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Established in 1986, Guangxi Normal University Press is a renowned publisher of academic, education and humanities titles. Shanghai Co. is a fully owned subsidiary of Guangxi Normal University Press. It publishes 200 titles a year, covering a wide spectrum of subjects, from education, social sciences, history and culture, to biographies, memoirs, literature and academic. The company also specializes in genres like architecture and music.
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It is quite significant for the souvenirs for travellers to mould fine figures of tourism and make brands for tourism and promote the development of tourism. The souvenirs for travellers which adopt the people's ideas in particular regions, give expressions to the history of the regions, prolong the folk contradition and make the regional culture be rich and bring forth new ideas. No matter who they are, Whatever they are, famous specialized working men or new hands, they have the same wish to activate the regionous culture, then, improve people's income and raise their consumption. The author of the book collects many concrete examples showing the design of the unique keepsakes by outstanding designers from all over the world into the book. Following the publishment of this book, more and more readers will suely become better and better designers of tourist souvenirs.
Universities have a key role to play in contributing to environmental development and combating climate change. The chapters within this volume detail the challenges faced by higher education institutions in considering environmental sustainability, and provide both a broad view of university engagement and a detailed examination of various projects. As part of this series in association with the Place and Social Capital and Learning (PASCAL) International Observatory, the three key PASCAL themes of place management, lifelong learning and the development of social capital are considered throughout the book. While universities have historically generated knowledge outside of specific local contexts, this book argues that it is particularly important for them to engage with the local community and to consider diverse perspectives and assets when looking at issues within an ecological context. The chapters in this volume provide new perspectives and frames of reference for transforming universities by engaging in the development of resilient communities.
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A compelling biography of one of the most celebrated novels in the English language. The fourth and best-known of Virginia Woolf's novels, Mrs Dalloway is a modernist masterpiece that has remained popular since its publication in 1925. Its dual narratives follow a day in the life of wealthy housewife Clarissa Dalloway and shell-shocked war veteran Septimus Warren Smith, capturing their inner worlds with a vividness that has rarely been equalled. Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel offers new readers a lively introduction to this enduring classic, while providing Woolf lovers with a wealth of information about the novel's writing, publication and reception. It follows Woolf's process from the first stirrings in her diary through her struggles to create what was quickly recognised as a major advance in prose fiction. It then traces the novel's remarkable legacy to the present day. Woolf wrote in her diary that she wanted her novel 'to give life & death, sanity & insanity. to criticise the social system, & to show it at work, at its most intense.' Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel reveals how she achieved this ambition, creating a book that will be read by generations to come.
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Guest House are good places for people to spend their holidays. Forty-three folk hostels built by different architects and artists in places over the world includung the hostels transformed from the old, new hostels of art, collective hostels for peasants and the hostels in villa style. They are attractive and touching because they are full of temperament and taste in design and building, and spacious and visional effect. The structure of each hostel described in the book is unique and so as to the position, the environment, the moving lines, the materials and the culture of the erea.
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Guest House have become fashionable all over the world especially in China because they help people keep themselves away from the din and bustle of cities. Forty-two pieces of works of folk hostels, including hostels with water senses, city hostels and country hostels, are copied into the book. They explain the cordinal demmands when designing folk hostels. Readers will know more about the design of hostels through its pictures, blueprints and literary description as well as for architects and people who are employed in the service trade.
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A compelling account of the project to transform post-war Manchester, revealing the clash between utopian vision and compromised reality. Urban renewal in Britain was thrilling in its vision, yet partial and incomplete in its implementation. For the first time, this deep study of a renewal city reveals the complex networks of actors behind physical change and stagnation in post-war Britain. Using the nested scales of region, city and case-study sites, the book explores the relationships between Whitehall legislation, its interpretation by local government planning officers and the on-the-ground impact through urban architectural projects. Each chapter highlights the connections between policy goals, global narratives and the design and construction of cities. The Cold War, decolonialisation, rising consumerism and the oil crisis all feature in a richly illustrated account of architecture and planning in post-war Manchester.
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This book focuses on current policy discourse in Higher Education, with special reference to Europe. It discusses globalisation, Lifelong Learning, the EU's Higher Education discourse, this discourse's regional ramifications and alternative practices in Higher Education from both the minority and majority worlds with their different learning traditions and epistemologies. It argues that these alternative practices could well provide the germs for the shape of a public good oriented Higher Education for the future. It theoretically expounds on important elements to consider when engaging Higher Education and communities, discussing the nature of the term 'community' itself. Special reference is accorded to the difference that lies at the core of these ever-changing communities. It then provides an analysis of an 'on the ground project' in University community engagement, before suggesting signposts for further action at the level of policy and provision. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4, Quality education
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Guest House are the hotels which are attractive to travellers. The construction of folk hostels is developing rapidly in recent years. Staying in the folk hostels, travellers have chances to talk with the masters of the hostels, learn something about the social custom in the convesation. Folk hostels told in the book make the travellers enjoy themseves so much as to forget to go away from them because of nature, the geographical situation and the natural situation. There are many fine and beautiful pictures and blueprints for project, which are good for those who are employed in the service trade.
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This is a book of folk tales for children basing on the four books published before as the first edition. In order to lead children to return to the world of folk tales, to get the interest from traditional Chinese folk tales, more knowledge by reading, deeper impression on reading, the author of the book collected over thirty folk tales of which the most famous are Nine-Colored Dear, Seven Fairies and Nezha Stirs Up the Sea. The plots of some stories were rewritten on purpose to suit the understanding of children, fine illustrations and pictures were put in the book. This book brings a vaster world of life for children!
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After the book, Modern Container Architecturer, was published, the new book Movable Architecture, has come into the world giving impetus to make our national circumstances become a world of less carbon by reforming the structure containers , by reducing the cost and conducing the quality of environment protection. This book displays over forty ideas of special container building. From the pictures and illustrations of the items, we know about the beauty of the senic spot, the literary works and the techniques of how to build all kinds of containers. Besides this book provides us with the guidance and the practical techniques to build containers. This is of higher economic value and spiritual value.
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From the fifth year of their marriage, Sumiko had to receive treatment in hospital for the acute pain caused by multiple rheumatoid arthritis. From that time on the disease had seized her. From 1982, Sumiko had to lie in the bed or rely on a wheelchair for the significant dysfunction of the upper limbs and the paralysis of the lower limbs, so she had to let her husband see to her daily life. And Oochuje took care of her basically all by himself unless he had a business trip and he would hire a care worker. This illustrated book elaborately depicts the story between them, including how they met and fell in love with each other during childhood, their daily conversations, their poems as well as their relentless fighting against disease. At the final part of the book, it mainly records the last thirty-three days from December 1997 to January 1998 during which the couple spent together until Sumiko had passed away. The words of the book is selected and the drawings simple yet profound through which one will be deeply touched for the deep and unchangeable love. “Over the hill” in common sense is an expression for death, but it means a whole new world for Oochuje and Sumiko where they would also walk side by side. Their love and cherish for each other was well beyond life and death for they never ceased to bring happiness for each other. And their love story has also enriched the world with pure beauty and wonder of love.
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Irish Home Rule considers the pre-eminent issue in British politics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries. It is the first account to explain the various self-government plans, to place these in context and examine the motives for putting the schemes forward. The book distinguishes between moral and material home rulers, making the point that the first appealed especially to outsiders, some Protestants and the intelligentsia, who saw in self-government a means to reconcile Ireland's antagonistic traditions. In contrast, material home rulers viewed a Dublin Parliament as a forum of Catholic interests. This account appraises the home rule movement from a fresh angle, distinguishing it from the usual division drawn between physical force and constitutional nationalists It maintains that an ideological continuity runs from Young Ireland, the Fenians, the early home rulers including Isaac Butt and Charles Stewart Parnell, to the Gaelic Revivalists to the Men of 1916. These nationalists are distinguishable from material home rulers not on the basis of methods or strategy but by a fundamental ideological cleavage. ;
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Dream is about the history of national life in China in 1980's. It tells about people's daily life, the senery of Hangzhou, the outdated news and the ways of the world, the change of the families, and by making clear and real notes of a common family in forty years. This is a story about common folk. It gives an account of difficulty, benefits of life, unalternative change and the bright future of life, and also opens splendid world before people. What the book shows us the notes to form agigantic current into the river of people's life. How moved it is to people!
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Twenty-four seasons in Chinese calender was successfully affirmed as the heritage of non-material culture in the world of 2015. However, this book is published to explain the knowledge of the twenty-four seasons to the common people and to appreciate its inner-culture and the attraction of its beauty. It is the first time and the first edition to deal generally with the twenty-four seasons originally from its beginning and practically with lots of informations, life, nature, phenology, traditional farming, classic tales, popular proverbs and local customs. This book is full of knowledge, interest and good for common readers especially for farmers even for ordinary peasants and children.
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A biological restaurant is situated deep in the forest. The proprietress is a pretty and vivacious girl who is in charge of eating for living, the important event in the world. She employs numerous cooks, waiters and waitress to serve her customers — earthworms, elephants, butterflies, ant lions, parrots, etc. Surprisingly, they have different food. Some take stones for food, some have night soil.
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In this accessible and sophisticated exploration of the nature and workings of social and political power, Haugaard examines the interrelation between domination and empowerment. Building upon the perspectives of Steven Lukes, Michel Foucault, Amy Allen, Hannah Arendt, Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu and others, he offers a clear theoretical framework, delineating power in four interrelated dimensions. The first and second dimensions of power entail two different types of social conflict. The third dimension concerns tacit knowledge, uses of truth and reification. Drawing upon genealogical theory and accounts of slavery as social death, the fourth dimension of power concerns the power to create social subjects. The book concludes with an original normative pragmatist power-based account of democracy. Offering lucid and entertaining illustrations of complex theoretical perspectives, this book is essential reading for scholars and activists.
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Imperial power, both formal and informal, and research in the natural sciences were closely dependent in the nineteenth century. This book examines a portion of the mass-produced juvenile literature, focusing on the cluster of ideas connected with Britain's role in the maintenance of order and the spread of civilization. It discusses the political economy of Western ecological systems, and the consequences of their extension to the colonial periphery, particularly in forms of forest conservation. Progress and consumerism were major constituents of the consensus that helped stabilise the late Victorian society, but consumerism only works if it can deliver the goods. From 1842 onwards, almost all major episodes of coordinated popular resistance to colonial rule in India were preceded by phases of vigorous resistance to colonial forest control. By the late 1840s, a limited number of professional positions were available for geologists in British imperial service, but imperial geology had a longer pedigree. Modern imperialism or 'municipal imperialism' offers a broader framework for understanding the origins, long duration and persistent support for overseas expansion which transcended the rise and fall of cabinets or international realignments in the 1800s. Although medical scientists began to discern and control the microbiological causes of tropical ills after the mid-nineteenth century, the claims for climatic causation did not undergo a corresponding decline. Arthur Pearson's Pearson's Magazine was patriotic, militaristic and devoted to royalty. The book explores how science emerged as an important feature of the development policies of the Colonial Office (CO) of the colonial empire.
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The author of this bokk is a translater while the book Something before and after Translation comes from the author's notes dealing with the comprehension of the original works, the interesting things which take place in the work of translation and the comments on both original and translated works. It is a good reader and coference for middle school students, university students, teachers and researchers on the subjects of European and American culture and literature. This book can also make a firm foundtion and good preparation in life and knowledge about the western countries for the travellers, students and traders.
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