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Beyond Great Walls

Environment, Identity, and Development on the Chinese Grasslands of Inner Mongolia

By: Dee Mack Williams

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Beyond Great Walls

Environment, Identity, and Development on the Chinese Grasslands of Inner Mongolia

By: Dee Mack Williams

This is an ethnographic study of a community of Mongolian herders who have been undergoing dramatic environmental and social transformations since 1980. It provides a rare window of observation into a fascinating and important, though remote and relatively understudied, region of modern China, and documents some of the unintended harmful consequences of decollectivization and economic development. Initially, the book presents a case study of land degradation and shows how competing social and cultural forces at the local, national, and international level actively shape that process. More broadly, it focuses on local experiences of modernization and the ways that marginalized people creatively appropriate alien technologies to serve their own ethnic identity and cultural renewal. The book aims to deepen our understanding of environmental change as a social process by exploring significant tensions between such symbolic dichotomies as Chinese/Mongol, farmer/herder, private/collective, development/conservation, Western/Asian, and scientific/indigenous. It argues that the reconstruction of local landscape cannot be separated from the social context of economic insecurity and political fear, nor from the cultural context of group identity and environmental symbolism. Ideologically informed perceptions of the land prove to be highly relevant in both shaping and contesting international development agendas, national grassland policies, and the daily practices of local production. In presenting the full range of material and symbolic stakes now in play on the Chinese grasslands, the book demonstrates that human-land interactions involve social dimensions on a global scale of widely underestimated complexity. Throughout, the author draws from his extensive fieldwork to enrich his study with poignant (and sometimes humorous) anecdotes and biographical sketches.

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Stanford University Press

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0804742782

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Beyond Great Walls

Environment, Identity, and Development on the Chinese Grasslands of Inner Mongolia

By: Dee Mack Williams

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Environment, Identity, and Development on the Chinese Grasslands of Inner Mongolia

By: Dee Mack Williams

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The 30th Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: Roger Dee

By: Roger Dee,Roger D. Aycock

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The 30th Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: Roger Dee

By: Roger Dee,Roger D. Aycock

Roger Dee was the pseudonym of Roger D. Aycock (6 December 1914 – 5 April 2004), an American author who wrote primarily science fiction. His tales were always well written, clever, and entertaining, and this selection of 13 stories is typical of his work. Included are: WAILING WALL PET FARM CONTROL GROUP ULTIMATUM CLEAN BREAK THE ANGLERS OF ARZ ASSIGNMENT'S END PROBLEM ON BALAK THE WHEEL IS DEATH TODAY IS FOREVER TO REMEMBER CHARLIE BY TRADERS RISK ROUGH BEAST If you enjoy this volume of classic stories, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 270+ other entries in this series, including science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, adventure, horror, westerns -- and much, much more!

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202

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479408085

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9781479408085

Battle of the Blanket Forts

A QUIX Book

By: Dee Romito

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Battle of the Blanket Forts

A QUIX Book

By: Dee Romito

When kids of Fort Builders, Inc., go to summer camp, a friendly blanket fort competition turns serious in the third story in the fun-to-read Aladdin QUIX chapter book series that’s perfect for emerging readers! Kiara is super excited to go to Camp Firefly for the summer and be with all her friends, including the rest of Fort Builders, Inc. And this year, she can’t wait to enter the camp-wide CREATE contest. One lucky team will win the prize of building something from scratch, using all the DIY skills they show in the competition. Kiara and her cabin decide compete by making the best blanket fort ever—but Caleb and his cabin decide to do the same thing! Can they learn to work together, or will this epic blanket fort battle turn into an all-out cabin war?

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Simon and Schuster

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153445246X

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9781534452466

Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge

By: Dee McGonigle,Kathleen Mastrian

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Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge

By: Dee McGonigle,Kathleen Mastrian

Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge, Sixth Edition is a comprehensive resource that helps nursing students make sense of nursing informatics by illustrating how to use and apply knowledge situationally within their professional practice alongside the latest technologies and tools. A practical guide for understanding how to efficiently use modern technology in today's healthcare system, this award-winning nursing textbook teaches students how to acquire, process and disseminate knowledge. The authors use their unique Foundation of Knowledge Model throughout as an organizational structure by which to learn and teach nursing informatics. This comprehensive framework guides students through the basic building blocks of nursing informatics (nursing science, information science, computer science, cognitive science) before divig into the most current technologies, tools, and trends in nursing informatics.

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695

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284300633

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9781284300635

Happy Tails Lodge

A QUIX Book

By: Dee Romito

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Happy Tails Lodge

A QUIX Book

By: Dee Romito

The enterprising kids of Fort Builders, Inc., are at it again. This time, the friends use their creativity and construction know-how to build a pet palace in the second story in the fun-to-read Aladdin QUIX chapter book series that’s perfect for emerging readers! Jax and his twin sisters are getting kittens! The new four-legged members of the family will be coming home any day. And Fort Builders, Inc., has a new project…pet forts! Together, they know they can come up with the purr-fect hangout for the tiny felines. But they hit a major snag in their testing phase. None of the forts they test out is quite right. Can the team manage to build the best pet palace imaginable in time for the kittens’ arrival?

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The Birthday Castle

A QUIX Book

By: Dee Romito

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The Birthday Castle

A QUIX Book

By: Dee Romito

A group of friends use teamwork, creativity, and construction know-how to start their own fort building company in the first story in a new, fun-to-read Aladdin QUIX chapter book series that’s perfect for emerging readers! Caleb could really use a bit more spending money—he needs to buy the next book in his favorite series so he can see what happens! But what can he do to raise funds once his allowance runs out? Caleb puts his head together with his best friend, Jax, and a couple other kids in their neighborhood, and come up with a brilliant idea. They’re going to start their own fort-building business! Good forts are always in demand, and who better to design and construct them than kids? But when Fort Builders, Inc., gets their first gig, the group has trouble agreeing on the right way to go about it. Can they learn to work together in time to build an incredible fort, or will their business be over before it even begins?

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1534452400

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The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston

By: Maurie Dee McInnis

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The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston

By: Maurie Dee McInnis

At the close of the American Revolution, Charleston, South Carolina, was the wealthiest city in the new nation, with the highest per-capita wealth among whites and the largest number of enslaved residents. Maurie D. McInnis explores the social, political,

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UNC Press Books

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080782951X

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9780807829516

Book's by Dee Mack Williams

Beyond Great Walls

Beyond Great Walls

Beyond Great Walls

Beyond Great Walls

The 30th Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: Roger Dee

The 30th Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: Roger Dee

Battle of the Blanket Forts

Battle of the Blanket Forts

Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge

Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge

Happy Tails Lodge

Happy Tails Lodge

The Birthday Castle

The Birthday Castle

The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston

The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston

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