Elizabeth Perry: 14 books
Anyuan
Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the Chinese Communists’ creative development and deployment of cultural resources – during their revolutionary...
Proletarian Power
Shanghai In The Cultural Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This pathbreaking book offers the first in-depth study of Chinese labor activism during the momentous upheaval of the Cultural Revolution. Arguing that labor was working at cross purposes, the authors explore three distinctive and different forms of working-class protest: rebellion, conservatism,...
by Katharina Gerlach, Ava Fairhall, K.V. Moffet
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Solve a mermaid's problem…
Step off the edge of a roof…
Dig up a grave at midnight…
Take advice from a fortune cookie…
Visit the last library…
Meet a bridge troll…
And more…
In one instant, like a bolt of lightning, a single impossible event changes a person's life. And like the...
Fantastic Crimes
Four Bibliomysteries by Bestselling Authors
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Book-centered mystery novellas from four masters of the craft.
From Anne Perry, the New York Times–bestselling author of the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, comes The Scroll.
Hapless bookseller Monty Danforth’s recent discovery of a millennia-old manuscript plunges him into a cutthroat...
Patrolling the Revolution
Worker Militias, Citizenship, and the Modern Chinese State
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
This pioneering study explores the role of working-class militias as vanguard and guardian of the Chinese Revolution. The book begins with the origins of urban militias in the late nineteenth century and follows their development to the present day. Elizabeth J. Perry focuses on the institution of...
by Yaron Perry, Elizabeth Yodim
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Yaron Perry's account reveals, without bias or partiality, the story of the "London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews" and its unique contribution to the restoration of the Holy Land. This Protestant organization were the first to take root in the Holy Land from 1820 onwards.
by Barbara Perry Bauer, Elizabeth Jacox
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Boise of the 21st century is very different from the tiny community established in 1863 at the crossroads of the Oregon Trail and the road to the Boise Basin gold mines. Originally known as "Boise City," it existed as a distribution center for supplies and fresh food for miners. The development of...
A Flash of Words
49 Flash-Fiction Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
From Scout Media comes A Flash of Words—the fifth volume in an ongoing short story anthology series featuring authors from all over the world, but the first in which the stories are exclusively flash-fiction pieces.
In this installation, no limits were set on genre, allowing the authors to...
Sexual Disorientations
Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Sexual Disorientations brings some of the most recent and significant works of queer theory into conversation with the overlapping fields of biblical, theological and religious studies to explore the deep theological resonances of questions about the social and cultural construction of time, memory,...
Defining Memory
Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Defining Memory uses case studies of exhibits from around the country to examine how local museums, defined as museums whose collections are local in scope or whose audiences are primarily local, have both shaped and been shaped by evolving community values and sense of history. Levin and her contributors...
by Elizabeth J. Perry
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This title was first published in 1981.
Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China
Social Protest and State Power in China
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Social science theories of contentious politics have been based almost exclusively on evidence drawn from the European and American experience, and classic texts in the field make no mention of either the Chinese Communist revolution or the Cultural Revolution -- surely two of the most momentous social...
Pro Football and the Proliferation of Protest
Anthem Posture in a Divided America
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Pro Football and the Proliferation of Protest: Anthem Kneeling and Standing in a Divided America examines the take-a-knee NFL protests, a trend that has led to deep political divisiveness in America. The author explores this phenomenon by incorporating analysis of media coverage, impact on attitudes...
by Elizabeth Hale, Julie Karen, Perry Robins
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
The Handbook of Dermatologic Surgery incorporates the most cutting edge technology applicable to dermatologists and dermatologic surgeons today. Designed as a reference guide for dermatologic surgery and aesthetic procedures, it disseminates key scientific information in an easy-to-use pocket book.
This...