modern china a very short introduction
modern china a very short introduction
... golden age of the Zhou and ways of the ancients, and rather than praising innovation and dynamic change in its Modern China: A Very Short Introduction 15 What is modern China? own right, premodern ... part of a changing regional and global culture. Second, it is too simple to say that China has moved from a ‘traditional’ past to a modern present. Rather, the modern...
Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 13:51
Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction
... breakfast plate of bacon and eggs were examples; others included a Black Magic box containing female body fragments made of chocolate, and a plate of salad with a (papier-mâché) reclining female ... between the fascination with popular commercial culture of that avant-garde a hundred years ago, and our apparently similar fascination at the present time, and we must pay attention to th...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 21:42
Modern Japan: A Very Short Introduction
... Bator Beijing Nanjing Shanghai Senkaku Okinawa Fukuoka Seoul Nagoya Osaka Ogasawara Tokyo Sendai Islands Taipei Hong Kong Guangzhou Hanoi BURMA South China Sea Philippine Sea East China Sea Sapporo Khabarovsk Vladivostok Kurites JAPAN SHIKOKU TAIWAN VIETNAM Ho ... 100 Miles 200 Kagoshima Nagasaki Sasebo Kitakyushu Yamaguchi Hiroshima Tottori Fukui Kanazawa Toyama Tokyo Fukushima Morioka A...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 17:27
Economics: A Very Short Introduction
... parents can afford to be egalitarian. In contrast, Becky’s household can always afford enough food. Her parents allocate food equally every day – again, allowing for differences in nutritional ... due care has been taken by insurees against bad outcomes (protection against moral hazard). By being able to take advantage of the Law of Large Numbers, markets and the government, taken together, a...
Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2014, 18:21
Game theory: A very short introduction
... Von Neumann’s toy model abstracts all such complications away. Alice and Bob are each dealt a number between 0 and 1. Both aim to maximize their average dollar earnings on the assumption that 90 Information all ... in launching an angry attack on Alice after she has treated him unfairly. His behaviour might then easily be dismissed as irrational by observers who fail to notice that he isn’t...
Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2014, 18:23
Global catastrophes: A very short introduction
... the planet, sending up a gigantic plume of gas and debris and blasting outwards a rapidly expanding shock wave. As fragment after fragment hammered into the planet, spectacular images were gathered ... waves, earthquakes, tsunamis, and wildfires. Many urban centres in Europe, Africa, and Asia appear to have collapsed almost simultaneously around 2350 bc, and records abound of flood, fire, qu...
Ngày tải lên: 11/01/2014, 18:43