LIBROS DEL AUTOR: Neil O'Brien

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  • The politics of everyday China
    David O’Brien / Neil Collins
    China’s rise from the poverty, isolation and stagnation of the 1970s to the world’s second largest economy is a transformative event perhaps unequalled in human history. The world today pays more attention to China, looks to it with more admiration than perhaps any other time. Yet, this rise also hides many deep-rooted problems and competing ideologies. Economically, socially a...
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    17,91 €

  • The Calcutta Quiz Book
    Neil O'Brien / Neil O’Brien
    Fifty years ago, in 1967, in a parish hall in central Calcutta, Neil O’Brien conducted India’s first ’open’ quiz. And thus began a journey in quizzing that inspired and nurtured generations of quizzers.The Calcutta Quiz Book brings together questions Neil O’Brien had framed and asked about the city he loved and that was his home. Ranging from questions about the city’s educatio...
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    16,56 €

  • American Editor in Early Revolutionary China
    Neil O’Brien
    This is a study of Sino-American relations and the editorial policy of the China Weekly Review/China Monthly Review, published in Shanghai by John William Powell during the Chinese Civil War. ...
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    43,07 €

  • Cauldron
    Neil J. O’Brien / Neil JO'Brien / Neil JO’Brien
    A peaceful gathering of old friends, families and law partners at an isolated fishing club hidden among the primeval pines of East Texas, a sanctuary for purple gallinules, bald eagles, blue herons, bass, crappie and red ears, nutria, alligators and dozens of other species, deteriorates into a cauldron of hate, adultery, pride, ambition, greed, envy, embezzlement, and finally a...
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    20,14 €

  • High And Dry
    John O’Brien / Neil Eagle / Patrick J Byrne
    Key Points on Water Policy:Measured per capita, Australia is the third most water rich nation on earth.Water is not a private good but a mixed good, with many public good characteristics. Its price curve is inelastic.Both FAO and World Bank research strongly argues that the primary allocation of water between sectors has to be done by governments and that it cannot be one by ma...
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    14,91 €

  • Susan the Writer
    Neil J. O’Brien / Neil JO'Brien / Neil JO’Brien
    A coming-of-age novel in which Susan, a popular and beautiful college freshman, rejects her protective family environment and gradually degenerates into overweight and isolation, as she confronts drugs, her close friend’s pregnancy, binge drinking, date rape, abortion, sex-for-grades, and other challenges while experiencing the excitement of her growth as a writer. She laces a ...
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    17,05 €