Product Description: This audacious and illuminating memoir by Richard Baum, a senior China scholar and sometime policy advisor, reflects on forty years of learning about and interacting with the People's Republic of China, from the height of Maoism during the author's UC Berkeley student days in the volatile 1960s through globalization...read more

Product Description: Did you ever realise that your dream has always got a significance and needs an opening now? Make sure you achieve that now in your life and a name for them and that is success. Read further and get motivated on how to make life free from all stress and focus towards success and nothing more than that...read more

Product Description: Nuclear Medicine has greatly contributed to the diagnosis and treament of neuroendocrine neoplasms. This issue of PET Clinics will focus not only on the diagnosis and treatment of neuroendocrine tumors, but also theranostics. Topics include SPECT and other PET tracers, F-DOPA, Ga-DOTA-peptides, Yttrium- and Lutetium-based therapy, and the role of FDG PET...read more

Product Description: For many centuries observers of the night sky interpreted the moving planets and the surrounding starry realms in terms of concentric crystalline spheres, in the center of which hung the Earth — the hub of creation. But with the discoveries of Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton, astronomers were suddenly struck by a momentous truth: the solar system was neither small nor intimate, but extended an unfathomable distance toward countless even more distant stars...read more

This text explores a 19th century scientific detective story on one of the most important episodes in the race to explore our solar system when a group of astronomers trained their eyes to the sky looking for a phantom planet, dubbed Vulcan, believed to orbit closer to the Sun then Mercury.

For almost two decades after Mao Zedong's death, an epic, no-holds-barred contest was waged in China between orthodox Marxists and reformers. With Deng Xiaoping's strong support, the reformers ultimately won; but they--and China--paid a heavy price. Here, Richard Baum provides a lively, comprehensive guide to the intricate theater of post-Mao Chinese politics. He tells the intriguing story of an escalating intergenerational clash of ideas and values between the aging revolutionaries of the Maoist era and their younger, more pragmatic successors. Baum deftly analyzes the anatomy of the reformers' ultimate victory in his brilliant reconstruction of the twists and turns of the reform process.

Product Description: In this pioneering volume, nine distinguished scholars explore the stresses and strains, costs and consequences of economic reform and political development in Leninist party-states in general and the Chinese party-state in particular...read more

Product Description: A study of power and politics in contemporary China, this book analyzes the struggle and the consequences of the Chinese reform programme under Deng Xiaoping. It explores the issues which led to the Tiananmen crisis of 1989, outlines the changes of post-Mao China from the perspective of comparative Communism, and shows how the advent of partial marketization and structural reform has magnified existing structural contradictions, throwing the economy off balance and creating public discontent...read more

Product Description: Perhaps the most dramatic era in recent Chinese history is the period known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. In this book, Richard Baum examines the origins of the Cultural Revolution in three interrelated phenomena: the emergence of intense political conflicts between Mao Tse-tung and his chief lieutenant over the aims and instrumentalities of China's post-revolutionary development, the rise of bureaucratic conservatism and administrative corruption in China's vast countryside, and the vicissitudes of the Socialist Education Movement (1962-66) which immediately preceded - and gave rise to - the Cultural Revolution...read more