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Fiction's Family

Zhan Xi, Zhan Kai, and the Business of Women in Late-Qing China

By: Ellen Widmer

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Fiction's Family

Zhan Xi, Zhan Kai, and the Business of Women in Late-Qing China

By: Ellen Widmer

At the end of the Qing dynasty, works of fiction by male authors placed women in new roles. Fiction’s Family delves into the writings of one literary family from western Zhejiang whose works were emblematic of shifting attitudes toward women. The mother, Wang Qingdi, and the father, Zhan Sizeng, published their poems during the second half of the nineteenth century. Two of their four sons, Zhan Xi and Zhan Kai, wrote novels that promoted reforms in women’s lives. This book explores the intergenerational link, as well as relations between the sons, to find out how the conflicts faced by the parents may have been refigured in the novels of their sons. Its central question is about the brothers’ reformist attitudes. Were they based on the pronouncements of political leaders? Were they the result of trends in Shanghai publishing? Or did they derive from Wang Qingdi’s disappointment in her “companionate marriage,” as manifested in her poems? By placing one family at the center of this study, Ellen Widmer illuminates the diachronic bridge between the late Qing and the period just before it, the synchronic interplay of genres during the brothers’ lifetimes, and the interaction of Shanghai publishing with regions outside Shanghai.

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1684170834

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An Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth-Century Chinese Artists

By: Ellen Johnston Laing

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An Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth-Century Chinese Artists

By: Ellen Johnston Laing

In the second half of the twentieth century, studies in Chinese painting history have been greatly aided by several major lists of Chinese artists and their works. Published between 1956 and 1980, these lists were limited to Imperial China. The current index covers the period from 1912 to around 1980. It includes the names of approximately 3,500 traditional-style artists along with lists of their works, reproduced in some 264 monographs, books, journals, and catalogs published from the 1920s to around 1980. With a few exceptions, artists working after 1949 outside continental China are excluded. Revised Edition, 1998; first published by the Asian Studies Program, University of Oregon, 1984.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472901486

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9780472901487

Up in Flames

The Ephemeral Art of Pasted-Paper Sculpture in Taiwan

By: Ellen Johnston Laing,Helen Hui-Ling Liu

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Up in Flames

The Ephemeral Art of Pasted-Paper Sculpture in Taiwan

By: Ellen Johnston Laing,Helen Hui-Ling Liu

This comprehensive study of the traditional Chinese craft of paper sculpture documents the ancient craft as it exists today in Taiwan.

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Stanford University Press

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0804734550

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Performing Filial Piety in Northern Song China

Family, State, and Native Place

By: Cong Ellen Zhang

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Performing Filial Piety in Northern Song China

Family, State, and Native Place

By: Cong Ellen Zhang

Educated men in Song-dynasty China (960–1279) traveled frequently in search of scholarly and bureaucratic success. These extensive periods of physical mobility took them away from their families, homes, and native places for long periods of time, preventing them from fulfilling their most sacred domestic duty: filial piety to their parents. In this deeply grounded work, Cong Ellen Zhang locates the tension between worldly ambition and family duty at the heart of elite social and cultural life. Drawing on more than two thousand funerary biographies and other official and private writing, Zhang argues that the predicament in which Song literati found themselves diminished neither the importance of filial piety nor the appeal of participating in examinations and government service. On the contrary, the Northern Song witnessed unprecedented literati activity and state involvement in the bolstering of ancient forms of filial performances and the promotion of new ones. The result was the triumph of a new filial ideal: luyang. By labeling highly coveted honors and privileges attainable solely through scholarly and official accomplishments as the most celebrated filial acts, the luyang rhetoric elevated office-holding men to be the most filial of sons. Consequently, the proper performance of filiality became essential to scholar-official identity and self-representation. Zhang convincingly demonstrates that this reconfiguration of elite male filiality transformed filial piety into a status- and gender-based virtue, a change that had wide implications for elite family life and relationships in the Northern Song. The separation of elite men from their parents and homes also made the idea of “native place” increasingly fluid. This development in turn generated an interest in family preservation as filial performance. Individually initiated, kinship- and native place-based projects flourished and coalesced with the moral and cultural visions of leading scholar-intellectuals, providing the social and familial foundations for the ascendancy of Neo-Confucianism as well as new cultural norms that transformed Chinese society in the Song and beyond.

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University of Hawaii Press

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082488440X

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Transformative Journeys

Travel and Culture in Song China

By: Cong Ellen Zhang

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Transformative Journeys

Travel and Culture in Song China

By: Cong Ellen Zhang

During the Song (960-1279), all educated Chinese men traveled frequently, journeying long distances to attend school and take civil service examinations. They crisscrossed the country to assume government posts, report back to the capital, and return home between assignments and to attend to family matters. Based on a wide array of texts, Transformative Journeys analyzes the impact of travel on this group of elite men and the places they visited. In the first part of the book, Cong Ellen Zhang considers the practical aspects of travel during the Song in the context of state mobilization of and assistance to government travelers, including the infrastructure of waterways and highways, the bureaucratic procedures entailed in official travel, and the means of transport and types of lodging. The second part of the book focuses on elite activities on the road, especially the elaborate farewell banquets, welcoming ceremonies, and visits to famous places. Zhang argues convincingly that abundant travel experience became integral to Song elite identity and status, greatly strengthening the social and cultural coherence of the practitioners. In promoting their experience of traveling across a large empire, Song elite men firmly established their position as the country’s political, social, and cultural leaders. The literary compositions and physical traces they left behind also formed an overlapping web of collective memories, continually enhancing local pride and defining the place of various localities in the cultural geography of the country. Transformative Journeys sheds new light on the nature of Chinese literati, their dominance of culture and society, and China’s social and cultural integration. Those interested in premodern China and travel literature will find a wealth of material previously unavailable to Western readers.

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0824860683

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Chinese Paintings in Chinese Publications, 1956–1968

An Annotated Bibliography and Index to the Paintings

By: Ellen Johnston Laing

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Chinese Paintings in Chinese Publications, 1956–1968

An Annotated Bibliography and Index to the Paintings

By: Ellen Johnston Laing

This bibliography includes publications issued between 1956 and August 1968 that reproduce Chinese paintings now in Chinese public or private collections. The great majority of these publications were produced in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, or Japan. Each publication included in the bibliography has been provided with a detailed physical description of the publication itself: the amounts of text , the number of plates in color and in monochrome, and a general evaluation of the quality of the reproductions. The title by which each work is referred to in the index is included at the end of each entry.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472901850

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Crafting a Symphony in Wood

The Story of Violin Maker Anton Sie

By: Elizabeth Ellen Ostring

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Crafting a Symphony in Wood

The Story of Violin Maker Anton Sie

By: Elizabeth Ellen Ostring

Anton Sie, twice successful in achieving his aspirations in music and physics, demonstrates that focus and diligent hard work can achieve great goals. But his story also shows the inter-connectedness of humanity: Anton received his musical training in Indonesia from a virtually illiterate Muslim peasant guitarist and a Jewish refugee violinist, and his knowledge of physics and acoustics from Chinese Communist scientists. He has demonstrated a critical factor in the superior construction of Stradivarius violins, his work authenticated by Western musicians for whom he is very grateful.

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153260341X

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Health Is Your Birthright

How to Create the Health You Deserve

By: Ellen Tart-Jensen

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Health Is Your Birthright

How to Create the Health You Deserve

By: Ellen Tart-Jensen

Suffering scoliosis and chronic pain, fatigue, and depression due to a back injury, Ellen Tart-Jensen became determined to take charge of her life. She began researching natural health care and discovered that by listening to one's body and following nature's simple laws, health is attainable for everyone—herself included. Now a nutritional consultant and certified iridologist, she's at her absolute healthiest and travels the world coaching others in self-care. Filled with a wealth of tips on nutrition, therapeutic teas, exercise, cleanses, and more, HEALTH IS YOUR BIRTHRIGHT is a roadmap for those looking to take charge of their ailments, or at least lead a more balanced, vibrant lifestyle.

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Celestial Arts

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1587612739

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Trust, Voice, and Incentives

Learning from Local Success Stories in Service Delivery in the Middle East and North Africa

By: Hana Brixi,Ellen Lust,Michael Woolcock

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Trust, Voice, and Incentives

Learning from Local Success Stories in Service Delivery in the Middle East and North Africa

By: Hana Brixi,Ellen Lust,Michael Woolcock

This report examines the role of incentives, trust, and engagement as critical determinants of service delivery performance in MENA countries. Focusing on education and health, the report illustrates how the weak external and internal accountability undermines policy implementation and service delivery performance and how such a cycle of poor performance can be counteracted. Case studies of local success reveal the importance of both formal and informal accountability relationships and the role of local leadership in inspiring and institutionalizing incentives toward better service delivery performance. Enhancing services for MENA citizens requires forging a stronger social contract among public servants, citizens, and service providers while empowering communities and local leaders to find 'best fit' solutions. Learning from the variations within countries, especially the outstanding local successes, can serve as a solid basis for new ideas and inspiration for improving service delivery. Such learning may help the World Bank Group and other donors as well as national and local leaders and civil society, in developing ways to enhance the trust, voice, and incentives for service delivery to meet citizens’ needs and expectations.

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World Bank Publications

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1464804575

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Striking to Survive

Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China

By: Ellen Friedman,Eli Friedman

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Striking to Survive

Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China

By: Ellen Friedman,Eli Friedman

In China, capitalist development since the 1980s has given rise to an enormous new industrial working class. In the vast export-processing zones along China’s southeastern coast, countless so-called “migrant workers” or “peasant workers” from interior provinces eke out a living in innumerable factories. Through thirty-five years of struggle, they have gradually established a foothold as part of China’s new industrial working class.

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1608469107

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Maternity and Women's Health Care E-Book

By: Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk,Kitty Cashion,Shannon E. Perry,Kathryn Rhodes Alden,Ellen Olshansky

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Maternity and Women's Health Care E-Book

By: Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk,Kitty Cashion,Shannon E. Perry,Kathryn Rhodes Alden,Ellen Olshansky

- NEW! Enhanced focus on prioritization of care in clinical reasoning case studies and nursing care plans is consistent with NCLEX® updates. - NEW! Recognition of the importance of interprofessional care covers the roles of the various members of the interprofessional healthcare team. - UPDATED! Content on many high-risk conditions updated to reflect newly published guidelines. - NEW! Information about the Zika virus gives you the most current practice guidelines to help you provide quality care. - NEW! Coverage of future trends in contraception help increase your awareness of developing ideas in pregnancy prevention. - Content on gestational diabetes and breast cancer screening cover newly published guidelines. - NEW! Added content on human trafficking provides you with examples and ideas on how to counsel victims and their families.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323640532

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The Beauty and the Book

Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China

By: Ellen Widmer

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The Beauty and the Book

Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China

By: Ellen Widmer

Women entered the book trade in significant numbers in China during the late sixteenth century, when it became acceptable for women from “good families” to write poetry and seek to publish their collected poems. At about the same time, a boom in the publication of fiction began, and semiprofessional novelists emerged. This study begins with three case studies, each of which probes one facet of the relationship between women and fiction in the early nineteenth century. It examines in turn the prefaces written by four women for a novel about women; the activities of a woman editor and writer of fiction; and writings on fiction by three leading literary women. Building on these case studies, the second half of the book focuses on the many sequels to the Dream of the Red Chamber—one of which was demonstrably written by a woman—and the significance of this novel for women. As Ellen Widmer shows, by the end of the century, women were becoming increasingly involved in the novel as critical readers, writers, and editors. And if women and their relationship to fiction changed over the nineteenth century, the novel changed as well, not the least in its growing recognition of the importance of female readers.

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1684174368

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An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Paintings

Tʻang, Sung, and Yüan

By: James Cahill,James Francis Cahill,Osvald Sirén,Ellen Johnston Laing

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An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Paintings

Tʻang, Sung, and Yüan

By: James Cahill,James Francis Cahill,Osvald Sirén,Ellen Johnston Laing

This is the most comprehensive English-language compilation available on Chinese painters and their works from the late sixth through the mid- fourteenth century. Incorporating the work of Ellen Johnson Laing and Osvald Siren, the Index includes biographical details of the artists, their style and studio names.

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Univ of California Press

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0520035763

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Selling Happiness

Calendar Posters and Visual Culture in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai

By: Ellen Johnston Laing

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Selling Happiness

Calendar Posters and Visual Culture in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai

By: Ellen Johnston Laing

As the first substantial investigation of commercial art in China, Selling Happiness explains how the early twentieth century Chinese public came in accept Western style art as mainstream and the heretofore ignored process by which the Chinese art world became (in some sectors at least) thoroughly cosmopolitan. A monumental study of the most important genre of modern Chinese commercial art, this volume will appeal not only to historians of Chinese art but also to those interested in literary, economic, and social history. It will be an essential resource for comparative studies of visual culture."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824827643

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China’s Christian Colleges

Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900-1950

By: Daniel Bays,Ellen Widmer

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China’s Christian Colleges

Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900-1950

By: Daniel Bays,Ellen Widmer

A new generation of China scholars offers a fresh look at the unusual cross-cultural territory constituted by China's missionary-established Christian colleges before 1950 in this fascinating work.

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Stanford University Press

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0804759480

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In Praise of Nothing

An Exploration of Daoist Fundamental Ontology

By: Ellen M. Chen

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In Praise of Nothing

An Exploration of Daoist Fundamental Ontology

By: Ellen M. Chen

This is the fi rst work devoted to an expositi on on Daoist metaphysics and presenti ng Dao as a feminine principle. The work should be of interest to scholars and general readers in many disciplines: Comparati ve philosophy, religious studies, metaphysics, Asian studies, Chinese studies... etc.

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Comparative Health Policy

By: Robert H. Blank,Viola Burau,Ellen Kuhlmann

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Comparative Health Policy

By: Robert H. Blank,Viola Burau,Ellen Kuhlmann

A broad-ranging introduction to the provision, funding and governance of health care across a variety of systems. This revised fifth edition incorporates additional material on low/middle income countries, as well as broadened coverage relating to healthcare outside of hospitals and the ever-increasing diversity of the healthcare workforce today.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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113754497X

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Social Studies Selections

Building Reading Comprehension

By: Ellen M. Dolan,Sue D. Royals

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Social Studies Selections

Building Reading Comprehension

By: Ellen M. Dolan,Sue D. Royals

These engaging social studies selections include topics such as spies during World War II, an army of pottery soldiers, Hatshepsut, and Colin Powell. The controlled vocabulary averages two readability levels below content to ensure understanding and promote confidence. Each selection includes follow-up questions to reinforce key comprehension skills and an answer key for easy assessment.

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Milliken Publishing Company

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Building Comprehension - Grade 9

By: Ellen M. Dolan,Sue D. Royals

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Building Comprehension - Grade 9

By: Ellen M. Dolan,Sue D. Royals

Provides high-interest stories with controlled vocabulary averaging two readability levels below the content. Includes follow-up questions that reinforce comprehension skills.

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Lorenz Educational Press

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0787703982

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A World of Rivers

Environmental Change on Ten of the World's Great Rivers

By: Ellen Wohl

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A World of Rivers

Environmental Change on Ten of the World's Great Rivers

By: Ellen Wohl

Far from being the serene, natural streams of yore, modern rivers have been diverted, dammed, dumped in, and dried up, all in efforts to harness their power for human needs. But these rivers have also undergone environmental change. The old adage says you can’t step in the same river twice, and Ellen Wohl would agree—natural and synthetic change are so rapid on the world’s great waterways that rivers are transforming and disappearing right before our eyes. A World of Rivers explores the confluence of human and environmental change on ten of the great rivers of the world. Ranging from the Murray-Darling in Australia and the Yellow River in China to Central Europe’s Danube and the United States’ Mississippi, the book journeys down the most important rivers in all corners of the globe. Wohl shows us how pollution, such as in the Ganges and in the Ob of Siberia, has affected biodiversity in the water. But rivers are also resilient, and Wohl stresses the importance of conservation and restoration to help reverse the effects of human carelessness and hubris. What all these diverse rivers share is a critical role in shaping surrounding landscapes and biological communities, and Wohl’s book ultimately makes a strong case for the need to steward positive change in the world’s great rivers.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226904806

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AIDS-Related Cancers and Their Treatment

By: Ellen G. Feigal,Alexandra M. Levine,Robert J. Biggar

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AIDS-Related Cancers and Their Treatment

By: Ellen G. Feigal,Alexandra M. Levine,Robert J. Biggar

This book summarizes the etiology, presentation, and treatment of the complex symptoms, infections, and opportunistic cancers of people living with HIV/AIDS. Presents therapies that strike a balance between controlling and eliminating cancer and minimizing the damage to the immune system. Illustrates points with clear and easily read figures,

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CRC Press

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0824746805

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Building Comprehension - Grade 9 (ENHANCED eBook)

By: Ellen M. Dolan,Sue D. Royals

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Building Comprehension - Grade 9 (ENHANCED eBook)

By: Ellen M. Dolan,Sue D. Royals

The high-interest, low-vocabulary stories in this book feature diversified subject matter, including: current personalities, popular sports figures and events, ghosts, monsters, and mysteries, visual and performing arts, disasters, excerpts from legends and mythology, and amazing facts and wonders in science and nature. The stories are written with a controlled vocabulary averaging two readability levels below the content. A male-female, ethnic, and geographic balance has been maintained in the selections. Follow-up questions reinforce key comprehension skills. These include: recognition of main idea, significant details, word meaning in context, inference, and drawing conclusions. Thoughtful discussions and on-going projects can be generated from many of the stories. Where space permits, a follow-through activity has been included to lead to self-motivated reading or to valuable discussion, also allowing the teacher opportunity to award extra credit.

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1429109106

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Amy Tan

A Literary Companion

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

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Amy Tan

A Literary Companion

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

In the mid-1980s, Amy Tan was a successful but unhappy corporate speechwriter. By the end of the decade, she was perched firmly atop the best-seller lists with The Joy Luck Club, with more popular novels to follow. Tan's work--once pigeonholed as ethnic literature--resonates with universal themes that cross cultural and ideological boundaries, and prove wildly successful with readers of all stripes. Tender, sincere, complex, honest and uncompromising in its portrayal of Chinese culture and its affect on women, Amy Tan's work earned her both praise and excoriation from critics, adoration from fans, and a place as one of America's most notable modern writers. This reference work introduces and summarizes Amy Tan's life, her body of literature, and her characters. The main text is comprised of entries covering characters, dates, historical figures and events, allusions, motifs and themes from her works. The entries combine critical insights with generous citations from primary and secondary sources. Each entry concludes with a selected bibliography. There is also a chronology of Tan's family history and her life. Appendices provide an overlapping timeline of historical and fictional events in Tan's work; a glossary of foreign terms found in her writing; and a list of related writing and research topics. An extensive bibliography and a comprehensive index accompany the text.

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Rivers in the Landscape

By: Ellen Wohl

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Rivers in the Landscape

By: Ellen Wohl

Rivers are the great shapers of terrestrial landscapes. Very few points on Earth above sea level do not lie within a drainage basin. Even points distant from the nearest channel are likely to be influenced by that channel. Tectonic uplift raises rock thousands of meters above sea level. Precipitation falling on the uplifted terrain concentrates into channels that carry sediment downward to the oceans and influence the steepness of adjacent hill slopes by governing the rate at which the landscape incises. Rivers migrate laterally across lowlands, creating a complex topography of terraces, floodplain wetlands and channels. Subtle differences in elevation, grain size, and soil moisture across this topography control the movement of ground water and the distribution of plants and animals. Rivers in the Landscape, Second Edition, emphasizes general principles and conceptual models, as well as concrete examples of each topic drawn from the extensive literature on river process and form. The book is suitable for use as a course text or a general reference on rivers. Aimed at advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and professionals looking for a concise summary of physical aspects of rivers, Rivers in the Landscape is designed to: emphasize the connectivity between rivers and the greater landscape by explicitly considering the interactions between rivers and tectonics, climate, biota, and human activities; provide a concise summary of the current state of knowledge for physical process and form in rivers; reflect the diversity of river environments, from mountainous, headwater channels to large, lowland, floodplain rivers and from the arctic to the tropics; reflect the diverse methods that scientists use to characterize and understand river process and form, including remote sensing, field measurements, physical experiments, and numerical simulations; reflect the increasing emphasis on quantification in fluvial geomorphology and the study of Earth surfaces in general; provide both an introduction to the classic, foundational papers on each topic, and a guide to the latest, particularly insightful and integrative references.

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1119535476

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From May Fourth to June Fourth

Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China

By: Ellen Widmer,Te-wei Wang

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From May Fourth to June Fourth

Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China

By: Ellen Widmer,Te-wei Wang

What do the Chinese literature and film inspired by the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) have in common with the Chinese literature and film of the May Fourth movement (1918-1930)? This new book demonstrates that these two periods of the highest literary and cinematic creativity in twentieth-century China share several aims: to liberate these narrative arts from previous aesthetic orthodoxies, to draw on foreign sources for inspiration, and to free individuals from social conformity. Although these consistencies seem readily apparent, with a sharper focus the distinguished contributors to this volume reveal that in many ways discontinuity, not continuity, prevails. Their analysis illuminates the powerful meeting place of language, imagery, and narrative with politics, history, and ideology in twentieth-century China. Drawing on a wide range of methodologies, from formal analysis to feminist criticism, from deconstruction to cultural critique, the authors demonstrate that the scholarship of modern Chinese literature and film has become integral to contemporary critical discourse. They respond to Eurocentric theories, but their ultimate concern is literature and film in China's unique historical context. The volume illustrates three general issues preoccupying this century's scholars: the conflict of the rural search for roots and the native soil movement versus the new strains of urban exoticism; the diacritics of voice, narrative mode, and intertextuality; and the reintroduction of issues surrounding gender and subjectivity. Table of Contents: Preface Acknowledgments Introduction David Der-wei Wang part:1 Country and City 1. Visitation of the Past in Han Shaogong's Post-1985 Fiction Joseph S. M. Lau 2. Past, Present, and Future in Mo Yan's Fiction of the 1980s Michael S. Duke 3. Shen Congwen's Legacy in Chinese Literature of the 1980s Jeffrey C. Kinkley 4. Imaginary Nostalgia: Shen Congwen, Song Zelai, Mo Yan, and Li Yongping David Der-wei Wang 5. Urban Exoticism in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature Heinrich Fruehauf part: 2 Subjectivity and Gender 6. Text, Intertext, and the Representation of the Writing Self in Lu Yun, Dafu,and Wang Meng Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker 7. Invention and Intervention: The Making of a Female Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature Lydia H. Liu 8. Living in Sin: From May Fourth via the Antirightist Movement to the Present Margaret H. Decker part: 3 Narrative Voice and Cinematic Vision 9. Lu Xun's Facetious Muse: The Creative Imperative in Modern Chinese Fiction Marston Anderson 10. Lives in Profile: On the Authorial Voice in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature Theodore Huters 11. Melodramatic Representation and the "May Fourth" Tradition of Chinese Cinema Paul G. Pickowicz 12. Male Narcissism and National Culture: Subjectivity in Chen Kaige's King of the Children Rey Chow Afterword: Reflections on Change and Continuity in Modern Chinese Fiction Leo Ou-fan Lee Notes Contributors From May Fourth to June Fourth will he warmly welcomed. It should be of great interest to all concerned with literary developments in the contemporary world on the one hand, and on the other with the enigmas surrounding China's alternating attempts to develop and to destroy herself as a civilization. --Cyril Birch, University of California, Berkeley

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Harvard University Press

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0674045165

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The Margins of Utopia

Shui-hu hou-chuan and the Literature of Ming Loyalism

By: Ellen Widmer

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The Margins of Utopia

Shui-hu hou-chuan and the Literature of Ming Loyalism

By: Ellen Widmer

Twenty eight years after the collapse of the Ming dynasty, Ming loyalism was still a strong political and intellectual resistance to the new Manch order. Consists of eight chapters, two appendices, notes, bibliography, glossary, and index. Shui-hu hou-chuan,first published in 1664, is the work of Ch'en Ch'en, a man loyal to the Ming, who used this novel as a way of giving covert expression to the frustrations of those times. In The Margins of Utopia,,Ellen Widmer draws on contemporary sources, including Ch'en's own poetry, to connect Shui-hu hou-chuan with the historical context from which it emerged. At the same time, she discusses the place of the novel in the history of Chinese fiction and shows how familiar conventions are put to new uses in Ch'en's hands.

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BRILL

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1684172667

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9781684172665

Honour of Kings Ancient and American History Book 2 FULL COLOR TEXT

By: Ellen Gerwitz

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Honour of Kings Ancient and American History Book 2 FULL COLOR TEXT

By: Ellen Gerwitz

This FULL COLOR textbook is based on the premise that God created the world approximately 6,000 years ago. It takes key events from both the Bible and world history and places them into a single time line. Great care is taken to separate fact from myth so that students can clearly understand how history unfolded from 1,000 B.C. to 1 B.C. Photographs throughout the text enhance the student's learning. After completing the ancient history section, students will embark on a journey through an American history time line beginning with the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and ending in 1850. - Multi-level - Non-consumable. - Chronological time line. - Biblical world view. - Integrates both Bible and world history. - American History time line - Hands-on learning activities. - Encourages understanding of overall historical time line. - Covers the history of all continents.

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237

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Lulu.com

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1312443189

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9781312443181

The Natural Medicine Chest

Natural Medicines to Keep You and Your Family Thriving Into the Next Millennium

By: Eugene R. Zampieron,Ellen Kamhi

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The Natural Medicine Chest

Natural Medicines to Keep You and Your Family Thriving Into the Next Millennium

By: Eugene R. Zampieron,Ellen Kamhi

Open your medicine cabinet and take a look inside. How many pills, tablets, and bottles of syrups do you have that contain chemicals you can't even pronounce? For every ache and ailment, there is a medical prescription. But what about the cures that have been working for centuries? What about nature's medicines? The Natural Medicine Chest is a beautifully illustrated guide which provides the history, descriptions, research, and uses of over 100 healing herbs, foods, and nutrients.

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M. Evans

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0871318822

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9780871318824

Mountain Rivers Revisited

By: Ellen Wohl

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Mountain Rivers Revisited

By: Ellen Wohl

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Water Resources Monograph Series, Volume 19. What are the forms and processes characteristic of mountain rivers and how do we know them? Mountain Rivers Revisited, an expanded and updated version of the earlier volume Mountain Rivers, answers these questions and more. Here is the only comprehensive synthesis of current knowledge about mountain rivers available. While continuing to focus on physical process and form in mountain rivers, the text also addresses the influences of tectonics, climate, and land use on rivers, as well as water chemistry, hyporheic exchange, and riparian and aquatic ecology. With its numerous illustrations and references, hydrologists, geomorphologists, civil and environmental engineers, ecologists, resource planners, and their students will find this book an essential resource. Ellen Wohl received her Ph.D. in geology in 1988 from the University of Arizona. Since then, she has worked primarily on mountain and bedrock rivers in diverse environments.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118671686

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9781118671689

Cop Talk

True Detective Stories from the NYPD

By: E. W. Count,Ellen Count

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Cop Talk

True Detective Stories from the NYPD

By: E. W. Count,Ellen Count

Journalist E.W. Count interviewed nearly one hundred New York City detectives for this book. In the bold, uncensored style that makes police officers the world's greatest raconteurs, New York's finest detectives recall the famous cases they've worked on: the fiery Happy Land disco homicide, with eighty-seven innocent victims...the trapping of a serial killer in the case of murdered ten-year-old Jessica Guzman...the Brink's robbery...the Preppy Murder case...the rub-out of "Big Paul" Castellano, perhaps the most professional of all mob executions...the apprehension of the "Silver Gun Bandit", who robbed and raped his way through Manhattan...the Central Park Jogger case that rocked a seemingly shock-proof city. Then there are the stories that don't make the front page. A police dog that blows its nose, the better to sniff out human remains. Grave-robbers who steal body parts for Santeria rites. The night Chinatown's notorious Ghost Shadows came to the cops for help with a kidnapping by a rival Colombian drug gang from Queens. How legendary Detective First Grade Olga Ford, "one of the toughest cops in Harlem", got inside the head of drug kingpin Leroy "Nicky" Barnes, known as "Mr. Untouchable". The initiation of Detective Robert Chung and Officer Dave Huang into the Taiwanese gang United Bamboo as bona fide "made members", the first time law enforcement officers actually joined the triad - and how a mistake by an FBI agent almost blew the whole operation. The perp who hid in the dryer, the corpse in the refrigerator, "Samsonited" bodies in a Staten Island Mafia graveyard.

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Beyond Words/Atria Books

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067178336X

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9780671783365

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