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At the Edge of Empire

A Family's Reckoning with China

By: Edward Wong

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At the Edge of Empire

A Family's Reckoning with China

By: Edward Wong

“This book’s power comes from Wong’s broad sense of the patterns of Chinese history, reflected in the lives of a father and son, and from his ability to toggle effortlessly between the epic and the intimate.” —Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic “Edward Wong’s exquisite family chronicle achieves a level of humane illumination that only one of America’s finest reporters on China could deliver. In tracing his father’s journey—from Hong Kong to Xinjiang to America—Wong gives us a profound story of modern China itself. Anyone who once was absorbed by the power of Wild Swans will savor this meditation on memory, history, and belonging.” —Evan Osnos, author of Age of Ambition, winner of the National Book Award One of Foreign Policy’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024 An epic story of modern China that weaves a riveting family memoir with vital reporting by the New York Times diplomatic correspondent The son of Chinese immigrants in Washington, DC, Edward Wong grew up among family secrets. His father toiled in Chinese restaurants and rarely spoke of his native land or his years in the People’s Liberation Army under Mao. Yook Kearn Wong came of age during the Japanese occupation in World War II and the Communist revolution, when he fell under the spell of Mao’s promise of a powerful China. His astonishing journey as a soldier took him from Manchuria during the Korean War to Xinjiang on the Central Asian frontier. In 1962, disillusioned with the Communist Party, he made plans for a desperate escape to Hong Kong. When Edward Wong became the Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times, he investigated his father’s mysterious past while assessing for himself the dream of a resurgent China. He met the citizens driving the nation’s astounding economic boom and global expansion—and grappling with the vortex of nationalistic rule under Xi Jinping, the most powerful leader since Mao. Following in his father’s footsteps, he witnessed ethnic struggles in Xinjiang and Tibet and pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. And he had an insider’s view of the world’s two superpowers meeting at a perilous crossroads. Wong tells a moving chronicle of a family and a nation that spans decades of momentous change and gives profound insight into a new authoritarian age transforming the world. A groundbreaking book, At the Edge of Empire is the essential work for understanding China today.

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Penguin

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1984877402

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9781984877406

In Search of an Identity

The Politics of History Teaching in Hong Kong, 1960s-2000

By: Edward Vickers

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In Search of an Identity

The Politics of History Teaching in Hong Kong, 1960s-2000

By: Edward Vickers

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1135944253

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The United States in Crisis

Citizenship, Immigration, and the Nation State

By: Edward J. Erler

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The United States in Crisis

Citizenship, Immigration, and the Nation State

By: Edward J. Erler

The United States in Crisis: Citizenship, Immigration, and the Nation State argues that to preserve our freedom Americans must mount a defense of the nation state against the progressive forces who advocate for global government. The Founders of America were convinced that freedom would flourish only in a nation state. A nation state is a collection of citizens who share a commitment to the same principles. Today, the nation state is under attack by the progressive Left, who allege that it is the source of almost every evil in the world.

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Encounter Books

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1641772360

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Between the Stepping Stones

By: Joseph Edward Laxton

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Between the Stepping Stones

By: Joseph Edward Laxton

Great-Aunt Chris had begun Helens story, but her death left Helen alone to scribble and scratch out a life now deprived of her deepest friend, whose greatest gift to Helen was a garden, a magical moonlit dance of crystal and gold and silver faeries. The stories of three girls verging on the precipice of womanhood intertwine. Each girl is a victim to brutality, and each was somehow dragged down into servitude and humiliation, yet each life is briefly illuminated by flashes of magic along her journey. The world is full of magicnot that witching magic of sorcery and spells, but the subtle glimpses of magic found in the wrinkles and smiles of those whose wisdom and affection illuminate our journeys. Theyre like fireflies flitting and dancing along a country road at night or the moonlit lace of branches along the forest floor. Magic is sometimes found in the fleeting passing of someone whose momentary flare of kindness and beauty enriches our hearts and souls. And that kind of magic can only be found between the stepping stones in those places where people dare not tread because they are so afraid of the unknown. Helen, Miramund, and Kathleen find themselves in places deep and dark and seemingly hopeless, and only the kind intervention of another can lift them back into the light. Shall each heroine be destined to be a laundress all her life, or can each break with destiny and become a magician in her own right? The stories seek to merge at a place and time preordained by the efforts and struggles of each girl, not by a fickle destiny, and hopefully, each girl will have earned through her own heroic efforts and at that time and place the gift of true balance and insight.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1524525391

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9781524525392

Tell Me How You Love the Picture

A Hollywood Life

By: Edward S. Feldman,Tom Barton

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Tell Me How You Love the Picture

A Hollywood Life

By: Edward S. Feldman,Tom Barton

Written by a legend with over 50 years behind the scenes, this incredible Hollywood memoir is penned by one of moviedom's renowned producers. 8-page photo insert.

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Macmillan

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0312348010

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Positive Psychology

The Science of Happiness and Flourishing

By: William C. Compton,Edward Hoffman

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Positive Psychology

The Science of Happiness and Flourishing

By: William C. Compton,Edward Hoffman

Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness and Flourishing offers students an up-to-date and contemporary introduction to the field of positive psychology. Topically organized, authors William C. Compton and Edward Hoffman examine how Positive Psychology relates to stressors and health, within such traditional research areas as developmental, clinical, personality, motivational, social, and behavioral psychology. Updates to the Fourth Edition include new material on the spread of positive psychology around the world and expanded coverage on character strengths, emotional intelligence, leisure, and the biology of positive emotions. Included with this title: LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more.

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SAGE Publications

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1071822861

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9781071822869

Gods, Men and Ghosts

The Best Supernatural Fiction of Lord Dunsany

By: Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Baron Dunsany,Lord Dunsany,Sidney Herbert Sime

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Gods, Men and Ghosts

The Best Supernatural Fiction of Lord Dunsany

By: Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Baron Dunsany,Lord Dunsany,Sidney Herbert Sime

The world of the supernatural is explored in this anthology of tales about the bizarre and occult

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Courier Corporation

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0486228088

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9780486228082

The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration

Principles and Challenges in America

By: Edward J. Erler,Thomas G. West,John A. Marini

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The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration

Principles and Challenges in America

By: Edward J. Erler,Thomas G. West,John A. Marini

Working with the underlying premise that America's founding principles continue to be vital in the modern era, Erler, Marini, and West take a conservative look at immigration, one of today's most pressing political issues. Character_the capacity to live a life befitting republican citizens_is, as the Founders knew, crucial to the debate about immigration. The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration seeks to revive the issue of republican character in the current immigration debate and to elucidate the constitutional foundations of American citizenship. Published in cooperation with the Claremont Institute.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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074255855X

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9780742558557

Hollywood War Films, 1937-1945

An Exhaustive Filmography of American Feature-Length Motion Pictures Relating to World War II

By: Michael S. Shull,David Edward Wilt

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Hollywood War Films, 1937-1945

An Exhaustive Filmography of American Feature-Length Motion Pictures Relating to World War II

By: Michael S. Shull,David Edward Wilt

From 1937 through 1945, Hollywood produced over 1,000 films relating to the war. This enormous and exhaustive reference work first analyzes the war films as sociopolitical documents. Part one, entitled "The Crisis Abroad, 1937-1941," focuses on movies that reflected America's increasing uneasiness. Part two, "Waging War, 1942-1945," reveals that many movies made from 1942 through 1945 included at least some allusion to World War II.

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McFarland

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1476621780

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9781476621784

Code Name: C.I.N.D.E.R.

Counter-Intelligence Narcotics Detection Enforcement and Regulation

By: Jack Edward Barrett

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Code Name: C.I.N.D.E.R.

Counter-Intelligence Narcotics Detection Enforcement and Regulation

By: Jack Edward Barrett

Jonathan St. Honore is a federal narcotics agent living a nightmare within the dark walls of a Saigon prison. He has been convicted of murdering a crewman after he intercepted a fishing boat he suspected was smuggling opium into the country that instead turned out to be pure gold. Even as he is ruthlessly tortured, Jonathan refuses to reveal where he has hidden what everyone believes to be narcotics worth millions of dollars. As a result, he is left behind to rot in prison at wars end. As time passes, the CIA and an influential senator on track to become the next president of the United States finally step in to help. As a spectacular rescue mission unfolds that leaves five grisly murders in its wake and instigates an attack that threatens to ignite World War III, now only time will tell if both Jonathan and the vast fortune will finally be liberated or if he will die in prison. Code Name: C.I.N.D.E.R. shares a thrilling tale of the intrigue, murder, and greed that unfolds after an American holding an enormous secret is left in Vietnam at the close of the war.

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iUniverse

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1532042493

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9781532042492

The Educator's Field Guide

From Organization to Assessment (And Everything in Between)

By: Edward S. Ebert II,Christine Ebert,Michael L. Bentley

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The Educator's Field Guide

From Organization to Assessment (And Everything in Between)

By: Edward S. Ebert II,Christine Ebert,Michael L. Bentley

Targeted for pre-service and in-service teachers, this book is a guide to "what to do and how to do it in a very practical sense." It addresses four essential topics: organizing and planning for instruction, classroom management, instructional techniques, and assessment. Each of the areas is addressed in a user-friendly, resource-style format, and includes activities and templates to provide readers with a framework for developing their own styles. Coverage of the four main topics is arranged in sub-topics that follow a five-step format of conceptualization, content, planning, implementation, and reflection.

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Corwin Press

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1412969492

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9781412969499

III-V Nitride Semiconductors

Applications and Devices

By: Edward T. Yu

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III-V Nitride Semiconductors

Applications and Devices

By: Edward T. Yu

The concepts in this book will provide a comprehensive overview of the current state for a broad range of nitride semiconductor devices, as well as a detailed introduction to selected materials and processing issues of general relevance for these applications. This compilation is very timely given the level of interest and the current stage of research in nitride semiconductor materials and device applications. This volume consists of chapters written by a number of leading researchers in nitride materials and device technology addressing Ohmic and Schottky contacts, AIGalnN multiple quantum well laser diodes, nitride vertical cavity emitting lasers, and ultraviolet photodetectors. This unique volume provides a comprehensive review and introduction to application and devices based on GaN and related compounds for newcomers to the field and stimulus to further advances for experienced researchers.

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CRC Press

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1000715957

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9781000715958

Looking Backward & Looking Further Backward

The Twin Possibilities for America: Utopian & A Dystopian Future in One Edition

By: Edward Bellamy,Arthur Dudley Vinton

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Looking Backward & Looking Further Backward

The Twin Possibilities for America: Utopian & A Dystopian Future in One Edition

By: Edward Bellamy,Arthur Dudley Vinton

This carefully crafted ebook: "Looking Backward & Looking Further Backward" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Looking Backward - Julian West, a young American, towards the end of the 19th century falls into a deep, hypnosis-induced sleep and wakes up 113 years later. He finds himself in the same location (Boston, Massachusetts), but in a totally changed world: It is the year 2000, and while he was sleeping, the United States has been transformed into a socialist utopia. The young man readily finds a guide, Doctor Leete, who shows him around and explains all the advances of this new age, including drastically reduced working hours for people performing menial jobs and almost instantaneous, Internet-like delivery of goods. The two start working on improving the future with the experiences from the past and the presence. Looking Further Backward - Set in future of 2023 the book narrates the story of how China invades USA in 2020 after China has adopted rampant capitalism as opposed to rest of the world who are in throes of Nationalism, a socialism like set up. Written in a form of a diary, the novel directly hits out at Edward Bellamy's 1888 Utopian novel Looking Backward. The political drama that unfolds in this novel will make you deeply wonder how the author could foresee so much!

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e-artnow

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8026894294

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9788026894292

The Hong Kong Contract

By: Edward Albany

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The Hong Kong Contract

By: Edward Albany

Bill Jedburgh, is a former Royal Hong Kong Police Inspector trained as a sniper and bodyguard. Disenchanted with the Force he has resigned and, encouraged by a dubious entrepreneur, takes up a new occupation as an anonymous, freelance hitman called ‘The Reliable Man’. Relaxing at his beachfront property in Thailand he hears that one of his old police buddies has been killed under weird circumstances. Soon the Singapore Intelligence Service is knocking on his door demanding that he look into the matter and take whatever action may be necessary.

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iUniverse

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0595195091

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9780595195091

A Year of Sundays

Taking the Plunge and (Our Cat) to Explore Europe

By: Edward D. Webster

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A Year of Sundays

Taking the Plunge and (Our Cat) to Explore Europe

By: Edward D. Webster

People-pleasing travel memoir in which the author and his wife take a year's sabbatical with their 16-year-old cat to do the grand tour of Europe.

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Publisher:VanderWyk&Burnham

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1889242217

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9781889242217

Organometallic Chemistry Volume 9

By: Edward William Abel

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Organometallic Chemistry Volume 9

By: Edward William Abel

Annotation. Organometallic chemistry is an interdisciplinary science which continues to grow at a rapid pace. Although there is continued interest in synthetic and structural studies the last decade has seen a growing interest in the potential of organometallic chemistry to provide answers to problems in catalysis synthetic organic chemistry and also in the development of new materials. This Specialist Periodical Report aims to reflect these current interests reviewing progress in theoretical organometallic chemistry, main group chemistry, the lanthanides and all aspects of transition metal chemistry. Specialist Periodical Reports provide systematic and detailed review coverage of progress in the major areas of chemical research. Written by experts in their specialist fields the series creates a unique service for the active research chemist, supplying regular critical in-depth accounts of progress in particular areas of chemistry. For over 80 years the Royal Society of Chemistry and its predecessor, the Chemical Society, have been publishing reports charting developments in chemistry, which originally took the form of Annual Reports. However, by 1967 the whole spectrum of chemistry could no longer be contained within one volume and the series Specialist Periodical Reports was born. The Annual Reports themselves still existed but were divided into two, and subsequently three, volumes covering Inorganic, Organic and Physical Chemistry. For more general coverage of the highlights in chemistry they remain a 'must'. Since that time the SPR series has altered according to the fluctuating degree of activity in various fields of chemistry. Some titles have remained unchanged, while others have altered their emphasis along with their titles; some have been combined under a new name whereas others have had to be discontinued. The current list of Specialist Periodical Reports can be seen on the inside flap of this volume.

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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0851865712

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9780851865713

Emerging Viruses in Human Populations

By: Edward Tabor

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Emerging Viruses in Human Populations

By: Edward Tabor

Infectious diseases are an ever present threat to humans. In recent years, the threat of these emerging viruses has been greater than ever before in human history, due in large part to global travel by larger numbers of people, and to a lesser extent to disruptions in the interface between developed and undeveloped areas. The emergence of new deadly viruses in human populations during recent decades has confirmed this risk. They remain the third leading cause of deaths in the US and the second world-wide. Emerging Viruses in Human Populations provides a comprehensive review of viruses that are emerging or that threaten to emerge among human populations in the twenty-first century. It discusses the apprehension over emerging viruses that has intensified due to concerns about bioterrorism.* Presents the history of emerging viruses * Includes chapters on SARS, Pandemic Threat of Avian Influenza Viruses, West Nile Virus, Monkeypox Virus, Hantavirus, Nipah Virus and Hendra Virus, Japanese Encephalitis Virus, Dengue and Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses * Discusses surveillance for newly emerging diseases

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Elsevier

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0080467903

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9780080467900

Human Rights Issues in Tourism

By: Atsuko Hashimoto,Elif Harkonen,Edward Nkyi

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Human Rights Issues in Tourism

By: Atsuko Hashimoto,Elif Harkonen,Edward Nkyi

This book uniquely focuses on human rights issues associated with tourism development and tourism businesses. Tourism is a manifestation of globalization and it intersects with human rights on so many levels. These implications are increasingly relevant in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent global economic hardship. Split into two main sections, the first establishes a background to human rights issues with reference to tourism, and the second provides a multi-disciplinary analysis of a range of selected human rights issues in tourism; these include displacement, security, privacy, discrimination, freedom of movement, the rights of Indigenous people, sex tourism and labour conditions. All chapters include case studies to showcase specific issues such as legal rulings or tourism policies/regulations. This book is written by a highly regarded team of authors specializing in tourism studies and human rights law. This significant volume on the interaction between tourism development and the safeguarding of human rights will be of interest to a variety of disciplines, in the fields of tourism, political science and tourism/human rights.

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Routledge

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1351033840

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9781351033848

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