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Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis
Hong Kong has remained the global metropolis for Asia since its founding in the 1840s following the Opium Wars between Britain and China. David Meyer traces its vibrant history from the arrival of the foreign trading firms, when it was established as one of the leading Asian business centres, to its celebrated handover to China in 1997. Throughout this period, Hong Kong has been prominent as a pivotal meeting place of the Chinese and foreign social networks of capital and as such has been China's window on to the world economy, dominating other financial centers such as Singapore and Tokyo. Looking into the future, the author presents an optimistic view of Hong Kong in the twenty-first century, challenging those who predict its decline under Chinese rule. This accessible and broad-ranging look at the story of Hong Kong's success will interest anyone concerned with its past, present and future.
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Slingshot
Exploration of how nationally prominent House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost the battle for Republican primary for Virginia's 7th Congressional District to college professor David Brat, an unknown political rookie.
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Early Tahitian Poetics
Tahiti has a rich history of oral tradition. Early visitors to the island transcribed recitations of myth, battle address, and land description. Until now their poetic organization has remained unexplored. From a computationally assisted analysis, this book describes early use of meter and parallelism and speculates on manner of composition. It sheds light on a poetic style unanticipated for Polynesia and remarkable among world poetries.
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Networked machinists : high-technology industries in Antebellum America
A century and a half before the modern information technology revolution, machinists in the eastern United States created the nation's first high technology industries. In iron foundries and steam-engine works, locomotive works, machine and tool shops, textile-machinery firms, and firearms manufacturers, these resourceful workers pioneered the practice of dispersing technological expertise through communities of practice.
In the first book to study this phenomenon since the 1916 classic, English and American Tool Builders, David R. Meyer examines the development of skilled-labor exchange systems, showing how individual metalworking sectors grew and moved outward. He argues that the networked behavior of machinists within and across industries helps explain the rapid transformation of metalworking industries during the antebellum period, building a foundation for the sophisticated, mass production/consumer industries that figured so prominently in the later U.S. economy.
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A Sea without Fish
The region around Cincinnati, Ohio, is known throughout the world for the abundant and beautiful fossils found in limestones and shales that were deposited as sediments on the sea floor during the Ordovician Period, about 450 million years ago-some 250 million years before the dinosaurs lived. In Ordovician time, the shallow sea that covered much of what is now the North American continent teemed with marine life. The Cincinnati area has yielded some of the world's most abundant and best-preserved fossils of invertebrate animals such as trilobites, bryozoans, brachiopods, molluscs, echinoderms, and graptolites. So famous are the Ordovician fossils and rocks of the Cincinnati region that geologists use the term \"Cincinnatian\" for strata of the same age all over North America. This book synthesizes more than 150 years of research on this fossil treasure-trove, describing and illustrating the fossils, the life habits of the animals represented, their communities, and living relatives, as well as the nature of the rock strata in which they are found and the environmental conditions of the ancient sea.
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THROUGH a 40-year career spanning the writing and directing of
THROUGH a 40-year career spanning the writing and directing of more than 50 films, French director Claude Chabrol has become known as the master of ambiguity. The plot of a Chabrol picture may be easy to follow, and Chabrol shoots in a deceptively simple visual style. But the moral or meaning of his tales is often difficult to pin down. Chabrol's films, like their characters, can be charming, disquieting or, on occasion, really annoying. Like some films of Chabrol's contemporaries in the French film movement known as the New Wave (Truffaut, Godard, Rivette and Eric Rohmer), Chabrol's movies can be more satisfying to think about afterward than they are to sit through in the first place. Happily, such is not the case with Chabrol's latest, \"La Ceremonie.\" A blockbuster hit in France, \"La Ceremonie\" (\"The Ceremony\") re-established the 67-year-old Chabrol's reputation with its many nominations for Cesars - the French equivalent of the Oscars - for Best Director, Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Actress (art-house fave Isabelle Huppert), Best Supporting Actor (longtime French leading man Jean-Pierre Cassel) and Supporting Actress (William Hurt companion Sandrine Bonnaire). Jacqueline Bisset and Virginie Ledoyen also star.
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