China's rise from the poverty, isolation and stagnation of the 1970s to the world's second largest economy is a transformative event perhaps unequalled in human history. The world today pays more attention to China, looks to it with more admiration than perhaps any other time. Yet, this rise also hides many deep-rooted problems and competing ideologies. Economically, socially and politically China has transformed itself but there is much that remains uncertain. This book aims to give an insight into China by exploring everyday life for her citizens, in their own voices. Providing both an overview of the political situation and context in China with ethnographic insights, The Politics of Everyday China aims to give both the new student of China and those who have encountered the subject before an insight that goes beyond the usual cliche and surface description. -- .

How can apps be used to foster learning with literacy across the curriculum? This book offers both a theoretical framework for considering app affordances and practical ways to use apps to build students disciplinary literacies and to foster a wide range of literacy practices.

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Using Apps for Learning Across the Curriculum

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• presents a wide range of different apps and also assesses their value
• features methods for and apps related to planning instruction and assessing student learning
• identifies favorite apps whose affordances are most likely to foster certain disciplinary literacies
• includes resources and apps for professional development
• provides examples of student learning in the classroom

A website (www.usingipads.pbworks.com) with resources for teaching and further reading for each chapter, a link to a blog for continuing conversations about topics in the book (appsforlearningliteracies.com), and more enhance the usefulness of the book."

How can apps be used to foster learning with literacy across the curriculum? This book offers both a theoretical framework for considering app affordances and practical ways to use apps to build students disciplinary literacies and to foster a wide range of literacy practices.

"

Using Apps for Learning Across the Curriculum

• "
• presents a wide range of different apps and also assesses their value
• features methods for and apps related to planning instruction and assessing student learning
• identifies favorite apps whose affordances are most likely to foster certain disciplinary literacies
• includes resources and apps for professional development
• provides examples of student learning in the classroom

A website (www.usingipads.pbworks.com) with resources for teaching and further reading for each chapter, a link to a blog for continuing conversations about topics in the book (appsforlearningliteracies.com), and more enhance the usefulness of the book."

This title was first published in 2000: Using micro-level data, this text shows that rural Russian households have made significant adaptations to an emerging market economy in just a few years. It focuses on how household capital (household labour, social networks and comunity attachment) effect the economic and psychological adaptation of households to rapid socioeconomic change. Findings are from 1995 to 1997 panel surveys made in three waves. The book deals systematically with micro-level processes of household adaptation to a market economy, institutional change and emerging informal and formal patterns of land tenure and use in Russia. It shows how structural changes are occurring in rural Russia and their impact on household enterprise development and income. Difference in household capital explains the emergence of inequality in the countryside and differences in the degree to which households experience stress and a higher or lower subjective quality of life.

This title was first published in 2000: Using micro-level data, this text shows that rural Russian households have made significant adaptations to an emerging market economy in just a few years. It focuses on how household capital (household labour, social networks and comunity attachment) effect the economic and psychological adaptation of households to rapid socioeconomic change. Findings are from 1995 to 1997 panel surveys made in three waves. The book deals systematically with micro-level processes of household adaptation to a market economy, institutional change and emerging informal and formal patterns of land tenure and use in Russia. It shows how structural changes are occurring in rural Russia and their impact on household enterprise development and income. Difference in household capital explains the emergence of inequality in the countryside and differences in the degree to which households experience stress and a higher or lower subjective quality of life.

In one of the only works drawing on interviews with both Uyghurs and Han in Xinjiang, China, and postcolonial perspectives on ethnicity, nation, and race, this book explores how forms of banal racism underpin ideas of self and other, assimilation and modernisation, in this restive region. Significant international attention has condemned the CCP's use of forced internment in 're-education' camps, as well as its campaign of cultural assimilation. In this wider context, this book focuses upon the ways in which ethnic difference is writ through the banalities of everyday life: who one trusts, what one eats, where one shops, even what time one's clocks are set to (Xinjiang being perhaps one of the only places where different ethnic groups live by different time-zones). Alongside chapters focusing upon the coercive 're-education' campaign, and the devastating UErumchi Riots in 2009, this book also unpacks how discourses of Chinese nationalism romanticise empire and promote racialised ways of thinking about Chineseness, how cultural assimilation ('Sinicisation') is being justified through the rhetoric of 'modernisation', how Islamic sites and Uyghur culture are being secularised and commodified for tourist consumption. We also explore Uyghur and Han perspectives, including of each other, giving insight into the diversity of opinions within both groups. Based on many years of living and working in China, and fieldwork and interviews specifically in Xinjiang, this book will be valuable to a variety of readers interested in the region and Uyghur and Han identity, ethnic/national identities in contemporary China, and racisms in non-western contexts.

This edited volume brings together a wide range of academics to engage with inter-disciplinary research perspectives in response to the development of The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which opens unparalleled opportunities to gain access to new markets in Asia, Europe and Africa. The collection examines opportunities offered in key areas such as trade and investment, policy coordination, facilities connectivity and cultural exchange. It also notably considers how the historical, environmental, cultural and political background to the BRI impacts this hugely ambitious plan which has been described as the 'new Silk Road', as well as the challenges across these spheres in a part of the world which has witnessed much instability historically. Chapter "Between Adoption and Resistance. China's Efforts of 'Understanding the West,' the Challenges of Transforming Monarchical Legitimacy, and the Rise of Oriental Exceptionalism, 1860-1910" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Come join Straw and Calfee as they spin a tale to three equestrians who are down on their luck looking for some advice on how to look good despite going through a hard time. What happens when the future King of Warwick finds out he has no balance? It is a physical challenge of an enchanting kind as King Port Jervis and Queen Brewster are faced with adversity when Prince Emerson is born with a curse from the Old Salem Witch that leaves the heir to the throne without the proper power to walk like everybody else. As the towns people and Lord Winslow search for answers this light hearted text comforts the reader with a educational message that reads like wisdom from a real good friend.

The Camino Will Provide - Learning To Trust the Universe is one man's journey of body, mind and spirit. The adventure begins with a valiant leap of faith, as the author, David O'Brien, heeds the final words of a dear friend "Follow your heart... life is brief" and embarks on a 500-mile walking pilgrimage across Spain. Feeling that his comfortable life in Alaska no longer nourishes his heart, Dave is drawn to celebrate the 40 days flanking his 50th birthday walking The Way of St. James, most commonly known as El Camino, a 775 kilometer(500 mile) route that has been walked by millions over the centuries in search of a second chance at life. The pages erupt with physical, mental and spiritual challenges as Dave mingles with his fellow travelers, wrestles with his boots and blisters while learning to listen to his own rhythm and inner guidance. Endless questions accompany his daily treks: Where should I stay the night? How far can I realistically go today? Where will my next meal come from? Will my money hold out? What items really warrant their weight to be carried all this way on my aching back? Why in the world would I embark on such a journey without being in better shape? What is the best way to lace my hiking boots? Does "lancing" blisters really work? Where does that last ounce of strength come from to keep going when physical exhaustion threatens to deflate my ability to go on? Why have I not "settled down"? Why am I doing this? Not really knowing how he would take to a 40-day, 500-mile sojourn, Dave brought 50 unopened letters containing words of wisdom submitted by his friends and family. The serendipity and inspiration of reading these quotes and messages from his loved ones never ceases to encourage (and amaze) Dave as he perseveres toward his goal of attending the Pilgrim's Mass in the Cathedral of Santiago, marking the completion of this long, arduous journey. Fellow "pilgrims" (as those who walk the Way of St. James are called) become forever etched in Dave's heart as they share miles of challenges, triumphs, meals and accommodations. Jacques, a retired French college professor, rescues Dave on Day One when he finds him lost after only 200 yards on the trail. Rodney and Gordon, a couple of Aussies, one 60 something and the other 70 something, who carry 50-pound packs, regularly inspire and embarrass Dave when he has trouble keeping up. By the time he enters the final stretch, Dave's "gaggle" of friends has grown to also include Sasha, Clarey, Carole, Jerome, and Graham, each of whom added another significant thread to the rich mosaic that became his 50th birthday celebration. Emerging from the Camino's end, Dave's heart and soul found the nourishment and meaning he set off in search of. The Camino will Provide- Learning to trust the universe allows adventurers of all walks a glimpse into this simple yet miraculous journey through the sharing of Dave's Camino journals. By walking alongside Dave every step of the way, readers are heartened as they are reminded of the power of sheer faith, kindness and perseverance.

Notions of civilization and barbarism were intrinsic to Eugene Delacroix's artistic practice: he wrote regularly about these concepts in his journal, and the tensions between the two were the subject of numerous paintings, including his most ambitious mural project, the ceiling of the Library of the Chamber of Deputies in the Palais Bourbon. Exiled in Modernity delves deeply into these themes, revealing why Delacroix's disillusionment with modernity increasingly led him to seek spiritual release or epiphany in the sensual qualities of painting. While civilization implied a degree of control and the constraint of natural impulses for Delacroix, barbarism evoked something uncontrolled and impulsive. Seeing himself as part of a grand tradition extending back to ancient Greece, Delacroix was profoundly aware of the wealth and power that set nineteenth-century Europe apart from the rest of the world. Yet he was fascinated by civilization's chaotic underbelly. In analyzing Delacroix's art and prose, David O'Brien illuminates the artist's effort to reconcile the erudite, tradition-bound aspects of painting with a desire to reach viewers in a more direct, unrestrained manner. Focusing chiefly on Delacroix's musings about civilization in his famous journal, his major mural projects on the theme of civilization, and the place of civilization in his paintings of North Africa and of animals, O'Brien links Delacroix's increasingly pessimistic view of modernity to his desire to use his art to provide access to a more fulfilling experience. With more than one hundred illustrations, this original, astute analysis of Delacroix and his work explains why he became an inspiration for modernist painters over the half-century following his death. Art historians and scholars of modernism especially will find great value in O'Brien's work.