The Great Leap Backward: Forgetting and Representing the Mao Years 9781604979923

China's Road to Disaster: Mao, Central Politicians and Provincial Leaders in the Great Leap Forward, 1955-1959 0765602024, 9780765602022

This text analyzes the dramatic shifts in Chinese Communist Party economic policy during the mid to late 1950s which eve

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China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom 0520380975, 9780520380974

An expert’s take on how a coup in China could launch a transition to democracy. This short book predicts—contrary to t

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The great forgetting: The past, present and future of Social Democracy and the Welfare State 9780719098451

Explodes the myth that globalisation is the cause of inequality and that the state can do little to protect us.

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Representing Aboriginal Childhood: The Politics of Memory and Forgetting in Australia [1 ed.] 0367568535, 9780367568535

This book critically investigates the ways in which Aboriginal children and childhood figure in Australia's cultura

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Three Months in Mao's China: Between the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution 9789048531578

Both a fascinating account by an informed outsider and a reminder of just how much China and the rest of the world have

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Frederick the Great and the Seven Years' War

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Good to great: why some companies make the leap--and others don't 9780066620992, 9780062119209, 0062119206

Good is the enemy of great -- Level 5 leadership -- First who--then what -- Confront the brutal facts (yet never lose fa

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China's Great Leap: the Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges 9781583229538, 1583229531

A Lever for Change in China; PART I RECENT CHINESE HISTORY AND THE OLYMPIC CONTEXT ; Overview: China's Racefor Refo

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Years of Plenty, Years of Want: France and the Legacy of the Great War 9781501758188

The Great War that engulfed Europe between 1914 and 1918 was a catastrophe for France. French soil was the site of most

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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't 9780062119209

The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time

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