Author: Leng Jing
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Keywords: transition, globalization, hku, press, series, law, context, economy, governance, financial, reform, china, corporate
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-09-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9622099327
ISBN-13: 9789622099326

This book examines corporate governance reforms in China as an economy in transition - from a planned economy to a market economy - in the context of globalization and the country’s accession to WTO. The author interprets China’s experience as a gradualist transition strategy, which is appropriate given the existing constraints imposed by China’s limited political, legal and regulatory framework. This approach also compares favorably with the radical privatization programme ("shock therapy") in Russia. In China, "institutional innovations" play a key role in discovering a bet

Authors:Jing Lin, Edward J. Brantmeier, Christa Bruhn, Jing L
Publisher: Iap - Information Age Pub. Inc.
Keywords: peace, education, transforming
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2008-04-30
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 1593119054
ISBN-13: 9781593119058

A volume in Peace Education Series Editors:Jing Lin, University of Maryland, Edward J. Brantmeier, Colorado State University, and Ian Harris, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Currently, peace education remains marginalized in our education system, however, a united front can be formed and powerful paradigms can empower educators to play a critical role in peace building through scholarship, practice and activism. Indeed, educators around the world are developing effective strategies to transform education as a powerful force for global peace. The diverse array of contributors in the book de

Author: Leng Leng Thang
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: anthropology, contemporary, issues, neighborhood, tokyo, touch, linking, old, generations
Number of Pages: 209
Published: 2001-03
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0801487323
ISBN-13: 9780801487323

Author: Mary Leng
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: reality, mathematics
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2010-06-18
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0199280797
ISBN-13: 9780199280797

Mary Leng offers a defense of mathematical fictionalism, according to which we have no reason to believe that there are any mathematical objects. Perhaps the most pressing challenge to mathematical fictionalism is the indispensability argument for the truth of our mathematical theories (and therefore for the existence of the mathematical objects posited by those theories). According to this argument, if we have reason to believe anything, we have reason to believe that the claims of our best empirical theories are (at least approximately) true. But since claims whose truth would require the

Author: Melanie J. Leng
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: research, paleoenvironmental, developments, isotopes, palaeoenvironmental
Number of Pages: 307
Published: 2005-12-21
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 1402025033
ISBN-13: 9781402025037

This 10th volume in the DPER series is intended to show how stable isotopes can be applied to understanding the palaeoenvironment. There are chapters on the interpretation of isotopes in water, tree rings, bones and teeth, lake sediments, speleothems and marine sediments. Isotopes can be extremely powerful palaeoenvironmental tools, however, as with all archives it is desirable to carry out a calibration exercise to investigate the basic systematics of isotope variation in the modern environment to establish the relationship between the measured signal and the isotope composition of the host.

Author: Yang Leng
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: spectroscopic, methods, microscopic, introduction, characterization, materials
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-06-02
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0470822988
ISBN-13: 9780470822982

This book covers state-of-the-art techniques commonly used in modern materials characterization. Two important aspects of characterization, materials structures and chemical analysis, are included. Widely used techniques, such as metallography (light microscopy), X-ray diffraction, transmission and scanning electron microscopy, are described. In addition, the book introduces advanced techniques, including scanning probe microscopy. The second half of the book accordingly presents techniques such as X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (commonly equipped in the scanning electron microscope), fl

Author: Simon Leng
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Keywords: george, harrison, music, weeps, gently, guitar
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1423406095
ISBN-13: 9781423406099

Far from being "the quiet one," George Harrison was a writer and arranger of terrific power and beauty, and his guitar playing was fundamental to the Beatles’ sound and success. Now fully revised and expanded, this new edition of While My Guitar Gently Weeps: The Music of George Harrison is the most comprehensive evaluation of George Harrison’s musical career ever published. Treating each of Harrison’s songs with unprecedented analysis, author Simon Leng reveals Harrison’s eclectic approach - from teenage Nashville twang through Indian raga, psychedelia, gospel, soul,