This Very Short Introduction offers an indispensable starting point for anyone who needs to quickly know the themes and controversies that have shaped modern China. Prize-winning author and scholar Rana Mitter examines the modern history, politics, economy, and thriving cultural scene of contemporary ...
The Columbia Companion is a very stimulating guide to modern Chinese literature. More than that, it is a landmark work... No other single volume has presented this range of literature and this level of critical introduction. Whether as teachers or as research scholars, we should not overlook ...
In many ways, Japan is an icon of the modern world, and yet it remains something of an enigma to many, who see it as a confusing montage of the alien and the familiar, the ancient and modern. The aim of this Very Short Introduction is to explode the myths and explore the reality ...
Another is that the language interventions were perhaps too short. These studies have used language lessons that “were very different in their length and frequency,” said Prof. Laura Grossman. To Dr. Antoniou, the limited...
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and memory bandwidth and energy do not scale well, (2) energy consumption is a key limiter in almost all computing platforms, especially server and mobile systems, (3) data movement, especially off-chip to on-chip, is very expensive in terms of bandwidth, energy and latency, much more so...
And how should individual researchers go about determining how to complete a grant application section covering the expected societal or economic benefit of research? (Should they be 'conservative' and talk about short-term commercialization, job creation and patenting opportunities, or should they take...
Modern Japan -A Very Short Introduction.2009 Introduction:what’s modern about modern Japan?For many people today,modern Japan is best recognized as an economic powerhouse.According to many commentators,Japan is today’s most successful industrial(or even post-industrial) economy,combining almost ...
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World Music: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Print. Google Scholar ———.“Johann Gottfried Herder and the Global Moment of World-Music History.”. In The Cambridge History of World Music, edited by Philip V. Bohlman, 255–276. Cambridge UK and New York...