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Patriots or Traitors

A History of American Educated Chinese Students

By: Stacey Bieler

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Patriots or Traitors

A History of American Educated Chinese Students

By: Stacey Bieler

This title sxplores the love-hate relationship between the USA and China through the experience of Chinese students caught between the two countries. The book sheds light on China's ambivelance towards the Western influence, and the use of educational and cultural exhanges as a political device.

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532

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Routledge

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1317478339

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9781317478331

Dark Speech

The Performance of Law in Early Ireland

By: Robin Chapman Stacey

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Dark Speech

The Performance of Law in Early Ireland

By: Robin Chapman Stacey

What does it mean to talk about law as theater, to speak about the "performance" of transactions as mundane as the sale of a pig or as agonizing as receiving compensation for a dead kinsman? In Dark Speech, Robin Chapman Stacey explores such questions by examining the interaction between performance and law in Ireland between the seventh and ninth centuries. Exposing the inner workings of the Irish legal system, Stacey examines the manner in which publicly enacted words and silences were used to construct legal and political relationships in a society where traditional hierarchies were very much in flux. Law in early Ireland was a verbal art, grounded as much in aesthetics as in the enforcement of communal norms. In contrast with modern law, no sharp distinction existed between art and politics. Visualizing legal events through the lens of procedure, Stacey helps readers recognize the creative, fluid, and inherently risky nature of these same events. While many historians have long realized the mnemonic value of legal drama to the small, principally nonliterate societies of the early Middle Ages, Stacey argues that the appeal to social memory is but one aspect of the role played by performance in early law. In fact, legal performance (like other more easily recognized forms of verbal art) created and transformed as much as it recorded.

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366

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812294041

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9780812294040

The Road to Judgment

From Custom to Court in Medieval Ireland and Wales

By: Robin Chapman Stacey

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The Road to Judgment

From Custom to Court in Medieval Ireland and Wales

By: Robin Chapman Stacey

Examines the institution of personal suretyship through the remarkable rich sources extant from medieval Ireland and Wales.

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360

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512807575

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9781512807578

The Wall Street Journal. Financial Guidebook for New Parents

By: Stacey L. Bradford

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The Wall Street Journal. Financial Guidebook for New Parents

By: Stacey L. Bradford

A practical approach to affording your kids from cradle to college. Bringing home your bouncing baby boy or girl should be an exciting time of celebration–not cause for worry about how you’re going to pay for feeding, clothing, and caring for your new bundle of expenses. The average family will spend between $11,000 and $16,000 during a new baby’s first year, and more than $200,000 before a kid’s eighteenth birthday. Unfortunately, a second child only doubles your costs, with little economy of scale for each additional baby. Before you start using these statistics as birth control, take a deep breath and know that you can have a family and make a comfortable future for your children while saving for your own important goals. The Wall Street Journal Financial Guidebook for New Parents shows you the way, with information on how to: • Safeguard your child’s well-being with wills, trusts, and life insurance • Best weigh your child-care options and decide whether to go back to work • Save on taxes with child-friendly tax credits and deductions plus tax-advantaged benefits at work • Manage your family’s health-care costs • Save for long-term costs by setting up a college fund • Spend smart and save money at every stage of your child’s development • Continue to contribute to your own retirement savings From maternity (and paternity) leave to flexible spending accounts to 529 college plans, The Wall Street Journal Financial Guidebook for New Parents provides all the information you need to meet your child’s expenses while also protecting your family’s financial security.

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210

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Crown Currency

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0307459985

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9780307459985

Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales

By: Robin Chapman Stacey

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Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales

By: Robin Chapman Stacey

In Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales, Robin Chapman Stacey explores the idea of law as a form of political fiction: a body of literature that blurs the lines generally drawn between the legal and literary genres. She argues that for jurists of thirteenth-century Wales, legal writing was an intensely imaginative genre, one acutely responsive to nationalist concerns and capable of reproducing them in sophisticated symbolic form. She identifies narrative devices and tropes running throughout successive revisions of legal texts that frame the body as an analogy for unity and for the court, that equate maleness with authority and just rule and femaleness with its opposite, and that employ descriptions of internal and external landscapes as metaphors for safety and peril, respectively. Historians disagree about the context in which the lawbooks of medieval Wales should be read and interpreted. Some accept the claim that they originated in a council called by the tenth-century king Hywel Dda, while others see them less as a repository of ancient custom than as the Welsh response to the general resurgence in law taking place in western Europe. Stacey builds on the latter approach to argue that whatever their origins, the lawbooks functioned in the thirteenth century as a critical venue for political commentary and debate on a wide range of subjects, including the threat posed to native independence and identity by the encroaching English; concerns about violence and disunity among the native Welsh; abusive behavior on the part of native officials; unwelcome changes in native practice concerning marriage, divorce, and inheritance; and fears about the increasing political and economic role of women.

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344

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812295420

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9780812295429

"Patriots" Or "traitors"?

A History of American-educated Chinese Students

By: Stacey Bieler

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"Patriots" Or "traitors"?

A History of American-educated Chinese Students

By: Stacey Bieler

Focusing on the significant but often unacknowledged impact American trained Chinese students have played in China during the 20th century, historian Bieler investigates what price China has paid in terms of technological and economic development and social cohesion by choosing the revolutionary path and rejecting these liberal change agents, and what role US pride and policies have played in undermining its own goal of transferring American values to China and building mutual friendship between the two countries. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

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M.E. Sharpe

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0765611864

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9780765611864

Albrecht Dürer

Artist in the Midst of Two Storms

By: Stacey Bieler

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Albrecht Dürer

Artist in the Midst of Two Storms

By: Stacey Bieler

The artist and entrepreneur Albrecht Durer lived in Germany in the early 1500s, when two storms were threatening the Holy Roman Empire. First, Suleiman the Magnificent and his army of Ottoman Turks were expanding from Constantinople to Vienna, the doorstep of Europe. Second, Martin Luther, a German monk and professor, wrote his Ninety-Five Theses identifying corruption within the Roman Catholic Church. This challenged the authority of both Emperor Charles V and Pope Leo X, who responded by accusing Luther of heresy. Albrecht Durer influenced art and media throughout Europe as strongly as Martin Luther influenced people's views of life, death, and their relationship with God. Durer's art and writing reveal how this creative and thoughtful man responded to the changes offered by Luther. Why was Durer so attracted to Luther's writings? Why would he risk being accused of being a heretic? Both of these men inspired changes in art, religion, and politics that still underlie the foundation of today's social structures and Western culture.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498246109

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9781498246101

Albrecht Dürer

Artist in the Midst of Two Storms

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Artist in the Midst of Two Storms

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Book's by Stacey Bieler

Patriots or Traitors

Patriots or Traitors

Dark Speech

Dark Speech

The Road to Judgment

The Road to Judgment

The Wall Street Journal. Financial Guidebook for New Parents

The Wall Street Journal. Financial Guidebook for New Parents

Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales

Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales

"Patriots" Or "traitors"?

"Patriots" Or "traitors"?

Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer

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