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The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng

Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China

By: Alison Hardie

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The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng

Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China

By: Alison Hardie

The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng: Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China is the first monograph in English on a controversial Ming dynasty literary figure. It examines and re-assesses the life and work of Ruan Dacheng (1587–1646), a poet, dramatist, and politician in the late Ming period. Ruan Dacheng was in his own time a highly regarded poet, but is best known as a dramatist, and his poetry is now largely unknown. He is most notorious as a ‘treacherous official’ of the Ming–Qing transition, and as a result his literary work—his plays as well as his poetry—has been neglected and undervalued. Hardie argues that Ruan’s literary work is of much greater significance in the history of Chinese literature than has generally been recognised since his own time. Ruan, rather than being a transgressive figure, is actually a very typical late Ming literatus, and as such his attitudes towards identity and authenticity can add to our understanding of these issues in late Ming intellectual history. These insights will impact on the cultural and intellectual history of late imperial China. ‘This work is exciting and reads almost like a novel. It has both a biographical and a literary component. It successively examines Ruan Dacheng’s biography in the context of his time, his complex relationships with his contemporaries, and the question of the judgment made on him in his time and by posterity.’ —Rainier Lanselle, École Pratique des Hautes Études, France ‘The author makes a persuasive argument that Ruan Dacheng deserves revaluation as a late Ming literatus and makes a contribution to the field of premodern Chinese literature and culture by presenting his life and work within a broader context, especially by examining examples of his poetry and discussing his plays.’ —Richard Strassberg, UCLA

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Hong Kong University Press

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9888754076

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Illustrated Brief History of Chinese Porcelain

History - Culture - Aesthetics

By: Guimei Yang,Alison Hardie

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Illustrated Brief History of Chinese Porcelain

History - Culture - Aesthetics

By: Guimei Yang,Alison Hardie

This book provides a condensed, comprehensible, but complete overview of the history of Chinese porcelain.By studying the most notable characteristics of porcelain in different periods throughout history, it explores the evolution of the great kilns, and describes the influence of factors such as social and economic development, political change, and foreign cultures. Each one of these affected porcelain's shapes, uses, colors, styles, patterns, and other features in unique ways. An Illustrated Brief History of Chinese Porcelain explains the cultural implications and the aesthetic and philosophical concepts which underlie the porcelain we know today.The origins of Chinese porcelain lie as far back as the Shang (1600&–1050BCE) and Zhou (1046&–256BCE) dynasties. One of the treasures of Chinese civilization, porcelain was first fashioned in the five great kiln-sites at the beginning of the second millennium, then evolved to form the splendid blue-and-white of the Yuan, before reaching its apogee in the Ming (1368&–1644AD) and Qing (1644&–1912AD) dynasties.An Illustrated Brief History of Chinese Porcelain makes extensive use of archeological material from excavations at historic kilns and grave sites undertaken since 1949, as well as the results of new research. It presents readers with images of outstanding examples of different types of porcelain—including celadon, blanc de Chine, famille rose, and blue-and-white ware.

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Shanghai Press

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1938368800

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9781938368806

2012 Eating and Drinking Melbourne

By: Hardie Grant Books

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2012 Eating and Drinking Melbourne

By: Hardie Grant Books

Featuring sections on high-quality restaurants, inexpensive eateries and trendy bars, this comprehensive guide to Melbourne is perfect for all travelers and any budget. Original.

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Hardie Grant Publishing

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1742701388

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Measuring the Impact of Volunteers

A Balanced and Strategic Approach

By: Christine Burych,Alison Caird,Joanne Fine Schwebel,Michael Fliess,Heather Hardie

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Measuring the Impact of Volunteers

A Balanced and Strategic Approach

By: Christine Burych,Alison Caird,Joanne Fine Schwebel,Michael Fliess,Heather Hardie

Measuring the Impact of Volunteers: A Balanced and Strategic Approach focuses on the long-accepted principle that simply counting “heads” and hours served does NOT give a full picture of the value of volunteer engagement in an organization. The authors adapt the concepts of the “balanced scorecard” performance measurement tool (developed by Kaplan and Norton in the 1990s) to the needs and challenges of volunteer resources management, creating a unique Volunteer Resources Balanced Scorecard (VRBSc). What results is a method for evaluating and planning a volunteer engagement strategy that aligns with the priorities and goals of the organization and the needs of its clients. As a planning tool, the VRBSc helps leaders of volunteers ensure that volunteer service is in sync with the overall goals of the organization. As an evaluation tool, the VRBSc allows decision makers to take an honest look at all aspects of volunteer involvement, balancing four different perspectives that, together, lead to success. Directors of volunteer resources can assess where volunteers are having the most impact and what they should be doing next. As a reporting tool, the VRBSc shows progress and achievements to stakeholders in concrete ways that are meaningful to them. Using illustrations, worksheets, and a comprehensive appendix including survey tools, this book takes readers step by step through the process of creating and using their own VRBSc. Readers will: • See how traditional measurement tools for volunteer engagement do not effectively demonstrate the value and extent of volunteer service • Follow the evolution of the balanced scorecard concept from businesses, to nonprofits, and now to volunteer resources • Develop their own Volunteer Resources Balanced Scorecard • Write meaningful reports that spark action from organization leaders

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Energize, Inc.

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0940576740

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9780940576742

An Illustrated Brief History of Chinese Gardens

Activities, People, Culture

By: Hardie Alison

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An Illustrated Brief History of Chinese Gardens

Activities, People, Culture

By: Hardie Alison

There are many books published in English on Chinese gardens, but the majority are primarily picture books with little informative content. With a large number of illustrations of Chinese gardens, ancient paintings, block prints, and other artefacts, this book is a social history of Chinese gardens and focuses on how gardens have functioned and been used in Chinese society through the ages. Apart from the aesthetic or philosophical aspects of Chinese gardens, you may see how gardens functioned as real estate, how they gave opportunities of employment to skilled artisans, how they opened up outdoor space to both elite and lower-class women, how they allowed men of different social classes and of different ethnicities to interact and gain mutual benefit: in short, how the existence of gardens exerted an influence on society as a whole. At the same time, the reader can find how the wider society, and even socio-economic changes beyond China's own borders, had an impact on how gardens in China developed.

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Shanghai Press

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1938368886

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The Tangle of Science

Reliability Beyond Method, Rigour, and Objectivity

By: Ann C. (PhD candidate Thresher, PhD candidate University of California San Diego),Nancy Cartwright,Jeremy Hardie,Jeremy (Research Associate Hardie, Research Associate CPNSS London School of Economics),Eleonora Montuschi,Eleonora (Associate Professor Montuschi, Associate Professor University Ca' Foscari Venice),Matthew Soleiman,Matthew (PhD candidate Soleiman, PhD candidate University of California San Diego),Ann C. Thresher

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The Tangle of Science

Reliability Beyond Method, Rigour, and Objectivity

Science is remarkably reliable. It puts people on the moon, performs laser eye surgery, tells us about ancient civilizations and species, and predicts the future of our climate. What underwrites this reliability? This book argues that the standard answers--the scientific method, rigour, and objectivity--are insufficient for the job. Here we propose a new model of science which places its products front and centre. In The Tangle of Science we show how any reliable piece of science is underpinned by a vast, diverse, and thick network of other scientific products. In doing so we bring back into focus areas of science that have been long neglected, emphasizing how every product, from the screws that hold the space shuttle together, to ways of measuring the consumer price index, to Einstein's theory of general relativity, work together to support results we can trust.

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Oxford University Press

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0198866348

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9780198866343

Best Laid Plans

Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times

By: Jessica Halliday Hardie

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Best Laid Plans

Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times

By: Jessica Halliday Hardie

Given the range of possibilities open to women today, what futures do adolescent girls dream of and pursue? And how do social class and race play into their trajectories? In asking young women about their aspirations in three areas—school, work, and family—Best Laid Plans demonstrates how future plans are framed by notions of gendered responsibilities and abilities. Through her examination of the lives of poor, working-class, and middle-class Black and White young women as they navigate the transition to adulthood, sociologist Jessica Halliday Hardie defines anew what it means for young women to come of age. In particular, Hardie shows how social capital, either possessed or lacked, is not simply a resource for planning for the future but a structure whose form and function varies by social class and race. As these inequalities persist into adulthood, high aspirations, social capital, and careful planning bolster some young women while hindering others. Drawing on qualitative data from a five-year period, Best Laid Plans makes the case for why we need to move beyond the individual appeal to “dream bigger” and “plan better” and toward systematic changes that will put young people’s aspirations within reach.

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Univ of California Press

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0520970055

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9780520970052

An introduction to supporting people with a learning disability

By: Elaine Hardie,Liz Tilly

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An introduction to supporting people with a learning disability

By: Elaine Hardie,Liz Tilly

If you work with people with a learning disability and are studying for a health and social care qualification, or you want the right information to help your personal development, then An introduction to supporting people with a learning disability is for you. This book puts the person at the centre of the support you give. It uses real life stories, activities and thinking points to cover all of the learning outcomes and is full of practical examples of how to apply the ideas to the support you provide.

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Learning Matters

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0857257102

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9780857257109

Selected Papers on Ancient Literature and its Reception

By: Philip Hardie

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Selected Papers on Ancient Literature and its Reception

By: Philip Hardie

This volume gathers together about two thirds of the articles and essays published between 1983 and 2021 by Philip Hardie, whose work on ancient literature has been of seminal importance in the field. The centre of gravity lies in late Republican and Augustan poetry, in particular Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid, with important contributions on wider Augustan culture; on Neronian and Flavian epic; on the Latin poetry of late antiquity; and on the reception of Latin poetry.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110798859

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9783110798852

Breaking Rules: The Social and Situational Dynamics of Young People's Urban Crime

By: Per-Olof H. Wikström,Dietrich Oberwittler,Kyle Treiber,Beth Hardie

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Breaking Rules: The Social and Situational Dynamics of Young People's Urban Crime

By: Per-Olof H. Wikström,Dietrich Oberwittler,Kyle Treiber,Beth Hardie

Why do certain people commit acts of crime? Why does crime happen in certain places? Presenting an ambitious new study designed to test a pioneering new theory of the causes of crime, Breaking Rules: The Social and Situational Dynamics of Young People's Urban Crime demonstrates that these questions can only go so far in explaining why crime happens - and, therefore, in preventing it. Based on the work of the Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+), Breaking Rules presents an analysis of the urban structure of Peterborough and its relation to young people's social life. Contemporary sciences state that behaviour is the outcome of an interaction between people and the environments to which they are exposed, and it is precisely that interaction and its relation to young people's crime involvement that PADS+ explores. Driven by a ground-breaking theory of crime, Situational Action Theory, which aims to explain why people break rules, it implements innovative methods of measuring social environments and people's exposure to them, involving a cohort of 700 young people growing up in the UK city of Peterborough. It focuses on the important adolescent time window, ages 12 to 17, during which young people's crime involvement is at its peak, using unique space-time budget data to explore young people's time use, movement patterns, and the spatio-temporal characteristics of their crime involvement. Presenting the first study of this kind, both in breadth and detail, with significant implications for policy and prevention, Breaking Rules should not only be of great interest to academic readers, but also to policy-makers and practitioners, interested in issues of urban environments, crime within urban environments, and the role of social environments in crime causation.

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OUP Oxford

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0191634107

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9780191634109

The Rose Labyrinth

By: Titania Hardie

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The Rose Labyrinth

By: Titania Hardie

Now in trade paperback, a mystical fiction debut from Britain’s bestselling “Favorite White Witch” that takes readers on a romantic journey from Elizabethan England to modern-day London where a centuries-old secret awaits. Before his death in 1609, Queen Elizabeth’s spiritual consultant, astrologer, and scientific advisor John Dee hid many of his most astonishing written works, believing that the world was not yet prepared to face the shocking truths that they revealed. For seventeen generations, his female descendants have carefully guarded the secret of his hiding place, waiting for the right moment to bring Dee’s ideas to light. That time is now. In The Rose Labyrinth, popular British author Titania Hardie masterfully blends historical fact and fiction as she introduces readers to Lucy King, a beautiful, young documentary producer based in London. With the help of a brilliant group of friends, Lucy races through London, France, and New York to decipher the clues that will eventually lead her to the hidden treasure of the Rose Labyrinth. Along the way she finds true love with Alex Stafford, the doctor who saw her through a life-threatening heart condition and transplant. A sweeping adventure for readers who loved The Da Vinci Code and The Expected One, The Rose Labyrinth is a decadent, romantic novel with a historical twist. It features a wonderful mix of literary references, from Shakespeare, to the Romantic poets, to Gabriel Garcia Marquez; the folklore and history of Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and Paganism; and of course, astrology and numerology, of which Titania Hardie is an expert. As the Rose Labyrinth tells us, the world we think we know is not all that it appears to be.

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486

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Simon and Schuster

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1416586032

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9781416586036

Rumour and Renown

Representations of Fama in Western Literature

By: Philip R. Hardie

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Rumour and Renown

Representations of Fama in Western Literature

By: Philip R. Hardie

Major study of the literary treatment of rumour and renown across the canon of authors from Homer to Alexander Pope, including readings in historiographical and dramatic texts, and authors such as Petrarch, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton. Of interest to students of classical and comparative literature and of reception studies.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521620880

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9780521620888

Penzance

By: Melissa Hardie

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Penzance

By: Melissa Hardie

This commemorative booklet about Penzance and surrounding area offers a short history of the town as well as charting Penzance's year 2000 celebrations - from the visit of the Concarneau group of musicians and dancers to the ship's company of HMS Penzance receiving Honorary Freedom of Entry.

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Hypatia Publications

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1872229409

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9781872229409

A Passion for Nature

19th-century Naturalism in the Circle of Charles Alexander Johns

By: Deirdre Dare,Melissa Hardie

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A Passion for Nature

19th-century Naturalism in the Circle of Charles Alexander Johns

By: Deirdre Dare,Melissa Hardie

The biography of Victorian botanist, social historian, and educator, Charles Alexander Johns (1811-1874), best known for the classic guide Flowers of the Field.

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Hypatia Publications

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1872229581

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9781872229584

Ovid's Poetics of Illusion

By: Philip R. Hardie

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Ovid's Poetics of Illusion

By: Philip R. Hardie

Ovid's poetry is haunted obsessively by a sense both of the living fullness of the texts and of the emptiness of these 'insubstantial pageants'. This major study touches on the whole of Ovid's output, from the Amores to the exile poetry, and is an overarching treatment of illusionism and the textual conjuring of presence in the corpus. Modern critical and theoretical approaches, accompanied by close readings of individual passages, examine the topic from the points of view of poetics and rhetoric, aesthetics, the psychology of desire, philosophy, religion and politics. There are also case studies of the reception of Ovid's poetics of illusion in Renaissance and modern literature and art. The book will interest students and scholars of Latin and later European literatures. All foreign languages are accompanied by translations.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521800870

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9780521800877

Izakaya

Japanese Bar Food

By: Hardie Grant Books

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Izakaya

Japanese Bar Food

By: Hardie Grant Books

Japanese bar food is relaxed, simple, and always shared—create delicious izakaya classics at home Izakaya (noun) A Japanese bar offering a selection of beverages and tapas-style snacks Izakayas are the heart and soul of Japan's food culture. Found on just about every street corner, they serve beer and sake, as well as delicious grazing food. These 75 delicious, authentic recipes are an introduction to the world of Japanese bar food. There are small bites, such as Lotus Chips, Japanese Pickles, and Camambert Tempurs; salads like Green Beans with Black Sesame Dressing and Green Tea Noodle Salad; along with a range of tempting skewers such as Nori-wrapped Scallops and Miso-Glazed Salmon Skewers. Bigger dishes include Okonomiyaki (Japanese pancake), Pork Gyoza (dumplings), and Grilled Eggplant with Soy and Ginger, while sweets might be Sesame Mousse with Red Bean or Green Tea Candied Chestnuts. Some of the recipes feature Japanese ingredients that might already be in newcomers' cupboards—soy sauce, miso paste, and soba noodles—while others use ingredients that may be less familiar—ponzu sauce, ichimi spice mix, and shiso leaves. With recipes that are authentic yet not overly complicated, this is the perfect book for anyone who wants to make beautiful, simple Japanese bar food at home. Includes dual measurements.

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Hardie Grant Publishing

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174270042X

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The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng

The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng

Illustrated Brief History of Chinese Porcelain

Illustrated Brief History of Chinese Porcelain

2012 Eating and Drinking Melbourne

2012 Eating and Drinking Melbourne

Measuring the Impact of Volunteers

Measuring the Impact of Volunteers

An Illustrated Brief History of Chinese Gardens

An Illustrated Brief History of Chinese Gardens

The Tangle of Science

The Tangle of Science

Best Laid Plans

Best Laid Plans

An introduction to supporting people with a learning disability

An introduction to supporting people with a learning disability

Selected Papers on Ancient Literature and its Reception

Selected Papers on Ancient Literature and its Reception

Breaking Rules: The Social and Situational Dynamics of Young People's Urban Crime

Breaking Rules: The Social and Situational Dynamics of Young People's Urban Crime

The Rose Labyrinth

The Rose Labyrinth

Rumour and Renown

Rumour and Renown

Penzance

Penzance

A Passion for Nature

A Passion for Nature

Ovid's Poetics of Illusion

Ovid's Poetics of Illusion

Izakaya

Izakaya

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