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WINGS OF GOLD: TOP GUN

By: T. E. Cruise

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The Gold family learns that the relatively peaceful period of the seventies is just as dangerous as wartime, when they face industry changes that threaten the existence of the powerful Gold Aviation empire.

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Language Change in East Asia

By: T. E. McAuley

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Language Change in East Asia

By: T. E. McAuley

This book adopts a wide focus on the range of East Asian languages, in both their pre-modern and modern forms, within the specific topic area of language change. It contains sections on dialect studies, contact linguistics, socio-linguistics and syntax/phonology and deals with all three major languages of East Asia: Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Individual chapters cover pre-Sino-Japanese phonology, nominalizers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean; Japanese loanwords in Taiwan Mandarin; changes in Korean honorifics; the tense and aspect system of Japanese; and language policy in Japan. The book will be of interest to linguists working on East Asian languages, and will be of value to a range of general linguists working in comparative or historical linguistics, socio-linguistics, language typology and language contact.

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Routledge

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1136844686

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Geotechnical Reliability Analysis

Theories, Methods and Algorithms

By: Jie Zhang,Te Xiao,Jian Ji,Peng Zeng,Zijun Cao

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Geotechnical Reliability Analysis

Theories, Methods and Algorithms

By: Jie Zhang,Te Xiao,Jian Ji,Peng Zeng,Zijun Cao

This textbook systematically introduces the theories, methods, and algorithms for geotechnical reliability analysis. There are a lot of illustrative examples in the textbook such that readers can easily grasp the concepts and theories related to geotechnical reliability analysis. A unique feature of the textbook is that computer codes are also provided through carefully designed examples such that the methods and the algorithms described in the textbook can be easily understood. In addition, the computer codes are flexible and can be conveniently extended to analyze different types of realistic problems with little additional efforts.

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Springer Nature

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9811962545

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Contesting the Last Frontier

Race, Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Representation of Asian Americans

By: Pei-Te Lien,Professor of Political Science Pei-Te Lien,Instructor of Ethnic and Gender Studies and Political Science Nicole Filler

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Contesting the Last Frontier

Race, Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Representation of Asian Americans

By: Pei-Te Lien,Professor of Political Science Pei-Te Lien,Instructor of Ethnic and Gender Studies and Political Science Nicole Filler

Women of color, including Asian Pacific American (APA) women, have made considerable inroads into elective office in the United States in recent years; in fact, their numbers have grown more rapidly than those of white women. Nonetheless, focusing only on success stories gives the false impression that racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression are not barriers for APA candidates to public office. It also detracts attention from the persistent and severe under-representation of all women and nonwhite men in elective office in the United States. In Contesting the Last Frontier, Pei-te Lien and Nicole Filler examine the scope and significance of the rise of Asian Pacific Americans in US elective office over the past half-century. To help interpret the complex experiences of these political women and men situated at the intersection of race, gender, and other dimensions of marginalization, Lien and Filler adopt an intersectionality framework that puts women of color at the center of their analysis. They also draw on their own original dataset of APA electoral participation over the past 70 years, as well as in-depth interviews with elected officials. They examine APA candidates' trajectories to office, their divergent patterns of political socialization, the barriers and opportunities they face on the campaign trail, and how these elected officials enact their roles as representatives at local, state, and federal levels of government. In turn, they counter various tropes, including the model minority myth that suggests that Asian Americans have attained a level of success in education, work, and politics that precludes attention to racial discrimination. Importantly, the book also provides a look into how APA elected officials of various origins strive to serve the interests of the rapidly expanding and majority-immigrant population, especially those disadvantaged by the intersections of gender, ethnicity, and nativity. Ambitious and comprehensive, Contesting the Last Frontier fills an important gap in American electoral history and uncovers the lived experiences of APA women and men on the campaign trail and in elective office.

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Oxford University Press

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0190077670

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From May Fourth to June Fourth

Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China

By: Ellen Widmer,Te-wei Wang

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From May Fourth to June Fourth

Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China

By: Ellen Widmer,Te-wei Wang

What do the Chinese literature and film inspired by the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) have in common with the Chinese literature and film of the May Fourth movement (1918-1930)? This new book demonstrates that these two periods of the highest literary and cinematic creativity in twentieth-century China share several aims: to liberate these narrative arts from previous aesthetic orthodoxies, to draw on foreign sources for inspiration, and to free individuals from social conformity. Although these consistencies seem readily apparent, with a sharper focus the distinguished contributors to this volume reveal that in many ways discontinuity, not continuity, prevails. Their analysis illuminates the powerful meeting place of language, imagery, and narrative with politics, history, and ideology in twentieth-century China. Drawing on a wide range of methodologies, from formal analysis to feminist criticism, from deconstruction to cultural critique, the authors demonstrate that the scholarship of modern Chinese literature and film has become integral to contemporary critical discourse. They respond to Eurocentric theories, but their ultimate concern is literature and film in China's unique historical context. The volume illustrates three general issues preoccupying this century's scholars: the conflict of the rural search for roots and the native soil movement versus the new strains of urban exoticism; the diacritics of voice, narrative mode, and intertextuality; and the reintroduction of issues surrounding gender and subjectivity. Table of Contents: Preface Acknowledgments Introduction David Der-wei Wang part:1 Country and City 1. Visitation of the Past in Han Shaogong's Post-1985 Fiction Joseph S. M. Lau 2. Past, Present, and Future in Mo Yan's Fiction of the 1980s Michael S. Duke 3. Shen Congwen's Legacy in Chinese Literature of the 1980s Jeffrey C. Kinkley 4. Imaginary Nostalgia: Shen Congwen, Song Zelai, Mo Yan, and Li Yongping David Der-wei Wang 5. Urban Exoticism in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature Heinrich Fruehauf part: 2 Subjectivity and Gender 6. Text, Intertext, and the Representation of the Writing Self in Lu Yun, Dafu,and Wang Meng Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker 7. Invention and Intervention: The Making of a Female Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature Lydia H. Liu 8. Living in Sin: From May Fourth via the Antirightist Movement to the Present Margaret H. Decker part: 3 Narrative Voice and Cinematic Vision 9. Lu Xun's Facetious Muse: The Creative Imperative in Modern Chinese Fiction Marston Anderson 10. Lives in Profile: On the Authorial Voice in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature Theodore Huters 11. Melodramatic Representation and the "May Fourth" Tradition of Chinese Cinema Paul G. Pickowicz 12. Male Narcissism and National Culture: Subjectivity in Chen Kaige's King of the Children Rey Chow Afterword: Reflections on Change and Continuity in Modern Chinese Fiction Leo Ou-fan Lee Notes Contributors From May Fourth to June Fourth will he warmly welcomed. It should be of great interest to all concerned with literary developments in the contemporary world on the one hand, and on the other with the enigmas surrounding China's alternating attempts to develop and to destroy herself as a civilization. --Cyril Birch, University of California, Berkeley

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Harvard University Press

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0674045165

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Coherent Control of Nuclei and X-Rays

By: Wen-Te Liao

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Coherent Control of Nuclei and X-Rays

By: Wen-Te Liao

Novel coherent light sources such as x-ray free-electron lasers open exciting prospects for the interaction of light with nuclei. The thesis "Coherent Control of Nuclei and X-rays" covers this still-developing field and proposes, in a daring attempt to revolutionize nuclear physics, three innovative schemes for taming nuclei using coherent effects. The theoretical explorations, which address control of nuclear quantum states, a nuclear memory for single photons in future photonic circuits, and optimized concepts for a nuclear clock, make use of new approaches at the borderline between nuclear physics and quantum dynamics. The result is a well written work, impressive in its stimulating style and promising ideas.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3319021206

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Improving What is Learned at University

An Exploration of the Social and Organisational Diversity of University Education

By: John Brennan,Robert Edmunds,Muir Houston,David Jary,Yann Lebeau,Michael Osborne,John T.E. Richardson

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Improving What is Learned at University

An Exploration of the Social and Organisational Diversity of University Education

By: John Brennan,Robert Edmunds,Muir Houston,David Jary,Yann Lebeau,Michael Osborne,John T.E. Richardson

Received the ‘highly commended’ award by the Society for Educational Studies for books published in 2010. What is learned in universities today? Is it what students expect to learn? Is it what universities say they learn? How far do the answers to questions such as these differ according to what, where and how one studies? As higher education has expanded, it has diversified both in terms of its institutional forms and the characteristics of its students. However, what we do not know is the extent to which it has also diversified in terms of ‘what is learned’. In this book, the authors explore this question through the voices of higher education students, using empirical data from students taking 15 different courses at different universities across three subject areas – bioscience, business studies and sociology. The study concentrates on the students’ experiences, lives, hopes and aspirations while at university through data from interviews and questionnaires, and this is collated and assessed alongside the perspectives of their teachers and official data from the universities they attend. Through this study the authors provide insights into ‘what is really learned at university’ and how much it differs between individual students and the universities they attend. Notions of ‘best’ or ‘top’ universities are challenged throughout, and both diversities and commonalities of being a student are demonstrated. Posing important questions for higher education institutions about the experiences of their students and the consequences for graduates and society, this book is compelling reading for all those involved in higher education, providing conclusions which do not always follow conventional lines of thought about diversity and difference in UK higher education.

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1135190976

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The Politics of Asian Americans

Diversity and Community

By: Pei-te Lien,M. Margaret Conway,Janelle Wong

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The Politics of Asian Americans

Diversity and Community

By: Pei-te Lien,M. Margaret Conway,Janelle Wong

Through the perspectives of mass politics, this book challenges popular misconceptions about Asian Americans as politically apathetic, disloyal, fragmented, unsophisticated and inscrutable by showcasing results of the 2000-01 Multi City Asian American Political Survey.

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1135952299

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DĀGAHVOR. THE WHISPERS OF THE DAMNED

By: Cole Perry Te Kanawa

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DĀGAHVOR. THE WHISPERS OF THE DAMNED

By: Cole Perry Te Kanawa

Raiñ and his companions have achieved the rank of Listeners of the Academy of Dāgahvor, where they continue to hone their magical abilities in relation to the five elements. But following the death of Master Eamon, Raiñ was faced with a fear that he had never expected: the fear of allowing darkness to take over his heart. Understanding that The Damned are the previous Children of The New Dawn, he knows he must help them regain the visions left by Dāgahvor to prevent Ræhˈta’s return. To do so, however, means accepting guidance from both his master’s and friends—guidance that comes with its own complications. When the forces of The Dark Army come for Raiñ and his group, the situation becomes even more challenging to navigate. The question remains: is Raiñ able to embrace this guidance before it becomes too late?

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Cole Perry Te Kanawa

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Wings of Gold: The Hot Pilots - Book #3

By: T. E. Cruise

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Wings of Gold: The Hot Pilots - Book #3

By: T. E. Cruise

In control of the powerful firm of Gold Aviation, the Gold family faces the challenges and trails of the postwar years.

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Grand Central Publishing

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0446567086

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Seven Pillars of Wisdom

By: T. E. Lawrence

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Seven Pillars of Wisdom

By: T. E. Lawrence

We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation? Seven Pillars of Wisdom is T. E. Lawrence’s memoir of his involvement in leading a portion of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman empire during World War I. The empire had joined the side of Germany and the Central Powers in the war, and Britain hoped that a successful revolt would take the empire out of the war effort. Britain had also promised the Arabs that, if they were successful, England would recognize a single Arab state. Lawrence convinced the Arab leaders, who had historically not shown a willingness to work together, to join forces in supporting Britain’s strategy in the area. His memoir is part travelogue, part philosophy treatise, and part action novel. It details his movements and actions during his two year involvement, his relationships with the various Arab leaders and men who fought with him, and his thoughts—and doubts—during that time. It’s a gripping tale made famous by the movie Lawrence of Arabia, and one that Winston Churchill called “unsurpassable” as a “narrative of war and adventure.” The manuscript of Seven Pillars of Wisdom has a rich history. Lawrence finished his first draft in 1919 from his notes during the war, but lost most of it when changing trains in England (it was never found). The next year, he started working on a new version from memory that ended up being sixty percent longer than the original. He then edited that version (although it was still a third longer than the original draft), finishing it in early 1922, and had eight copies of it printed to give to friends so they could review it and offer editing suggestions (and to prevent a repeat of losing his only copy). About this time he re-enlisted in the service, but friends convinced him to work on a version he could publish. In 1926, he had a first edition of approximately 200 copies published that included 125 black-and-white and color illustrations from sixteen different artists. The first edition lost money, and it was the only edition published during his lifetime. This edition uses the first edition text and includes all 125 of the original illustrations, including both endpapers.

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9791041803644

President’s Overbearing Love

Volume 2

By: Te Gongkuangfei

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President’s Overbearing Love

Volume 2

By: Te Gongkuangfei

She had somehow saved the shot guy, but she didn't expect that this dead man would admit his wrongs and forcefully take the pure her. It was only afterwards that he found out that there was an extra ball in his stomach because of that scoundrel. However, the man in charge had disappeared ... No! She swore that she would definitely find the missing man! Unexpectedly, she met him once again, and at this moment, he and the woman were in the midst of HAPPY ...

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Funstory

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1647672252

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9781647672256

Choosing Chinese Universities

A Negotiated Choice for Hong Kong Students

By: Alice Y.C. Te

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Choosing Chinese Universities

A Negotiated Choice for Hong Kong Students

By: Alice Y.C. Te

This book unpacks the complex dynamics of Hong Kong students’ choice in pursuing undergraduate education at the universities of Mainland China. Drawing on an empirical study based on interviews with 51 students, this book investigates how macro political/economic factors, institutional influences, parental influence, and students’ personal motivations have shaped students’ eventual choice of university. Building on Perna’s integrated model of college choice and Lee’s push-pull mobility model, this book conceptualizes that students’ border crossing from Hong Kong to Mainland China for higher education is a trans-contextualized negotiated choice under the "One Country, Two Systems" principle. The findings reveal that during the decision-making process, influencing factors have conditioned four archetypes of student choice: Pragmatists, Achievers, Averages, and Underachievers. The book closes by proposing an enhanced integrated model of college choice that encompasses both rational motives and sociological factors, and examines the theoretical significance and practical implications of the qualitative study. With its focus on student choice and experiences of studying in China, this book’s research and policy findings will interest researchers, university administrators, school principals, and teachers.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000730921

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9781000730920

Religious Peace, Then and Now

By: Wayne P. Te Brake

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Religious Peace, Then and Now

By: Wayne P. Te Brake

Religious Peace, Then and Now presents a radically new perspective on one of the critical challenges of our time: making religious peace in a world afflicted by religious conflict, violence, and war. In a text that is passionate and accessible, Wayne Te Brake demonstrates how concerned citizens and political and religious leaders, who have learned to recognize religious peace when they see religious diversity, can envision and promote a more peaceful world through constructive engagement and nonviolent activism. Religious Peace builds on the author’s personal experience as well as his academic research on religious war and religious peace during Europe’s Age of Religious Wars and applies what we can learn from that history to our understanding of the prevalence and prospect of religious peace today.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666732346

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9781666732344

You Can Do This!

Cooking Up a Happier You for You and Yours

By: Jim Te Selle

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You Can Do This!

Cooking Up a Happier You for You and Yours

By: Jim Te Selle

This is not a cookbook! You Can Do This! Cooking Up a Happier You for You and Yours is instead a self-help guide to happiness. "This book is a sort of Self-Confidence 101," says author Jim Te Selle. When his life was at its lowest, he came up with a plan to get it back on track. In his own words: "This is a product of what I had to learn in order to get my life squared away. I woke up one morning in a treatment center. My wife had left me. I was almost broke and was raising twin boys by myself. I couldn't believe it. I had done all the things an American dad is supposed to do: college, marriage, job, mortgage, kids. And yet I was totally unhappy and not a little bit screwed up. What happened? I had no clue." If your life isn't going quite the way you'd like it, if your dream seems out of reach, don't worry. "I had to learn to believe in myself. This book offers one way to do that. "You can do this!

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Trafford Publishing

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1466972467

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9781466972469

Lighter and Darker

By: T.E. Shaffer

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Lighter and Darker

By: T.E. Shaffer

This book is a continuation of the content and format style of what was to be found in this writer’s immediately preceding book Light and Dark, 1982 edition revised. (August 2015) If you read or sampled and liked that book then you’ll likely find this one equally or maybe even more to your taste. The alphabetical arrangement by title in that first book took you from Aardvark to Zeitgeist where this one moves you along from About Backbones And Breakfast Foods to Zero Heroes. Between its “A through Z” arrangement you’ll encounter a strange and often epileptically eclectic selection of richly mixed subjects, topics and treatments which this writer had at some point felt some compelling need to put on paper for his own relief and the possible amusement or edification of “imagined others”. If you’re in this group then this book is for you. If, however, you should have an insensitivity, let alone active dislike for rhyme and alliteration in your reading matter then this book, most especially should you be reading this in some braille version, since it might very well prove “toxic to touch” best you promptly put it down and move on to another and safer shelf or pile. Seriously though, this collection does offer a full spectrum of the silly and the serious often inextricably intertwined within the uncomfortably containing body of the very same composition, rather like a hot mustard pickle relish thickly spread between the cut halves of a sweet bun. Yes De gustibus … de gustibus! But please, if you’ll let me be clear, if perhaps, a little Ogden Nashy here … without too much … fusstibus!

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312

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Dog Ear Publishing

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1457547678

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9781457547676

Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook

By: Alice Te Punga Somerville

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Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook

By: Alice Te Punga Somerville

Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook, No. 29: With a Non-argument that’s Actually an Argument. Captain Cook? It’s all so very complex. I’m going to sit on the fence. (Whose fence? On whose land? Dividing what from what? You only have a fence when you fear something or when you’re trying to keep something in. Or, as a renovation show on TV informed me, when you want to upgrade your street appeal.) Alice Te Punga Somerville employs her deep research and dark humour to skilfully channel her response to Cook’s global colonial legacy in this revealing and defiant BWB Text.

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Bridget Williams Books

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1988587700

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9781988587707

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