Mei: 169 books
by Markus Cremer, Melanie Vogltanz, Luisa Meißner
Language: German
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Katzen auf geheimer Mission, Hitlerklone und die Area 51. Aleister Crowley, Organraub und der Slenderman. Urbane Legenden und Verschwörungstheorien werden erzählt, hinterfragt, geglaubt – und manchmal verändert. Wie lautet die Wahrheit und welche Geschichten werden nur als solche verkauft? Keilschrifttafeln...
Global Health and Sustainable Development Architecture
Inclusive Dialogue, Partnerships, and Community Capital
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
In Global Health and Sustainable Development Architecture, Wang discusses the convergence of such problems as financial crisis, water, food and energy shortage, earthquakes and disasters, epidemics and pandemics, wars and nuclear threats. 'What is wrong with our development model?' 'What is the solution?'...
by Claudia Ms. Dziobek, Mei Mr. Jin
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Monthly economic statistical bulletins issued by central banks and national statistical offices, the focus of this study, are well established in countries with advanced statistical systems. Such bulletins present a synopsis of current economic trends and cater to a broad group of users involved in policy,...
How to Become a Glass-unloading-equipment Tender
How to Become a Glass-unloading-equipment Tender
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
This publication will teach you the basics of how to become a Glass-unloading-equipment Tender. With step by step guides and instructions, you will not only have a better understanding, but gain valuable knowledge of how to become a Glass-unloading-equipm
Theory and Applications of Ocean Surface Waves
Part 1: Linear AspectsPart 2: Nonlinear Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
This book is an expanded version of The Applied Dynamics of Ocean Surface Waves. It presents theoretical topics on ocean wave dynamics, including basic principles and applications in coastal and offshore engineering as well as coastal oceanography. Advanced analytical and numerical techniques are...
Carrying a Torch
The Beijing Olympic Torch Relay in the British and Chinese Media
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The Olympic torch relay held before the 2008 Games was the moment when East met West on the media stage. This book analyses the torch relay and its representation, offering a discursive construction of Olympic ideology by and through the media in both East and West. The author argues that the discourse...
by Beau Bothwell, Daniel Guberman, Mei Han
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Tyranny and Music is an edited collection of essays that explore how musical artists respond to cruel or oppressive governments and ruling regimes. Its primary strength and unique quality lies in its diversity, presenting a postmodern collage of scholarship that reaches across the divides of classical,...
Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities, ‘Race' 1
Diasporas and Cultures of Migrations
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This volume examines the evolution of the concept of diaspora since the advent of Diaspora Studies in the 90s, specifically vis-à-vis other concepts: transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, creolization. The essays depict the discontinuities of diasporic experience, but also its ongoing negotiations....
Ideology, Power, Text
Self-Representation and the Peasant ‘Other’ in Modern Chinese Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
The division between the scholar-gentry class and the “people” was an enduring theme of the traditional Chinese agrarian-bureaucratic state. Twentieth-century elites recast this as a division between intellectuals and peasants and made the confrontation between the writing/intellectual self and...
Ethnic China
Identity, Assimilation, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
There are some serious concerns and critical questions about the on-going minority protesting in China, such as Tibetan monks’ self-immolations, Muslims’ suicide bombings, and Uyghur large-scale demonstrations. Why are minorities such as the Uyghur dissatisfied, when China is rising as a world...
Paul Ricoeur in the Age of Hermeneutical Reason
Poetics, Praxis, and Critique
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Poetics, Praxis and Critique: Paul Ricoeur in the Age of Hermeneutical Reason addresses contemporary problems of justice, the recognition of disabled persons, the role of imagination in political judgment, the need for religious hospitality and carnal hermeneutics. The essays in this volume are a...
Red Is Not the Only Color
Contemporary Chinese Fiction on Love and Sex between Women, Collected Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2001
The first English-language anthology of its kind, Red Is Not the Only Color offers a window into the uncharted terrain of intimate relations between Chinese women. As urban China has undergone rapid transformation, same-sex relations have emerged as a significant, if previously neglected, touchstone...
by Jennifer Ang Mei Sze
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2010
Based on the latest debate on Jean-Paul Sartre’s works on ethics and politics, this book examines the relevancy and importance Sartre holds for contemporary concerns – the reactionary nature of terrorism, the extremity of counter-violence, and limitations of democratization efforts in our post-9/11...
by Mei-Ying Sung
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Sung closely examines William Blake’s extant engraved copper plates and arrives at a new interpretation of his working process. Sung suggests that Blake revised and corrected his work more than was previously thought. This belies the Romantic ideal that the acts of conception and execution are simultaneous in the creative process.