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Born in A Great Era

by A Record of Changes in Contemporary Lifestyle

1978-2018, a big era. Reform and opening up have profoundly affected the changes in the way of life of the Chinese people. The manuscript replays the development of social life in China over the past 40 years of reform and opening up. It mainly sorts out the great changes in our lives in the past 40 years from the aspects of clothing, food, housing, market, love, and play. Adhering to the purpose of "a magazine and the body temperature of an era", the manuscript has a unique perspective and rich details, which can be regarded as a brief history of alternative life with warmth in this era.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

December 1999

The debate on the American Civil War era

by Hugh Tulloch, Roger Richardson

This study is the first to critically survey the changing and highly controversial historical literature surrounding the American Civil War era, from contemporary interpretations up to the present.. The book analyses both historians attitudes and assumptions and suggests that each writer's perspective was partly determined by the dictates of time and place.. The author engages with all aspects of the Civil War era; social, cultural and economic as well as its political dimensions.. Aimed at sixth form colleges and university students. ;

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The Arts

2005

Fine Arts in the Era of Mao Zedong

by Zou Yuejin

The book put forward the concept of 'Fine Arts in the Era of Mao Zedong' academically for the first time. Starting from the publication of Mao Zedong's Talks at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art in 1942 and ending with the passing away of Mao Zedong, the book surveys this period by collecting more than 1,000 pictures and other data, which are arranged under eight themes. The book restores this period of the history of Chinese fine arts to the original form and gives prominence to the time features embodied in this phenomenon of fine arts. The introduction in the book expounds fine arts in the era of Mao Zedong in a macroscopic manner, discussing historical background, thoughts of literature and art, social environment and theme typology concisely and tersely so as to provide readers with theoretical perspective and approaches in understanding and perceiving this phenomenon of fine arts.

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Children's & YA

Pastoral Song

by Dong Hongyou

This book tells the story of a youth choir in Wuhan during the founding era of New China. The novel could be seen as a "musical novel" for citing many famous Chinese and foreign songs. Just like in Vladimir Korolenko's novel The Blind Musician, where the melodious flute sound of the old groom Joachim has been guiding the growth of the five-year-old blind child, the songs in this book that were created in different eras also play a role as the "spiritual nourishment" for the teenager Jiangnan and his partners in his childhood, leading them to grow from narrow-minded, hesitant, and fragile to broad, firm, and strong. In this novel, apart from the fact that music forms a great part, it also has another prominent feature, which is the regional culture and folk customs of old Wuhan city. The loud and strong chanting on the pier of the Yangtze River, the mighty sound of the surging river, the melodious bells of Hankow Customs House, the vendor's hawking in the alleys of the old Hankou, as well as various customs, snacks, and dialects, all of which help create a vivid painting of local customs that presents lively daily life and the wharf culture.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

February 2026

AIDS in Soviet Russia

A story of deception, despair and hope

by Rustam Alexander

The first book to tell the shocking story of the AIDS crisis in Soviet Russia. Throughout the 1980s, as the world was grappling with the escalating crisis of AIDS, Soviet Russia continued to deny there was a problem. Arguing that the disease was limited to foreigners and 'immoral' groups, the government failed to take meaningful action, long past the point other countries had begun to recognise the full scale of the threat. In this ground-breaking book, Rustam Alexander tells the story of AIDS in Soviet Russia. Fixated on disinformation, censorship and the persecution of marginalised communities, the Soviet authorities wasted precious time, allowing the epidemic to strike at the very heart of the nation: its children. Yet, despite the government's failure, a number of brave journalists, doctors and nascent gay groups decided to take matters into their own hands and engage in full-fledged AIDS activism. Tracing the political and social response to AIDS in the final years of the Soviet era, Alexander sheds light on the devastating consequences of government inaction. He draws on personal stories, media reports and archival materials to provide a riveting account of the Russian people's fight against AIDS amid the tumultuous transformations of Gorbachev's perestroika.

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Children's & YA

Cuando el mundo era así

by Triunfo Arciniegas / Álvaro Sánchez

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Humanities & Social Sciences

November 2023

Intimacy and mobility in an era of hardening borders

Gender, reproduction, regulation

by Haldis Haukanes, Frances Pine

This book is a collection of articles by anthropologists and social scientists concerned with gendered labour, care, intimacy and sexuality, in relation to mobility and the hardening of borders in Europe. Interrogating the relation between physical, geopolitical borders and ideological, conceptual boundaries, it offers a range of vivid and original ethnographic case studies that will capture the imagination of anyone interested in gendered migration, policies of inclusion and exclusion, and regulation of reproduction and intimacy. The book presents ethnographic and phenomenological discussions of people's changing lives as they cross borders, how people transgress and reshape moral boundaries of proper gender and kinship behaviour, and moral economies of intimacy and sexuality. It also focuses on migrants' navigation of social and financial services in their destination countries, putting questions about rights and limitations on citizenship at the core.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2021

Intimacy and mobility in an era of hardening borders

by Haldis Haukanes, Frances Pine, Hastings Donnan

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Humanities & Social Sciences

February 2018

How to save politics in a post-truth era

by Ilan Zvi Baron

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Humanities & Social Sciences

April 2022

Russian grand strategy in the era of global power competition

by Andrew Monaghan, Richard Connolly

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Agriculture & related industries

July 2002

Agricultural Research Policy in an Era of Privatization

by Edited by Derek Byerlee, Ruben G Echeverria

Recent decades have witnessed a dramatic shift from public to private sector agricultural research in many developed countries. Developments in plant breeding and biotechnology, for example, have created profitable opportunities for private investment. However, new issues, such as intellectual property rights, have arisen as a consequence. This book discusses these and related issues.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

September 2019

365 Questions and Answers About Basic Constructing of Chinese Communist Party in the new era

by Huang Lihua, Gong Yueping, Deng Weicheng

This book answers the common questions about the basic constructing of Chinese Communist Party and reflects the Chinese Communist Party's member's responsibilities, rights, obligations.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

August 2002

German policy-making and eastern enlargement of the EU during the Kohl era

by Emil Kirchner, Thomas Christiansen

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March 2024

Born Hutsi

by Fiston Mudacumura

The author was raised in a family of only survivors from the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis. Even FARG (A survivors fund) allegedly paid for his school fees for some time. Through FARG reform, he learned that his father had associated with perpetrators even if he was also killed in 1994. Digesting that information as a teenager was not easy. In this book, you read about his other close-to-normal upbringing like infatuation, sex advice from fellow teenagers, getting conned in Paris and arrested on his first trip to France, his take from the "Ndi umunyarwanda" campaign, #PK saving him from getting expelled at the university, joining a political party at the university,...

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Business, Economics & Law

October 2023

The Island Book of Records Volume I

1959-68

by Neil Storey

The Island Book of Records brings the early years of this iconic record label to life. A fifteen-year labour of love, the volumes will fully document the analogue era of Island. Offering a comprehensive archive of album cover design and photography, together with the voices of the musicians, designers, photographers, producers, studio engineers and record company personnel that worked on each project, the volumes show in unique depth the workings of the label, covering every LP. Featuring material from recent interviews and from media interviews of the time, and each including a comprehensive discography of 45s, the books are lavishly illustrated with gig adverts (very many at venues which no longer exist), concert tickets, flyers, international LP variants, labels, LP and 45 adverts and other ephemera. These LP-sized editions are a collector's dream, offering a truly unparalleled resource for those interested in music history and a perfect gift for any music lover.

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The Arts

January 2019

Screening songs in Hispanic and Lusophone cinema

by Lisa Shaw, Robert Stone

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Mycology, fungi (non-medical)

January 1995

Fungi described and recorded fom Eucalypus

by K V Sankaran, D W Minter

Mycological paper on fungi described and recorded from Eucalyptus

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Fiction

May 2020

The Guys of Rangoon 1930

by Khet Zaw

The Guys of Rangoon , 1930 is a record breaking bestseller book from Myanmar . It sold 16000 copies within one day during the pre order period. More than one hundred thousand copies have been sold so far. Film rights, several merchandise rights, comic rights already sold.It was based in Yangon , Myanmar during the colonial period. The main character is Pho Thoke who was a gangster and managed a lot of business by himself and his gang. He is very close with politicians as well and he is involved in several dirty political movements in Myanmar . This story is based on real characters and events.

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Fiction

2017

Summer Rains

Winner of the 2018 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Young Author

by Ahmad Al Qarmalawi

Using music as a thread that connects the past to the present, this novel explores what happens when traditional and cultural heritage clash with modernity. The characters face the impact of modernization on heritage and arts versus the need to protect and preserve their traditional culture and must choose between the pursuit of materialism versus spiritual balance. Al Qarmalawi writes about a wide range of music from Sufism to the present era of electronic musical arts, and Summer Rains addresses the current Arab youth crisis, in which young people find themselves torn between fundamentalism and modernity. (An extended English-language report on this book will be available soon.)

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2017

Online Public Opinion in the Information Era

Status quo, Trends, Responses

by Liao Zhikun

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