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  • Understanding Human Errors in Construction Industry

    Where, When, How and Why We Make Mistakes

    Edited by Raphael Moura, Franz Knoll, Michael Beer ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book provides an analysis of the origin and effect of human errors in engineering. Using cases from everyday construction and large-scale accidents, the circumstances associated with the creation of errors are illustrated, along with strategies for their prevention, with the goal to eventually minimize cost overruns, delays, and accidents.The book features a discussion of the circumstances ... Read more

    $179.99 USD

  • Industrialization, Development and Technological Catch Up in East Asia

    The Cases of Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and China

    by Rafael Shoenmann de Moura ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book analyzes how Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and China achieved rapid economic development through public policies and technological innovation in East Asia. The work examines the fundamental role of the state and industrial strategies in the process of technological catching-up in these economies. Throughout its chapters, the author explores the historical foundations and economic policies ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

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  • China Today, China Tomorrow

    Domestic Politics, Economy, and Society

    Edited by Joseph Fewsmith ...
    In this timely book, a group of leading scholars provides a comprehensive assessment of China's polity, economy, and society. Taking the thirtieth anniversary of Beijing's adoption of reform and opening as an occasion to reflect on the course of development over the past three decades, the contributors consider where the country may be going in the future. Just as China has had enormous success in ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • China's Crisis of Success

    by William H. Overholt ...
    China's Crisis of Success provides new perspectives on China's rise to superpower status, showing that China has reached a threshold where success has eliminated the conditions that enabled miraculous growth. Continued success requires re-invention of its economy and politics. The old economic strategy based on exports and infrastructure now piles up debt without producing sustainable economic ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • China's Political System

    Edited by Sebastian Heilmann ...
    The Chinese government is one of the most important actors in international affairs today. To thoroughly understand how the People’s Republic of China has grown in power requires a careful analysis of its political system. To what extent can China’s economic achievements be attributed to the country’s political system and its policies? What are the effects of economic modernization and global ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Precarious Asia

    Global Capitalism and Work in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia

    by Arne L. Kalleberg, Kevin Hewison, Kwang-Yeong Shin ...
    Series series Emerging Frontiers in the Global Economy
    Precarious Asia assesses the role of global and domestic factors in shaping precarious work and its outcomes in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia as they represent a range of Asian political democracies and capitalist economies: Japan and South Korea are now developed and mature economies, while Indonesia remains a lower-middle income country.With their established backgrounds in Asian studies, ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • China–Japan–South Korea Trilateral Cooperation

    Institution Building and Power Politics

    by Muhui Zhang ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book aims to review the history, achievements, and challenges of trilateral cooperation among China, Japan, and South Korea in a systematic way. It offers numerous perspectives to explain the emergence of trilateral institution-building processes and the fluctuations of trilateral cooperation, and underscores three countries’ respective policy stances towards the building of the ... Read more

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  • China's Global Engagement

    Cooperation, Competition, and Influence in the 21st Century

    Edited by Avery Goldstein, Jacques deLisle ...
    Assessing China's rapidly changing role on the international stageChina is again undergoing a period of significant transition. Internally, China's leaders are addressing challenges to the economy and other domestic issues after three decades of dramatic growth and reforms. President Xi Jinping and other leaders also are refashioning foreign policy to better fit what they see as China's place in ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Embedded Autonomy

    States and Industrial Transformation

    by Peter B. Evans ...
    In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. To illustrate, he looks at how state agencies, local entrepreneurs, and transnational corporations shaped the emergence of computer ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Intellectual Property Rights in China

    Politics of Piracy, Trade and Protection

    by Gordon C.K Cheung ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) infringement is so rampant in China that counterfeit goods - from general household merchandise, garments and media consumables to specialist products including pharmaceutical products and super computer chips - can be found in roadside stalls, markets, shops, department stores and even laboratory of leading universities. If allowed to continue these ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Global Rise of China

    by Alvin Y. So, Yin-Wah Chu ...
    Series series China Today
    This book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just forty years, China has been quickly transformed from a poor, backward third-world country to one of the world’s core economic powerhouses. Exactly how did this Chinese developmental miracle happen?Focusing on the key historical turning point in China’s post-socialist development, the book examines the ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • China: Development And Governance

    by Gungwu Wang, Yongnian Zheng ...
    China has achieved significant socio-economic progress and has become a key player on the international stage after several decades of open-door and reform policy. Looking beyond China's transformation, this book focusses on the theme of governance which is widely regarded as the next most critical element to ensure that China's growth remains sustainable.Today, China is confronted with a host of ... Read more

    $34.99 USD