Melanie Chan's Books

Colour, Confusion & Concessions (Second Edition)

The History of the Chinese in South Africa

By: Melanie Yap,Dianne Leong Man

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Colour, Confusion & Concessions (Second Edition)

The History of the Chinese in South Africa

By: Melanie Yap,Dianne Leong Man

For more than 300 years Chinese have been part of the fascinating mix of people who make up the inhabitants of the southern tip of Africa. One of the smallest and most identifiable minority groups in arguably the most race-conscious country in the world, they have not up to now been the focus of serious historical attention. This detailed and descriptive chronological account aims to fill a gap in available histories by providing a comprehensive record of the Chinese in South Africa from the earliest times to the mid-1990s.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

690

Publisher

The Chinese Association (Gauteng)

Published Date

ISBN 10

0639797385

ISBN 13

9780639797380

Surviving Vietnam

Psychological Consequences of the War for U.S. Veterans

By: Bruce Philip Dohrenwend,Nick Turse,Thomas J. Yager,Melanie M. Wall

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Surviving Vietnam

Psychological Consequences of the War for U.S. Veterans

By: Bruce Philip Dohrenwend,Nick Turse,Thomas J. Yager,Melanie M. Wall

Uniquely using historical material and military records as well as personal interviews and clinical diagnoses, Surviving Vietnam focuses on veterans' war-zone experiences and the development in some of PTSD. It addresses controversies regarding reported rates of PTSD and the importance of exposure to traumatic events compared with pre-war personal vulnerability.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

353

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0190904445

ISBN 13

9780190904449

Smell Detectives

An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America

By: Melanie A. Kiechle

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Smell Detectives

An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America

By: Melanie A. Kiechle

What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenth-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth. Melanie Kiechle examines nuisance complaints, medical writings, domestic advice, and myriad discussions of what constituted fresh air, and argues that nineteenth-century city dwellers, anxious about the air they breathed, attempted to create healthier cities by detecting and then mitigating the most menacing odors. Medical theories in the nineteenth century assumed that foul odors caused disease and that overcrowded cities—filled with new and stronger stinks—were synonymous with disease and danger. But the sources of offending odors proved difficult to pinpoint. The creation of city health boards introduced new conflicts between complaining citizens and the officials in charge of the air. Smell Detectives looks at the relationship between the construction of scientific expertise, on the one hand, and “common sense”—the olfactory experiences of common people—on the other. Although the rise of germ theory revolutionized medical knowledge and ultimately undid this form of sensory knowing, Smell Detectives recovers how city residents used their sense of smell and their health concerns about foul odors to understand, adjust to, and fight against urban environmental changes.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

353

Publisher

University of Washington Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0295741945

ISBN 13

9780295741949

Health and Wellness Tourism

By: Melanie K. Smith,László Puczkó

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Health and Wellness Tourism

By: Melanie K. Smith,László Puczkó

Health and Wellness Tourism takes an innovative look at this rapidly growing sector of today¿s thriving tourism industry. This book examines the range of motivations that drive this diverse sector of tourists, the products that are being developed to meet their needs and the management implications of these developments. A wide range of international case studies illustrate the multiple aspects of the industry and new and emerging trends including spas, medical wellness, life-coaching, meditation, festivals, pilgrimage and yoga retreats. The authors also evaluate marketing and promotional strategies and assess operational and management issues in the context of health and wellness tourism. This text includes a number of features to reinforce theory for advanced students of hospitality, leisure and tourism and related disciplines.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

400

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

0750683430

ISBN 13

9780750683432

Youth Justice and Penality in Comparative Context

By: Barry Goldson,Chris Cunneen,Sophie Russell,David Brown,Eileen Baldry,Melanie Schwartz,Damon Briggs

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Youth Justice and Penality in Comparative Context

By: Barry Goldson,Chris Cunneen,Sophie Russell,David Brown,Eileen Baldry,Melanie Schwartz,Damon Briggs

This book represents the first major analysis of Anglo-Australian youth justice and penality to be published and it makes significant theoretical and empirical contributions to the wider field of comparative criminology. By exploring trends in law, policy and practice over a forty-year period, the book critically surveys the ‘moving images’ of youth justice regimes and penal cultures, the principal drivers of reform, the core outcomes of such processes and the overall implications for theory building. It addresses a wide range of questions including: How has the temporal and spatial patterning of youth justice and penality evolved since the early 1980s to the present time? What impacts have legislative and policy reforms imposed upon processes of criminalisation, sentencing practices and the use of penal detention for children and young people? How do we comprehend both the diverse ways in which public representations of ‘young offenders’ are shaped, structured and disseminated and the varied, conflicting and contradictory effects of such representations? To what extent do international human rights standards influence law, policy and practice in the realms of youth justice and penality? To what extent are youth justice systems implicated in the production and reproduction of social injustices? How, and to what degree, are youth justice systems and penal cultures internationalised, nationalised, regionalised or localised? The book is essential reading for researchers, students and tutors in criminology, criminal justice, law, social policy, sociology and youth studies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

242

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351242121

ISBN 13

9781351242127

Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacology of Herbal Products

By: Melanie Johns Cupp

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacology of Herbal Products

By: Melanie Johns Cupp

The herbai medicine industry is growing at an astounding rate. Trade group estimates suggest that total sales exceeded $4 billion dollars in 1999. Herbai remedies are for sale not just in health food stores, but in supermar kets, drug stores, and even discount warehouses. Along with the proliferation in sales has come a proliferation ofinformation sources. Not all ofthe sources are equally reliable, or even intelligible. Traditional herbalists c1assify thistle and mugwort as "cholagogues," substances used to make the gallbladder con tract and release bile. Medical school graduates are unlikely to have ever heard the term, or even accept the notion that most right-sided abdominal pain is a result of diminished bile flow. Heroin and cocaine may not be the only drugs to come from plants, but a practicing physician or toxicologist might be forgiven for thinking so. In 1998, 1264 papers were published about cocaine and only 17 about kava kava, an abused herb that is not without toxic side effects. Unfortunately, the majority of the papers about kava kava were published in journals not found in ordi nary hospitallibraries. In recognition ofthis fact, and ofthe obvious need for a reliable reference work on herbai toxicology, The Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacology 0/ Herbal Products was an early addition to our new series in Forensie Science and Medicine. It is very badly needed.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

407

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

1592590209

ISBN 13

9781592590209

Life in the Hothouse

How a Living Planet Survives Climate Change

By: Melanie Lenart

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Life in the Hothouse

How a Living Planet Survives Climate Change

By: Melanie Lenart

In this insightful, compelling, and highly readable work, Melanie Lenart, an award-winning journalist and science writer who holds a PhD in Natural Resources and Global Change, examines global warming with the trained eye of a professional scientist. And she presents the science in a clear, straightforward manner. Why does the planet’s warming produce stronger hurricanes, rising seas, and larger floods? Simple, says Lenart. The Earth is just doing what comes naturally. Just as humans produce sweat to cool off on a hot day, the planet produces hurricanes, floods, wetlands, and forests to cool itself off. Life in the Hothouse incorporates Lenart’s extensive knowledge of climate science—including the latest research in climate change—and the most current scientific theories, including Gaia theory, which holds that the Earth has some degree of climate control “built in.” As Lenart points out, scientists have been documenting stronger hurricanes and larger floods for many years. There is a good reason for this, she notes. Hurricanes help cool the ocean surface and clear the air of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas responsible for global warming. From the perspective of Gaia theory, these responses are helping to slow the ongoing global warming and Lenart expounds upon this in a clear and understandable fashion. There is hope, Lenart writes. If we help sustain Earth's natural defense systems, including wetlands and forests, perhaps Mother Earth will no longer need to rely as much on the cooling effects of what we call "natural disasters"—many of which carry a human fingerprint. At a minimum, she argues, these systems can help us survive the heat.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

249

Publisher

University of Arizona Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0816570000

ISBN 13

9780816570003

Political Selection in China

Rethinking Foundations and Findings

By: Melanie Manion

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Political Selection in China

Rethinking Foundations and Findings

By: Melanie Manion

This Element critically reviews the literature on political selection in China to better structure our understanding of how much the preferences of the few at the political center in Beijing systematically shape the composition and actions of those who manage politics, society, and the economy across China.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

139

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1009327135

ISBN 13

9781009327138

Corruption by Design

Building Clean Government in Mainland China and Hong Kong

By: Melanie Manion

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Corruption by Design

Building Clean Government in Mainland China and Hong Kong

By: Melanie Manion

This book contrasts experiences of mainland China and Hong Kong to explore the pressing question of how governments can transform a culture of widespread corruption to one of clean government. Melanie Manion examines Hong Kong as the best example of the possibility of reform. Within a few years it achieved a spectacularly successful conversion to clean government. Mainland China illustrates the difficulty of reform. Despite more than two decades of anticorruption reform, corruption in China continues to spread essentially unabated. The book argues that where corruption is already commonplace, the context in which officials and ordinary citizens make choices to transact corruptly (or not) is crucially different from that in which corrupt practices are uncommon. A central feature of this difference is the role of beliefs about the prevalence of corruption and the reliability of government as an enforcer of rules ostensibly constraining official venality. Anticorruption reform in a setting of widespread corruption is a problem not only of reducing corrupt payoffs, but also of changing broadly shared expectations of venality. The book explores differences in institutional design choices about anticorruption agencies, appropriate incentive structures, and underlying constitutional designs that contribute to the disparate outcomes in Hong Kong and mainland China.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

296

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0674040511

ISBN 13

9780674040519

Health, Tourism and Hospitality

Spas, Wellness and Medical Travel

By: Melanie Smith,Laszlo Puczko

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Health, Tourism and Hospitality

Spas, Wellness and Medical Travel

By: Melanie Smith,Laszlo Puczko

Health, Tourism and Hospitality: Spas, Wellness and Medical Travel, 2nd Edition takes an in-depth and comprehensive look at the growing health, wellness and medical tourism sectors in a global context. The book analyses the history and development of the industries, the way in which they are managed and organised, the expanding range of new and innovative products and trends, and the marketing of destinations, products and services. The only book to offer a complete overview and introduction to health, tourism and hospitality this 2nd Edition has been updated to include: • Expanded coverage to the hospitality sector with a particular focus on spa management. • New content on medical tourism throughout the book, to reflect the worldwide growth in medical travel with more and more countries entering this competitive market. • Updated content to reflect recent issues and trends including: ageing population, governments encouraging preventative health, consumer use of contemporary and alternative therapies, self-help market, impacts of economic recession, spa management and customer loyalty. • New case studies taken from a range of different countries and contexts, and focusing on established or new destinations, products and services such as: conventional medicine, complementary and alternative therapies, lifestyle-based wellness, beauty and cosmetics, healthy nutrition, longevity and anti (or active)-ageing, amongst others. Written in a user friendly style, this is essential reading for students studying health, tourism and hospitality.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

666

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1136187340

ISBN 13

9781136187346

Evangelical Versus Liturgical?

Defying a Dichotomy

By: Melanie Ross

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Evangelical Versus Liturgical?

Defying a Dichotomy

By: Melanie Ross

In this book Melanie Ross presents a current description of evangelical worship, bringing together liturgical scholarship and theological scholarship on American evangelicalism. She draws on historical analysis, systematic theology, and the worship life of two vibrant congregations to argue that the common ground shared by evangelical and liturgical churches is much more important than the differences that divide them. --From publisher's description.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

165

Publisher

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

0802869912

ISBN 13

9780802869913

Everyday Adventures with Unruly Data

By: Melanie Feinberg

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Everyday Adventures with Unruly Data

By: Melanie Feinberg

Paired informal and scholarly essays show how everyday events reveal fundamental concepts of data, including its creation, aggregation, management, and use. Whether questioning numbers on a scale, laughing at a misspelling of one’s name, or finding ourselves confused in a foreign supermarket, we are engaging with data. The only way to handle data responsibly, says Melanie Feinberg in this incisive work, is to take into account its human character. Though the data she discusses may seem familiar, close scrutiny shows it to be ambiguous, complicated, and uncertain: unruly. Drawing on the tools of information science, she uses everyday events such as deciding between Blender A and Blender B on Amazon to demonstrate a practical, critical, and generative mode of thinking about data: its creation, management, aggregation, and use. Each chapter pairs a self-contained main essay (an adventure) with a scholarly companion essay (the reflection). The adventure begins with an anecdote—visiting the library, running out of butter, cooking rice on a different stove. Feinberg argues that to understand the power and pitfalls of data science, we must attend to the data itself, not merely the algorithms that manipulate it. As she reflects on the implications of commonplace events, Feinberg explicates fundamental concepts of data that reveal the many tiny design decisions—which may not even seem like design at all—that shape how data comes to be. Through the themes of serendipity, objectivity, equivalence, interoperability, taxonomy, labels, and locality, she illuminates the surprisingly pervasive role of data in our daily thoughts and lives.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

331

Publisher

MIT Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0262544407

ISBN 13

9780262544405

Sports Biomechanics

Reducing Injury and Improving Performance

By: Melanie Bussey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sports Biomechanics

Reducing Injury and Improving Performance

By: Melanie Bussey

This advanced text is the companion volume to Introduction to Sports Biomechanics, also written by Roger Bartlett. Focussing on third year undergraduate and postgraduate topics the text explores sports injury in relation to biomechanics. Part One presents a detailed examination of sports injury, including the properties of biological materials, mechanisms of injury occurrence, risk reduction, and the estimation of forces in biological structures. Part Two concentrates on the biomechanical enhancement of sports performance and covers in detail the analysis of sports technique, statistical and mathematical modelling of sports movements, and the feedback of results to improve performance. Each chapter feature an introduction, summary, references, example exercises and suggestions for further reading, making this an invaluable textbook for students who wish to specialize in sports biomechanics or sports injury and rehabilitation.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

300

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1135826226

ISBN 13

9781135826222

Information for Autocrats

Representation in Chinese Local Congresses

By: Melanie Manion

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Information for Autocrats

Representation in Chinese Local Congresses

By: Melanie Manion

This book studies representation in Chinese local congresses, drawing on qualitative fieldwork and quantitative surveys of congressmen and women.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

209

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1107049113

ISBN 13

9781107049116

Justice Reinvestment

Winding Back Imprisonment

By: David Brown,Chris Cunneen,Melanie Schwartz,Julie Stubbs,Courtney Young

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Justice Reinvestment

Winding Back Imprisonment

By: David Brown,Chris Cunneen,Melanie Schwartz,Julie Stubbs,Courtney Young

Justice reinvestment was introduced as a response to mass incarceration and racial disparity in the United States in 2003. This book examines justice reinvestment from its origins, its potential as a mechanism for winding back imprisonment rates, and its portability to Australia, the United Kingdom and beyond. The authors analyze the principles and processes of justice reinvestment, including the early neighborhood focus on 'million dollar blocks'. They further scrutinize the claims of evidence-based and data-driven policy, which have been used in the practical implementation strategies featured in bipartisan legislative criminal justice system reforms. This book takes a comparative approach to justice reinvestment by examining the differences in political, legal and cultural contexts between the United States and Australia in particular. It argues for a community-driven approach, originating in vulnerable Indigenous communities with high imprisonment rates, as part of a more general movement for Indigenous democracy. While supporting a social justice approach, the book confronts significantly the problematic features of the politics of locality and community, the process of criminal justice policy transfer, and rationalist conceptions of policy. It will be essential reading for scholars, students and practitioners of criminal justice and criminal law.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

304

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

113744911X

ISBN 13

9781137449115

Leaders Of Singapore

By: Melanie Chew

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Leaders Of Singapore

By: Melanie Chew

Singapore is a unique city-state, an economic miracle, a political phenomenon. Many marvel at her very existence. How did Singapore survive? Who built this country? What is the secret of her success?Leaders of Singapore is a fascinating account of the history and development of Singapore from 1945 to 1995, narrated in personal, forthright terms by her most prominent citizens. In a series of remarkable and revealing interviews, Singapore's most famous, most powerful and wealthiest men and women reveal the mysteries and intrigues of the past, describe the triumphs and tragedies which shaped their lives, and share their strategies for success and achievement.This is a pioneering work. It goes beyond any other work in exploring and explaining, through the voices of her people, the source of Singapore's achievements: the Leaders of Singapore and their relentless, uncompromising and often brutal fight for survival.Prominent personalities in LEADERS OF SINGAPORE include the founders of the People's Action Party: Lee Kuan Yew, Goh Keng Swee, Toh Chin Chye and S Rajaratnam, Lim Chin Siong, David Marshall, Devan Nair and Ong Pang Boon, who gathered in Lee Kuan Yew's smoke-filled Oxley Road basement, plotting revolution. They appear side-by-side with the original billionaires Lee Kong Chian, Tan Lark Sye, Tan Siak Kew, Runme Shaw, CK Tang, Ko Teck Kin, Kwek Hong Png, Ng Teng Fong, YC Chang, Tan Chin Tuan and Wee Cho Yaw. and a generation of nation-builders, activists, and artists who braved the initial shock of independence in 1966, and worked to ensure that Singapore survived, thrived, and prospered. Singapore's sages — men like Lim Kim San, Michael Wong Pakshong, Wee Chong Jin, Lim Chong Yah, Arthur Lim and Liu Kang — describe their challenges, failures and successes, and share nuggets of wisdom on survival, success, and life.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

343

Publisher

World Scientific

Published Date

ISBN 10

9814719455

ISBN 13

9789814719452

Australia Day

By: Melanie Cheng

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Australia Day

By: Melanie Cheng

Winner, Prize for Fiction, The 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards ‘Melanie Cheng is an astonishingly deft and incisive writer. With economy and elegance, she creates a dazzling mosaic of contemporary life, of how we live now. Hers is a compelling new voice in Australian literature.’ Christos Tsiolkas Australia Day is a collection of stories by debut author Melanie Cheng. The people she writes abut are young, old, rich, poor, married, widowed, Chinese, Lebanese, Christian, Muslim. What they have in common—no matter where they come from—is the desire we all share to feel that we belong. The stories explore universal themes of love, loss, family and identity, while at the same time asking crucial questions about the possibility of human connection in a globalised world. Melanie Cheng is a writer and general practitioner. She was born in Adelaide, grew up in Hong Kong and now lives in Melbourne. Her debut collection of short stories, Australia Day, won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2016 and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction in 2018. Room for a Stranger is her first novel. ‘A stunning debut that takes its place among Australian short story greats.’ AU Review ‘The book bears witness to the author’s empathetic eye, multicultural characterisation and easy facility with dialogue...This short story collection explores what it means to belong, to be Australian; its insight from different vantage points and its photo-realistic narrative make it an exciting and impressive debut.’ Judges’ Report, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, 2018 ‘All of her characters—a diverse cast of difference races and faiths—are searching for connection or a sense of belonging, and coming up short. Despite its title the focus of this collection is not explicitly on that increasingly controversial public holiday. Rather, it is on the struggles, internal and external, that occur when people from different backgrounds meet by chance or are brought together...Australia Day is a bittersweet, beautifully crafted collection that will be much admired by fans of Cate Kennedy and Tony Birch.’ Books+Publishing ‘What a wonderful book, a book with bite. These stories have a real edge to them. They are complex without being contrived, humanising, but never sentimental or cloying—and, ultimately, very moving.’ Alice Pung ‘In each story, Melanie Cheng creates an entire microcosm, peeling back the superficial to expose the raw nerves of contemporary Australian society. Her eye is sharp and sympathetic, her characters flawed and funny and utterly believable.’ Jennifer Down ‘Melanie Cheng’s stories are a deep dive into the diversity of humanity. They lead you into lives, into hearts, into unexplored places, and bring you back transformed.’ Michelle Wright ‘The characters stay in the mind, their lives and experiences mirroring many of our own, challenging us to think how we might respond in their place. An insightful, sometimes uncomfortable portrayal of multicultural Australia from an observant and talented writer.’ Ranjana Srivastava ‘If only the PM might pick up a copy, even by mistake.’ Saturday Paper ‘A wonderful feat of storytelling...Melanie Cheng is an exciting new writer.’ Readings ‘A sumptuous collection of fourteen short stories, which are disparate but with modern Australia or Australians at their heart, exploring issues of racism, infidelity, grief, parenthood, children and ageing...they are heartfelt and Melbourne-based Cheng paints the characters beautifully.’ Herald Sun ‘The happy surprise of Cheng’s work as a collection lies in her resolute grasp of the absolute normalcy of a culture that not so many years ago was divided and dually suspicious. The census gives us the facts but it takes fiction to make reality three-dimensional.’ Sydney Morning Herald ‘The author’s empathetic eye and easy facility with dialogue make the anthology a strong debut, with the longer stories in particular offering breadth and depth...It feels like Cheng has taken a wide sample from the census to craft this inclusive portrait of contemporary Australia.’ Big Issue‘Cheng’s work is polished and affecting. Australia Day is that thing we all chase: a complex, engaging and timely read.’ Lifted Brow ‘Cheng paints a holistic snapshot of Australian life, with the result being a collection of stories that are simultaneously cynical and hopeful...The ambiguity inherent in labelling something “Australian" is also manifest in Cheng’s characters, prompting the reader to interrogate their own definition of what it means to be Australian.’ Kill Your Darlings ‘Wonderful.’ Christos Tsiolkas, Sydney Morning Herald’s Year in Reading ‘Melanie Cheng’s Australia Day brought this prodigal reader of short fiction back into the fold. And what better return than through Cheng’s creation of illuminated characters of colour—young, old, rich, poor, married, widowed, Muslim, Chinese...Cheng’s Australia Day explores the density and difficulty inherent in being culturally and physically different and serves to remind me that when our six families of adopted children from China gather in Queenscliffe on Australia Day each year, raising two flags on the pole instead of one that we, like all of Cheng’s characters, are restoring belonging from our individual and collective loss.’ Wheeler Centre, 2017 Favourites ‘This smart, engaging short story collection offers fresh perspectives on what it means to be Australian today. The stories also explore identity and belonging in a variety of other ways, delving into family, love, class and education. Big themes aside, every story is beautifully written and a total pleasure to read.’ Emily Maguire, Australian Women’s Weekly '[Cheng’s] individual characters suggest the ways in which we might move forward...Australia Day imagines a tomorrow where we can love our communities, our celebrations and our food, without leaving behind critical good taste.’ Sydney Review of Books

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

263

Publisher

Text Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1925410838

ISBN 13

9781925410839

From Discrimination to Death

Genocide Process Through a Human Rights Lens

By: Melanie O'Brien

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

From Discrimination to Death

Genocide Process Through a Human Rights Lens

By: Melanie O'Brien

From Discrimination to Death studies the process of genocide through the human rights violations that occur during genocide. Using individual testimonies and in-depth field research from the Armenian Genocide, Holocaust and Cambodian Genocide, this book demonstrates that a pattern of specific escalating human rights abuses takes place in genocide. Offering an analysis of all these particular human rights as they are violated in genocide, the author intricately brings together genocide studies and human rights, demonstrating how the ‘crime of crimes’ and the human rights law regime correlate. The book applies the pattern of rights violations to the Rohingya Genocide, revealing that this pattern could have been used to prevent the violence against the Rohingya, before advocating for a greater role for human rights oversight bodies in genocide prevention. The pattern ascertained through the research in this book offers a resource for governments and human rights practitioners as a mid-stream indicator for genocide prevention. It can also be used by lawyers and judges in genocide trials to help determine whether genocide took place. Undergraduate and postgraduate students, particularly of genocide studies, will also greatly benefit from this book.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

318

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000786331

ISBN 13

9781000786330

Rethinking Community Sanctions

Social Justice and Penal Control

By: Julie Stubbs,Sophie Russell,Eileen Baldry,David Brown,Chris Cunneen,Melanie Schwartz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rethinking Community Sanctions

Social Justice and Penal Control

By: Julie Stubbs,Sophie Russell,Eileen Baldry,David Brown,Chris Cunneen,Melanie Schwartz

Based on insights from interviews with key participants in 3 Australian jurisdictions, this book demonstrates the importance of connecting criminal legal system struggles with broader movements for community control, self-determination, and sovereignty.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

257

Publisher

Emerald Group Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

180117640X

ISBN 13

9781801176408

Penal Culture and Hyperincarceration

The Revival of the Prison

By: Chris Cunneen,Eileen Baldry,David Brown,Mark Brown,Melanie Schwartz,Alex Steel

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Penal Culture and Hyperincarceration

The Revival of the Prison

By: Chris Cunneen,Eileen Baldry,David Brown,Mark Brown,Melanie Schwartz,Alex Steel

What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in late modern societies? What changes have there been in penality and use of the prison over the past 40 years that have led to the re-valorization of the prison? Using penal culture as a conceptual and theoretical vehicle, and Australia as a case study, this book analyses international developments in penality and imprisonment. Authored by some of Australia’s leading penal theorists, the book examines the historical and contemporary influences on the use of the prison, with analyses of colonialism, post colonialism, race, and what they term the ’penal/colonial complex,’ in the construction of imprisonment rates and on the development of the phenomenon of hyperincarceration. The authors develop penal culture as an explanatory framework for continuity, change and difference in prisons and the nature of contested penal expansionism. The influence of transformative concepts such as ’risk management’, ’the therapeutic prison’, and ’preventative detention’ are explored as aspects of penal culture. Processes of normalization, transmission and reproduction of penal culture are seen throughout the social realm. Comparative, contemporary and historical in its approach, the book provides a new analysis of penality in the 21st century.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

255

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317082664

ISBN 13

9781317082668

Vulnerability, Extremism, and Schooling

Restorative Practices, Policy Enactment, and Managing Risk

By: Garth Stahl,Ben Adams,Melanie Baak,Samantha Schulz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Vulnerability, Extremism, and Schooling

Restorative Practices, Policy Enactment, and Managing Risk

By: Garth Stahl,Ben Adams,Melanie Baak,Samantha Schulz

Vulnerability, Extremism, and Schooling: Restorative Practices, Policy Enactment, and Managing Risk documents and analyzes efforts by educational policymakers to combat susceptibility to extremism within disadvantaged communities. Schools worldwide are increasingly enlisted in the efforts of nation-states to prevent or counter violent extremism. However, since extremism is a notoriously complex and difficult concept to define, attempts to counter violent extremism are inevitably entangled in issues of political and social power. Through the lens of affective governance—which refers to a style of governing emphasizing the emotional and psychological needs of citizens, as well as their sense of connection and belonging to their community—this book draws attention to how policy enactment can be closely aligned with government agendas revolving around the management of risk. The authors argue that extremism is closely tied to systemic marginalization and, while efforts to combat a susceptibility to extremism are important, so is a continual critique of such efforts. This is especially true when approaches are aimed at populations who are already marginalized.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

189

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

1666935166

ISBN 13

9781666935165

Tarascon Clinical Neurology Pocketbook

By: Melanie G. Hayden Gephart

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Tarascon Clinical Neurology Pocketbook

By: Melanie G. Hayden Gephart

The Tarascon Clinical Neurology Pocketbook brings neurologists, internists, primary care physicians and residents the most convenient and comprehensive pocket reference available today. This concise, organized pocket guide is packed with essential lists, figures, & tables providing instant reminders of hard-to-remember, vital clinical information. This pocket reference guide covers the diagnosis and treatment of common neurological disorders, neurosurgery topics including brain tumors, and a comprehensive section on neuropharmacology. No other Neurologic reference of this kind incorporates neurosurgery, neurology and neuro-critical care in one reference. The Tarascon Clinical Neurology Pocketbook is an unmatched resource for neuroscience medical practitioners and trainees.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

304

Publisher

Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

076376681X

ISBN 13

9780763766818

The Periodic Table of DC

By: Melanie Scott

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Periodic Table of DC

By: Melanie Scott

Discover the elemental properties and explosive reactions of iconic DC characters From Superman, whose powers are enhanced by Earth's yellow sun; to The Flash, imbued with the Speed Force; and from Batman's superior human abilities to the mystically empowered Wonder Woman, not to mention the criminal genius of Lex Luthor and The Joker; the DC universe comprises a vast and varied array of heroes and villains. Whether Atlantean or Amazonian, magical or elemental, technologically augmented or genetically evolved, key and lesser-known DC characters are expertly classified in The Periodic Table of DC to illuminate the properties that bind them, the catalysts that created them, the active agents that energize them, and the fundamental forces that underpin the DC Multiverse. With more than 130 character profiles written by a DC expert, beautiful comic book art, and DC's seal of approval, The Periodic Table of DC reveals the fascinating and astonishing connections between the most extraordinary heroes and villains ever created.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

623

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

0744091098

ISBN 13

9780744091090

The Rough Poets

Reading Oil-Worker Poetry

By: Melanie Dennis Unrau

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Rough Poets

Reading Oil-Worker Poetry

By: Melanie Dennis Unrau

Oil workers are often typecast as rough: embodying the toxic masculinity, racism, consumerist excess, and wilful ignorance of the extractive industries and petrostates they work for. But their poetry troubles these assumptions, revealing the fear, confusion, betrayal, and indignation hidden beneath tough personas. The Rough Poets presents poetry by workers in the Canadian oil and gas industry, collecting and closely reading texts published between 1938 and 2019: S.C. Ells’s Northland Trails, Peter Christensen’s Rig Talk, Dymphny Dronyk’s Contrary Infatuations, Mathew Henderson’s The Lease, Naden Parkin’s A Relationship with Truth, Lesley Battler’s Endangered Hydrocarbons, and Lindsay Bird’s Boom Time. These writers are uniquely positioned, Melanie Dennis Unrau argues, both as petropoets who write poetry about oil and as theorists of petropoetics with unique knowledge about how to make and unmake worlds that depend on fossil fuels. Their ambivalent, playful, crude, and honest petropoetry shows that oil workers grieve the environmental and social impacts of their work, worry about climate change and the futures of their communities, and desire jobs and ways of life that are good, safe, and just. How does it feel to be a worker in the oil and gas industry in a climate emergency, facing an energy transition that threatens your way of life? Unrau takes up this question with the respect, care, and imagination necessary to be an environmentalist reader in solidarity with oil workers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

167

Publisher

McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published Date

ISBN 10

0228023394

ISBN 13

9780228023395

Retirement of Revolutionaries in China

Public Policies, Social Norms, Private Interests

By: Melanie Manion

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Retirement of Revolutionaries in China

Public Policies, Social Norms, Private Interests

By: Melanie Manion

In this book Melanie Manion analyzes the largest bloodless circulation of elites in history--the massive retirement of officials in the People's Republic of China. Beginning in 1978 and continuing through the 1980s, Chinese leaders in Beijing replaced millions of old cadres, including veterans of the communist revolution, with younger generations of better educated and less generalist officials. How were the elders persuaded to retire? Manion shows how a norm of age-based exit from office, historically novel in the Chinese communist setting, was engineered by top policymakers and aided by younger cadres. Manion's research combined a wide variety of sources and methods, many new to the study of Chinese politics. The author examined hundreds of party and government documents, surveyed articles in newspapers and journals, and interviewed officials in charge of supervising cadre retirement policy. She first conducted long exploratory interviews with retired cadres, and then designed questionnaires distributed to hundreds of others for quantitative analysis. Finally, to understand the viewpoints of those with the most to gain, she interviewed younger, employed cadres. The result is a rich portrayal of manipulative leadership in post-Mao China, which reveals the key role of the private interests of all the parties involved. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

209

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1400863414

ISBN 13

9781400863419

The Virgin Vampire

By: Melanie Thompson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Virgin Vampire

By: Melanie Thompson

The Virgin Vampire leads you on an emotional rollercoaster ride filled with adventure and love. Chan Balum is an ancient vampire, made when the Mayans ruled Guatemala. In 600 CE, he was a priest who sacrificed men to his pagan gods. Determined to find the perfect sacrifice, one that will bring the gods back to Tikal, and his power back to him, he is in Seattle hunting for that perfect sacrifice. Each victim is tried and each one fails the test. Then one night, he meets Targ Erikson. The tall blonde Norseman seems like a perfect sacrifice. He glamours him, takes him back to his home and seduces him. Then he turns Erikson into a vampire. Enrique Valdavar, called Rickie, is a shifter, and gay. He falls in love with Erickson who can’t accept he’s a vampire, or that he’s fallen in love with a man. Will Targ Erickson ever be able to accept his new identity as a gay vampire in love with a shifter?

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

244

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1681464896

ISBN 13

9781681464893

Hyaluronan Signaling and Turnover

By: Melanie Simpson,Paraskevi Heldin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hyaluronan Signaling and Turnover

By: Melanie Simpson,Paraskevi Heldin

Advances in Cancer Research provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research. Here, once again, outstanding and original reviews are presented on a variety of topics. This volume covers hyaluronan signaling and turnover. - Provides information on cancer research - Outstanding and original reviews - Suitable for researchers and students

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

418

Publisher

Academic Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0128003936

ISBN 13

9780128003930

Neuroscience for Change at Work

Practical Insights to Overcome Workforce Resistance to Organizational Change

By: Tibisay Vera,Melanie Franklin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Neuroscience for Change at Work

Practical Insights to Overcome Workforce Resistance to Organizational Change

By: Tibisay Vera,Melanie Franklin

How to I communicate change to the business? How do I maintain productivity and wellbeing during change? How do I deal with resistance to business change? Neuroscience for Change at Work answers these questions and explains how to use insights from neuroscience when designing change and communicating it to employees. It is based on the PEPE model which outlines the four fundamental principles that drive resistance to change in individuals, teams and the wider organization. This book provides specific coverage of how neuroscience can inform change initiatives in remote, hybrid and in-person working environments to ensure successful business transformation in any working model. There is also discussion of how change can impact employee mental health and wellbeing and explains how using insights from neuroscience can help to safeguard this. There is also discussion of how to handle competing priorities from different groups of employees during times of business change. Every chapter of Neuroscience for Change at Work is supported by practical examples, tips, tools and case studies as well as robust, evidence-based insights from neuroscience. Co-authored by a neuroscientist with extensive experience in applying neuroscience to business transformation projects, this book is a practical guide for all change managers and anyone responsible for employee engagement, wellbeing and productivity during times of change.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

321

Publisher

Kogan Page Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1398614416

ISBN 13

9781398614413

Everyday Forms of Whiteness

Understanding Race in a 'Post-Racial' World

By: Melanie E. L. Bush

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Everyday Forms of Whiteness

Understanding Race in a 'Post-Racial' World

By: Melanie E. L. Bush

The second edition of Melanie Bush's acclaimed Everyday Forms of Whiteness looks at the often-unseen ways racism impacts our lives. The author has interviewed and surveyed hundreds of college students and reveals that even though we talk as thoughwe live in a "post-racial" world after the election of Barack Obama, racism is still very much a factor in everyday life. The second edition incorporates new data and interviews to show how the everyday thinking of ordinary people contributes to the perpetuation of systemic racialized inequality. The book introduces key terms for the study for race and ethnicity, reveals the mechanisms that support the racial hierarchy in U.S. society, then outlines ways we can challenge long-standing patterns of racialinequality.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

331

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

0742599973

ISBN 13

9780742599970

Evangelical Worship

An American Mosaic

By: Melanie C. Ross

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Evangelical Worship

An American Mosaic

By: Melanie C. Ross

Almost invariably, media stories with the word evangelical in their headlines are accompanied by a familiar stock photo: a mass of middle-class worshippers with eyes closed, faces tilted upward, and hands raised to the sky. Yet, despite the fact that worship has become symbolic of evangelicalism's identity in the twenty-first century, it remains an understudied locus of academic inquiry. Historians of American evangelicalism tend to define the movement by its political entanglements (the "rise of the religious Right"), and academic trajectories (the formation of the "evangelical mind"), not its ecclesial practices. Theological scholars frequently dismiss evangelical worship as a reiteration of nineteenth-century revivalism or a derivative imitation of secular entertainment (three Christian rock songs and a spiritual TED talk). But by failing to engage this worship seriously, we miss vital insights into a form of Protestantism that exerts widespread influence in the United States and around the world. Evangelical Worship: An American Mosaic models a new way forward. Drawing together insights from American religious history and liturgical studies, and putting both in conversation with ethnographic fieldwork in seven congregations, this book argues that corporate worship is not a peripheral "extra" tacked on to a fully-formed spiritual/political/cultural movement, but rather the crucible through which congregations forge and negotiate the contours of evangelicalism's contested theological identity"--

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

321

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0197530753

ISBN 13

9780197530757

Motivational Interviewing, 2E

A Guide for Medical Trainees

By: Thomas M. Kelly,Melanie A. Gold

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Motivational Interviewing, 2E

A Guide for Medical Trainees

By: Thomas M. Kelly,Melanie A. Gold

This may be the single most important book you ever buy during your medical training. Rotations come and go, exams come and go, but regardless of specialty, patient-care will be at the heart of your practice. It is no exaggeration to say that motivational interviewing (MI) has transformed the way doctors engage with patients, families, and colleagues alike. MI is among the most powerful tools available to promote behavior change in patients. In an age of chronic diseases (diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, obesity), behavior change is no longer limited to substance use or the field of psychiatry - maladaptive choices and behaviors that negatively impact health outcomes are rampant. There is an explosion of research projects using MI or adaptations of MI in the behavioral health medicine field in the past decade. Hospitalizations can't make people change. How marvelous is it that an evidence-based health behavior change approach (MI) can help people change the outcomes of their illnesses and the course of their lives. This therapeutic approach is not a form of psychotherapy and is not the stuff of cobwebs and old leather couches. MI is readily integrated into regular ward rounds and office visits and provides an effective and efficient approach to patients clinical encounters. Written by experts in the field and medical trainees across medicine, the second edition of the MI guide explores how MI enhances contact with patients from every level of training, following an accessible, succinct approach. This book covers the application of MI method and skills into practice and also includes numerous clinical scenarios, personal reflections and online animated clinical vignettes (video clips) that share the challenges and successes the authors have focused. Furthermore this book is endorsed by the pioneers of MI: William R. Miller & Stephen Rollnick.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

457

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0197583873

ISBN 13

9780197583876

For Your Tomorrow

The Way of an Unlikely Soldier

By: Melanie Murray

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

For Your Tomorrow

The Way of an Unlikely Soldier

By: Melanie Murray

The Year of Magical Thinking meets Fifteen Days in this literary exploration of one Canadian's decision to enlist and go to war. What compels a young, affluent Canadian to put on a uniform and risk his life for the controversial mission in Afghanistan? And how does his family cope with his loss when he is killed there? Jeff Francis was a thirty-year-old doctoral candidate and student of Buddhism when he decided that joining the armed forces was the best way to make a difference in the world. In elegant, spare prose that captures both the hardness of war and the nuances of a grieving family, Melanie Murray - Captain Francis's aunt - uses the lens of his life and death to give Canada's war in Afghanistan the perceptive, literary treatment its soldiers, families and citizens deserve.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

266

Publisher

Random House Canada

Published Date

ISBN 10

0307359808

ISBN 13

9780307359803

Amazing Bugs

By: Melanie Bridges,Camilla De La Bedoyere

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Amazing Bugs

By: Melanie Bridges,Camilla De La Bedoyere

From mantids to grasshoppers, scarab beetles to water bugs, meet the most amazing bugs and insects in the world in this new title from the exciting In Focus: Bugs & Insects series. Did you know that locusts can live in swarms of up to 50 billion? Or that fireflies can make light appear and disappear at the end of their abdomens, make it brighter or dimmer, and even flash in a particular way to attract a mate? Learn fascinating and incredible facts about the most awesome of our many-legged friends, accompanied by detailed full-color photographs to maximize the wow factor

Average ratings

N/A