Author: Stephen Aro
Publisher: Indiana University Pre
Keywords: frontier, history, trans, appalachian, state, borderland, confluence, missouri, american, border
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2005-11-10
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0253346916
ISBN-13: 9780253346919

In the heart of North America, the Missouri, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers come together, uniting waters from west, north, and east on a journey to the south. This is the region that Stephen Aron calls the "American Confluence." His innovative book examines the history of that region--a home to the Osage, a colony exploited by the French, a new frontier explored by Lewis and Clark. Aron focuses on the region’s transition from a place of overlapping borderlands to one of oppositional Border States. American Confluence is a lively account that should delight amateur and professional histori

Author: Stephen Fly
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: nation, resilient, rebuilding, disaster, edge
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-02-20
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1400065518
ISBN-13: 9781400065516

Why do we remain unprepared for the next terrorist attack or natural disaster?Where are we most vulnerable?How have we allowed our government to be so negligent?Who will keep you and your family safe?Is America living on borrowed time?How can we become a more resilient nation?Americans are in denial when it comes to facing up to how vulnerable our nation is to disaster, be it terrorist attack or act of God. We have learned little from the cataclysms of September 11 and Hurricane Katrina. When it comes to catastrophe, America is living on borrowed time–and squandering it. In this new book, le

Author: Stephen Teo
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: cinema, traditions, world, tradition, wuxia, arts, chinese, martial
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-03-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0748632867
ISBN-13: 9780748632862

The traditional martial arts genre known as wuxia (literally "martial chivalry") became popular the world over through the phenomenal hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). This book unveils the rich layers of the wuxia tradition as it developed in the early Shanghai cinema of the late 1920s and in the Hong Kong and Taiwan film industries of the 1950s and beyond. Stephen Teo follows the tradition from its beginnings in Shanghai cinema to its rise as a serialized form in silent cinema and its prohibition in 1931. He shares the fantastic characteristics of the genre, their relationship to f

Author: Stephen Few
Publisher: Analytics Press
Keywords: graphs, enlighten, tables, designing, numbers, show
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0970601999
ISBN-13: 9780970601995

Tables and graphs can more adequately communicate important business information when they reflect the good design practices discussed in this practical guide to effective table and graph design. Information is provided on the fundamental concepts of table and graph design, the numbers and knowledge most suitable for display in a graphic form, the best tabular means to communicate certain ideas, and the component-level aspects of design. Analysts, technicians, and managers will appreciate the solid theory behind this outline for ensuring that tables and graphs present quantitative business inf

Author: Stephen Fry
Publisher: Soho Press
Keywords: liar
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1994-06-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 156947012X
ISBN-13: 9781569470121

Fry’s hilarious novel has won praise from critics everywhere, and it hit the very top of bestseller lists in England. Its bisexual hero is a diabolically brilliant pathological liar with the wit of a Truman Capote and the moral compunctions of an amoeba.

Author: Stephen May
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: research, amp, educational, studies, social, education, multiculturalism, rethinking, multicultural, antiracist, critical
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1998-12-01
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 0750707682
ISBN-13: 9780750707688

This book aims to bring together two movements - multiculturalism and anti-racism - which, though having aims in common, have been at arms length over the years. Differences of emphasis have meant that classroom practice has been the natural realm of multiculturalism, while anti-racism has been dissatisfied with an approach that accentuates life-style at the expense of challenging or changing the racism that minority students experience. In these debates, there has also been a concentration on culturally specific topics, and this book goes beyond the national boundaries to find how internation

Author: Stephen K. Ma
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: china, mao, post, reform, administrative
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 1996-11-21
List price: $51.00
ISBN-10: 0761804994
ISBN-13: 9780761804994

This book analyzes China’s bureaucratic behavior since the inauguration of administrative reform in the late 1970s. Although bureaucratic behavior in China in the past decade was increasingly corrupted, this aspect of China’s post-Mao reform has not been subjected to a rigorous scrutiny. This book explores the gulf between desired and the actual bureaucratic behavior among China’s public administrators. The author argues that this behavioral gap in China’s modernization stems from several factors including the nation’s cultural heritage, the ruling party’s a