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The Silver Kings

By: Stephen Deas

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Praised by the likes of Joe Abercrombie and Brent Weeks, Stephen Deas has made dragons his own. The Silver King, half-god, legend and myth, is returning. Once he fought his brother, the Black Moon, and his dragons, and was defeated. But the Black Moon was also weakened, and a millennia has passed. Humanity has grown used to a world without gods, a world where they were masters of all - including the terrifying dragons. But the dragons have awakened, the hole in reality is expanding, and the shackles that kept the half-gods controlled have been broken. The Black Moon lives on in the body of Berren Crowntaker, and has taken control. With an army behind him, the dragons above and the Dragon Queen at his side, he goes to war with his brother. The worlds are turning, and only one thing is sure - there will be an ending. THE SILVER KING is the triumphant conclusion to one of the most brutal and wide-ranging fantasy series of recent years.

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Gollancz

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0575100648

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9780575100640

Ancestors and Anxiety

Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth in China

By: Stephen R. Bokenkamp

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Ancestors and Anxiety

Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth in China

By: Stephen R. Bokenkamp

This innovative work on Chinese concepts of the afterlife is the result of Stephen Bokenkamp's groundbreaking study of Chinese scripture and the incorporation of Indic concepts into the Chinese worldview. Here, he explores how Chinese authors, including Daoists and non-Buddhists, received and deployed ideas about rebirth from the third to the sixth centuries C.E. In tracing the antecedents of these scriptures, Bokenkamp uncovers a stunning array of non-Buddhist accounts that provide detail on the realms of the dead, their denizens, and human interactions with them. Bokenkamp demonstrates that the motive for the Daoist acceptance of Buddhist notions of rebirth lay not so much in the power of these ideas as in the work they could be made to do.

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Univ of California Press

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0520933346

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9780520933347

Provincial Patriots

The Hunanese and Modern China

By: Stephen R. Platt

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Provincial Patriots

The Hunanese and Modern China

By: Stephen R. Platt

From the Taiping Rebellion to the Chinese Communist movement, no province in China gave rise to as many reformers, military officers, and revolutionaries as did Hunan. Platt offers the first comprehensive study of why this province wielded such disproportionate influence.

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Harvard University Press

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0674026659

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9780674026650

Red Circle

China and Me, 1949-2009

By: Stephen Songsheng Chen

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Red Circle

China and Me, 1949-2009

By: Stephen Songsheng Chen

Red Circle: China and Me, 1949-2009 tells the fascinating story of Stephen Chen and his family. It sketches the history of the People's Republic of China, not merely as a backdrop, but as the driving force of the book's action. Red Circle chronicles the rise and fall and rise again of an extraordinary family. At the same time, it is only one of countless stories that could be told by many millions of Chinese. It tells of the hope, turmoil, and terror in the first 30 years of the PRC and of the transformation, transition, and achievement in the last 30 years. Red Circle is the first work of its kind to cover the making of modern China. The 60-year cycle encompassed by Red Circle is the basis of the traditional Chinese calendar, astrology, and cosmology. The cyclical nature of life and a return to one's roots are fundamental elements in Stephen's story. The ways in which his life reflects and completes that of his father, the stunning symmetries and recurring cycles of Red Circle make for a remarkable read. Stephen has seen China from a range of vantage points that few others have experienced. From the palace he grew up in to brutal labor camps to corporate boardrooms, from stark prisons to secret government offices, Stephen has witnessed history. Red Circle is, however, more than the tale of how a family survives or a nation emerges. At its heart, Red Circle is a thrilling testament to the indomitable will and unconquerable spirit of the individual.

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1449033652

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9781449033651

The Splintered Gods

By: Stephen Deas

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The Splintered Gods

By: Stephen Deas

Praised by the likes of Joe Abercrombie and Brent Weeks, Stephen Deas has made dragons his own. Captured by an unknown enemy and forced to wage war on his rivals, the Dragon Queen has found herself hated and feared by all the people of this new land. There is little they can do to hurt her while she has her dragon, but she cannot escape while the magic necklace she is forced to wear remains active - or it will throttle her. And the enemies of her new master are gathering for revenge ... Lost in a body that isn't his own, Berren - the Bloody Judge - continues his search for the man who stole his life. Accompanied by a single Adamantine soldier, they scrabble to survive in a world shaken by the Dragon Queen's attack and suspicious of all those who are strangers. But there is another power inside Berren, one which escapes when he is in danger and has the habit of disintegrating those around him. And that power has its own agenda ... One that will lead it to the Dragon Queen, and battle. The critics, fellow authors and readers alike are agreed - if you love dragons and epic fantasy, Stephen Deas is the writer for you. The man who brought dragons back to their full glory, might and terror.

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Gollancz

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0575100591

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9780575100596

A Memory of Flames Complete eBook Collection

By: Stephen Deas

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A Memory of Flames Complete eBook Collection

By: Stephen Deas

Collected here are all ten of Stephen Deas' epic fantasy novels about a world ruled by dragons. Blood, fire, sex, politics and betrayal combine in this masterful and wide-ranging series. Contains THE ADAMANTINE PALACE, THE KING OF THE CRAGS, THE ORDER OF THE SCALES, THE THIEF-TAKER'S APPRENTICE, THE WARLOCK'S SHADOW, THE KING'S ASSASSIN, THE BLACK MAUSOLEUM, DRAGON QUEEN, THE SPLINTERED GODS, THE SILVER KINGS

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147321405X

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9781473214057

China and Christianity

Burdened Past, Hopeful Future

By: Stephen Uhalley,Xiaoxin Wu

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China and Christianity

Burdened Past, Hopeful Future

By: Stephen Uhalley,Xiaoxin Wu

This collection offers fresh perspectives on Sino-Western cultural relations, with particular regard to the experience of Christianity in China. The contributors include authorities from China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan), Europe (including Russia and Eastern Europe), and North America.

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Routledge

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1317475011

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9781317475019

The Generals of the Yang Family

Four Early Plays

By: Wilt L. Idema,Stephen H. West

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The Generals of the Yang Family

Four Early Plays

By: Wilt L. Idema,Stephen H. West

This book offers a complete translation of four early plays of the Yang Family Generals. The story of the Yang Family Generals, particularly its female generals, was a perennial favorite on the Chinese stage in the 19th and 20th centuries. In detailing the role of this military family in the Song-Khitan wars of the late 10th and early 11th centuries, these four plays are all in the form of zaju, a type of play that originated in the 13th century. These plays are from the 15th and 16th centuries and allow a glimpse into earlier renditions of the Yang Family saga, which is a decidedly more male-centered tradition than that performed in the Qing dynasty. This volume offers the only complete English-language translation of these early plays. These plays allow access to the earliest phase in the development of the Yang Family saga. The plays provide information on the staging of large battle scenes on the stage and have considerable literary and cultural value.

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World Scientific

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9814508691

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9789814508698

Human Rights in Chinese Thought

A Cross-Cultural Inquiry

By: Stephen C. Angle

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Human Rights in Chinese Thought

A Cross-Cultural Inquiry

By: Stephen C. Angle

What should we make of claims by members of other groups to have moralities different from our own? Human Rights in Chinese Thought gives an extended answer to this question in the first study of its kind. It integrates a full account of the development of Chinese rights discourse - reaching back to important, though neglected, origins of that discourse in 17th and 18th century Confucianism - with philosophical consideration of how various communities should respond to contemporary Chinese claims about the uniqueness of their human rights concepts. The book elaborates a plausible kind of moral pluralism and demonstrates that Chinese ideas of human rights do indeed have distinctive characteristics, but it nonetheless argues for the importance and promise of cross-cultural moral engagement.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521007526

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9780521007528

The Poetry of Du Fu

By: Stephen Owen

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The Poetry of Du Fu

By: Stephen Owen

The Complete Poetry of Du Fu presents a complete scholarly translation of Chinese literature alongside the original text in a critical edition. The English translation is more scholarly than vernacular Chinese translations, and it is compelled to address problems that even the best traditional commentaries overlook. The main body of the text is a facing page translation and critical edition of the earliest Song editions and other sources. For convenience the translations are arranged following the sequence in Qiu Zhao’an’s Du shi xiangzhu (although Qiu’s text is not followed). Basic footnotes are included when the translation needs clarification or supplement. Endnotes provide sources, textual notes, and a limited discussion of problem passages. A supplement references commonly used allusions, their sources, and where they can be found in the translation. Scholars know that there is scarcely a Du Fu poem whose interpretation is uncontested. The scholar may use this as a baseline to agree or disagree. Other readers can feel confident that this is a credible reading of the text within the tradition. A reader with a basic understanding of the language of Chinese poetry can use this to facilitate reading Du Fu, which can present problems for even the most learned reader.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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150150195X

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9781501501951

Dragon Queen

By: Stephen Deas

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Dragon Queen

By: Stephen Deas

Praised by the likes of Joe Abercrombie and Brent Weeks, Stephen Deas has made dragons his own. In the years before the Dragons laid waste to man's empire, the fearsome monsters were used for war and as gifts of surpassing wealth to buy favour in the constant political battles that tore at the kingdoms. Notorious in these battles was the Dragon Queen. And now she is a prisoner. But no one is more dangerous than when caged ... The critics, fellow authors and readers alike are agreed - if you love dragons and epic fantasy, Stephen Deas is the writer for you. The man who brought dragons back to their full glory, might and terror. DRAGON QUEEN is a companion volume to the Memory of Flames trilogy and to THE BLACK MAUSOLEUM.

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Gollancz

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0575100559

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9780575100558

Generals Of The Yang Family, The: Four Early Plays

By: Wilt Lukas Idema,Stephen H West

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Generals Of The Yang Family, The: Four Early Plays

By: Wilt Lukas Idema,Stephen H West

This book offers a complete translation of four early plays of the Yang Family Generals. The story of the Yang Family Generals, particularly its female generals, was a perennial favorite on the Chinese stage in the 19th and 20th centuries. In detailing the role of this military family in the Song-Khitan wars of the late 10th and early 11th centuries, these four plays are all in the form of zaju, a type of play that originated in the 13th century. These plays are from the 15th and 16th centuries and allow a glimpse into earlier renditions of the Yang Family saga, which is a decidedly more male-centered tradition than that performed in the Qing dynasty.This volume offers the only complete English-language translation of these early plays. These plays allow access to the earliest phase in the development of the Yang Family saga. The plays provide information on the staging of large battle scenes on the stage and have considerable literary and cultural value.

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World Scientific

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9814508705

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9789814508704

The Late Tang

Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827–860)

By: Stephen Owen

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The Late Tang

Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827–860)

By: Stephen Owen

The poetry of the Late Tang often looked backward, and many poets of the period distinguished themselves through the intensity of their retrospective gaze. Chinese poets had always looked backward to some degree, but for many Late Tang poets the echoes and the traces of the past had a singular aura. In this work, Stephen Owen resumes telling the literary history of the Tang that he began in his works on the Early and High Tang. Focusing in particular on Du Mu, Li Shangyin, and Wen Tingyun, he analyzes the redirection of poetry that followed the deaths of the major poets of the High and Mid-Tang and the rejection of their poetic styles. The Late Tang, Owen argues, forces us to change our very notion of the history of poetry. Poets had always drawn on past poetry, but in the Late Tang, the poetic past was beginning to assume the form it would have for the next millennium; it was becoming a repertoire of available choices--styles, genres, the voices of past poets. It was this repertoire that would endure.

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BRILL

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1684174317

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9781684174317

Find the Clock

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

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Find the Clock

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

What a contretemps! Young Jeff Darrell, ace reporter for the Morning Call, is the best investigative reporter in town, but now that the world-famous Marvin Feldock has joined the rag, all of Jeff's work must be published in Feldock's name. And to add to the insult, the notorious murderer, the Blond Beast of Bremen, is rumored to be in town, and everyone knows that Jeff flubbed his last best chance to capture the Beast. When Napoleon Foy, the local Chinese laundryman, gets involved you know you're in for a wild, thickly-plotted odyssey through Chicago, the London of the West - an odyssey that only Harry Stephen Keeler could have written.

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Simon and Schuster

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1440543194

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9781440543197

The Chinese Human Rights Reader

Documents and Commentary, 1900-2000

By: Stephen C. Angle,Marina Svensson

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The Chinese Human Rights Reader

Documents and Commentary, 1900-2000

By: Stephen C. Angle,Marina Svensson

Representative selections from China's twentieth-century human rights discourse, rendered into fluid and non-technical English. The documents are arranged chronologically, and each is preceded by a brief introduction dealing with the author and the immediate context. The book also includes a glossary in which translations of key terms are linked to their Chinese equivalents.

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Routledge

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1317457943

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9781317457947

Sagehood

The Contemporary Significance of Neo-Confucian Philosophy

By: Stephen C. Angle

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Sagehood

The Contemporary Significance of Neo-Confucian Philosophy

By: Stephen C. Angle

Angle's book is both an exposition of Neo-Confucian philosophy and a sustained dialogue with many leading Western thinkers, especially with those philosophers leading the current renewal of interest in virtue ethics. He argues for a new stage in the development of contemporary Confucian philosophy.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195385144

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9780195385144

The Zen Art Book

The Art of Enlightenment

By: Stephen Addiss,John Daido Loori

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The Zen Art Book

The Art of Enlightenment

By: Stephen Addiss,John Daido Loori

When a Zen master puts brush to paper, the resulting image is an expression of the quality of his or her mind. It is thus a teaching, intended to compassionately stop us in our tracks and to compel us to consider ultimate truth. Here, forty masterpieces of painting and calligraphy by renowned masters such as Hakuin Ekaku (1685–1768) and Gibon Sengai (1750–1837) are reproduced along with commentary that illuminates both the art and its teaching. The authors’ essays provide an excellent introduction to both the aesthetic and didactic aspects of this art that can be profound, perplexing, serious, humorous, and breathtakingly beautiful—often all within the same simple piece."--Publisher description.

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Shambhala Publications

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159030747X

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9781590307472

Fundamentals of Management

Essential Concepts and Applications

By: Stephen P. Robbins,David A. De Cenzo

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Fundamentals of Management

Essential Concepts and Applications

By: Stephen P. Robbins,David A. De Cenzo

Provides a foundation for understanding key management issues. The text maintains a functional focus and presents up-to-date research studies in the field. It is organized around four traditional management functions: planning, organizing, leading and controlling. This edition includes two chapter on Technology and the design of work processes, and Managing teams. Multiple choice questions at the end of each chapter reinforce all of the chapter objectives, and are designed to impart critical thinking skills by facilitating increasing levels of thinking, from knowledge to comprehension and finally to application. An Internet exercise at the end of each chapter requires students to locate information and investigate a variety of issues.

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0138961433

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9780138961435

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