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Building Civil Society in Authoritarian China
How is modern civil society created? There are few contemporary studies on this important question and when it is addressed, scholars tend to emphasize the institutional environment that facilitates a modern civil society. However, there is a need for a new perspective on this issue. Contemporary China, where a modern civil society remains in a nascent stage, offers a valuable site to seek new …
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- 978-3-319-03665-6
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Building Bridges : Rethinking Literacy Teacher Education in a Digital Era
Literacy learning continues to be central to schooling, and is currently of major concern to educators, policy developers, and members of the public alike. However, the proliferation of communication channels in this digital era requires a fundamental re-thinking of the nature of literacy and the pedagogy of literacy teaching and teacher education. This text brings together papers by expert…
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- 978-94-6300-491-6
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- 378
The Importance of Being Monogamous Marriage and Nation Building in Western C…
Sarah Carter reveals the pioneering efforts of the government, legal, and religious authorities to impose the “one man, one woman” model of marriage upon Mormons and Aboriginal people in Western Canada. This lucidly written, richly researched book revises what we know about marriage and the gendered politics of late 19th century reform, shifts our understanding of Aboriginal history during …
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- 9780888644909.01
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- 399 pages
Xwelíqwiya The Life of a Stó:lō Matriarch
Xwelíqwiya is the life story of Rena Point Bolton, a Stó:lō matriarch, artist, and craftswoman. Proceeding by way of conversational vignettes, the beginning chapters recount Point Bolton’s early years on the banks of the Fraser River during the Depression. While at the time the Stó:lō, or Xwélmexw, as they call themselves today, kept secret their ways of life to avoid persecution by the…
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- 9781927356562.01
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- Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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- 312 pages
An Introduction to Chinese History and Culture
This book breaks with convention and provides an overview of Chinese history in the form of special topics. These topics include the major issues of “A Scientific Approach to the Origins of Chinese Civilization,” “Ancient Chinese Society and the Change of Dynasties,” “The Golden Ages of the Han, Tang and Qing Dynasties: a Comparative Analysis,” “Transportation Systems and Cultural…
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- 978-3-662-46482-3
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- X, 467
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- China Academic Library
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- 306 ZHA i
Rocks in the Water, Rocks in the Sun A Memoir from the Heart of Haiti
When Joegodson Déralciné was still a small child, his parents left rural Haiti to resettle in the rapidly growing zones of Port-au-Prince. As his family entered the city in 1986, Duvalier and his dictatorship exited. Haitians, once terrorized under Duvalier’s reign, were liberated and emboldened to believe that they could take control of their lives. But how? Joining hundreds of thousands o…
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- 9781771990110.01
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- Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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- 390 pages
Mission Life in Cree-Ojibwe Country Memories of a Mother and Son
In May of 1868, Elizabeth Bingham Young and her new husband, Egerton Ryerson Young, began a long journey from Hamilton, Ontario, to the Methodist mission of Rossville. For the next eight years, Elizabeth supported her husband’s work at two mission houses, Norway House and then Berens River. Unprepared for the difficult conditions and the “eight months long” winter, and unimpressed with …
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- Jennifer S. H. Brown
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- 9781771990035.01
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- Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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- 336 pages
Bucer, Ephesians and Biblical Humanism : The Exegete as Theologian
This book describes Martin Bucer (1491-1551) as a teacher of theology, focusing on his time as Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge between 1549 and 1551. The book is centered on his 1550 Cambridge lectures on Ephesians, and investigates them in their historical context, exploring what sort of a theologian Bucer was. The lectures are examined to find out how they represen…
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- 978-3-319-10238-2
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Bubbles and Contagion in Financial Markets, Volume 1 : An Integrative View
Understanding the formation of bubbles and the contagion mechanisms afflicting financial markets is a must as extreme volatility events leave no market untouched. Debt, equity, real estate, commodities… Shanghai, NY, or London: The severe fluctuations, explained to a large extent by contagion and the fear of new bubbles imploding, justify the newly awaken interest in the contagion and bubble …
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- 978-1-137-35876-9
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British Imperialism and the Making of Colonial Currency System
Based on archival research covering more than two centuries and most former British colonies (West Indies, India, Singapore, Malaya, West Africa and East Africa), this book is a revisionist history of the British imperial manipulations of colonial currency systems to facilitate the rise of sterling to world supremacy via the gold standard, and to slow its eventual decline after World War II. …
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- 978-1-137-55317-1
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- 332.4
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