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Blaming Immigrants: Nationalism and the Economics of Global Movement

Columbia University Press, 2019

Immigration is shaking up electoral politics around the world. Anti-immigration and ultranationalistic politics are rising in Europe, the United States, and countries across Asia and Africa. What is causing this nativist fervor? Are immigrants the cause or merely a common scapegoat?

In Blaming Immigrants, economist...

Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book integrates planning, policy, economics, and urban design into an approach to crafting innovative places. Exploring new paradigms of innovative places under the framework of globalisation, urbanisation, and new technology, it argues against state-centric policies to innovation and focuses on how a globalized approach can shape...

Maoism: A Global History

Vintage, 2020

*** WINNER OF THE 2019 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NAYEF AL-RODHAN PRIZE FOR GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING
SHORTLISTED FOR DEUTSCHER PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING***
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Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America

John Wiley & Sons, 2019

Foreword by Janet Yellen

Weijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Americans view China, and how the Chinese view life in America.

Shan, a former hard laborer...

Simulation and Serious Games for Education (Gaming Media and Social Effects)

Springer, 2016

This book introduces state-of-the-art research on simulation and serious games for education. The major part of this book is based on selected work presented at the 2014 Asia-Europe Symposium on Simulation and Serious Games held in Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands (Oct 1–2, 2014).

It...

With Alexander in India and Central Asia: Moving East and Back to West

Oxbow Books, 2017

Alexander conquered most parts of the Western World, but there is a great deal of controversy over his invasion of India, the least known of his campaigns. In BC 327 Alexander came to India, and tried to cross the Jhelum river for the invasion, but was then confronted by King Porus who ruled an area in what is now the Punjab. According to...

Mastering Financial Mathematics in Microsoft Excel: A Practical Guide for Business Calculations (2nd Edition) (Financial Times)

FT Press, 2010

A practical guide for business calculations

Mastering Financial Mathematics in Microsoft © Excel provides a comprehensive set of tools, methods and formulas which apply Excel to solving mathematical problems.

The book:

Explains basic calculations for mathematical finance

The Vietnam War: The Definitive Illustrated History

DK Adult, 2017

Created in association with the Smithsonian Institution, this authoritative guide chronicles America's fight against Communism in southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s, and comprehensively explores the people, politics, events, and lasting effects of the Vietnam War.

Honoring those who served in the war at home or abroad,...

Geotechnics for Sustainable Infrastructure Development (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering)

Springer, 2019

This book presents 09 keynote and invited lectures and 177 technical papers from the 4^th International Conference on Geotechnics for Sustainable Infrastructure Development, held on 28-29 Nov 2019 in Hanoi, Vietnam. The papers come from 35 countries of the five different continents, and are...

Transnational Identities on Okinawa’s Military Bases: Invisible Armies

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book considers the role of civilian workers on U.S. bases in Okinawa, Japan and how transnational movements within East Asia during the Occupation period brought foreign workers, mostly from the Philippines, to work on these bases. Decades later, in a seeming “reproduction of base labour”, returnees of both Okinawan...

Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script (Language, Writing and Literary Culture in the Sinographic Co)

Brill Academic Publishers, 2019

In the more than 3,000 years since its invention, the Chinese script has been adapted many times to write languages other than Chinese, including Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Zhuang. In Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script, Zev Handel provides a comprehensive analysis of how the structural features of...

Quality of Life in Japan: Contemporary Perspectives on Happiness (Quality of Life in Asia)

Springer, 2019

This edited volume approaches the life experiences and well-being of Japanese people from an empirical perspective. It explores the current trend of happiness among Japanese over time and examines the association of income, lifestyle, and perceived life conditions using modern econometric models with supplementary...

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