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Foreign investment and industrialisation in Singapore »

Publication date: 1969

Singapore has faced extremely difficult economic conditions in the 1960s, and these will be exacerbated by the withdrawal of the United Kingdom military establishment during the next few years. Foreign investment can play an important role in Singapore's economy and at the same time make profits for the foreign investors. This book explores the problems involved. The aim of the surveys conducted by Dr Hughes and her colleagues during 1966 and 1967 was to see whether the incentives offered by Singapore to foreign investors were suitable and effective, to evaluate the contribution made by foreign investors to the development of manufacturing in Singapore, and to highlight the problems they faced. The most surprising finding of the book is that direct financial incentives to foreign investors are unnecessary. Singapore's principal attraction to outside investors lies in its efficient administration and the provision of public services, while its central geographic situation in Southeast Asia has to some extent offset the smallness of its internal market. The book will be of particular interest to two kinds of reader: manufacturers, administrators, and others concerned with investment in Southeast Asia, and economists everywhere who are studying the economic development of the area, the problems of establishing manufacturing industries in developing countries, and the economics of direct foreign investment.

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Stratigraphy and palaeontology: essays in honour of Dorothy Hill »

Publication date: 1969

Geology is Earth history. The twenty essays in this book are concerned primarily with illustrating this history by reference to four aspects of stratigraphy and palaeontology: the biological interpretation of fossils, biostratigraphy and biogeography, descriptive palaeontology, and marine sedimentation and geomorphology. The dictum that 'palaeontology is the handmaid of stratigraphy' - without stratigraphy palaeontology would lack a time reference - is a truism. Each, of course, elucidates the other. Not nearly so widely recognised, however, is the relationship of stratigraphy and palaeontology to other aspects of Earth history. Some of the essays in the book will interest biologists as well as geologists in the contribution that fossils make to understanding the problems of evolution, classification, functional morphology and ecology. The correlation of Australian Carboniferous, Permian, and Cretaceous rocks, generally valuable to stratigraphers and palaeontologists, is of particular importance for the economic exploitation of the rocks of the country. The biogeographic analysis of new palaeontological and stratigraphic data is pertinent for geophysicists, geologists, and geographers interested in the problem of continental drift; while by virtue of its geography and its geological record Australia must hold many of the keys for understanding southern hemisphere geology, and all Gondwana reconstructions will have to be checked against the detailed information now made available. Geologists, sedimentologists, and geomorphologists will find stimulating the discussions on the geomorphological development of south-east Queensland and on the Great Barrier Reef. The broad scope of this book, offering as it does essays on many new discoveries and revaluations of past work, will be of considerable value to a wide range of scholars in many disciplines. As such, it is a fitting tribute to the woman it is designed to honour, Professor Dorothy Hill, F.R.S.

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Microwave power transmission ratio: its use in estimating electron density »

Publication date: 1969

Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3715 1885_114981.jpg ANU Press Microwave power transmission ratio: its use in estimating electron density Monday, 18 August, 1969 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Vance, Colin Francis

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Dimensions of urban social structure: the social areas of Melbourne, Australia »

Publication date: 1969

The physical segregation of social groups in industrial cities has long attracted the attention of social scientist and casual observer alike. In Australia the possibility of mapping the social ecology of large cities has been limited by the absence of sufficiently detailed census information, a gap remedied in 1961 by the provision of a new range of small area data. Here the author exploits the existence of the new information to present the first intensive social anatomy of any Australian metropolis. Statistics on the residential concentration and segregation of seventy socioeconomic, demographic, ethnic, and religious categories are examined, and the vast complexity and range of these data are reduced by sophisticated techniques of statistical analysis to three theoretically meaningful constructs - social rank, familism, and ethnicity. These constructs are used to develop a typology of social areas which serves as the basis for developing an understanding of, and further hypotheses about, urban social structure. Not only does this analysis present a self-contained study of Australia{u2019}s second largest metropolis, but detailed maps and statistical appendixes provide a benchmark for future social investigations into the urban scene - on subjects such as political preference, immigrant adjustment, poverty, crime, delinquency, and urban planning.

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Use of the homopolar generator to power xenon discharge tubes and some associated switching problems »

Publication date: 1969

Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3065 1885_114979.jpg ANU Press Use of the homopolar generator to power xenon discharge tubes and some associated switching problems Monday, 18 August, 1969 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Inall, E. K

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Ahmedabad: a study in Indian urban history »

Publication date: 1969

In what the author describes as a preliminary excursion into Indian urban history, he writes here not about Indian cities in general but about the unique experience of a particular city, Ahmedabad, the capital of Gujarat State in western India and for many years the home of Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel. Ahmedabad, India's sixth city in size and one of the richest, was not a creation of British rule but an old center of trade and industry that adapted to the new age and became "The Manchester of India." Its recovery in the nineteenth century, after a decline in the previous one, contrasted with the experience of other Indian cities, many of which suffered a different fate under British rule. Ahmedabad provides an interesting qualification of many of the statements commonly made about Indian industrialization. Western influence and social change there were limited in the nineteenth century, and the early industrialization of the city was achieved within a society that remained socially and politically conservative. Modern Ahmedabad was the creation of Ahmedabadis, not of outsiders. In no other great city of India can the continuity of past and present be seen so clearly, and it is continuity rather than change that this book emphasizes. Mr. Gillion's account, focusing mainly on the century beginning with the British annexation in 1817, suggests a new way of viewing Indian social and economic history. Indirectly but none the less suggestively, this work reopens the whole question of westernization in India and places it in a fresh perspective.

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The early history of Korea: the historical development of the Peninsula up the the introduction of Buddhism in the Fourth Century A.D. »

Publication date: 1969

Korean studies in Western universities have long been hampered by the absence of an adequate general history of Korea in any Western language. The earliest period of Korean history, up to the introduction of Buddhism late in the fourth century a.d., remains the worst served of any. This short history is intended as an attempt to remedy the situation. It is based mostly upon studies already carried out by Korean and Japanese scholars, and aims at making some of the results of their research available to Western students, particularly students of Chinese and Japanese history. Dr Gardiner writes about the background and history of Korea before the Han conquest in 108 b.c.; the structure and development of the Chinese colonies in Korea from 108 b.c. to the end of the third century a.d. ; the early history of Kogury{u014F} later one of the 'Three Kingdoms' of Korea; and finally about the conditions which produced so many changes in Korea in the fourth century A.D., including the beginning of Japanese intervention and the coming of Buddhism.

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