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THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST
TIME. THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES
- 300 MILLION COPIES SOLD. "Jin Yong's work, in the
Chinese-speaking world, has a cultural currency roughly equal to
that of "Harry Potter" and "Star Wars" combined" New Yorker "If you
haven't read Jin Yong's work, you haven't yet fully experienced the
fantasy genre" FONDA LEE CHINA , 1237 A.D. Genghis Khan is dead.
The Mongolians, led by the conqueror's third son, Ogedai, have
vanquished the Jurchen Jin Empire, and now turn their armies on
their ally the Great Song Empire. A dozen years have passed since
the second Contest of Mount Hua. A new generation of martial
artists are vying for recognition in the jianghu, but as the fall
of their country looms closer, the making of a hero depends on more
than mere kung fu skills. A chance meeting with his father's sworn
brother Guo Jing lifts Penance Yang from a life of vagrancy and
initiates him into the martial world to which his parents Yang Kang
and Mercy Mu once belonged. Placed under the care of the Quanzhen
Sect at their base in the Zhongnan Mountains, Penance stumbles
across the mysterious history behind the founding of this most
respected martial school and embarks on a journey during that
forces him to come to terms with his family's past as well as
secrets of his own heart. Translated from the Chinese by Gigi Chang
THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST
TIME. THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES
- 300 MILLION COPIES SOLD. "Jin Yong's work, in the
Chinese-speaking world, has a cultural currency roughly equal to
that of "Harry Potter" and "Star Wars" combined" Nick Frisch, New
Yorker "Like every fairy tale you're ever loved, imbued with jokes
and epic grandeur. Prepare to be swept along." Jamie Buxton, Daily
Mail Guo Jing and Lotus have escaped Qiu Qianren's mountain
stronghold on the condors' backs, but Lotus carries a wound that
will surely kill her. Their only hope lies in the healing powers of
Duan, the King of the South. Little do they know that to seek an
audience with this mysterious figure will place him in mortal
danger himself. Meanwhile, many li away on Peach Blossom Island, a
plan has been hatched that could tear the two lovers apart for
good. And, with Moon Festival approaching, Guo Jing is honour bound
to take part in a long-awaited martial contest at the Tower of Mist
and Rain in Jiaxing. Yet the greatest threat to their happiness
stems from Guo Jing's past. He is still betrothed to Genghis Khan's
daughter. Rejoining the Mongol army could help him to avenge his
father - but it may force him to take the field against the
soldiers of his true homeland, splitting his heart and soul in two.
Translated from the Chinese by Gigi Chang and Shelly Bryant
THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST
TIME. THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES
- 300 MILLION COPIES SOLD. "Western fantasy has JRR Tolkien, but we
Asian fantasy authors have Jin Yong's stories in our DNA. The debt
we owe him is immeasurable" SHELLEY-PARKER CHAN "If you haven't
read Jin Yong's work, you haven't yet fully experienced the fantasy
genre" FONDA LEE CHINA , 1237 A.D. Genghis Khan is dead. The
Mongolians, led by the conqueror's third son, Ogedai, have
vanquished the Jurchen Jin Empire, and now turn their armies on
their ally the Great Song Empire. A dozen years have passed since
the second Contest of Mount Hua. A new generation of martial
artists are vying for recognition in the jianghu, but as the fall
of their country looms closer, the making of a hero depends on more
than mere kung fu skills. A chance meeting with his father's sworn
brother Guo Jing lifts Penance Yang from a life of vagrancy and
initiates him into the martial world to which his parents Yang Kang
and Mercy Mu once belonged. Placed under the care of the Quanzhen
Sect at their base in the Zhongnan Mountains, Penance stumbles
across the mysterious history behind the founding of this most
respected martial school and embarks on a journey that forces him
to come to terms with his family's past as well as the secrets of
his own heart. Translated from the Chinese by Gigi Chang
Inspired by the current political moment around the globe in which
uprisings, protests, revolutions, and movements are on the rise,
this book examines the intersections between the Bible and
activism. It does this by showcasing intersectional readings of the
Bible as an activist act and a tool for activism; historicizing the
uses of the Bible within activist/freedom movements around the
globe; and offering activist approaches to teaching the Bible. Each
chapter in this volume provides a critical and substantive response
from the discipline of Biblical Studies to global political trends.
International in scope, with contributors from Africa, Asia, the
Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, Oceania, South Africa, and the
United States, they address themes such as gender politics, racial
injustices, violence toward women, political resistance, and
activist hermeneutics and pedagogies. Together they harness the
intellectual energies of minoritized Biblical scholars in a
nonessentialist manner to reflect on the Bible as a tool for
liberating social and political change. Reflecting on the activist
potential of the Bible, this book will be of keen interest to
scholars in Biblical Studies, Political Theology, and Religious
Studies.
" Features of this text include " A cross-national analysis of
political party systems in 212 countries of the world. A
student-friendly introduction to political science methods
including regression analysis. Student research projects in the
text as well as additional Website materials."Party Systems and
Country Governance" focuses on party systems their variations
across the world and their effects on country governance. It is
also about the conceptualization and measurement of country
governance. In the language of research, party system traits are
the independent variables and country governance scores are the
dependent variables. According to the normative values of
democratic theory, the presence of competitive, aggregative, stable
systems of political parties contributes to better country
governance. International aid agencies have tended to accept the
normative theory, assuming its truth. As a result, they have spent
millions of dollars in efforts to develop competitive, aggregative,
stable party systems. This study translates the normative theory
into testable empirical theory. It provides evidence that largely,
but not completely, supports the assumptions of aid agencies. The
nature of a country s party system affects the quality of its
governance. To measure governance, the authors used the existing
World Bank Governance Indicators for 2007 on 212 countries. Using
Internet sources, they collected parliamentary party data for 189
countries after two elections: a stimulus election in the mid-2000s
and an adjacent referent election usually held prior to the
stimulus election. The authors identified fifteen additional
countries that did not hold elections for parliamentary parties and
eight countries that held nonpartisan elections, seating no
deputies by party. Together these 212 countries account for
virtually all the variations in party systems across the
world.Also, check out the website for "Party Systems" to see
student exercises and learn more about the book."
" Features of this text include " A cross-national analysis of
political party systems in 212 countries of the world. A
student-friendly introduction to political science methods
including regression analysis. Student research projects in the
text as well as additional Website materials."Party Systems and
Country Governance" focuses on party systems their variations
across the world and their effects on country governance. It is
also about the conceptualization and measurement of country
governance. In the language of research, party system traits are
the independent variables and country governance scores are the
dependent variables. According to the normative values of
democratic theory, the presence of competitive, aggregative, stable
systems of political parties contributes to better country
governance. International aid agencies have tended to accept the
normative theory, assuming its truth. As a result, they have spent
millions of dollars in efforts to develop competitive, aggregative,
stable party systems. This study translates the normative theory
into testable empirical theory. It provides evidence that largely,
but not completely, supports the assumptions of aid agencies. The
nature of a country s party system affects the quality of its
governance. To measure governance, the authors used the existing
World Bank Governance Indicators for 2007 on 212 countries. Using
Internet sources, they collected parliamentary party data for 189
countries after two elections: a stimulus election in the mid-2000s
and an adjacent referent election usually held prior to the
stimulus election. The authors identified fifteen additional
countries that did not hold elections for parliamentary parties and
eight countries that held nonpartisan elections, seating no
deputies by party. Together these 212 countries account for
virtually all the variations in party systems across the
world.Also, check out the website for "Party Systems" to see
student exercises and learn more about the book."
This book documents current knowledge on the mechanisms involved in
sports injuries to the shoulder and elbow, reviews essential
physical examinations, and explains the role of diagnostic imaging.
Above all, it describes in detail the treatment modalities that are
appropriate to the injuries encountered in throwing and overhead
athletes, including chronic repetitive and acute traumatic
injuries. Both conservative and surgical treatments are covered;
the author s own preferred operative techniques are identified and
explained, and helpful treatment algorithms offer guidance in
selecting an approach fitting to the circumstances. In addition,
the inclusion of instructive case reviews will assist readers in
achieving a full understanding of the implementation of treatment
protocols. Methods of rehabilitation are also described with the
aid of demonstration videos, and advice is provided on appropriate
timing. The book will be invaluable for all professionals who deal
with sports injuries of the shoulder and elbow, including surgeons,
physiotherapists, other medical practitioners, and trainers. "
THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST
TIME. THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES
- 100 MILLION COPIES SOLD. "Jin Yong's work, in the
Chinese-speaking world, has a cultural currency roughly equal to
that of "Harry Potter" and "Star Wars" combined" Nick Frisch, New
Yorker "Like every fairy tale you're ever loved, imbued with jokes
and epic grandeur. Prepare to be swept along." Jamie Buxton, Daily
Mail In the Jin capital of Zhongdu, Guo Jing learns the truth of
his father's death and finds he is now betrothed, against his will,
to two women. Neither of them is his sweetheart Lotus Huang. Torn
between following his heart and fulfilling his filial duty, he
journeys through the country of his parents with Lotus,
encountering mysterious martial heroes and becoming drawn into the
struggle for the supreme martial text, the Nine Yin Manual. But his
past is catching up with him. The widow of an evil man he
accidentally killed as a child has tracked him down, intent on
revenge. Meanwhile, his true parentage at last revealed, Yang Kang,
the young prince Guo Jing must face in the Garden of the Eight
Drunken Immortals, is forced to choose his destiny. Will he
continue to enjoy the life of wealth and privilege afforded to him
by the invader of his homeland, or give up all he has known to
avenge his parents? Translated from the Chinese by Gigi Chang
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Scripture and Resistance (Paperback)
Jione Havea; Foreword by Collin Cowan; Contributions by Graham J Adams, Rogelio Dario Barolin, Nancy Cardoso Pereira, …
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Resistance against unjust (wicked) cultures and imperial powers is
at the heart of scripture. In many cases, the resistance is waged
against external systems or the misappropriation of scriptural
texts and traditions. In some cases, however, scripture resists
oppressive cultures and powers that it also requires, certifies and
protects. At other times, and in different settings, the minders of
scripture speak against the abusive cultures and power systems that
they inherited and whose benefits they milk. Scripture and
Resistance contains reflections by authors from East, West, South,
and North - on resistance and the Christian scriptures regarding a
rainbow of concerns: the colonial legacies of the Bible; the people
(especially native and indigenous people) who were subjugated and
minoritized for the sake of the Bible; the courage for resistance
among ordinary and normal people, and the opportunities that arise
from their realities and struggles; the imperializing tendencies
that lurk behind so-called traditional biblical scholarship; the
strategies of and energies in post- and de-colonial criticisms; the
Bible as a profitable product, and a site of struggle; and the
multiple views or perspectives in the Bible about empire and
resistance. In other words, the contributors, as a collective,
affirm that the Bible contains (pun intended) resistance.
Threats of cyberattacks targeting the electric power grid have been
increasing in recent years. The consequence of cyber incidents on
the power grid includes equipment damage, cascading events,
large-scale power outages, and disruption of market functions.
Government and industry have made a significant effort to
strengthen the protection of the power infrastructure against cyber
threats by setting standards and guidelines. This survey paper
provides the basic concepts of cyber vulnerabilities of
distribution systems and cyber-physical system security. Important
ICT subjects for distribution systems covered in this paper include
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Distributed
Energy Resources (DERs), including renewable energy and smart
meters. This publication is intended to serve as a module in
senior-level undergraduate as well as graduate courses in power
engineering. The objective of this paper is to provide fundamental
concepts of cyber security for the distribution system as a
cyber-physical system. To meet the objective, vulnerabilities of
cyber intrusions and mitigation strategies are discussed. The
evolution of the ICT for the power grid and cyber security measures
are presented, as well as the ICT in the power system environment.
An overview of smart grid communication standards and protocols are
included, and the detection of cyber intrusions in distribution
systems are considered. Finally, simulation cases are provided.
Nonwhite women primarily appear as marginalized voices, if at all,
in volumes that address constructions of race/ethnicity and early
Christian texts and contexts. The contributors, who identify as
African American, Asian American, and Asian, analyze the
historical, literary, ideological construction of racial/ethnic
identities. In reading how identity is constructed in early
Christian texts, the contributors employ an intersectional
approach. Thus, they read how race/ethnicity overlaps or intersects
with gender/sexuality, class, religion, slavery, and/or power in
early Christian texts and contexts and in U.S. and global contexts,
historically and currently. Identity construction occurs in public
and private spaces and institutions including households, religious
assemblies/churches, and empire. While some studies discuss the
topic of race/ethnicity and employ intersectional approaches, this
book is the first volume that nonwhite women New Testament Bible
scholars have written. Given their small numbers in the academic
study of the Bible, this book gives voice to a critical mass of
nonwhite women scholars and offers a critique of dominant forms of
knowledge and knowledge production. The contributors provide
provocative, innovative, and critical cultural and ideological
insights into constructions of race/ethnicity in early Christianity
and contemporary contexts.
THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST
TIME. THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES
- 300 MILLION COPIES SOLD. "Jin Yong's work, in the
Chinese-speaking world, has a cultural currency roughly equal to
that of "Harry Potter" and "Star Wars" combined" Nick Frisch, New
Yorker "Like every fairy tale you're ever loved, imbued with jokes
and epic grandeur. Prepare to be swept along." Jamie Buxton, Daily
Mail China: 1200 A.D. Guo Jing has confronted Apothecary Huang, his
sweetheart Lotus' father, on Peach Blossom Island, and bested the
villainous Gallant Ouyang in three trials to win her hand in
marriage. But now, along with his sworn brother, Zhou Botong of the
Quanzhen Sect, and his shifu, Count Seven Hong, Chief of the Beggar
Clan, he has walked into a trap. Tricked by Huang into boarding a
unseaworthy barge, they will surely drown unless Lotus - who has
overheard her father's plans - can find a way to save them. Yet
even if they are to survive the voyage, great dangers lie in wait
on the mainland. The Jin Prince Wanyan Honglie has gathered a band
of unscrupulous warriors to aid him in his search for the lost
writings of the Great Song patriot General Yue Fei. If he is
successful, the Jin armies will gain the key to total victory over
the Song Empire, condemning Guo Jing's countrymen to centuries of
servitude. Translated from the Chinese by Anna Holmwood and Gigi
Chang
Jin Young Choi rereads discipleship in the Gospel of Mark from a
postcolonial feminist perspective, developing an Asian and Asian
American hermeneutics of phronesis. Colonized subjects perceive
Jesus' body as phantasmic. Discipleship means embodying the mystery
of this body while engaging with invisible, placeless and voiceless
others.
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Forensics in Telecommunications, Information and Multimedia - Third International ICST Conference, e-Forensics 2010, Shanghai, China, November 11-12, 2010, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
Xuejia Lai, Dawu Gu, Bo Jin, Yong Wang, Hui Li
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R1,567
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference
proceedings of the Third International ICST Conference on Forensic
Applications and Techniques in Telecommunications, Information and
Multimedia, E-Forensics 2010, held in Shanghai, China, in November
2010. The 32 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed
and selected from 42 submissions in total. These, along with 5
papers from a collocated workshop of E-Forensics Law, cover a wide
range of topics including digital evidence handling, data carving,
records tracing, device forensics, data tamper identification, and
mobile device locating.
The high prices of precious metals like platinum group metals
(PGM's) have ensured that there is continued interest in the
development of new extractants for the commercial concentration and
separation of these metals. The PGM's platinum, palladium, rhodium,
iridium, osmium and ruthenium together with silver, and gold
generally occur in nature with the major base metals like iron,
copper, nickel and cobalt and wide range of minor elements such as
lead, tellurium, selenium and arsenic and both technical and
commercial considerations demand that the indusial PGM's be
separated from the other metals and each other to high purity, with
high yield and with a high percentage recovery. Liquid- liquid
extraction (LLE), also called solvent extraction (SX), is a process
that allows the separation of two or more components due to their
unequal solubility's in two immiscible liquid phases. In LLE
processes, there are many cases both in analytical and industrial
chemistry where the main objective of separation is achieved by
extraction using a chemical extractant. In analytical and
separation science, this method enjoys a favored position among
separation techniques because of its simplicity.
BOOK DESCRIPTION The stories in this collection are written by
twelve Korean women writers whose experience, insight, and writing
skill make them truly representative of Korean fiction at its best.
"The Rooster" is a comical revelation of an old man who accepts the
truth that Man and Nature revolve around the same immutable natural
law. In "The Fragment," refugees who flee to Pusan during the
Korean War suffer the unspeakable squalor and despair when jammed
in a warehouse. "The Young Elm Tree" tells the story of a high
school girl who falls in love with the son of her mother's new
husband. What all these twelve writers share in common is a keen
eye that penetrates into the lives of Korean women from the early
part of the 20th century to the present. THE AUTHORS Authors
included fall into two groups-those born during the Japanese
occupation of Korea (1910-1945) and those born after 1945. All the
eight authors in the first group experienced the Second World War
in childhood and the Korean War as adults. They saw pain, hardship,
and death, but they observed courage, resilience, humor, and love
even in the most dire times. The four younger writers are active
creators of works that have won top literary awards. Their fresh
new look at life, their bold experimental style, and their
refreshing voices are a reflection of their generation. THE
TRANSLATOR Dr. Jin-Young Choi is Professor of English at Chung-Ang
University in Seoul. She has translated two novels, numerous short
stories and tales. Her Saturday columns in The Korea Herald were
collected into one volume form One Woman's Way. All of her
translated short stories were published in Korean Literature Today.
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The Book and the Sword (Paperback)
Louis Cha (Jin Yong); Translated by Graham Earnshaw; Edited by Rachel May, John Minford
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A lost city in the desert, wolf packs, a book, and, of course, a
sword... The Book and the Sword was Louis Cha's first novel,
published in 1955, and quickly established him as one of the new
masters of the wuxia genre. The novel is panoramic in scope and
includes the fantastical elements for which Cha is well-known:
secret societies, kung fu masters, a lost desert city guarded by
wolf packs, and the mysterious Fragrant Princess, an embellishment
of an actual historical figure - although whether she actually
smelled of flowers, we will never know. Further to that Cha revives
the legend about the great eighteenth-century Manchu Emperor Qian
Long which claims that he was in fact not a Manchu but a Han
Chinese as a result of a baby swap. The Book and the Sword is a
rip-roaring tale of Chinese kung fu masters battling it out for the
future of the Chinese empire and control of central Asia.
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