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This comprehensive reference views China's welfare system through a cultural-historical lens to integrate its complex story into the global study of welfare. Focusing on the mainland's vast, mainly rural population and its long and complicated history, it analyzes rural welfare from the imperial dy... More

I remember how you were, not how you are. We were we until we became you and I. Midori and Âu Cô are international university students tasting freedom from family for the first time. They discover Melbourne and each other. All is well until the tsunami that swamps their world... Midori and Âu Cô are... More

One day there will be peace in Vietnam. But not before more war. Touched by the Lady of the Realm, Liên dreams of bones and bodies under the sea. The prescient warnings from the Lady weigh heavily on Liên, who is burdened by her inability to save everyone. But she knows that the Lady speaks most to ... More

This book is an empirical study on the relationship between private enterprises, entrepreneurs and the government in P. R. China. The two authors conducted a detailed survey of enterprises and entrepreneurs in Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. Although it was only conducted in a ... More

In this book, Phan Le-Ha identifies and discusses four growing self-sustained/sustaining fundamental phenomena in transnational education (TNE), namely (1) the planned, evolving and transformative mediocrity behind the endorsement of English-medium education legitimized by the interactive Asia-the W... More

This new book offers research that will affect further study of tone in Vietnamese and other tonal languages.... More

After an accident, she became the eldest sister-in-law of her first love. The newlywed husband, however, loved her and tricked her into having her for a secret. Their marriage was just a bargaining chip in a war between rich families. For a moment she thought she would be the victim of the marriage ... More

After an accident, she became the eldest sister-in-law of her first love. The newlywed husband, however, loved her and tricked her into having her for a secret. Their marriage was just a bargaining chip in a war between rich families. For a moment she thought she would be the victim of the marriage ... More

After an accident, she became the eldest sister-in-law of her first love. The newlywed husband, however, loved her and tricked her into having her for a secret. Their marriage was just a bargaining chip in a war between rich families. For a moment she thought she would be the victim of the marriage ... More

After an accident, she became the eldest sister-in-law of her first love. The newlywed husband, however, loved her and tricked her into having her for a secret. Their marriage was just a bargaining chip in a war between rich families. For a moment she thought she would be the victim of the marriage ... More

After an accident, she became the eldest sister-in-law of her first love. The newlywed husband, however, loved her and tricked her into having her for a secret. Their marriage was just a bargaining chip in a war between rich families. For a moment she thought she would be the victim of the marriage ... More

After an accident, she became the eldest sister-in-law of her first love. The newlywed husband, however, loved her and tricked her into having her for a secret. Their marriage was just a bargaining chip in a war between rich families. For a moment she thought she would be the victim of the marriage ... More

After an accident, she became the eldest sister-in-law of her first love. The newlywed husband, however, loved her and tricked her into having her for a secret. Their marriage was just a bargaining chip in a war between rich families. For a moment she thought she would be the victim of the marriage ... More

After an accident, she became the eldest sister-in-law of her first love. The newlywed husband, however, loved her and tricked her into having her for a secret. Their marriage was just a bargaining chip in a war between rich families. For a moment she thought she would be the victim of the marriage ... More

Building on both Western and Asian theoretical resources, the book examines how EIL teachers see themselves as professional and individual in relation to their work practices. It reveals the tensions, compromises, negotiations and resistance in their enactment of different roles and selves, especial... More

ONE BOY. UNTOLD ENEMIES. A WHOLE WORLD TO SAVE. TIME IS RUNNING OUT. Eleven years ago, a shattered band of ancient hunters captured an unimaginable evil and Phineas T. Pimiscule rescued his nephew, Sky, from the wreckage of that great battle. For eleven years, Sky Weathers has studied traps, puzzles... More

Sky has more monsters to fight--and lives to save--in the sequel to Return to Exile.Sky thought he had problems before. "Before" as in when his uncle disappeared, he had to move to an odd new town with his family, and, oh yeah, it was up to him to make sure the world's deadliest monster didn't escap... More

This book addresses how Western universities have constructed themselves as global providers of education, and are driven to be globally competitive. It examines how the term 'international' has been exploited by the market in the form of government educational policies and agencies, host institutio... More

Here is a capacious and sparkling gathering of poems, an anthology that extends its reach from the English-speaking world to Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America. This unique volume includes such well-known figures as Pablo Neruda, Anna Akhmatova, Paul Celan, Seamus Heaney, Wole Soyinka, and Eliz... More

This book examines changing gender roles, relations and hierarchies in an ethnic minority community in Central Viet Nam. After decades of war, the community continued its self-sufficient way of life in this remote forested mountainous region, but in recent years has been forced to respond to severe ... More

Favorite Russian Fairy Tales, Irish Fairy Tales, Japanese Fairy Tales, Favorite Celtic Fairy Tales and North American Indian Legends.... More

Updated in its 4th edition, Global Issues is a current and topical look at the forces driving globalization. From democratization, human rights, and global finance to terrorism, pandemics, and climate change, this texts surveys global problems that transcend boundaries and are challenging the inter... More

Christian communities flourished during late antiquity in a Zoroastrian political system, known as the Iranian Empire, that integrated culturally and geographically disparate territories from Arabia to Afghanistan into its institutions and networks. Whereas previous studies have regarded Christians ... More

Planetary atmospheres are complex and evolving entities, as mankind is rapidly coming to realise whilst attempting to understand, forecast and mitigate human-induced climate change. In the Solar System, our neighbours Venus and Mars provide striking examples of two endpoints of planetary evolution,... More

The Chinese Lexicon is a detailed study of the words and word combinations used in modern Chinese. Yip Po-Ching defines the general properties of a language's lexicon, or vocabulary, prior to a thorough discussion of the organizational features of the Chinese lexicon. Comparisons are made between Ch... More