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Civic And Uncivic Values In Poland - Value Transformation, Education, And Culture

by Kristen Ringdal

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 Poland, like many societies across the world, is becoming more polarized in diverse areas of life, as contending forces seek to advance incompatible agendas.
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Along Ukraine'S River - A Social And Environmental History Of The Dnipro (Dnieper)

by Roman Adrian Cybriwsky

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 The River Dnipro (formerly better known by the Russian name of Dnieper) is intimately linked to the history and identity of Ukraine. Cybriwsky discusses the history of the river, from when it was formed and its many uses and modifications by human agencies from ancient times to the present.
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Tyrants Writing Poetry

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 Why do tyrants - of all people - often have poetic aspirations? Where do terror and prose meet? This book contains nine case studies that compare the cultural history of totalitarian regimes.
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Great Expectations And Interwar Realities - Cultural Diplomacy In Horthy'S Hungary

by Zsolt Nagy

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 Though the study is rooted in Hungary, it explores the dynamic and contingent relationship between identity construction and transnational cultural and political currents in East-Central European nations in the interwar period.
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Narratives Of Exile And Identity - Soviet Deportation Memoirs From The Baltic States

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 This collection of essays considers the Soviet-era gulag in the Baltic States within the broader international research on displacement and cultural memory.
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Dynamics Of Class And Stratification In Poland - 1945â€“2015

by 0, Henryk Domanski, Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow, Kazimierz M. Slomczynski e Zbigniew Sawinski

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 This book is about long-term changes to class and inequality in Poland. Drawing upon major social surveys, the team of authors from the Polish Academy of Sciences offer the rare comprehensive study of important changes to the social structure from the communist era to the present.
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From Central Planning To The Market - Transformation Of The Czech Economy 1989 - 2004

by Libor Zidek

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 This book describes the process of the Czech economic transformation from the beginning of the 1990s to the country's entry into the European Union in 2004.
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China'S American Daughter - Ida Pruitt (1888-1985)

by Marjorie King

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 Ida Pruitt, born of American missionaries and raised in a rural Chinese village at the end of the nineteenth century, witnessed almost a century of China's revolutionary upheavals. This work tells the story of this remarkable woman, and brings a different perspective to the study of modern Chinese history.
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Camel Xiangzi

by Lao She

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 Camel Xiangzi registers a new approach to the representation of China in its absurdist situation. The novel shows Lao She at his best, the work of a mature writer, who excels in his mastery of narrative techniques, as well as his prophetic vision of the future of China.
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New Challenges For Development And Modernization - Hong Kong And The Asia Pacific Region In The New Millennium

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Eminent Hungarians

by Krisztian (Magveto Cafe, Hungary) Nyary

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Chinese Leadership Wisdom From The Book Of Change

by Kin Chok Mun

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Resource Management, Urbanization, And Governance In Hong Kong And The Zhujiang Delta

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 An analysis of economic integration, migration, urbanization, regional development, resource management and urban/regional governance in the Hong Kong-Zhujiang Delta region. The contributors are scholars from Hong Kong, mainland China, USA and Germany.
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Hong Kong Taxation Â€“ Law And Practice

by Ayesha Macphers Lau, Ayesha Macpherson, David Flux, David Smith e Garry Laird

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 Dealing with all changes up to July 2005, this text discusses all of the year's court decisions and the more important Board of Review decisions.
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The Chan Interpretations Of Wang Wei'S Poetry - A Critical Review

by Jingqing Yang

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 Wang Wei (698-759), a High Tang poet, is widely known as ""Poet Buddha"". The book is an attempt to criticize the assumptions about Chan Buddhist implications in Wang's nature poetry. While other research investigates how Wang intentionally imparted Chan significance into his poetry, this book shows why this is not so and how it lacks evidence.
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From A Cottager'S Sketchbook - Chinese-English Bilingual Edition

by Liang Shih Chiu

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 The articles are written in elegant and highly polished style. It is enjoyable to read and the reader can also learn the art of elegant writing. The text is translated into English and there is an introduction by the translator on the author and his works.
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Business Chinese

by Jiaying Howard, Songren Cui e Tsengtseng Chang

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 The book aims to develop competence in advanced Chinese particularly on business content. It presents the language in both content and context - the language and content is context embedded. Tailored to the learners' communication need, the book integrates the oral language (listening and speaking) with the written language (reading and writing).
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A New Dictionary Of Idiomatic American English

by George Kao e Irving K.Y. Kao

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 This book collects over 2,000 American English entries. Apart from single words, compound expressions, phrases and whole sentences are also discussed. The entries are selected from everyday and common usage, and whenever possible, their Chinese counterparts are cited.
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Selected Essays Of Zhou Zuoren - Chinese-English Bilingual Edition

by Zuoren Zhou

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 Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967) is a controversial Chinese intellectual and the brother of the writer Lu Xun. Zhou's essays present an alternative vision of the nation, question the dichotomy between modernity and traditions, and espouse a literary style that values openness and individualism.
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Educational Leadership And Management - Developing Essential Skills And Competencies

by David Gamage e Nicholas S. K. Pang

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 Teachers are usually trained only to teach but not on education management. Drawing on a set of data from many international cases, the authors try to provide a comprehensive coverage from the perspectives of both theory and practice on the issues of educational leadership and administration.
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Advances In Social Welfare In Hong Kong

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 An examination of the rapid changes in social welfare in Hong Kong. The papers are taken from a symposium on the subject and topics cover family, youth, elderly and rehabilitation services, self-help groups and their supervision, social security, social welfare administration and more.
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The Yale-China Association - A Centennial History

by Jessica C. Plumb

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 This is an account of the 100 years of the existence of the Yale-China Association, whose long legacy of work in China places it among the premier American organizations engaged in international service.
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The Dyer'S Daughter - Selected Stories Of Xiao Hong

by Xiao Hong

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 This collection carries some of Xiao Hong's most famous short stories such as ""On the Oxcart"", ""Spring in a Small Town"", ""The Family Outsider"", ""Flight from Danger"", ""Vague Expectations"", ""Hands"" and ""The Bridge"".
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Anorexia Nervosa And Family Therapy In A Chinese Context

by Joyce L. C. Ma

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