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A Grammar of Hinuq

By: Diana Forker

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This is the first thorough description of the Nakh-Daghestanian language Hinuq. Hinuq has about 600 speakers living primarily in a single village in the Caucasus mountains in southern Russia (Daghestan). During several fieldwork trips, the author collected an extensive corpus of texts. Based on the data, Forker provides a comprehensive analysis of Hinuq grammar with reference to other Nakh-Daghestanian languages, to Caucasian studies and to typological and general linguistic topics.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110303973

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An Atlas of the Himalayas by a 19th Century Tibetan Lama

A Journey of Discovery

By: Diana Lange

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An Atlas of the Himalayas by a 19th Century Tibetan Lama

A Journey of Discovery

By: Diana Lange

Diana Lange's patient investigations have, in this wonderful piece of detective work, solved the mysteries of six extraordinary panoramic maps of routes across Tibet and the Himalayas, clearly hand-drawn in the late 1850s by a local artist, known as the British Library's Wise Collection. Diana Lange now reveals not only the previously unknown identity of the Scottish colonial official who commissioned the maps from a Tibetan Buddhist lama, but also the story of how the Wise Collection came to be in the British Library. The result is both a spectacular illustrated ethnographic atlas and a unique compendium of knowledge concerning the mid-19th century Tibetan world, as well as a remarkable account of an academic journey of discovery. It will entertain and inform anyone with an interest in this fascinating region. This large format book is lavishly illustrated in colour and includes four separate large foldout maps.

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BRILL

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9004416889

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9789004416888

China's Republic

By: Diana Lary

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China's Republic

By: Diana Lary

Twenty-first century China is emerging from decades of war and revolution into a new era. Yet the past still haunts the present. The ideals of the Chinese Republic, which was founded almost a century ago after 2000 years of imperial rule, still resonate as modern China edges towards openness and democracy. Diana Lary traces the history of the Republic from its beginnings in 1912, through the Nanjing decade, the warlord era, and the civil war with the Peoples' Liberation Army which ended in defeat in 1949. Thereafter, in an unusual excursion from traditional histories of the period, she considers how the Republic survived on in Taiwan, comparing its ongoing prosperity with the economic and social decline of the Communist mainland in the Mao years. This introductory textbook for students and general readers is enhanced with biographies of key protagonists, Chinese proverbs, love stories, poetry and a feast of illustrations.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139461885

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9781139461887

China's Long and Winding Road to Modernization

Uncertainty, Learning, and Policy Change

By: Fu-Lai Tony Yu,Diana S. Kwan

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China's Long and Winding Road to Modernization

Uncertainty, Learning, and Policy Change

By: Fu-Lai Tony Yu,Diana S. Kwan

This book adopts Austrian and evolutionary approaches to interpret contemporary China's economic transformation under uncertainty, learning and experimentation. It incorporates culture, institutions, government agents and entrepreneurship to understand policy making in China.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666934410

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CONTEXTUALISING ISLAM IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH (IIUM PRESS)

By: Mariam Adawiyah Dzulkifli,Nor Diana Mohd Mahudin

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CONTEXTUALISING ISLAM IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH (IIUM PRESS)

By: Mariam Adawiyah Dzulkifli,Nor Diana Mohd Mahudin

This book is intended to present a compilation of research that bas incorporated the Islamic philosophical, theoretical, and historical perspective with the concepts, theories, and methods in psychology. While the relationship between Islam, research, and psychology has been studied previously, the effort to incorporate, integrate, and use Islamic resources to examine phenomena related to psychology through rigorous scientific methods has been found to be lacking among Muslim researchers. The present book, therefore, is an attempt to meet this need by incorporating the Islamic perspective in the conduct of research in psychology. It is also an attempt to contextualize Islam in the current efforts in research on psychology so that we can better understand the religion, both as an established way of life and as a model of scientific inquiry. Finally, the remaining chapters are dedicated to the discussion of the conceptual and strategic way forward for research in specific areas of psychology. In doing so, both the rationale and practicalities of incorporating, integrating, and utilizing Islamic resources in research on psychology have been provided.

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IIUM PRESS

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967491126X

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Meditations With Tea

Paths to Inner Peace

By: Diana Rosen

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Meditations With Tea

Paths to Inner Peace

By: Diana Rosen

Tea expert Diana Rosen shows why for thousands of years, tea has been used to achieve good health and a calming sense of well-being in this life-affirming guide that teaches twelve distinct ways to combine the pure bliss of tea with the power of personal meditation. Packed with techniques to 'de-stress' the mind and body through breathing rituals, stretching, relaxation practices, and mindful concentration on tasks both large and small, MEDITATIONS WITH TEA describes the symbiotic relationship of tea with meditation.

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Citadel Press

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0806527889

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9780806527888

Roman Landscape: Culture and Identity

By: Diana Spencer

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Roman Landscape: Culture and Identity

By: Diana Spencer

This survey explores how and why Romans of the late Republic and early Principate were fascinated with landscaped nature. Thematic discussions and case studies work through what 'landscape' represented and how studying Roman identity in terms of place, environment and the natural world helps us better to understand Rome itself.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107400244

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China's Grandmothers

Gender, Family, and Ageing from Late Qing to Twenty-First Century

By: Diana Lary

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China's Grandmothers

Gender, Family, and Ageing from Late Qing to Twenty-First Century

By: Diana Lary

Over the past century and a half, China has experienced foreign invasion, warfare, political turmoil, and revolution, along with massive economic and technological change. Through all this change, there is one stable element: grandmothers, as child carers, household managers, religious devotees, transmitters of culture, and, above all, sources of love, warmth, and affection. In this interdisciplinary and longitudinal study, China's Grandmothers sheds light on the status and lives of grandmothers in China over the years from the late Qing Dynasty to the twenty-first century. Combining a wide range of historical and biographical materials, Diana Lary explores the changes and continuities in the lives of grandmothers through revolution, wars, and radical upheaval to the present phase of economic growth. Informed by her own experience as a grandchild and grandmother, Lary offers a fresh and compelling way of looking at gender, family, and ageing in modern Chinese society.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009081012

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Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature, 1500-1750

By: Diana Berruezo-Sánchez

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Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature, 1500-1750

By: Diana Berruezo-Sánchez

In this groundbreaking study, Diana Berruezo-Sánchez recovers key chapters in the history of Afro-Iberian diasporas by exploring the literary contributions and life experiences of black African communities and individuals in early modern Spain. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, international trade involving chattel slavery led to significant populations of enslaved, free(d), and half-manumitted black African women, men, and children in the Iberian Peninsula. These demographic changes transformed Spain's urban and social landscapes. In exploring Spain's role in the transatlantic slave trade and its effects on cultural forms of the period, Berruezo-Sánchez examines a broad range of texts and unearths new documents relating to black African poets, performers, and black confraternities. Her discoveries evince the broad yet largely disregarded literary and artistic impact of the African diaspora in early modern Spain, expanding the scope of linguistic practices beyond habla de negros and creating space for early modern black poets in the Spanish literary canon. These textual sources challenge established understandings of black Africans and black African history in early modern Spain. They show how black Africans exerted significant cultural agency by collectively contributing to and shaping the literary texts of the period, including those of the popular genre villancicos de negros, and by developing artistic traditions as musicians, dancers, and poets. As both creators and consumers of cultural forms, black African men and women navigated a restrictive, coercive slave society yet negotiated their own physical and cultural spaces.

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Oxford University Press

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0198914237

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Region and Nation

The Kwangsi Clique in Chinese Politics 1925-1937

By: Diana Lary

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Region and Nation

The Kwangsi Clique in Chinese Politics 1925-1937

By: Diana Lary

A study of the tensions between region and nation in Republican China. Diana Lary gives a detailed examination of Kwangsi province in south-west China, the home base of a major warlord clique that was important both for its interesting internal politics and for its national influence in the late 1920s and the 1930s. She reconstructs with imagination and thoroughness the intricate political and military history of the nation, but without losing sight of the overall regional character of the Kwangsi government and its policies. She shows how the regional leaders responded to central breakdown, what sense they had of the nation even in its weakened condition. China is usually studied as a monolithic entity; Diana Lary demonstrates that such a simple view must fail, that China also consists of a large number of distinct regions with special patterns of relationship to the centre.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521202043

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A grammar of Yakkha

By: Diana Schackow

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A grammar of Yakkha

By: Diana Schackow

This grammar provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Yakkha, a Sino-Tibetan language of the Kiranti branch. Yakkha is spoken by about 14,000 speakers in eastern Nepal, in the Sankhuwa Sabha and Dhankuta districts. The grammar is based on original fieldwork in the Yakkha community. Its primary source of data is a corpus of 13,000 clauses from narratives and naturally-occurring social interaction which the author recorded and transcribed between 2009 and 2012. Corpus analyses were complemented by targeted elicitation. The grammar is written in a functional-typological framework. It focusses on morphosyntactic and semantic issues, as these present highly complex and comparatively under-researched fields in Kiranti languages. The sequence of the chapters follows the well-established order of phonological, morphological, syntactic and discourse-structural descriptions. These are supplemented by a historical and sociolinguistic introduction as well as an analysis of the complex kinship terminology. Topics such as verbal person marking, argument structure, transitivity, complex predication, grammatical relations, clause linkage, nominalization, and the topography-based orientation system have received in-depth treatment. Wherever possible, the structures found were explained in a historical-comparative perspective in order to shed more light on how their particular properties have emerged.

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Language Science Press

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3946234119

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Small States in the European Union

Coping with Structural Disadvantages

By: Diana Panke

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Small States in the European Union

Coping with Structural Disadvantages

By: Diana Panke

The most recent EU-enlargements have considerably increased the number of small member states. In the EU-27, 19 countries have fewer votes in the Council of Ministers than the EU-average. These small states face a series of size-related disadvantages in day-to-day EU negotiations. Against this backdrop the book asks: are some small states better at coping with structural disadvantages than others? How active are small states in participating in day-to-day EU negotiations and why do some states use negotiation strategies more frequently than others? Under which conditions are the different negotiation strategies effective and when can small states punch above their weight? Based on more than 100 interviews with policy-makers and an analysis of a unique database on the negotiation activities of EU member states, this book explains how active participation is essential for the shaping success of small states and shows that small states are more influential with persuasion-based rather than bargaining-based strategies. Two case studies on the pesticides and the spirit drinks regulations further reveal that persuasion strategies are especially effective if the arguments match the nature of the issue at stake and resonate well with prior beliefs of addressees. No other study comprehensively analyzes small states in a comparative perspective, examines their activity levels in EU negotiations and outlines which conditions are needed for the effectiveness of a broad range of strategies. An indispensable resource for students and researchers interested in how and under which conditions small states can influence policies in negotiations beyond the nation-state.

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Routledge

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131705427X

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Cinta Tiga Suku

By: Herna Diana

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Cinta Tiga Suku

By: Herna Diana

‘SKETSA Perang’ di pertengahan jalan menjadi detik pertemuan pertama antara Minah Sewel dan Mamat Tiga Suku. Sejak itu, pertemuan demi pertemuan tercipta. Anehnya, setiap pertemuan dihiasi insiden perlanggaran. Iman – gadis comel yang nakal dan berperwatakan kasar atas dasar mahu melindungi diri lantaran pengalaman masa silam. Kehilangan abah tersayang menjadikan dia sebatang kara. Kebencian si ibu tiri menambah lara hidupnya lantas dia membawa diri ke kota. Kehadiran Suhaila dan Razif secara tidak dirancang membolehkan dia menumpang kasih dan sayang. Arie – pertemuannya dengan Iman menghadirkan seorang musuh dalam hidupnya. Si Minah Sewel! Sikap kasar dan mulut celopar gadis itu menimbulkan kejengkelan di hatinya. Tidak seperti kekasihnya yang manja dan pandai menggoda. Iman dan Arie tidak sehaluan. Seorang ke simpang kiri, seorang lagi ke selekoh kanan. Tetapi, haluan berbeza itu membawa mereka ke satu jalan lurus bernama keserasian. Namun tiada seorang pun menduga lorong yang sedang mereka lalui itu rupa-rupanya penuh dengan onak dan duri.

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Alaf 21

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9831245822

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9789831245828

Feng Youlan and Twentieth Century China

An Intellectual Biography

By: Xiaoqing Diana Lin

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Feng Youlan and Twentieth Century China

An Intellectual Biography

By: Xiaoqing Diana Lin

This is an intellectual biography of Feng Youlan [Fung Yu-lan] (1895-1990), one of the preeminent Chinese philosophers of the 20th century. Feng’s life very well captured the vicissitudes of twentieth-century Chinese politics and scholarship. He made his name in the 1930s and ’40s with a path-breaking approach to Chinese philosophy. And he was one of the few prominent pre-1949 non-Communist Chinese scholars who attempted to influence Chinese society with prolific publications after 1949. This monograph explores Feng Youlan’s work and the trajectory of changes in Feng’s philosophical outlook against the social and political contexts of Feng’s life from the 1920s to 1990. Feng’s search for a framework of Chinese philosophy that is open and connected to foreign learning, and a framework of self-cultivation that is open to outside ideas, continues to be important goals for Chinese philosophy today.

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9004301305

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9789004301306

Computer Engineering And Artificial Intelligence Textbook 1

By: Faride Sadat Hosseini Zori,Mahta Sadat Mirzazadeh Tekieh,Majid Jafari,Diana Jamshidian,Ghazaleh Azarshab,Fatemeh Tavakoli,Reyhaneh Babaei Garmaroodi,Mehran Mehrjoo

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Computer Engineering And Artificial Intelligence Textbook 1

By: Faride Sadat Hosseini Zori,Mahta Sadat Mirzazadeh Tekieh,Majid Jafari,Diana Jamshidian,Ghazaleh Azarshab,Fatemeh Tavakoli,Reyhaneh Babaei Garmaroodi,Mehran Mehrjoo

A textbook about Computer Engineering And Artificial Intelligence.

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Nobel TM

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Saint Agnes' Garden

By: Diana Lynn Klueh

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Saint Agnes' Garden

By: Diana Lynn Klueh

Saint Agnes’ Garden By: Diana Lynn Klueh The inspiration for Saint Agnes’ Garden came from the book The Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of Saint Therese of Lisieux by Therese Martin. Saint Therese referred to herself as “a little white flower” because she had learned in a revelation from God that, in this world, we are all different kinds of flowers: We are not meant to be alike. We are all loved equally by God whether, in His eyes, we are a rose or a wild violet. The main character, Jodie, is definitely a wild violet. She lives her life for the Lord and what she believes He is calling her to do. Originally from Biloxi, Mississippi, Jodie and her mother must make their own way after Jodie’s father left them. They relocate to Terre Haute, Indiana, and must try to fit in to this strange northern city. This novel illustrates how hard it is for young women to navigate the early years of adolescence and how loving the Lord makes it a bit easier for them to know what they’re truly meant for. The author hopes that, through this novel, people will understand that children are all valuable and precious in the sight of the Lord.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1480990507

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Chinese Migrations

The Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas over Four Millennia

By: Diana Lary

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Chinese Migrations

The Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas over Four Millennia

By: Diana Lary

The current waves of migration sweeping the Chinese world may seem like new phenomena, the outcome of modernization and industrialization. However, this concise and readable book convincingly shows that contemporary movements are just the most recent stage in a long history of migration, both within China and beyond its borders. Distinguished historian Diana Lary traces the continuous expansion and contraction of the Chinese state over more than four millennia. Periods of expansion, which involved huge movements of people, have been interspersed with periods of inward-turning stasis. Following a chronological framework, the author discusses the migrations themselves and the recurrent themes within them. We see migration as a broad spectrum of movement, from short-term and short-range to permanent and long-range, and as a powerful vehicle for the transfer of commodities, culture, religion, and political influence. The Confucian tradition treated migration as undesirable. It praised the delights of staying at home: “A thousand days at home are good, half a day away is hard.” Lary argues that, despite this view, migration has been a key element in the evolution of Chinese society, one that the state disparages and encourages at the same time. Her book will be compelling for all readers who want to understand the context for the present internal and international migrations that have changed the face of China itself and its international relations.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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0742567656

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9780742567658

Swallows and Settlers

The Great Migration from North China to Manchuria

By: Thomas Gottschang,Diana Lary

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Swallows and Settlers

The Great Migration from North China to Manchuria

By: Thomas Gottschang,Diana Lary

Between the 1890s and the Second World War, twenty-five million people traveled from the densely populated North China provinces of Shandong and Hebei to seek employment in the growing economy of China's three northeastern provinces, the area known as Manchuria. This was the greatest population movement in modern Chinese history and ranks among the largest migrations in the world. Swallows and Settlers is the first comprehensive study of that migration. Drawing methods from their respective fields of economics and history, the coauthors focus on both the broad quantitative outlines of the movement and on the decisions and experiences of individual migrants and their families. In readable narrative prose, the book lays out the historical relationship between North China and the Northeast (Manchuria) and concludes with an examination of ongoing population movement between these regions since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472901753

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z/OS Version 1 Release 12 Implementation

By: Paul Rogers,Robert Hering,Paulo Heuser,George Kozakos,Lutz Kühner,Jean-Louis Lafitte,Diana Nakajima,Paulo Cesar Nascimento,Gil Peleg,IBM Redbooks

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z/OS Version 1 Release 12 Implementation

By: Paul Rogers,Robert Hering,Paulo Heuser,George Kozakos,Lutz Kühner,Jean-Louis Lafitte,Diana Nakajima,Paulo Cesar Nascimento,Gil Peleg,IBM Redbooks

This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes changes in installation and migration when migrating from a current z/OS® V1R10 and z/OS V1R11 to z/OS V1R12. Also described are tasks to prepare for the installation of z/OS V1R12, including ensuring that driving system and target system requirements are met, and coexistence requirements are satisfied. New migration actions are introduced in z/OS V1R12. This book focuses on identifying some of the new migration actions that must be performed for selected elements when migrating to z/OS V1R12. This book describes the following enhancements: z/OS V1R12 installation, HiperDispatch, System Logger, Auto-reply to WTORs, Real Storage Manager (RSM) DFSMS, DFSORT, Services aids, z/OS Infoprint Server, TSO/E, RMFTM, Language Environment®, BCP allocation XML System Services, z/OS UNIX® System Services, BCP supervisor, Extended Address Volumes HyperSwap®. BCPii, (de)ciphering, Predictive Failure Analysis, C language, Hardware instrumentation services FICON® dynamic channel-path management, Workload Manager, SDSF, JES2, JES3, SMF, GRS, XCF, HCD Unicode, Capacity provisioning, RRS, Parallel subsystems initialization z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF)

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0738434981

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Cities, Health and Wellbeing

Global Governance and Intersectoral Policies

By: Diana Soeiro

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Cities, Health and Wellbeing

Global Governance and Intersectoral Policies

By: Diana Soeiro

On 25 September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted Resolution 70/1, “Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. Also known as 2030 Agenda, the document lays out 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the realm of ecology, society and economy. The current book focuses on three of these goals: SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions; SDG 3: Health and Wellbeing; SDG 11: Cities and Sustainable Communities. It is critical that interdisciplinary approaches go one step further and translate more effectively into intersectoral policies. This is particularly vital when it comes to urban planning and health. This book address the key question: In the context of a growing influence of European Union policies at a national level, can SDGs simultaneously contribute to harmonising sectoral policies and promoting intersectoral policies? Claiming a growing convergence between health and spatial planning, the main goal of the book is to formulate an answer to the following question: how can policymakers translate the SDGs effectively into public policies in order to improve cities, health and wellbeing?

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Springer Nature

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3030893480

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9783030893484

The Secret War of Julia Child

A Novel

By: Diana R. Chambers

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The Secret War of Julia Child

A Novel

By: Diana R. Chambers

A People magazine Best Book of Fall! Before she mastered the art of French cooking in midlife, Julia Child found herself working in the secrets trade in Asia during World War II, a journey that will delight both historical fiction fans and lovers of America's most beloved chef, revealing how the war made her into the icon we know now. Single, 6 foot 2, and thirty years old, Julia McWilliams took a job working for America's first espionage agency, years before cooking or Paris entered the picture. The Secret War of Julia Child traces Julia's transformation from ambitious Pasadena blue blood to Washington, DC file clerk, to head of General "Wild Bill" Donovan's secret File Registry as part of the Office of Strategic Services. The wartime journey takes her to South Asia's remote front lines of then-Ceylon, India, and China, where she finds purpose, adventure, self-knowledge – and love with mapmaker Paul Child. The spotlight has rarely shone on this fascinating period of time in the life of ("I'm not a spy") Julia Child, and this lyrical story allows us to explore the unlikely world of a woman in a World War II spy station who has no idea of the impact she'll eventually impart.

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1464219052

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Trauma and Uprooting

By: Diana Miserez

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Trauma and Uprooting

By: Diana Miserez

We live in a world that most regrettably, despite its potential in terms of beauty and variety, has been and is still dominated by multiple outbreaks of violence. For the last hundred years and more, people have been forced into situations in which they have lost everything that they had held dear, often including their mental health.

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1800467699

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A grammar of Sanzhi Dargwa

By: Diana Forker

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A grammar of Sanzhi Dargwa

By: Diana Forker

Sanzhi Dargwa belongs to the Dargwa (Dargi) languages (ISO dar; Glottocode sanz1248) which form a subgroup of the East Caucasian (Nakh-Dagestanian) language family. Sanzhi Dargwa is spoken by approximately 250 speakers and is severely endangered. This book is the first comprehensive descriptive grammar of Sanzhi, written from a typological perspective. It treats all major levels of grammar (phonology, morphology, syntax) and also information structure. Sanzhi Dargwa is structurally similar to other East Caucasian languages, in particular Dargwa languages. It has a relatively large consonant inventory including pharyngeal and ejective consonants. Sanzhi morphology is concatenative and mainly suffixing. The language exhibits a mixture of dependent-marking in the form of a rich case inventory and head-marking in the form of verbal agreement. Nouns are divided into three genders. Verbal inflection conflates tense/aspect/mood/evidentiality in a rich array of synthetic and analytic verb forms as well as participles, converbs, a masdar (verbal noun), and infinitive and some other forms used in analytic tenses and subordinate clauses. Salient traits of the grammar are two independently operating agreement systems: gender/number agreement and person agreement. Within the nominal domain, modifiers agree with the head nominal in gender/number. Agreement within the clausal domain is mainly controlled by the argument in the absolutive case. Person agreement operates only at the clausal level and according to the person hierarchy 1, 2 > 3. Sanzhi has ergative alignment in the form of gender/number agreement and ergative case marking. The most frequent word order at the clause level is SOV, though all other logically possible word orders are also attested. In subordinate clauses, word order is almost exclusively head-final.

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Language Science Press

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3961101965

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9783961101962

China's Civil War

By: Diana Lary

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China's Civil War

By: Diana Lary

A new social history of China's Civil War, 1945-9, which brought dramatic political and social revolution to China.

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1107054672

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9781107054677

CANINE NUTRIGENOMICS

THE NEW SCIENCE OF FEEDING YOUR DOG FOR OPTIMUM HEALTH

By: W. Jean Dodds, DVM,Diana Laverdure

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CANINE NUTRIGENOMICS

THE NEW SCIENCE OF FEEDING YOUR DOG FOR OPTIMUM HEALTH

By: W. Jean Dodds, DVM,Diana Laverdure

Nutrigenomics is the new science of how diet affects gene expression at the cellular level, creating vibrant health or chronic disease. Optimum health begins in the cells—and this book shows you how to achieve it for your dog!

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1617811610

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Genreflecting

A Guide to Popular Reading Interests

By: Diana Tixier Herald,Samuel Stavole-Carter

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Genreflecting

A Guide to Popular Reading Interests

By: Diana Tixier Herald,Samuel Stavole-Carter

Librarians who work with readers will find this well-loved guide to be a treasure trove of information. With descriptive annotations of thousands of genre titles mapped by genre and subgenre, this is the readers' advisor's go-to reference. Next to author, genre is the characteristic that readers use most to select reading material and the most trustworthy consideration for finding books readers will enjoy. With its detailed classification and pithy descriptions of titles, this book gives users valuable insights into what makes genre fiction appeal to readers. It is an invaluable aid for helping readers find books that they will enjoy reading. Providing a handy roadmap to popular genre literature, this guide helps librarians answer the perennial and often confounding question "What can I read next?" Herald and Stavole-Carter briefly describe thousands of popular fiction titles, classifying them into standard genres such as science fiction, fantasy, romance, historical fiction, and mystery. Within each genre, titles are broken down into more specific subgenres and themes. Detailed author, title, and subject indexes provide further access. As in previous editions, the focus of the guide is on recent releases and perennial reader favorites. In addition to covering new titles, this edition focuses more narrowly on the core genres and includes basic readers' advisory principles and techniques.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440858489

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Barnyard Pets

By: Diana Jean Brunsman

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Barnyard Pets

By: Diana Jean Brunsman

Barnyard Pets will be the fun and funny experiences of different farm animals. Hopefully, children can relate to some of these cute experiences and talk about them and laugh and learn from them.

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Fulton Books, Inc.

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Building Bridges Between Chan Buddhism and Confucianism

A Comparative Hermeneutics of Qisong's "Essays on Assisting the Teaching"

By: Diana Arghirescu

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Building Bridges Between Chan Buddhism and Confucianism

A Comparative Hermeneutics of Qisong's "Essays on Assisting the Teaching"

By: Diana Arghirescu

In Building Bridges between Chan Buddhism and Confucianism, Diana Arghirescu explores the close connections between Buddhism and Confucianism during China's Song period (960–1279). Drawing on In Essays on Assisting the Teaching written by Chan monk-scholar Qisong (1007–1072), Arghirescu examines the influences between the two traditions. In his writings, Qisong made the first substantial efforts to compare the major dimensions of Confucian and Chan Buddhist thought from a philosophical view, seeking to establish a meaningful and influential intellectual and ethical bridge between them. Arghirescu meticulously reveals a "Confucianized" dimension of Qisong's thought, showing how he revisited and reinterpreted Confucian terminology in his special form of Chan aimed at his contemporary Confucian readers and auditors "who do not know Buddhism." Qisong's form of eleventh-century Chan, she argues, is unique in its cohesive or nondual perspective on Chinese Buddhist, Confucian, and other philosophical traditions, which considers all of them to be interdependent and to share a common root. Building Bridges between Chan Buddhism and Confucianism is the first book to identify, examine, and expand on a series of Confucian concepts and virtues that were specifically identified and discussed from a Buddhist perspective by a historical Buddhist writer. It represents a major contribution in the comparative understanding of both traditions.

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Indiana University Press

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0253063698

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Biosynthesis of Heterocycles

From Isolation to Gene Cluster

By: Patrizia Diana,Girolamo Cirrincione

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Biosynthesis of Heterocycles

From Isolation to Gene Cluster

By: Patrizia Diana,Girolamo Cirrincione

This book describes biosynthetic methods to synthesize heterocyclic compounds, offering a guide for the development of new drugs based on natural products. The authors explain the role of natural products in chemistry and their formation along with important analytical methods and techniques for working with heterocycles. • Covers methods and techniques: isotopic labelling, enzymes and mutants, and pathway identification • Provides a thorough resource of information specifically on heterocyclic natural products and their practical biosynthetic relevance • Explains the role of natural products in chemistry and their formation • Discusses gene cluster identification and the use of biogenetic engineering in pharmaceutical application

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118028678

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Peking University

Chinese Scholarship and Intellectuals, 1898-1937

By: Xiaoqing Diana Lin

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Peking University

Chinese Scholarship and Intellectuals, 1898-1937

By: Xiaoqing Diana Lin

Peking University, founded in 1898, was at the center of the major intellectual movements of twentieth-century China. In this institutional and intellectual history, author Xiaoqing Diana Lin shows how the university reflected and shaped Chinese intellectual culture in an era of great change, one that saw both a surge of nationalism and an interest in Western concepts such as democracy, science, and Marxism. Lin discusses Peking University's spirit of openness and how the school both encouraged the synthesis of Chinese and Western knowledge and promoted Western learning for the national good. The work covers the introduction of modern academic disciplines, the shift from integrative learning to specialized learning, and the reinterpretation of Confucianism for contemporary times.

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State University of New York Press

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0791483916

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The Light of Common Day

By: Diana Cooper

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The Light of Common Day

By: Diana Cooper

Lady Diana Cooper had been famous from her earliest youth, the subject of gossip and adoration as the queen of the 'Coterie', an exclusive high society set. Her marriage to Duff Cooper, a rising political star, and her career on the stage and in early silent films only increased her notoriety. Her second volume of autobiography chronicles these years in the run-up to the Second World War, and her adventures as an unconventional hostess, actress, wife and mother are told in typically fast-paced, witty and brilliant style.

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Random House

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1473549086

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Green Tea: Antioxidants in a Cup

Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-255

By: Diana Rosen

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Green Tea: Antioxidants in a Cup

Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-255

By: Diana Rosen

11 Reasons to Drink Green Tea Lowers the risk of cancer Lowers the risk of cardiovascular disease Improves dental health and bone density Improves the fight against flus and other viral diseases Prevents infection Strengthens capillaries Reduces cholesterol Is a natural diuretic Is refreshing and relaxing Helps focus and stimulates thinking Tastes great

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Storey Publishing, LLC

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1603423664

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9781603423663

Online Learning Futures

An Evidence Based Vision for Global Professional Collaboration on Sustainability

By: Eileen Kennedy,Diana Laurillard

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Online Learning Futures

An Evidence Based Vision for Global Professional Collaboration on Sustainability

By: Eileen Kennedy,Diana Laurillard

The rapid shift online during the Covid-19 pandemic has put online learning firmly on the agenda of universities everywhere and to realise fully the transformative potential of online learning this book argues the need for an evidence-based design approach. The evidence comes from the experiences of online learners who are professionals: educators, engineers, medics and researchers. Designbased research, learner contributions, survey responses and interviews with these learners demonstrate that open, online, collaborative learning experiences are not only feasible but effective for building professional community knowledge. Innovative online learning of this kind can help universities contribute to the global public good by achieving high quality learning at scale. The open online platforms being used in the book widen global access to professional education and create more porous boundaries between universities and the wider community. This is critical for achieving, for example, the full impact of the current policy discussions on the UN SDGs, such as climate and inequality. The evidence-base shows how co-designed, transformative digital education can be mobilised to support professionals such as teachers in crisis contexts, government officials investigating renewable energy solutions, or medics adapting treatments to local conditions. It also shows how to scale up professional development in areas where expertise is urgently required. The book concludes that scaled-up online learning can enable HE to deliver on the UN SDGs by equipping citizens and communities with the knowledge and skills needed to solve the world's most pressing problems.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350324248

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