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| Author | : Allan Joseph |
| Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2010-10-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1426937024 |
In the late 70’s China was an awakening giant; decades of depressing self sufficiency theories left the country technologically, industrially and agriculturally backward. By 1975, Chou En Lai and Deng Tsao Ping recognized a renaissance of technology and open economy was required Achieving those goals required engagement with the U.S. to replicate, leapfrog and provide a starter engine. The engine which had accelerated the West’s economies was the ubiquitous computer. How was China to get one? The United States strictly controlled the export of computers to the Communist world, particularly since the Korean War. The world leader in computers, IBM, was sought and responded. This book presents IBM and China’s one year 1977 struggle in Beijing to write a contract that unleashed IBM’s, China’s and the U.S.’s restraints on computer exports and delivered China’s first large-scale computer in 1978. The book presents the basis for China’s ensuing economic boom. It tells a story of humor, strife and of lasting personal bonds. It reveals the mishaps of cross-cultural negotiation. And... it reveals how the Chinese plan for modern computer education was hidden in computer purchase. Three Chinese engineers – Messer’s Wu, Mu and Shu - and two American IBM’ers enabled that deception and bridged the cultural gap. IBM now has thousands of employees in its Greater China organization and billions in revenue. China has a thriving Information Management industry and connection to the world through the internet all starting with this seed.
| Author | : Diana Bold |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Electronic books |
| ISBN | : 9788201292905 |
Adrian Strathmore is a reclusive genius by day. However, by night, he is a masked avenger named Prometheus, rescuing unfortunate children from lives of prostitution. Horribly burned as a child, he loves the anonymity of his mask. Vanessa Bourke, the famous actress, is fascinated by both Adrian Strathmore, who throws flowers at her feet but remains in the shadows, and Prometheus, the masked man who shows up in her flat in the middle of the night with a small boy he's saved. When she discovers they are one and the same, she begs him to unmask himself, to no avail. He is willing to lose her forever rather than trust her to love him despite his scars. Frustrated, she blackmails Adrian into marrying her, ruining his trust. Will he ever believe she's come to love the man behind the mask?
| Author | : William B. Sanders |
| Publisher | : SAGE Publications, Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 1980-07 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
Rape is an assault on a woman's identity, reputation, and sense of self, according to the author. Sanders originally intended to study the interaction of police and rape victims, but found it necessary to widen the scope of his research to include the legal, cultural, and social context of rape; its typical physical process; the reasons for it; and its effect on victims. What emerges is a study of rape from every possible viewpoint -- one that leads the author to a discussion of sex role and self in society. 'Altogether, this book is eminently readable. It is written in a simple, comprehensive style, very rare in works employing a dramaturgical, ethnomethodological approach. The chapters and sections are short and peppered
| Author | : Michel Meyer |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 187 |
| Release | : 1983-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 902722515X |
According to the traditional view, meaning presents itself under the form of some kind of identity. To give the meaning of a sentence amounts to being capable of producing some substitute based on the identity of the terms of the sentence. Is then the meaning of a book, or of any text, the capacity of rewriting it? Instead of retaining a double-standard theory of meaning, one for sentences and another for texts, that would allow for an ad hoc gap, the author provides a unified conception, called the question view of language he has developed, known as problematology. He pursues a systematic analysis of questioning in literature and shows how questioning makes the understanding process possible.
| Author | : Veena Das |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 362 |
| Release | : 2014-04-21 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0822376431 |
The guiding inspiration of this book is the attraction and distance that mark the relation between anthropology and philosophy. This theme is explored through encounters between individual anthropologists and particular regions of philosophy. Several of the most basic concepts of the discipline—including notions of ethics, politics, temporality, self and other, and the nature of human life—are products of a dialogue, both implicit and explicit, between anthropology and philosophy. These philosophical undercurrents in anthropology also speak to the question of what it is to experience our being in a world marked by radical difference and otherness. In The Ground Between, twelve leading anthropologists offer intimate reflections on the influence of particular philosophers on their way of seeing the world, and on what ethnography has taught them about philosophy. Ethnographies of the mundane and the everyday raise fundamental issues that the contributors grapple with in both their lives and their thinking. With directness and honesty, they relate particular philosophers to matters such as how to respond to the suffering of the other, how concepts arise in the give and take of everyday life, and how to be attuned to the world through the senses. Their essays challenge the idea that philosophy is solely the province of professional philosophers, and suggest that certain modalities of being in the world might be construed as ways of doing philosophy. Contributors. João Biehl, Steven C. Caton, Vincent Crapanzano, Veena Das, Didier Fassin, Michael M. J. Fischer, Ghassan Hage, Clara Han, Michael Jackson, Arthur Kleinman, Michael Puett, Bhrigupati Singh
| Author | : Kimberly Greer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 492 |
| Release | : 2021-09-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780578325736 |
Very well-written, recommended for anyone who can't get enough details and likes a lengthy read...The plot is quite entertaining with twists at almost every angle that keep the reader on the edge. --Fatima Aladdin, ReedsyDiscovery From being denied by her birth parents to marrying the wrong man, Alexa Winston has learned to cope with disappointment and heartache by masking her true self from the world. Divorced and finally living on her own terms, she shrouds herself in half-truths and bravado, content to live her quiet, predictable, well-constructed life - until she finds the job and the man of her dreams. As she falls deeper into both, and into a world ruled by powerful players jockeying for influence and dominance at all costs, she's forced to weigh her truths against reality. Trouble is, though she's a master at detecting self-deception in others, she's slow to recognize it in herself. Masked Intent takes a taut, complex look at how we hide behind inauthenticity to guide us through our interpersonal relationships. It's a timely and relevant story that asks a key question: what does it matter how many followers, likes, and upvotes we have if we no longer recognize the person we see in the mirror? Masked Intent is the first installment in The Morality Plays Series and ends in a cliffhanger. The story concludes in Intents + Purposes, which publishes in early 2022. (c)2021 Kimberly Greer
| Author | : Linda Hutcheon |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2003-09-02 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1134937547 |
The edge of irony, says Linda Hutcheon, is always a social and political edge. Irony depends upon interpretation; it happens in the tricky, unpredictable space between expression and understanding. Irony's Edge is a fascinating, compulsively readable study of the myriad forms and the effects of irony. It sets out, for the first time, a sustained, clear analysis of the theory and the political contexts of irony, using a wide range of references from contemporary culture. Examples extend from Madonna to Wagner, from a clever quip in conversation to a contentious exhibition in a museum. Irony's Edge outlines and then challenges all the major existing theories of irony, providing the most comprehensive and critically challengin theory of irony to date.
| Author | : Great Britain. Parliament |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1066 |
| Release | : 1884 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Great Britain. Parliament |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1076 |
| Release | : 1884 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Daniel Z. Korman |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Metaphysics |
| ISBN | : 0198732538 |
What sorts of material objects are there? Many philosophers opt for surprising answers to this question that seem deeply at odds with how we ordinarily think about the material world. Some embrace radically eliminative views, on which there are far fewer objects than we ordinarily take there to be, while others go in for radically permissive views on which there are legions of extraordinary objects that somehow escape our notice, despite being highly visible and right before our eyes. In this book, Daniel Z. Korman defends our ordinary, intuitive judgments about which objects there are. The book responds to a wide variety of arguments that have driven people away from the intuitive view: arbitrariness arguments, debunking arguments, overdetermination arguments, arguments from vagueness and material constitution, and the problem of the many. It also criticizes attempts to show that permissive and eliminative views are, despite appearances, entirely compatible with our ordinary beliefs and intuitions.
