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  • I'm so Ready for Life: Book 1

    So, This Is How the World Works

    by Joseph Wong ...
    So, This is How the World Works. As a parent, you are probably concerned about what the new tomorrow looks like for your children amid talk of how technology will fundamentally change the way we live and work. The motivation for this book comes from the simple notion that everything a child needs to knowtodayto prepare for this new tomorrow is already available. The reason they are not exposed to ... Read more

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  • From Development to Democracy

    The Transformations of Modern Asia

    Why some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer—and why others haven’tOver the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization—a spectacular record of development that has turned one of the world’s poorest regions into one of its richest. Yet Asia’s record of democratization has been much more uneven, ... Read more

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  • I’M so Ready for Life: Book 3

    I Choose What Happens to Me

    by Joseph Wong ...
    I Choose What Happens to Me. As a parent, you are probably concerned about what the new tomorrow looks for your children amid talk of how technology would fundamentally change the way we live and work. The motivation for this book comes from the simple notion that everything a child needs to know today to prepare for this new tomorrow is already available. The reason they are not exposed to it is ... Read more

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  • I Ching Management: Mastering Chinese Business Wisdom

    by Joseph Wong ...
    The current economic crunch has called for a new era of change. Perhaps no classic can depict the concept of change better than the ancient Chinese text known as the Yijing 易经, or I Ching. Dr Joseph Wong has streamlined the profound Yijing to its basic philosophy, to show business leaders where their enterprise stands in the cycle of development and how it can move ahead even in challenging times. ... Read more

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  • The Welfare State in East Asia

    by Joseph Wong ...
    Series series Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia
    During the postwar period, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea emerged as industrial and democratic exemplars in the East Asia region. A less well-known story is of their equally remarkable achievements in social policy reform and the formation of welfare states. Section 1 of the Element provides an overview of welfare state deepening in Japan, Taiwan and Korea and an account of why and how the ... Read more

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  • Christology and Mystical Theology of Karl Rahner

    The Christology and Mystical Theology of Karl Rahner delineates what Rahner means by the mysticism of daily life, the mysticism of the masses, the mysticism of the classical masters, the difference between infused and awakened contemplation, the relation of mysticism to Christian perfection, and Rahner's controversial view that the mystical life does not require a special grace. It explores how ... Read more

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  • Innovating for the Global South

    Towards an Inclusive Innovation Agenda

    Series series Munk Series on Global Affairs
    Despite the vast wealth generated in the last half century, in today’s world inequality is worsening and poverty is becoming increasingly chronic. Hundreds of millions of people continue to live on less than $2 per day and lack basic human necessities such as nutritious food, shelter, clean water, primary health care, and education.Innovating for the Global South offers fresh solutions for ... Read more

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  • Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems

    Learning to Lose

    Edited by Joseph Wong, Edward Friedman ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    This is a path-breaking study by leading scholars of comparative politics examining the internal transformations of dominant parties in both authoritarian and democratic settings. The principle question examined in this book is what happens to dominant political parties when they lose or face the very real prospect of losing? Using country-specific case studies, top-rank analysts in the field ... Read more

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    Grounded on a series of first-hand interviews with Chinese government officials, this book examines China’s accession to the World Trade Organization, providing an ‘inside’ look at Chinese WTO accession negotiations. Presenting a systematic political economy model in analyzing Beijing’s decision-making mechanisms, the book argues that China’s WTO policy making is a state-led, leadership driven, ... Read more

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  • Costly Democracy

    Peacebuilding and Democratization After War

    Peacebuilding is an interactive process that involves collaboration between peacebuilders and the victorious elites of a postwar society. While one of the most prominent assumptions of the peacebuilding literature asserts that the interests of domestic elites and peacebuilders coincide, Costly Democracy contends that they rarely align.It reveals that, while domestic elites in postwar societies may ... Read more

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  • How East Asians View Democracy

    East Asian democracies are in trouble, their legitimacy threatened by poor policy performance and undermined by nostalgia for the progrowth, soft-authoritarian regimes of the past. Yet citizens throughout the region value freedom, reject authoritarian alternatives, and believe in democracy.This book is the first to report the results of a large-scale survey-research project, the East Asian ... Read more

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  • China and the New International Order

    Edited by Wang Gungwu, Zheng Yongnian ...
    Series series China Policy Series
    This book explores China's place in the ‘new international order’, from both the international perspective and from the perspective within China.It discusses how far the new international order, as outlined by George Bush in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the liberation of Kuwait in the Gulf War, with its notions of ‘international order’, as viewed by the United States, and with ... Read more

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