The Organization of the Islamic Conference is the Muslim world's only intergovernmental body—the largest such system operating outside of the United Nations. Based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the OIC was founded forty years ago to respond to the Palestinian crisis and counts fifty-seven Muslim countries among its members. It has since branched out into economic development, education, culture, science, technology, conflict resolution, and countering Islamophobia. Sharing the history of the OIC with Western readers, this book details the achievements, successes, and failures of a singular political body and why modernization is so central to the development of Islamic society. 
In 2005, the OIC elected Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu of Turkey to transform its platform and intentions. Ihsanoglu has since confronted the difficult problems of illiteracy and poverty, economic underdevelopment, and ethnic and sectarian conflict. In this history he devotes an important chapter to Islamophobia and its impact on relations between Islam and the West. The OIC treats Islamophobia as a form of racism and xenophobia, and Ihsanoglu explains why it is essential for international institutions to work together to combat violent extremism. He also argues that representative government, free speech, and equal rights for all citizens are critical for Muslim societies, and he envisions the need to reform the OIC as a necessary step toward renewing the Muslim world. One of the most important studies of Muslim politics to emerge directly from its participants, The Islamic World in the New Century ushers in an era of change.

The Islamic World in the New Century: The Organisation of Islamic Conference, 1969-2009

Religion & Spirituality

İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin

Islam

The Chinese University Press

This is a bilingual Chinese-English edition. With a bright and lively comic-strip style, and clear, concise text, Stories of Chinese Herbal Medicine introduces the origins of Chinese medicinal herbs and tells how they can be used to treat illness and enhance your health. This is a resource that penetrates into the ancient sources of the Chinese herbal tradition, suitable for grown-ups and children alike. This book joins together 30 beautifully illustrated comic strips that illuminate many of the ancient Chinese secrets of healing. It is a volume perfect for leisurely reading, as an enlightening educational resource, or as a starting point for many a fascinating conversation.

Stories About Chinese Herbal Medicine

I-nang, Hong

The world's preeminent authority on Chinese science explores the philosophy, social structure, arts, crafts, and even military strategies that form our understanding of Chinese science, making instructive comparisons along the way to similar elements of Indian, Hellenistic, and Arabic cultures. 
 A major portion of the book concentrates on Taoist alchemy that led not only to the invention of gunpowder and firearms, but also, through the search for macrobiotic life-elixirs, to the rise of modern medical chemistry.

Science in traditional China: A comparative perspective (Chi'en Mu lectures)

Science & Math

Tao Te Ching, also commonly known as Lao Tzu, is perhaps the most important of Chinese classical texts, with an unparalleled influence on Chinese thought. This bilingual edition consists of two parts. The English text in Part One is a reprint of the earlier translation of the so-called Wang Pi text, first published by Penguin Books in 1963. Part Two is the fresh translation of a text which is a conflation of two manuscripts of the Lao Tzu, dating at the latest from the early Western Han and discovered at Ma Wang Tui in December 1973. The result is a text with a fuller use of particles, free from the scribal errors and editorial tampering of subsequent ages.

Tao Te Ching (Chinese Classics (Hong Kong).)

Literature & Fiction

TZU, LAO

History & Criticism

Here for the first time in English is Alfred Döblin's astonishing epic of eighteenth century China, hailed on its publication in 1915 as a master-piece of Expressionist prose, and since recognized to be the first modern German novel. The Three Leaps of Wang Lun is the story of a doomed sectarian rebellion during the reign of Emperor Ch'ien-lung (1736-1796). It is also the most sustained evocation, in any European language, of a China untouched by the West. Döblin's imagination, almost hallucinatory in its intensity, brings this China to vivid life. Teeming cities and Tibetan wastes, political intrigue and religious yearning, life at Court and the fate of wandering outcasts are depicted in a language of enormous vigour, unfolding the theme of meekness against force, a mystical sense of the world against the realities of power. This translation for the first time presents the whole work as Döblin wrote it. The inclusion of the Prologue, dropped from the first German edition and never replaced, restores a unity of structure and theme missing from previous editions. The Introduction places the novel in the context of Döblin's life and work, the Expressionist movement and the historical background, and discusses its theme and style.

The Three Leaps of Wang Lun: A Chinese Novel

Alfred Döblin

Friedman in China

Milton, Friedman

This book, accompanied with two video tapes, is intended as a companion reference work to Chinese textbooks for beginners. Over 200 points of grammar and vocabulary which frequently present difficulties to students of Chinese are dealt with here. Comparisons between Chinese and English are also made.

Guide To Proper Usage Spoken Chinese (Chinese University Press)

Shou-be Tian

Reference

The twelve selections in this book are grouped under three closely-related genres: fiction, reportage, and oral transcript.

A Reader in Post-Cultural Revolution Chinese Literature

Ling, Vivian

The book studies the opportunities and challenges confronted by China, Hong Kong and Taiwan against the backdrop of their rapid economic growth.

Three Chinese Economies: China, Hong Kong and Taiwan -- Challenges and Opportunities

Business & Money

Economics

This book is written by practitioners and experts with day to day experience to support the work of managers, engineers and administrators in the protection of the environment. The current terminology in environmental management and technology has been compiled both in English and in Chinese. Both specialists and laymen will profit from this glossary that reflects the modern state-of-the-art. It will also help to promote better communication and understanding in technology transfer to Chinese speaking countries. The glossary includes over one thousand terms on various aspects of environmental management: analysis, biology, ecology, management, legislation, and pollution control technology for air, water and wastes. The focus of the glossary is on environmental protection as part of sustainable development. To make the glossary complete, terms on noise protection and safety management are also included. Background information are also provided wherever needed.

Environment Management Technology: A Glossary of Modern Terminology (English-Simplified Chinese / Simplified Chinese-English)

History

Gottfried Eigenmann

Asia

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