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Chiang Kai-Shek's Secret Past

The Memoir Of His Second Wife, Ch'en Chieh-ju

By: Ch'en Chieh-ju

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Chiang Kai-Shek's Secret Past

The Memoir Of His Second Wife, Ch'en Chieh-ju

By: Ch'en Chieh-ju

This engrossing memoir tells the fascinating story of one of China's great leaders during the Nationalist revolution of the 1920s and of the woman who paid a staggering price so that he could attain his ambition. The tale begins in 1919 when the thirty-two-year-old Chiang Kai-shek met the naïve thirteen-year-old whom he would call Ch'en Chieh-ju.

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Routledge

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0429720041

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Faith's Checkbook

Daily Devotions to Treasure

By: C.H. Spurgeon

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Faith's Checkbook

Daily Devotions to Treasure

By: C.H. Spurgeon

Faith’s Checkbook, written by world-renowned British pastor Charles H. Spurgeon, provides daily deposits of God’s promises into your personal bank of faith. Spurgeon urges you to view each Bible promise as a check written by God that can be cashed by personally endorsing it and receiving the gift it represents. Cash in on the bountiful store of blessings when you withdraw daily from the Bank of Faith. This captivating eBook devotional offers inspiration and delight in our Lord, and it encourages readers to take God’s promises to heart in just a few minutes of reading each day. Each verse is followed by a brief thought or application, making this eBook ideal for personal or family devotions wherever you may go. The Table of Contents is linked so you can conveniently find your place where you left off. If you skip a day, no problem, you can easily begin on the next day's reading. “A promise from God may very instructively be compared to a check payable to order,” wrote Spurgeon. “It is given to the believer with the view of bestowing upon him some good thing. It is not meant that he should read it over comfortably, and then have done with it. No, he is to treat the promise as a reality, as a man treats a check.”

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Made For Success Publishing

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1613397305

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Medieval Monasticism

Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages

By: C.H. Lawrence

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Medieval Monasticism

Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages

By: C.H. Lawrence

Hugh Lawrence's book ranges right across Europe and the Middle East as well as reconstructing the internal life, experience and aims of the medieval cloister, he also explores the many-sided relationships between the monasteries and the secular world from which they drew recruits. This Third Edition contains new thoughts and perspectives throughout.

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Routledge

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1317877306

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9781317877301

There a Petal Silently Falls

Three Stories

By: Yun Ch'oe

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There a Petal Silently Falls

Three Stories

By: Yun Ch'oe

At once experimental, polyvocal, and politically engaged, the stories collected in There a Petal Silently Falls offer a rich, evocative exploration of violence, trauma, and loss in divided Korea. Ch'oe's stories take us well beyond previous literary representations of national division and the 1980 Kwangju Massacre by probing the relationship among desire, fantasy, and memory, all the while locating gender at the center of the making of history.

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Columbia University Press

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023114296X

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The Road to Mass Democracy

Original Intent and the Seventeenth Amendment

By: C. H. Hoebeke

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The Road to Mass Democracy

Original Intent and the Seventeenth Amendment

By: C. H. Hoebeke

Until 1913 and passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, US senators were elected by state legislatures, not directly by the people. Progressive Era reformers urged this revision in answer to the corruption of state "machines" under the dominance of party bosses. They also believed that direct elections would make the Senate more responsive to popular concerns regarding the concentrations of business, capital, and labor that in the industrial era gave rise to a growing sense of individual voicelessness. Popular control over the higher affairs of government was thought to be possible, since the spread of information and communications technology was seen as rendering indirect representation through state legislators unnecessary. However sincerely such reasons were advanced, C. H. Hoebeke contends, none of them accorded with the original intent of the Constitution's framers.The driving force behind the Seventeenth Amendment was the furtherance of democracy?exactly what the founders were trying to prevent in placing the Senate out of direct popular reach. Democracy was not synonymous with liberty as it is today, but simply meant the absolute rule of the majority. In full reaction to the egalitarian theories of the Enlightenment, and to the excesses of popular government under the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution's framers sought a "mixed" Constitution, an ancient ideal under which democracy was only one element in a balanced republic. Accordingly, only the House of Representatives answered immediately to the people. But as Hoebeke demonstrates, the states never resisted egalitarian encroachments, and had settled for popular expedients when electing both presidents and senators long before the formal cry for amendment. The Progressives' charge that a corrupt and unresponsive Senate could never be reformed until placed directly in the hands of the people was refuted by the amendment itself. As required by the Constitutio

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1351474871

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Remediation of Firing Range Impact Berms

By: C. H. Ward

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Remediation of Firing Range Impact Berms

By: C. H. Ward

A part of the continuing effort to provide innovative in situ remediation techniques, Remediation of Firing-Range Impact Berms presents the results of a soil washing and leaching project. The demonstration set as its primary objective providing reliable, detailed performance data to evaluate the feasibility and cost of implementing a full-scale sys

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CRC Press

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1420026216

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Buddhism in China

A Historical Survey

By: Kenneth Kuan Sheng Ch'en

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Buddhism in China

A Historical Survey

By: Kenneth Kuan Sheng Ch'en

CONTENTS: Preface. Table of Chinese Dynasties. Maps of Dynasties. Introduction, Growth and Domestication. Maturity and Acceptance. Decline. Conclusion. Glossary. Chinese Names and Titles. Bibliography. Index.

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Princeton University Press

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0691216053

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9780691216058

The New Rhetoric and the Humanities

Essays on Rhetoric and its Applications

By: Ch. Perelman

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The New Rhetoric and the Humanities

Essays on Rhetoric and its Applications

By: Ch. Perelman

Modern logic has Wldergone some remarkable developments in the last hun dred years. These have contributed to the extraordinary use of formal logic which has become essentially the concern of mathematicians. This has led to attempts to identify logic with formal logic. The claim has even been made that all non-formal reasoning, to the extent that it cannot be formalized, no longer belongs to logic. This conception leads to a genuine impoverishment of logic as well as to a narrow conception of reason. It means that as soon as demonstrative proofs are no longer available reason will no longer dominate. Even the idea of the 'reasonable' becomes foreign to logic and such expres sions as 'reasonable decisions', 'reasonable choice' or 'reasonable hypotheses' would be put aside as meaningless. The domain of action, including method ology and everything that is given over to deliberation or controversy - i.e., foreign to formal logic - would become a battleground where necessarily the reason of the strongest would always prevail.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400994826

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9789400994829

Shoko's Smile

Stories

By: Choi Eunyoung

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Shoko's Smile

Stories

By: Choi Eunyoung

A bestselling and award-winning debut collection from one of South Korea's most prominent young writers. In crisp, unembellished prose, Eun-young Choi paints intimate portraits of the lives of young women in South Korea, balancing the personal with the political. In the title story, a fraught friendship between an exchange student and her host sister follows them from adolescence to adulthood. In "A Song from Afar," a young woman grapples with the death of her lover, traveling to Russia to search for information about the deceased. In "Secret," the parents of a teacher killed in the Sewol ferry sinking hide the news of her death from her grandmother. In the tradition of Sally Rooney, Banana Yoshimoto, and Marilynne Robinson--writers from different cultures who all take an unvarnished look at human relationships and the female experience--Choi Eunyoung is a writer to watch.

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Penguin

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0143135260

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Four Seasons of T'ang Poetry

By: John C.H. Wu

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Four Seasons of T'ang Poetry

By: John C.H. Wu

This substantial collection of Tang Dynasty poetry includes extensive commentary and notes—offering insight into this rich literary heritage. "Stretching out my hand I feel the pulse of the stars," wrote Li Po, one of the most famous of the T'ang dynasty poets. This superlative study of the Golden Age of Chinese poetry, based on nearly 50,000 poems written by more than 2,000 poets, captures not only the pulse of that period but also the spirit and soul. Of this Tang blossoming, Dr. Wu says that for nearly thirteen centuries after Christ, poetry in Europe, with the exception of Juvenal, kept a death–like silence. It hibernated so long that when it woke up again in the person of Dante, the last poetic voice it could remember was that Virgil. It seems though Mother Earth purposely rocked Europe to sleep for some time that she might teach Asia to sing. These poetic interpretations, including comparisons with many Western poets such as Shakespeare and T.S. Eliot, represent a remarkable scholarly achievement.

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Tuttle Publishing

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1462912478

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The Strategy of the Genes

By: C.H. Waddington

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The Strategy of the Genes

By: C.H. Waddington

First published in 1957, this essential classic work bridged the gap between analytical and theoretical biology, thus setting the insights of the former in a context which more sensitively reflects the ambiguities surrounding many of its core concepts and objectives. Specifically, these five essays are concerned with some of the major problems of classical biology: the precise character of biological organisation, the processes which generate it, and the specifics of evolution. With regard to these issues, some thinkers suggest that biological organisms are not merely distinguishable from inanimate ‘things’ in terms of complexity, but are in fact radically different qualitatively: they exemplify some constitutive principle which is not elsewhere manifested. It is the desire to bring such ideas into conformity with our understanding of analytical biology which unifies these essays. They explore the contours of a conceptual framework sufficiently wide to embrace all aspects of living systems.

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Routledge

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1317657543

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Evening by Evening

By: C.H. Spurgeon

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Evening by Evening

By: C.H. Spurgeon

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

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3375046634

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Edwards' Treatment of Drinking Problems

A Guide for the Helping Professions

By: Keith Humphreys,Anne Lingford-Hughes,Griffith Edwards,David M. Ball,Christopher C.H. Cook,E. Jane Marshall

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Edwards' Treatment of Drinking Problems

A Guide for the Helping Professions

By: Keith Humphreys,Anne Lingford-Hughes,Griffith Edwards,David M. Ball,Christopher C.H. Cook,E. Jane Marshall

This book presents state-of-the-art, accessible reviews of the science of alcohol treatment and guidance for the management of clinical situations.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107519527

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Hsun Yueh and the Mind of Late Han China

A Translation of the SHEN-CHIEN

By: Chi-yun Ch'en

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Hsun Yueh and the Mind of Late Han China

A Translation of the SHEN-CHIEN

By: Chi-yun Ch'en

Hsiin Yiieh's Shen-chien (Extended Reflections) is one of the four major philosophical works that have survived from the later Han dynasty (A.D. 25- 220). Presented here for Western readers is an English translation by Ch'i-ytin Ch'en of the entire work, supplemented with selections of Hsiin Yiieh's other essays. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400853486

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The Màlavikàgnimitra

By: C. H. Tawney

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The Màlavikàgnimitra

By: C. H. Tawney

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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338525678X

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Organic Pollutants

An Ecotoxicological Perspective, Second Edition

By: C. H. Walker

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Organic Pollutants

An Ecotoxicological Perspective, Second Edition

By: C. H. Walker

Difficult to measure accurately and deal with effectively, organic pollutants continue to be a major hazard in the environment. Significantly expanded, the second edition of Organic Pollutants: An Ecotoxicological Perspective describes the mechanistic basis of ecotoxicology, using major groups of pollutants as illustrative examples, and explores th

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142006259X

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Lightspeed

The Ghostly Aether and the Race to Measure the Speed of Light

By: John C. H. Spence

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Lightspeed

The Ghostly Aether and the Race to Measure the Speed of Light

By: John C. H. Spence

This book tells the human story of one of man's greatest intellectual adventures - how it came to be understood that light travels at a finite speed, so that when we look up at the stars, we are looking back in time. And how the search for a God-given absolute frame of reference in the universe led most improbably to Einstein's most famous equation E=mc2, which represents the energy that powers the stars and nuclear weapons. From the ancient Greeks measuring the solar system, to the theory of relativity and satellite navigation, the book takes the reader on a gripping historical journey. We learn how Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter and used their eclipses as a global clock, allowing travellers to find their Longitude. And how Ole Roemer, noticing that the eclipses were a little late, used this to obtain the first measurement of the speed of light, which takes eight minutes to get to us from the sun. We move from the international collaborations to observe the Transits of Venus, including Cook's voyage to Australia, to the achievements of Young and Fresnel, whose discoveries eventually taught us that light travels as a wave but arrives as a particle, and all the quantum weirdness which follows. In the nineteenth century, we find Faraday and Maxwell, struggling to understand how light can propagate through the vacuum of space unless it is filled with a ghostly vortex Aether foam. We follow the brilliantly gifted experimentalists Hertz, discoverer of radio, Michelson with his search for the Aether wind, and Foucault and Fizeau with their spinning mirrors and lightbeams across the rooftops of Paris. Messaging faster than light using quantum entanglement, and the reality of the quantum world, conclude this saga.

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Oxford University Press

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0192579169

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A Defense of Calvinism

By: C. H. Spurgeon

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A Defense of Calvinism

By: C. H. Spurgeon

An unabridged edition to include original scripture and footnotes, with quotes by the author at book's end, 'There are many prayers that it would not be right to pray in public, but they are very dear to God's ear in private.

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The Golden Age of Zen

Zen Masters of the T'Ang Dynasty

By: John C. H. Wu,Jingxiong Wu

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The Golden Age of Zen

Zen Masters of the T'Ang Dynasty

By: John C. H. Wu,Jingxiong Wu

A classic, examining the history of the great Chinese Zen masters of the 7th through 10th century.

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World Wisdom, Inc

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0941532445

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9780941532440

Taiwan's Environmental Struggle

Toward a Green Silicon Island

By: Jack Williams,Ch’ang-yi David Chang

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Taiwan's Environmental Struggle

Toward a Green Silicon Island

By: Jack Williams,Ch’ang-yi David Chang

Taiwan experienced a highly successful economic transformation in the last 50 years that produced one of Asia’s genuine ‘miracles’ of modern development, in terms of improvement in per capita income and overall quality of material well being for its citizens. The process, though, involved rapid industrialization and urbanization, and breakneck mass consumption, that inevitably resulted in rapid escalation in degradation of the island’s fragile air, water, and land, and produced some of the worst environmental pollution to be found anywhere in Asia This book examines the causes of Taiwan's environmental predicament, engaging in Taiwan's unique geological, geographical, demographical, political, industrial, historical and economic circumstances. In addition, Jack Williams and Ch'ang-yi David Chang assess the efforts of the government, NGOs and private citizens to create a "green" environmentally sustainable island, with a high tech economy based on the silicon chip, the backbone of Taiwan’s highly successful IT industry. Finally the authors discuss what can be done to improve Taiwan's environmental future. As the first commercially available book in English on Taiwan’s environmental problems this is an invaluable read for students and scholars interested in environmental studies, sustainable development and the island of Taiwan.

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401

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Routledge

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1134062826

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9781134062829

The Little Book of bees

By: Karl Weiss

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The Little Book of bees

By: Karl Weiss

The more we learn about bees, the more extraordinary they seem. They have five eyes and beat their wings at almost 200 cycles per second. And to communicate with each other bees do make sounds but also dance. This book, packed with over 30 figures, gives a fascinating insight into the extraordinary complex and highly organised world of bees. The author, K. Weiss, explains the critical role that bees and bee-keeping play for human society, and offers advice for those interested in raising bees.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387217428

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Monkey

Folk Novel of China

By: Wu Ch'êng-ên

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Monkey

Folk Novel of China

By: Wu Ch'êng-ên

The classic Chinese novel: “Imagine a combination of picaresque novel, fairy tale, fabliau, Mickey Mouse, Davy Crockett, and Pilgrim’s Progress” (The Nation). Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic sixteenth-century novel is a combination of picaresque novel and folk epic that mixes satire, allegory, and history into a rollicking adventure. It is the story of the roguish Monkey and his encounters with major and minor spirits, gods, demigods, demons, ogres, monsters, and fairies. This translation, by the distinguished scholar Arthur Waley, is the first accurate English version; it makes available to the Western reader a faithful reproduction of the spirit and meaning of the original. “Mr. Waley has done a remarkable job with this translation.” —Helena Kuo, The New York Times “The irreverent spirit and exuberant vitality of it portraiture . . . make it an entertainment to which Mr. Waley’s witty translation has obviously contributed not a little.” —The Times (London) “Told with immense gusto, and quite apart from its deeper meaning and wise proverbial sayings it is full of entertainment.” —The Guardian

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Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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0802198848

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9780802198846

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