A New Documentary History of Hong Kong, 1945 1997
In A New Documentary History of Hong Kong, 1945 1997, Florence Mok, Fung Chi Keung Charles, and other contributors analyse newly released archival records from the National Archives in London and the Government Records Service in Hong Kong. This documentary collection provides an updated and improved understanding of basic aspects of the city such as governance, economy, society, and culture. It also aims at investigating topics that are under-exploited in previous sourcebooks, such as race and diasporas, gender and familial relations, medicine and healthcare, and environment and natural disasters. Overall, this book offers an innovative and comprehensive long-term perspective of Hong Kong s colonial history.
Covert Colonialism
This book fills the long-standing void in the existing scholarship by constructing an empirical study of colonial governance and political culture in Hong Kong from 1966 to 1997.Using under-exploited archival and unofficial data in London and Hong...
Quest for Entrepreneurial Universities in East Asia
With the rise of the knowledge economy, universities are under pressure to embrace not just their traditional missions of teaching and research but a third mission of serving economic and social development. This book examines the major strategies...
Education Reform and Education Policy in East Asia
This book assesses the impact of globalization on the education systems of key East Asian countries, including China, Hong Kong, Japan, and the "tiger economies" of South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, examining how the increasingly interd...
Hiking in Hong Kong
A guidebook to 4 short multi-day treks and 21 day walks in Hong Kong. Included are the Hong Kong Trail, the Lantau Trail, the MacLehose Trail and the Wilson Trail, along with day walks covering Hong Kong, Kowloon, the New Territories and the islan...
Walking in Portugal
A guidebook to 40 walks spread throughout Portugal, with a focus on the country's many natural and national parks. Walks are graded from easy to challenging, with options to suit most abilities and ambitions. The walks range from 5 to 46km (3-29 m...
WirelessHART?
The process control industry has seen generations of technology advancement, from pneumatic communication to electrical communication to electronic c- munication, from centralized control to distributed control. At the center of today's distribute...
Service Quality Management in Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure
Does your staff deliver the highest quality service possible?Customers today expect a very high overall level of service in hospitality, tourism, and leisure. Competition in these fields will thus be driven by strategies focusing on quality of ser...
Service Quality Management in Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure
Does your staff deliver the highest quality service possible?Customers today expect a very high overall level of service in hospitality, tourism, and leisure. Competition in these fields will thus be driven by strategies focusing on quality of ser...
Managing Social Change and Social Policy in Greater China
East Asia is at the heart of the global economic transformation, and the countries of the region are witnessing rapidly changing labour markets, alongside the pressure to cut production costs and lower taxes in order to become successful 'competit...
Los Angeles Interiors
"Seeking some serious design inspo? Look no further: Los Angeles Interiors (Lannoo Publishers) is a new coffee table book chock-full of mesmerizing L.A. architecture and design." - Modern Luxury Interiors "Bold and breathtaking, fla...
Teaching Effectiveness and Teacher Development
This book aims at making contributions to the ongoing policy debates in education reform and the creation of a new knowledge base that can serve all endeavours at different levels for teaching effectiveness and teacher development in different par...
Routledge International Handbook of Higher Education
This volume is a detailed and up-to-date reference work providing an authoritative overview of the main issues in higher education around the world today. Consisting of newly commissioned chapters and impressive journal articles, it surveys the st...
Glass and Gardens
Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. The seventeen stories in this volume are not dull utopias--they grapple with real issues such as the future and ethics of our food sources, the connection between technology and nature, and the interpersonal conflicts that arise no matter how peaceful the world is. In these pages you'll find a guerilla art installation in Milan, a murder mystery set in a weather manipulation facility, and a world where you are judged by the glow of your solar nanite implants. From an opal mine in Australia to the seed vault at Svalbard, from a wheat farm in Kansas to a crocodile ranch in Malaysia, these are stories of adaptation, ingenuity, and optimism for the future of our world and others. For readers who are tired of dystopias and apocalypses, these visions of a brighter future will be a breath of fresh air.
