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As China strengthens its links with its neighbours through its Belt
and Road initiative, there is growing interest in the indigenous
peoples of China's western and southwestern borderlands. This book,
based on extensive original research, considers the indigenous
peoples of Yunnan province, which is a major gateway between China
and the countries of south and south-east Asia. Unlike many books
on China's indigenous peoples which are written by foreigners who
have lived for a while in China, this book is comprised of the work
of Chinese scholars, many of them members of ethnic minorities
themselves, and considers the issues from a Chinese perspective.
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Gospel's Story (Hardcover)
Gary Best; Illustrated by Leah Heming
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One of the most enduring images of John Wesley, the founder of
Methodism, is astride his horse as he travelled the country to
spread the word of the gospel. But what about the horse? Methodist
historian and Warden of the New Room in Bristol has named the horse
Gospel and told the story of Wesley's preaching through Gospel's
eye.This children's book (ages3-8) is beautifully illustrated by
Leah Heming and tells the story of some of the key places and
events in Wesley's mission including his sermon on the beach at St
Ives, his hostile reception in Salisbury and the riot that greeted
Wesley in Wednesbury, Staffordshire, his visit to Oxford University
and Newgate Prison.Gospel's Story is the third title on the new
Room Publications imprint of Tangent Books. Other titlesJohn
Cennick The Forgotten Evangelist (9781910089477)A Tragedy of
Errors: The Story of Grace Murray (9781910089378)
A Sociolinguistic History of British English Lexicography traces
the evolution of British English dictionaries from their earliest
roots to the end of the 20th century by adopting both
sociolinguistic and lexicographical perspectives. It attempts to
break out of the limits of the dictionary-ontology paradigm and set
British English dictionary-making and research against a broader
background of socio-cultural observations, thus relating the
development of English lexicography to changes in English,
accomplishments in English linguistics, social and cultural
progress, and advances in science and technology. It unfolds a
vivid, coherent and complete picture of how English
dictionary-making develops from its archetype to the prescriptive,
the historical, the descriptive and finally to the cognitive model,
how it interrelates to the course of the development of a nation's
culture and the historical growth of its lexicographical culture,
as well as how English lexicography spreads from British English to
other major regional varieties through inheritance, innovation and
self-perfection. This volume will be of interest to students and
academics of English lexicography, English linguistics and world
English lexicography.
This monograph provides a coherent and systematic explanation of
China's regional economic development from the perspective of
regional government competition. It gives an almost unknown
exposition of the mechanisms of China's regional economic
development, with numerous supporting cases drawn from both China
and elsewhere. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone
interested to learn more particularly the development and
transformation of China's regional economy from both the Chinese
and global perspectives.
As China strengthens its links with its neighbours through its Belt
and Road initiative, there is growing interest in the indigenous
peoples of China's western and southwestern borderlands. This book,
based on extensive original research, considers the indigenous
peoples of Yunnan province, which is a major gateway between China
and the countries of south and south-east Asia. Unlike many books
on China's indigenous peoples which are written by foreigners who
have lived for a while in China, this book is comprised of the work
of Chinese scholars, many of them members of ethnic minorities
themselves, and considers the issues from a Chinese perspective.
This monograph provides a coherent and systematic explanation of
China's regional economic development from the perspective of
regional government competition. It gives an almost unknown
exposition of the mechanisms of China's regional economic
development, with numerous supporting cases drawn from both China
and elsewhere. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone
interested to learn more particularly the development and
transformation of China's regional economy from both the Chinese
and global perspectives.
Data Science in Engineering, Volume 9:Â Â Proceedings of
the 40th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on
Structural Dynamics, 2022, the nineth volume of nine from the
Conference brings together contributions to this important area of
research and engineering.  The collection presents
early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects
of Data Science in Engineering, including papers on: Novel
Data-driven Analysis Methods Deep Learning Gaussian Process
Analysis Real-time Video-based Analysis Applications to Nonlinear
Dynamics and Damage Detection High-rate Structural Monitoring and
Prognostics
"National finance" is a new concept launched by the author in his
book National Finance A Chinese Perspective, a unique monograph
that differs from other financial publications dealing with general
topics in public finance. The monograph intends to provide a full,
well-developed and macro-level exposition of all major aspects of
finance from the perspective of the central government, with focus
laid on the most essential, immediate and intricate issues in
national financial development, which are the "hard nuts" that have
to be cracked on both central and regional levels and on the fronts
of both offshore and onshore finance. It attempts to cope with a
series of formidable challenges that a country, particularly its
top government officials, must take in developing finance: how
national finance should develop and overtake in the face of rising
financial industries, how it should respond to the influx of
AI+blockchain technologies, how a country guards against and copes
with systematic or regional financial risks with security, fluidity
and profitability serving as its cornerstones, how it can build up
and promote the new international financial system and governance
amid international financial powers around the world, and so on.
"National finance" is a new concept launched by the author in his
book National Finance A Chinese Perspective, a unique monograph
that differs from other financial publications dealing with general
topics in public finance. The monograph intends to provide a full,
well-developed and macro-level exposition of all major aspects of
finance from the perspective of the central government, with focus
laid on the most essential, immediate and intricate issues in
national financial development, which are the "hard nuts" that have
to be cracked on both central and regional levels and on the fronts
of both offshore and onshore finance. It attempts to cope with a
series of formidable challenges that a country, particularly its
top government officials, must take in developing finance: how
national finance should develop and overtake in the face of rising
financial industries, how it should respond to the influx of
AI+blockchain technologies, how a country guards against and copes
with systematic or regional financial risks with security, fluidity
and profitability serving as its cornerstones, how it can build up
and promote the new international financial system and governance
amid international financial powers around the world, and so on.
New essays exploring the tension between the versions of the past
in secret police files and the subjects' own personal memories-and
creative workings-through-of events. The communist secret police
services of Central and Eastern Europe kept detailed records not
only of their victims but also of the vast networks of informants
and collaborators upon whom their totalitarian systems depended.
Theserecords, now open to the public in many former Eastern Bloc
countries, reflect a textually mediated reality that has defined
and shaped the lives of former victims and informers, creating a
tension between official records and personal memories. Exploring
this tension between a textually and technically mediated past and
the subject/victim's reclaiming and retrospective interpretation of
that past in biography is the goal of this volume. While victims'
secret police files have often been examined as a type of
unauthorized archival life writing, the contributors to this volume
are among the first to analyze the fragmentary and sometimes
remedial nature of these biographies and to examine the
subject/victims' rewriting and remediation of them in various
creative forms. Essays focus, variously, on the files of the East
German Stasi, the Romanian Securitate (in relation to Transylvanian
Germans in Romania), andthe Hungarian State Security Agency.
Contributors: Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Ulrike Garde, Valentina
Glajar, Yuliya Komska, Alison Lewis, Corina L. Petrescu, Annie
Ring, Aniko Szucs. Valentina Glajar is Professor of German at Texas
State University, San Marcos. Alison Lewis is Professor of German
in the School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of
Melbourne, Australia. Corina L. Petrescu is Associate Professor of
Germanat the University of Mississippi.
New essays by leading scholars examining today's vibrant and
innovative German crime fiction, along with its historical
background. Although George Bernard Shaw quipped that "the Germans
lack talent for two things: revolution and crime novels," there is
a long tradition of German crime fiction; it simply hasn't aligned
itself with international trends. Duringthe 1920s, German-language
writers dispensed with the detective and focused instead on
criminals, a trend that did not take hold in other countries until
after 1945, by which time Germany had gone on to produce
antidetective novels that were similarly ahead of their time.
German crime fiction has thus always been a curious case; rather
than follow the established rules of the genre, it has always been
interested in examining, breaking, and ultimately rewriting those
rules. This book assembles leading international scholars to
examine today's German crime fiction. It features innovative
scholarly work that matches the innovativeness of the genre, taking
up the Regionalkrimi;crime fiction's reimagining and transforming
of traditional identities; historical crime fiction that examines
Germany's and Austria's conflicted twentieth-century past; and how
the newly vibrant Austrian crime fiction ties in with and
differentiates itself from its German counterpart. Contributors:
Angelika Baier, Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Kyle Frackman, Sascha
Gerhards, Heike Henderson, Susanne C. Knittel, Anita McChesney,
Traci S. O'Brien,Jon Sherman, Faye Stewart, Magdalena Waligorska.
Lynn M. Kutch is Professor of German at Kutztown University of
Pennsylvania. Todd Herzog is Professor and Head of the Department
of German Studies at the University of Cincinnati.
This SpringerBriefs is an overview of the emerging field of
wireless access and mobile network virtualization. It provides a
clear and relevant picture of the current virtualization trends in
wireless technologies by summarizing and comparing different
architectures, techniques and technologies applicable to a future
virtualized wireless network infrastructure. The readers are
exposed to a short walkthrough of the future Internet initiative
and network virtualization technologies in order to understand the
potential role of wireless virtualization in the broader context of
next-generation ubiquitous networks. Three main wireless
virtualization perspectives are explored, along with the potential
challenges and requirements of a sustainable wireless
virtualization framework. Finally, it presents an example of a
multi-perspective wireless virtualization framework. The readers
learn the latest concepts in the application of wireless
virtualization as well as its relationship with cutting-edge
wireless technologies such as software-defined radio (SDR) and
cognitive radio.
The sudden fall of the Berlin Wall is one of the defining images of
the late twentieth century. The subsequent unification of Germany
and the decision to return Berlin to its status as capital has made
the constant changes within the city a matter of public interest.
It also offered Berlin the opportunity to create a new image for
itself, one that can serve as a counterbalance to the politically
charged recent history of Berlin as the capital of Nazi Germany and
former East Berlin as the capital of the German Democratic
Republic. Poised between capitalist Western Europe and the former
communist powers in Eastern Europe, Berlin occupies a fascinating
geopolitical space. This anthology presents a unique glimpse into
the various constituencies that make up Berlin and that impact the
city's challenges and promises.
Data Science and Engineering Volume 9: Proceedings of the 39th
IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2021, the
ninth volume of nine from the Conference, brings together
contributions to this important area of research and engineering.
The collection presents early findings and case studies on
fundamental and applied aspects of Data Science in Engineering,
including papers on: Data Science in Engineering Applications
Engineering Mathematics Computational Methods in Engineering
This book offers the first comprehensive and systematic
introduction to the origins and development of China’s genealogy,
as well as its fundamental role in eugenics, ethics, politics and
culture throughout China’s history. This book is divided
into two parts: chronological research and thematic research. The
first part explains the definition, origin, birth, development,
transformation, optimization, popularization and contemporary
status of China’s genealogy, while the second addresses its
styles, content, quantity, family names, format and value,
illustrations, functions and other related issues. Â
The book, for the first time in China’s genealogy, proposes
several new concepts and perspectives, such as dividing the history
of China’s genealogy into seven stages; redefining genealogy; and
analyses of the transformation, popularization and value of
China’s genealogy. Given its scope, the book offers a
groundbreaking and authoritative resource for a broad readership.
New essays by leading scholars examining today's vibrant and
innovative German crime fiction, along with its historical
background. Although George Bernard Shaw quipped that "the Germans
lack talent for two things: revolution and crime novels," there is
a long tradition of German crime fiction; it simply hasn't aligned
itself with international trends. Duringthe 1920s, German-language
writers dispensed with the detective and focused instead on
criminals, a trend that did not take hold in other countries until
after 1945, by which time Germany had gone on to produce
antidetective novels that were similarly ahead of their time.
German crime fiction has thus always been a curious case; rather
than follow the established rules of the genre, it has always been
interested in examining, breaking, and ultimately rewriting those
rules. This book assembles leading international scholars to
examine today's German crime fiction. It features innovative
scholarly work that matches the innovativeness of the genre, taking
up the Regionalkrimi;crime fiction's reimagining and transforming
of traditional identities; historical crime fiction that examines
Germany's and Austria's conflicted twentieth-century past; and how
the newly vibrant Austrian crime fiction ties in with and
differentiates itself from its German counterpart. Contributors:
Angelika Baier, Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Kyle Frackman, Sascha
Gerhards, Heike Henderson, Susanne C. Knittel, Anita McChesney,
Traci S. O'Brien,Jon Sherman, Faye Stewart, Magdalena Waligorska.
Lynn M. Kutch is Professor of German at Kutztown University of
Pennsylvania. Todd Herzog is Professor and Head of the Department
of German Studies at the University of Cincinnati.
From the Gateway Books series - a series of interesting stories for
the slightly older child, with some adventure and each with a
Christian theme.It was the story of the Children's Crusade,
hundreds of years ago, that fired Joan and her friend Wendy with a
tremendous idea: why shouldn't they go on a crusade too ' Not a
fighting crusade to the Holy Land, like the long-ago time ones, of
course: just a day's crusading in their own neighbourhood, where
surely a lot of people would be glad to hear about God and His Son.
So, with Pluto the dog, they set off one bright morning. They met
with rebuffs and setbacks and disappointments, but they also found
people who were happy to listen, people who were lonely and afraid,
people who needed help; and when they returned home that evening,
they were tired but very happy, and in them both had sprung the
hope of becoming true missionaries one day.
Life scientists are increasingly drawn to the study of comparative
evolutionary biology. Insect Development and Evolution is the first
synthesis of knowledge of insect development within an evolutionary
framework and the first to survey the genetic, molecular, and whole
organism literature. Bruce S. Heming provides a detailed
introduction to the embryonic and postembryonic development of
insects. Topics include: * reproductive systems, * male and female
gametogenesis, * sperm transfer and use, * fertilization, * sex
determination, * parthenogenesis, * embryogenesis, *
postembryogenesis, * hormones, * and the role of ontogeny in insect
evolution.Summaries for each of these topics cover structural
events; comparative aspects (inserted on a phylogeny of the insect
orders); and hormonal, genetic, and molecular causal
analyses.Insect Development and Evolution treats examples
throughout the hexapods with frequent reference to the evolution
and development of other invertebrates. It also compares insects to
vertebrates and places insect development into context with fossil
evidence and earth history. Heming's book will become an essential
tool for students and teachers of entomology. It will also interest
insect systematists and paleontologists, insect behavioral
ecologists, insect pathologists, applied entomologists,
developmental and invertebrate biologists, and all scientists who
use Drosophila as a model
Vor dem Hintergrund eines stark zunehmenden Fach- und
Fuhrungskraftemangels bietet Jochen Heming einen Einblick in die
Thematik des Employer Brandings, welche die Entwicklung,
Positionierung, Umsetzung und Fuhrung einer Arbeitgebermarke
umfasst. Er entwickelt auf der Basis einer empirischen Erhebung
einen Leitfaden fur klein- und mittelstandische Unternehmen zur
Grundung einer Arbeitgebermarke, mit der sie sich auf dem
Arbeitsmarkt attraktiv gegenuber potentiellen Bewerbern und
bestehenden Mitarbeitern positionieren koennen.
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