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  • Impacts of Cultural Capital on Student College Choice in China

    de Lan Gao ...
    Series series Emerging Perspectives on Education in China
    Educational researchers have long been concerned about the factors that influence the patterns of attendance in higher education and the extent to which higher education has been accessible to all students regardless of their socioeconomic status. Extensive research has indicated that a variety of class-related factors, such as cultural capital, social capital, and economic capital, exert ... Leer más

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    How We Can Stop Corporate Communists, Banksters, and Other Vampires from Sucking America Dry

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    The host of the eponymous MSNBC show, Dylan Ratigan offers a bold and original post-partisan program to resuscitate the American Dream.At a time of deep concern with the state of America’s economy and government, it seems that all the media can give us is talking (or screaming) heads who revel in partisan brinkmanship. Then there’s Dylan Ratigan—an award-winning journalist respected and admired ... Leer más

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  • The Tao of Wing Chun

    The History and Principles of China's Most Explosive Martial Art

    Wing Chun is the most popular form of Chinese Kung Fu in the world today, with over four million practitioners. The art as it is presently understood has been handed down from teacher to student for more than three hundred years.Until now, no one has ever stepped back and taken a critical look at why this art’s techniques are presented and performed the way they are. This book, by Wing Chun master ... Leer más

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  • The Other America

    Poverty in the United States

    In the fifty years since it was published, The Other America has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This anniversary edition includes Michael Harrington’s essays on poverty in the 1970s and ’80s as well as a new introduction by Harrington’s biographer, Maurice Isserman. This illuminating, profoundly moving classic is still all too relevant for today’s America.When Michael Harrington ... Leer más

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  • Punching Out

    One Year in a Closing Auto Plant

    de Paul Clemens ...
    An elegy—angry, funny, and powerfully detailed—about the slow death of a Detroit auto plant and an American way of life.How does a country dismantle a century’s worth of its industrial heritage? To answer that question, Paul Clemens investigates the 2006 closing of one of America’s most potent symbols: a Detroit auto plant. Prior to its closing, the Budd Company stamping plant on Detroit’s East ... Leer más

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  • The Cultural Revolution at the Margins

    Chinese Socialism in Crisis

    de Yiching Wu ...
    Mao Zedong envisioned a great struggle to "wreak havoc under the heaven" when he launched the Cultural Revolution in 1966. But as radicalized Chinese youth rose up against Party officials, events quickly slipped from the government's grasp, and rebellion took on a life of its own. Turmoil became a reality in a way the Great Leader had not foreseen. The Cultural Revolution at the Margins recaptures ... Leer más

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  • Rise of the Red Engineers

    The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China's New Class

    de Joel Andreas ...
    Series series Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
    Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, author Joel Andreas chronicles how two mutually hostile groups—the poorly educated peasant revolutionaries who seized power in 1949 and China's old educated elite—coalesced to form a new dominant class. After dispossessing the country's propertied classes ... Leer más

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  • China – The New Superpower

    History Series, #2

    de Matt Green ...
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    Who will be the next Superpower? Is this China?It seems modern China is a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities, heir to an ancient civilization that is still trying to find a modern identity.China, in general, has been one of the most intriguing countries in the world for most of its history. The most populous nation of the world.The Modern ... Leer más

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  • Social Mobility and the Legal Profession

    The case of professional associations and access to the English Bar

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  • Chinese Working-Class Lives

    Getting By in Taiwan

    de Hill Gates ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    Taiwan's working class has been shaped by Chinese tradition, by colonialism, and by rapid industrialization. This book defines that class, explores that history, and presents with sensitive honesty the life experiences of some of its women and men. Hill Gates first provides a solid and informative introduction to Taiwan's history, showing how mainland China, Japan, the convulsions of twentieth ... Leer más

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  • Wu Jinglian

    Voice of Reform in China

    Edición de Barry J. Naughton ...
    Writings by Wu Jinglian map not only China's path to economic reform but also the intellectual evolution of China's most influential economist.For more than thirty years, Wu Jinglian has been widely regarded as China's most celebrated and influential economist. In the late 1970s, Wu (b. 1930) was one of a small group of economic thinkers who broke with Marxist concepts and learned the principles ... Leer más

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  • Go! Stock! Go! A Stock Market Guide for Enterprising Children and their Curious Parents*

    Go! Stock! Go! employs a cartoon-like "Dr. Seuss" style as it becomes the first truly user friendly book on stock and finance. A storybook follows the Johnson family as they learn the fundamentals of stocks and bonds, the mechanics of investing, and important lessons on risk and reward. The humorous illustrated story is simple enough for children and teenagers yet is also directed towards adults ... Leer más

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