As a country's current development is path dependent, the rise of China and its strategic implications can only be understood in a historical context. Hence, the key to understanding contemporary China is the understanding of its past. So far there has been an absence of a comprehensive text...

"The years since the global financial crisis have seen something of a renaissance in the manufacturing industry. The United States has launched its Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, and China owes much of its spectacular economic boom in the last decades to its being the "world's factory". Is...

Aus dem Vorwort: Das politische Wirken von Roland Issen war geprägt vom Willen, die Gewerkschaftsbewegung neu auszurichten. Wo er Führungsfunktionen übernahm, suchte er stets die damit verbundenen Handlungsmöglichkeiten; und nutzte sie zum Wohle der Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer.

With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema--especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers--an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book...