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Peking

Temples and City Life, 1400-1900

By: Susan Naquin

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Peking

Temples and City Life, 1400-1900

By: Susan Naquin

The central character in Susan Naquin's extraordinary new book is the city of Peking during the Ming and Qing periods. Using the city's temples as her point of entry, Naquin carefully excavates Peking's varied public arenas, the city's transformation over five centuries, its human engagements, and its rich cultural imprint. This study shows how modern Beijing's glittering image as China's great and ancient capital came into being and reveals the shifting identities of a much more complex past, one whose rich social and cultural history Naquin splendidly evokes. Temples, by providing a place where diverse groups could gather without the imprimatur of family or state, made possible a surprising assortment of community-building and identity-defining activities. By revealing how religious establishments of all kinds were used for fairs, markets, charity, tourism, politics, and leisured sociability, Naquin shows their decisive impact on Peking and, at the same time, illuminates their little-appreciated role in Chinese cities generally. Lacking most of the conventional sources for urban history, she has relied particularly on a trove of commemorative inscriptions that express ideas about the relationship between human beings and gods, about community service and public responsibility, about remembering and being remembered. The result is a book that will be essential reading in the field of Chinese studies for years to come.

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Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century

By: Susan Naquin,Evelyn Sakakida Rawski

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Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century

By: Susan Naquin,Evelyn Sakakida Rawski

During the eighteenth century, China's new Manchu rulers consolidated their control of the largest empire China had ever known. In this book Susan Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski draw on the most recent research to provide a unique overview and reevaluation of the social history of China during this period--one of the most dynamic periods in China's early modern era. "A lucid, original, and scholarly summary of the social, economic, and demographic history of China's last great period of glory. This will be an important book for students of Chinese history."--Jonathan Spence, Yale University "Engaging, complex, and elegantly written. . . . Absorbing and valuable: a thorough, unique, and richly detailed account of the social forms and cultural and religious life of the people."--Choice " An] interesting and well-informed survey of China between about 1680 and 1820."--W.J.F. Jenner, Asian Affairs "I would be a very odd scholar or general reader who could not derive profit from reading this elegant and painstaking survey of the social, cultural, and economic life of the Qing empire in its apparent prime. . . . A superb survey which readers may absorb and cherish."--Alexander Woodside, Pacific Affairs "A highly readable synthesis of recent secondary literature on the subject."--William S. Atwell, Journal of Asian Studies "Their coverage is comprehensive and their writing is clear and lucid. reading this book obtains one a very broad, yet penetrative, view of Chinese society at the time."--Alan P.L. Liu, Asian Thought & Society "The ground covered by this book is vast. . . . Its very breadth conveys with great clarity the extent of current knowledge of premodern China: it also serves as an excellent introduction to the social history of the Qing dynasty."--Hugh D.R. Baker, China Quarterly "This is a most challenging work and ambitious work. . . . Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century give both the general reader and also the historian who does not study China a tool for grounding himself or herself in the basic patterns and trends that could be found in eighteenth century China as well as in the problems the specialists are now exploring. The book is also of great value to students of traditional and modern China, for it serves to synthesize much of the new literature on China in the High Qing. Thus it serves the 'China hand' as a state of the field essay that shows just where we are even as it suggests directions for future research."--Murray A. Rubinstein, American Asian Review "This excellent book provides an intelligent summary our rapidly changing understanding of Chinese society in a crucial century of political stability and economic and demographic expansion. Susan Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski are distinguished contributors to the field, energetically engaged in its multinational communication networks."--John E. Wills, Jr., American Historical Review

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Peking

Temples and City Life, 1400-1900

By: Susan Naquin

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Temples and City Life, 1400-1900

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Gods of Mount Tai

Familiarity and the Material Culture of North China, 1000-2000

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Gods of Mount Tai

Familiarity and the Material Culture of North China, 1000-2000

By: Susan NAQUIN

At the intersection of art and religious history, Susan Naquin’s richly illustrated history presents a fresh method for studying Chinese gods and sacred places as it tells the full story of Mount Tai and the premier female deity of North China.

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9004516417

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Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century

By: Susan Naquin,Evelyn Sakakida Rawski

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By: Susan Naquin,Evelyn Sakakida Rawski

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The Praeger Guide to Hearing and Hearing Loss

Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention

By: Susan Dalebout

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The Praeger Guide to Hearing and Hearing Loss

Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention

By: Susan Dalebout

More than 31 million people in the United States alone suffer from hearing loss - that is one in every 10 people in the current population. Of those, only five to 10 percent can be treated medically, leaving the largest number in need of other solutions. It is for those people that veteran audiologist Susan Dalebout wrote this comprehensive guide. The book explains, with a simple overview of hearing anatomy and physiology, how we hear, and details hearing evaluation tests, the interpretation of those tests, and the conditions that most commonly cause hearing loss in adults. All things related to adult hearing loss are explained, as is a full menu of hearing rehabilitation services, devices, and technology. This text includes discussion of the importance of hearing in our lives, the psychological, social and emotional effects of untreated hearing loss, and the effects on family members and friends. Also included is a chapter on prevention, describing the dangers of exposure to hazardous noise and certain drugs, and how to protect against damage to hearing. Unique for its breadth and depth, this text also offers detail on hearing aids, care and maintenance as well as factors to consider when purchasing an aid, cochlear implants, hearing-assistance technology, and future trends in hearing restoration.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031336477X

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Precious Records

Women in China’s Long Eighteenth Century

By: Susan Mann

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Precious Records

Women in China’s Long Eighteenth Century

By: Susan Mann

Most analyses of gender in High Qing times have focused on literature and on the writings of the elite; this book broadens the scope of inquiry to include women's work in the farm household, courtesan entertainment, and women's participation in ritual observances and religion. In dealing with literature, it shows how women's poetry can serve the historian as well as the literary critic, drawing on one of the first anthologies of women's writing compiled by a woman to examine not only literary sensibilities and intimate emotions, but also political judgments, moral values, and social relations.

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Stanford University Press

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0804727449

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People

By: Susan Weinschenk

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People

By: Susan Weinschenk

We design to elicit responses from people. We want them to buy something, read more, or take action of some kind. Designing without understanding what makes people act the way they do is like exploring a new city without a map: results will be haphazard, confusing, and inefficient. This book combines real science and research with practical examples to deliver a guide every designer needs. With it you’ll be able to design more intuitive and engaging work for print, websites, applications, and products that matches the way people think, work, and play. Learn to increase the effectiveness, conversion rates, and usability of your own design projects by finding the answers to questions such as: What grabs and holds attention on a page or screen? What makes memories stick? What is more important, peripheral or central vision? How can you predict the types of errors that people will make? What is the limit to someone’s social circle? How do you motivate people to continue on to (the next step? What line length for text is best? Are some fonts better than others? These are just a few of the questions that the book answers in its deep-dive exploration of what makes people tick.

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Pearson Education

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0132658607

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Performance Management

Theory and Practice

By: Susan Hutchinson

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Performance Management

Theory and Practice

By: Susan Hutchinson

How do you systematically decide and communicate strategic performance aims, objectives, priorities and targets? How do you plan effective policies and practices? Which techniques, rewards and sanctions should you use to improve performance? How do you critically evaluate the effectiveness of performance management? Performance Management combines theory and practice to help students master these key concepts and apply their learning. Mapping to the CIPD Level 7 Advanced unit by the same name, the book is a core text for any student taking a performance management module at undergraduate or postgraduate level. Featuring examples from a range of sectors and organizations across the globe, Performance Management is packed with pedagogical features such as learning outcomes, case studies, activities, reflection questions and further reading to fully engage students with the subject. Online supporting resources include an instructor's manual, lecture slides and annotated web links for students.

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Kogan Page Publishers

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1843983281

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The Talented Women of the Zhang Family

By: Susan Mann

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The Talented Women of the Zhang Family

By: Susan Mann

There is absolutely nothing remotely like this book in the history of late imperial women. [An] immensely important book."—Gail Hershatter, author of Women in China's Long Twentieth Century "A masterful work."—Lynn Hunt, coeditor of Beyond the Cultural Turn

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Univ of California Press

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0520250907

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Life Along the Silk Road

Second Edition

By: Susan Whitfield

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Life Along the Silk Road

Second Edition

By: Susan Whitfield

In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield expands her trailblazing exploration of the Silk Road and broadens her rich and varied portrait of life along the great premodern trade routes of Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support further understanding of themes relevant to global and comparative history. In the first 1,000 years after Christ, merchants, missionaries, monks, mendicants, and military men traveled on the vast network of Central Asian tracks that became known as the Silk Road. Whitfield recounts the lives of twelve individuals who lived at different times during this period, including two new characters: an African shipmaster and a Persian traveler and writer during the Arab caliphate. With these additional tales, Whitfield extends both geographical and chronological scope, bringing into view the maritime links across the Indian Ocean and depicting the network of north-south routes from the Baltic to the Gulf. Throughout the narrative, Whitfield conveys a strong sense of what life was like for ordinary men and women on the Silk Road, the individuals usually forgotten to history. A work of great scholarship, Life along the Silk Road continues to be extremely accessible and entertaining"--Provided by publisher.

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0520280598

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Training the Body for China

Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic

By: Susan Brownell

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Training the Body for China

Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic

By: Susan Brownell

Competing in the 1986 National College Games of the People's Republic of China, Susan Brownell earned both a gold medal in the heptathlon and fame throughout China as "the American girl who won glory for Beijing University." Now an anthropologist, Brownell draws on her direct experience of Chinese athletics in this fascinating look at the culture of sports and the body in China. Training the Body for China is the first book on Chinese sports based on extended fieldwork by a Westerner. Brownell introduces the notion of "body culture" to analyze Olympic sports as one element in a whole set of Chinese body practices: the "old people's disco dancing" craze, the new popularity of bodybuilding (following reluctant official acceptance of the bikini), mass calisthenics, martial arts, military discipline, and more. Translating official and dissident materials into English for the first time and drawing on performance theory and histories of the body, Brownell uses the culture of the body as a focal point to explore the tensions between local and global organizations, the traditional and the modern, men and women. Her intimate knowledge of Chinese social and cultural life and her wide range of historic examples make Training the Body for China a unique illustration of how gender, the body, and the nation are interlinked in Chinese culture.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226076466

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Creating Effective Teams

A Guide for Members and Leaders

By: Susan A. Wheelan,Maria Åkerlund,Christian Jacobsson

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Creating Effective Teams

A Guide for Members and Leaders

By: Susan A. Wheelan,Maria Åkerlund,Christian Jacobsson

A practical guide for building and sustaining top-performing teams Based on the authors′ many years of consulting experience with teams in the public and private sectors, Creating Effective Teams: A Guide for Members and Leaders describes why teams are important, how they function, and what makes them successful. The texts covers the four stages of team development —forming, storming, norming, and performing— to help readers effectively navigate these different phases. Separate chapters are devoted to the responsibilities of team leaders and team members. Susan A. Wheelan, Maria Akerlund, and Christian Jacobsson highlight common problems that occur frequently in groups as well as provide practical tips, real-life examples, and questionnaires to help address those problems.

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SAGE Publications

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1544332963

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The Handbook of Group Research and Practice

By: Susan A. Wheelan

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The Handbook of Group Research and Practice

By: Susan A. Wheelan

Check out sample chapters by clicking on "additional materials" on the left. The Handbook of Group Research and Practice emphasizes the connections among basic research and theory, applied research, and group practice to demonstrate how theory and research translate into methods for working with groups. It is an excellent resource for students, academics, and practitioners in the fields of psychotherapy, psychology, sociology, management, communications, social work, education, and science and technology Key Features: Offers a multidisciplinary and international perspective from international contributors Provides a historical overview of the development of research and group practice Identifies contemporary issues with an emphasis on the research agenda in the field Describes seven different theoretical perspectives on how groups function Addresses both traditional and new methods of studying group research Advances current efforts to increase the understanding of how groups are employed and operate to solve pressing social and individual problems The Handbook of Group Research and Practice is a unique interdisciplinary resource written by world-renowned researchers and practitioners who work with teams and groups in a variety of settings. As a result, this Handbook provides students, academics, and practitioners with the most comprehensive understanding about the latest findings and issues in group research and practice to date! Talk to the author! www.gdqassoc.com

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1452261865

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Portraits of "primitives"

Ordering Human Kinds in the Chinese Nation

By: Susan Debra Blum

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Portraits of "primitives"

Ordering Human Kinds in the Chinese Nation

By: Susan Debra Blum

Ethnicity is a highly politicized issue in contemporary China. Twentieth-century nation-building has been intimately involved with classification of ChinaOs fifty-five ethnic minorities and with fostering harmony and unity among nationalities. Officially sanctioned social science classifies the majority group, the so-called Han, at the pinnacle of modernization and civilization and most other groups as Oprimitive.O In post-socialist China, popular conceptions of self, person, and nation intersect with political and scholarly concerns with identity, sometimes contradicting them and sometimes reinforcing them. In Portraits of OPrimitives, O Susan D. Blum explores how Han in the city of Kunming, in southwest China, regard ethnic minorities and, by extension, themselves. She sketches Oportraits, O or cognitive prototypes, of ethnic groups in a variety of contexts, explaining the perceived visibility of each group (which almost never correlates with size of population). Ideas of OHannessO can be understood in part through Han desire to identify unique characteristics in ethnic minorities and also through Han celebration of the differences that distance minorities. The book considers questions of identity, alterity, and self in the context of a complex nation-state, employing methods from linguistic anthropology and psychological anthropology, as well as other forms of cultural analysis. Providing nuanced views of relationships among political, scholarly, and popular models of identity, this book will be an invaluable guide for those working in China studies, anthropology, and ethnic studies.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742500926

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9780742500921

Teaching English Abroad

By: Susan Griffith

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Teaching English Abroad

By: Susan Griffith

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to travel and work abroad? Teaching English as a foreign language is a fun and rewarding career choice if you want to see the world. Whether you're a trained teacher, newly qualified or want to travel the globe, Teaching English Abroad is the most comprehensive guide to finding and securing a teaching job abroad. Packed with hundreds of different schools and placements across 90 countries from South Korea to Australia, there are a huge range of opportunities to choose from, including both long and short-term placements. Teaching English Abroad provides all the essential information you need, region by region, so you have a safe and successful trip. Inside find out: How valuable qualifications are to teaching abroad Which ELT courses available, lasting from a weekend to 3 years Where to search for jobs from recruitment organisations to websites How to prepare for your trip abroad and overcome any issues How other teachers found their work from personal accounts Now in its 16th edition, this new edition includes more than 50 new employer listings - from Switzerland to Taiwan, Georgia to Kenya, and Hungary to Bolivia.

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Crimson Publishing

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184455645X

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Raven Biology of Plants

By: Ray F. Evert,Peter H. Raven,Susan E. Eichhorn

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Raven Biology of Plants

By: Ray F. Evert,Peter H. Raven,Susan E. Eichhorn

Long acclaimed as the definitive introductory botany text, Raven Biology of Plants, Eighth Edition by Ray Evert, Susan Eichhorn, stands as the most significant revision in the book’s history. Every topic was updated with information obtained from the most recent primary literature, making the book valuable for both students and professionals.

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Macmillan Higher Education

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1464117888

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Gods of Mount Tai

Familiarity and the Material Culture of North China, 1000-2000

By: Susan NAQUIN

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Gods of Mount Tai

Familiarity and the Material Culture of North China, 1000-2000

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Sexual Reckonings

Southern Girls in a Troubling Age

By: Susan Cahn

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Sexual Reckonings

Southern Girls in a Troubling Age

By: Susan Cahn

Sexual Reckonings is the fascinating tale of adolescent girls coming of age in the South during the most explosive decades for the region. Focusing on the period from 1920 to 1960, Susan Cahn reveals how both the life of the South and the meaning of adolescence underwent enormous political, economic, and social shifts. Those years witnessed the birth of a modern awareness of adolescence and female sexuality that clashed mightily with the white supremacist and patriarchal legacies of the old South. As youth staked its claim, the bodies and beliefs of southern girls became the battlefield for a transformed South, which was, like them, experiencing growing pains. Cahn reveals how young women, both white and black, were seen as the South's greatest hope and its greatest threat. Viewed as critical actors in every regional crisis, from the economic recession and urban migrations of the 1920s to the racial conflicts precipitated by school desegregation in the 1950s, female teenagers became the conspicuous subjects of social policy and regional imagination. All the while, these adolescents pursued their own desires and discovered their own meanings, creating cracks in the twin pillars of the Jim Crow South--"racial purity" and white male dominance--that would soon be toppled by the student-led civil rights movement. Sexual Reckonings is an amazingly intimate look at a time of deep personal exploration and profound cultural change for southern girls and for the society they inhabited, a powerful account of the clash between a society's fears and the daily lives and aspirations of its most prized, and unpredictable, population.

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Harvard University Press

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0674063937

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9780674063938

Memoir and Correspondence of Susan Ferrier, 1782-1854

By: Susan Ferrier,John Andrew Doyle,John Ferrier

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Memoir and Correspondence of Susan Ferrier, 1782-1854

By: Susan Ferrier,John Andrew Doyle,John Ferrier

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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