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Book cover of China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800

China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800

Trade, Settlement, Diplomacy, and Missions

by John E. Wills, Jr, John Cranmer-Byng
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010

China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection. New World silver, Chinese tea, Jesuit astronomers at the Chinese court, and merchants and marauders of all kinds play important...
Book cover of Unequal Educational Provision in England and Wales
by W.E. Marsden
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005

Published in 1987, Unequal Educational Provision in England and Wales is a valuable contribution to the field of Education.
Book cover of Dada & Surrealism
by C. W. E. Bigsby
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017

First published in 1972, the work provides an introduction to Dada and Surrealism. It explores the two movements and their cultural significance. It also looks at those who called themselves Dadaists and Surrealists, including their aims and achievements. In doing so, the book identifies the meaning...
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Fields Watered with Blood

Critical Essays on Margaret Walker

by Tomeiko R. Ashford Carter, Jacqueline Miller Carmichael, Michelle Cliff
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014

Representing an international gathering of scholars, Fields Watered with Blood—now available in paperback—constituted the first critical assessment of the full scope of Margaret Walker’s literary career. As they discuss Walker’s work, including the landmark poetry collection For My People...
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Rethinking Growth

Social Intrapreneurship for Sustainable Performance

by W. Baets, E. Oldenboom
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009

Should we rethink growth? Is the abundance of the western world still ethical? Growth, social responsibility and sustainable development are indeed deeply entangled. This book aims to provide the reader with a transversal, holistic view on these issues, and a real understanding of corporate growth, along with its possible alternatives.
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More, Better, Different

Getting What You Want Through a Proven Dynamic for Successful Leadership

by Robert W. Lauridsen, Carl H. Reinhardt, Fran E. Lauridsen
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016

Leaders want to turn their ideas and intentions into results, but too many of them do what is comfortable and habitual. That would be fine if it werent for one big problem: those comfortable things too often fail. In this guidebook to tackling business problems, the authors draw on their decades of...
Book cover of Redirecting Innovation in U.S. Health Care

Redirecting Innovation in U.S. Health Care

Options to Decrease Spending and Increase Value

by Steven Garber, Susan M. Gates, Emmett B. Keeler
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014

New medical technologies are a leading driver of U.S. health care spending. This report identifies promising policy options to change which medical technologies are created, with two related policy goals: (1) Reduce total health care spending with the smallest possible loss of health benefits, and...
Book cover of Lays Of The Scottish Cavaliers And Other Poems
by W.E. Aytoun
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Book cover of Civil Air Transport
by W.E. Wynn
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017

This book, first published in 1946, deals with the question of the history, development and likely future of the civil air industry. It is full of fascinating information from the infancy of the industry, and its romantic heyday.
Book cover of Foundations of Mathematical Analysis
by Richard Johnsonbaugh, W.E. Pfaffenberger
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012

This classroom-tested volume offers a definitive look at modern analysis, with views of applications to statistics, numerical analysis, Fourier series, differential equations, mathematical analysis, and functional analysis. Upper-level undergraduate students with a background in calculus will benefit...
Book cover of Revitalizing the City: Strategies to Contain Sprawl and Revive the Core

Revitalizing the City: Strategies to Contain Sprawl and Revive the Core

Strategies to Contain Sprawl and Revive the Core

by Fritz W. Wagner, Timothy E. Joder, Anthony J. Mumphrey
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016

This practical work demonstrates that controlling urban growth and reviving central city economies are not mutually exclusive endeavors. Rather than re-hash theories of urban development, the contributors describe and evaluate successful community-tested approaches to sustaining our cities. Revitalizing...
Book cover of Institutional Ethnography as Practice
by Marie L. Campbell, Marjorie L. DeVault, Tim Diamond
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006

In this edited collection, institutional ethnographers draw on their field research experiences to address different aspects of institutional ethnographic practice. As institutional ethnography embraces the actualities of people's experiences and lives, the contributors utilize their research to reveal...
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U.S. Overseas Military Presence

What Are the Strategic Choices?

by Lynn E. Davis, Stacie L. Pettyjohn, Melanie W. Sisson
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012

The role of the United States and its global military presence are under debate in the face of changing strategic and economic realities. The authors present a menu of global postures and compare them in terms of the U.S. Air Force bases, combat forces, active-duty personnel, and base operating costs....
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Redefining Music Studies in an Age of Change

Creativity, Diversity, and Integration

by Edward W. Sarath, David E. Myers, Patricia Shehan Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016

Redefining Music Studies in an Age of Change: Creativity, Diversity, Integration takes prevailing discourse about change in music studies to new vistas, as higher education institutions are at a critical moment of determining just what professional musicians and teachers need to survive and thrive...
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