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This book examines the introduction of Soviet socialist culture in the People’s Republic of China, with a focus on the period of Sino-Soviet friendship in the 1950s. The vast state initiative to transplant Soviet culture into Chinese soil has conventionally been dismissed as a tool of propaganda...

Asian/Americans, Education, and Crime: The Model Minority as Victim and Perpetrator analyzes Asian/Americans’ interactions with the U.S. criminal justice system as perpetrators and victims of crime. This book contributes to a limited amount of scholarly writing so that researchers, policymakers,...

With this innovative text, the study-and teaching- of probability and random signals becomes simpler, more streamlined, and more effective. Its unique "textgraph" format makes it both student-friendly and instructor-friendly. Pages with a larger typeface form a concise text for basic topics...

Based on the authors’ over 30 years of practical research experience, this book shows how situation curriculum design illustrates the new idea of “combining subject curricula with children’s activities.” Particular attention is given to the subject curriculum, activity curriculum and the optimization...

This book discusses situational instruction – a topic that is particularly relevant to Chinese language teaching and learning – in the context of research in the field. Employing real-world classroom case studies, it focuses on contextualized literacy, reading and writing. It also includes the...

China is a multiethnic country with vast territory, a land of diverse ecosystems. With the drive for industrialization in China and the implementation of 'western grand development' strategy in western regions, both governments and people face great challenges in environmental protection and sustainable...

Since the end of the Cold War, the new Chinese leadership generation has had to promulgate new guiding principles for handling global diplomacy which acknowledges China's new position. Given the dramatic changes in the international system and its domestic economic success for the growing 'China's...

Unfolding in the tense years of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Trees Without Wind takes place in a remote Shanxi village in which a rare affliction has left the residents physically stunted. Director Liu, an older revolutionary and local commune head, becomes embroiled in a power struggle...

This book is a rare glimpse into the lives of real women who have endured betrayal and pain from unfaithful spouses or parents. While not holding back the agony of their rejection as they grieve over the loss of a relationship, these stories also testify of how God brought His love, comfort and healing to those whose husbands and families have failed them.

The genetic engineering of food crops is an ecological hazard and health crisis that affects us all. Its consequences are global and potentially irrevocable. Yet the decision to use genetically modified organisms is currently being made for you by the government and major multinational corporations....

We generate and draw stuff (energies, emotions, thought-forms, etc...) to us every day, and our physical body holds the total sum of everything we as individuals have ever experienced from any and all lifetimes. The more stuff we hold in our body, the greater chance there is for energy waves...

Chef-d’œuvre prestigieux, « La Flûte Enchantée » de Mozart présente cette particularité d’être un des opéras les plus joués au monde alors que chacun s’accorde à en déclarer le sujet tantôt dénué de sens, tantôt rigoureusement incompréhensible. Partant de l’analyse musicale...

Quelles furent les causes du dérapage militaire et totalitaire des années 1914-1945 ? Comment expliquer le succès du marxisme au XXe siècle ? Doit-on toujours craindre la croissance de l’État et le totalitarisme ? Ou peut-on, au contraire, accepter sans terreur un nouveau développement...

Ses adversaires ont raillé le « complexe du martyre » de Wilson, son « désir inconscient d’être Jésus-Christ trahi » (Freud). Mais le président américain fut d’abord un combattant au service d’une cause : la sécurité collective. Treize ans plus tard, dans une Europe « d’empires...