“chang jung”

The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans and her husband Jung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her ... More

Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China, it is an engrossing record of Mao's impact on China, an u... More

In a secret room in Washington DC John Tanner is asked to stake his life - and those of his wife and children - on a gamble whose goals and risks no one will fully reveal to him. In a small suburban town, where only the nicest people live, friends, neighbours, everyone and anyone could be part of a ... More

The overall objectives of this project were to modify, demonstrate, and optimize an existing treatment process to simultaneously remove both arsenic and manganese. Installing a single process to simultaneously remove both arsenic and manganese is desirable to simplify operations, reduce costs, and m... More

A biography of Mao Tse-tung. Combining history with story-telling style, this biography describes Mao's roller-coaster life. The reader enters the shadowy chambers of Mao's court, and eavesdrops on the drama in its hidden recesses. Mao's character and the enormity of his behaviour towards his wives,... More

It has long been recognized that the Greek of the Lukan infancy narrative (chapters 1-2) displays numerous Semitic features. Although the majority of recent scholarship assumes that such features stem from an imitation of the Septuagint (imitation theory), the issue has not been settled satisfactori... More

Ten years of research have led the author of the best-selling classic Wild Swans, Jung Chang and her husband, historian Jon Halliday, to write what is considered today as the official and most comprehensive biography of Mao Tse-Tung written to date. Full of surprising revelations, this book presents... More

This is the second of two volumes that presents the results of a cooperative research effort between industry, academia, utilities to evaluate and demonstrate the treatment effectiveness of a wide range of technologies for arsenic removal. (Volume 1; ISBN: 1-58321-310-4; published Feb 2004) This vol... More