Author: William C. Kirby Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674737717 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 505
Book Description
The United States is the global leader in higher education, but this was not always the case and may not remain so. William Kirby examines sources of—and threats to—US higher education supremacy and charts the rise of Chinese competitors. Yet Chinese institutions also face problems, including a state that challenges the commitment to free inquiry.
Author: Regina Abrami Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press ISBN: 1422144151 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 278
Book Description
Shares updated insights into the challenges of doing business in today's emerging markets to explain how it has become harder for companies to operate in China, predicting what is likely to occur economically in the coming decades to help professionals make informed decisions. 12,000 first printing.
Author: William C. Kirby Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 424
Book Description
Relations between China and the United States have been of central importance to both countries over the past half century. Offers the first multinational, multi archival review of the history of Chinese-American conflict and cooperation in the 1970s.
Author: L.D. Harkrader Publisher: Square Fish ISBN: 1250111242 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 209
Book Description
Kirby Nickel loves basketball. The only problem is he can't play basketball. But when an opportunity to meet NBA star Brett McGrew comes up, Kirby knows he has to take a chance and try out for the basketball team. Getting on the team turns out to be easy—the rest of the boys are as supremely untalented as Kirby—but winning in order to be eligible to meet McGrew is a whole different problem. Different and embarrassing. The coach's radical new plan for success involves the boys playing in their underwear. But if this crazy idea works, Kirby will get to meet his hero—who he secretly also hopes is his long-lost father.
Author: William Kirby Lockard Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated ISBN: 9780393730418 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 143
Book Description
Tested in architectural studio courses over 25 years and two editionsThis companion to Design Drawing is a book of 60 exercises, covering both conceptual and representational drawing, to teach drawing procedures and skills.
Author: Guoqi XU Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674045424 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 392
Book Description
Already the world has seen the political, economic, and cultural significance of hosting the 2008 Olympics in Beijing—in policies instituted and altered, positions softened, projects undertaken. But will the Olympics make a lasting difference? This book approaches questions about the nature and future of China through the lens of sports—particularly as sports finds its utmost international expression in the Olympics.
Author: Will Eisner Publisher: Dark Horse Books ISBN: 9781569715369 Category : Cartooning Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Will Eisner is a master of the comics medium, and when he got together to chat with other masters of the medium, what came of it was a collection of information vital to everyone working in the industry, and indispensable to anyone looking to get into it. Featuring interviews with Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Gil Kane, Joe Kubert, Jack Davis, Neal Adams, C.C. Beck, Milton Caniff, Gill Fox, Harvey Kurtzman, and distribution guru Phil Seuling, Will Eisner's Shop Talk is chock full of golden tidbits of comics knowledge.
Author: William C. Kirby
Author: Regina Abrami
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Author: William Kirby
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Author: William C. Kirby
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Author: William Kirby Lockard
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