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China announced the national goal of achieving carbon peaking before 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060. The great cause of achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality requires relentless...

Cet ouvrage analyse les aspects discursifs du chinois ? travers la linguistique fonctionnelle. Il explore la connexion interne entre la fonction discursive des structures syntaxiques sp?cifiques en...

A History of Traditional Chinese Military Science provides a clear and informative survey of traditional Chinese military theory and examines its distinct character in different eras, starting from...

The book is based on eight thousand pages of former President John F. Kennedy's printed communications, including his books, innumerable speeches, addresses, press conferences, debates, and letters...

The title of the collection comes directly from Sullivan's recent study on tragic drama in the Golden Age of Spain.Author: A. Robert LauerPublisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic...

This book deals with the origins and history of anti-Catholicism among Seventh-day Adventists in North America. These anti-Catholic sentiments were rooted in the history of nineteenth-century...

This book investigates the question of human flourishing in African New Pentecostalism in South Africa. In a context marked by deep economic inequality and high unemployment, many poor South Africans...

The book locates myth at the base of U.S. war culture, examines its potential reconfiguration into a culture of peace, and considers rhetoric's capacity to renew democracy by dissent. Guided by the...

Among the many collections of Egyptian proverbs, the standout is this compilation by Ahmad Taymour, a pioneer and leading figure in the field of paremiology. The Colloquial Proverbs was first...

This book contains a selection of chapters coming from For a Better World (First Conference on Hirschman Legacy - Boston 2017), A Bias for Hope (Second Conference on Hirschman Legacy- Washington-WB...

This collection of essays by an award winning scholar and poet will appeal to readers from many areas of English, with particular appeal to grad students preparing to teach writing courses. "As an...

American Murids is a major new ethnography of an African Sufi Muslim immigrant community in the United States. It is particularly timely given the current contentious discourse concerning Muslims and...

The book is a first attempt to analyze the complex problems of Romanian etymology in English. Romanian is a Romance language, but it also inherits an old Pre-Romance layer represented by both...

El presente libro realiza un an?lisis de la pobreza multidimensional y de las desigualdades persistentes en los pueblos ind?genas que habitan Medell?n y, en comunidades que habitan el territorio...

This book provides an overview of the rapid development Beijing has seen in a wide range of areas in 2019, both within itself and as an integral part of a larger region, as China's economic...

This book provides an overview of key developments in Beijing in various areas in 2021, as China's economic development continues to improve in both overall quality and regional integration. It...

Android, Assembled unpacks the phenomenon of social robots--not as monolithic machines but as sociotechnical assemblages, pieced together from bodily features (like heads and sensors) and the...

Android, Assembled unpacks the phenomenon of social robots--not as monolithic machines but as sociotechnical assemblages, pieced together from bodily features (like heads and sensors) and the...

Anti-Dobbs: An Interdisciplinary Polemic argues that abortion prohibitions are objectively and subjectively anti-woman and that there are no good arguments for prohibiting abortion that do not in...

In curriculum studies, we pay critical attention to violence in various forms; why not to nonviolence? This original and inspirational book foregrounds nonviolence as a positive force in education...

In curriculum studies, we pay critical attention to violence in various forms; why not to nonviolence? This original and inspirational book foregrounds nonviolence as a positive force in education...

Bertrand Russell: The Colours of Pacifism analyzes the tenacious commitment of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary intellectuals to the cause of civilization, progress, and human rights...

What does it look like to live with integrity in the midst of complicity? When the daily tasks of eating, working, and providing for our homes are tangled up with climate change, exploitative working...

What does it look like to live with integrity in the midst of complicity? When the daily tasks of eating, working, and providing for our homes are tangled up with climate change, exploitative working...

This book discusses transformative approaches to psychology, social work, and education. Addressing these disciplines' entanglements with oppressive structures, the contributors aim to reconcile...

Beyond Cohesion: Toward a Theory of Coherence builds on the seminal work of Halliday & Hasan, and then offers a comprehensive treatment of coherence along three lines: linguistic, cognitive, and...

This collection posits three questions. 1) What structures of violence and oppression are experienced and shared by human and nonhuman laborers working and dying in these necropolitical facilities?...

There is a pressing need for a greater understanding among the world's diverse peoples. Once individuals gain an appreciation of each other's language and history, they can use this foundation to...

Chinese Lexicography in the Twentieth Century provides an in-depth description of the evolution of Chinese lexicography over different stages in the twentieth century. It covers such major types as...

We live in a world increasingly defined and degraded by multiple, systemic and deepening crises. With the help of academic experts, creative practitioners and advocates, this book explores some of...