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“lili wang”

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  • Book of Lost Dreams

    Growing up in Mao's China

    by Joseph Yen ...
    Translated by Stephen Hallett, Lili Wang ...
    When the tides of history crash against the quiet shores of an ordinary life, the results can be both strange and devastating. Joseph Yen grew up in the shadow of civil war, revolution, and unrelenting political upheaval. Born into the household of a wealthy Shanghai industrialist, he might have expected a life of privilege and stability. Instead, the great storms of the age - national and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Reimagining Voluntary Sector Leadership

    The Influence and Impact of Place

    by Amy Sanders, Flossie Caerwynt, Susanne Martikke, Mariana Bogdanova, Louise Warwick-Booth, Susan Coan, Ruth Cross, Sally Vivyan, Dora Dixon-Fyle, Sandra Ferguson, Anita Mitra, Emma Snow, Jacyntha Stewart, Simon Williams, Alex Murdock, Cathie Meetre, Fidele Mutwarasibo, Helen Britton, Antonio Jiminez-Luque, Marcus Lam, Jodie Low, Genna Whitlock, Christine Collymore, Janis Petzinger, Caroline Broadhurst, Tobias Jung, Lili Wang, Rong Tian, Vita Terry ...
    The voluntary sector plays a crucial role in shaping place, and is in turn shaped by that context, yet this ‘place leadership’ role has been underexplored in research. This interdisciplinary book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to examine this intriguing phenomenon in different political and cultural contexts.Using case studies from the UK, the US, China and Europe, the book ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Dynamics of Materials

    Experiments, Models and Applications

    by Lili Wang, Liming Yang, Xinlong Dong, Xiquan Jiang ...
    Dynamics of Materials: Experiments, Models and Applications addresses the basic laws of high velocity flow/deformation and dynamic failure of materials under dynamic loading. The book comprehensively covers different perspectives on volumetric law, including its macro-thermodynamic basis, solid physics basis, related dynamic experimental study, distortional law, including the rate-dependent macro ... Read more

    $179.99 USD

  • Foundations of Stress Waves

    by Lili Wang ...
    The primary objective of Foundations of Stress Waves is to give the reader an understanding of stress wave behaviour while taking into account the dynamic constitutive equations of elastic-plastic solids. The author has combined a 'materials characteristics' approach with a 'singularity surface' approach in this work, which readers will find to be a novel and unique route to solving their problems ... Read more

    $179.99 USD

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    Edited by John Smyth ...
    The shift from the model of central government educational control to school- based management has been widely adopted and acclaimed and has created the general impression of increased democracy and participation.; The international contributors to this book tackle this important policy issue and look behind the scenes of the moves towards school self- management. They investigate the phenomenon ... Read more

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  • Managing Labour in Small Firms

    Edited by Susan Marlow, Dean Patton, Monder Ram ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship and Small Business
    The majority of employees currently working in the private sector are now employed in small firms, yet little is known about their working conditions. This collection of essays addresses this gap. Based on theoretical analysis supported by contemporary empirical evidence, the book explores key areas of the employment relationship adding a new perspective to our understanding of contemporary work. ... Read more

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  • Fly, Wild Swans

    My Mother, Myself and China

    by Jung Chang ...
    The magnificent follow-up to Wild Swans, the multimillion copy, internationally bestselling sensation that traces the history of modern China through the true stories of three generations of courageous women in one family.“AT THE AGE OF FIFTEEN MY GRANDMOTHER became the concubine of a warlord general . . .” So begins Jung Chang’s epic family memoir, Wild Swans, which defines a generation. The book ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Short Guide to Community Development

    by Alison Gilchrist, Marilyn Taylor ...
    Series series Short Guides
    The only up-to-date, accessibly written short guide to community development, this third edition offers an invaluable and authoritative introduction. Fully updated to reflect changes in policy, practice, economics and culture, it will equip readers with an understanding of the history and theory of community development, as well as practical guidance on how to do it.This is a key text for all ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Dear Leader

    My Escape from North Korea

    by Jang Jin-sung ...
    THE STORY THEY COULDN'T HACK: In this international bestseller, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his breathtaking escape to freedom.As North Korea’s State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions (even as the country suffered through its great famine), a travel pass, access to strictly censored ... Read more

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  • The Short Guide to Community Development

    by Gilchrist, Alison, Taylor, Marilyn ...
    Series series Short Guides
    The only up-to-date, accessibly written short guide to community development, this third edition offers an invaluable and authoritative introduction. Fully updated to reflect changes in policy, practice, economics and culture, it will equip readers with an understanding of the history and theory of community development, as well as practical guidance on how to do it. This is a key text for all ... Read more

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  • Life and Death in Shanghai

    by Nien Cheng ...
    A first-hand account of China's cultural revolution.A first-hand account of China's cultural revolution. Nien Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, was put under house arrest by Red Guards in 1966 and subsequently jailed. All attempts to make her confess to the charges of being a British spy failed; all efforts to indoctrinate her were met by a ... Read more

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  • Education Policy

    Process, Themes and Impact

    by Les Bell, Howard Stevenson ...
    Series series Leadership for Learning Series
    The study of educational leadership makes little sense unless it is in relation to who the leaders are, how they are leading, what is being led, and with what effect. Based on the premise that learning is at the heart of leadership and that leaders themselves should be learners, the Leadership for Learning series explores the connections between educational leadership, policy, curriculum, human ... Read more

    $54.99 USD