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Lao-tzu's "Te-Tao Ching" has been treasured for thousands of years for its poetic statement of life's most profound and elusive truths. This new translation, based on the 1973 discovery of two copies of the manuscript more than five centuries older than any others known, corrects many defects of the later versions. In his extensive commentary, Professor Henricks reevaluates traditional interpretations..
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If you want to discover the Next Big Thing in technology… ENTER THE DRAGON.

You already know that China is the most populated nation on the planet. You already know about the rapid growth of its Internet and the recent development of its technologies. But did you realize that China has…

The world's largest number of mobile phone users (500 million)

Three times as many engineering students as the United States?

A dozen more billion-dollar tech firms than the United States?

The fastest growing venture capital market in the world?

It's time to face the facts: China is catching up to the United States as a global leader of technology--and, within a few years, may surpass every nation in the world. By modeling their new techno-based companies on successful American ones like Google and Yahoo, a new breed of entrepreneur is leading China through a second Industrial Revolution.

Financial journalist Rebecca A. Fannin traveled from Shanghai to Beijing and beyond to speak face-to-face with China’s hottest up-and-comers. For some of these young entrepreneurs, it’s their first interview with the Western press--and their first chance to introduce their companies before the stocks hit Nasdaq.

You'll meet smart and savvy self-starters like Robin Li, who made his company Baidu in the image of Google. You'll meet inventors and innovators like Liu Yingkui, who developed software for selling goods over cell phones, not PCs. You'll also meet the American venture capitalists who are searching for deals every day in every corner of China.

Whether you're an investor, entrepreneur, techno whiz, or dot-com mogul, you can make peace with the dragon--and profits, too.

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1889 edition by Thacker, Spink and Co.; Trübner and Co., Calcutta-London..
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This book defines the love relationship as the principle and most important of all relationships It describes what no other book on love describes: the key role of the innermost thoughts and feelings in determining whether our relationships succeed or fail. Based on the Wilhelm/Baynes I Ching, which the author says contains the word love only three times, this book reveals that love is the all-important underlying principle of the I Ching. This love, however, is defined very precisely by its hexagrams and lines not as mere softness and sweetness, but as a developed awareness, sense of personal limits, openness, and capacity for feeling. Indeed, this book presents us with an entirely new description of love and the parameters within which it can safely unfold and become expressed. It shows that when we observe these limits and keep consistently aware of the effects of our innermost thoughts and feelings, we can continuously give and receive love without harm to ourselves or others. Indeed, Mrs. Anthony shows us how we can "make love stay.".
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Originally published in 1889. Author: Romesh Chunder Dutt Language: English Keywords: History / India / Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork..
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Virtual Reality, ICVR 2007, held in Beijing, China in July 2007 in the framework of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2007 with 8 other thematically similar conferences.

The 81 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the thematic area of Virtual Reality, addressing the following major topics: 3D rendering and visualization, interacting and navigating in virtual and augmented environments, industrial applications of virtual reality, as well as health, cultural, educational and entertainment applications.

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A stratagem is a strategic plan that contains a trap or a ruse for the enemy.The Thirty-six Stratagems was a unique collection of the most cunning and subtle stratagems in the Chinese culture. Since there are hundreds of philosophical aphorisms and heroic exploits in Chinese history, and many of them have heavy content of strategic measures, obviously the number of stratagems is more than thirty-six.

A systematic classification of these stratagems based on basic behaviors can give more perspective to these strategic acts. The authors have identified twenty-eight basic behaviors in these stratagems, and forty-two stratagems to illustrate these behaviors as a way of thinking. For each stratagem, its theme, its source, a few illustrations from stories or events of Chinese origin or from other countries, and comments are presented. In the last chapter, the Sun Tze's teachings in The Art of War that might have indirectly influenced the stratagems are summarized..
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This pioneering essay explains Chinese and Japanese art theory by analyzing original records left by Eastern artists and critics. Not only influential in the Modernism movement and British poetry, it is particularly perceptive of the influence of Zen on art.

Laurence Binyon (18691943) was a well-respected poet and the premier Asian art historian of his time.

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