Transforming China`s Economy In The Eighties, Feuchtwang, Stephen

Автор: Madeleine May Kunin
Название: Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties
ISBN: 1732854084 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781732854086
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Many readers are already familiar with Madeleine Kunin, the former three-term governor of Vermont, who served as the deputy secretary of education and ambassador to Switzerland under President Bill Clinton. In her newest book, a memoir entitled Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties, the topic is aging, but she looks well beyond the physical tolls and explores the emotional ones as well. And she has had an extraordinary life: governor, ambassador, feminist, wife, mother, professor, poet, and much, much more. As recently reported in the New York Times, a girl born today can expect to live to the age of ninety, on average (boys, on the other hand, can expect to live until age eighty-five). Life expectancy, for many, is increasing, yet people rarely contemplate the emotional changes that come alongside the physical changes of aging. Madeleine wants to change that. Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties takes a close and incisive look at what it is like to grow old. The book is a memoir, yet most important of all, it is an honest and positive look at aging and how it has affected her life. Cover photo (c) Todd Lockwood.

Автор: Charley Rosen
Название: Sugar: Micheal Ray Richardson, Eighties Excess, and the NBA
ISBN: 1496202163 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496202161
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The 1980s were arguably the NBA’s best decade, giving rise to Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and Michael Jordan. They were among the game’s greatest players who brought pro basketball out of its 1970s funk and made it faster, more fluid, and more exciting. Off the court the game was changing rapidly too, with the draft lottery, shoe commercials, and a style driven largely by excess.

One player who personified the eighties excess is Micheal Ray Richardson. During his eight-year career in the NBA (1978–86), he was a four-time All-Star, twice named to the All-Defense team, and the first player to lead the league in both assists and steals. He was also a heavy cocaine user who went on days-long binges but continued to be signed by teams that hoped he’d get straight. Eventually he was the first and only player to be permanently disqualified from the NBA for repeat drug use.

Tracking the rise, fall, and eventual redemption of Richardson throughout his playing days and subsequent coaching career, Charley Rosen describes the life?defining pitfalls Richardson and other players faced and considers key themes such as off?court and on?court racism, anti-Semitism, womanizing, allegations of point?shaving within the league, and drug and alcohol abuse by star players.

By constructing his various lines of narration around the polarizing figure of Richardson—equal parts basketball savant, drug addict, and pariah—Rosen illuminates some of the more unseemly aspects of the NBA during this period, going behind the scenes to provide an account of what the league’s darker side was like during its celebrated golden age.
 

Автор: Kevin L. Ferguson
Название: Eighties People
ISBN: 1137586389 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137586384
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Through an examination of 1980s America cultural texts and media, Kevin L. Through a range of texts, Eighties People shows how the commonplace reading of the 1980s as a superficial period of little importance disguises the decade`s real imperative: a struggle for self-definition outside of the limited set of options given by postmodern theorizing.

Автор: Patricia M Gibson, Alex B Turner
Название: Actions for Transforming the U.S. Energy Economy
ISBN: 1613244533 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781613244531
Издательство: Nova Science
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Описание: Explores the world of American folk art collectors - people who saw the beauty and value of the furnishings, implements, and itinerant portraits that mainstream America had hitherto relegated to attics, barns, and dust bins. Although pioneer collectors sought out and preserved objects that are today regarded as icons, little has been known of their motivations, aesthetics, or display techniques.

Автор: Carol Diaz-Granados et al, editors
Название: Transforming the landscape
ISBN: 1785706284 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785706288
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Описание: This new synthesis focuses on the widespread use of cosmograms in the vast repertoire of Mississippian rock art imagery, yielding new insights on ancient concepts of landscape, nature, ceremonialism, religion, and a more comprehensive perspective on Mississippian symbolism.

Автор: Yabuki, Susumu , Harner, Stephen M
Название: China`s New Political Economy
ISBN: 0367314959 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367314958
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Описание: This book presents the realities of China`s political economy, from China`s size and population to industrial reform, labor and unemployment, consumerism, trade, state finances and banking, balance of payments, government institution reform, U.S.-Chinese relations, and the political structure.

Автор: Bowles, Paul , White, Gordon
Название: The Political Economy Of China`s Financial Reforms
ISBN: 0367294877 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367294878
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Описание: This book analyzes the evolution of China`s financial reforms since 1979, providing a political economy perspective to explore the complex interactions among the political and economic actors-individual, group, or institutional-that affect reform outcomes.

Автор: Maisha T. Winn
Название: Justice on Both Sides: Transforming Education Through Restorative Justice
ISBN: 168253183X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682531839
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Описание: Examines such central critical thinking topics as informal fallacies, the difference between validity and truth, basic formal propositional logic, and how to extract arguments from texts. Turetzky aims to prevent confusion by explaining a number of important distinctions, including propositions vs. propositional attitudes, propositions vs. states of affairs, and logic vs. rhetoric vs. psychology.

Автор: Derek Conrad Murray
Название: Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights
ISBN: 178453286X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784532864
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: This book explores the political, conceptual, and aesthetic concerns of a post-Civil Rights generation of artists, as they imagine African-American identity through a more inclusive critical lens.

Автор: Penny A. Pasque, Noe Ortega, John C. Burkhardt, Marie P. Ting
Название: Transforming Understandings of Diversity in Higher Education: Demography, Democracy, & Discourse
ISBN: 1620363755 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781620363751
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Описание: This exciting new text examines one of the most important and yet elusive terms in higher education and society: What do we mean when we talk in a serious way about "diversity"?

A distinguished group of diversity scholars explore the latest discourse on diversity and how it is reflected in research and practice. The chapters trace how the discourse on diversity is newly shaped after many of the 20th century concepts of race, ethnicity, gender and class have lost authority. In the academic disciplines and in public discourse, perspectives about diversity have been rapidly shifting in recent years. This is especially true in the United States where demographic changes and political attitudes have prompted new observations--some which will clash with traditional frameworks.

This text brings together scholars whose research has opened up new ways to understand the complexities of diversity in higher education. Because the essential topic under consideration is changing so quickly, the editors of this volume also have asked the contributors to reflect on the paths their own scholarship has taken in their careers, and to see how they would relate their current conceptualization of diversity to one or more of three identified themes (demography, democracy and discourse). Each chapter ends with a candid graduate student interview of the author that provides an engaged picture of how the authors wrestle with one of the most complicated topics shaping them (and all of us) as individuals and as scholars. Of interest to anyone who is following the debates about diversity issues on our campuses, the book also offers a wonderful introduction to graduate students entering a discipline where critically important ideas are still very much alive for discussion.