Authors:Jeremy Brown, Paul G. Pickowicz, Jeremy Brown, Paul G
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: republic, china, people, years, victory, dilemmas
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2010-03-15
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0674047028
ISBN-13: 9780674047020

This illuminating work examines the social, cultural, political, and economic dimensions of the Communist takeover of China. Instead of dwelling on elite politics and policy-making processes, Dilemmas of Victory seeks to understand how the 1949-1953 period was experienced by various groups, including industrialists, filmmakers, ethnic minorities, educators, rural midwives, philanthropists, stand-up comics, and scientists. A stellar group of authors that includes Frederic Wakeman, Elizabeth Perry, Sherman Cochran, Perry Link, Joseph Esherick, and Chen Jian shows that the Communists sometim

Authors:Jeremy Brown, Paul G. Pickowicz, Jeremy Brown, Paul G
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: republic, china, people, years, victory, dilemmas
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2008-01-31
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 0674026160
ISBN-13: 9780674026162

This illuminating work examines the social, cultural, political, and economic dimensions of the Communist takeover of China. Instead of dwelling on elite politics and policy-making processes, Dilemmas of Victory seeks to understand how the 1949-1953 period was experienced by various groups, including industrialists, filmmakers, ethnic minorities, educators, rural midwives, philanthropists, stand-up comics, and scientists. A stellar group of authors that includes Frederic Wakeman, Elizabeth Perry, Sherman Cochran, Perry Link, Joseph Esherick, and Chen Jian shows that the Communists sometim

Author: Paul B. Brown
Publisher: AMACOM
Keywords: land, nonfiction, book, takes, really, confidential, insider, guide, publishing
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2004-03-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0814472265
ISBN-13: 9780814472262

Any number of books explain "how to write a book," but getting a book published is the hard part. Aside from talent, writers need a strategy for distinguishing their efforts from countless others. (No, don’t use pink paper.) Paul B. Brown has been an author on a dozen books with sales totaling more than 2 million copies. So you could say he knows what it takes. In Getting Published, Brown offers a straightforward approach to test-marketing book ideas, creating strong proposals, reaching the right editors and agent, and more. Equally important, he provides inside tips for how to

Author: Paul Brown
Publisher: Tonto Press
Keywords: championships, world, football, unofficial
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2006-07-24
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 0955218314
ISBN-13: 9780955218316

Discover international football’s REAL champions! We all love the official World Cup, but it only comes around every four years...Welcome to the unofficial alternative. What if football’s world championships pitched teams into a continuous series of boxing-style title matches running way back to the very first international game in 1872? That’s the idea behind the Unofficial Football World Championships (UFWC) - probably the least-known but most exciting football competition on Earth. The UFWC title has been contested by almost 100 nations at more than 800 matches spanning ov

Author: Paul Brown
Publisher: Superelastic
Keywords: caper, rocketbelt
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-06-29
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0956227007
ISBN-13: 9780956227003

When three men set out on a quest to build a real-life Buck Rogers-style flying machine, their obsession with the Rocketbelt 2000, or "Pretty Bird", shattered their friendship and set in motion an astonishing chain of events involving theft, deception, assault, a bizarre kidnapping, a ten million dollar lawsuit and a horrifically brutal murder. From sci-fi to reality, this is the incredible true story of the amazing rocketbelt. "A delight to read. Genuinely stranger than fiction. Recommended." - Popular Science UK.

Author: Paul Martin Brown
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
Keywords: ladies, guide, tresses, canada, bur, states, oak, orchids, pocket, native, spiranthes, united
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 158729656X
ISBN-13: 9781587296567

Native orchids are increasingly threatened by pressure from population growth and development but, nonetheless, still present a welcome surprise to observant hikers in every state and province. Compiled and illustrated by long-time orchid specialist Paul Martin Brown, this pocket guide to ladies’-tresses is the first in a series that will cover all the wild orchids of the United States and Canada. Brown provides general distributional information, time of flowering, and habitat requirements for each species as well as a complete list of hybrids and the many different growth and color forms

Author: Paul Graves-Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: culture, modern, materiality, matter
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2000-08-10
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0415167043
ISBN-13: 9780415167048

The modern world around us is more mysterious than we think. This book looks beneath the surface of modern material culture to ask how the very stuff of our world has shaped our societies, and how and why it is that we have made the material culture that surrounds us. Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture offers a new approach to the study of contemporary objects, from academics prominent in disciplines ranging from archaeology to philosophy and psychology. All have diverse perspectives on what material culture is, but all are equally concerned with how the very material nature of artefacts c