John Wong: 25 books
by Liang Fook Lye, John Wong
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
The rate of urbanisation will accelerate in the years ahead. The massive influx of people to cities will result in the demand for more services, expending more resources and generating more waste. The forces of globalisation and better connectivity will hasten this urbanisation process. Although the...
Awaken Your Healing Power
A Molecular Biologist’s Journey in Reversing Paralysis and Blindness through Transcendental Connection
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2019
In 2005, John Wong, a thirty-one-year-old molecular biologist was struck by a peculiar illness that led to his paralysis from his neck down. Some of his organs had also started to malfunction. As if it was not enough for him to bear, he even lost his ability to see. His own body has unexpectedly failed...
by Lok Sang Ho, John Wong
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Intra-regional trade has been rising rapidly, especially after China's accession to the WTO in 2001. China's economy is expanding rapidly, and has already passed Japan in 2010 to become the world's second largest economy. It is clearly producing a huge impact on the world economy, and particularly...
Goh Keng Swee on China
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Touted as one of the main engineers of Singapore's economic growth, Dr Goh's collection of writings and speeches seek to shed light on the various challenges that China faced in the early 90s. His arguments and analyses were presented clearly and concisely while being firmly established upon economic...
by John Wong
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Following Deng Xiaoping's economic reform and opening (Gaige Kaifang) policy, China experienced unprecedented high growth for over three decades. Crucial in the process was the role of Zhu Rongji, who was hand-picked by Deng initially as Executive Vice-Premier and later full Premier to carry through...
The Political Economy of Deng's Nanxun
Breakthrough in China's Reform and Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
This volume is about the political economy of Deng Xiaoping's Nanxun (tour of South China), which was the most critical phase in China's reform and development since 1978. The first round of Deng's reform resulted in high growth through the 1980s. However, it created a messy half-reformed economy...
China-ASEAN Relations
Economic and Legal Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2006
With China's dynamic economic growth, its relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) states have expanded rapidly in recent years, culminating in the conclusion of the landmark China–ASEAN Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement in 2002. Beyond trade and economic activities,...
Zones of Control
Perspectives on Wargaming
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts.
Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
by John Joseph Adams, Chris Kluwe, Alyssa Wong
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...
The Wealth Dragon Way
The Why, the When and the How to Become Infinitely Wealthy
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Take control of your financial future with expert guidance from wealth educators and property millionaires John Lee and Vincent Wong
The Wealth Dragon Way is an essential guide to creating passive income, building property-based wealth, and achieving financial freedom. This inspiring and informative...
by John Chu, Leah Cypess, Indrapramit Das
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
An all-new anthology of eighteen classic myth retellings featuring an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers.
Madeleine L’Engle once said, “When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.” The Mythic Dream gathers together eighteen stories that reclaim...
Lords of the Rinks
The Emergence of the National Hockey League, 1875-1936
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
No sport is as important to Canadians as hockey. Though there may be a great many things that divide the country, the love of hockey is perhaps its single greatest unifier. Before the latest labour unrest in the National Hockey League (NHL), however, it was easy to forget that hockey is also a multi-million...
Prairie Starport
Stories in Celebration of Candas Jane Dorsey
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
A collection of short stories, essays, art and interviews in celebration of Candas Jane Dorsey.
Contains work by Timothy J. Anderson, Greg Bechtel, Eileen Bell, Gregg Chamberlain, Alexandrea Flynn and Annalise Glinker, Barb Galler-Smith, Anita Jenkins, Laina Kelly, Derryl Murphy, John Park, Rhonda Parrish, Ursula Pflug, Robert Runté, Diane L. Walton, BD Wilson and S.G. Wong.
Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century
The House of Houqua and the Canton System
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
In this engaging new study, John D. Wong examines the Canton trade networks that helped to shape the modern world through the lens of the prominent Chinese merchant Houqua, whose trading network and financial connections stretched from China to India, America and Britain. In contrast to interpretations...
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