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  • Crime, Second Chances, and Human Services

    Creating a Pathway to Ordinary Life for the Convicted

    by Fonkem Achankeng, Derek Dich, Michelle Devine Giese, Kendra Green, James Kevin Groves, Leslie A. Hagedorn, Alfred T. Kisubi, Melinda Kline, David Liners, Patricia McCourt0, Diane P. McMillen1, John Paulson2, Mark Rice3, Lynne M. Woehrle4, Pearl Wright5 ...
    This book promotes the notion of second chances and the importance of human services within the communities most affected by crime and the criminal justice system. Recognition of the fallibility of humans and the necessity of redemption is the first step to change our attitude toward guilt and punishment. Barring citizens with criminal records from obtaining housing, employment, education, and ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages

    by Sanping Chen ...
    Series series Encounters with Asia
    In contrast to the economic and cultural dominance by the south and the east coast over the past several centuries, influence in China in the early Middle Ages was centered in the north and featured a significantly multicultural society. Many events that were profoundly formative for the future of East Asian civilization occurred during this period, although much of this multiculturalism has long ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • A Jesuit in the Forbidden City

    Matteo Ricci 1552-1610

    by R. Po-chia Hsia ...
    A 16th century Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Mission in China and one of the most famous missionaries of all time. A pioneer in bringing Christianity to China, Ricci spent twenty eight years in the country, in which time he crossed the cultural divides between China and the West by immersing himself in the language and culture of his hosts. Even 400 years later, he ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • China between Empires

    The Northern and Southern Dynasties

    by Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook ...
    Series Book 2 - History of Imperial China
    After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family life, developments in the literary and social arenas, and the introduction of new ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500–1800

    by D. E. Mungello ...
    For the Chinese, the drive toward growing political and economic power is part of an ongoing effort to restore China's past greatness and remove the lingering memories of history's humiliations. This widely praised book explores the 1500–1800 period before China's decline, when the country was viewed as a leading world culture and power. Europe, by contrast, was in the early stages of emerging ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • On Friendship

    One Hundred Maxims for a Chinese Prince

    by Matteo Ricci ...
    Translated by Timothy Billings ...
    "On Friendship, with its total of one hundred sayings, is the perfect gift for friends."-Feng Yingjing, renowned scholar and civic official, 1601Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) is best known as the Italian Jesuit missionary who brought Christianity to China. He also published a landmark text on friendship-the first book to be written in Chinese by a European-that instantly became a late Ming best seller ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Virgin Mary and Catholic Identities in Chinese History

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    The Chinese Catholic Church traces its living roots back to the late sixteenth century and its historical roots back even further, to the Yuan dynasty. This book explores paintings and sculptures of the Virgin Mary and the communities that produced them over several centuries. It argues for the emergence of distinctly Chinese Catholic identities as artistic representations of the Virgin Mary, at ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Island of Guanyin

    Mount Putuo and Its Gazetteers

    by Marcus Bingenheimer ...
    Among Chinese religious sites, Mount Putuo, the "Island of Guanyin," stands out as a fascinating embodiment of China's vibrant Buddhist tradition. A small island in the East China Sea, it has been the single most important pilgrimage site for the worship of Guanyin, the beloved Bodhisattva of Compassion, who is venerated from Sri Lanka to Japan. Attracting thousands of visitors every year, the ... Read more

    $137.69 USD

  • Daoism in History

    Essays in Honour of Liu Ts'un-yan

    Edited by Benjamin Penny ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Taoism
    Over the last decade there has been a marked increase in the study of Daoism especially in Japan, China and the West, with a new generation of scholars broadening our understanding of the religion. Including contributions from the foremost scholars in the field, Daoism in History presents new and important research.These essays honour one of the pioneers of Daoist studies, Emeritus Professor Liu ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Croatia 2: Ludwig Von Gaj Opposes Croatia’S Hungarian Heritage

    by Ivo Vukcevich ...
    Retired professor of political science, New York born Dr. Ivo Vukcevich is the author of Rex Germanorum Populus Sclavorum An Inquiry into the Origin & Early History of the Serbs/Slavs of Sarmatia, Germania, & Illyria, translated as Slavenska Germanija. A recognized authority on Slavic pre-history and contemporary South Slavic national-political issues, in Croatia - Ludwig von Gaj and the Croats ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Faces of the Gods

    Vodou and Roman Catholicism in Haiti

    by Leslie G. Desmangles ...
    Vodou, the folk religion of Haiti, is a by–product of the contact between Roman Catholicism and African and Amerindian traditional religions. In this book, Leslie Desmangles analyzes the mythology and rituals of Vodou, focusing particularly on the inclusion of West African and European elements in Vodouisants' beliefs and practices.Desmangles sees Vodou not simply as a grafting of European ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • A Dictionary of Chinese Literature

    by Taiping Chang Knechtges ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference Online
    A Dictionary of Chinese Literature provides more than 250 entries on the lengthy and remarkable literary tradition of China, from its earliest literary genres such as the 6th century gongti wenxue (palace-style literature), to contemporary forms, such as wanglu wenxue (internet literature). Covering notable writers, works, terms, trends, schools, movements, styles, and literary collections, as ... Read more

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