Authors:Elspeth Thomson, Elspeth Thomson, Jon Sigurdson,
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: china, series, contemporary, globalisation, sector, science, technology, forces
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2008-05-20
List price: $81.00
ISBN-10: 981277100X
ISBN-13: 9789812771001

China’s booming economy has drawn both admiration and fear from the rest of the world. With its ability to churn out high-quality goods at low prices, China has become known as the factory of the world . To better understand China s development and modernisation since the 1978 reforms, it is necessary to analyse its policies on importing technologies and developing indigenous ones. The articles in this volume paint a comprehensive picture of the attempts by the Chinese government to adopt and foster science and technology, the successes of the policies and the continuing challenges. C

Author: Ken Thomson
Publisher: Tufts
Keywords: civil, society, foundations, democratic, nation, neighborhood
Number of Pages: 207
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1584651059
ISBN-13: 9781584651055

A study of the unique impact of participatory and representative democracy on policy outcomes at local, state, and national levels.

Author: R.H. Thomson
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: second, products, natural, chemistry
Number of Pages: 468
Published: 1993-09-30
List price: $409.00
ISBN-10: 0751400149
ISBN-13: 9780751400144

This book reviews in a concise and manageable way the progress in all key areas of natural products chemistry since 1984. The most significant advances are highlighted over a wide field of chemistry, structure, synthesis and biosynthesis. This book provides a unique and superb entry into the vast literature on the subject.

Author: J., J. Thomson
Publisher: Wexford College Press
Keywords: gases, electricity, conduction
Number of Pages: 692
Published: 2005-03-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1929148496
ISBN-13: 9781929148493

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your u

Author: Ian Thomson
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: life, levi, primo
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2004-12-01
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0312423675
ISBN-13: 9780312423674

Primo Levi wrote books that have been called "the essential works of humankind," including Survival in Auschwitz and The Periodic Table. Yet he lived an unremarkable existence, remaining to his death in the house in which he’d been born; managing a paint and varnish factory for thirty years; and tending his invalid mother to the end. Now, in a matchless account, Ian Thomson unravels the strands of an influential life.

Author: Ann Thomson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: soul, enlightenment, religion, science, thought, bodies
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-09-15
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0199236194
ISBN-13: 9780199236190

Examining the development of a secular, purely material conception of human beings in the early Enlightenment, Bodies of Thought provides a fresh perspective on the intellectual culture of this period, and challenges certain influential interpretations of irreligious thought and the "Radical Enlightenment."Beginning with the debate on the soul in England, in which political and religious concerns were intertwined, and ending with the eruption of materialism onto the public stage in mid-eighteenth-century France, Ann Thomson looks at attempts to explain how the material brain thinks without the

Author: Bob Thomson
Publisher: Little Brown & Co (P)
Keywords: garden, victory, new
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 1987-10
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0316843369
ISBN-13: 9780316843362

For everyone interested in enhancing the beauty found in and around the home, The New Victory Garden promises to be the season’s most valuable gardening tool. 230 full-color photographs and 100 line drawings. Size C. 50,000 paper. (Gardening/Indoor-Outdoor)