Sun: 529 books
Entitled to Nothing
The Struggle for Immigrant Health Care in the Age of Welfare Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
In Entitled to Nothing, Lisa Sun-Hee Park investigates how the politics of immigration, health care, and welfare are intertwined. Documenting the formal return of the immigrant as a “public charge,” or a burden upon the State, the author shows how the concept has been revived as states adopt punitive...
Maid In China
Media, Morality, and the Cultural Politics of Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
Maid in China is the first systematic, book-length investigation of internal rural migration in post-Mao China focused on the day-to-day production and consumption of popular media. Taking the rural maid in the urban home as its point of departure, the book weaves together three years of engaged ethnographic...
by Li Sun, Yi Yang, Serena Hao Pan
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Welcome to Beijing.
Beijing is one of the oldest and most interesting capitals in the world. A trip to Beijing is a trip to the ancient past but it is also a trip into the future. In Beijing the ancient and the modern live side-by-side with the traditional Chinese culture blending with the...
Chinese Globalization
A Profile of People-Based Global Connections in China
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
This book examines the explicit effects of global connectivity on local culture and society in post-reform mainland China. It focuses on individual level globalization in China and how global socialization impacts local residents’ behaviors, lifestyle, value orientation and the consequence of local...
Ideals of the Body
Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Modern hygienic urbanism originated in the airy boulevards, public parks, and sewer system that transformed the Parisian cityscape in the mid-nineteenth century. Yet these well-known developments in public health built on a previous moment of anxiety about the hygiene of modern city dwellers. Amid...
The Medicine Wheel
Earth Astrology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
"This book came about as the result of a vision that I had long ago...." So writes Chippewa medicine man, seer, and Indian leader Sun Bear. In The Medicine Wheel he and his medicine helper, Wabun, share his vision, setting forth a whole new system of earth astrology to help guide people not only in...
by Victoria Charles, Sun Tzu
Language: French
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Au cours de l'histoire, nombreuses sont les guerres qui changèrent le paysage politique et culturel du monde. Source de bouleversements, de destructions et de violences, elles contribuèrent néanmoins à l'évolution de la création artistique. En effet, malgré les événements traumatisants qu'elles...
Economy Hotels in China
A Glocalized Innovative Hospitality Sector
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
While economy or budget hotels have been popular in western countries since the end of the Second World War, they have only emerged as a sector in their own right in China since the mid-1990s. Indeed, as a new service industry sector, economy hotels in China demonstrate important characteristics which...
by Georgette Sun
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This ebook covers all the necessary details on
natural cures, mainly herbal natural cure. Whatever
you want to know on the subject, you will get all the
information in this ebook. After you finish reading
the ebook, you will discover so many facts on herbs
and herbal cures, which you were unaware...
Satellite Communications Systems
Systems, Techniques and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Revisions to 5th Edition by: Zhili Sun, University of Surrey, UK
New and updated edition of this authoritative and comprehensive reference to the field of satellite communications engineering
Building on the success of previous editions, Satellite Communications Systems, Fifth Edition...
by Sun Tzu
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Nova edição com ilustrações de Gilmar Fraga Qual é a originalidade deste que é o mais antigo tratado de guerra? É que é melhor ganhar a guerra antes mesmo de desembainhar a espada. O inimigo não deve ser aniquilado, mas, de preferência, deve ser vencido quando seus domínios ainda estiverem...
by Georgette Sun
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
In India, the Candidates for Initiation into the science of "Raja Yoga,"
when they apply to the Yogi Masters for instruction, are given a series
of lessons designed to enlighten them regarding the nature of the Real
Self, and to instruct them in the secret knowledge whereby they may
develop...
by Cliff Sun Jr
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
When it comes to planning your wedding, it’s difficult to eliminate some of the features and elements that are most important to you.With this complete guide to planning the ultimate wedding on a shoestring budget, you won’t have to.In This E-book You Will Learn:-How To Minimize...
Our Place in the Universe
Understanding Fundamental Astronomy from Ancient Discoveries
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2017
If you have ever wanted to understand the basic principles of astronomy and celestial movements, you should read this book. Using pictures of the sky observed from different places on Earth, as well as drawings of ancient astronomical methods and tools, Prof. Sun Kwok tells this story in an entertaining...