas and new problems for
the banking, strategic industrial and agricultural sectors. This
book not only encompasses the current socio-economic situation in
China, accepting its strengths while highlighting dilemmas, but
also provides suggestions for policy. As such, it reflects a
growing recognition in China that the attainment of both continued
strong economic growth and a greater degree of social harmony are
mutually interdependent: that one will not be achieved without the
other.
China has enjoyed heroic growth rates in the last twenty five years
of reform and transition, pulling more people out of poverty more
quickly than at any other time in human history. Nonetheless these
successes have had costs: today China is faced with increasing
environmental difficulties and there is a dangerous level of
inequality of income and wealth leading to large numbers of often
violent disputes and demonstrations in the countryside.
This book discusses the very latest issues relating to China's
remarkable economic growth. It provides comprehensive coverage of
these issues, including economic, political-economic, environmental
and philosophical questions, presenting material in as
non-technical a way as possible. The issues discussed reflect key
concerns within China itself at present. These focus not just on
how to sustain fast rates of economic growth but also on how to
solve the problems resulting from it, problems including widening
levels of income equality, new forms of environmental degradation
to include water shortages, health issues, governance dilemmas and
new problems for the banking, strategic industrial and agricultural
sectors.
This book not only encompasses the current socio-economic
situation in China, accepting its strengths while highlighting
dilemmas, but also provides suggestions for policy. As such, it
reflects a growing recognition in China that the attainment of both
continued strong economic growth and a greater degree of social
harmony are mutually interdependent: that one will not be achieved
without the other.
Economic transition in China has witnessed (re)centralization of
resources from the margin to the core in economic, social and
political senses. This book employs a marginalization lens to
reveal, delineate and better understand the processes, patterns,
trends, multiple dimensions and dynamics of the phenomenon, and the
consequences and implications for development and well-being in the
country. Bringing together a wide range of domestic and
international experts and disciplinary perspectives, the book
combines empirical research and conceptual analysis to provide an
insightful overview of China's recent development. It contributes
to the debate over marginalization and its interactions with
globalization and transition in China, and has significance for
various domestic and international policy arenas in respect of
tackling marginalization, poverty and social exclusion effectively
while striving for the achievement of the UN Millennium Development
Goals in China and beyond.
This title was first published in 2000: An examination of the
potential for Chinese ecological agriculture providing a basis for
sustainable development in the Chinese countryside. Richard Sanders
involves primary research in seven villages and four countries in
China that have adopted ecological agriculture. He examines the
concept of sustainable development generally and analyses China's
political-economic policies towards the countryside since 1949, the
impacts on the environment and the state of China's environmental
protection. The study addresses three main questions: 1. Is Chinese
ecological agriculture worth adopting - specifically does CEA
promise a form of sustainable rural development? 2. To the extent
that it does, what are the social, political and economic
conditions in the Chinese countryside which most favour its
extension? 3. To the extent that these conditions are restrictive,
what can the Chinese authorities do to make them less so and thus
encourage its extension? The study concludes that the CEA, despite
certain difficulties and problems, holds out the prospect of a more
sustainable future for the rural economy than more usual forms of
activity in the Chinese countryside. It finds that the conditions
for adopting CEA are restrictive and that while the Chinese
government is in favour of extending CEA it must reconsider
questions of land management and ownership and assess long-term
needs.
This title was first published in 2000: An examination of the
potential for Chinese ecological agriculture providing a basis for
sustainable development in the Chinese countryside. Richard Sanders
involves primary research in seven villages and four countries in
China that have adopted ecological agriculture. He examines the
concept of sustainable development generally and analyses China's
political-economic policies towards the countryside since 1949, the
impacts on the environment and the state of China's environmental
protection. The study addresses three main questions: 1. Is Chinese
ecological agriculture worth adopting - specifically does CEA
promise a form of sustainable rural development? 2. To the extent
that it does, what are the social, political and economic
conditions in the Chinese countryside which most favour its
extension? 3. To the extent that these conditions are restrictive,
what can the Chinese authorities do to make them less so and thus
encourage its extension? The study concludes that the CEA, despite
certain difficulties and problems, holds out the prospect of a more
sustainable future for the rural economy than more usual forms of
activity in the Chinese countryside. It finds that the conditions
for adopting CEA are restrictive and that while the Chinese
government is in favour of extending CEA it must reconsider
questions of land management and ownership and assess long-term
needs.
This is the fascinating story of the single-engine Lockheeds flown
by Charles Lindbergh, Wiley Post and Will Rogers, Amelia Earhart,
and Jimmy Doolittle.
Economic transition in China has witnessed (re)centralization of
resources from the margin to the core in economic, social and
political senses. This book employs a marginalization lens to
reveal, delineate and better understand the processes, patterns,
trends, multiple dimensions and dynamics of the phenomenon, and the
consequences and implications for development and well-being in the
country. Bringing together a wide range of domestic and
international experts and disciplinary perspectives, the book
combines empirical research and conceptual analysis to provide an
insightful overview of China's recent development. It contributes
to the debate over marginalization and its interactions with
globalization and transition in China, and has significance for
various domestic and international policy arenas in respect of
tackling marginalization, poverty and social exclusion effectively
while striving for the achievement of the UN Millennium Development
Goals in China and beyond.
In a page-turning tale brimming with adventure, author Richard
Sanders tells of the remarkable exploits of Bartholomew Roberts
(better known as Black Bart), the greatest of the Caribbean
pirates. He drank tea instead of rum. He banned women and gambling
on his ships. He never made his prisoners walk the plank, instead
inviting them into his cabin for a friendly chat. And during the
course of his extraordinary two-and-a-half-year career as a pirate
captain, he captured four hundred prizes and brought trade in the
eastern Caribbean to a standstill. In If a Pirate I Must Be...,
Richard Sanders tells the larger-than-life story of Bartholomew
Roberts, a.k.a. Black Bart. Born in a rural town, Roberts rose from
third mate on a slave ship to pirate captain in a matter of months.
Before long, his combination of audaciousness and cunning won him
fame and fortune from the fisheries of Newfoundland to the slave
ports of West Africa. Sanders brings to life a fascinating world of
theater and ritual, where men (a third of whom were black) lived a
close-knit, egalitarian life, democratically electing their
officers and sharing their spoils. They were highly (if
surreptitiously) popular with many merchants, with whom they struck
incredibly lucrative deals. Yet with a fierce team of Royal Navy
pirate hunters tracking his every move, Roberts' heyday would prove
a brief one, and with his capture, the Golden Age of pirates would
pass into the lore and legend of books and movies. Based on
historical records, journals and letters from pirates under
Roberts' command, and on writings by Roberts himself, If a Pirate I
Must Be... is the true story of the greatest pirate ever to sail
the Caribbean. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good
Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a
broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list
includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin
Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as
villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy,
and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World
War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of
adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes
a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are
committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to
authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
From flying wings to polar explorers, from air racers to air
liners, here is the full story of the single-engine airplanes
designed and constructed by Jack Northrop during aviation's golden
age.
"Footeballe is nothinge but beastlie furie and extreme violence",
wrote Thomas Elyot in 1531. Nearly five hundred years later, the
game may still seem furious and violent, but it has also become the
most popular sport on the planet. This is the story of how the
modern, professional, spectator sport of football was born in
Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century. It's a tale
of testosterone-filled public schoolboys, eccentric mill-owners and
bolshy miners, and of why we play football the way we do. Who
invented heading? Why do we have an offside law? And why are
foreigners so much better than us at the game we invented? Based on
exhaustive research, Beastly Fury picks apart the complex processes
which forged the modern game, turning accepted wisdom on its head.
It's a story which is strangely familiar - of grasping players,
corrupt clubs and autocratic officials. It's a tale of brutality,
but at times too, of surprising artistry. Above all it's a story of
how football, uniquely among the sports of that era, became what it
is today - the people's game.
Or, how a kidnapped actress, a crazy director, a native healer, a
psychedelic berry and a wind spirit that follows me from Chinatown
to the mountains outside LA nearly cost me my sanity and my life.
Who killed JFK? Did Hitler really commit suicide? Was Kurt Cobain
murdered? Hell, as long as we're asking, did Jesus actually live
and if so how did he die? I didn't think we'd ever answer those
questions, until I met a savant physicist who could unlock memories
coded in DNA. The results were world shaking, to say the least. Too
bad the secrets in his own past were just as mysterious, just as
deadly.
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Dead Line (Paperback)
Richard Sanders
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R411
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The Lit-Crit Take: A genre-bending, character-driven thriller about
memory, identity and making peace with the past. The Pure Plot
Pitch: Sure, we all know about arrogant, self-centered media
executives. But how about one who served time as a teen for
murdering her sister? And who suddenly believes she's possessed by
the spirit of Indira Gandhi? And now, at the height of her power, a
secret from her past is threatening to destroy her empire, while
someone from that past is trying to take her life. Stop the damn
presses
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Dead Heat (Paperback)
Richard Sanders
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R286
Discovery Miles 2 860
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The Lit-Crit Take: A genre-bending, character-driven, word-burning
thriller about politics, love and the haunting pain of memory. The
Pure Plot Pitch: I didn't know-or care-much about the tight race
for governor of New York until someone took a shot at one of the
candidates and killed his wife instead. The main suspect, it turns
out, was an anti-government crazy (and a devoted quilter-yes, you
heard that right) I once did time with. Searching for the killer,
hoping to stop another attack, I was suddenly sucked into the
panicky heart of a closely fought election campaign, an affair with
a troubled political operative and the dangerously surreal world of
people who prefer casting their vote with a sniper's bullet.
THE LIT-CRIT TAKE: A character-driven thriller, centering on the
themes of terrorism, understanding and hope. THE PURE PLOT PITCH:
Here's bad day: Guy sets out to rob a bank but ends up pulling a
carjacking, and when he's arrested a body is found in the trunk.
The victim is a Sunni community leader, and why was he killed? Who
killed him? The search for answers takes me into the homegrown
Islamic underground, into plots, counterplots, deceptions and love
affairs, all leading to an attack on a major NYC landmark.
The debate over affirmative action has raged for over four decades,
with little give on either side. Most agree that it began as noble
effort to jump-start racial integration many believe it devolved
into a patently unfair system of quotas and concealment. Now, with
the Supreme Court set to rule on a case that could sharply curtail
the use of racial preferences in American universities, law
professor Richard Sander and legal journalist Stuart Taylor offer a
definitive account of what affirmative action has become, showing
that while the objective is laudable, the effects have been
anything but.Sander and Taylor have long admired affirmative
action's original goals, but after many years of studying racial
preferences, they have reached a controversial but undeniable
conclusion: that preferences hurt underrepresented minorities far
more than they help them. At the heart of affirmative action's
failure is a simple phenomenon called mismatch. Using dramatic new
data and numerous interviews with affected former students and
university officials of colour, the authors show how racial
preferences often put students in competition with far
better-prepared classmates, dooming many to fall so far behind that
they can never catch up. Mismatch largely explains why, even though
black applicants are more likely to enter college than whites with
similar backgrounds, they are far less likely to finish why there
are so few black and Hispanic professionals with science and
engineering degrees and doctorates why black law graduates fail bar
exams at four times the rate of whites and why universities accept
relatively affluent minorities over working class and poor people
of all races.Sander and Taylor believe it is possible to achieve
the goal of racial equality in higher education, but they argue
that alternative policies,such as full public disclosure of all
preferential admission policies, a focused commitment to improving
socioeconomic diversity on campuses, outreach to minority
communities, and a renewed focus on K-12 schooling ,will go farther
in achieving that goal than preferences, while also allowing
applicants to make informed decisions. Bold, controversial, and
deeply researched, Mismatch calls for a renewed examination of this
most divisive of social programs,and for reforms that will help
realize the ultimate goal of racial equality.
He was told he had exactly eight days to live. By a blind psychic
photographer. Okay, Wooly Cornell was plenty crazy-not to mention a
huge asshole-but he asked me to help him. So I did. And as the
countdown to his death began and I found myself facing threats,
shootouts, a mysterious scarred woman and weird predictions that
somehow managed to come true, I could only come to one conclusion:
Fate is one strange thing to fight.
Just before he dies in a downtown hospital, a doctor passes along
the half-formula for a powerful new hallucinogenic drug. Find the
other half, and you've got a miracle drug-one that can save lives,
save the world, and make a lot of money. Which, of course, makes it
worth killing for.
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