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Frontier Livelihoods

Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands

By: Sarah Turner,Christine Bonnin,Jean Michaud

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Frontier Livelihoods

Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands

By: Sarah Turner,Christine Bonnin,Jean Michaud

Do ethnic minorities have the power to alter the course of their fortune when living within a socialist state? In Frontier Livelihoods, the authors focus their study on the Hmong - known in China as the Miao - in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands, contending that individuals and households create livelihoods about which governments often know little. The product of wide-ranging research over many years, Frontier Livelihoods bridges the traditional divide between studies of China and peninsular Southeast Asia by examining the agency, dynamics, and resilience of livelihoods adopted by Hmong communities in Vietnam and in China’s Yunnan Province. It covers the reactions to state modernization projects among this ethnic group in two separate national jurisdictions and contributes to a growing body of literature on cross-border relationships between ethnic minorities in the borderlands of China and its neighbors and in Southeast Asia more broadly.

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University of Washington Press

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029580596X

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9780295805962

Vaudeville Indians on Global Circuits, 1880s-1930s

By: Christine Bold

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Vaudeville Indians on Global Circuits, 1880s-1930s

By: Christine Bold

Uncovering hidden histories of Indigenous performers in vaudeville and in the creation of western modernity and popular culture Drawing from little-known archives, Christine Bold brings to light forgotten histories of Indigenous performers in vaudeville and, by extension, popular culture and modernity. Vaudeville was both a forerunner of modern mass entertainment and a rich site of popular Indigenous performance and notions of Indianness at the turn of the twentieth century. Tracing the stories of artists Native to Turtle Island (North America) performing across the continent and around the world, Bold illustrates a network of more than 300 Indigenous and Indigenous-identifying entertainers, from Will Rogers to Go-won-go Mohawk to Princess Chinquilla, who upend vaudeville's received history. These fascinating stories cumulatively reveal vaudeville as a space in which the making of western modernity both denied and relied on living Indigenous presence, and in which Indigenous artists negotiated agency and stereotypes through vaudeville performance.

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400

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Yale University Press

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0300257058

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9780300257052

South Dakota

Past and Present

By: Christine Petersen

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South Dakota

Past and Present

By: Christine Petersen

Provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, wildlife, governmental structure, industries, and key figures of South Dakota.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1435894960

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9781435894969

American Indian Policy and American Reform

Case Studies of the Campaign to Assimilate the American Indians

By: Christine Bolt

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American Indian Policy and American Reform

Case Studies of the Campaign to Assimilate the American Indians

By: Christine Bolt

First published in 1987, American Indian Policy and American Reform examines key aspects of American Indian policy and reform in the context of American ethnic problems and traditions of reform. The first four chapters provide a chronological survey discussing racial attitudes, economic issues, the role of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, missionary and reformer involvement with government policy, the political interaction of Indians and whites, and other continuing differences between the two races. The second part of the book examines important themes which illuminate the difficulties of the assimilation campaign. In a series of case studies, Prof. Bolt explores Indian-black-white relations in the South and Indian Territory, American anthropologists and American Indians, Indian education from colonial times to the 20th century, Indian women, urban Indians since the Second World War and Indian political protest groups. This book will be of interest to students of American history, ‘minority’ history and race relations.

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450

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Taylor & Francis

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1000996484

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9781000996487

The Frontier Club

Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880-1924

By: Christine Bold

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The Frontier Club

Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880-1924

By: Christine Bold

From Hollywood films to novels by Louis L'Amour and television series like Gunsmoke and Deadwood, the Wild West has exerted a powerful hold on the cultural imagination of the United States. Beginning with Theodore Roosevelt's founding of the Boone and Crockett Club in 1887, Christine Bold traces the origins and evolution of the western genre, revealing how a group of prominent eastern aristocrats-a cadre she terms "the frontier club" -created and propagated the myth of the Wild West to advance their own self-interest as well as larger systems of privilege and exclusion. Mining institutional archives, personal papers, novels, and films, The Frontier Club excavates the hidden social, political, and financial interests behind the making of the modern western. It re-reads frontier-club fiction, most notably Owen Wister's bestseller The Virginian, in relation to federal policies and cultural spaces (from exclusive gentlemen's clubs to national parks to zoos); it casts new light on key clubmen, both the famous and the forgotten-figures such as Roosevelt, George Bird Grinnell, Silas Weir Mitchell, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Frederic Remington-while recovering the women on whom these men depended and without whom this version of the popular West would not exist; and it considers the costs of the frontier-club formula, in terms of its impact on Indigenous peoples and its marginalization of other popular voices, including western writings by African Americans, women, and working-class white men. An engaging cultural history that covers print culture, big-game hunting, politics, immigration, Jim Crow segregation, and environmental conservation at the turn of the twentieth century, The Frontier Club provides a welcome new perspective on the enduring American myth of the Wild West.

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320

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Oxford University Press

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0199913021

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9780199913022

X-ray Phase-Contrast Imaging Using Near-Field Speckles

By: Marie-Christine Zdora

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X-ray Phase-Contrast Imaging Using Near-Field Speckles

By: Marie-Christine Zdora

This thesis presents research on novel X-ray imaging methods that improve the study of specimens with small density differences, revealing their inner structure and density distribution. Exploiting the phase shift of X-rays in a material can significantly increase the image contrast compared to conventional absorption imaging. This thesis provides a practical guide to X-ray phase-contrast imaging with a strong focus on X-ray speckle-based imaging, the most recently developed phase-sensitive method. X-ray speckle-based imaging only requires a piece of abrasive paper in addition to the standard X-ray imaging setup. Its simplicity and robustness combined with the compatibility with laboratory X-ray sources, make it an ideal candidate for wide user uptake in a range of fields. An in-depth overview of the state of the art of X-ray speckle-based imaging and its latest developments is given in this thesis. It, furthermore, explores a broad range of applications, from X-ray optics characterisation, to biomedical imaging for 3D virtual histology and geological studies of volcanic rocks, demonstrating is promising potential. Moreover, the speckle-based technique is placed in the context of other phase-sensitive X-ray imaging methods to assist in the choice of a suitable method, hence serving as a guide and reference work for future users.

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337

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Springer Nature

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3030663299

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9783030663292

Revolutionary Refugees

German Socialism in Britain, 1840-1860

By: Christine Lattek

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Revolutionary Refugees

German Socialism in Britain, 1840-1860

By: Christine Lattek

Filling an important gap in our understanding of the growth of early German socialism, this book is the first to combine the two crucial aspects of the study: socialist political theory and social and cultural environments. An essential student read.

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384

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Psychology Press

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0714651001

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9780714651002

The Laziness Myth

Narratives of Work and the Good Life in South Africa

By: Christine Jeske

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The Laziness Myth

Narratives of Work and the Good Life in South Africa

By: Christine Jeske

When people cannot find good work, can they still find good lives? By investigating this question in the context of South Africa, where only 43 percent of adults are employed, Christine Jeske invites readers to examine their own assumptions about how work and the good life do or do not coincide. The Laziness Myth challenges the widespread premise that hard work determines success by tracing the titular "laziness myth," a persistent narrative that disguises the systems and structures that produce inequalities while blaming unemployment and other social ills on the so-called laziness of particular class, racial, and ethnic groups. Jeske offers evidence of the laziness myth's harsh consequences, as well as insights into how to challenge it with other South African narratives of a good life. In contexts as diverse as rapping in a library, manufacturing leather shoes, weed-whacking neighbors' yards, negotiating marriage plans, and sharing water taps, the people described in this book will stimulate discussion on creative possibilities for seeking the good life in and out of employment, in South Africa and elsewhere.

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243

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Cornell University Press

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1501752537

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9781501752537

Drawing from Life

Sketching and Socialist Realism in the People’s Republic of China

By: Christine I. Ho

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Drawing from Life

Sketching and Socialist Realism in the People’s Republic of China

By: Christine I. Ho

Drawing from Life explores revolutionary drawing and sketching in the early People’s Republic of China (1949–1965) in order to discover how artists created a national form of socialist realism. Tracing the development of seminal works by the major painters Xu Beihong, Wang Shikuo, Li Keran, Li Xiongcai, Dong Xiwen, and Fu Baoshi, author Christine I. Ho reconstructs how artists grappled with the representational politics of a nascent socialist art. The divergent approaches, styles, and genres presented in this study reveal an art world that is both heterogeneous and cosmopolitan. Through a history of artistic practices in pursuit of Maoist cultural ambitions—to forge new registers of experience, new structures of feeling, and new aesthetic communities—this original book argues that socialist Chinese art presents a critical, alternative vision for global modernism.

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University of California Press

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0520309626

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9780520309623

Suicide and Self-Harm in Prisons and Jails

By: Christine Tartaro

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Suicide and Self-Harm in Prisons and Jails

By: Christine Tartaro

The second edition of Suicide and Self-Harm in Prisons and Jails provides a comprehensive exploration of how the stress associated with arrest, sentencing, and incarcerated life can contribute to the onset of a suicidal crisis even among those who never before experienced suicidal ideation or self-harmed. Using the most recent prison and jail suicide data available Christine Tartaro discuses prison and jail administrations’ efforts to curtail the use of restrictive housing for inmates with mental illness, more recent suicide screening forms for incarcerated populations, therapeutic options for working with inmates in crisis, appropriate monitoring of people in danger of self-harm, and situational and environmental prevention tactics. Tartaro also provides examples of ways to structure and implement diversion and transition planning programs to improve the odds of facilitating offenders’ successful integration into the community and reduce communities’ reliance on jails to house and treat people who suffer from mental illness.

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289

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498558739

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9781498558730

AI vs Humans

By: Michael W. Eysenck,Christine Eysenck

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AI vs Humans

By: Michael W. Eysenck,Christine Eysenck

The great majority of books on artificial intelligence are written by AI experts who understandably focus on its achievements and potential transformative effects on society. In contrast, AI vs Humans is written by two psychologists (Michael and Christine Eysenck) whose perspective on AI (including robotics) is based on their knowledge and understanding of human cognition. This book evaluates the strengths and limitations of people and AI. The authors’ expertise equips them well to consider this by seeing how well (or badly) AI compares to human intelligence. They accept that AI matches or exceeds human ability in many spheres such as mathematical calculations, complex games (e.g., chess, Go, and poker), diagnosis from medical images, and robotic surgery. However, the human tendency to anthropomorphise has led many people to claim mistakenly that AI systems can think, infer, reason, and understand while engaging in information processing. In fact, such systems lack all those cognitive skills and are also deficient in the quintessentially human abilities of flexibility of thinking and general intelligence. At a time when human commitment to AI appears unstoppable, this up-to-date book advocates a symbiotic and co-operative relationship between humans and AI. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in AI and human cognition.

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246

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Routledge

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1000481441

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9781000481440

Cyberarts 2001

By: Hannes Leopoldseder,Christine Schöpf

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Cyberarts 2001

By: Hannes Leopoldseder,Christine Schöpf

Der Prix Ars Electronica ist eine offene Plattform für die unterschiedlichen Disziplinen im Bereich digitaler Mediengestaltung an der Schnittstelle von Technologie, Kunst, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft. Die neue Wettbewerbssparte Net Vision/Net Excellence öffnet sich verstärkt dem kulturellen Diskurs um das Medium Internet. Cyberarts 2001 bietet einen aktuellen Überblick über digitale Mediengestaltung am Beispiel der Wettbewerbsbereiche Net Vision/Net Excellence, Digital Musics, Interaktive Kunst und Computeranimation/Visual Effects ebenso wie einen Überblick über die breite Palette von Produktionen Jugendlicher.

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276

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3211836284

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9783211836286

Critical Thinking, Thoughtful Writing

A Rhetoric with Readings

By: John Chaffee,Christine McMahon,Barbara Stout

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Critical Thinking, Thoughtful Writing

A Rhetoric with Readings

By: John Chaffee,Christine McMahon,Barbara Stout

Written by leading educators in interdisciplinary critical thinking, this popular rhetoric with readings makes a direct link between learning to write and read effectively and developing critical- thinking skills. Each chapter focuses on a particular critical-thinking skill, such as problem solving or analyzing complex issues, which is practiced and explored through Thinking-Writing Activities and thematically linked readings. Students further develop these skills through carefully sequenced pedagogy that promotes writing and a cross-disciplinary approach that asks them to critically evaluate a variety of readings.

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694

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Cengage Learning

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0618442200

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9780618442201

Frontier Livelihoods

Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands

By: Sarah Turner,Christine Bonnin,Jean Michaud

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Frontier Livelihoods

Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands

By: Sarah Turner,Christine Bonnin,Jean Michaud

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Book's by Christine Bonnin

Frontier Livelihoods

Frontier Livelihoods

Vaudeville Indians on Global Circuits, 1880s-1930s

Vaudeville Indians on Global Circuits, 1880s-1930s

South Dakota

South Dakota

American Indian Policy and American Reform

American Indian Policy and American Reform

The Frontier Club

The Frontier Club

X-ray Phase-Contrast Imaging Using Near-Field Speckles

X-ray Phase-Contrast Imaging Using Near-Field Speckles

Revolutionary Refugees

Revolutionary Refugees

The Laziness Myth

The Laziness Myth

Drawing from Life

Drawing from Life

Suicide and Self-Harm in Prisons and Jails

Suicide and Self-Harm in Prisons and Jails

AI vs Humans

AI vs Humans

Cyberarts 2001

Cyberarts 2001

Critical Thinking, Thoughtful Writing

Critical Thinking, Thoughtful Writing

Frontier Livelihoods

Frontier Livelihoods

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