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Helping substance-abusing women of vulnerable populations
Current research suggests that biology, psychology, culture, and social standing all contribute to alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems in women, yet few books show how to account for these factors during evaluation and treatment. Especially in terms of vulnerable populations, acknowledging thes...
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A medical history of hong kong
This book gives an account of Hong Kong’s medical and health development from the Second World War to the present day, investigates how medical and health services grew and adapted as Hong Kong’s political and the socioeconomic landscape—and the world beyond it—changed, and continued changing. Th...
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A dozen lessons for entrepreneurs
A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs shows how the insights of leading venture capitalists can teach readers to create a unique approach to building a successful business. By better understanding the views and experiences of a wide range of entrepreneurs, readers can discern which of many possible p...
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Human behavior and social environments
Human behavior is a subject so vast that it would seem to defy one's ability to comfortably and confidently grasp its varieties, nuances, shapes, and dynamics. But in this wide-ranging and comprehensive survey of the contexts of human behavior, Dennis Saleebey examines the different social scienc...
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Theatre and evolution from ibsen to beckett
Reveals the deep, transformative entanglement among science, art, and culture in modern times
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Ordinary days
Ordinary Days is a memoir by the scholar and critic Leo Ou-fan Lee and his wife Esther Lee Yuk Ying. Set partly against the backdrop of some of Hong Kong’s most turbulent years, partly in the far-flung diaspora of the Chinese intelligentsia, this is a revealing record of the inner life of a highl...
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New authoritarianism
Authoritarian tendencies have appeared in several long-standing democracies, but their main successes have taken place in states that emerged from dictatorial rule only recently. This book contains case studies of contemporary Hungarian, Kenyan, Polish, Russian, and Turkish regimes and what they ...
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Lady in the dark
Iris Barry (1895–1969) was a pivotal modern figure and one of the first intellectuals to treat film as an art form, appreciating its far-reaching, transformative power. Although she had the bearing of an aristocrat, she was the self-educated daughter of a brass founder and a palm-reader from the ...
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The east turkestan independence movement, 1930s to 1940s
Based on rare firsthand historical data, Wang Ke presents an analysis of East Turkestan from the perspective of Islamic social structure, the origin and evolution of thoughts on national revolution, the internal structure of the independence movement, and the power structure of the republic, inte...
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The recovery revolution
Phenomena of Power delves into the sociohistorical manifestations of power and breaks through to its general structures. Popitz distinguishes the forms of the enforcement of power as well as of its stabilization and institutionalization, clearly articulating how the mechanisms of power work and h...
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The life of imagination
The Life of Imagination delivers a new conception of imagination that places it at the heart of our engagement with the world—thinking, acting, feeling, making, and being. Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei reveals imagination’s roots in embodied human cognition and its role in shaping our cognitive ...
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Some intertextual chords of joseph conrad’s literary art
This monograph groups studies that deal with intertextual aspects of Joseph Conrad’s literary art. Intertextual relationships are seen in terms of either affinities/points of contact and the influence of earlier literary works upon his oeuvre, or the influence of Conrad’s texts upon literary work...
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A new statistical domain in india
A new structure of local government, the contemporary village panchayat, has emerged in rural India as a consequence of the Constitution (73rd Amendment) Act, 1992. This new statistical domain requires databases for the development functions that have been allocated to it. This book is a study of...
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Proust and the sense of time
Noted literary critic, psychoanalyst, and theorist Julia Kristeva presents a thoroughly original and compelling reading of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, just delivered at the 1992 T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures at Canterbury. Kristeva's first essay, "Proust and Time Embodied," takes a broadl...
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Hidden atrocities
Hidden Atrocities reveals the American obstruction that denied justice to Japan’s WWII victims at the postwar Tokyo Trial. Jeanne Guillemin explains how U.S. national security goals led to the failure to prosecute imperial Japanese leaders for the war crimes of Unit 731, Japan’s secret germ-warfa...
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The making of modern corporate finance
Drawing on his career-long relationships with leading academics and practitioners, Donald H. Chew, Jr. profiles key figures in the development of modern corporate finance while emphasizing their counterintuitive lessons for shareholders, companies, and countries.
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Empire made me
Richard Maurice Tinkler was an ordinary man in an extraordinary time and place. This riveting "biography of a nobody" offers a rare glimpse of imperialism and the making of modern China seen from the perspective of a working-class Englishman enforcing the order of everyday life on the streets of ...
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Embedding subversion and gender identity
This book introduces Ulti, a secret language spoken by the Hijra-Koti community in West Bengal, from a sociolinguistic and formal linguistic perspective.
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Sparks for innovation
Maciej Ryś—a hackathon leader and scholar with extensive experience in the field—offers a step-by-step guide to organizing successful hackathons and understanding their dynamics.
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God and man in tehran
God and Man in Tehran explores the historical processes that have made and unmade contending visions of God in Iran’s capital. Hossein Kamaly examines how notions of the divine have been mobilized, contested, and transformed, emphasizing the role played by divergent conceptualizations of nature, ...
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One box
A Balikbayan box with much more than t-shirts and toothpaste — One Box is filled with promises of reunification.
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How do small farmers fare?
This book is the outcome of a two-year research project undertaken by the Foundation for Agrarian Studies and supported by the Rosa Luxemberg Stiftung (New Delhi). The objective of the project was to examine the socioeconomic characteristics and viability of small producers in different agro-ecol...
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On matricide
Despite advances in feminism, the "law of the father" remains the dominant model of Western psychological and cultural analysis, and the law of the mother continues to exist as an underdeveloped and marginal concept. In her radical rereading of the Greek myth, Oresteia, Amber Jacobs hopes to rect...
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Between a man and a woman?
Through a probing investigation of conservative Christianity and its response to an issue that, according to the statistics of conservative Christian groups, affects only a small number of Americans, Ludger Viefhues-Bailey alights on a profound theological conundrum: in today's conservative Chris...
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Cook, taste, learn
Guy Crosby offers a lively tour of the history and science behind the art of cooking, with a focus on achieving a healthy daily diet. He traces the evolution of cooking from its earliest origins, recounting the innovations that have unraveled the mysteries of health and taste.
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Ethics challenges in forensic psychiatry and psychology practice
Forensic psychiatry and psychology involve specialized practice with unique patients, including children, the incarcerated, and involuntary clients, presenting practitioners with specific ethics challenges. Griffith provides a roadmap for specialists in these evolving fields to recognize dilemmas...
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Gendering european integration theory
The authors engage a dialogue between European integration theories and gender studies. The contributions illustrate where and how gender scholarship has made creative use of integration theories and thus contributes to a vivid theoretical debate. The chapters are designed to make gender scholars...
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The five horsemen of the modern world
A leading bioethicist explores the intractable threats to our well-being that persist despite the multigenerational effort to defeat them.
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Capital and the common good
Revolutionizing the way we approach international development, poverty, disease, and disaster relief.
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German-jewish history in modern times
A comprehensive historical survey of the Jewish presence in Central Europe from the seventeenth century to the Holocaust, German-Jewish History in Modern Times is a four-volume collective project by a team of leading scholars, offering a vivid portrait of Jewish History. The series is sponsored b...
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The matthew effect
The old saying does often seem to hold true: the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, creating a widening gap between those who have more and those who have less. The sociologist Robert K. Merton called this phenomenon the Matthew effect, named after a passage in the gospel of Matthew. Yet ...
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Game theory and climate change
Parkash Chander argues that we can make progress on the climate-change impasse through incorporating the insights of game theory. Chander offers economic and game-theoretic interpretations of both the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement and discusses the policy recommendations his framework ge...
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An encyclopaedia of practical translation and interpreting
As a sequel to An Encyclopaedia of Translation: Chinese-English, English-Chinese published in 1995, this volume focuses on practical translation and interpreting, the two emerging areas of increasing importance in recent decades, and all chapters are fully illustrated with examples in translation...
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The dawn that never comes
A critical rethinking of theories of national imagination, The Dawn That Never Comes offers the most detailed reading to date in English of one of modern Japan's most influential poets and novelists, Shimazaki Toson (1872–1943). It also reveals how Toson's works influenced the production of a flu...
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Time and the generations
Time and the Generations blends economics, philosophy, and ecology to offer an original lens on the difficult topic of global population. Partha Dasgupta provides tentative answers to two fundamental questions: What level of economic activity can our planet support over the long run, and what doe...
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Non-consensus investing
At a time when many proclaim the death of active investing, Rupal J. Bhansali makes a call for its renaissance. Non-Consensus Investing is a must-read for anyone who seeks to understand why active investing disappointed and how it can succeed.
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The quality of growth in africa
This book brings together prominent international contributors to consider a range of questions concerning the quality of growth in Africa. Offering both diagnoses and prescriptions, The Quality of Growth in Africa helps envision a future that goes beyond increasing GDP to ensuring that growth tr...
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A medical history of hong kong: 1842–1941
This book explores the development of medical and sanitation services in Hong Kong during the first century of British rule. Moira M. W. Chan-Yeung details how the colonial administration's changing political values and the socioeconomic status of Hong Kong affected policy making.
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A daughter's memoir of burma
Wendy Law-Yone was just fifteen when Burma's military staged a coup and overthrew the civilian government in 1962. The daughter of Ed Law-Yone, the daredevil founder and chief editor of The Nation, Burma's leading postwar English-language newspaper, she experienced firsthand the perils and promis...
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Ascendant peace in the four seas
Relying on materials uncovered by in the First Historical Archives in Beijing, the author investigates the development of imperial drama and its influence on Peking Opera, as well as the function and system of the Nanfu (later Shengpingshu)an organization responsible for drama in the Qing dynast...
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Essays on self-reference
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Love, joe
This book presents a selection of Joe Brainard’s letters stretching from 1959 to 1993, offering an intimate view of his personal and artistic life.
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China’s war on smuggling
Philip Thai chronicles the vicissitudes of smuggling in modern China to demonstrate how defiance helped the state redefine its power. China’s War on Smuggling traces how different regimes sought to police maritime trade and the unintended consequences their campaigns unleashed, offering new insig...
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Idly scribbling rhymers
Robert Tuck offers a groundbreaking study of the connections among traditional poetic genres, print media, and visions of national community in late nineteenth-century Japan. Structured around the work of Masaoka Shiki, Idly Scribbling Rhymers reveals poetry’s surprising yet fundamental role in e...
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Everyday architecture in context
Everyday Architecture in Context goes through the growth and governance of colonial Hong Kong by tracing the past and present of public markets as a study of extensive first-hand historical materials.
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Beyond individualism
The noted humanitarian and educator urges Western societies to engage with the core commitments of traditional communities.
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Modern things on trial
Leor Halevi tells the story of the Islamic trials of technological and commercial innovations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Shedding light on culture, commerce, and consumption in Cairo and other colonial cities, Modern Things on Trial is a groundbreaking account of Islam’...
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The spatiality of emotion in early modern china
Ling Hon Lam gives a deeply original account of the history of emotions in Chinese literature centered on the idea of emotion as space. Tracing how the emotion-realm underwent significant transformations from the dreamscape to theatricality in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century China, this book is ...
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