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Confessions of an S & M Virgin

By: Linda Jaivin

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Confessions of an S & M Virgin

By: Linda Jaivin

In her hilarious and outrageous book, Linda Jaivin gets a spanking as she interviews the manager of an S&M club and wears a penis for a week to find out how it feels to be a man. She explores the secretive world of Chinese gays and lesbians, and gives an astonishing account of what happened the night the tanks rolled in to Tiananmen Square.

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1921799943

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Medical-Surgical Nursing

Focus on Clinical Judgment

By: Linda Honan

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Medical-Surgical Nursing

Focus on Clinical Judgment

By: Linda Honan

Confidently meet the demands of transitioning students into practice-ready nurses with Medical-Surgical Nursing: Focus on Clinical Judgment, 3rd Edition. Expertly curated by experienced clinician and nursing educator Dr. Linda Honan, this practical approach distills complex concepts down to need-to-know details through the perspective of practicing nurses, establishing a comprehensive foundation in medical-surgical nursing by way of the most commonly encountered conditions and situations. Extensive updates throughout this 3rd Edition broaden your students’ perspectives, cultivate their clinical judgment, and prepare them for success from the Next Generation NCLEX® to the day-to-day challenges of today’s medical-surgical nursing practice.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975190963

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Assessing the Lee Teng-hui Legacy in Taiwan's Politics

Democratic Consolidation and External Relations

By: Linda Chao

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Assessing the Lee Teng-hui Legacy in Taiwan's Politics

Democratic Consolidation and External Relations

By: Linda Chao

Annotation The twelve year's of Lee Teng-hui's presidency were marked by a series of contrary trends: tremendous progress in the consolidation of Taiwain's democracy; deterioration of the Kuomintang's popularity and the spread of black and gold politics (the influence of organized crime and corruption in the political system); a growing role for Taiwan in international affairs; and periodic and often intense conflicts with China. In this book some of the most influential scholars of Taiwan's domestic politics and international relations assess Lee Teng-hui's presidency and his legacy for Taiwan's current leaders and the political system as a whole.

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M.E. Sharpe

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0765610639

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Learning Chinese in a Multilingual Space

An Ecological Perspective on Studying Abroad

By: Peiru Tong,Linda Tsung

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Learning Chinese in a Multilingual Space

An Ecological Perspective on Studying Abroad

By: Peiru Tong,Linda Tsung

This book examines the benefits of an Australian in-country study (ICS) in China programme and explores ways to maximise the short-term ICS experience in a multilingual space. The book employs an ecological perspective which has seldom been used to examine the study abroad context. It emphasises the importance of the space itself as an arena of interaction, belonging and power, where conduct and modes of communication are often regulated by political authorities and societal expectations. Specifically, the book focuses on the following: • the extent to which the ICS facilitated interaction in different settings • the way in which interaction during ICS contributed to language learning • the degree in which the interaction during ICS contributed to culture learning and • the role of identity in the learning process in the ICS. The main argument of the book is that while the ICS promoted multilingual learning space for in-class and out-of-class interactions, which further facilitated language and culture learning to a great extent, Australian students’ identities and self-concepts also played a core mediating role throughout individual learning trajectories.

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Springer Nature

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3031003071

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9783031003073

Empowered Educators

How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World

By: Linda Darling-Hammond,Dion Burns,Carol Campbell,A. Lin Goodwin,Karen Hammerness,Ee-Ling Low,Ann McIntyre,Mistilina Sato,Ken Zeichner

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Empowered Educators

How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World

By: Linda Darling-Hammond,Dion Burns,Carol Campbell,A. Lin Goodwin,Karen Hammerness,Ee-Ling Low,Ann McIntyre,Mistilina Sato,Ken Zeichner

Discover how high-performing systems shape teaching quality around the world Producing highly skilled and committed teachers is not the work of a single innovative school or the aggregation of heroic individuals who succeed against the odds. In high-performing countries, the opportunities for teachers to learn sophisticated practices and continue to improve are embedded systemically in education policies and practices. Empowered Educators describes how this seemingly magical work is done—how a number of forward-thinking educational systems create a coherent set of policies designed to ensure quality teaching in all communities. . . and how the results are manifested in practice. Spanning three continents and five countries, Empowered Educators examines seven jurisdictions that have worked to develop comprehensive teaching policy systems: Singapore and Finland, the states of New South Wales and Victoria in Australia, the provinces of Alberta and Ontario in Canada, and the province of Shanghai in China. Renowned education expert Linda Darling-Hammond and a team of esteemed scholars offer lessons learned in a number of areas that shape the teaching force and the work of teachers, shedding unprecedented light on areas such as teacher recruitment, preparation, induction and mentoring, professional learning, career and leadership development, and more. Find out how quality teaching is developed and conducted across the globe Discover a common set of strategies for developing, supporting, and sustaining the ongoing learning and development of teachers and school leaders See how high-performing countries successfully recruit and train educators Understand why the sharing of expertise among teachers and administrators within and across schools is beneficial A fascinating read for researchers, policymakers, administrators, teacher educators, pre-service teachers and leaders, and anyone with an interest in education, this book offers a rare glimpse into the systems that are shaping quality teaching around the world.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119369614

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The Composition of Sense in Gertrude Stein's Landscape Writing

By: Linda Voris

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The Composition of Sense in Gertrude Stein's Landscape Writing

By: Linda Voris

This book offers a bold critical method for reading Gertrude Stein’s work on its own terms by forgoing conventional explanation and adopting Stein’s radical approach to meaning and knowledge. Inspired by the immanence of landscape, both of Provence where she travelled in the 1920s and the spatial relations of landscape painting, Stein presents a new model of meaning whereby making sense is an activity distributed in a text and across successive texts. From love poetry, to plays and portraiture, Linda Voris offers close readings of Stein’s most anthologized and less known writing in a case study of a new method of interpretation. By practicing Stein’s innovative means of making sense, Voris reveals the excitement of her discoveries and the startling implications for knowledge, identity, and intimacy.

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3319320645

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The Monkey and the Dragon

A True Story about Friendship, Music, Politics and Life on the Edge

By: Linda Jaivin

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The Monkey and the Dragon

A True Story about Friendship, Music, Politics and Life on the Edge

By: Linda Jaivin

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1876485914

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City of Marvel and Transformation

Changan and Narratives of Experience in Tang Dynasty China

By: Linda Rui Feng

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City of Marvel and Transformation

Changan and Narratives of Experience in Tang Dynasty China

By: Linda Rui Feng

During the Tang dynasty, the imperial capital of Chang’an (present-day Xi’an) was unrivaled in its monumental scale, with about one million inhabitants dwelling within its walls. It was there that one of the most enduring cultural and political institutions of the empire—the civil service examinations—took shape, bringing an unprecedented influx of literati men to the city seeking recognition and official status by demonstrating their literary talent. To these examination candidates, Chang’an was a megalopolis, career launch pad, and most importantly, cultural paradigm. As a multifaceted lived space, it captured the imaginations of Tang writers, shaped their future aspirations, and left discernible traces in the writings of this period. City of Marvel and Transformation brings this cityscape to life together with the mindscape of its sojourner-writers. By analyzing narratives of experience with a distinctive metropolitan consciousness, it retrieves lost connections between senses of the self and a sense of place. Each chapter takes up one of the powerful shaping forces of Chang’an: its siren call as a destination; the unforeseen nooks and crannies of its urban space; its potential as a “media machine” to broadcast images and reputations; its demimonde—a city within a city where both literary culture and commerce took center stage. Without being limited to any single genre, specific movement, or individual author, the texts examined in this book highlight aspects of Chang’an as a shared and contested space in the collective imagination. They bring to our attention a newly emerged interval of social, existential, and geographical mobility in the lives of educated men, who as aspirants and routine capital-bound travelers learned to negotiate urban space. Both literary study and cultural history, City of Marvel and Transformation goes beyond close readings of text; it also draws productively from research in urban history, anthropology, and studies of space and place, building upon the theoretical frameworks of scholars such as Michel de Certeau, Henri Lefebvre, and Victor Turner. It is a welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship in Chinese studies on the importance of cities and city life. Students and scholars of premodern China will find new ways to understand the collective concerns of the lettered class, as well as new ways to understand literary phenomena that would eventually influence vernacular tales and the Chinese novel. By asking larger questions about how urban sojourns shape subjectivity and perceptions, this book will also attract a wide range of readers interested in studies of personhood, spatial practice, and cities as living cultural systems in flux, both ancient and modern.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824856872

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Commercial Networks in Modern Asia

By: Linda Grove,Shinya Sugiyama

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Commercial Networks in Modern Asia

By: Linda Grove,Shinya Sugiyama

This volume brings together an international team of scholars who examine the development of commercial networks in Asia from the 18th century to the 20th century on a stage that stretches from Yokohama and Pusan to Istanbul. The studies, based on extensive archival research, focus on the trading firms and merchant groups that were the chief actors in the creation of the commercial networks that crisscrossed Asia, linking the various Asian economies to each other and to Europe and the Americas. While some of this work has been available in Japanese, Chinese and Dutch, this is the first time that such a broad range of essays has been made available to an English-speaking audience. The thirteen essays can be roughly divided into two groups. The first group includes essays that look at the development of large scale networks and plot the competition between competing indigenous and foreign merchant groups in the trade in such products as sugar and cotton yarn in China, cotton goods in Japan, silk in Iran, Japanese manufactures in Dutch Indonesia and rice and cotton in India. The second group of essays focuses on the activities of specific firms as a way to explore the development of trading networks. This group includes essays that look at the activities of Chinese and Japanese merchants in Korea, at the growth of a commercial empire built on the sale of patent drugs in Southeast Asia and at the activities of European trading firms in Asia. The book should appeal to a wide-range audience. Most directly concerned are economic historians

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Routledge

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1136849912

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9781136849916

Middle Imperial China, 900–1350

A New History

By: Linda Walton

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Middle Imperial China, 900–1350

A New History

By: Linda Walton

In this highly readable and engaging work, Linda Walton presents a dynamic survey of China's history from the tenth through the mid-fourteenth centuries from the founding of the Song dynasty through the Mongol conquest when Song China became part of the Mongol Empire and Marco Polo made his famous journey to the court of the Great Khan. Adopting a thematic approach, she highlights the political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural changes and continuities of the period often conceptualized as 'Middle Imperial China'. Particular emphasis is given to themes that inform scholarship on world history: religion, the state, the dynamics of empire, the transmission of knowledge, the formation of political elites, gender, and the family. Consistent coverage of peoples beyond the borders – Khitan, Tangut, Jurchen, and Mongol, among others – provides a broader East Asian context and introduces a more nuanced, integrated representation of China's past.

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Cambridge University Press

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110835629X

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Mosby's Handbook of Herbs & Natural Supplements

By: Linda Skidmore-Roth

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Mosby's Handbook of Herbs & Natural Supplements

By: Linda Skidmore-Roth

Access the most reliable information on herbs and alternative medicines from trusted author, Linda Skidmore-Roth, in Mosby's Handbook of Herbs and Natural Supplements! Reviewed by nurses and herbalists alike, this authoritative resource presents herb and supplement profiles in a convenient, A-Z format for fast reference. This edition's updated, streamlined design helps you find information quickly, and a new systematic pregnancy and breastfeeding classification offers the latest guidelines for this special client population. - Detailed monographs for 300 commonly used herbal products and natural supplements include vital information on the products you'll encounter with your clients. - Updated references and information from new studies make this a reliable source for herbal content. - Alert icons warn you of potentially dangerous reactions that could threaten your clients' health. - Popular Herb, Pregnancy, and Pediatric icons help you find relevant content quickly for common herbs and herbs for special populations. - Quick-reference format presents consistent monographs for each herb and makes it easy to find the information you need. - Herbal Resource appendix, Drug/Herb Interaction appendix, Pediatric Herbal Use appendix, and a list of abbreviations provide essential resources and expanded herbal material in one convenient spot. - A comprehensive index of herbal terms allows you to look up an herb by its common or scientific name, as well as by condition. - A pregnancy classification system from the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration allows you to analyze herbs individually and provides a consistent formula to decide which herbs should be used. - Updated content throughout includes the latest uses, actions, dosages, contraindications, side effects/adverse reactions, interactions, pharmacology, alerts, and references. - Pediatric Herbal Use appendix covers uses, guidelines, and expanded pediatric and adolescent information for 32 herbs. - Drug/Herb Interaction appendix lists known drug and herb interactions for herbs included in the handbook to ensure client safety.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323066496

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A Grammar of Karbi

By: Linda Konnerth

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A Grammar of Karbi

By: Linda Konnerth

This is a comprehensive grammar of the Hills Karbi variety spoken predominantly in the Karbi Anglong districts. Karbi belongs to the Trans-Himalayan (Tibeto-Burman) family but its exact phylogenetic status has remained unclear. By providing a diachronically-oriented functional analysis of all structural levels of Karbi, this grammar offers a reference work that provides a thorough account of this language. The data in this grammar come from fieldwork that was primarily carried out in the district capital of Diphu although the corpus includes recordings of speakers from all over the two Karbi Anglong districts. This corpus is freely available both as fully glossed text in Himalayan Linguistics (Konnerth and Tisso 2018) and as original media files in ELAR (SOAS University of London). Now also including a glossary, this grammar is a thoroughly revised version of the 2014 dissertation of the author, which won the 2015 Pāṇini Award of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT). In this revised version, a few new sections have been added and numerous other sections have been thoroughly updated.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110765039

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Crosstalk and Culture in Sino-American Communication

By: Linda W. L. Young

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Crosstalk and Culture in Sino-American Communication

By: Linda W. L. Young

Chinese and Americans often unwittingly communicate at cross purposes because they are misled by the cultural trappings of talk. This book aims to clarify their misunderstandings by examining their different ideals and strategies of talk. It draws on cultural, philosophical, and linguistic insights and traces the development of Chinese communicative strategies from Confucius through the 'eight-legged essay' to the boardrooms and streets of Hong Kong. Its formal analysis of taped interchanges and in-depth interviews reveals Chinese speakers' distinctive ways of communicating and relating. Crosstalk and Culture in Sino-American Communication will alert people to the pitfalls of cultural misunderstandings and the hidden assumptions and expectations underlying talk.

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0521416191

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Language and Literacy Development

English Learners with Communication Disorders, From Theory to Application, Second Edition

By: Linda I. Rosa-Lugo,Florin M. Mihai,Joyce W. Nutta

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Language and Literacy Development

English Learners with Communication Disorders, From Theory to Application, Second Edition

By: Linda I. Rosa-Lugo,Florin M. Mihai,Joyce W. Nutta

Language and Literacy Development: English Learners with Communication Disorders, from Theory to Application, Second Edition brings you the most useful, up-to-date information on best practices for English learners (ELs) with communication disorders from a variety of backgrounds—how to conduct assessment, intervention, and progress monitoring. The first edition of this text gave a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of serving ELs with communication disorders, and the second edition is expanded to show the nuts and bolts of how to meet ELs’ needs and how professionals can support their success at school. This text emphasizes collaboration between speech-language pathology (SLP) and English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) professionals. More importantly, it shows how to apply the knowledge and implement the mechanics and practicalities of assessment, intervention, and progress monitoring. New to the Second Edition: * Updated EL and EL with communication disorders demographics and legislation. * An innovative assessment/intervention/monitoring (AIM) framework geared toward language proficiency development and academic content expansion of ELs with communication disorders. * Research-based and proficiency-level appropriate pedagogical interventions and recommendations for implementing effective assessments that support English learners with communication disorders in their language and content growth. * Updated information on commonly used assessments used by speech-language pathologists to identify/determine disability. Disclaimer: Please note that ancillary content (such as documents, audio, and video, etc.) may not be included as published in the original print version of this book.

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Plural Publishing

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1635501555

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Psychopathology

History, Diagnosis, and Empirical Foundations

By: W. Edward Craighead,David J. Miklowitz,Linda W. Craighead

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Psychopathology

History, Diagnosis, and Empirical Foundations

By: W. Edward Craighead,David J. Miklowitz,Linda W. Craighead

Designed for graduate level courses in adult psychopathology, the Second Edition of this book incorporates the newly released (2013) DSM-5 . Unique in its approach, this text presents a historical context in which current diagnoses are made. Presenting an overview of the issues and methodologies of conducting assessments, each of the major psychological disorders is discussed in a standard format in the chapter dealing with that disorder. The text includes new chapters on nonalcohol substance abuse and contextual factors affecting diagnoses. Each chapter covers: description from DSM, using case examples; epidemiology; basic research, including neurobiology and neuroscience of the disorder; prevalence and consequences of the disorder; behavioral, social, cognitive, and emotional aspects of the disorder; and treatment of the disorder, using clinical examples showing how psychopathology and assessment influence treatment"--

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118106776

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9781118106778

Timothy

Honoured of God

By: Linda McCarthy Shum

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Timothy

Honoured of God

By: Linda McCarthy Shum

This book combines the beauty and simplicity of outback Australia with a blend of Chinese culture, customs and abandoned children. It also touches on the adoption of children and how this powerful way of building families can make the world a better place. Readers become hooked on following the journey of a runaway Australian boy, Timothy, previously referred to as Stinky as he is drawn towards a miraculous connection with Australia, China and the United States, by travelling between the three countries in an unusual way. He learns that his life has meaning and purpose. He learns to put his Faith and Trust in God. This uplifting and inspiring book is sure to allow the reader to run the full gamut of emotions as the story unfolds. Enjoy the journey as God transforms young Stinky into a respected man, the meaning of whose name speaks over his life showing that he really is Honoured of God.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493132350

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Marginalization and Social Welfare in China

By: Linda Wong

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Marginalization and Social Welfare in China

By: Linda Wong

This book provides a systematic analysis that defines and accounts for the contours and operation of China's welfare system. It is underpinned by recent empirical research and strong comparative theory, and will be welcomed as a significant advance in furthering our understanding of social welfare in China.

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Routledge

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1134786344

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Wu Tingfang (1842-1922)

Reform and Modernization in Modern Chinese History

By: Linda Pomerantz-Zhang

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Wu Tingfang (1842-1922)

Reform and Modernization in Modern Chinese History

By: Linda Pomerantz-Zhang

Wu Tingfang (1842-1922) was a contemporary of Li Hongzhang, Yuan Shikai, Hei and Sun Yixian (Sun Yat-sen), all of whom were involved in China's attempt at reform and modernization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During his time, Wu was a prominent political figure, participating actively in public service and political activities in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Guangzhou. This book is a biography of Wu, and sheds considerable light on a crucial period in Chinese history.

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Hong Kong University Press

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962209287X

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9789622092877

Academies and Society in Southern Sung China

By: Linda A. Walton

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Academies and Society in Southern Sung China

By: Linda A. Walton

Academies were part of the educational institutions of the Sung (960-1279), an era in China marked by profound changes in economy, technology, thought, and social and political order. This study explains the phenomenon in the light of the changes in society and in intellectual circles.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824819624

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9780824819620

Civil Procedure

Theory and Practice

By: Linda J. Silberman,Allan R. Stein,Tobias Barrington Wolff

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Civil Procedure

Theory and Practice

By: Linda J. Silberman,Allan R. Stein,Tobias Barrington Wolff

Using the Socratic method, Civil Procedure: Theory and Practice, Fifth Edition helps students develop strategic, critical thinking with introductory text, examples, and hypotheticals that equip them for the challenges of practice. Sophisticated, yet straightforward, the text strikes an important balance by providing clear exposition while requiring work to achieve deeper insights. An opening chapter gives an overview of the entire process, using real pleadings and discovery materials in the landmark N.Y. Times v. Sullivan case. The innovative “Anatomy of a Litigation” case study chapter systematically leads students from pleadings to verdict, using leading cases to deepen the connection between the classroom and the courtroom. Civil Procedure: Theory and Practice covers the full range of topics, including in-depth treatment of personal and subject-matter jurisdiction, joinder, preclusion, and alternative dispute resolution.

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Aspen Publishing

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1454888695

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9781454888697

The Prevention of Eating Problems and Eating Disorders

Theories, Research, and Applications

By: Michael P. Levine,Linda Smolak

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The Prevention of Eating Problems and Eating Disorders

Theories, Research, and Applications

By: Michael P. Levine,Linda Smolak

In a detailed analysis of the field of eating problems and disorders, this book highlights the connections between the prevention of eating problems and disorders, and theory and research in the areas of prevention and health promotion. It also looks at models of risk development and prevention, specific issues and challenges, the status of current prevention research, and lessons for prevention program development. In this unique text Levine and Smolak draw on a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, including prevention science, developmental psychology, public health, and neuroscience, to provide a thorough review, history, and critique of the topic in light of a range of empirical studies. The only authored volume with a broad, detailed and integrated view of theories, research, and practice, this expanded, fully revised, and updated new edition features new chapters on dissonance-based approaches, public health, biopsychiatry and neuroscience, gender, culture(s), technology, obesity, protective factors, and ecological approaches. The Prevention of Eating Problems and Eating Disorders: Theories, Research, and Applications is essential reading for clinicians, academics, researchers, graduate students, upper-level undergraduates, and activists and advocates involved in work pertaining to eating disorders, disordered eating, prevention, health promotion, body image, obesity and biopsychosocial perspectives.

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Routledge

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1315401045

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Alaska Communities and Forest Environments

A Problem Analysis and Research Agenda

By: Linda E. Kruger

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Alaska Communities and Forest Environments

A Problem Analysis and Research Agenda

By: Linda E. Kruger

This problem analysis describes a variety of human-resource interaction issues & identifies related social science R&D needs that serve as the foundation for the Alaska Communities & Forest Environments Team within the Pacific Northwest Research Station. The document lays out a research agenda that focuses on understanding relations between human communities & natural resources. The agenda is divided into four sub-topics: (1) communities in transition; (2) collaborative planning & stewardship; (3) sustainable tourism & outdoor recreation; & (4) cultural orientations to & uses & values of natural resources, including traditional knowledge, indigenous property rights, & tenure systems. Illustrations.

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DIANE Publishing

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1422310728

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The Ili Rebellion

The Moslem Challenge to Chinese Authority in Xinjiang, 1944-1949

By: Linda Benson

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The Ili Rebellion

The Moslem Challenge to Chinese Authority in Xinjiang, 1944-1949

By: Linda Benson

In 1944, Moslem forces in the Chinese province of Xinjiang staged an uprising and established an independent Islamic state - the East Turkestan Republic. This book describes that challenge to China's rule, and the Nationalist government's response to Turkic-Moslem nationalism.

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0873325095

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The Ili Rebellion

Muslim Challenge to Chinese Authority in Xingjiang, 1944-49

By: Linda K. Benson

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The Ili Rebellion

Muslim Challenge to Chinese Authority in Xingjiang, 1944-49

By: Linda K. Benson

In 1944 Moslem forces in China's westernmost province of Xinjiang rose against the Chinese authorities and succeeded in establishing a small independent Islamic state - the East Turkestan Republic. Based on newly available archival material, this book describes the Moslem challenge to Chinese rule and documents the Nationalist government's response to newly awakened Turkic-Moslem nationalism on China's most remote and politically sensitive north-western frontier. With this book, Linda Benson aims to break new ground in the study of Sino-Soviet relations and especially of the policies of Chinese governments toward their national minorities.

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1000122719

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9781000122718

Media Messages

What Film, Television, and Popular Music Teach Us about Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation

By: Linda Holtzman

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Media Messages

What Film, Television, and Popular Music Teach Us about Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation

By: Linda Holtzman

Using sources in Japanese, Chinese and American archives, this text reassesses Woodrow Wilson's agenda at the Paris Peace Conference. It argues Wilson did not "betray" China, but negotiated a compromise with the Japanese to ensure that China's sovereignty would be respected in Shandong Province.

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0765613972

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Language Power and Hierarchy

Multilingual Education in China

By: Linda Tsung

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Language Power and Hierarchy

Multilingual Education in China

By: Linda Tsung

Shunning polemicism and fashioning a new agenda for a critically informed yet practically orientated approach, this book explores aspects of multilingual education in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Amongst other issues, it also looks at the challenges associated with bilingual and trilingual education in Xinjiang and Tibet as well as the mediation between religion and culture in multi-ethnic schools, covering these issues from a range of perspectives - Korean, Uyghur, Tibetan, Mongolian and Yi. The PRC promotes itself as a harmonious, stable multicultural mosaic, with over 50 distinct ethnic groups striving for common prosperity. Beneath this rhetoric, there is also inter-ethnic discord, with scenes of ethnic violence in Lhasa and Urumqi over the last few years. China has a complex system of multilingual education - with dual-pathway curricula, bilingual and trilingual instruction, specialised ethnic schools. This education system is a lynchpin in the Communist party state's efforts to keep a lid on simmering tensions and transform a rhetoric of harmony into a critical pluralistic harmonious multiculturalism. This book examines this supposed lynchpin.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441155740

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Polymer Microscopy

By: Linda Sawyer,David T. Grubb

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Polymer Microscopy

By: Linda Sawyer,David T. Grubb

A practical guide to the study and understanding of the structure of synthetic polymer materials using the complete range of microscopic techniques. The major part of the book is devoted to specimen preparation and applications. New applications and additional references provide a critical update.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401585954

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Mobilizing an Asian American Community

By: Linda Trinh Võ

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Mobilizing an Asian American Community

By: Linda Trinh Võ

Focusing on San Diego in the post-Civil Rights era, Linda Trinh Vo examines the ways Asian Americans drew together - despite many differences within the group - to construct a community that supports a variety of social, economic, political, and cultural organizations. Using historical materials, ethnographic fieldwork, and interviews, Vo traces the political strategies that enable Asian Americans to bridge ethnicity, generation, gender, language, and class differences, among others. She demonstrates that mobilization is not a smooth, linear process and shows how the struggle over ideologies, political strategies, and resources affects the development of community organizations. Vo also analyzes how Asian Americans construct their relationship with Asia and how they forge relationships with other racialized communities of color. Vo argues that the situation in San Diego illuminates other localities across the country where Asians face challenges trying to organize, find sufficient resources, create leaders, and define strategies.

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Temple University Press

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1592132626

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Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts

China, Healing, and the West to 1848

By: Linda L. BARNES

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Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts

China, Healing, and the West to 1848

By: Linda L. BARNES

When did the West discover Chinese healing traditions? Most people might point to the "rediscovery" of Chinese acupuncture in the 1970s. In Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts, Linda Barnes leads us back, instead, to the thirteenth century to uncover the story of the West's earliest known encounters with Chinese understandings of illness and healing. A medical anthropologist with a degree in comparative religion, Barnes illuminates the way constructions of medicine, religion, race, and the body informed Westerners' understanding of the Chinese and their healing traditions.

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Harvard University Press

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0674020545

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T'ai Chi as a Path of Wisdom

By: Linda Myoki Lehrhaupt

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T'ai Chi as a Path of Wisdom

By: Linda Myoki Lehrhaupt

Unlike most t'ai chi books, which focus strictly on how to do the t'ai chi forms, T'ai Chi as a Path of Wisdom presents a personal, practical view of this intriguing martial art. Lehrhaupt shares illuminating stories from her own life and the lives of her students that show how t'ai chi can be a vehicle for profound self-discovery and spiritual growth. In learning to master each body posture, t'ai chi students often confront self-doubt, frustration, and the desire to compete and compare themselves to others—problems that also arise in daily life. Lehrhaupt shows how these and other obstacles provide valuable opportunities to deepen awareness and recognize the striking continuities between practice and everyday life. Each section of the book includes practical exercises designed to enhance students' understanding of t'ai chi movements, and a helpful appendix answers many frequently asked questions about t'ai chi training such as how to find a teacher and how to balance practice with family life. Full of useful insights and guidance, T'ai Chi as a Path of Wisdom will be a valuable companion for all students of this increasingly popular martial art.

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Shambhala Publications

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1570624453

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Screen Ecologies

Art, Media, and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region

By: Larissa Hjorth,Sarah Pink,Kristen Sharp,Linda Williams

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Screen Ecologies

Art, Media, and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region

By: Larissa Hjorth,Sarah Pink,Kristen Sharp,Linda Williams

How new media and visual artists provide alternative ways for understanding and visualizing the entanglements of media and the environment in the Asia-Pacific. Images of environmental disaster and degradation have become part of our everyday media diet. This visual culture focusing on environmental deterioration represents a wider recognition of the political, economic, and cultural forces that are responsible for our ongoing environmental crisis. And yet efforts to raise awareness about environmental issues through digital and visual media are riddled with irony, because the resource extraction, manufacturing, transportation, and waste associated with digital devices contribute to environmental damage and climate change. Screen Ecologies examines the relationship of media, art, and climate change in the Asia-Pacific region—a key site of both environmental degradation and the production and consumption of climate-aware screen art and media. Screen Ecologies shows how new media and visual artists provide alternative ways for understanding the entanglements of media and the environment in the Asia-Pacific. It investigates such topics as artists' exploration of alternative ways to represent the environment; regional stories of media innovation and climate change; the tensions between amateur and professional art; the emergence of biennials, triennials, and new arts organizations; the theme of water in regional art; new models for networked collaboration; and social media's move from private to public realms. A generous selection of illustrations shows a range of artist's projects.

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MIT Press

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0262034565

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9780262034562

Singapore's Economic Development

Retrospection and Reflections

By: Linda Y. C. LIM

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Singapore's Economic Development

Retrospection and Reflections

By: Linda Y. C. LIM

Singapore is known internationally for its successful economic development. Key to its economic successes is a variety of policies put into place over the past 50 years since its independence. Singapore's Economic Development: Retrospection and Reflections provides a retrospective analysis of independent Singapore's economic development, from the perspective of different policy domains each considered by different expert scholars in that particular field. The book is written by academic economists in a style that is accessible to non-experts. Each chapter includes reviews of past scholarship, current data on each policy area, and reflections on required or desirable future policy changes and outcomes"--

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World Scientific

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9814723479

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9789814723473

Through the Labyrinth

The Truth About How Women Become Leaders

By: Alice H. Eagly,Linda L. Carli

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Through the Labyrinth

The Truth About How Women Become Leaders

By: Alice H. Eagly,Linda L. Carli

Despite real progress, women remain rare enough in elite positions of power that their presence still evokes a sense of wonder. In Through the Labyrinth, Alice Eagly and Linda Carli examine why women's paths to power remain difficult to traverse. First, Eagly and Carli prove that the glass ceiling is no longer a useful metaphor and offer seven reasons why. They propose the labyrinth as a better image and explain how to navigate through it. This important and practical book addresses such critical questions as: How far have women actually come as leaders? Do stereotypes and prejudices still limit women's opportunities? Do people resist women's leadership more than men's? And, do organisations create obstacles to women who would be leaders?This book's rich analysis is founded on scientific research from psychology, economics, sociology, political science, and management. The authors ground their conclusions in that research and invoke a wealth of engaging anecdotes and personal accounts to illustrate the practical principles that emerge. With excellent leadership in short supply, no group, organisation, or nation can afford to restrict women's access to leadership roles. This book evaluates whether such restrictions are present and, when they are, what we can do to eliminate them.

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Harvard Business Review Press

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1633690237

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9781633690233

The Transition to Chaos

In Conservative Classical Systems: Quantum Manifestations

By: Linda Reichl

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The Transition to Chaos

In Conservative Classical Systems: Quantum Manifestations

By: Linda Reichl

resonances. Nonlinear resonances cause divergences in conventional perturbation expansions. This occurs because nonlinear resonances cause a topological change locally in the structure of the phase space and simple perturbation theory is not adequate to deal with such topological changes. In Sect. (2.3), we introduce the concept of integrability. A sys tem is integrable if it has as many global constants of the motion as degrees of freedom. The connection between global symmetries and global constants of motion was first proven for dynamical systems by Noether [Noether 1918]. We will give a simple derivation of Noether's theorem in Sect. (2.3). As we shall see in more detail in Chapter 5, are whole classes of systems which are now known to be inte there grable due to methods developed for soliton physics. In Sect. (2.3), we illustrate these methods for the simple three-body Toda lattice. It is usually impossible to tell if a system is integrable or not just by looking at the equations of motion. The Poincare surface of section provides a very useful numerical tool for testing for integrability and will be used throughout the remainder of this book. We will illustrate the use of the Poincare surface of section for classic model of Henon and Heiles [Henon and Heiles 1964].

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1475743521

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