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Rst 16/8/24rnA handbook that provides practical and updated material on air conditioning and refrigeration systems, produced by an author with over 50 years experience as a practicing engineer under his beltrnrnWhether you’re an HVAC or mechanical engineer, technician, or student, providing an effective controlled environment through air conditioning and refrigeration technology is now within…
A T THE International Conference of Historians of Asia (IAHA) in Bangkok (1996), there was a panel on nation-building at which it was debated whether it was time for historians to write nation-building histories for Southeast Asia. This appeared rather unadventurous because in 1996 there was much more debate about globalization and transnational developments, even speculation about the end of n…
In recent years, European and American historians of Asia have spoken increasingly of the need to avoid Euro-centric views of Asian history. The need, they have observed, is to write from an Asian point of view. The history written by European colonial officials about native peoples and imperial governments has obviously had its day. Although there were some notable exceptions, such authors wer…
Certainly in mining this piece of history, which is little known if compared with the story of western democracy, I owe a great many intellectual debts to those who have helped me.rnrnFirst of all, I am indebted to Professor Wang Gungwu, not only for his useful advice in the field of Chinese and overseas Chinese history, but much more for his almost intuitive sense of terminology and the theore…
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