Product Description: This book is about the processes of globalization, demonstrated through a comparative study of three television case histories in Asia. Also illustrated are different approaches to providing television services in the world: public service (NHK in Japan), state (CCTV in China) and commercial (STAR TV, based in Hong Kong)...read more

Product Description: A political and intellectual biographical study of Lenin which focuses on those aspects of his thought and political activities that had a bearing on the accession of the Bolsheviks to power in Russia in 1917 and the creation of the Soviet state...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This study provides a factual, chronological account of the main political events of the period, explains the tensions within society that led to the popular upheavals of 1917 and shows what had become of these social movements by the end of the Civil War period; offers an intellectual history of the Revolution, and looks critically at the nature of the sources we depend on for an understanding of the Revolution.

Product Description: An update to the continuing series containing 31 edited and checked preparations that represent the most active and advanced areas in organic synthesis. These procedures are presented in six categories: simple one- and two- carbon synthons, chiral auxiliaries and stereocontrolled processes, organometallic reagents, useful starting materials for complex syntheses, new reactions of potentially broad utility and cryptands with novel guest-host properties...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)