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Advanced Chinese
Intention, Strategy, and Communication: With Online Media
Written and designed for advanced learners of Chinese, this book and its accompanying audio program focus on the variety of linguistic strategies that are essential in real-life communications. The lessons include texts...
Alexander McQueen
Unseen
Never-before-seen photos of McQueen’s brilliantly creative world from an exclusive backstage photographer Alexander McQueen, the iconic designer whose untimely death in 2010 left the fashion world reeling...
The Beinecke Library of Yale University
The Beinecke Library, one of the world’s greatest repository of books and manuscripts documenting the humanities, is also one of the gems of 20th-century modernist architecture. This book takes the visitor through the...
The Language Demands of School
Putting Academic English to the Test
The Language Demands of School is an edited volume describing an extensive empirical base for academic English testing, instruction and professional development. The chapters comprise empirical research by Bailey...
Traditional Buildings of Britain
The third edition of the leading introduction to traditional buildings contains a completely new chapter that carries forward the story to the Vernacular Revival of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and shows its...
Forgive Us Our Debts
The Intergenerational Dangers of Fiscal Irresponsibility
A plain-English explanation of federal deficits and debt and the threat they pose to our nation and our children’s future In this immensely timely book, Andrew Yarrow brings the sometimes eye...
Reading Revolutions
The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England
This fascinating book—the first comprehensive study of reading and politics in early modern England—examines how texts of that period were produced and disseminated and how readers interpreted and were influenced by them...
Liberty for All
Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality
In the opening chapter of this book, Elizabeth Price Foley writes, “The slow, steady, and silent subversion of the Constitution has been a revolution that Americans appear to have slept through, unaware that the blessings of...
Falun Gong
The End of Days
The world first took notice of a religious group called Falun Gong on April 25, 1999, when more than 10,000 of its followers protested before the Chinese Communist headquarters in Beijing. Falun Gong investigates...
Network Power
The Social Dynamics of Globalization
Large Type / Large Print Edition
A new framework for understanding how globalization works For all the attention globalization has received in recent years, little consensus has emerged concerning how best to understand it....