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China and Orientalism

Western Knowledge Production and the PRC

By: Daniel Vukovich

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China and Orientalism

Western Knowledge Production and the PRC

By: Daniel Vukovich

This book argues that there is a new, Sinological form of orientalism at work in the world. It has shifted from a logic of ‘essential difference’ to one of ‘sameness’ or general equivalence. "China" is now in a halting but inevitable process of becoming-the-same as the USA and the West. Orientalism is now closer to the cultural logic of capitalism, even as it shows the afterlives of colonial discourse. This shift reflects our era of increasing globalization; the migration of orientalism to area studies and the pax Americana; the liberal triumph at the "end" of history and the demonization of Maoism; an ever closer Sino-West relationship; and the overlapping of anti-communist and colonial discourses. To make the case for this re-constitution of orientalism, this work offers an inter-disciplinary analysis of the China field broadly defined. Vukovich takes on specialist work on the politics, governance, and history of the Mao and reform eras, from the Great Leap Forward to Tiananmen, 1989; the Western study of Chinese film; recent work in critical theory which turns on ‘the China-reference"; and other global texts about or from China. Through extensive analysis, the production of Sinological knowledge is shown to be of a piece with Western global intellectual political culture. This work will be of great interest to scholars of Asian, postcolonial and cultural studies.

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113650592X

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Illiberal China

The Ideological Challenge of the People's Republic of China

By: Daniel F. Vukovich

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Illiberal China

The Ideological Challenge of the People's Republic of China

By: Daniel F. Vukovich

This book analyzes the 'intellectual political culture' of post-Tiananmen China in comparison to and in conflict with liberalism inside and outside the P.R.C. How do mainland politics and discourses challenge ‘our’ own, chiefly liberal and anti-‘statist’ political frameworks? To what extent is China paradoxically intertwined with a liberal economism? How can one understand its general refusal of liberalism, as well as its frequent, direct responses to electoral democracy, universalism, Western media, and other normative forces? Vukovich argues that the Party-state poses a challenge to our understandings of politics, globalization, and even progress. To be illiberal is not necessarily to be reactionary and vulgar but, more interestingly, to be anti-liberal and to seek alternatives to a degraded liberalism. In this way Chinese politics illuminate the global conjuncture, and may have lessons in otherwise bleak times.

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9811305412

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After Autonomy: A Post-Mortem for Hong Kong’s first Handover, 1997–2019

By: Daniel F. Vukovich

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After Autonomy: A Post-Mortem for Hong Kong’s first Handover, 1997–2019

By: Daniel F. Vukovich

This book offers a sharp, critical analysis of the rise and fall of the 2019 anti-extradition bill movement in Hong Kong, including prior events like Occupy Central and the Mongkok Fishball Revolution, as well as their aftermaths in light of the re-assertion of mainland sovereignty over the SAR. Reading the conflict against the grain of those who would romanticize it or simply condemn it in nationalistic fashion, Vukovich goes beyond mediatized discourse to disentangle its roots in the Basic Law system as well as in the colonial and insufficiently post-colonial contexts and dynamics of Hong Kong. He examines the question of localist identity and its discontents, the problems of nativism, violence, and liberalism, the impossibility of autonomy, and what forms a genuine de-colonization can and might yet take in the city. A concluding chapter examines Hong Kong’s need for state capacity and proper, livelihood development, in the light of the Omicron wave of the Covid pandemic, as the SAR goes forward into a second handover era.

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Springer Nature

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9811949832

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Real NASCAR

White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France

By: Daniel S. Pierce

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Real NASCAR

White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France

By: Daniel S. Pierce

In this history of the stock car racing circuit known as NASCAR, Daniel S. Pierce offers a revealing new look at the sport from its postwar beginnings on Daytona Beach and Piedmont dirt tracks through the early 1970s, when the sport spread beyond its southern roots and gained national recognition. Real NASCAR not only confirms the popular notion of NASCAR's origins in bootlegging, but also establishes beyond a doubt the close ties between organized racing and the illegal liquor industry, a story that readers will find both fascinating and controversial.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807895725

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Suds Series

Baseball, Beer Wars, and the Summer of '82

By: J. Daniel

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Suds Series

Baseball, Beer Wars, and the Summer of '82

By: J. Daniel

In Suds Series, J. Daniel takes readers back forty years, telling a story that is part baseball history, part urban history, and part U.S. cultural history, the narrative weaving together the development of the Midwest cities of St. Louis and Milwaukee through their engagement with beer and baseball. As the National and American League champions squared off for the 1982 Fall Classic, the St. Louis Cardinals, owned by Anheuser-Busch, took on the Milwaukee Brewers, so named by owner Bud Selig in homage to the city’s baseball and brewing past. Even nominal baseball fans will enjoy reading about legendary players, teams, and personalities that emerged in the 1982 season: the year Ricky Henderson stole 130 bases; Reggie Jackson led the league in home runs; and Cal Ripken Jr. began his remarkable playing streak. Readers will also enjoy the cultural references, including the Pac-Man craze, a chart-topping album by Rush, and the “Light Beer Wars” waged by Anheuser-Busch and the Miller Brewing Company through a series of humorous TV commercials featuring well-loved professional sports figures.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826274854

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After Autonomy: A Post-Mortem for Hong Kong’s first Handover, 1997–2019

By: Daniel F. Vukovich

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After Autonomy: A Post-Mortem for Hong Kong’s first Handover, 1997–2019

By: Daniel F. Vukovich

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Major Business Organisations of Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States 1993/94

Albania, Baltic Republics, Bulgaria, Commonwealth of Independent States, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Yugoslavia

By: Giselle Bricault,Pauline Murphy,Jennifer Murphy,Janine Daniel

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Major Business Organisations of Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States 1993/94

Albania, Baltic Republics, Bulgaria, Commonwealth of Independent States, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Yugoslavia

By: Giselle Bricault,Pauline Murphy,Jennifer Murphy,Janine Daniel

The third edition of Major Business Organisations of Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent Guide to the States provides comprehensive data on over 3,000 organisations including Manufacturers, Foreign Trading arrangement of this Organisations, Banks, Ministries, Chambers of Commerce and Services. book Due to the change in the import/export laws in Eastern Europe it is now possible to trade directly with many This book has been arranged in order to allow the reader organisations, and with over 7,000 named contacts and to find any entry rapidly and accurately. comprehensive details on each organisation, this directory enables the western business community to Company entries are listed alphabetically within each reach this new market. country section; in addition three indexes are provided on coloured paper at the back of the book. The information in this directory is the result of a careful research and extensive translation operation ensuring The alphabetical index of organisations throughout the entries are as accurate and up-to-date as possible. Eastern Europe and the C.I.S. lists all entries in The Editors would like to express thanks to the huge alphabetical order irrespective of their main country of number of organisations who provided information about operation. themselves for inclusion in this book. The alphabetical index of organisations within each Whilst the editors have taken every care to ensure the country of Eastern Europe and the C.I.S. lists information in this book is up-to-date, due to the fast organisations by their country of operation.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401114501

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9789401114509

A Hole in the Ground Owned by a Liar

By: Daniel Pyne

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A Hole in the Ground Owned by a Liar

By: Daniel Pyne

Lee, a high school shop teacher in Evergreen, Colorado, managed to survive his messy divorce only to hurtle into what some might call a full–on midlife crisis. Looking for a way to spend his weekends and the now painfully long summer vacation, Lee buys a gold mine off the internet—a real, honest–to–God mine, complete with tall tales of riches, a history of disappointment, and a couple of Pakistani–by–the–way–of–Jackson–Hole prospectors willing to kill for its contents. With the frequently unwanted help of a band of locals, Lee becomes a weekend warrior, attempting to work the mine and keep himself distracted from his other midlife disturbances. There are the Pakistanis, of course, along with his mercurial brother Grant, just released from prison, who is trying in his typically perilous way to pull Lee from his midlife funk. There is his ex–wife Lorraine and her slick boyfriend, Stan Beachum, and the lovely yet mysterious Rayna, the first woman Lee's wanted to date since his divorce. In Daniel Pyne's sharp, fun, and raucous style, A Hole in the Ground Owned by a Liar is part mystery and part gold–infused tall tale with a cast of refreshingly quirky characters and one highly unexpected payout.

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Catapult

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1619020378

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9781619020375

Japanese Baseball

A Statistical Handbook

By: Daniel E. Johnson

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Japanese Baseball

A Statistical Handbook

By: Daniel E. Johnson

This book--the first in the English language to contain an exhaustive collection of Japanese baseball data--presents basic statistical information and listings for every Japanese professional baseball season from 1936 through 1997. The first part contains yearly breakdowns of team standings; qualifiers for batting and earned run championships; leaders in home runs, runs batted in, wins and strikeouts; all-star game results; Japan Series results; Best Nine selections; Gold Glove selections; and award winners. Sections on career records and single-season records are provided in the second part of this work. Appendices list no-hit, no-run games, Japanese Hall of Famers, and records of foreign tours of Japan by professional teams.

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McFarland

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147660410X

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1950s American Style: A Reference Guide (soft cover)

By: Daniel Niemeyer

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1950s American Style: A Reference Guide (soft cover)

By: Daniel Niemeyer

Facets of the Fifties. A reference guide to an iconic Decade of Movie Palaces, Television, Classic Cars, Sports, Department Stores, Trains, Music, Food, Fashion and more

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Lulu.com

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1304201651

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9781304201652

In Pursuit of Pennants

Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball

By: Mark Armour,Daniel R. Levitt

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In Pursuit of Pennants

Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball

By: Mark Armour,Daniel R. Levitt

The 1936 Yankees, the 1963 Dodgers, the 1975 Reds, the 2010 Giants—why do some baseball teams win while others don’t? General managers and fans alike have pondered this most important of baseball questions. The Moneyball strategy is not the first example of how new ideas and innovative management have transformed the way teams are assembled. In Pursuit of Pennants examines and analyzes a number of compelling, winning baseball teams over the past hundred-plus years, focusing on their decision making and how they assembled their championship teams. Whether through scouting, integration, instruction, expansion, free agency, or modernizing their management structure, each winning team and each era had its own version of Moneyball, where front office decisions often made the difference. Mark L. Armour and Daniel R. Levitt show how these teams succeeded and how they relied on talent both on the field and in the front office. While there is no recipe for guaranteed success in a competitive, ever-changing environment, these teams demonstrate how creatively thinking about one’s circumstances can often lead to a competitive advantage.

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University of Nebraska Press

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1496206010

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America's Film Legacy

The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry

By: Daniel Eagan

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America's Film Legacy

The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry

By: Daniel Eagan

America's Film Legacy is a guide to the most significant films ever made in the United States. Unlike opinionated "Top 100" and arbitrary "Best of" lists, these are the real thing: groundbreaking films that make up the backbone of American cinema. Some are well-known, such as Citizen Kane, The Jazz Singer, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Birth of a Nation, and Boyz n the Hood. Others are more obscure, such as Blacksmith Scene, The Blue Bird, The Docks of New York, Star Theatre, and A Bronx Morning. Daniel Eagan's beautifully written and authoritative book is for anyone who loves American movies and who wants to learn more about them.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441175415

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9781441175410

Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual

By: John Boston,Daniel E Manville

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Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual

By: John Boston,Daniel E Manville

Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual, in its much-anticipated fourth edition, is an indispensable guide for prisoners and prisoner advocates seeking to understand the rights guaranteed to prisoners by law and how to protect those rights. Clear, comprehensive, practical advice provides prisoners with everything they need to know on conditions of confinement, civil liberties in prison, procedural due process, the legal system, how to litigate, conducting effective legal research, and writing legal documents. Written by two legal and penitentiary experts with intimate knowledge of prisoner's rights and legal aid work, authors John Boston and Daniel E. Manville strategically focus on federal constitutional law, providing prisoners and those wishing to assist them with the most important information concerning legal rights. Over the past decade, prison law and conditions have changed significantly. This new edition is updated to include the most relevant prisoners' rights topics and approaches to litigation. Updates include all aspects of prison life as well as material on legal research, legal writing, types of legal remedies, and how to effectively use those remedies. Certainly the most authoritative, well-organized and relevant prisoner's rights manual available - - the eagerly awaited fourth edition should be purchased by everyone interested in civil rights for the incarcerated.

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Oxford University Press

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019988837X

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9780199888375

Effects of Psychoactive Chemicals on Commercial Driver Health and Performance: Stimulants, Hypnotics, Nutritional, and Other Supplements

By: Gerald P Krueger,Howard M Leaman,Gene Bergoffen,Daniel C Murray,Racquel Pickett

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Effects of Psychoactive Chemicals on Commercial Driver Health and Performance: Stimulants, Hypnotics, Nutritional, and Other Supplements

By: Gerald P Krueger,Howard M Leaman,Gene Bergoffen,Daniel C Murray,Racquel Pickett

TRB’s Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program (CTBSSP) Synthesis 19: Effects of Psychoactive Chemicals on Commercial Driver Health and Performance: Stimulants, Hypnotics, Nutritional, and Other Supplements identifies available information and research gaps relating to the use of chemical substances by commercial drivers and is intended to provide up-to-date information to inform decision makers about the near-, mid-, and long-range planning needs for research and educational outreach programs.

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Transportation Research Board

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0309143225

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9780309143226

Natural Therapeutics Pocket Guide

By: James B. Lavalle,Daniel L. Krinsky,Ross Pelton

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Natural Therapeutics Pocket Guide

By: James B. Lavalle,Daniel L. Krinsky,Ross Pelton

A resource guide for healthcare professionals counseling patients about the appropriate use of natural products and therapies. A quick reference, this edition contains an additional 200 references, over 175 monographs, and information on over 75 conditions. Intended to help improve health, not present cures, this guide is a first step for suggesting natural therapeutics as part of health management.

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1930598998

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9781930598997

China and Orientalism

Western Knowledge Production and the PRC

By: Daniel Vukovich

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China and Orientalism

Western Knowledge Production and the PRC

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1136505938

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Ellenberg & Rifkin's Diabetes Mellitus

By: Daniel Porte,Robert S. Sherwin,Alain Baron,Max Ellenberg,Harold Rifkin

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Ellenberg & Rifkin's Diabetes Mellitus

By: Daniel Porte,Robert S. Sherwin,Alain Baron,Max Ellenberg,Harold Rifkin

A comprehensive reference on diabetes mellitus, covering basic biochemistry, physiology, and pathogenesis, as well as clinical diagnosis and treatment. The Sixth Edition includes five new chapters, plus new material on the genetic basis of the disease, new hypoglycemic drugs, mechanisms of hormone action, and regulation of hormone secretion.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0838521789

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9780838521786

Illiberal China

The Ideological Challenge of the People's Republic of China

By: Daniel F. Vukovich

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Illiberal China

The Ideological Challenge of the People's Republic of China

By: Daniel F. Vukovich

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9811305412

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China and New Left Visions

Political and Cultural Interventions

By: Jie Lu,Ban Wang

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China and New Left Visions

Political and Cultural Interventions

By: Jie Lu,Ban Wang

Against the dire consequences of China’s market development, a new intellectual force of the New Left has come on the scene since the mid 1990s. New Left intellectuals debate the issues of social justice, distributive equality, markets, state intervention, the socialist legacy, and sustainable development. Against the neoliberal trends of free markets, liberal democracy, and consumerism, New Left critics launched a critique in hopes of seeking an alternative to global capitalism. This volume takes a comprehensive look at China’s New Left in intellectual, cultural, and literary manifestations. The writers place the New Left within a global anti-hegemonic movement and the legacy of the Cold War. They discover grassroots literature that portrays the plight and resilience of the downtrodden and disadvantaged. With historical visions the writers also shed light on the present by drawing on the socialist past.

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Lexington Books

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0739165186

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