Reid Anthony Reid - Böcker

The essays reprinted here trace the history of Chinese emigration into the Pacific region, first as individuals, traders or exiles, moving into the ''Nanyang'' (Southeast Asia), then as a mass migration across the ocean after the mid-19th century....

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The essays reprinted here trace the history of Chinese emigration into the Pacific region, first as individuals, traders or exiles, moving into the ''Nanyang'' (Southeast Asia), then as a mass migration across the ocean after the mid-19th century....

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This book is not just for reading, it is an exercise book instructing you on how anyone can lead a successful, fulfilling and happy life. Fantastic reading.

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This is an entertaining and thought provoking read, a collection of over 100 poems from a new author. Anthony undoubtedly had his own unique style which consistently brings a nice combination of alliteration and rhyming couplets to the forefront w...

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Lisa Jones is on a journey. It's a colourful and exciting off-kilter trip in search of one lost hour that has tipped the balance of her life. The inhabitants of the wonderful world she finds herself in - Dissocia - are a curious blend of the funny...

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Lisa Jones is on a journey. It's a colourful and exciting off-kilter trip in search of one lost hour that has tipped the balance of her life. The inhabitants of the wonderful world she finds herself in - Dissocia - are a curious blend of the funny...

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The essays in this collection offer reflections on efforts to bridge two cultures--what the editors characterize as the "art and science of writing"--often by addressing explicitly the tensions between them.

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In the tradition of Why Johnny Can't Read written by Rudolph Flesch in the 1950s, Leaving Johnny Behind provides a comprehensive examination of the barriers that deny children adequate literacy training. This book describes the obstacles faced by ...

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This is a collection of contributions from specialists on the history of Southeast Asia's Chinese minorities, tracing their role in the contemporary economic transformation of the region. The nine contributors demonstrate the depth and variety of ...

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It is 2174 and Earth is a barren desert. All of humanity lives under a bubble that protects mankind from the sun's deadly rays. A communist government controls everything. Strict laws forbid sports, television, and gatherings of more than five peo...

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It is 2174 and Earth is a barren desert. All of humanity lives under a bubble that protects mankind from the sun's deadly rays. A communist government controls everything. Strict laws forbid sports, television, and gatherings of more than five peo...

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The current policing landscape has seen the rise in serious and organized crime across the globe. Criminals are innovating in real-time leveraging cyber, social media, enhanced surveillance to support their activities. In so doing, the criminal la...

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The current policing landscape has seen the rise in serious and organized crime across the globe. Criminals are innovating in real-time leveraging cyber, social media, enhanced surveillance to support their activities. In so doing, the criminal la...

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The current policing landscape has seen the rise in serious and organized crime across the globe. Criminals are innovating in real-time leveraging cyber, social media, enhanced surveillance to support their activities. In so doing, the criminal la...

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Ceramics is ideally suited to addressing the two most pressing problems of environmental health in the developing world: pathogen contaminated drinking water and air pollution around cookstoves. Interventions for these are the water filters and co...

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In this volume Anthony Reid positions Southeast Asia on the stage of world history. He argues that the region not only had a historical character of its own, but that it played a crucial role in shaping the modern world. Southeast Asias interactio...

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This exemplary work of international collaboration takes a comparative approach to the histories of Northeast and Southeast Asia, with contributions from scholars from Japan, Korea and the Englishspeaking academic world. The new scholarship repres...

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The tsunami that struck a dozen countries around the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004 evoked international sympathy on a scale beyond any previous natural disaster. The international relief effort broke all records both in scale and diversity, wit...

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There are reasons for thinking that this is at last Indonesia's moment on the world stage. Having successfully negotiated its difficult transition to democracy after 1998, Indonesia has held three popular elections with a low level of violence by ...

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Separatist feeling in Aceh, Indonesia's westernmost province, has deep historical roots but it is often dismissed as a reaction to a heavy-handed military presence in the area since 1989. With Indonesia's 1998 democratisation, expression...

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Though wary of China's rapid rise, her neighbours have considerable experience of dealing with unequal power without surrendering their autonomy. For its part, China has a long memory of unequal or 'tributary' relations and a relati...

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The twelve chapters of this book all derive from the reflections of a prominent historian on the nature of modern Indonesian history, over a 40-year time span. A central thread running through the book is the importance of the fact that Indonesia ...

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In the Malay peninsula and northern Sumatra, colonial rule embraced an extravagant array of sultans, rajas, datuks and ulbalangs, traditional rulers whose support was important to the smooth running of the administration. In Malaya, the traditiona...

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