Great Leap Forward
description: economic and social campaign by the Chinese Communist Party
395 results
Pragmatic Guide to JavaScript
by Christophe Porteneuve · 15 Nov 2010 · 141pp · 9,896 words
and Netscape lay dead on the field. Microsoft is putting some significant effort now into recent versions of Internet Explorer (IE8 and IE9 typically make great leaps forward), but IE6 and IE7 are more than a decade behind the competition when it comes to web standards, including JavaScript support. To add insult to
The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View From the Future
by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway · 30 Jun 2014 · 105pp · 18,832 words
millions died in purges, forced collectiviza-tion of agriculture, and other forms of internal violence. Tens of millions died in China as well during the “Great Leap Forward” —the attempt by 毛泽东 (Mao Zedong) to force rapid industrialization—and many more in the so-called Cultural Revolution of the First People’s Republic of
The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki · 1 Jan 2004 · 326pp · 106,053 words
. The screw’s design was, by all accounts, superior to its chief competitor, a British screw. And the adoption of a standard screw was a great leap forward for the U.S. economy. But there is an unnerving idea at the heart of Sellers’s story: if his screw was adopted because he
White City, Black City: Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa
by Sharon Rotbard · 1 Jan 2005 · 351pp · 94,104 words
Political Aspect of Whiteness,’ Artforum International, vol. 36, no. 9 (May 1998), p. 21. 236. Chuihua Judy Chung, Jeffrey Inaba, Rem Koolhaas, Sze Tsung Leong, Great Leap Forward, 2002, Harvard Design School Project on the City, Taschen. 237. Adolf Loos, p. 312. 238. Jaffa, A Look at Ajami: An Architectural Portrait, Municipality of
The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
by Kwame Anthony Appiah · 27 Aug 2018 · 285pp · 83,682 words
, that the 6 to 9 million Soviet citizens whose deaths were due to Stalin, or the even greater numbers of Chinese who succumbed in the Great Leap Forward, or the millions of victims of the murderous policies of Pol Pot in Cambodia, or the hundreds of thousands killed in India’s partition or
Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
by Steven Johnson · 11 May 2020 · 299pp · 79,739 words
an equivalent appetite for seafaring trade, it is not hard to imagine India following the path to industrialization and global dominance before England made its great leap forward economically in the 1700s. One explanation for India’s reluctance to trade lies in the Hindu prohibition against oceanic travel. According to the Baudhayana sutra
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
by Paul Bloom · 281pp · 79,464 words
Connect with Others (New York: Macmillan, 2009). 63 what DNA did V. S. Ramachandran, “Mirror Neurons and Imitation Learning as the Driving Force behind ‘The Great Leap Forward’ in Human Evolution,” June 1, 2000, Edge Video, transcript at https://www .edge.org/3rd_culture/ramachandran/ramachandran_index.html. “tiny miracles” Iacoboni, Mirroring People
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
by David Bellos · 10 Oct 2011 · 396pp · 107,814 words
a foreign tongue. Oral translation in a world without writing creates and relies on a fiction—perhaps the earliest fictional invention of all. The first great leap forward in the history of translation must have been when some two communities found a way of agreeing that the speech of the translator was to
Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
by Alain Bertaud · 9 Nov 2018 · 769pp · 169,096 words
” (New York: World Bank, 2014), 143, map 2.2. 20. The most damaging famines of Asia, in Bengal in 1943 and in China during the Great Leap Forward in 1961, were caused by government policy and subsequent inaction and had nothing to do with a decrease in agricultural land area. 21. I have
The Linguist: A Personal Guide to Language Learning
by Steve Kaufmann · 15 Jan 2003
in a city like Montreal. All of a sudden, with no tests, no questions from teachers, and no grammar drills, my French skills took a great leap forward! I had achieved my first language breakthrough. I could feel the improvements in fluency, comprehension and pronunciation. This made language learning exciting. I was speaking
More From Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources – and What Happens Next
by Andrew McAfee · 30 Sep 2019 · 372pp · 94,153 words
Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea
by Robert D. Kaplan · 1 Jan 1988 · 233pp · 75,477 words
The Googlization of Everything:
by Siva Vaidhyanathan · 1 Jan 2010 · 281pp · 95,852 words
Berlin Now: The City After the Wall
by Peter Schneider and Sophie Schlondorff · 4 Aug 2014 · 313pp · 100,317 words
Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time
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Puzzling People: The Labyrinth of the Psychopath
by Thomas Sheridan · 1 Mar 2011 · 223pp · 72,425 words
User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development
by Mike Cohn · 1 Mar 2004 · 270pp · 75,626 words
The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat
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The Book of CSS3
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An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy
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Wealth, Poverty and Politics
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The Age of Stagnation: Why Perpetual Growth Is Unattainable and the Global Economy Is in Peril
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Cities Are Good for You: The Genius of the Metropolis
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Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil
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by J. Doyne Farmer · 24 Apr 2024 · 406pp · 114,438 words
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson · 26 Jun 2017 · 472pp · 117,093 words
In defense of food: an eater's manifesto
by Michael Pollan · 15 Dec 2008 · 213pp · 61,911 words
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by Vaclav Smil · 18 Dec 2000
Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist
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A Pelican Introduction Economics: A User's Guide
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Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
by Matthew C. Klein · 18 May 2020 · 339pp · 95,270 words
The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski · 5 Mar 2019 · 202pp · 62,901 words
McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
by Misha Glenny · 7 Apr 2008 · 487pp · 147,891 words
Earth Wars: The Battle for Global Resources
by Geoff Hiscock · 23 Apr 2012 · 363pp · 101,082 words
Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Gobal Crisis
by James Rickards · 10 Nov 2011 · 381pp · 101,559 words
China's Future
by David Shambaugh · 11 Mar 2016 · 261pp · 57,595 words
The Weightless World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy
by Diane Coyle · 29 Oct 1998 · 49,604 words
Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning
by Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris · 6 Mar 2007 · 233pp · 67,596 words
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
by Adam L. Alter · 15 Feb 2017 · 331pp · 96,989 words
Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More
by Charles Kenny · 31 Jan 2011 · 272pp · 71,487 words
The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-First Century
by Ronald Bailey · 20 Jul 2015 · 417pp · 109,367 words
The End of Work
by Jeremy Rifkin · 28 Dec 1994 · 372pp · 152 words
Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made
by Vaclav Smil · 2 Mar 2021 · 1,324pp · 159,290 words
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Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
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Lonely Planet Mongolia (Travel Guide)
by Lonely Planet, Trent Holden, Adam Karlin, Michael Kohn, Adam Skolnick and Thomas O'Malley · 1 Jul 2018
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China's Superbank
by Henry Sanderson and Michael Forsythe · 26 Sep 2012
Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street
by Peter L. Bernstein · 19 Jun 2005 · 425pp · 122,223 words
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by Michael Wolff · 22 Jun 2015 · 172pp · 46,104 words
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by Brooke Harrington · 11 Sep 2016 · 358pp · 104,664 words
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by Eric Kaufmann · 24 Oct 2018 · 691pp · 203,236 words
A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth
by Chris Smaje · 14 Aug 2020 · 375pp · 105,586 words
Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice
by Jamie K. McCallum · 15 Nov 2022 · 349pp · 99,230 words
Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles--And All of US
by Rana Foroohar · 5 Nov 2019 · 380pp · 109,724 words
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by Sarah Lacy · 6 Jan 2011 · 269pp · 77,876 words
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by Rodrigo Aguilera · 10 Mar 2020 · 356pp · 106,161 words
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town
by Beth Macy · 14 Jul 2014 · 473pp · 140,480 words
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by Emanuel Derman · 13 Oct 2011 · 240pp · 60,660 words
Think Like an Engineer: Use Systematic Thinking to Solve Everyday Challenges & Unlock the Inherent Values in Them
by Mushtak Al-Atabi · 26 Aug 2014 · 204pp · 66,619 words
Toast
by Stross, Charles · 1 Jan 2002
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In Defense of Global Capitalism
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Making Globalization Work
by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 16 Sep 2006
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by Rough Guides · 29 Mar 2018
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China's Great Wall of Debt: Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans, and the End of the Chinese Miracle
by Dinny McMahon · 13 Mar 2018 · 290pp · 84,375 words
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by Brian Klaas · 15 Mar 2017
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by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge · 31 Mar 2009 · 518pp · 143,914 words
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Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
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by Xiaowei Wang · 12 Oct 2020 · 196pp · 61,981 words
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by Branko Milanovic · 9 Oct 2023
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by Frank Pasquale · 14 May 2020 · 1,172pp · 114,305 words
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by Quinn Slobodian · 4 Apr 2023 · 360pp · 107,124 words
Left Behind
by Paul Collier · 6 Aug 2024 · 299pp · 92,766 words
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by Fredrik Deboer · 3 Aug 2020 · 236pp · 77,546 words
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by Joel Kotkin · 11 May 2020 · 393pp · 91,257 words
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by J. Layton · 23 Jul 2012
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by Michael Schuman · 8 Jun 2020
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by Charles Wheelan · 18 Apr 2010 · 386pp · 122,595 words
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by Bethany Moreton · 15 May 2009 · 391pp · 22,799 words
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by Walter Scheidel · 17 Jan 2017 · 775pp · 208,604 words
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by John J. Mearsheimer · 24 Sep 2018 · 443pp · 125,510 words
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by Gideon Rachman · 1 Feb 2011 · 391pp · 102,301 words
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by Bessel van Der Kolk M. D. · 7 Sep 2015 · 600pp · 174,620 words
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by Steven Johnson · 5 Oct 2010 · 298pp · 81,200 words
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by Vincent Bevins · 18 May 2020 · 393pp · 115,178 words
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by Richard Koch · 15 Dec 1999 · 296pp · 78,227 words
Spin
by Robert Charles Wilson · 2 Jan 2005 · 541pp · 146,445 words
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by Peter S. Goodman · 11 Jun 2024 · 528pp · 127,605 words
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by Deyan Sudjic · 27 Nov 2006 · 441pp · 135,176 words
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by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans · 25 Apr 2023 · 427pp · 134,098 words
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by Raghuram Rajan · 26 Feb 2019 · 596pp · 163,682 words
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by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Alex Hyde-White · 24 Oct 2016 · 515pp · 142,354 words
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by David Eimer · 13 Aug 2014 · 316pp · 103,743 words
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by Irene Yuan Sun · 16 Oct 2017 · 239pp · 62,311 words
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by Patrick Major · 5 Nov 2009 · 669pp · 150,886 words
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by Thomas Piketty · 10 Mar 2014 · 935pp · 267,358 words
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by Mark Kurlansky · 3 Apr 2016 · 485pp · 126,597 words
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by Taras Grescoe · 8 Sep 2011 · 428pp · 134,832 words
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by Robert J. Shiller · 14 Oct 2019 · 611pp · 130,419 words
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by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus · 10 Mar 2009 · 454pp · 107,163 words
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