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Tells the story of the juggernaut research lab that underpins Microsoft's relationship with China. This work moves between Beijing and the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, WA, and follows the lab's emergence as a centre of excellence for Chinese computer science. It also explores the ramifications of China's technological progress.

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Containing interviews with industry experts in the US and the UK, this guide gives tips on almost every aspect of gigging. It takes you through the process of recording, from home-made demos to releasing your own finished product and radio promotion. It also explains what managers, publishers, PR people, accountants, and lawyers can do for you.

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Jonathan Garlock's Guide to the Local Assemblies of the Knights of Labor makes accessible a great deal of information necessary for understanding and evaluating the history and impact of this organization.

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Following the analyses of specific disaster-types, the book considers the utility of all-hazard programs, such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Integrated Emergency Management System and documents the status of present emergency management efforts in the United States.

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A major scholarly and readable history of women in broadcast news, covering the broadcast journalistic roles of women from the 1920s through the mid-1980s.

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It's 1901 and a guy named Harley has an idea. Put an engine on a bicycle. It's 1908 and a Harley-Davidson motorcycle sets a record by getting 188 miles to a gallon of gas. It's 1909 and the company introduces something new to its line: a V-Twin cylinder engine. Fast forward to the 21st century, and the technical innovation hasn't stopped.

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In addition, Scott offers special features that include a look at the colorful people associated with Harley, interesting trivia, a Harley-Davidson time line, a focus on products, a look at how the company treats its workers, what its detractors have to say, and where the company is headed.

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Its now ninety years since the BBC made its first broadcast and the British love affair with radio began.

This book is a journey through that fascinating history and a celebration of the many wonderful voices that were part of it: Marion Cran, who pioneered the first gardening programme in the 1920s;

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Wysong analyzes the extent of the involvement of seven major health and safety professional organizations in the development of one of the most significant national reform efforts in occupational health policy: The High Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act.

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The authors examine competitiveness in a range of high-technology enterprises, analyzing the industries as an aggregate as well as through three specific examples: semi-conductors, telecommunications, and computers.

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Articles on HDTV, film, and related program production appear in chapter 6, while chapter 7 covers HDTV and alternative delivery systems, including DBS, cable, and fiber optics.

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"High-Tech Ventures is for those who design, build, and market innovative products--people who are creating the high-tech world of the future. More specifically it is for all engineers, engineering man"

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This volume presents an analysis of Japan's powerful upper bureaucracy in the post-war period. The author's aim is to provide an empirical foundation for the many impressionistic accounts of Japanese bureaucracy and a systematic basis for comparative studies of bureaucracies in other countries. The study ranges from the family and geographic backgr

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Railroad branch-line abandonment, grain subterminals, and major changes in rural land use and transportation patterns are generating heavy truck traffic on low-volume collector and arterial highways.

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This period of financial restraint has been accompanied by shifts in government housing policy and private investment in housing. This important collection of original articles on the subject will be of great significance to geographers, urban planners, urban economists, and all others interested in recent trends in housing policy.

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Former Director of Security of the International Air Transport Association Rodney Wallis suggests that the failure to maximize U.S. domestic air security, which left air travelers vulnerable to attack, lay largely with the carriers themselves.

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Thousands of people want to break into the exciting, glamorous and hard-working music industry, but don't know how to go about it.

Fully updated with new information on the impact of new technology and digital music, this indispensable guide is a must for all budding music biz types.

(Hardback)

Scott writes for practitioners and provides the information they can use daily, supplying academic professionals and students of broadcasting management with this resource.

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(Hardback)

This work is an examination of civil rights coverage and white supremacist rhetoric in the Mississippi daily press during key events such as: the 1948 Dixiecrat protest of the national Democratic platform, and the court-ordered desegregation of Ole Miss in 1962.