The Making of the Chinese State - Leo K. Shin - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

In this well-crafted study of the relationships between the state and its borderlands, Leo Shin traces the roots of China's ethnic configurations to the Ming dynasty. Shin argues that the categorisation of borderland 'non-Chinese' populations was facilitated by the political interests of the state and the settlers' economic needs.

The Making of the Chinese State - Leo K. Shin - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

In this well-crafted study of the relationships between the state and its borderlands, Leo Shin traces the roots of China's ethnic configurations to the Ming dynasty. Shin argues that the categorisation of borderland 'non-Chinese' populations was facilitated by the political interests of the state and the settlers' economic needs.

The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War - Annie Tracy Samuel - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Provides a close look at Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to understand Iran's recent history and how the Revolutionary Guards view their own roles therein. By using the Iran-Iraq War, one of the most significant events in the Islamic Republic's history, as a focal point, Tracy Samuel analyzes the links between war and revolution.

Death in the Dojo Level 5 - Sue Leather - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student''s capabilities. Reporter Kate Jensen investigates the death of a karate master in a ''dojo'', a karate training room in London. Another death quickly follows and Kate finds herself drawn into the mystery. The trail takes her to Japan, back to London, and back in time to a crime committed over thirty years earlier. Paperback-only version. Also available with Audio CDs including complete text recordings from the book.

Public Faces and Private Identities in Seventeenth-Century Holland - Ann Jensen Adams - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

During the seventeenth century, Dutch portraits were actively commissioned by corporate groups and by individuals from a range of economic and social classes. Ann Jensen Adams examines four portrait genres - individuals, the family, history portraits, and civic guards.

Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling - Shin Takagi - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

A coherent and self-contained account of macroscopic quantum phenomena, and the application of macroscopic quantum tunneling to the Schrödinger's cat problem. Assuming knowledge of only elementary quantum mechanics, this book emphasises conceptual aspects rather than technical details, providing a firm introduction to the subject for graduate students and researchers.

The Age of Paper - Hiroki Shin - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Sounds of Korean - Jiyoung Shin - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

This introduction to the sounds of Korean is designed for English-speaking students with no prior knowledge of the language and includes online sound files which demonstrate the sounds and pronunciation described. It will be an invaluable resource for students of Korean as well as those studying Korean linguistics.

Lightning Conductors and Lightning Guards - Oliver Lodge - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Oliver Lodge (1851–1940), the eminent physicist and writer on science, published in 1892 a pioneering and well-illustrated study of the protection of buildings, cables and telegraphic instruments from the devastation caused by lightning strikes. Lodge includes his own pioneering studies and proposes practices which were subsequently widely accepted.

Police and State in Prussia, 1815–1850 - Alf Ludtke - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book focuses on the way in which people were treated by the police and military guards in nineteenth-century Prussia, in the general context of Prussian bureaucratic development. The book therefore offers an understanding of the repressive side of the Prussian and German state since the middle of the nineteenth-century.

French Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity during World War II - Raffael Scheck - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book discusses the experience of French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II. It shows that the colonial prisoners' contradictory experiences with French authorities, French civilians, and German guards led to clashes with a colonial administration eager to return to a discriminatory routine following the war.

The Varangians of Byzantium - Benedict Benedikz - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

An aura of romance has clung about the Varangians for over six centuries. This book examines how the Norsemen came to be drawn into the Imperial service until the greatest of all the Emperors of the East, Basil II, formed them into the regiment of guards which was to give unique service to the Empire.

The Logical Status of Diagrams - Sun Joo Shin - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Diagrams are widely used in reasoning about problems in physics, mathematics and logic, but have traditionally been considered to be only heuristic tools and not valid elements of mathematical proofs. This book challenges this prejudice against visualisation in the history of logic and mathematics and provides a formal foundation for work on natural reasoning in a visual mode.

The State, Society, and Foreign Capital in India - Sojin Shin - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Why are some states in India able to facilitate foreign capital inflows better while others are not? This book addresses the socio-political factors such as ideas and interests of political actors, which produce the different levels of foreign direct investment (FDI) in states of India. It studies the causal role of disparate state-society relations in the evolution of institutions facilitating and regulating FDI inflows in the states through a comparative case study on the manufacturing industries of Tamil Nadu and Odisha.

International Economic Law in the Era of Datafication - Shin Yi Peng - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book addresses the challenges of datafication through the lens of international economic law. The target audience includes academics, scholars, graduate students, practitioners and policy-makers in the fields of international trade and economic law, technology law, media and communication studies, political economy and global governance.

Confucianism and Democratization in East Asia - Doh Chull (university Of Missouri Shin - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Examines core Confucian legacies and their impacts on civic and political orientations in six Confucian countries: China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam.

The Rhetoric and Reality of Shareholder Democracy and Hedge-Fund Activism - Jan Sup Shin - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

This Element investigates the historical and systemic roots of hedge-fund activism. It argues that the spirit of the New Deal financial regulations was subverted in the 1980s and 1990s in the name of shareholder democracy and opened the door for the rise of hedge-fund activism. It analyzes the effects of regulatory reforms including the introduction of compulsory voting by institutional investors, proxy-voting rule changes that greatly facilitated aggregation of the proxy votes of institutional investors, and rules that allow hedge funds to draw effectively limitless alternative investments from institutional investors. This Element also evaluates the recent empirical research on hedge-fund activism and explains why shareholder activism has gone awry. It argues that the regulatory changes created a large vacuum in the arena of corporate voting that hedge-fund activists can effectively exploit for their own profits. It concludes with policy proposals for rebuilding the proxy-voting and engagement system.

The Rhetoric and Reality of Shareholder Democracy and Hedge-Fund Activism - Jan Sup Shin - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

This Element investigates the historical and systemic roots of hedge-fund activism. It argues that the spirit of the New Deal financial regulations was subverted in the 1980s and 1990s in the name of shareholder democracy and opened the door for the rise of hedge-fund activism. It analyzes the effects of regulatory reforms including the introduction of compulsory voting by institutional investors, proxy-voting rule changes that greatly facilitated aggregation of the proxy votes of institutional investors, and rules that allow hedge funds to draw effectively limitless alternative investments from institutional investors. This Element also evaluates the recent empirical research on hedge-fund activism and explains why shareholder activism has gone awry. It argues that the regulatory changes created a large vacuum in the arena of corporate voting that hedge-fund activists can effectively exploit for their own profits. It concludes with policy proposals for rebuilding the proxy-voting and engagement system.

French Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity during World War II - Raffael Scheck - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book discusses the experience of nearly 100,000 French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II. Raffael Scheck shows that the German treatment of French colonial soldiers improved dramatically after initial abuses, leading the French authorities in 1945 to believe that there was a possible German plot to instigate a rebellion in the French empire. Scheck illustrates that the colonial prisoners'' contradictory experiences with French authorities, French civilians, and German guards created strong demands for equal rights at the end of the war, leading to clashes with a colonial administration eager to reintegrate them into a discriminatory routine.

The Changing Fortunes of Central Banking - - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Understanding the changing role of central banks and their recent novel policies is essential for analysing many economic and financial issues, ranging from financial regulation and crisis, to exchange rate dynamics and regime changes, and QE and prolonged low interest rates. This book features contributions by the world''s leading experts on central banking, providing in accessible essays a fascinating review of today''s key issues for central banks. Luminaries including Stephen Cecchetti, Takatoshi Ito, Anil Kashyap, Mervyn King, Donald Kohn, Otmar Issing and Hyun Shin are joined by Charles Goodhart of the London School of Economics and Political Science, whose many achievements in the field of central banking are honoured as the inspiration for this book. The Changing Fortunes of Central Banking discusses the developing role of central banks in seeking monetary and financial stabilisation, while also giving suggestions for model strategies. This comprehensive review will appeal to central bankers, financial supervisors and academics.

Youth Culture in China - Paul Clark - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

The lives and aspirations of young Chinese (those between 14 and 26 years old) have been transformed in the past five decades. By examining youth cultures around three historical points - 1968, 1988 and 2008 - this book argues that present-day youth culture in China has both international and local roots. Paul Clark describes how the Red Guards and the sent-down youth of the Cultural Revolution era carved out a space for themselves, asserting their distinctive identities, despite tight political controls. By the late 1980s, Chinese-style rock music, sports and other recreations began to influence the identities of Chinese youth, and in the twenty-first century, the Internet offers a new, broader space for expressing youthful fandom and frustrations. From the 1960s to the present, this book shows how youth culture has been reworked to serve the needs of the young Chinese.

Youth Culture in China - Paul Clark - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

The lives and aspirations of young Chinese (those between 14 and 26 years old) have been transformed in the past five decades. By examining youth cultures around three historical points - 1968, 1988 and 2008 - this book argues that present-day youth culture in China has both international and local roots. Paul Clark describes how the Red Guards and the sent-down youth of the Cultural Revolution era carved out a space for themselves, asserting their distinctive identities, despite tight political controls. By the late 1980s, Chinese-style rock music, sports and other recreations began to influence the identities of Chinese youth, and in the twenty-first century, the Internet offers a new, broader space for expressing youthful fandom and frustrations. From the 1960s to the present, this book shows how youth culture has been reworked to serve the needs of the young Chinese.

The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War - Annie Tracy Samuel - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), founded after the Iranian revolution in 1979, is one of the most powerful and prominent but least understood organizations in Iran. In this book, Annie Tracy Samuel presents an innovative and compelling history of this organization and, by using the Iran-Iraq War as a focal point, analyzes the links between war and revolution. Tracy Samuel provides an internal view of the IRGC by examining how the Revolutionary Guards have recorded and assessed the history of the war in the massive volume of Persian language publications produced by the organization''s top members and units. This not only enhances our comprehension of the IRGC''s roles and power in contemporary Iran, but also demonstrates how the history of the Iran-Iraq War has immense bearing on the Islamic Republic''s present and future. In doing so, the book reveals how analyzing Iran''s history provides the critical tools for understanding its actions today.