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Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand

Gardens of Prosperity

By: Joanna Boileau

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Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand

Gardens of Prosperity

By: Joanna Boileau

This book offers a fresh perspective on the Chinese diaspora. It is about the mobilisation of knowledge across time and space, exploring the history of Chinese market gardening in Australia and New Zealand. It enlarges our understanding of processes of technological change and human mobility, highlighting the mobility of migrants as an essential element in the mobility and adaptation of technologies. Truly multidisciplinary, Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand incorporates elements of economic, agricultural, social, cultural and environmental history, along with archaeology, to document how Chinese market gardeners from subtropical southern China adapted their horticultural techniques and technologies to novel environments and the demands of European consumers. It shows that they made a significant contribution to the economies of Australia and New Zealand, developing flexible strategies to cope with the vagaries of climate and changing business and social environments which were often hostile towards Asian immigrants. Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of the Chinese diaspora, in particular the history of the Chinese in Australasia; the history of technology; horticultural and garden history; and environmental history, as well as Asian studies more generally.

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Springer

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3319518712

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9783319518718

The Unfinished Enlightenment

Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia

By: Joanna Stalnaker

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The Unfinished Enlightenment

Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia

By: Joanna Stalnaker

In The Unfinished Enlightenment, Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era's vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world. Through a series of readings of natural histories, encyclopedias, scientific poetry, and urban topographies, the book uncovers the deep epistemological and literary tensions that made description a central preoccupation for authors such as Buffon, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Diderot, Delille, and Mercier. Stalnaker argues that Enlightenment description was the site of competing truth claims that would eventually resolve themselves in the modern polarity between literature and science. By the mid-nineteenth century, the now habitual association between description and the novel was already firmly anchored in French culture, but just a century earlier, in the diverse network of articles on description in Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie and in the works derived from it, there was not a single mention of the novel. Instead, we find articles on description in natural history, geometry, belles-lettres, and poetry. Stalnaker builds on the premise that the tendency to view description as the inevitable (and subservient) partner of narration—rather than as a universal tool for making sense of knowledge in all fields—has obscured the central place of description in Enlightenment discourse. As a result, we have neglected some of the most original and experimental works of the eighteenth century.

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259

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Cornell University Press

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0801462347

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9780801462344

Clinical Research in Practice

A Guide for the Bedside Scientist

By: Janet Houser,Joanna L. Bokovoy

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Clinical Research in Practice

A Guide for the Bedside Scientist

By: Janet Houser,Joanna L. Bokovoy

Clinical Research in Practice: A Guide for the Bedside Scientist is a straightforward guide to reading, evaluating, and using research in these clinical settings. The text helps the bedside scientist take a study from question to design to practice.

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295

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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0763767824

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9780763767822

That Paris Year

By: Joanna Biggar

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That Paris Year

By: Joanna Biggar

In That Paris Year, five smart, adventurous young women arrive on the banks of the Seine in 1962 for their junior year abroad. What they get is an education of a different sort. As they move from the grueling demands of the Sorbonne by day to late nights of discovery in smoky cafes, the young Americans discover a mythical country shaped not only by the upheavals of history, but by the great French writers of the 20th Century, a place where seduction is intellectual as well as sexual. Ten years later, our narrator, J. J., is asked to speak at her old college on the virtues of going abroad. Drawing on the emotionally charged tools of memory and imagination, as well as old journals, letters, and telegrams, she chronicles and re-creates the story of that momentous year. Following in the footsteps of Marcel Proust, Joanna Biggar has written a novel in which intellect, eroticism, and art reverberate from the page to the heartbeat of the City of Light, an American book with the sweep and elegance of French literary tradition.

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484

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Santa Fe Writers Project

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0982625103

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9780982625101

Infographic Guide to Literature

By: Joanna Eliot

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Infographic Guide to Literature

By: Joanna Eliot

Facts and figures are transformed into full-color visuals, making this a must-have for those who love literature. What are infographics? Simply put, they present statistical information in a visual format, turning boring details into colorful, entertaining scenes that help you remember what you’ve learned. Infographic Guide to Literature uses these fun, dynamic diagrams to show how much time great authors spend writing versus sleeping, which futuristic inventions became reality long after appearing in a novel, and why so many covers in genre fiction look the same. Along with these colorful and entertaining visual representations of statistics are quizzes that challenge you to identify popular authors from throughout history, as well as maps that chart some of the most iconic journeys in literature. Infographics, if used wisely, could make you more popular on trivia night or around the water cooler as you impress your friends and colleagues with your dazzling arsenal of knowledge.

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160

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Simon and Schuster

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1667203401

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9781667203409

Luxurious Citizens

The Politics of Consumption in Nineteenth-Century America

By: Joanna Cohen

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Luxurious Citizens

The Politics of Consumption in Nineteenth-Century America

By: Joanna Cohen

Luxurious Citizens traces the ways in which Americans tied consumer desire to the national interest between 1789 and 1865 and reveals how the nation transformed individual desires for goods into an index of civic worth, placing unbridled consumption at the heart of their modern political economy.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812248929

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9780812248920

On Spiders, Cyborgs, and Being Scared

The Feminine and the Sublime

By: Joanna Zylinska

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On Spiders, Cyborgs, and Being Scared

The Feminine and the Sublime

By: Joanna Zylinska

This book deals with the institutional framework in post-socialist, after-empire spaces. It consists of nine case studies and two contributions of a more theoretical nature. Each of these analytical narratives sheds some light on the micro-politics of organised violence. After 1990, Serbs and Croats were competing over access to the resources needed for institution building and state building. Fear in turn triggered ethnic mobilisation. An 'unprofessional' riot of Serbs in the Krajina region developed into a professional war between Serbs and Croats in Croatia, in which several thousand died and several hundred thousand people were forcefully expelled from their homes. The Herceg-Bosnian style of resistance can be surprisingly effective. It is known that most of the heroin transported along the Balkans route passes through the hands of Albanian mafia groups; that this traffic has taken off since summer 1999. The concept of Staatnation is based on the doctrine according to which each 'nation' must have its own territorial State and each State must consist of one 'nation' only. The slow decline and eventual collapse of the Soviet and the Yugoslav empires was partly triggered, partly accompanied by the quest for national sovereignty. Dagestan is notable for its ethnic diversity and, even by post-Soviet standards, its dramatic economic deprivation. The integrative potential of cooperative movements at the republican, the regional and the inter-state level for the Caucasus is analyzed. The book also offers insights into the economics of ending violence. Finally, it addresses the question of reconciliation after ethnic cleansing.

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200

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Manchester University Press

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0719058236

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9780719058233

Molecular Ecology

By: Joanna R. Freeland

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Molecular Ecology

By: Joanna R. Freeland

Molecular Ecology provides a comprehensive introduction to the many diverse aspects of this subject. The book unites theory with examples from a wide range of taxa in a logical and progressive manner, and its accessible writing style makes subjects such as population genetics and phylogenetics highly comprehensible to its readers. The first part of the book introduces the essential underpinnings of molecular ecology, starting with a review of genetics and a discussion of the molecular markers that are most frequently used in ecological research. This leads into an overview of population genetics in ecology. The second half of the book then moves on to specific applications of molecular ecology, covering phylogeography, behavioural ecology and conservation genetics. The final chapter looks at molecular ecology in a wider context by using a number of case studies that are relevant to various economic and social concerns, including wildlife forensics, agriculture, and overfishing * comprehensive overview of the different aspects of molecular ecology * attention to both theoretical and applied concerns * accessible writing style and logical structure * numerous up-to-date examples and references This will be an invaluable reference for those studying molecular ecology, population genetics, evolutionary biology, conservation genetics and behavioural ecology, as well as researchers working in these fields.

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403

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470090634

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9780470090633

Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand

Gardens of Prosperity

By: Joanna Boileau

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Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand

Gardens of Prosperity

By: Joanna Boileau

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Book's by Joanna Boileau

Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand

Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand

The Unfinished Enlightenment

The Unfinished Enlightenment

Clinical Research in Practice

Clinical Research in Practice

That Paris Year

That Paris Year

Infographic Guide to Literature

Infographic Guide to Literature

Luxurious Citizens

Luxurious Citizens

On Spiders, Cyborgs, and Being Scared

On Spiders, Cyborgs, and Being Scared

Molecular Ecology

Molecular Ecology

Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand

Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand

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