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  • The Globalization of Chinese Propaganda

    International Power and Domestic Political Cohesion

    by K. Edney ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book investigates the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party's crucial goal of using the propaganda system to consolidate its power within the domestic political environment and its prominent recent attempts to use propaganda overseas to increase China's international power. ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Remapping the World in East Asia

    Toward a Global History of the “Ricci Maps”

    by Mario Cams, Professor Elke Papelitzky, Dr. Marco Caboara, Fangyi Cheng, Matthew Edney, Lin Hong, Florin-Stefan Morar, Richard A. Pegg, Jeanhyoung Soh0, Nicolas Standaert1, Yongjie Wang2, Yang Yulei3 ...
    When European missionaries arrived in East Asia in the sixteenth century, they entered ongoing conversations about cosmology and world geography. Soon after, intellectuals in Ming China, Edo Japan, and Joseon Korea selectively encompassed elements of the late Renaissance worldview, leading to the creation of new artifacts that mitigated old and new knowledge in creative ways. Simultaneously, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Cartography

    The Ideal and Its History

    by Matthew H. Edney ...
    "In his most ambitious work to date, [Edney] questions the very concept of 'cartography' to argue that this flawed ideal has hobbled the study of maps." —Susan Schulten, author of A History of America in 100 MapsOver the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nutritional Modelling for Pigs and Poultry

    by Hilda C P Hilda C P, Melina A Melina A, Edney Pereira Edney Pereira, Daniella C.Z. Daniella C.Z., Juliano C P Juliano C P, Jean-Yves Jean-Yves, Neil S Neil S, Antonio Sergio Antonio Sergio, Colin Fisher, Frank Frank, Edgar Edgar, Candido Candido, Virginie Virginie, Normand Normand, Jaap Jaap ...
    Modelling is a useful tool for decision making in complex agro-industrial scenarios. Containing a selection of the papers presented at the International Symposium of Modelling in Pig and Poultry Production 2013, this book brings together the best and most recent academic work on modelling in the pig and poultry industry, with a particular emphasis on nutrition. It reviews basic modelling concepts, ... Read more

    $59.89 USD

  • Mapping an Empire

    The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765–1843

    by Matthew H. Edney ...
    In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain used modern survey techniques to not only create and define the spatial image of its Empire, but also to legitimate its colonialist activities."There is much to be praised in this book. It is an excellent history of how India came to be painted red in the nineteenth century. But more ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Victorian Ecocriticism

    The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice

    by Julie M. Barst, Natalie Rose Cox, Michelle J. Deininger, Sue Edney, Marlee Furhrmann, Jillmarie Murphy, Adrian Tait, Akemi Yoshida, Saeko Yoshikawa, Laura Dassow Walls ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Victorian Ecocriticism: The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice aims to take up the challenge that Lawrence Buell lays out in The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination (2005). Buell decries: “For in order to bring ‘environmental justice into ecocriticism,’ a few more articles or conference sessions won’t suffice. There must be ‘a fundamental ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Straight Talk About Breast Cancer

    From Diagnosis to Recovery

    by Margaret Block, Suzanne W. Braddock, John J. Edney, Jane M. Kercher, Melanie Morrissey Clark ...
    This volume serves as an accessible and practical guide for answering the questions of women with breast cancer as well as a resource for easing the concerns of the spouse and family members of breast cancer patients. Drawing on the personal experiences of a breast cancer survivor and the professional expertise of medical professionals, this guide details the various treatment options for cancer ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Teaching History with Musicals

    by Kathryn Edney ...
    Series series Teaching History with...
    Popular media has become a common means by which students understand both the present and the past. Consequently, more teachers are using various forms of popular culture as pedagogical tools in the history classroom. With their resurgent popularity—on both the large and small screens—musicals can be used to engage students as an entertaining source of historical understanding. In order to ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • If I Close My Eyes Now

    by Edney Silvestre ...
    Translated by Nick Caistor ...
    If I close my eyes now, I can still feel her blood on my fingers. If only I had closed my eyes then, or kept my mouth shut, not told anyone about our discovery by the swimming hole, we could have gone back to dreaming about spaceships.A horrifying discovery by two young boys while playing in a mango plantation marks the end of their childhood. As they finally open their eyes to the adult world, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Soft Power With Chinese Characteristics

    China’s Campaign for Hearts and Minds

    Edited by Kingsley Edney, Stanley Rosen, Ying Zhu ...
    This book examines the Chinese Communist Party’s attempts to improve China’s image around the world, thereby increasing its "soft power." This soft, attractive form of power is crucial if China is to avoid provoking an international backlash against its growing military and economic might.The volume focuses on the period since Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, and is global in scope, examining the ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Happiness Is Easy

    by Edney Silvestre ...
    Translated by Nick Caistor ...
    Olavo Bettencourt is an important man, a man of spin. With Brazil adjusting to the new idea of democracy, his PR firm holds the balance of power in its hands. Which has also made Olavo very rich, if not very popular.Loathed by his trophy wife and mired in a web of political corruption that spreads from Sao Paolo to Switzerland, Israel and New York, Olavo is an obvious target for extortion. And ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Introducing Time

    A Graphic Guide

    by Craig Callender ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    What is time? The 5th-century philosopher St Augustine famously said that he knew what time was, so long as no one asked him.Is time a fourth dimension similar to space or does it flow in some sense? And if it flows, does it make sense to say how fast? Does the future exist? Is time travel possible? Why does time seem to pass in only one direction?These questions and others are among the deepest ... Read more

    $6.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus