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    The Chronology Of Librarianship An Introduction To The History Of Libraries And Bank Collecting

    John L Thornton

    This comprehensive overview of the history of libraries and book collecting provides essential reading for anyone interested in the origins and development of book culture. From the ancient world to…

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    The Chronology Of Librarianship An Introduction To The History Of Libraries And Bank Collecting

    John L Thornton

    This comprehensive overview of the history of libraries and book collecting provides essential reading for anyone interested in the origins and development of book culture. From the ancient world to…

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    Social Ethics in a Changing China: Moral Decay or Ethical Awakening?

    He Huaihong

    Provides a narrative and thought-provoking scholarly arguments, highlighting the imperative for an ethical discourse in a country that is increasingly seen by many as both a materialistic giant and a…

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    Social Ethics in a Changing China: Moral Decay or Ethical Awakening?

    Huaihong He

    Over the past half-century, China has experienced some incredible human dramas, ranging from Red Guard fanaticism to the economic miracle, and its accompanying official corruption. This book provides thought-provoking scholarly…

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    China’s Youth: Increasing Diversity amid Persistent Inequality

    Li Chunling

    Explores how China’s youth will influence the country’s future. Focusing on millennials - those born between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s - the book examines the status, lifestyles, attitudes…

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    China in 2020

    Angang Hu

    Is China on track to become a superpower? What would that mean for the rest of the world? Economist Hu Angang approaches these questions through analysis of three major dimensions…

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    Power Of Ideas, The: The Rising Influence Of Thinkers And Think Tanks In China

    Cheng Li (John L Thornton China Center, Brookings Inst, Usa)

    China’s momentous socioeconomic transformation is not taking place in an intellectual vacuum: Chinese scholars and public intellectuals are actively engaged in fervent discussions about the country’s domestic and foreign policies…

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    Power Of Ideas, The: The Rising Influence Of Thinkers And Think Tanks In China

    Cheng Li (John L Thornton China Center, Brookings Inst, Usa)

    China’s momentous socioeconomic transformation is not taking place in an intellectual vacuum: Chinese scholars and public intellectuals are actively engaged in fervent discussions about the country’s domestic and foreign policies…

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    Catalogue of the Library of the Rev. Dr. Kirkland,

    John Thornton 1770-1840 Kirkland

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

    This work is in the public…

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    Plough Quarterly No. 19 - School for Life

    Eugene Vodolazkin,Karen Swallow Prior,Christian Wiman,John Thornton,D. L. Mayfield

    What we want for schools reveals what we value as a society.

    What’s the point of school? Parents have a stock set of responses, but the question remains unsettled, even…

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    Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1830

    Drawn together in a comprehensive Introduction, these essays include analyses of the climate and ecology underlying the slave trade, pan-Atlantic networks of religion and commerce, inter-ethnic collaboration in the development…

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    Wireless Security: Know It All

    Praphul Chandra (Texas Instruments, Germantown, MD, USA),Alan Bensky (RF/Wireless Designer & Consultant),Tony Bradley, CISSP, MCSE (About.com Guide for Internet / Network Security, co-author of Hacker's Challenge 3 and author of <i>Essential Computer Security</i>),Chris Hurley (Senior Penetration Tester, Washington, DC, USA),Steve A. Rackley (Independent Consultant)

    A guide to mobile wireless security.

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