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They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky

The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

By: Benjamin Ajak,Benson Deng,Alephonsion Deng,Judy A. Bernstein

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They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky

The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

By: Benjamin Ajak,Benson Deng,Alephonsion Deng,Judy A. Bernstein

The inspiring story of three young Sudanese boys who were driven from their homes by civil war and began an epic odyssey of survival, facing life-threatening perils, ultimately finding their way to a new life in America. Between 1987 and 1989, Alepho, Benjamin, and Benson, like tens of thousands of young boys, took flight from the massacres of Sudan's civil war. They became known as the Lost Boys. With little more than the clothes on their backs, sometimes not even that, they streamed out over Sudan in search of refuge. Their journey led them first to Ethiopia and then, driven back into Sudan, toward Kenya. They walked nearly one thousand miles, sustained only by the sheer will to live. They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky is the three boys' account of that unimaginable journey. With the candor and the purity of their child's-eye-vision, Alephonsian, Benjamin, and Benson recall by turns: how they endured the hunger and strength-sapping illnesses-dysentery, malaria, and yellow fever; how they dodged the life-threatening predators-lions, snakes, crocodiles and soldiers alike-that dogged their footsteps; and how they grappled with a war that threatened continually to overwhelm them. Their story is a lyrical, captivating, timeless portrait of a childhood hurled into wartime and how they had the good fortune and belief in themselves to survive.

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1610395999

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China Since 1949

By: Linda Benson

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China Since 1949

By: Linda Benson

Exploring the remarkable story of China’s rise to global prominence, China since 1949 provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of the events that have shaped the country since the middle of the twentieth century. Covering the Maoist era through the Reform period to the present day, this book addresses subjects such as China’s position as a world economic power, the Chinese Communist Party’s treatment of ethnic minorities, women’s experiences under the Communist regime, and China’s human rights record. Fully updated throughout, the third edition includes: a new chapter focusing on China since 2010 discussion of current issues such as China’s territorial disputes, computer hacking and cyber-espionage, corruption, leadership changes, and the slowing of China’s economic growth extensively revised chapters on China and the World and on Government, Politics and the Economy An updated selection of primary source documents. Also containing a chronology of events from 1949 to 2015, a Who’s Who of key figures, a glossary and a guide to further reading, China Since 1949 is an accessible and engaging introduction to China’s recent past and essential reading for students of modern Chinese history.

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Routledge

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1317243080

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9781317243083

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Modern China

By: Vanessa Lide Whitcomb,Michael Benson

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Modern China

By: Vanessa Lide Whitcomb,Michael Benson

This work provides an informative guide to the roots of modern China. It also looks at the key challenges and opportunities that face China in the 21st century.

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Penguin

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0028643860

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9780028643861

The Ili Rebellion

Muslim Challenge to Chinese Authority in Xingjiang, 1944-49

By: Linda K. Benson

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The Ili Rebellion

Muslim Challenge to Chinese Authority in Xingjiang, 1944-49

By: Linda K. Benson

In 1944 Moslem forces in China's westernmost province of Xinjiang rose against the Chinese authorities and succeeded in establishing a small independent Islamic state - the East Turkestan Republic. Based on newly available archival material, this book describes the Moslem challenge to Chinese rule and documents the Nationalist government's response to newly awakened Turkic-Moslem nationalism on China's most remote and politically sensitive north-western frontier. With this book, Linda Benson aims to break new ground in the study of Sino-Soviet relations and especially of the policies of Chinese governments toward their national minorities.

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296

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Routledge

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1000122719

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9781000122718

China's Last Nomads

History and Culture of China's Kazaks

By: Linda Benson,Ingvar Svanberg

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China's Last Nomads

History and Culture of China's Kazaks

By: Linda Benson,Ingvar Svanberg

This study, based on Chinese publications and archival materials as well as on recent fieldwork, provides an up-to-date treatment of Kazak history and culture, emphasizing the Kazaks in 20th-century China and, in particular, their status today as one of China's minority nationalities.

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Routledge

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1315285193

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The Ili Rebellion

The Moslem Challenge to Chinese Authority in Xinjiang, 1944-1949

By: Linda Benson

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The Ili Rebellion

The Moslem Challenge to Chinese Authority in Xinjiang, 1944-1949

By: Linda Benson

In 1944, Moslem forces in the Chinese province of Xinjiang staged an uprising and established an independent Islamic state - the East Turkestan Republic. This book describes that challenge to China's rule, and the Nationalist government's response to Turkic-Moslem nationalism.

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M.E. Sharpe

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0873325095

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9780873325097

Teacher Management in China

The Transformation of Educational Systems

By: Eva Huang,John Benson,Ying Zhu

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Teacher Management in China

The Transformation of Educational Systems

By: Eva Huang,John Benson,Ying Zhu

Education has long been highly valued in China, and continues to be highly valued, both by the state, which appreciates the value of education for maintaining China's economic rise, and by parents, who, affected by the One Child Policy, devote a large proportion of their incomes to their one child's education. This book explores current systems of teacher management in China and assesses their effectiveness. It charts the development of China's education system, outlines present day human resource management methods in Chinese schools, including practices for recruitment and selection, training and development, performance appraisal, and rewards, both pay and non-financial rewards, and describes recent changes and innovations. The book concludes that a high performance work system, enhanced by traditional paternalistic humanised management and by pragmatism, predominates, with important consequences for teachers’ jobs and performance, and for the quality of students' school life.

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182

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Routledge

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1317435141

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9781317435143

The Everyday Impact of Economic Reform in China

Management Change, Enterprise Performance and Daily Life

By: Ying Zhu,Michael Webber,John Benson

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The Everyday Impact of Economic Reform in China

Management Change, Enterprise Performance and Daily Life

By: Ying Zhu,Michael Webber,John Benson

Examining the impact of economic reform on everyday life in China, this book explores how changes in the employment relationship have affected the enterprise performance, the quality of working life and the livelihood strategies for individual households and families in China.

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214

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1136965696

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9781136965692

The Art of Rails

By: Edward Benson

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The Art of Rails

By: Edward Benson

Mit Ruby on Rails hat eine völlig neue Denkweise in der Web-Entwicklung Einzug gehalten. Das Buch versetzt Programmierer in die Lage, in kurzer Zeit Designs zu erstellen und konzise Codes zu programmieren - elegant und wartungsfreundlich. Das Buch benennt und beschreibt grundlegende Designstrategien, die aus dem New Web hervorgingen, und demonstriert deren Anwendung mit Ruby-on-Rails-basierten Beispielen. Zentrale Ziele des Buches sind es, zum einen aus guten Rails-Programmierern perfekte Rails-Designer zu machen, zum anderen Entwickler, die mit anderen Frameworks arbeiten, die Designstrategien von Rails zu erläutern, damit sie diese für ihre Entwicklungsprojekte souverän einsetzen können. Das Buch ist in der Sprache der Rails-Community verfasst. Ausführlich dargestellt werden u. a. REST-basiertes Design, Ajax oder Web-Services. Das Werk wird ohne Zweifel seinen festen Platz in der Rails-Literatur einnehmen: als Grundlagenwerk moderner Web-Designs, das für Ruby-on Rails-Entwickler schon bald unverzichtbar sein wird.

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John Wiley & Sons

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047038607X

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9780470386071

They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky

The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

By: Benjamin Ajak,Benson Deng,Alephonsion Deng,Judy A. Bernstein

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The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

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Tomorrow Never Dies

A Novel

By: Raymond Benson

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Tomorrow Never Dies

A Novel

By: Raymond Benson

A man who can start a war anytime and anyplace--and profit from it--would be the most powerful man in the world. Elliot Carver knows this. And he has a plan to turn his media conglomerate into a true empire, exploiting global conflicts he creates with on-the-spot news coverage guaranteed to bring him the highest ratings in television history.It starts with a sudden and mysterious skirmish that leaves two Chinese MiGs and a Royal Navy frigate at the bottom of the South China Sea. It could end with an all-out world war on live TV. But there is one man who can stop it...James Bond.

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Berkley

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1572973455

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China Since 1949

By: Linda Benson

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By: Linda Benson

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Modern China

By: Vanessa Lide Whitcomb,Michael Benson

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By: Vanessa Lide Whitcomb,Michael Benson

This work provides an informative guide to the roots of modern China. It also looks at the key challenges and opportunities that face China in the 21st century.

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The Everyday Impact of Economic Reform in China

Management Change, Enterprise Performance and Daily Life

By: Ying Zhu,Michael Webber,John Benson

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The Everyday Impact of Economic Reform in China

Management Change, Enterprise Performance and Daily Life

By: Ying Zhu,Michael Webber,John Benson

During the past 30 years, China has undergone extensive economic reform, replacing the government’s administration of enterprises with increasing levels of market-oriented enterprise autonomy. At the heart of the reform are changes in the employment relationship, where state control has been superceded by market relationships. These reforms have had far-reaching implications for many aspects of everyday life in Chinese society. This book appraises the impact of the economic reforms on the employment relationship and, in turn, examines the effects on individual workers and their families, including salaries, working conditions and satisfaction, job security and disparities based on location, gender, age, skill, position and migrant status. In particular, it focuses on how changes in the employment relationship have affected the livelihood strategies of households. It explores the changing human resource management practices and employment relations in different types of enterprises: including State-Owned Enterprises, Foreign-Owned Enterprises and Domestic Private Enterprises; throughout different industries, focusing especially on textiles, clothing and footwear and the electronics industry; and in different regions and cities within China (Beijing, Haerbin, Lanzhou, Hangzhou, Wuhan and Kunming). Overall, this book provides a detailed account of the everyday implications of economic reform for individuals and families in China.

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1136965688

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Book's by Benson Deng

They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky

They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky

China Since 1949

China Since 1949

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Modern China

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Modern China

The Ili Rebellion

The Ili Rebellion

China's Last Nomads

China's Last Nomads

The Ili Rebellion

The Ili Rebellion

Teacher Management in China

Teacher Management in China

The Everyday Impact of Economic Reform in China

The Everyday Impact of Economic Reform in China

The Art of Rails

The Art of Rails

They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky

They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky

Tomorrow Never Dies

Tomorrow Never Dies

China Since 1949

China Since 1949

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Modern China

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Modern China

The Everyday Impact of Economic Reform in China

The Everyday Impact of Economic Reform in China

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