stanford university press feb 2006 (7 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Docherty has previously published a number of distinguished books, but this one might be seen as the culmination of his years of thought and work on the humanities and their social roles. . . . The scope of Docherty's knowledgeis truly amazing. . . . [He] writes with a quite unusual combination of passionate commitment and temperate clarity about difficult matters.' --J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'The first thing that makes Fong's book stand out from others is its timely presentation of the consequences of China's one-child policy, rather than being a discussion of the phenomenon in its early stage. Now that Chinese singletons are reaching adulthood, the consequences of the one-child policy have become a powerful social force driving Chinese society in an unprecedented direction. The second thing that makes Fong's book unique is its ethnographical research. Her in-depth personal experience enables her to observe and reveal the social reality of contemporary China. This vividly presented reality shows the outcome of the one-child policy interrelated and integrated with the political, educational, cultural, and economic systems of China.'--CHOICE'Vanessa L. Fong's Only Hope: Coming of Age under China's One Child Policy is an enjoyable read and an informative study of only children in urban China.[T]he main strength of Fong's book lies in the combination of solid survey data with equally solid information gathered through interviews and everyday observations.Fong's book will be of great interest to scholars and graduate students of contemporary China. It will be of particular interest to those who want to learn more about urban China's education system, which is fiercely competitive and demanding.'--The China Journal.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'There is no doubt that business plays a significant role in environmental policy making and implementation, and rightly so. Yet there is little empirical data on why business groups take the positions they do, how they affect media coverage and public policy development, and the degree to which they affect decision making. These are critically important questions about the role of business in environmental policy, and Corporate America and Environmental Policy significantly advances our understanding of them.'--Michael Kraft, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay'Kamieniecki's book is more thorough and inclusive than any other work on the link between business and environmental policy. The extent of influence of business groups in environmental and natural resource policy is a highly contested area, and the author's analysis is quite balanced.'--Helen Ingram, University of California, Irvine.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This is the first book to examine extensively the religious aspects of Chinese alchemy. Its main focus is the relation of alchemy to the Daoist traditions of the early medieval period (third to sixth centuries). It shows how alchemy contributed to and was tightly integrated into the elaborate body of doctrines and practices that Daoists built at that time, from which Daoism as we know it today evolved. The book also clarifies the origins of Chinese alchemy and the respective roles of alchemy and meditation in self-cultivation practices. It contains full translations of three important medieval texts, all of them accompanied by running commentaries, making available for the first time in English the gist of the early Chinese alchemical corpus.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book adds to the environmental politics and policy literature by conducting a comprehensive investigation of business influence in agenda building and environmental policymaking in the United States over time. As part of this investigation, the author presents an analysis of six cases in which private firms were involved in disputes concerning pollution control and natural resource management. >.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - How often do working-class children obtain college degrees and then pursue professional careers Conversely, how frequently do the children of doctors and lawyers fail to enter high status careers upon completion of their schooling As inequalities of wealth and income have increased in industrialized nations over the past 30 years, have patterns of between-generation mobility changed >.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'So clearly a labor of love, Grasses of Remembrance deserves the widest possible audience.'--Monumenta Nipponica.