Dr Kirby I. Bland is Fay Fletcher Kerner Professor and Chairman, the Department of Surgery and Deputy Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has published over 400 journal articles and is Primary Editor of 8 books. His past appointments include President of the Society of Surgical Oncology (1996/97) and Society of Surgical Chairs (2001) and President of the Association for Academic Surgery.
Dr. Michael G. Sarr is Chief of Surgery at the Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota. He is a member of the American Motility Society, American Physiological Society, and most of the major surgical societies. He has published over 200 journal articles and is a co-editor of the new Mayo Clinic Gastrointestinal Surgery book just published by Saunders.
33 Ebooks by John Wong
John Wong: ZHU RONGJI AND CHINA’S ECONOMIC TAKE-OFF
Following Deng Xiaoping’s economic reform and opening (Gaige Kaifang) policy, China experienced unprecedented high growth for over three decades. Crucial in the process was the role of Zhu Rongji, wh …
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Kirby I. Bland & Michael G. Sarr: General Surgery / General Surgery
General Surgery: Principles and International Practice is organized over two volumes into ten Sections, each representing an important branch of surgical science. Amply supported by line drawings and …
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€208.19
Gungwu Wang & John Wong: CHINA’S POLITICAL ECONOMY
1997 was truly an eventful year for China, with many momentous happenings. In February of that year Deng Xiaoping passed away, thus marking the end of an era. Shortly after, the post-Deng Chinese lea …
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€99.99
John Wong & Yong-nian Zheng: SARS EPIDEMIC, THE
In the first half of 2003, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) struck China (including Hong Kong), causing panic and claiming many lives. The unknown nature of SARS at that time also jolted the …
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€169.99
Seok Ling Nah & John Wong: CHINA’S EMERGING NEW ECONOMY
The New Economy has hit China, driven by the Internet and e-commerce. China has made a good start in both areas. Since its debut, subscribers to the Internet grew exponentially from a mere 1, 600 in …
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€41.99
John Wong & Yong-nian Zheng: CHINA’S POST-JIANG LEADERSHIP SUCCESSION
The lack of institutionalization around China’s leadership succession was brought into focus again in the run-up to the 16th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, and the widespread speculation on …
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€129.99
Huaqun Zeng & John Wong: China-ASEAN Relations
With China’s dynamic economic growth, its relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) states have expanded rapidly in recent years, culminating in the conclusion of the landmark …
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€199.99
Gungwu Wang & John Wong: Interpreting China’s Development
In Interpreting China’s Development, leading experts on China provide an overview of this growing superpower, highlighting key issues in the country’s political, economic and social development.Under …
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€184.99
John Wong & Wei Liu: China’s Surging Economy: Adjusting For More Balanced Development
The Chinese economy today is at a critical crossroads. Sustained rapid growth has given rise to structural strains as well as sectoral imbalances. It has also generated socio-economic problems such a …
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€199.99
Hongyi Lai & John Wong: China Into The Hu-wen Era: Policy Initiatives And Challenges
This volume is an updated survey and assessment of the recent policy initiatives of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao, which have come to be known as the Hu-Wen’s New Deal. Individual chapters are written by …
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€269.99
John Wong & Yong-nian Zheng: CHINA’S POLITICS & ECON IN 2003 (NO.34)
With the new team of Chinese leaders at the helm following the successful hosting of the 16th Party Congress in November 2002, the attention of China’s scholars has now shifted to the raft of challen …
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€64.99
Ding Lu & John Wong: CHINA’S ECONOMY INTO THE NEW CENTURY
In the last two decades of the 20th century, China stood out as the world’s star performer in economic growth, thanks to the market-oriented reform that started in 1978. At the turn of the century, t …
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€129.99
John Wong & Yong-nian Zheng: WANING OF THE JIANG-ZHU COALITION(NO.29)
With mounting discontent due to widespread unemployment, corruption and misgovernment, the Ninth National People’s Congress in March 2000 was a letdown. Significant though was Premier Zhu Rongji’s an …
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€15.99
John Wong & Yong-nian Zheng: CHINA’S POLITICS & ECON IN 1999 (NO.28)
What the Jiang Zemin leadership faced in 1999 can be characterized by a century-old Chinese saying, neiyou waihuan (literally, “internal disturbance and external threat”). What with the worst growth …
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€15.99
John Wong & Yong-nian Zheng: CHINA’S POLITICAL & ECONOMIC…..(NO.32)
At the beginning of the new century, China’s leadership is preparing the ground for a smooth transfer of power from the third generation to the fourth generation leaders. Politicking among different …
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€24.99
John Wong & William T Liu: MYSTERY OF CHINA’S FALUN GONG, THE(NO.22)
The Party and state leadership in Beijing was rudely awakened to the fact that the state bureaucracies in charge of public security had no idea of Falun Gong’s leadership and its functions on April 2 …
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€15.99
John Wong: CHINA’S ECONOMY IN 1998 (NO.15)
As the financial crisis swept the Asia-Pacific, China seemed to be the one economy in the region which had been left “largely unaffected” for various reasons, including its strong economic and financ …
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€15.99
John Wong & Chee Kong Wong: CHINA’S NEW OIL DEVELOPMENT… (NO.7)
A surge in demand for oil due to rapid economic growth and stagnation in domestic oil output has turned China into a net oil importer since 1993. Faced with increasing reliance on imports to meet its …
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€15.99
John Wong & Liang Fook Lye: CHALLENGE OF MAKING CITIES LIVEABLE IN EAST ASIA, THE
The rate of urbanisation will accelerate in the years ahead. The massive influx of people to cities will result in the demand for more services, expending more resources and generating more waste. Th …
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€36.99
John Wong & Zhiyue Bo: China’s Reform In Global Perspective
This book provides a fascinating perspective of the experiences of China’s reform in the past three decades by focusing on China’s interaction with and learning from the external world in her unprece …
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€149.99
John Wong & Lok Sang Ho: APEC & THE RISE OF CHINA
Intra-regional trade has been rising rapidly, especially after China’s accession to the WTO in 2001. China’s economy is expanding rapidly, and has already passed Japan in 2010 to become the world’s s …
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€144.99
John Wong & Yongnian Zheng: GOH KENG SWEE ON CHINA: SELECTED ESSAYS
Touted as one of the main engineers of Singapore’s economic growth, Dr Goh’s collection of writings and speeches seek to shed light on the various challenges that China faced in the early 90s. His ar …
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€20.99
John Wong & Lok Sang Ho: APEC & THE RISE OF CHINA
Intra-regional trade has been rising rapidly, especially after China’s accession to the WTO in 2001. China’s economy is expanding rapidly, and has already passed Japan in 2010 to become the world’s s …
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€36.99
Huaqun Zeng & John Wong: CHINA-ASEAN RELATIONS
With China’s dynamic economic growth, its relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) states have expanded rapidly in recent years, culminating in the conclusion of the landmark …
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€52.99
John Wong: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DENG’S NANXUN, THE
This volume is about the political economy of Deng Xiaoping’s Nanxun (tour of South China), which was the most critical phase in China’s reform and development since 1978. The first round of Deng’s r …
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€30.99
John Wong & Yong-nian Zheng: NANXUN LEGACY & CHINA’S DEVELOP….., THE
In the spring of 1992, Deng Xiaoping made a historical tour of south China, popularly known as the Nanxun (”southern tour”). During the tour, he boldly called for more radical economic reform and fur …
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€189.99
John Wong: CHINA’S POWER SECTOR (NO.12)
China’s power sector has performed impressively during the past twenty years in support of economic growth. Faced with the need to expand its power capacity, China is investing heavily in the constru …
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€15.99
John Wong & Yong-nian Zheng: CHINA AFTER THE NINTH NATIONAL… (NO.5)
China’s Ninth National People’s Congress (NPC), convened in March 1998, established a new NPC and a new cabinet. Is NPC still much like a “rubber stamp” as before? Will the new chairman, Li Peng, fol …
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€31.99
Gungwu Wang & John Wong: CHINA-TWO DECADES OF REFORM & CHANGE
Since the start of reform two decades ago, China’s economy has experienced spectacular growth. Today China has grown to be the world’s seventh largest economy — or the world’s second largest after th …
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€31.99
John Wong & Liang Fook Lye: SUZHOU INDUSTRIAL PARK: ACHIEVEMENTS, CHALLENGES & PROSPECTS
This book studies the Suzhou Industrial Park, a flagship project between the governments of Singapore and China, in a holistic manner, by highlighting not only its economic progress but also the deve …
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€52.99
Michael Ng & John Wong: Civil Unrest and Governance in Hong Kong
This book examines important social movements in Hong Kong from the perspectives of historical and cultural studies. Conventionally regarded as one of the most politically stable cities in Asia, Hong …
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€56.20
Michael Ng & John Wong: Civil Unrest and Governance in Hong Kong
This book examines important social movements in Hong Kong from the perspectives of historical and cultural studies. Conventionally regarded as one of the most politically stable cities in Asia, Hong …
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€56.36
Swee-Hock Saw & John Wong: Advancing Singapore-China Economic Relations
No detailed description available for "Advancing Singapore-China Economic Relations". …
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