Author: Bates Gill
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: security, diplomacy, new, china, star, rising
Number of Pages: 267
Published: 2007-02-26
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0815731469
ISBN-13: 9780815731467

China’s diplomatic strategy has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s, creating both challenges and opportunities for other world powers. Through a combination of pragmatic security policies, growing economic clout, and increasingly deft diplomacy, China has established productive and increasingly solid relationships throughout Asia and around the globe. Yet U.S. policymakers have only just begun to comprehend these critical changes. Here, noted China analyst Bates Gill provides a coherent framework for understanding China’s new security diplomacy and guiding Ame

Authors:Michael J. Green, Bates Gill,
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: search, community, competition, cooperation, new, multilateralism, asia
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-01-29
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0231144431
ISBN-13: 9780231144438

Traditionally, stability in Asia has relied on America’s bilateral alliances with Japan, Australia, and the Republic of Korea. Yet in recent years, emergent and more active multilateral forums& mdash;such as the Six-Party Talks on North Korea and the East Asia Summit& mdash;have taken precedence, engendering both cooperation and competition while reflecting the local concerns of the region.Some are concerned that this process is moving toward less-inclusive, bloc-based "talking shops" and that the future direction and success of these arrangements, along with their implications for globa

Authors:Bates Gill, Matthew Oresman,
Publisher: Center for Strategic & Intl. Studies
Keywords: csis, report, west, journey, new, china
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2003-08-30
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 089206434X
ISBN-13: 9780892064342

One of the most intriguing developments in Central Asia over the past decade has been China’s renewed attention to and diplomacy in the region. The authors make recommendations for U.S. policy in the region.

Authors:C. Fred Bergsten, Bates Gill, Nicholas R. Lardy, Dere
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Keywords: superpower, institute, international, econom, emerging, needs, balance, sheet, world, china
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-03-13
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1586484354
ISBN-13: 9781586484354

China’s emergence on the world stage will be one of the most momentous--and challenging--developments of the twenty first century. To help us understand this country--the world’s largest with 1.4 billion people--scholars at CSIS and IIE have compiled data accumulated over years of investigation into an accessible narrative for the general reader. Hailed as one of the most definitive books on China, China: The Balance Sheet is the fullest attempt to understand and describe the most important emerging power in the world.

Authors:Chris Bates, Ling-Li Bates,
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Corporation
Keywords: culture, shock, guides, etiquette, customs, taiwan, survival, guide, cultureshock
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2008-09
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0761454977
ISBN-13: 9780761454977

A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

Authors:Mickey Gill, Cheryl Gill,
Publisher: Fine Print Publishing
Keywords: coke, pepsi, friends, questions
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-05-31
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 189295138X
ISBN-13: 9781892951380

Authors:Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates, Sierra Kathy, Bates Be
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Keywords: java, first, head
Number of Pages: 688
Published: 2005-02-09
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0596009208
ISBN-13: 9780596009205

It has taken four years, but with Head First Java the introductory Java book category has finally come of age. This is an excellent book, far more capable than any of the scores of Java-for-novices books that have come before it. Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates deserve rich kudos--and big sales--for developing this book’s new way of teaching the Java programming language, because any reader with even a little bit of discipline will come away with true understanding of how the language works. Perhaps best of all, this is no protracted "Hello, World" introductory guide. Readers get substantial