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The Chinese Journals of L.K. Little 1943–54 An Eyewitness Account of War and Revolution Volume III

The Chinese Journals of L.K. Little 1943–54 An Eyewitness Account of War and Revolution Volume III

Lester Knox Little kept a detailed journal of his time in China and Taiwan. Covering the years 1943 to 1954 it provides important new insights about some of the most dramatic episodes in China’s mid-twentieth century history: Sino-Japanese military and economic competition China’s domestic political struggle between the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) and the Chinese Communist Party and the post-war/Cold War balance of power in Southeast and East Asia. It also contains rich first-hand materials for understanding conditions in Chongqing and post-war Shanghai the last years of the Republic of China on the Chinese mainland and its early years in Taiwan and a new inner history of his beloved Chinese Maritime Customs Service. Little’s account with his insightful comments and explicit descriptions provides us with a continuous record from the viewpoint of a capable American citizen in Chinese employ who felt responsible for his Chinese and foreign colleagues and for the modernisation of ‘Free China’ as well as allowing a unique insight into the heart of government during a time of intense social and political change. In addition to the original texts this edition includes extensive explanatory notes providing detailed contextual information regarding the people and places mentioned. | The Chinese Journals of L. K. Little 1943–54 An Eyewitness Account of War and Revolution Volume III

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The Spectacle of Clouds 1439–1650 Italian Art and Theatre

The Spectacle of Clouds 1439–1650 Italian Art and Theatre

The studies in which history of art and theatre are considered together are few and none to date investigate the evolution of the representation of clouds from the early Renaissance to the Baroque period. This book reconsiders the origin of Italian Renaissance and Baroque cloud compositions while including the theatrical tradition as one of their most important sources. By examining visual sources such as paintings frescos and stage designs together with letters guild-ledgers descriptions of performances and relevant treatises a new methodology to approach the development of this early modern visuality is offered. The result is an historical reconstruction where multiple factors are seen as facets of a single process which led to the development of Italy’s visual culture. The book also offers new insights into Leonardo da Vinci’s theatrical works Raphael’s Disputa Vasari’s Lives and Pietro da Cortona’s fresco paintings. The Spectacle of Clouds 1439-1650 examines the different ways Heaven has been conceived imagined and represented from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century crossing over into the fields of history religion and philosophy. | The Spectacle of Clouds 1439–1650 Italian Art and Theatre

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Forty Years an Advertising Agent 1865-1905

Forty Years an Advertising Agent 1865-1905

Originally published in 1985 the 52 papers that make up Forty Years an Advertising Agent set forth the inception the development and the growth of the art (or science) of advertising in a practical way; interesting and inspiring the papers are an education to any beginner in advertising. The work has permanent value as a contribution to the history of American journalism and particularly as a clear exposition of one of its comparatively little understood but most important phases. | Forty Years an Advertising Agent 1865-1905

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Revival: Reconstruction and Education in Rural India (1932)

Revival: Reconstruction and Education in Rural India (1932)

This book explores the problems present in Bengal villages specifically which represent problems found within the rest of rural India therefore the same measures with very little modification could be employed in the work of rural reconstruction and rural education in those parts. The author discusses issues related to the government as well as the caste system and the social and religious customs which he has argued not only hampered the path to progress but reduced the people further and further to misery and despair. | Revival: Reconstruction and Education in Rural India (1932)

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Managers of Discontent

Managers of Discontent

In today's political climate the status and future of the trade unions are subjects of particular interest. Yet apart from national leaders of major unions little is known about full-time trade union officers. In Managers of Discontent Diane Watson draws on a rich fund of material based on extensive interviews and observation to examine the role of trade union officers comparing them with their managerial counterparts in three industrial sectors. Her lively and interesting interview material by allowing the people studied to speak for themselves raises a series of challenging questions about the future of trade unions.

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Making a Difference in Marketing The Foundation of Competitive Advantage

Making a Difference in Marketing The Foundation of Competitive Advantage

Establishing a difference is the lynchpin of marketing. It can be achieved in many ways. The results can be magical and powerful: such as increasing with little expense the price of a little regarded fish from £0. 15 a kilo to £1. 00. As with many other disciplines which have great value this potency has often resulted in the discussion of marketing being prey to increasing complexity. This frequently intimidates those marketing could help. Often it is due to the touting of supposedly new paradigms given plausibility by conveniently invented metrics and an emphasis on the rational and conscious over the emotional and unconscious despite the latter aspects appearing to be the basis for much choice. This imbalance has been highlighted by recent insights from psychology neurology and behavioural economics. Rather than simply embracing these advances the focus of marketing has been on additional layers of intricacy and a weighting of emphasis towards means of communication further distancing marketing from its base. This book aims to cut through to the pivotal role of differentiation illustrated by case histories and the advances in the related fields referred to particularly the work of psychologists such as Daniel Kahneman. Unlike much writing on marketing it has tried to follow Einstein’s advice to be as simple as possible but no simpler. | Making a Difference in Marketing The Foundation of Competitive Advantage

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An International Perspective An International Perspective

An International Perspective An International Perspective

While the health effects of many aspects of life from diet to marital status have been extensively explored little study has been made of the health effects of work. Covering such topics as on-the-job dangers the role of unions in worker protection and occupational health in both developed and developing countries this collection of articles conclusively demonstrates the negative impact that neglect of citizens' working lives has on pubic health. With more Americans dying each year from job-related causes than were killed in a decade of combat in Vietnam Health and Work Under Capitalism is a long-overdue and unusually significant book. | An International Perspective An International Perspective

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The Benin Plaques A 16th Century Imperial Monument

The Benin Plaques A 16th Century Imperial Monument

The 16th century bronze plaques from the kingdom of Benin are among the most recognized masterpieces of African art and yet many details of their commission and installation in the palace in Benin City Nigeria are little understood. The Benin Plaques A 16th Century Imperial Monument is a detailed analysis of a corpus of nearly 850 bronze plaques that were installed in the court of the Benin kingdom at the moment of its greatest political power and geographic reach. By examining European accounts Benin oral histories and the physical evidence of the extant plaques Gunsch is the first to propose an installation pattern for the series.

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Design for Mental and Behavioral Health

Design for Mental and Behavioral Health

Studies confirm that the physical environment influences health outcomes emotional state preference satisfaction and orientation but very little research has focused on mental and behavioural health settings. This book summarizes design principles and design research for individuals who are intending to design new mental and behavioural health facilities and those wishing to evaluate the quality of their existing facilities. The authors discuss mental and behavioural health systems design guidelines design research and existing standards and provide examples of best practice. As behavioural and mental health populations vary in their needs the primary focus is limited to environments that support acute care outpatient and emergency care residential care veterans pediatric patients and the treatment of chemical dependency. | Design for Mental and Behavioral Health

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Development and the Law A Guide for Construction and Property Professionals

Development and the Law A Guide for Construction and Property Professionals

A gap has long existed between construction professionals – such as architects engineers quantity surveyors and consultants – and the property development process. The underlying development structures expressed in terms of legal obligation and accountability are all too little understood. This practical guide by a highly experienced lawyer identifies the role of the construction professional in a wider context and looks beyond their relationship with their immediate employer. It provides the development professional with an understanding of the many relationships involved in projects both in terms of contractual obligation and duty of care. This encourages more effective communication between those involved including joint venture partners bankers funders landowners with an interest in the outcome and tenants. | Development and the Law A Guide for Construction and Property Professionals

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Revival: Law in the Modern State (1921)

Revival: Law in the Modern State (1921)

It is perhaps worth explaining why there is a special importance in the present development of the theory of the State. Law like every social phenomenon is subject to perpetual change; indeed any scientific study of law must necessarily involve an analysis of the evolution of legal institutions. In a sense therefore the trasnformation of the state is also the transformation of its law. But we must go a little deeper. The real justification of this book is the immediate situation of political theory. Just as every living being has moments in its existence when even while obeying the general law of its life it undergoes a change that is especially fundamental in importance so it is in the history of peoples. | Revival: Law in the Modern State (1921)

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Revival: Beethoven (1933)

Revival: Beethoven (1933)

The original intention was that this book should be entirely biographical. If it be true however that out main interest is (or ought to be) in what a composer did rather than in what he was the truth applies especially to Beethoven and above all at the present time. The scheme of the book has therefore been modified so as to include a survey of his work. An attempt to make such survey cover the whole of Beethoven’s output would result in little more than a catalogue with annotations to brief as to convey hardly anything of the essential quality of the music. It seemed therefore that the limited space would be best used and the needs of the general reader more fully met by a much less rigid and comprehensive method. | Revival: Beethoven (1933)

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Calvin Meets Voltaire The Clergy of Geneva in the Age of Enlightenment 1685–1798

Calvin Meets Voltaire The Clergy of Geneva in the Age of Enlightenment 1685–1798

In 1754 Voltaire one of the most famous and provocative writers of the period moved to the city of Geneva. Little time passed before he instigated conflict with the clergy and city as he publicly maligned the memory of John Calvin promoted the culture of the French theater and incited political unrest within Genevan society. Conflict with the clergy reached a fever pitch in 1757 when Jean d’Alembert published the article ’Genève’ for the Encyclopédie. Much to the consternation of the clergy his article both castigated Calvin and depicted his clerical legacy as Socinian. Since then little has been resolved over the theological position of Calvin’s clerical legacy while much has been made of their declining significance in Genevan life during the Enlightenment era. Based upon a decade of research on the sources at Geneva’s Archives d'‰tat and Bibliothèque de Genève this book provides the first comprehensive monograph devoted to Geneva’s Enlightenment clergy. Examination of the social political theological and cultural encounter of the Reformation with the Enlightenment in the figurative meeting of Calvin and Voltaire brings to light the life work and thought of Geneva’s eighteenth-century clergy. In addition to examination of the convergence with the philosophes prosopographical research uncovers clerical demographics at work. Furthermore the nature of clerical involvement in Genevan society and periods of political unrest are considered along with the discovery of a ’Reasonable Calvinism’ at work in the public preaching and liturgy of Genevan worship. This research moves Geneva’s narrative beyond a simplistic paradigm of ’decline’ and secularization offers further evidence for a revisionist understanding of the Enlightenment’s engagement with religion and locates Geneva’s clergy squarely in the newly emerging category of the ’Religious Enlightenment. ’ Finally the significance of French policy from the Revocat | Calvin Meets Voltaire The Clergy of Geneva in the Age of Enlightenment 1685–1798

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Creativity and Innovation Theory Research and Practice

Creativity and Innovation Theory Research and Practice

Creativity and innovation are frequently mentioned as key skills for career and life success in today’s world. This award-winning book brings together some of the world's best thinkers and researchers to offer insights on creativity innovation and entrepreneurship. The new edition features fully updated chapters including expanded coverage of exciting topics such as group creativity ethics development makerspaces and lessons from other fields. Educational applications are emphasized throughout. Creativity is often the spice of life that little extra something that makes the mundane into the interesting making our routines into fresh new approaches to our daily lives. With this book’s comprehensive and readable approach you’ll be able to understand what creativity truly is (and isn't) how to foster it and how it relates to intelligence leadership personality and other concepts. | Creativity and Innovation Theory Research and Practice

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Revival: An Outline of Psychology (1968)

Revival: An Outline of Psychology (1968)

The time has gone by when any one man could hope to write an adequate text book of psychology. The science has now so many branches so many methods so many fields of application and such an immense mass of data of observation is now on record that no one man can hope to have the necessary familiarity with the whole. But even when a galaxy of learning and talent shall have written the text book of the future there will still be need for the book which will introduce the student to his science which will aim at giving him at the outset of his studies a profitable line of approach a fruitful way of thinking of psychological problems and a terminology as little misleading as possible. The present volume is designed to render these services. | Revival: An Outline of Psychology (1968)

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State-Nationalisms in the Ottoman Empire Greece and Turkey Orthodox and Muslims 1830-1945

State-Nationalisms in the Ottoman Empire Greece and Turkey Orthodox and Muslims 1830-1945

Tracing the emergence of minorities and their institutions from the late nineteenth century to the eve of the Second World War this book provides a comparative study of government policies and ideologies of two states towards minority populations living within their borders. Making extensive use of new archival material this volume transcends the tendency to compare the Greek-Orthodox in Turkey and the Muslims in Greece separately and through a comparison of the policies of the host states and the operation of the political religious and social institutions of minorities demonstrates common patterns and discrepancies between the two countries that have previously received little attention. A collaboration between Greek and Turkish scholars with broad ranging research interests this book benefits from an international and balanced perspective and will be an indispensable aid to students and scholars alike. | State-Nationalisms in the Ottoman Empire Greece and Turkey Orthodox and Muslims 1830-1945

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Aerospace Clinical Psychology

Aerospace Clinical Psychology

Flight training and flying are hazardous activities that demand the most of human operators whether they be pilots or other factors (maintainers air traffic controllers managers regulators) involved in the complex aviation system. 'Aerospace Clinical Psychology' serves as a handbook for dealing with aviators and other operators those seen as patients as well as those functioning 'normally' who none-the-less wish to improve their performance. This book has much to offer the audiences who intersect the Human Factors and clinical areas of aviation and operators in extreme environments. It deftly defines specific touchstone areas such as selection training accident investigation measurement and testing and practical interventions. The little-margin-for-error realm of aviation exposes operators to stress and risk on a daily basis. 'Aerospace Clinical Psychology' provides a blueprint for combining the talents of clinical psychologists with flight surgeons and Human Factors practitioners to enhance safety and efficiency.

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Migration Theory Talking across Disciplines

Migration Theory Talking across Disciplines

The revised fourth edition of Migration Theory continues to offer a one-stop synthesis of contemporary thought on migration. Editors Caroline B. Brettell and James F. Hollifield remain committed to include coverage that is comparative and global in scope while enhancing similarities and differences between one academic field and the next. All chapters have been revised to highlight cutting-edge issues in the field of migration studies today. The fourth edition welcomes two new authors Professors Marie Price and François Héran to offer a fresh approach with their chapters on geography and demography respectively. Designed for undergraduate and graduate courses in migration studies a primary goal of the text is to assist instructors in guiding students who may have little background on migration to understand important issues and the scientific debates. This ensures Migration Theory is a highly valuable guide not only to the perspectives of one's own discipline but also to those of cognate fields. | Migration Theory Talking across Disciplines

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The Making of Modern Economics The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers

The Making of Modern Economics The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers

The Making of Modern Economics presents a bold and engaging history of economics—the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today's rigorous social science. This comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the major economic philosophers begins with Adam Smith and continues through to the present day. It examines the contributions each one made to our understanding of the role of the economist the science of economics and economic theory. Boxes in each chapter highlight little-known and entertaining facts about the economists' personal lives that had an influence on their work. The fourth edition adds coverage of modern monetary theory the COVID-19 pandemic climate change minimum wage debates Schumpeter and socialism Malthus and immigration and more. The Making of Modern Economics is a valuable engaging text for courses in the history of economic thought and political economy. | The Making of Modern Economics The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers

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The Actors of Postnational Rule-Making Contemporary challenges of European and International Law

The Actors of Postnational Rule-Making Contemporary challenges of European and International Law

Despite its centrality to academic discussions of power and influence there is little consensus in legal scholarship over what constitutes an actor in rule-making. This book explores the range of actors involved in rule-making within European Union law and Public International law and focuses especially on actors that are often overlooked by formative and doctrinal approaches. Drawing together contributions from many scholars in various fields the book examines such issues as the accommodation of new actors in the process of postnational rule-making the visibility or covertness of actors within the process and the role of social acceptance and legitimacy in postnational rule-making. In its endeavour to render and examine the work and effect of actors often side-lined in the study of postnational rule-making this book will be of great use and interest to students and scholars of EU law international law and socio-legal studies. | The Actors of Postnational Rule-Making Contemporary challenges of European and International Law

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The Kingdom of Toro in Uganda

The Kingdom of Toro in Uganda

First published in 1975 The Kingdom of Toro in Uganda describes the foundation of the Toro kingdom in the nineteenth century by the rebel prince Kaboyo and investigates how Kasagama Kaboyo’s grandson was able to recreate with little local support a kingdom far more extensive than Kaboyo had ever envisaged. His personal authority was established by his insistence that its root were traditional thus satisfying the requirements of ‘indirect rules’ at a time when this ill-defined concept served both as the shibboleth and the escape clause for an overstretched British colonial administration. Although Kasagama’s son Rukidi was able to combine authority with personal popularity and to take advantage of colonial innovations without losing control of his kingdom the ending of colonial rule brought an end to Toro as he knew it. In an independent Uganda the particularism stressed by Toro’s rulers could not survive. This book will be of interest to students of history colonialism African studies and ethnic studies.

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(Dis)Placing Empire Renegotiating British Colonial Geographies

(Dis)Placing Empire Renegotiating British Colonial Geographies

While there has been for the past two decades a lively and extensive academic debate about postcolonial representations of imperialism and colonialism there has been little work which focuses on 'placed' materialist or critical geographical perspectives. The contributors to this volume offer such a perspective asserting the inadequacy of conventional 'self/other' binaries in postcolonial analysis which fail to recognise the complex ways in which space and place were implicated in constructing the individual experience of Empire. Illustrated with case studies of British colonialism in Australia Hong Kong India Ireland and New Zealand in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries the book uncovers the complex and unstable spaces of meaning which were central to the experience of emigrants settlers expatriates and indigenous peoples at different time/place moments under British rule. In critically examining place and hybridity within a discursive context (Dis)placing Empire offers new insights into the practice of Empire. | (Dis)Placing Empire Renegotiating British Colonial Geographies

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Unpacking Metaphor-related Prepositions in Political Discourse From Polysemous to Powerful

Unpacking Metaphor-related Prepositions in Political Discourse From Polysemous to Powerful

This book explores the context around why English prepositions are used in figurative language more frequently than nouns and verbs using corpus-based evidence to examine the most often used prepositions and how they are employed and for what purpose. While research on cognitive approaches to metaphor has significantly expanded in recent decades little attention has been paid to prepositions as vehicles of figurative language owing to their polysemous complex and inconsistent nature. To bridge this gap Ounis introduces an innovative conceptual framework that integrates conceptual metaphor theory diachronic linguistics and discourse pragmatics. Drawing upon an extensive corpus of American presidential inaugural addresses this book considers the linguistic conceptual pragmatic and contextual dimensions of English prepositions revealing the fascinating interplay between language culture and cognition. This volume will be of interest to scholars in pragmatics metaphor studies English language rhetoric studies and historical linguistics. | Unpacking Metaphor-related Prepositions in Political Discourse From Polysemous to Powerful

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The Handbook of Communication Science and Biology

The Handbook of Communication Science and Biology

The Handbook of Communication Science and Biology charts the state of the art in the field describing relevant areas of communication studies where a biological approach has been successfully applied. The book synthesizes theoretical and empirical development in this area thus far and proposes a roadmap for future research. As the biological approach to understanding communication has grown one challenge has been the separate evolution of research focused on media use and effects and research focused on interpersonal and organizational communication often with little intellectual conversation between the two areas. The Handbook of Communication Science and Biology is the only book to bridge the gap between media studies and human communication spurring new work in both areas of focus. With contributions from the field’s foremost scholars around the globe this unique book serves as a seminal resource for the training of the current and next generation of communication scientists and will be of particular interest to media and psychology scholars as well.

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Georgian Houses for All

Georgian Houses for All

First published in 1978 Georgian Houses for All describes how little Gregorian houses came into being and how the original inhabitants used them. Gregorian houses at their smallest and simplest can be seen everywhere in the British Isles – detached semi-detached and joined together in terraces. There are probably still over a million of them built during a period of 130 years without the direct aid of architects. John Woodforde points out that an instinctive wish for a symmetrical front seems to be shown by young children’s drawings of houses these being generally balanced and orderly. The Georgians’ love of symmetry marked in their way of hanging pictures was part of a desire for private order amongst public disorder a desire to have one small sphere in which nature was fully controlled. John Woodforde reminds us that in the present-day return to terrace-house building the Georgian version remains a valuable guide. The book will be of interest to students of architecture urban planning and history.

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