Leong: 122 books
by Roxann Prazniak, Arif Dirlik, John Brown Childs
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2001
This ambitious work provides a unique statement on the question of place-based activism and its relationship to powerful forces of international capital. Arguing that specific places around the world are sites for the defense and enhancement of daily life in the context of rapidly expanding global...
Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans
Effective Activities, Strategies, and Assignments for Classrooms and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
The number of Asian American students in schools and colleges has soared in the last twenty-five years, and they make up one of the fastest growing segments of the student population. However, classroom material often does not include their version of the American experience. Teaching about Asian...
Far East, Down South
Asians in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
In sharp contrast to the “melting pot” reputation of the United States, the American South—with its history of slavery, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement—has been perceived in stark and simplistic demographic terms. In Far East, Down South, editors Raymond A. Mohl, John E. Van Sant,...
by Denise Wright, Anna Leong, Keith E. Webb
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2010
Coaching in Asia is the definitive guide to the principles and practices of empowering personal and organisational change. Whether you're a manager or coach, living in Asia, Europe or elsewhere, Coaching in Asia is packed with case studies and coaching approaches to help you develop greater effectiveness.
3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing
Principles and ApplicationsFifth Edition of Rapid Prototyping
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies are developing impressively and are expected to bring about the next revolution. AM is gradually replacing traditional manufacturing methods in some applications because of its unique properties of customisability and versatility. This book provides a very...
The Transforming Power of Story
How Telling Your Story Brings Hope to Others and Healing to Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
This book demonstrates, through multiple true life stories, how sharing one's story, especially in a group setting, can bring hope to listeners and healing to the one who shares. As Christians believe that "history" is "His story," we also believe that the smaller personal stories of our lives contribute...
by Kaiwen Leong
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
You think the teenagers of today have it good? That their struggles are merely First World pains? Or only kids from broken families go bad? Think again. Negative influences are lurking at every corner and money can buy anything. For everything else, there is the Internet. Want friends? Join an online...
Religion, Flesh, and Blood
The Convergence of HIV/AIDS, Black Sexual Expression, and Therapeutic Religion
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
This is a case study of one congregation within the Unity Fellowship Church Movement that relies on therapeutic religion, a form of religion that strives to equip individuals with psychological capital, by enabling self-expressions and affirmations of social differences. The therapeutic ethic that...
ESSENTIALS OF COUNSELLING COMPETENCIES
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
A counsellor’s self-awareness and understanding of what counselling is (and what it is not) are foundational for a beginning counsellor’s learning journey. Just as important is the ability to connect with a client from the first contact to closure, as well as to understand and utilise eff ective...
Deadly Stakes
Shocking stories of Gambling Addiction in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The gamblers interviewed for this book all had one thing in common — they didn’t know what hit them. They thought they were in Casino Heaven and they, the Gods of Gambling. They thought they were invincible and would always win it all back. They thought wrong. They didn’t just lose; they got wiped...
Leading Lesson Study
A Practical Guide for Teachers and Facilitators
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
Use this team-centered approach to directly enhance teaching and learning in your school!
First introduced in Japan, lesson study has gained enthusiastic advocates in US educational circles as a powerful, collaborative approach. This "how-to" guide leads a beginning team through the...
by AJ Fyler, Rhiannon Rhys-Jones, Aila Alvina Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of using gold (and other precious metals) to repair broken pottery. The ritual is complex, intentional, and contemplative. Upon completion, the once-broken vessels are made whole. They are stronger and possess a different type of beauty than before.
Kintsugi is...
Pleasure Factory
Horrors of the Singapore Flash Trade
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Underneath Singapore’s squeaky-clean exterior is a dark realm like no other. Based on interviews with hundreds of prostitutes in Singapore and years of research, we bring you Pleasure Factory. In the Pleasure Factory, women advertise pleasure by the hour, but the only real product is pain. Night after...
Food Culture in Colonial Asia
A Taste of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Presenting a social history of colonial food practices in India, Malaysia and Singapore, this book discusses the contribution that Asian domestic servants made towards the development of this cuisine between 1858 and 1963. Domestic cookbooks, household management manuals, memoirs, diaries and travelogues...