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Chasing the Dragon in Shanghai

Canada’s Early Relations with China, 1858-1952

By: John D. Meehan

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Chasing the Dragon in Shanghai

Canada’s Early Relations with China, 1858-1952

By: John D. Meehan

Canadians share a long history with China. Canada is home to a large Chinese diaspora, it appointed a trade commissioner to Shanghai over a century ago, and it was one of the first Western nations to recognize the People’s Republic of China. This absorbing account of Canadian sojourners in Shanghai, from the arrival of Lord Elgin in 1858 to the closing of the consulate general in 1952, gives a human face to that history. Some Canadians came to save souls, nourish bodies, and educate minds; others sought financial and political gain. Their experiences – which unfolded against a backdrop of civil war, invasion, and revolution in China and were coloured by Canada’s evolution from colony to nation – reflected Canada’s deepening relationship with China and the troubling asymmetries that underpinned it. Although Canadians, like other foreigners, had left Shanghai by the early 1950s, their lives and activities foreshadowed more recent Canadian initiatives in that city, and in China more generally.

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UBC Press

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0774820403

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9780774820400

Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual

By: John Boston,Daniel E Manville

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Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual

By: John Boston,Daniel E Manville

Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual, in its much-anticipated fourth edition, is an indispensable guide for prisoners and prisoner advocates seeking to understand the rights guaranteed to prisoners by law and how to protect those rights. Clear, comprehensive, practical advice provides prisoners with everything they need to know on conditions of confinement, civil liberties in prison, procedural due process, the legal system, how to litigate, conducting effective legal research, and writing legal documents. Written by two legal and penitentiary experts with intimate knowledge of prisoner's rights and legal aid work, authors John Boston and Daniel E. Manville strategically focus on federal constitutional law, providing prisoners and those wishing to assist them with the most important information concerning legal rights. Over the past decade, prison law and conditions have changed significantly. This new edition is updated to include the most relevant prisoners' rights topics and approaches to litigation. Updates include all aspects of prison life as well as material on legal research, legal writing, types of legal remedies, and how to effectively use those remedies. Certainly the most authoritative, well-organized and relevant prisoner's rights manual available - - the eagerly awaited fourth edition should be purchased by everyone interested in civil rights for the incarcerated.

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Oxford University Press

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019988837X

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9780199888375

Chicago: America's Railroad Capital

The Illustrated History, 1836 to Today

By: Brian Solomon,John Gruber,Michael Blaszak,Chris Guss

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Chicago: America's Railroad Capital

The Illustrated History, 1836 to Today

By: Brian Solomon,John Gruber,Michael Blaszak,Chris Guss

A history of the development of Chicago as a railroad hub, from its earliest days to the present, illustrated with color and black and white photographs, maps, and railroad memorabilia"--

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Voyageur Press (MN)

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0760346038

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The Criminology of Edwin Sutherland

By: John F. Galliher

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The Criminology of Edwin Sutherland

By: John F. Galliher

Edwin Sutherland is the acknowledged father of American criminology. This is the first full-length analysis of his work and his person. Unlike the European schools of criminology, which sought to locate deviant behavior within the deep structures of the economy, Sutherland eschewed such explanations in favor of proximate and observable causes. He located the sources of crime in the association and interaction of specific groups of people. For Sutherland, crime as a way of life results from an individual's attachment to criminals for whom criminal acts are a measure of success no less than a way of life. In a series of publications, Sutherland expanded the horizons of the classic "Chicago School" of interactionists, and in the process founded criminology as a separate area of research while locating it firmly within sociology. As the authors show, Sutherland's work was inspired by strong moral concerns and a sense of the needs of society for social order without falling prey to either blaming the victim or pandering to sentiment about the joys of criminal life. In this sense, he is a model of the sociological tradition long deserving of the biography acknowledging his role as a master and pioneer. Yet Gaylord and Galliher have written more than an intellectual biography. They take seriously the need to fit Sutherland and his "theory of differential association" into a social and historical context. They are also aware and critically straightforward about the limitations of Sutherland's work in criminology, but place both his achievements and their limitations in a fully developed analytical context.

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204

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Transaction Publishers

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1412836409

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9781412836401

Infant Cognition

Predicting Later Intellectual Functioning

By: John Colombo

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Infant Cognition

Predicting Later Intellectual Functioning

By: John Colombo

The historical and procedural contexts of four measures of infant attention and learning - measures that have proved the most promising in predicting later childhood intellectual performance - are explored in this volume. Incorporating the latest research literature on individual differences in the preverbal infant, the author examines the psychometric properties for the measures, their concurrent relations with other measures of early cognition and development, and evidence of their predictive ability.

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SAGE Publications

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1452254168

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Linking Species & Ecosystems

By: Clive G. Jones,John H. Lawton

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Linking Species & Ecosystems

By: Clive G. Jones,John H. Lawton

I was asked to introduce this volume by examining "why a knowledge of ecosys tem functioning can contribute to understanding species activities, dynamics, and assemblages." I have found it surprisingly difficult to address this topic. On the one hand, the answer is very simple and general: because all species live in ecosystems, they are part of and dependent on ecosystem processes. It is impossible to understand the abundance and distribution of populations and the species diversity and composition of communities without a knowledge of their abiotic and biotic environments and of the fluxes of energy and mat ter through the ecosystems of which they are a part. But everyone knows this. It is what ecology is all about (e.g., Likens, 1992). It is why the discipline has retained its integrity and thrived, despite a sometimes distressing degree of bickering and chauvinism among its various subdisciplines: physiological, be havioral, population, community, and ecosystem ecology.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461517737

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9781461517733

Where Nobody Knows Your Name

Life in the Minor Leagues of Baseball

By: John Feinstein

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Where Nobody Knows Your Name

Life in the Minor Leagues of Baseball

By: John Feinstein

Minor league baseball is quintessentially American: small towns, small stadiums, $5 tickets, $2 hot dogs, the never-ending possibility of making it big. But looming above it all is always the real deal: Major League Baseball. John Feinstein takes the reader behind the curtain into the guarded world of the minor leagues, like no other writer can. Where Nobody Knows Your Name explores the trials and travails of the inhabitants of Triple-A, focusing on nine men, including players, managers and umpires, among many colorful characters, living on the cusp of the dream. The book tells the stories of former World Series hero Scott Podsednik, giving it one more shot; Durham Bulls manager Charlie Montoya, shepherding generations across the line; and designated hitter Jon Lindsey, a lifelong minor leaguer, waiting for his day to come. From Raleigh to Pawtucket, from Lehigh Valley to Indianapolis and beyond, this is an intimate and exciting look at life in the minor leagues, where you’re either waiting for the call or just passing through.

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Anchor

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0307949583

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The Confederate Alamo

Bloodbath at Petersburg's Fort Gregg on April 2, 1865

By: John J. Fox

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The Confederate Alamo

Bloodbath at Petersburg's Fort Gregg on April 2, 1865

By: John J. Fox

The first book-length study about the bloody, chaotic Battle of Fort Gregg: “Sweeping . . . insightful . . . military history at its best.” —Civil War News By April 2, 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant’s men had tightened their noose around the vital town of Petersburg, Virginia. Trapped on three sides with a river at their back, the soldiers from General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia had never faced such dire circumstances. To give Lee time to craft an escape, a small motley group of threadbare Southerners made a suicidal last stand at a place called Fort Gregg. The venerable Union commander Major General John Gibbon called the struggle “one of the most desperate ever witnessed.” At 1:00 p.m., hearts pounded in the chests of thousands of Union soldiers in Gibbon’s 24th Corps. These courageous men fixed bayonets and charged across 800 yards of open ground into withering small arms and artillery fire. A handful of Confederates rammed cartridges into their guns and fired over Fort Gregg’s muddy parapets at this tidal wave of fresh Federal troops. Short on ammunition and men but not on bravery, these Southerners wondered if their last stand would make a difference. Many of the veterans who fought at this place considered it the nastiest fight of their war experience. Most could not shake the gruesome memories, yet when they passed on, the battle faded with them. On these pages, award-winning historian John Fox resurrects these forgotten stories, using numerous unpublished letters and diaries to take the reader from the Union battle lines all the way into Fort Gregg’s smoking cauldron of hell. Fourteen Federal soldiers would later receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for their valor during this hand-to-hand melee, yet the few bloody Confederate survivors would experience an ignominious end to their war. This richly detailed account is filled with maps, photos, and new perspectives on the strategic effect this little-known battle really had on the war in Virginia.

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Casemate Publishers

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1940669162

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Communication and Midterm Elections

Media, Message, and Mobilization

By: John Allen Hendricks,Dan Schill

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Communication and Midterm Elections

Media, Message, and Mobilization

By: John Allen Hendricks,Dan Schill

This book offers a comprehensive examination of midterm elections from the lens of communications and media coverage. Using a wide variety of methods, this contributed volume covers the differences, similarities, and challenges unique to midterm elections.

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Springer

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1137488018

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Wyoming Range War

The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County

By: John W. Davis

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Wyoming Range War

The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County

By: John W. Davis

Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West’s most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land and census records, newspapers, and trial transcripts, Davis has produced an all-new interpretation. He looks at the conflict from the perspective of Johnson County residents—those whose home territory was invaded and many of whom the invaders targeted for murder—and finds that, contrary to the received explanation, these people were not thieves and rustlers but legitimate citizens. The broad outlines of the conflict are familiar: some of Wyoming’s biggest cattlemen, under the guise of eliminating livestock rustling on the open range, hire two-dozen Texas cowboys and, with range detectives and prominent members of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, “invade” north-central Wyoming to clean out rustlers and other undesirables. While the invaders kill two suspected rustlers, citizens mobilize and eventually turn the tables, surrounding the intruders at a ranch where they intend to capture them by force. An appeal for help convinces President Benjamin Harrison to call out the army from nearby Fort McKinley, and after an all-night ride the soldiers arrive just in time to stave off the invaders’ annihilation. Though taken prisoner, they later avoid prosecution. The cattle barons’ powers of persuasion in justifying their deeds have colored accounts of the war for more than a century. Wyoming Range War tells a compelling story that redraws the lines between heroes and villains.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806183802

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9780806183800

Gideon Welles

Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy

By: John Niven

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Gideon Welles

Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy

By: John Niven

A full-scale life and times biography of an important Civil War figure.

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Oxford University Press

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0195365445

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On the Brink of Civil War

The Compromise of 1850 and how it Changed the Course of American History

By: John C. Waugh

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On the Brink of Civil War

The Compromise of 1850 and how it Changed the Course of American History

By: John C. Waugh

This book tells the dramatic story of what happened when a handful of senators tried to hammer out a compromise to save the Union.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0842029451

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9780842029452

The Dominion and the Rising Sun

Canada Encounters Japan, 1929-41

By: John D. Meehan

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The Dominion and the Rising Sun

Canada Encounters Japan, 1929-41

By: John D. Meehan

The Dominion and the Rising Sun is the first major study of Canada's diplomatic arrival in Japan and, by extension, East Asia. It examines the political, economic, and cultural relations forged during this seminal period between the foremost power in Asia and the young dominion tentatively establishing itself in world affairs. An overview of Canada's initial foray into Pacific affairs, it begins with the opening in 1929 of the Canadian legation in Tokyo - Canada's third such office overseas - and concludes with the outbreak of hostilities in 1941. Primarily a diplomatic history, the book also explores the impact of traders, interest groups, and missionaries on Canadian attitudes toward Japan during the interwar years. More fundamentally, it examines Canada's diplomatic coming of age closely, revealing its important Pacific dimension - a fact overlooked by historians until now - as well as the disjunct between Canada's commitment to peace and its trade with an aggressor. Meehan suggests that Canada's initially benign view of Japan, its reluctance to adopt positions in advance of its Anglo-American allies, and its lucrative Pacific trade led to a credibility gap in its policies towards East Asia. The Dominion and the Rising Sun charts Canada's relationship with Japan, and is essential reading for those interested in Canadian history, international relations, and Asia-Pacific studies.

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UBC Press

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0774811218

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Goodbye, Judge Lynch

The End of a Lawless Era in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin

By: John W. Davis

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Goodbye, Judge Lynch

The End of a Lawless Era in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin

By: John W. Davis

Tells the fascinating story of how lawlessness finally came to an end in the Big Horn Basin of northern Wyoming--one of the last frontiers in the continental United States.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806137746

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State and Society in Transition

The Politics of Institutional Reform in the Eastern Townships, 1838-1852

By: John Irvine Little

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State and Society in Transition

The Politics of Institutional Reform in the Eastern Townships, 1838-1852

By: John Irvine Little

Examining the process of state formation as it occurred in the Eastern Townships of Quebec following the unification of Upper and Lower Canada, J.I. Little argues that institutional reform was not simply imposed by the government but the result of a complex process of interaction between the state and the local community. While past studies look at state formation in the post-Rebellion period largely from the perspective of the central government, State and Society in Transition focuses on the significant role the local population played in shaping institutional reforms.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773515445

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9780773515444

American Railroads

Decline and Renaissance in the Twentieth Century

By: Robert E. Gallamore,John R. Meyer

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American Railroads

Decline and Renaissance in the Twentieth Century

By: Robert E. Gallamore,John R. Meyer

Overregulated and displaced by barges, trucks, and jet aviation, railroads fell into decline. Their misfortune was measured in lost market share, abandoned track, bankruptcies, and unemployment. Today, rail transportation is reviving. American Railroads tells a riveting story about how this iconic industry managed to turn itself around.

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Harvard University Press

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0674725646

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Chasing the Dragon in Shanghai

Chasing the Dragon in Shanghai

Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual

Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual

Chicago: America's Railroad Capital

Chicago: America's Railroad Capital

The Criminology of Edwin Sutherland

The Criminology of Edwin Sutherland

Infant Cognition

Infant Cognition

Linking Species & Ecosystems

Linking Species & Ecosystems

Where Nobody Knows Your Name

Where Nobody Knows Your Name

The Confederate Alamo

The Confederate Alamo

Communication and Midterm Elections

Communication and Midterm Elections

Wyoming Range War

Wyoming Range War

Gideon Welles

Gideon Welles

On the Brink of Civil War

On the Brink of Civil War

The Dominion and the Rising Sun

The Dominion and the Rising Sun

Goodbye, Judge Lynch

Goodbye, Judge Lynch

State and Society in Transition

State and Society in Transition

American Railroads

American Railroads

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