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Borderland Memories

Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China

by Martin T. Fromm ...

Series series Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
In the 1980s, as China transitioned to the post-Mao era, a state-sponsored oral history project led to the publication of local, regional, and national histories. They took the form of written and transcribed personal testimonies of events that preceded the turmoil of both the Cultural Revolution and, in many cases, the Communist victory in 1949. Known as wenshi ziliao, these publications ... Read more

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In the 1980s, as China transitioned to the post-Mao era, a state-sponsored oral history project led to the publication of local, regional, and national histories. They took the form of written and transcribed personal testimonies of events that preceded the turmoil of both the Cultural Revolution and, in many cases, the Communist victory in 1949. Known as wenshi ziliao, these publications
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Drug Transporters

Edited by Martin F. Fromm, Richard B. Kim ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
It is increasingly recognized that various transporter proteins are expressed throughout the body and determine absorption, tissue distribution, biliary and renal elimination of endogenous compounds and drugs and drug effects. This book will give an overview on the transporter families which are most important for drug therapy. Most chapters will focus on one transporter family highlighting tissue ... Read more

$287.09 USD

It is increasingly recognized that various transporter proteins are expressed throughout the body and determine absorption, tissue distribution, biliary and renal elimination of endogenous compounds and drugs and drug effects. This book will give an overview on the transporter families which are most important for drug therapy. Most chapters will focus on one transporter family highlighting tissue
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Imagining the Jewish God

by Leonard Kaplan, Ken Koltun-Fromm, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Jonathan Boyarin, Zachary Braiterman, Laynie Browne, Michael Castro, James Chapson0, Alison Creighton1, Marcia Falk2, Norman Finkelstein3, Lewis Freedman4, Jeff Friedman5, Lenn Goodman6, Susan Handelman7, Michael Heller8, Jack Hirschman9, Leonard V. Kaplan0, Shaul Magid1, Michael Marmur2, David Novak3, Randi Rashkover4, Noam Reisner5, Jerome Rothenberg6, Jonathan Wyn Schofer7, Howard Schwartz8, Bill Sherman9, Benjamin Sommer0, Gerald Stern1, Rabbi Rebecca Alpert2, Martin Kavka3, Jay Michaelson4, Alicia Ostriker5, Kenneth Seeskin6 ...

Series series Graven Images
Jewish art has always been with us, but so has a broader canvas of Jewish imaginings: in thought, in emotion, in text, and in ritual practice. Imagining the Jewish God was there in the beginning, as it were, engraved and embedded in the ways Jews lived and responded to their God.This book attempts to give voice to these diverse imaginings of the Jewish God, and offers these collected essays and ... Read more

$153.99 USD

Jewish art has always been with us, but so has a broader canvas of Jewish imaginings: in thought, in emotion, in text, and in ritual practice. Imagining the Jewish God was there in the beginning, as it were, engraved and embedded in the ways Jews lived and responded to their God.This book attempts to give voice to these diverse imaginings of the Jewish God, and offers these collected essays and
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Understanding and fostering soil carbon sequestration

by Dr C. Rumpel, Prof Ingrid Kӧgel-Knabner, Dr Martin Wiesmeier, Dr Stefanie Mayer, Prof Xiaojuan Feng, Prof Patrick Lavelle, Prof Sebastian Doetterl, Dr Rose Abramoff, Dr Jean-Thomas Cornelis, Dr Aline Frossard0, Dr Peter Fiener1, Dr Gina Garland2, Dr Michael Kaiser3, Dr Moritz Laub4, Dr Sophie Opfergelt5, Dr Marijn Van de Broek6, Dr Sarah van den Broek7, Dr Sophie F. von Fromm8, Dr Beverley Henry9, Dr C. Chenu0, Dr F. Amiraslani1, Dr Kazem Zamanian2, Prof Yakov Kuzyakov3, Prof Muhammad Sanaullah4, Dr T. Afzal5, Dr T. Shahzad6, Dr María de la Luz Mora7, Dr Jorge Medina8, Dr Patricia Poblete-Grant9, Dr Rolando Demanet0, Dr Paola Durán1, Dr Patricio Barra2, Dr Cecilia Paredes3, Dr Marcela Calabi-Floody4, Dr Matthias Kuhnert5, Dr Pete Smith6, Dr Christopher Poeplau7, Dr Edward Gregorich8, Dr Amin Sharififar9, Prof Budiman Minasny0, Dr Carlos A. Sierra1, Dr Susan E. Crow2, Dr Matt Aitkenhead3, Prof Rattan Lal4, Prof Thomas Kätterer5, Dr Martin A. Bolinder6, Dr Hyeon Ji Song7, Dr Pil Joo Kim8, Dr Abad Chabbi9, Dr K. Klumpp0, Dr Alan Franzluebbers1, Dr Andreas Schindlbacher2, Dr Mathias Mayer3, Dr Robert Jandl4, Dr Stephan Zimmermann5, Dr Frank Hagedorn6, Prof Lydie Stella Koutika7, Dr Nicolas Marron8, Dr Rémi Cardinael9, Dr Sonja Paul0, Dr Jens Leifeld1, Dr Deborah Dick2, Dr Cimélio Bayer3, Dr Jeferson Dieckow4, Dr Inigo Virto5, Dr Isabel de Soto6, Dr Rodrigo Antón7, Dr Rosa M. Poch8, Dr J.-C. Lata9, Dr C. Marques-dos-Santos Cordovil0, Dr E. Nartey1, Dr C. Staudhammer2, Dr E. Yeboah3, Dr Luca Montanarella4, Dr Ram Dalal5, Dr Matthew Tom Harrison6, Dr Brian Keating7, Prof Siân Mooney8, Dr Kathryn Janoski9, Dr Carmen M. Ugarte0, Dr Alexandra Langlais-Hesse1, Professor Michelle M. Wander2, Dr Abdul Wakeel3, Dr Sylvia Vetter4 ...

Series Book 121 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Highlights the increasing role of soils as an important and dynamic part of the global carbon cycle and their potential role in counteracting increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrationsExplores key aspects of soil carbon sequestration in different environments and soil typesProvides a comprehensive review of socioeconomic, legal and policy issues surrounding the adoption of soil carbon sequestration ... Read more

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Highlights the increasing role of soils as an important and dynamic part of the global carbon cycle and their potential role in counteracting increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrationsExplores key aspects of soil carbon sequestration in different environments and soil typesProvides a comprehensive review of socioeconomic, legal and policy issues surrounding the adoption of soil carbon sequestration
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A Bitter Revolution : China's struggle with the modern world

China's Struggle with the Modern World

by Rana Mitter ...

Series series Making of the Modern World
China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world. Mitter takes us through the resulting social turmoil and political promise, the devastating war ... Read more

$21.99 USD

China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world. Mitter takes us through the resulting social turmoil and political promise, the devastating war
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China's Leaders

From Mao to Now

by David Shambaugh ...

Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China over 70 years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping. Under their leaderships, China has undergone an extraordinary transformation from an undeveloped and insular country to a comprehensive world power ... Read more

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Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China over 70 years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping. Under their leaderships, China has undergone an extraordinary transformation from an undeveloped and insular country to a comprehensive world power
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Never Forget National Humiliation

Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations

by Zheng Wang ...

Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
How could the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) not only survive but even thrive, regaining the support of many Chinese citizens after the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989? Why has popular sentiment turned toward anti-Western nationalism despite the anti-dictatorship democratic movements of the 1980s? And why has China been more assertive toward the United States and Japan in foreign policy but ... Read more

$28.99 USD

How could the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) not only survive but even thrive, regaining the support of many Chinese citizens after the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989? Why has popular sentiment turned toward anti-Western nationalism despite the anti-dictatorship democratic movements of the 1980s? And why has China been more assertive toward the United States and Japan in foreign policy but
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Never Turn Back

China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s

by Julian Gewirtz ...

A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearA BBC History Magazine Best Book of the Year“Excellent…A fascinating, authoritative account of the paths for China’s future explored during a decade long buried by official, state-sponsored history.”—Julia Lovell, Foreign Policy“A vivid and readable account…Exceptionally well-researched.” —Andrew Nathan, Foreign Affairs"The definitive book on China in the ... Read more

$16.99 USD

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A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearA BBC History Magazine Best Book of the Year“Excellent…A fascinating, authoritative account of the paths for China’s future explored during a decade long buried by official, state-sponsored history.”—Julia Lovell, Foreign Policy“A vivid and readable account…Exceptionally well-researched.” —Andrew Nathan, Foreign Affairs"The definitive book on China in the
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China's New Red Guards

The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong

by Jude Blanchette ...

Ever since Deng Xiaoping effectively de-radicalized China in the 1980s, there have been many debates about which path China would follow. Would it democratize? Would it embrace capitalism? Would the Communist Party's rule be able to withstand the adoption and spread of the Internet? One debate that did not occur in any serious way, however, was whether Mao Zedong would make a political comeback. ... Read more

$14.29 USD

Ever since Deng Xiaoping effectively de-radicalized China in the 1980s, there have been many debates about which path China would follow. Would it democratize? Would it embrace capitalism? Would the Communist Party's rule be able to withstand the adoption and spread of the Internet? One debate that did not occur in any serious way, however, was whether Mao Zedong would make a political comeback.
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Maoism and the Chinese Revolution

A Critical Introduction

by Elliott Liu ...

Series series Revolutionary Pocketbooks
The Chinese Revolution changed the face of the twentieth century, and the politics that issued from it—often referred to as “Maoism”—resonated with colonized and oppressed people from the 1970s down to the anticapitalist movements of today. But how did these politics first emerge? And what do they offer activists today, who seek to transform capitalist society at its very foundations?Maoism and ... Read more

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The Chinese Revolution changed the face of the twentieth century, and the politics that issued from it—often referred to as “Maoism”—resonated with colonized and oppressed people from the 1970s down to the anticapitalist movements of today. But how did these politics first emerge? And what do they offer activists today, who seek to transform capitalist society at its very foundations?Maoism and
... Read more
Youth Politics in Putin's Russia

Producing Patriots and Entrepreneurs

by Julie Hemment ...

Series series New Anthropologies of Europe
Julie Hemment provides a fresh perspective on the controversial nationalist youth projects that have proliferated in Russia in the Putin era, examining them from the point of view of their participants and offering provocative insights into their origins and significance. The pro-Kremlin organization Nashi ("Ours") and other state-run initiatives to mobilize Russian youth have been widely reviled ... Read more

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Julie Hemment provides a fresh perspective on the controversial nationalist youth projects that have proliferated in Russia in the Putin era, examining them from the point of view of their participants and offering provocative insights into their origins and significance. The pro-Kremlin organization Nashi ("Ours") and other state-run initiatives to mobilize Russian youth have been widely reviled
... Read more
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture

Edited by Kam Louie ...

Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
At the start of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. Understanding its culture is more important than ever before for western audiences, but for many, China remains a mysterious and exotic country. This Companion explains key aspects of modern Chinese culture without assuming prior knowledge of China or the Chinese language. The volume acknowledges the ... Read more

$33.99 USD

At the start of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. Understanding its culture is more important than ever before for western audiences, but for many, China remains a mysterious and exotic country. This Companion explains key aspects of modern Chinese culture without assuming prior knowledge of China or the Chinese language. The volume acknowledges the
... Read more

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