Author: Byung Nak Song
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: economy, korean, rise
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1997-05-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0195900499
ISBN-13: 9780195900491
This standard work by a noted Korean economist is already well known for providing a unique insider’s view on Korea’s impressive economic and industrial growth. This new edition is now updated with statistics as recent as 1996 as well as a new chapter on the Korean model.
Author: Archie Brown
Publisher: Ecco
Keywords: communism, rise
Number of Pages: 736
Published: 2009-06-01
List price: $35.99
ISBN-10: 0061138797
ISBN-13: 9780061138799
From the internationally acclaimed Oxford authority on Communism comes a definitive history that examines the origins of the ideology, its development in different nations, its collapse in many of those countries following perestroika, and its current incarnations around the globe. The Rise and Fall of Communism explores how and why Communists came to power; how they were able, in a variety of countries on different continents, to hold on to power for so long; and what brought about the downfall of so many Communist systems. For this comprehensive and illuminating work, Brown draws on more
Author: R W Seton-Watson
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: balkans, nationality, rise
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2009-09-20
List price: $32.99
ISBN-10: 1113882646
ISBN-13: 9781113882646
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1918 Original Publisher: Constable and Company Limited Subjects: Balkan Peninsula Eastern question (Balkan) Nationalism History / Europe / Baltic States History / Europe / General History / Europe / Eastern Political Science / International Relations / General Political Science / Political Ideologies / Nationalism Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free tri
Author: John Buchanan
Publisher: iUniverse
Keywords: gregorovic, stefan, rise
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2010-02-03
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1450208517
ISBN-13: 9781450208512
The Rising, comrades, began on a hot Saturday night in August. Thus begins an action-packed tale of revolution during the Cold War. Enter Stefan Gregorovic. Ruthless and charismatic, he has limitless faith in his ability to perform great deeds. But Mariana Skowdowska, a leader of the student revolt, spurns Stefan’s offer of escape to the West. He then offers to raise the capital city for the students but student leaders react with contempt towards a man they consider a deluded nobody. Enraged, Stefan resolves to prove them wrong. He raises the standard of revolt throughout the capita
Author: Andrew Weaving
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Keywords: living, rise
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2004-09-20
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1586854100
ISBN-13: 9781586854102
High-rise architecture has provided some of the most technically innovative and aesthetically interesting buildings of recent years, despite its checkered-and often controversial-history. It has also become some of the most desirable property available in cities throughout the world. < BR> Andrew Weaving hands you the entrance keys to twenty-five different apartments-with-a-view in this rich collection of fabulous, spare photographs that capture unique views of these buildings and their highly livable interiors. High-rise Living features architecture and interior living spaces for high-rise
Author: Lee Bergquist
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Keywords: athlete, ageless, rise, wind, second
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2009-05-15
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0736074910
ISBN-13: 9780736074919
Meet and learn why older men and women are passionate about fitness and athletics: -Don McNelly has completed more than 150 marathons after the age of 80.-Philippa Raschker has dedicated her life to track and was edged out for the Sullivan Award by swimmer Michael Phelps. -Clarence Bass, in his 70s, has the polished physique of a man 50 years younger. Second Wind: The Rise of the Ageless Athlete is an absorbing account of a growing subculture of Americans who are challenging the notion of what it means to grow old. Visit the book’s Web site at www.SecondWindAthlete.com.
Author: Eva M. Dargyay
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass,
Keywords: tibet, buddhism, esoteric, rise
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1998-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8120815793
ISBN-13: 9788120815797
The study exhibits and analyses the traditions of the Old School of Tibetan Buddhism. It shows the history of the Old School which goes far beyond the eminent tantric master Padmasambhava hinting at a non-Indian origin of some tantric cycles. It brings forth so far unknown facts and events that are indispensible for understanding thought and history of Tantric Buddhism in Tibet.
