This volume explains the beginnings and expansion of China's space program, analyzing how China is now able to hold such ambitions and how the interaction between technology, politics and economics has influenced the Chinese space program.

It opens by tracing out the earlier development of the space program and identifying the successes and problems that plagued this initial effort, later focusing upon its development over the past decade and into the future. As China is now able to reach into outer space with its machines and, since 2003, with its humans, the authors examine how...

During years coaching and teaching practice in the sport of swimming, the author discovered a new understanding of the sport. The first part of the book, from the macro point of view he describes the new concept of swimming. The author believes that swimming is microscopic discipline, and the entire sport is macro discipline, to understand and study swimming we must first master the fundamental theories of sports; broaden their horizons and our imagination in order to explore more possibilities in development toward coaching and teaching of swimming. The author presented and explained his...

During years coaching and teaching practice in the sport of swimming, the author discovered a new understanding of the sport. The first part of the book, from the macro point of view he describes the new concept for swimming. The author believes that swimming is microscopic discipline, and the entire sport is macro discipline, to understand and study swimming we must first master the fundamental theories of sports; broaden their horizons and our imagination in order to explore more possibilities in development in coaching and teaching of swimming. The author presented and explained his unique...