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  • The Wild Men Of Britain

    by William Hurst ...
    Across Britain, old stories speak of figures seen at the edge of the trees.They are known by many names: wild men, woodwose, hairy men, mountain presences, grey giants, forest watchers, and strange human shaped things glimpsed on lonely roads, moors, hillsides, and ancient woodland paths. Long before the word Bigfoot entered modern language, Britain already carried its own tradition of the wild ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Management and Engineering of Critical Infrastructures

    Edited by Bedir Tekinerdogan, Mehmet Aksit, Cagatay Catal, William Hurst, Tarek AlSkaif ...
    Management and Engineering of Critical Infrastructures focuses on two important aspects of CIS, management and engineering. The book provides an ontological foundation for the models and methods needed to design a set of systems, networks and assets that are essential for a society's functioning, and for ensuring the security, safety and economy of a nation. Various examples in agriculture, the ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Ruling before the Law

    The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia

    by William Hurst ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    How do legal systems actually operate outside of Western European or North American liberal democracies? To understand law and legal institutions globally, we must go beyond asking if countries comply with idealized, yet under-theorized, rule of law principles to determine how they work in practice. Examining legal regimes across different areas of criminal and civil law in both urban and rural ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Local Governance Innovation in China

    Experimentation, Diffusion, and Defiance

    Edited by Jessica C. Teets, William Hurst ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Despite a centralized formal structure, Chinese politics and policy-making have long been marked by substantial degrees of regional and local variation and experimentation. These trends have, if anything, intensified as China’s reform matures. Though often remarked upon, the politicsof policy formation, diffusion, and implementation at the subnational level have not previously been comprehensively ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Popular Protest in China

    by Yongshun Cai, Xi Chen, Feng Chen, William Hurst, Elizabeth J. Perry, Rachel Stern, Yanfei Sun, Sidney Tarrow, Patricia M. Thornton, Carsten Vala, Teresa Wright, Guobin Yang, Dingxin Zhao ...
    Series Book 15 - Harvard Contemporary China Series
    Do our ideas about social movements travel successfully beyond the democratic West? Unrest in China, from the dramatic events of 1989 to more recent stirrings, offers a rare opportunity to explore this question and to consider how popular contention unfolds in places where speech and assembly are tightly controlled. The contributors to this volume, all prominent scholars of Chinese politics and ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Chinese Worker after Socialism

    by William Hurst ...
    While millions in China have been advantaged by three decades of reform, impressive gains have also produced social dislocation. Groups that had been winners under socialism find themselves losers in the new order. Based on field research in nine cities across China, this fascinating study considers the fate of one such group - 35 million workers laid off from the state-owned sector. The book ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • The China Model

    Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy

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    How China's political model could prove to be a viable alternative to Western democracyWesterners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and “bad” authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best be described as “political meritocracy.” The China Model ... Read more

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  • Landmarks

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  • Logistics Operations and Management

    Concepts and Models

    Edited by Reza Farahani, Shabnam Rezapour, Laleh Kardar ...
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of how to strategically manage the movement and storage of products or materials from any point in the manufacturing process to customer fulfillment. Topics covered include important tools for strategic decision making, transport, packaging, warehousing, retailing, customer services and future trends. - An introduction to logistics - Provides practical ... Read more

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  • End of an Era

    How China's Authoritarian Revival is Undermining Its Rise

    by Carl Minzner ...
    China's reform era is ending. Core factors that characterized it-political stability, ideological openness, and rapid economic growth-are unraveling. Since the 1990s, Beijing's leaders have firmly rejected any fundamental reform of their authoritarian one-party political system, and on the surface, their efforts have been a success. But as Carl Minzner shows, a closer look at China's reform era ... Read more

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  • Dark Folklore

    by Mark Norman, Tracey Norman ...
    How did our ancestors use the concept of demons to explain sleep paralysis? Is that carving in the porch of your local church really what you think it is? And what's that tapping noise on the roof of your car..?The fields of folklore have never been more popular – a recent resurgence of interest in traditional beliefs and customs, coupled with morbid curiosities in folk horror, historic witchcraft ... Read more

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