The growing presence of China in Africa has drawn increasing scholarly and public attention. With Beijing's announcement of the 'going global' policy in the early 2000s and further institutionalization through the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, Chinese policy banks and state-owned companies have cooperated with African countries to finance and complete multiple infrastructure projects. These projects, despite their 'Chinese-ness,' demonstrate starkly different development trajectories in different countries. Why do some Chinese-financed and constructed projects develop better than others? And what explains the variation in the effectiveness of different African states with regard to public goods delivery? The Railpolitik: Leadership and Agency in Sino-African Infrastructure Development uses three case studies of Chinese-financed and constructed rail projects to explore the broader phenomenon of the fast-progressing relations between China and Africa and to offer insights into African domestic politics. Relying primarily on over 250 in-depth interviews and unpublished documents collected during extensive fieldwork from 2014-2019 in Kenya, Ethiopia, Angola, and China, Yuan Wang traces the trajectories of the Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya, the Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway in Ethiopia, and the Caminho de Ferro de Benguela in Angola, and finds that African political championship is the central factor that determines the outcomes of this type of project. Contrary to the conventional understanding that centralized political institutions such as those in the developmental states are more conducive to rulers' commitment to developmental projects, the book finds that political championship can be generated from leaders' perceived threats of competitive elections in democratic states such as Kenya. These Chinese-financed and constructed projects coincided with African rulers' strategies for political survival, and are therefore instrumentalized politically to demonstrate rulers' performance legitimacy and to fuel their patronage machine. Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations is a series for scholars and students working on African politics and International Relations and related disciplines. Volumes concentrate on contemporary developments in African political science, political economy, and International Relations, such as electoral politics, democratization, decentralization, the political impact of natural resources, the dynamics and consequences of conflict, and the nature of the continent's engagement with the East and West. Comparative and mixed methods work is particularly encouraged. Case studies are welcomed but should demonstrate the broader theoretical and empirical implications of the study and its wider relevance to contemporary debates. The series focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, although proposals that explain how the region engages with North Africa and other parts of the world are of interest. Series Editors: Nic Cheeseman, Professor of Democracy and International Development, University of Birmingham; Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Professor of the International Politics of Africa, University of Oxford; Peace Medie, Senior Lecturer, School of Sociology, Politics, and International Studies, University of Bristol.

The Railpolitik: Leadership and Agency in Sino-African Infrastructure Development (Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations)

Politics & Social Sciences

Wang, Yuan

Politics & Government

Oxford University Press

Ancient Wisdom, Modern Kitchen, a winner in the 2010 International Book Awards, reveals how easy it is to tap into the 3,000-year-old secrets of the Eastern healing arts. This entertaining and easy-to-use book provides scores of delicious recipes, anecdotes about various herbs and foods, and all you need to know about acquiring ingredients--even if you don't know the difference between a lotus seed and the lotus position.Highlighting "superfoods," such as goji berries, as well as more familiar ingredients like ginger, garlic, and mint, Ancient Wisdom, Modern Kitchen includes indispensible information: * An overview of traditional Chinese medicine, herbs, and food therapy * Details on 100 healthy Asian ingredients * Healing recipes for common health concerns, including fatigue, menopause, high cholesterol, weight control, and diabetes

Ancient Wisdom, Modern Kitchen: Recipes from the East for Health, Healing, and Long Life

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Sheir, Warren

Ono, Mika

Cooking by Ingredient

Da Capo Lifelong Books

Product Description Are you making enough money? Do you have enough time to do all the things you want to do? Do you have a system that has your back and means you never drop the ball?Imagine how incredible it would feel if you had leads constantly coming in, a process to easily convert those leads into paid bookings and a system that did all those pull-your-hair-out administrative tasks for you, on autopilot…Wouldn’t it be life-changing?In Shoot Like a Ninja, authors Chris Garbacz and Yuan Wang have combined their own learnings with insights from the world’s top photographers into four simple steps that will show you how to attract more of the work you prize, earn more profit and spend more time doing the things you love without being chained to your business.In four straightforward steps, you will learn:How to avoid the pitfalls that prevent photographers from realising their full potential.How to become the first-choice photographer in your field, whom your clients love to recommend.Proven and effective strategies that will attract the clients you want.Tips on closing those leads that you thought were gone.How to simplify your business, eliminate paperwork and free up your time.Packed with business tips, automation tricks and real-life examples from some of the world’s most highly sought-after photographers, this is the book for wedding and portrait photographers who want to work less, earn more and superpower their business.Photographers who shoot like a ninja do not struggle. They are respected in the industry. They attract their ideal clients consistently. They're highly paid and can afford to do the fun stuff. Now it's your turn. Review 'This is a must-read book for photographers of all levels and genres. A practical, relevant and timely chronicle for photographers who want to succeed in business. Chris and Yuan know their stuff. Photographers: Buy this book, devour it, and follow the advice. Your business will thank you for it!'Alex Cearns OAM, Founder of Houndstooth Studio and winner of over 350 awards for business, philanthropy and animal photography'Shoot Like a Ninja is a fantastic blueprint for any modern wedding or portrait photographer to employ and level their business up. The steps are super clear and clever - I love the offline as well as online strategies that you can implement with minimal effort and maximum reward. Chris's real-world experience as a busy working photographer is a bonus and makes me think that if he can have a successful career AND be the boss at Studio Ninja, then these methods must be utterly killer!'Lisa Devlin, Award-winning photographer and founder of Photography Farm'WOW! Photographer, no matter where you're based or what you shoot, you need to read this book if you want to see improvements in your business. Whether you're new to making money from photography or have been shooting for twenty years or more - there's no way you're walking away from the info in this book and not feeling motivated to be better. If things are going great for you, don't use that as an excuse to skip this book. You'll be challenged to look at your business and what you're doing from different perspectives, which can only help if you're looking to be better. A ton of gold nuggets in this one. Get it, read it, implement... then read it again!'Andrew Hellmich, AIPP Master Photographer and host of PhotoBizX podcast About the Author CHRIS GARBACZ is an award-winning wedding photographer and co-founder of Studio Ninja, a photography business software and mobile app that has helped thousands of photographers across seventy-two countries. Now the world's highest-rated studio management software for photographers, Studio Ninja helps you streamline your business, eliminate paperwork and get your time back.YUAN WANG is an award-winning art director and user experience designer, and co-founder of Studio Ninja, a photography business software and mobile app that has helped thousands of photograph

Shoot Like a Ninja: 4 Steps to Work Less, Earn More and Superpower Your Photography Business

Arts & Photography

Garbacz, Chris

Photography & Video

Grammar Factory Publishing

The classical circle method of Hardy and Littlewood is one of the most effective methods of additive number theory. Two examples are its success with Waring's problem and Goldbach's conjecture. In this book, Wang offers instances of generalizations of important results on diophantine equations and inequalities over rational fields to algebraic number fields. The book also contains an account of Siegel's generalized circle method and its applications to Waring's problem and additive equations and an account of Schmidt's method on diophantine equations and inequalities in several variables in algebraic number fields.

Diophantine Equations and Inequalities in Algebraic Number Fields

Science & Math

Mathematics

Springer

The circle method has its genesis in a paper of Hardy and Ramanujan (see [Hardy 1])in 1918concernedwiththepartitionfunction andtheproblemofrep resenting numbers as sums ofsquares. Later, in a series of papers beginning in 1920entitled "some problems of'partitio numerorum''', Hardy and Littlewood (see [Hardy 1]) created and developed systematically a new analytic method, the circle method in additive number theory. The most famous problems in ad ditive number theory, namely Waring's problem and Goldbach's problem, are treated in their papers. The circle method is also called the Hardy-Littlewood method. Waring's problem may be described as follows: For every integer k 2 2, there is a number s= s( k) such that every positive integer N is representable as (1) where Xi arenon-negative integers. This assertion wasfirst proved by Hilbert [1] in 1909. Using their powerful circle method, Hardy and Littlewood obtained a deeper result on Waring's problem. They established an asymptotic formula for rs(N), the number of representations of N in the form (1), namely k 1 provided that 8 2 (k - 2)2 - +5. Here

The studies in this dissertation aim at advancing our scientific understandings about physical processes involved in the aerosol-cloud-precipitation interaction and quantitatively assessing the impacts of aerosols on the cloud systems with diverse scales over the globe on the basis of the observational data analysis and various modeling studies. As recognized in the Fifth Assessment Report by the Inter-government Panel on Climate Change, the magnitude of radiative forcing by atmospheric aerosols is highly uncertain, representing the largest uncertainty in projections of future climate by anthropogenic activities. By using a newly implemented cloud microphysical scheme in the cloud-resolving model, the thesis assesses aerosol-cloud interaction for distinct weather systems, ranging from individual cumulus to mesoscale convective systems. This thesis also introduces a novel hierarchical modeling approach that solves a long outstanding mismatch between simulations by regional weather models and global climate models in the climate modeling community. More importantly, the thesis provides key scientific solutions to several challenging questions in climate science, including the global impacts of the Asian pollution. As scientists wrestle with the complexities of climate change in response to varied anthropogenic forcing, perhaps no problem is more challenging than the understanding of the impacts of atmospheric aerosols from air pollution on clouds and the global circulation.

Aerosol-Cloud Interactions from Urban, Regional, to Global Scales (Springer Theses)

Earth Sciences

Advanced lever -- How to play the game of go Volume 1 (Chinese Edition)

People's Sports Press

Directional study on Verbs and Directional Verb Teaching (Chinese version) (Chinese Edition)

Beijing Language Culture University Press

China's current growth rate is staggering: entry into the WTO, Google’s tribulations with China’s internet policies and the 2008 Beijing Olympics all point to unprecedented levels of interest in the world's largest market. But commercial success for Westerners is dependent on understanding a very different and complex set of cultural and business values, as well as the techniques of structuring a joint venture, negotiation and effective marketing in China. The realities of constant change mean that businesses must re-examine stereotypical or traditional views about what constitutes a distinctive business culture. The authors present a vivid picture of modern-day commerce in the People’s Republic of China, written in a practical, comprehensive style, that will appeal to a wide spectrum of readers—from professional business people and MBA postgraduates to university and business college students. China’s Business Culture discusses many important topics; among them: Chinese managerial style; the significance of business networks; the best way to co-operate with various departments of the Chinese government; skills of negotiation; the cultural “essence” of Chinese commerce; Chinese consumer psychology; and the most effective way of promoting goods and services in the world’s largest market. This book is a must-have for anyone doing business—or planning on doing business—in the world’s fastest growing, and most complex, market.

China Business Culture: Strategies for Success

Business & Money

Goodfellow, Rob

Zhang, Xin-Sheng

International

Thorogood

Chemical Dust Suppression Technology and Its Applications in Mines (Open-pit Mines)

Du, Cuifeng

Wang, Jiuzhu

Li, Huaiyu

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