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Sweet Mandarin

The Courageous True Story of Three Generations of Chinese Women and Their Journey from East to West

By: Helen Tse

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Sweet Mandarin

The Courageous True Story of Three Generations of Chinese Women and Their Journey from East to West

By: Helen Tse

Spanning almost a hundred years, this rich and evocative memoir recounts the lives of three generations of remarkable Chinese women. Their extraordinary journey takes us from the brutal poverty of village life in mainland China, to newly prosperous 1930s Hong Kong and finally to the UK. Their lives were as dramatic as the times they lived through. A love of food and a talent for cooking pulled each generation through the most devastating of upheavals. Helen Tse's grandmother, Lily Kwok, was forced to work as an amah after the violent murder of her father. Crossing the ocean from Hong Kong in the 1950s, Lily honed her famous chicken curry recipe. Eventually she opened one of Manchester's earliest Chinese restaurants where her daughter, Mabel, worked from the tender age of nine. But gambling and the Triads were pervasive in the Chinese immigrant community, and tragically they lost the restaurant. It was up to author Helen and her sisters, the third generation of these exceptional women, to re-establish their grandmother's dream. The legacy lived on when the sisters opened their award-winning restaurant Sweet Mandarin in 2004. Sweet Mandarin shows how the most important inheritance is wisdom, and how recipes--passed down the female line--can be the most valuable heirloom.

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Macmillan

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0312379366

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9780312379360

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Zen Buddhism

By: Helen J. Baroni, Ph.D.

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The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Zen Buddhism

By: Helen J. Baroni, Ph.D.

Over 1,700 alphabetically-arranged entries cover the beliefs, practices, significant movements, organizations, and personalities associated with Zen Buddhism.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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0823922405

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9780823922406

Hematology

Basic Principles and Practice

By: Ronald Hoffman,Edward J. Benz, Jr.,Leslie E. Silberstein,Helen Heslop,John Anastasi,Jeffrey Weitz

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Hematology

Basic Principles and Practice

By: Ronald Hoffman,Edward J. Benz, Jr.,Leslie E. Silberstein,Helen Heslop,John Anastasi,Jeffrey Weitz

This leading text reflects both the new direction and explosive growth of the field of hematology. Edited and written by practitioners who are the leaders in the field, the book covers basic scientific foundations of hematology while focusing on its clinical aspects. This edition has been thoroughly updated and includes ten new chapters on cellular biology, haploidentical transplantation, hematologic manifestations of parasitic diseases, and more. The table of contents itself has been thoroughly revised to reflect the rapidly changing nature of the molecular and cellular areas of the specialty. Over 1,000 vivid images, now all presented in full color for the first time, include a collection of detailed photomicrographs in every chapter, selected by a hematopathology image consultant. What's more, this Expert Consult Premium Edition includes access to the complete contents of the book online, fully searchable and updated quarterly by Dr. Hoffman himself. - Publisher.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1437729282

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A Letter to My Father

Growing Up Filipina and American

By: Helen Madamba Mossman

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A Letter to My Father

Growing Up Filipina and American

By: Helen Madamba Mossman

A Filipina American woman recalls her childhood during wartime and peace Going from the jungles of the wartime Philippines to the schoolyards of northwestern Oklahoma is no easy transition. For one twelve-year-old girl, it meant distance not only across the globe but also within her own family. Born to a Filipino father and an American mother, Helen Madamba experienced terrifying circumstances at a young age. During World War II, her father, Jorge, fought as an American soldier in his native Philippines, and his family camped in jungles and slept in caves for more than two years to evade capture by the Japanese. But once the family relocated to Woodward, Oklahoma, young Helen faced a different kind of struggle. Here Mossman tells of her efforts to repudiate her Asian roots so she could fit into American mainstream culture—and her later efforts to come to terms with her identity during the tumultuous 1960s. As she recounts her father’s wartime exploits and gains an appreciation of his life, she learns to rejoice in her biracial and multicultural heritage. Written with the skill of a gifted storyteller and graced with photos that capture both of Helen’s worlds, A Letter to My Father is a poignant story that will resonate with anyone familiar with the struggle to reconcile past and present identities.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806139099

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9780806139098

An Introduction to the Geography of Health

By: Helen Hazen,Peter Anthamatten

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An Introduction to the Geography of Health

By: Helen Hazen,Peter Anthamatten

In the second edition of An Introduction to the Geography of Health, Helen Hazen and Peter Anthamatten explore the ways in which geographic ideas and approaches can inform our understanding of health. The book’s focus on a broad range of physical and social factors that drive health in places and spaces offers students and scholars an important holistic perspective on the study of health in the modern era. In this edition, the authors have restructured the book to emphasize the theoretical significance of ecological and social approaches to health. Spatial methods are now reinforced throughout the book, and other qualitative and quantitative methods are discussed in greater depth. Data and examples are used extensively to illustrate key points and have been updated throughout, including several new extended case studies such as water contamination in Flint, Michigan; microplastics pollution; West Africa’s Ebola crisis; and the Zika epidemic. The book contains more than one hundred figures, including new and updated maps, data graphics, and photos. The book is designed to be used as the core text for a health geography course for undergraduate and lower-level graduate students and is relevant to students of biology, medicine, entomology, social science, urban planning, and public health.

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Taylor & Francis

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0429659253

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9780429659256

A Philosophical Anthropology Drawn from Simone Weil's Life and Writings

By: Helen E. Cullen

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A Philosophical Anthropology Drawn from Simone Weil's Life and Writings

By: Helen E. Cullen

A Philosophical Anthropology Drawn from Simone Weil’s Life & Writings situates Weil’s thought in the time between the two world wars through which she lived, and traces Weil’s consistent conception of a mind-body dualism in the Cartesian sense to a dualism that places the mind within a carnal part of the soul and establishes an eternal part of the soul as the essence of human beings. Helen Cullen argues that in Weil’s early conception of human nature, her Cartesian conception of perception already shows a glimpse of the eternal. Weil’s dualistic conception also forms the basis of her political analysis of the left of her time, and through working in factories and in the fields, she develops a conception of labour as a theory of “action” and “work with a method.” Weil was influenced by leading thinkers of her time, prompting her to do an analysis of current scientific theories. Cullen argues that Weil’s analysis of Christianity, already present in Greek philosophy, shows us a theory of “identical thought” inherited from the East (India and China) and brought forth by peoples around Israel. This theory leads to Weil’s analysis, developed in The Need for Roots, of how we’ve been uprooted through colonization and how we can grow roots in a free local society (both rural and urban).

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FriesenPress

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152550181X

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9781525501814

The ‘War on Terror' and the Framework of International Law

By: Helen Duffy

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The ‘War on Terror' and the Framework of International Law

By: Helen Duffy

This book analyses the international legal framework governing terrorism and counter-terrorism and assesses the legal issues relating to post-9/11 international practice.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107014506

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9781107014503

Asian American Dreams

The Emergence of an American People

By: Helen Zia

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Asian American Dreams

The Emergence of an American People

By: Helen Zia

... about the transformation of Asian Americans ... into a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society."--Jacket.

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Macmillan

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0374527369

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Modeling the Past

Archaeology, History, and Dynamic Networks

By: John Terrell,Mark Golitko,Helen Dawson,Marc Kissel

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Modeling the Past

Archaeology, History, and Dynamic Networks

By: John Terrell,Mark Golitko,Helen Dawson,Marc Kissel

How do researchers use dynamic network analysis (DYRA) to explore, model, and try to understand the complex global history of our species? Reduced to bare bones, network analysis is a way of understanding the world around us — a way called relational thinking — that is liberating but challenging. Using this handbook, researchers learn to develop historical and archaeological research questions anchored in DYRA. Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professional historians and archaeologists can consult on issues that range from hypothesis-driven research to critiquing dominant historical narratives, especially those that have tended to ignore the diversity of the archaeological record.

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Berghahn Books

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1800738706

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A Desperate Passion

An Autobiography

By: Helen Caldicott

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A Desperate Passion

An Autobiography

By: Helen Caldicott

An autobiography by the founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility and Women for Nuclear Disarmament.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393316807

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9780393316803

Anna Seghers

The Mythic Dimension

By: Helen Fehervary

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Anna Seghers

The Mythic Dimension

By: Helen Fehervary

A fascinating study of one of the greatest German woman writers of the twentieth century

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University of Michigan Press

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0472112155

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Man-Made Women

How New Reproductive Technologies Affect Women

By: Gena Corea,Renate Duelli Klein,Jalna Hanmer,Helen B. Holmes,Betty Hoskins,Madhu Kishwar,Janice Raymond,Robyn Rowland,Roberta Steinbacher

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Man-Made Women

How New Reproductive Technologies Affect Women

By: Gena Corea,Renate Duelli Klein,Jalna Hanmer,Helen B. Holmes,Betty Hoskins,Madhu Kishwar,Janice Raymond,Robyn Rowland,Roberta Steinbacher

In the early 1980s the new reproductive technologies available supposedly offered infertile women a chance to have children. However, there was growing concern that the determination of scientists to dominate nature, their disregard for women’s well-being, and the financial gains to be made from these technologies would together result in the increased modification of all women’s lives and the loss of even more control over our own bodies. Originally published in 1985, the essays in Man-Made Women describe the technologies being used and researched in the areas of in vitro fertilization (’test-tube babies’), sex-predetermination and embryo transfer at the time. They discuss the practical application of the technologies on an international scale and draw attention to the racist and classist assumptions on which they are based. There is also information about the international action that feminists had begun to counter these so-called benevolent and therapeutic technologies. Man-Made Women hoped to encourage women to start questioning the ‘miracle’ of these new reproductive technologies and to become involved in crucial decisions about their bodies and their lives.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040165605

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9781040165607

Front Row at the White House

My Life and Times

By: Helen Thomas

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Front Row at the White House

My Life and Times

By: Helen Thomas

White House journalist for more than five decades chronicles her work covering all of the presidents since John F. Kennedy. Shares personal reminiscences of the U.S. leaders as well as of the first ladies. Bestseller.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684849119

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9780684849119

Race for Revival

How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire

By: Helen Jin Kim

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Race for Revival

How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire

By: Helen Jin Kim

Race for Revival retells the story of modern American evangelicalism through its relationship with South Korea. Employing a bilingual and bi-national approach, Helen Jin Kim reexamines the narrative of modern evangelicalism through an innovative transpacific framework, offering a new lens through which to understand evangelical history from the Korean War to the rise of Ronald Reagan.

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Oxford University Press

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0190062428

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Hysteria Beyond Freud

By: Sander L. Gilman,Helen King,Roy Porter,G. S. Rousseau,Elaine Showalter

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Hysteria Beyond Freud

By: Sander L. Gilman,Helen King,Roy Porter,G. S. Rousseau,Elaine Showalter

She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil others—especially women. How did this medical concept assume its power? What cultural purposes does it serve? Why do different centuries and different circumstances produce different kinds of hysteria? These are among the questions pursued in this absorbing, erudite reevaluation of the history of hysteria. The widely respected authors draw upon the insights of social and cultural history, rather than Freudian psychoanalysis, to examine the ways in which hysteria has been conceived by doctors and patients, writers and artists, in Europe and North America, from antiquity to the early years of the twentieth century. In so doing, they show that a history of hysteria is a history of how we understand the mind. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

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Univ of California Press

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0520309936

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9780520309937

Aktion Grammatik! Fourth Edition

German Grammar for A Level

By: John Klapper,Helen Kent

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Aktion Grammatik! Fourth Edition

German Grammar for A Level

By: John Klapper,Helen Kent

Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC/Eduqas Level: A-level Subject: German First teaching: September 2016 First exams: Summer 2018 Make German grammar second nature with this trusted reference book containing over 300 activities - now completely revised in line with the new A-level specifications. - Supplement key resources in class or encourage independent practice at home, with clear explanations of the grammar points needed at A-level and knowledge-check exercises throughout - Prepare for assessment with longer application activities focused on developing writing skills such as translation and summary - Build confidence as exercises get increasingly more challenging to mirror students' advancement throughout the course - Check students' progress with regular grammar tests and all answers supplied online

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Hodder Education

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1510431616

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9781510431614

Instructions for Visitors

Life and Love in a French Town

By: Helen Stevenson

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Instructions for Visitors

Life and Love in a French Town

By: Helen Stevenson

When living abroad, there are two rules to be followed: 1—If you are lucky enough to find a place you belong, you should never actually live there. And 2—Never live with a man you think you could never live without. But then, what fun would that be? In this funny, forthright, and charming memoir, Helen Stevenson chronicles her experiences as a young British expatriate living in the countryside of France. With emotional depth and lyrical sensitivity, Stevenson introduces readers to the myriad residents of the quaint hamlet known only as "le village." There's Stefan, the Maoist tennis buff, who has his own unique way of showing empathy for the masses; Gigi, the chic Parisian who uses her boutique to dress her ex-lovers' girlfriends; and Luc, the cowboy painter and part-time dentist, who, overcoming his aversion to blondes, becomes enamored of the Englishwoman who has been warmly embraced by the rural community. But her troubled love affair with this local lothario comes to represent the poignant truth: she is still, somehow, an outsider. Luc reminds her: "Le village, c'est moi," and she can never say the same. Evoking the languid, sensual essence of Mediterranean France, Instructions for Visitors is a very personal revelation of the wonders and the difficulties of relocating one's home—and one's heart.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743463382

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9780743463386

Internet Policy in China

A Field Study of Internet Cafés

By: Helen Sun

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Internet Policy in China

A Field Study of Internet Cafés

By: Helen Sun

Internet Policy in China: A Field Study of Internet Cafés reports the results of a multi-layered study of the Internet café phenomenon in the People's Republic of China. Helen Sun investigates how the Internet has been used by the state and individuals, as well as the implications of Chinese Internet policies and regulations.

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Lexington Books

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0739169998

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9780739169995

Agents and Victims in South China

Accomplices in Rural Revolution

By: Helen F. Siu

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Agents and Victims in South China

Accomplices in Rural Revolution

By: Helen F. Siu

When peasants live in complex agrarian societies with distinct hierarchies of power, how much are they able to shape their world? In this socio-economic, political, and anthropological history, Helen F. Siu explores this question by examining a rural community in Guangdong Province from the late nineteenth century to the present.

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Yale University Press

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0300052650

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9780300052657

Small-Scale Evaluation in Health

A Practical Guide

By: Sinead Brophy,Helen Snooks,Lesley Griffiths

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Small-Scale Evaluation in Health

A Practical Guide

By: Sinead Brophy,Helen Snooks,Lesley Griffiths

Setting out the basics of designing, conducting and analysing an evaluation study in healthcare, the authors take a practical approach, assuming no previous knowledge or experience of evaluation. All the basics are covered, including: - How to plan an evaluation - Research governance and ethics - Understanding data - Interpreting findings - Writing a report Cases included throughout to demonstrate evaluation in action, and self learning courses give the reader an opportunity to develop their skills further in the methods and analysis involved in evaluation.

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SAGE

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1473946204

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9781473946200

Digital Health: A Transformative Approach

By: Helen Almond,Carey Mather

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Digital Health: A Transformative Approach

By: Helen Almond,Carey Mather

Digital Health: A Transformative Approach is designed to prepare Australia and New Zealand's future health and social care workforce for the rapidly evolving digital health landscape. It is the first local health informatics title reflecting Australasia-specific contexts and its learning objectives are aligned to National Digital Health Strategies and Frameworks. A scaffolded approach to learning, makes this text suitable for all health and social care professionals, from early learners developing skills, to those more capable who want to adapt and lead in digital health. The text is supported by online case studies that will assist development of digital professionalism and understanding requirements of digital technology across clinical, research, education and administration in diverse health and social care environments. - Information presented across four units and 12 chapters that support learning and teaching and help build learners' work readiness - Scaffolded approach across three levels of capability – empowered, transitional, and entrusted - suitable for undergraduate, postgraduate and ongoing professional development - Supported by an Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing (EAQ) to provide formative assessment across the three levels - Includes telehealth, electronic medical/health records, clinical technologies, disaster planning, interoperability and precision health care - Additional online case studies to support advanced learning.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0729598381

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9780729598385

Nursing & Health Survival Guide: Medical Abbreviations & Normal Ranges

By: Helen Jones

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Nursing & Health Survival Guide: Medical Abbreviations & Normal Ranges

By: Helen Jones

Part of the skill of nursing and healthcare involves being able to decipher and understand the meanings of results and abbreviations. The aim and purpose of this handy survival guide is to supply you with the information which will help you understand this language, so that you can provide appropriate holistic care to your patients. The Nursing & Health Survival Guides have evolved - take a look at our our app for iPhone and iPad.

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Routledge

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1317906020

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9781317906025

Family Sacrifices

The Worldviews and Ethics of Chinese Americans

By: Russell M. Jeung,Seanan S. Fong,Helen Jin Kim

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Family Sacrifices

The Worldviews and Ethics of Chinese Americans

By: Russell M. Jeung,Seanan S. Fong,Helen Jin Kim

Fifty-two percent of Chinese Americans report having no religious affiliation, making them the least religiously-identified ethnic group in the United States. But that statistic obscures a much more complex reality. Family Sacrifices reveals that Chinese Americans employ familism, not religion, as the primary narrative by which they find meaning, identity, and belonging. As a transpacific lived tradition, Chinese American familism prioritizes family above other commitments and has roots in Chinese Popular Religion and Confucianism. The spiritual and ethical systems of China emphasize practicing rituals and cultivating virtue, whereas American religious research usually focuses on belief in the supernatural or belonging to a religious tradition. To address this gap in understanding, Family Sacrifices introduces the concept of liyi, translated as ritual propriety and righteous relations. Re-appropriated from its original Chinese usage, liyi offers a new way of understanding Chinese religion and a new lens for understanding the emergence of religious "nones" in the United States. The first book based on national survey data on Asian American religious practices, Family Sacrifices is a seminal text on the fastest-growing racial group in the United States.

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Oxford University Press

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0190875941

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A Tribute to the Iconoclastic Mathematician Dr Francisco Bulnes

By: Helen Thrift,Michelle A. Musk,Yuri Stropovsvky,Sara Rains,David Cote,Daniel Álvarez-Cruz

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A Tribute to the Iconoclastic Mathematician Dr Francisco Bulnes

By: Helen Thrift,Michelle A. Musk,Yuri Stropovsvky,Sara Rains,David Cote,Daniel Álvarez-Cruz

This book is a tribute to a universal mathematician, whose contributions to pure and applied mathematics in various fields, such as algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, infinite Lie theory, astrophysics, theoretical physics, nanotechnology and electronics, are relevant for the creation of future technologies and have facilitated a greater understanding of the universe. The book contains various anecdotes of the academic experiences of Dr Francisco Bulnes, and analyses of some of the contributions he made to his fields of study. The book will be of great interest to PhD students, providing them with motivation and inspiration for their own research projects, as well as other researchers.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527552055

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Schoolhouse Politicians

Locality and State During the Chinese Republic

By: Helen Roberta Chauncey

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Schoolhouse Politicians

Locality and State During the Chinese Republic

By: Helen Roberta Chauncey

Scholarly study of the Chinese republic (1911-1949) has traditionally viewed the period through its shortcomings - notably its failure to establish a secure political order - thus allowing the chaos and violence of national power politics to overshadow formative developments taking place at the local level. By focusing on the interaction of local politics and the central state, Helen Chauncey argues for the importance of local initiative in defining the post-imperial state and suggests a rethinking of our understanding of republican-period politics. Through the prism of educational circles in central Jiangsu province, Schoolhouse Politicians challenges assumptions about local elite conservatism by showing how actively politics were pursued in local municipalities well removed from traditional centers of wealth and power. It highlights the activism of political entrepreneurs in the arena of local schooling and interprets the apparent disorderly conduct of local republican politics in terms of the strategies activists used to test their right to public association with the central state and to determine what concerns could be addressed through such an association. Pursuing a comprehensive approach to the study of local politics, this interpretation is sensitive to political intent in a variety of cultural representations, from school journals to teachers' assemblies to the physical management of public space such as schoolhouses and exercise yards. Schoolhouse Politicians makes a compelling case for the central importance of its immediate subject - the growth of the elementary and secondary educational establishment - as well as illuminating larger questions of state-building. This carefully crafted local history, based on pioneering research, is of significance to the field of modern Chinese history. It is also a valuable addition to the recent comparative literature on state-making that seeks, by exploring a variety of occupations and social groups neglected by traditional histories, to give due importance to those little-studied experiences that helped shape the potential and limits of the modern state.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824814150

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Marsh and Martin's Oral Microbiology - E-Book

By: Philip D. Marsh,Michael A. O. Lewis,Helen Rogers,David Williams,Melanie Wilson

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Marsh and Martin's Oral Microbiology - E-Book

By: Philip D. Marsh,Michael A. O. Lewis,Helen Rogers,David Williams,Melanie Wilson

Now expanded with the latest information of relevance to current dental practice, Oral Microbiology retains its unique ecological approach to the subject which helps the reader determine whether an organism will have a pathogenic or commensal relationship at a given site. In the new edition, greater emphasis is placed on the role of current molecular biology techniques in the understanding of oral microbes. The book also provides insight into current therapeutic and prophylactic antibiotic use, infection control, and the relationships between oral and general health. Oral Microbiology provides comprehensive coverage of the subject which will be essential to readers with a specific interest in dentistry as well as those with a more general interest in host-microbe interactions and in microbial ecology. The book is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate dental students, research workers, and a wide range of clinical dental professionals. - Full coverage of the latest molecular biology techniques which have revolutionized our knowledge of oral microbes - Exploration of the biological and clinical significance of the oral microflora in the form of a biofilm on dental and mucosal surfaces - Contemporary views on therapeutic and prophylactic antibiotic use, infection control, and the relationships between oral and general health - Completely updated throughout by a new author team! - Self-assessment questions in each chapter allow readers to monitor their progress - Updated design with 'Key Points' throughout aids learning - Reflects the impact that the genomic era has had on the field - Expanded sections on infection control as well as therapeutic and prophylactic antibiotic use - New sections on the benefits of the resident oral microbiota and on current concepts of factors driving dysbiosis in periodontal disease - New chapter on the emerging role of oral microorganisms in systemic diseases

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702061743

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Jarvis's Health Assessment and Physical Examination - E-Book

Australian and New Zealand

By: Helen Forbes,Elizabeth Watt

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Jarvis's Health Assessment and Physical Examination - E-Book

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By: Helen Forbes,Elizabeth Watt

- Increased content on screening for family violence and abuse and mental health assessment - A suite of point of view videos demonstrating core health assessment techniques for some of the difficult skills and concepts related to health assessment examinations

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0729587932

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Keeping the Nation's House

Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China

By: Helen M. Schneider

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Keeping the Nation's House

Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China

By: Helen M. Schneider

For many, the term home economics conjures images of sterile classrooms where young girls and women learn to cook dinner and swaddle dolls, far removed from the seats of power. Keeping the Nation’s House unsettles this assumption by revealing how elite Chinese women helped to build modern China one family at a time. Trained between the 1920s and the early 1950s, home economists believed that their discipline would transform the most fundamental of political spaces – the home – by teaching women to nurture ideal families and manage projects of social reform. Although their discipline came undone after 1949, it created a legacy of gendered professionalism and reinforced the idea that leaders should shape domestic rituals of the people. By focusing on an overlooked group of Chinese women, this book genders the past by showing how these women helped make the present, and it reveals how a group of intellectuals made the transition to the Communist era.

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0774819944

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Tracing China

A Forty-Year Ethnographic Journey

By: Helen F. Siu

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Tracing China

A Forty-Year Ethnographic Journey

By: Helen F. Siu

Tracing China’s journey began from exploring rural revolution and reconstitutions of community in South China. Spanning decades of rural-urban divide, it finally uncovers China’s global reach and Hong Kong’s cross-border dynamics. Helen Siu traverses physical and cultural landscapes to examine political tumults transforming into everyday lives, and fathom the depths of human drama amid China’s frenetic momentum toward modernity. Highlighting complicity, Siu portrays how villagers, urbanites, cadres, entrepreneurs, and intellectuals—laden with historical baggage—venture forward. But have they victimized themselves in the process? This essay collection, informed by critical social theories and shaped by careful scrutiny of fieldwork and archival texts, is woven by key historical/anthropological themes—culture, history, power, place-making, and identity formation. Siu stresses process and contingency and argues that culture and society are constructed through human actions with nuanced meanings, moral imagination, and contested interests. Challenging the notion that social/political changes are mere linear historical progressions, she traces layers of the past in present realities. “Helen Siu is one of the world’s leading specialists on Chinese rural and urban society. Her essays, collected here, cover a wide range of topics of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, economists, and political scientists. Siu focuses on the ‘underside’ of social life in South China, a quality so often missing in the work of others. She writes with great skill and empathy.” —James L. Watson, Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society and Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, Harvard University “No one has woven the threads of ethnography, social structure, and cultural performance so brilliantly together as Helen Siu has in Tracing China. This rich tapestry of her finest scholarship illuminates how culture, power, and history can be deployed to yield wholly original and convincing understandings of southern China.” —James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University

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Hong Kong University Press

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9888083732

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Cyber Security: Law and Guidance

By: Helen Wong MBE

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Cyber Security: Law and Guidance

By: Helen Wong MBE

Implementing appropriate security measures will be an advantage when protecting organisations from regulatory action and litigation in cyber security law: can you provide a defensive shield? Cyber Security: Law and Guidance provides an overview of legal developments in cyber security and data protection in the European Union and the United Kingdom, focusing on the key cyber security laws and related legal instruments, including those for data protection and payment services. Additional context is provided through insight into how the law is developed outside the regulatory frameworks, referencing the 'Consensus of Professional Opinion' on cyber security, case law and the role of professional and industry standards for security. With cyber security law destined to become heavily contentious, upholding a robust security framework will become an advantage and organisations will require expert assistance to operationalise matters. Practical in approach, this comprehensive text will be invaluable for legal practitioners and organisations. It covers both the law and its practical application, helping to ensure that advisers and organisations have effective policies and procedures in place to deal with cyber security. Topics include: - Threats and vulnerabilities - Privacy and security in the workplace and built environment - Importance of policy and guidance in digital communications - Industry specialists' in-depth reports - Social media and cyber security - International law and interaction between states - Data security and classification - Protecting organisations - Cyber security: cause and cure Cyber Security: Law and Guidance is on the indicative reading list of the University of Kent's Cyber Law module.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1526505878

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Kim Il-song's North Korea

By: Helen-Louise Hunter

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Kim Il-song's North Korea

By: Helen-Louise Hunter

Hunter provides a glimpse inside North Korean society, detailing the everyday life of people living in perhaps the most isolated, secretive society of the 20th century. In this declassified CIA study, she describes the world's most extreme cult society under the charismatic totalitarian leader, Kim Il-song, who ruled his people for 45 years—longer than any other leader of the 20th century. Kim Il-song's totalitarian cult society comes closest to George Orwell's 1984 than any society yet contrived. Hunter brings to life what it is like to live in a thoroughly thought-controlled society—which also is the world's most class-conscious society. Based on all the sources available to the CIA at the time, this book is the most comprehensive look at North Korean life ever published. It is essential reading for foreign policy officials, Asian Studies scholars, and the general public interested in world affairs.

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031308923X

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EU Food Law and Policy

By: Debra Holland,Helen Pope

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EU Food Law and Policy

By: Debra Holland,Helen Pope

To all appearances, Europe is at present undergoing a crisis of consumer confidence with respect to the food industry. Recent food scares, the genetically-modified food controversy, a growing public awareness of the environmental footprint of intensive farming methods, and a perceived threat to the deeply-held European cultural values surrounding diet and cuisine all have combined to expose the vulnerability of consumers in the very ordinary activity of purchasing food. Although the creation of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in February 2002 can be viewed as an EU response to this crisis, it in fact represents an inevitable milestone in a body of food-specific European legislation and case law that has been growing for many years. The EFSA does, however, clearly establish food law as an autonomous branch of EU law. This is the first book to survey and analyse this body of law in depth, drawing together the relevant laws and cases and taking stock of the trends and likely future developments in this dynamic and emotive area of law and policy. elucidates the scope of European food law by investigating several avenues and facets of the subject, including the following: its underpinnings in Article 3 of the EC Treaty, on the free movement of goods;the principle of mutual recognition among Member States;case law developments concerning composition of foodstuffs, labelling, sales promotion, advertising, and other aspects of food production and distribution;aims and policies of the January 2000 White Paper on Food Safety issued by the European Commission;appropriate hygiene standards; andauthorisation and labelling of GMOs. Because food is such a central and essential element in society, food law has far-reaching economic, social, and environmental consequences. And because Europe's new food safety regime is intended, by an extraordinary unanimity of Member States and major political groups, to be the most up-to-date and effective in the world, a broad range of legal practitioners and scholars, social scientists, and policymakers will greatly appreciate this thoroughgoing and insightful analysis.

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9041121242

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9789041121240

Poseidon's Steed

The Story of Seahorses, From Myth to Reality

By: Helen Scales Ph.D.

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Poseidon's Steed

The Story of Seahorses, From Myth to Reality

By: Helen Scales Ph.D.

A fascinating journey with the sea creature that has captured human imagination for thousands of years Poseidon's Steed trails the seahorse through secluded waters across the globe in a kaleidoscopic history that mirrors man's centuries-old fascination with the animal, sweeping from the reefs of Indonesia, through the back streets of Hong Kong, and back in time to ancient Greece and Rome. Over time, seahorses have surfaced in some unlikely places. We see them immortalized in the decorative arts; in tribal folklore, literature, and ancient myth; and even on the pages of the earliest medical texts, prescribed to treat everything from skin complaints to baldness to flagging libido. Marine biologist Helen Scales eloquently shows that seahorses are indeed fish, though scientists have long puzzled over their exotic anatomy, and their very strange sex lives — male seahorses are the only males in the animal world that experience childbirth! Our first seahorse imaginings appeared six thousand years ago on cave walls in Australia. The ancient Greeks called the seahorse hippocampus (half-horse, half-fish) and sent it galloping through the oceans of mythology, pulling the sea god Poseidon's golden chariot. The seahorse has even been the center of a modern-day international art scandal: A two-thousand-year-old winged seahorse brooch was plundered by Turkish tomb raiders and sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. A book that is as charming as the seahorse itself, Poseidon's Steed brings to life an aquatic treasure. Seahorses lead quiet lives, tucked away out of sight on the seafloor. It is rare to catch a glimpse of a seahorse in its natural habitat. But even if few have seen one live, these exotic, seemingly prehistoric creatures exist quite vividly in our imaginations and they have mesmerized scientists, artists, and storytellers throughout time with their otherworldly rarity. Poseidon's Steed is a sweeping journey that takes us from the coral reefs and seagrass meadows of Indonesia where many seahorses makes their natural habitat to the back streets of Hong Kong where a thriving black market seahorse trade is concealed. Throughout history, seahorses have surfaced in some unexpected places and Scales also follows the seahorse back in time, from our most rudimentary seahorse imaginings six thousand years ago on cave walls in Australia, to the myths of ancient Greece. Scientists have long puzzled over seahorses' unusual anatomy and their very strange sex lives. And male seahorses are the only males in the animal world that experience childbirth! Seahorses are not what scientists call a "keystone" species. They rely on a healthy ocean to survive, but the marine ecosystem does not rely on them. But their delicate beauty reminds us that we rely on the seas not only to fill our dinner plates, but also to feed our imaginations.

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1101133767

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Foreigner in Kweilin

The Story of Sister Rhoda Watkins

By: Helen Caterer

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Foreigner in Kweilin

The Story of Sister Rhoda Watkins

By: Helen Caterer

Rhoda Watkins, a quiet young Australian Nursing Sister, was on her way to Kweilin in 1922, her first missionary posting in China. She had been told of the peril which faced her – bandits, civil war and many other difficulties – but little did she realize just how much hardship she was to experience in her twenty-eight years of devoted service. This is the story of a dedicated woman’s persistence in overcoming difficulties and setbacks in a strange land and conquering them with a love for the people she met and ministered to.

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064698327X

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Linguistic Description in English for Academic Purposes

By: Helen Basturkmen

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Linguistic Description in English for Academic Purposes

By: Helen Basturkmen

This volume provides a concise overview of linguistic description in the field of English for Academic Purposes, charting its evolution and categorizing the various strands of research interest. Given the increasing use of English as a lingua franca, there has been a corresponding upsurge into research in EAP. The book synthesizes this research in one single volume and offers brief overviews on key terms and topics in EAP, including academic events and study genres, professional research genres and disciplinary discourses. This volume is key reading for graduate students new to the field as well as established researchers looking to expand their knowledge base in EAP. The work highlights the kinds of descriptions of academic English that have resulted from the research, which can be of interest to disciplinary teachers and lecturers, including those in English medium instruction.

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1351183168

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