Author: Michael Marme
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: converge, provinces, goods, suzhou
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2005-01-18
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0804731128
ISBN-13: 9780804731126

Before Shanghai, there was Suzhou: a city of canals and commerce, gardens and scholars, the largest noncapital city on earth between 1400 and 1850. This book shows how, though Suzhou entered the Ming dynasty defeated and suspect, interactions between the imperial state and local elites gave rise to a network of markets that fostered high-quality local specialization. Population growth and economic expansion followed, as did the acceptance of conspicuous consumption, critical distance from the imperial state, and the dissolution of traditional barriers between scholar-officials and merchants.

Author: Richard M. Gula
Publisher: Paulist Press
Keywords: converge, spirituality, morality, life
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1999-03
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 080913859X
ISBN-13: 9780809138593

Morality and spirituality-at first blush they don’t seem to be intimate partners. But spirituality is surely not relegated to the world of devotions, while the moral life should not be reduced to sins or individual acts of virtue. Based on the conviction that morality and spirituality converge when we explore the sort of persons we ought to become and the sort of lives we ought to lead, noted ethicist Richard Gula has written a simple, direct introduction to the Christian moral life. This work draws on four of the great biblical themes of Christian morality and spirituality to light u

Author: Charles Bastoni
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: blur, converge, view, points, differing
Number of Pages: 84
Published: 2007-12-17
List price: $14.50
ISBN-10: 1847993117
ISBN-13: 9781847993113

Largely autobiographical and disarmingly ordinary, this is a novel in stories that explores relationship, voice, identity, race, class, and dogma, through the lens of intimate first and third person narrative. It also takes a refreshingly critical and humorous look at Buddhism and New Age in America, as well as America’s increasingly alienating cultural and political stance in a rapidly changing global village.

Author: Ann Burlein
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: right, converge, christian, supremacy, cross, lift
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 082232864X
ISBN-13: 9780822328643

Both the Christian right and right-wing white supremacist groups aspire to overcome a culture they perceive as hostile to the white middle class, families, and heterosexuality. The family is threatened, they claim, by a secular humanist conspiracy that seeks to erase all memory of the nation’s Christian heritage by brainwashing its children through sex education, multiculturalism, and pop culture. In Lift High the Cross Ann Burlein looks at two groups that represent, in one case, the “hard” right, and in the other, the “soft” right—Pete Peters’s “Scriptures for America” and J

Author: Dorothy B. Christelow
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: direct, investment, japan, role, converge, giants
Number of Pages: 261
Published: 1995-03
List price: $97.95
ISBN-10: 1563241145
ISBN-13: 9781563241147

Author: Scott Donaton
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: converge, survive, industries, advertising, vine, entertainment, madison
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-10-17
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0071462163
ISBN-13: 9780071462167

The inside scoop on innovations and relationships that are revolutionizing the industry. . From the sharp decline in CD sales to the fragmentation of network TV audiences, the business models of the entertainment and advertising industries are showing severe cracks. Advertising Age editor Scott Donaton explains why these industries must converge to survive, overcoming hurdles and creating business models that attract today’s consumer.. . PRAISE FOR MADISON And VINE. . "A superb analysis of the intersection of Madison and Vine. This convergence is the future financial model of the e

Authors:Christophe J. Anderson, Carsten Zelle,
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: merge, converge, collide, electorates, elections, change, german, stability
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 1998-09-30
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0275962547
ISBN-13: 9780275962548

Anderson, Zelle, and their contributors provide in-depth analyses of electoral trends in Germany--the one country in which an electorate that had maintained stable democracy after World War II was enlarged by compatriots who had experienced decades of socialist rule.