Transforming China: Globalization, Transition and Development (Anthem Studies in Political Economy and Globalization)

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At the end of the 1970s China was a poor country with a huge population, ruled by the Chinese Communist Party. The domestic economy was organized through direct administrative instructions and was isolated from the international economy. After a quarter of a century, China has been transformed beyond imagination.

In Transforming China Peter Nolan, one of the foremost experts on the Chinese economy, examines the enormous challenges faced by China's policymakers. Spanning a period of thirty years, from the late 1970s to the present day, the essays in this book address different aspects of those challenges. The `development' challenge involved devising policies that would raise the mass of the Chinese people out of poverty and avoid the disasters that had, in the worst cases, caused millions of deaths through famine. The `transition' challenge involved, firstly, resolving the relationship between change in the economic and political systems, and secondly, finding the correct sequence and nature of reforms necessary to improve economic performance. The "globalization" challenge involved identifying the way in which to integrate China's economic system with the international economy at a time of revolutionary change in the global business system.

Brought together in one collection for the first time, these seminal essays seek both to enhance understanding of China's immense success in meeting these challenges in the past, and to provide an indication of the challenges that still lie ahead. China's system reforms have been described as `groping for stones to cross the river'. The journey across the river is far from over, and the other bank is only dimly visible.

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In this unique book, Pradip Khandwalla studies 120 recent examples of turnarounds and analyzes how each was achieved.

Customer Reviews:

Shallow insights into cases, too academic.......2002-08-29

This book is too academic and the cases are so shallow to make them almost useless. There are better books out there

A must for all business managers.......2001-03-02

In his usual style prof. Khandwala analysed 120 live case studies of turnaround. He has throughly gone into analysing human aspects of turnaround.One of the best book from this Indian author.

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Regenerative medicine and human life extension are among the most cutting-edge pursuits in science, and potentially among the most profitable. In Merchants of Immortality, Stephen S. Hall offers both an expose of this fascinating science and a case study of the billion-dollar industry that has grown up around it. At the center of the field are stem cell research and cloning -- topics of continuous ethical debate -- and the stem cell legislation that has unintentionally created a strange and thriving private-sector business niche. Merchants of Immortality is a captivating, incisive account of a new frontier at the intersection of biology and business.

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A fascinating survey.......2005-05-31

Hall is a fabulous writer, given to wonderful turns of phrase. He's also a meticulous researcher -- the "Notes" section of the book is gigantic, citing sources for even the most off-hand of remarks.

This is really two books in one It begins discussing Leonard Hayflick and the discovery of programmed cell death, and the resulting search for the telomerase enzyme, then it takes a pretty sharp right turn into being a book about stem-cell research. Although some of the players are the same, they're really two different stories.

Hall's conclusion is that no rolling back of the clock is likely, and that "immortality," or even profound life extension, is probably not in the cards. But it's a fascinating journey nonetheless, and well worth reading.

Revolution in Progress.......2004-12-04

So, when will stem cells come into widespread medical use? If you answer twenty years from now, you'd be wrong by about 60 years--they first became widely used in the 1960's! Only they were called "bone marrow transplants." Today thousands of them are done every year.

Hall has written a dozen so excellent books on medicine, biotechnology and molecular biology, and this is one of the best. Here he recounts the development of the idea that aging in humans can be scientifically understood and modified. He starts off with the wonderful story of the Hayflick limit with an account of his first interview with him and brings this maverick character to life. How often are the big ideas discovered by rogues and rebels--fearless men?

He covers a very wide swath of current developments in the cutting edge of biology and medicine--telomeres, stem cells, transplants, cloning, and aging--all told in enough depth that you can't help but learn something, even if you are pretty well informed. The history, the personalities, and the ideas are all here.

One thing I appreciated is that Hall makes no pretense about being disinterested in the subject--he takes some of it personally, and is not afraid to relate what his gut is telling him. He is partisan in the best sense of the word. He unflinchingly challenges the idealistic "bioethicists" who have lately ejected such nonsense into the public space, pretending to a certainty only a bishop could appreciate.

Hall also relates in some detail the evolution of the stem cell/cloning debate that has resulted in the policy that federal money can go to research only on the 70 embryonic stem cell lines already in existence, now known to be more like 6. And none of them suitable for therapeutic for humans because they are grown on a substrate of mouse cells and their viruses. The yokels and theologians have managed to set back this important avenue for improving human health by who knows how many decades... Sad to think we'll be looking for progress to the South Koreans, who recently generated human embryonic cell lines by nuclear transfer. Americans have yet to duplicate this

The quality of Hall's prose, and the nature of the subject itself, conspire to produce a book that I found very hard to put down. A terrific read!

Meet the masters of biohope and biohype.......2003-09-02

(**** 1/2)

Stephen Hall has chosen a title that represents his book very well. What he sets forth, in supple, thoughtful, smoothly readable prose, is the saga of recent advances in "life extension" - both longevity research and research into the healing and regeneration of tissues with the aid of stem cells. As his title suggests, the emphasis is on the scientists involved, and on the public face of that science.

Along the way, he clarifies a good deal of the science itself: the discovery of the Hayflick limit, the finite limit to the number of times a normal cell can divide; the connection of that limit to the telomeres, the shoelace-tips on the ends of chromosomes; the chimerical enzyme telomerase, two parts protein and one part RNA, which repairs the telomeres and helps make cancer cells immortal; the sir-1 gene and its congeners which can double or sextuple your lifespan, if you happen to be a roundworm. And so on. Little of this will be news to those laymen who follow the science pages closely, but even for us it's good to have the timeline neatly laid out.

The bulk of Hall's attention, though, goes to the rivalries between laboratories to be first to publish and patent each of these breakthroughs; to the lineages of the biotech startups bankrolling the races; to the contrast between the solid if limited gains made by the biologists and the fairy dust sprinkled on investors; and to the enormous ferment surrounding all these new technologies as they began to impinge on embryonic stem cells and thereapeutic cloning.

Wandering through the scene from chapter to chapter, popping up repeatedly whenever the action gets hot, is the energetic true believer Michael West, the ousted founder of the premiere telomere outfit Geron, and the leading light of Advanced Cell Technology, which set the country on its ear two years ago with a premature announcement that it had cloned a human embryo. In his infectious zeal for abolishing the tyranny of old age, West serves not only as a central figure in the unfolding commercial and political saga, but as a stand-in for the insistent voice in all of us, whispering that all men may be mortal, but hey, maybe *you* can beat the rap.

Hall's conclusion, offered with a full appreciation of the fact that "It's hard to predict things, especially the future," is that a dramatic cure for aging is not likely to be in the cards. Just as cancer turned out to be a whole class of diseases with a host of different causes, so aging is turning out to be more complex than the discipline's pioneers imagined. What we can reasonably expect is a steady advancement of the average life span over the coming century, by another decade or two. How long we have to wait for breakthroughs in tissue regeneration in particular will likely depend less on science than on politics.

Two intriguing lines of lifespan research, the one tracking the sir family of genes, and the one investigating the effects of free radicals, are not ignored but, perhaps because they haven't caught the public fancy sharply, get relatively short shrift. Less than halfway through the book, the spotlight shifts from the study of aging to the study of stem cells. Because the U.S. for the last quarter century has enjoyed an effective moratorium on experimentation with aborted fetuses or discarded IVC embryos, American scientists' attention has focused more and more on the other theoretical way of obtaining human embryos: inserting the nucleus of an adult cell into an enucleated human egg.

If anyone were to succeed in doing that, and coaxing the result to divide until it reached the blastocyst stage - that would be "therapeutic cloning." So far, no one's done it, or at any rate no one who's done it has felt like advertising it. In a political squaring of the circle, President Bush managed to permit NIH to fund limited therapeutic cloning in a way that ended up outlawing funding in practical terms. As a result, scientists in the field face the classic NRA nightmare: when federal stem cells are outlawed, only maverick venture capitalists will have stem cells. At press time, no one knows what's really happening, what kind of ethical oversight private companies are bothering to put in place, or how restricted access to resulting medical breakthroughs will be when it's all proprietary, with no NIH ownership at all. For the moment, the U.S. is stuck with the worst of the "pro-life" and the "mad scientist" worlds, while the rest of the world does its research in the sunlight and steals a technical march on us.

All the players on both sides of that circle-squaring, and the principal shakers, movers and move-blockers in the relevant research, are profiled here, some in full screen 3-d and some in fetching thumbnails. The field is unlikely to be surveyed by a more complete or more even handed chronicler for some while.

Big on Merchants, Little on Immortality.......2003-08-08

If you're looking for a book describing what it's like to be a research scientist in the academic world, or if you're looking for a detailed history of stem cell politics, this book is for you.

However, if you're looking for cutting-edge science, exciting discoveries, and an up-to-date look at the modern day "quest for the fountain of youth" - look elsewhere. You may eventually find some of it, but not without wading through pages of tedious "personal struggles".

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Title: The search for human immortality: the biology and the ethics.(Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension)(Book review)
Author: Jaime Bres
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Date: January 1, 2006
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Volume: 77 Issue: 1 Page: 32(4)

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Merchants Of Immortality: Chasing The Dream Of Human Life Extension

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Merchants Of Immortality: Chasing The Dream Of Human Life Extension
Stephen S. Hall
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Listening for Coyote: A Walk Across Oregon's Wilderness
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The author's spirit of adventure shines through

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A wonderful, insightful, inspiring book

Better than "A Walk in the Woods"

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Listening for Coyote: A Walk Across Oregon's Wilderness
William L. Sullivan
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On August 17, 1985, William Sullivan kissed his wife and two children goodbye and embarked on a 1,300-mile walk across Oregon. The journey would begin on the western edge of the continent where Pacific breakers batter Cape Blanco and conclude on the rim of Hell's Canyon overlooking the Snake River. His route would "traverse four mountain ranges and eighteen designated Wilderness Areas. It would lead through fog-bound rain forests, windswept glacial cirques, and sunbaked desert canyons." Averaging 20 miles per day, Sullivan completes the trek in just over two months, reporting his progress in the daily entries that make up Listening for Coyote. Equal parts trail log, regional history, and personal memoir, Sullivan's recorded journey is also a captivating look at Oregon's natural heritage and the conservation efforts to safeguard its treasures. Entering the Rogue River Canyon, for instance, Sullivan meets a pair of contract loggers clearing a road for a timber harvest; he observes darkly that he's in the "largest roadless forest in Oregon," a place being fought over at that very moment, and one can only wonder what has happened to it since. Elsewhere along the way Sullivan recounts past Indian wars, outlaw exploits, and gold-mining boondoggles. More immediate are his surprise encounters on the trail with wildlife, hunters, environmental activists, and other hikers. Deep in the Cascades' Three Sisters Wilderness, he meets a couple of backpackers who turn out to be engaged in an even more ambitious adventure than his--a hike clear across the country that "could take years." And of course there is the inspiring coyote chorus--perhaps to be rivaled by the howling of wolves in the not-so-distant future.

Since the publishing of Listening for Coyote, the "New Oregon Trail," as it's now called, has been added to the state's long-range trail plan, although many sections remain undeveloped; Sullivan's pioneering work will be of special interest anyone considering the trek.

Customer Reviews:

The author's spirit of adventure shines through.......2006-08-20

I just finished this book today and I must say, I hated coming to the end of the trail on this one (pun intented). From the opening to the close, this book takes you right into the author's daily trek. Through lunch, second lunch, dinner, through rain, sun, heat, cold, etc.

I have to say though, the very best attribute of this book is the author's writing skill. He entertains while informing, and while taking us along step-by-step through the beautiful wildernes he continually encounters.

Thanks Mr. Sullivan for taking the time not only to complete such a difficult journey, but also for having the discipline to keep a journal throughout and then to turn it into a fun, engaging book. We get to go with you without bearing a 55 pound pack along the way.

I wish I could give it more stars!.......2006-01-13

This book was a Christmas present for my boyfriend, but I snagged it first and did nothing but rave about it as I read it.

The writing style is perfect - educational, personal, and almost like you are actually there with him on the hike. The tidbits of history, geology, botany are blended with observations of those met along the way and the writer's own growth.

I'm not a hiker (not even close!) but this book made me feel like I could get out there and do it - at least until reality set in. Even so, I enjoyed every step of the author's trip.

A wonderful, insightful, inspiring book.......2003-04-27

Reading this book felt a lot like taking a very long walk with a smart, aware, brave and sensitive friend. Here is someone who really knows how to live in the present. It's so inspiring that after I'd finished reading the book, I just wanted the journey of discovery and insight to continue. So today I'm going out to see what new paths I can discover on the outskirts of the city of Ashland. This is a book I know I'll revisit again and again.

Better than "A Walk in the Woods".......2001-12-10

This is a great book! I've had my copy for several years, and I think I have re-read it once a year since I got it. If you sometimes appreciate living vicariously through the adventures of others, pick up this book. It might even spur some real adventures of your own. It's similar to "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill what's-his-name, only Bill Sullivan walks across Oregon (on a diagonal), and the background and history in this book is even more interesting. Includes funny adventures, and insights into long-distance hiking. If you want to hike in Oregon, check out some of Sullivan's excellent guide books.

An amazing tale of adventure.......2001-09-04

This is one of those books that you can pick up every now and then and enjoy it just as much as you did the first time around. This account of his hike from the western most point in the state of Oregon to the eastern most point makes for some wonderfully exciting and enjoyable reading. I love to buy this book for people as a gift and every single one of them has thanked me for introducing them to this terrific book. Do yourself a favor and order it now!

Listening For Coyote - A Walk Across Oregon's Wilderness

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Listening For Coyote, A Walk Across Oregon's Wilderness
Sullivan William L.
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Listening For Coyote, a Walk Across Oregon's Wilderness.

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William L. Sullivan
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Heroes of the Hall : Baseball's Greatest Players
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A Beautiful Book for All Baseball Fans

A perfect gift for the serious baseball fan!

Heroes of the Hall : Baseball's Greatest Players
Ron Smith
Manufacturer: Sporting News
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From Hank Aaron to Robin Yount, Heroes of the Hall is the ultimate collection, an illustrated commemorative book, which celebrates the career and accomplishments of every elected member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. From 1936 to 2002, every player, manager and league-builder is profiled, with captivating essays and evocative black and white and color photography that capture his contribution to the game. FEATURES: Full page action or portrait shots for almost every inductee; Foreword by Ozzie Smith; Photos of every members Hall of Fame plaque; "Player name page tabs" make it a breeze to locate any member.

Customer Reviews:

A Beautiful Book for All Baseball Fans.......2005-01-10

If you know a baseball fan who you would be looking to purchase a gift for a birthday present or just as a pleasant surprise, you will not go wrong with this book. This is a book that would be appreciated by both youngsters 12 and up and adults. The book is illustrated with beautiful colored pictures of the Hall of Famers in addition to providing text that covers their career. The price is worth it. I have bought multiple copies as gifts, and they have been much appreciated. This is a book that will be treasured by the lucky recipient for a lifetime.

A perfect gift for the serious baseball fan!.......2002-05-13

This is a great book for the baseball aficionado. Especially for those who appreciate the great players of years gone by.

Dozens of Hall-of-Famers are featured, with beautiful photographs of each individual. You'll find basic statistics and the accomplishments of each personality, as well as a commentary on their contributions to the game. A nice bonus is a small photograph of their hall-of-fame plaque.

As a collector of older baseball cards I found this book especially useful to my further appreciation of the players and the history of this greatest of past-times.

I highly recommend it!

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For almost four decades, Made Simple books have set the standard for continuing education and home study. In answer to the changing needsof today's marketplace, the Made Simple series for the '90s presents a thoroughly up-to-the-minute portfolio of skills, information, and experience, with revised and updated editions of bestselling titles, plus a whole range of new subjects from personal finance to office management to desktop publishing.

B & W illustrations throughout

Customer Reviews:

Helpful.......2007-04-11

Starts out with french on one side of the page and english on the other. Reviews a conversation in different ways and you feel as though you've gained a pretty good understanding before it moves to the next chapter or thing.

French made simple review.......2006-02-24

I was very pleased when I received this used book in such good condition. It looked the same as if I had purchased it new from the store. I wish you could speed up the delivery time, then it would be perfect.It took 10 days to get to me.

A GREAT BOOK FOR A FRENCH INSTRUCTOR.......2005-10-10

This book has a few mistakes like many books in that field but it's a great book for students to have during the class. And if you teach a French class it's a very convenient book for reading practices and explaining French grammar rules. Vocabulary building and "les exercices" are also well done. I am a French native so it helps a lot for my students for readings and learning grammar rules but I found out that with this book it's very easy and fun to teach French. Of course as a French instructor you will have to add your "savoir faire". It worked fine so far, using this book some of my students (motivated - no previous studies in French - age range: 25/30) became fluent in less than a year, with a good command of the language within 5 months.
When you order that book make sure to order the new revised edition (1990)- ISBN 0385265212 (too bad Amazon does not show the ISBN number when you order a used book).

Very Poor, and Confusing.......2005-04-07

Even though this book gives decent information about French pronunciation, which is a very useful way to not only learn how to speak the language, but have a grasp on how to say new vocabulary as well, it starts getting confusing once it just randomly jumps into passages, expecting the reader to all of a sudden know how to comprehend the written language without grasping grammar first. Maybe it would have been useful with the aid of an audio CD, but unfortunately it doesnt have it. And another problem with this book is the way it randomly presents new vocab when it has nothing to do with the context of the passages. Possibly a beginner can get through this book, but it would unfortunately be a long and tedious chore that will eventually bore one out of their mind! There are so many great french learning books out there, and this is NOT one of them!

Needs an audio tape.......2003-04-03

There is an abundance of good material in this book, including
many French language passages. If I could be listening to an
audio tape while reading the words, it would be so much better.
There is not enough pronunciation aid in the book. There could
be twice as much.

French Made Simple: Learn to speak and understand French quickly and easily

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French Made Simple: Learn to speak and understand French quickly and easily

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Learn to Speak French Quickly and Easily!

An invaluable introduction to one of the most studied languages in America, FRENCH MADE SIMPLE is ideal for the student, business person, or tourist. Teaching the basics of grammar, vocabulary, and culture, it guides you step-by-step through the process of learning and conversing quickly. Refreshingly easy to understand, French Made Simple includes:

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Difficult.......2007-02-20

This particular book is definitely not easy. It is for someone who knew a little French and needed a refresher course. It is not for someone who is attempting to learn the language for the first time, as it does not come with a CD. It is nice to see the pronunciation spelled out but it is not phonetic as in English, so makes it confusing. Good book for those who need a refresher.

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Classic Dishes Made Simple
Marguerite Patten
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French Verbs Made Simple(r)
David Brodsky
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It's time for a new approach to learning French verbs. Unlike popular verb guides that require the rote memorization of hundreds of verb forms, this book clearly explains the rules that govern the conjugation of all classes of French verbs—especially the irregular ones that give second-language learners the most trouble. These straightforward, easy-to-understand rules for conjugating French verbs are effective learning tools for both beginning students and more advanced speakers who want to perfect their usage of French verb forms.

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In this sumptuous book, Sophie DudemaineÂ—one of FranceÂ's bestselling cookbook authorsÂ—has selected and simplified 120 recipes from Alain DucasseÂ's encyclopedic Grand Livre de Cuisine. While retaining the spirit of DucasseÂ's recipes, Dudemaine has made the world-renowned chefÂ's cuisine accessible to every home cook. In addition, Linda Dannenberg, the author of more than 20 books on French cooking and culture (as well as Stewart Tabori and ChangÂ's Perfect Vinaigrettes), has tested and adapted the recipes for an American audience.

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