University: 748 books

Book cover of Ethics in Early China
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Early Chinese ethics has attracted increasing scholarly and social attention in recent years, as the virtue ethics movement in Western philosophy sparked renewed interest in Confucianism and Daoism. Meanwhile, intellectuals and social commentators throughout greater China have looked to the Chinese...
Book cover of Campaign for President

Campaign for President

The Managers Look at 2008

by , The Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009

Every four years following the presidential election, the Institute of Politics at Harvard University convenes a distinguished gathering of campaign managers, media commentators, and interested political observers to reflect on presidential campaign strategies from the earliest primaries through Election...
Book cover of Transnational Feminism and Women’s Movements in Post-1997 Hong Kong
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This study demonstrates that recognizing the differences of the women activists promoting disparate agendas leads to a fuller appreciation of the connections and commonalities in the relations among those involved. Transnational Feminism and Women’s Movements in Post-1997 Hong Kong: Solidarity Beyond...
Book cover of Quantitative Human Physiology
by Joseph J Feher, Ph.D., Cornell University
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012

Quantitative Human Physiology: An Introduction presents a course in quantitative physiology developed for undergraduate students of Biomedical Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University. The text covers all the elements of physiology in nine units: (1) physical and chemical foundations; (2) cell...
Book cover of PTSD and the Politics of Trauma in Israel
by Keren Friedman-Peleg, Hebrew University Magnes Press
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, has long been defined as a mental trauma that solely affects the individual. However, against the backdrop of contemporary Israel, what role do families, health experts, donors, and the national community at large play in interpreting and responding to this...
Book cover of Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths
by Vitalij K. Pecharsky, Karl A. Gschneidner, B.S. University of Detroit 1952Ph.D. Iowa State University 1957
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011

This continuing authoritative series deals with the chemistry, materials science, physics and technology of the rare earth elements in an integrated manner. Each chapter is a comprehensive, up-to-date, critical review of a particular segment of the field. The work offers the researcher and graduate...
Book cover of Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths
by Vitalij K. Pecharsky, Karl A. Gschneidner, B.S. University of Detroit 1952Ph.D. Iowa State University 1957
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011

Optical spectroscopy has been instrumental in the discovery of many lanthanide elements. In return, these elements have always played a prominent role in lighting devices and light conversion technologies (Auer mantles, incandescent lamps, lasers, cathode-ray and plasma displays). They are also presently...
Book cover of Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths
by Vitalij K. Pecharsky, Karl A. Gschneidner, B.S. University of Detroit 1952Ph.D. Iowa State University 1957
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010

This continuing authoritative series deals with the chemistry, materials science, physics and technology of the rare earth elements in an integrated manner. Each chapter is a comprehensive, up-to-date, critical review of a particular segment of the field. The work offers the researcher and graduate...
Book cover of Independent Language Learning
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Independent learning is not a new concept for language educators but while teachers, curriculum designers and policy makers have embraced it as underpinning modern notions of education, it remains a dynamic and vibrant field for researchers and academics who aim to broaden its scope and deepen our...
Book cover of Return Migration and Identity
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The global trend for immigrants to return home has unique relevance for Hong Kong. This work of cross-cultural psychology explores many personal stories of return migration. The author captures in dozens of interviews the anxieties, anticipations, hardships and flexible world perspectives of migrants...
Book cover of Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths
by Vitalij K. Pecharsky, Karl A. Gschneidner, B.S. University of Detroit 1952Ph.D. Iowa State University 1957
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2009

This continuing authoritative series deals with the chemistry, materials science, physics and technology of the rare earth elements in an integrated manner. Each chapter is a comprehensive, up-to-date, critical review of a particular segment of the field. The work offers the researcher and graduate...
Book cover of The Memoirs of Jin Luxian
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Jin Luxian is considered by many to be one of China’s most controversial religious figures. Educated by the Jesuits, he joined the Society of Jesus and was ordained priest in 1945 before continuing his studies in Europe. In 1951 he made the dangerous decision to return to the newly established People’s...
Book cover of Collaborative Parish Leadership

Collaborative Parish Leadership

Contexts, Models, Theology

by William A. Clark, Reinhard Feiter, Daniel Gast
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016

Collaborative Parish Leadership draws on the experience, strengths, challenges, and insights of the long-term pastoral-academic partnerships out of which it has grown. These include “Project INSPIRE,” a pastoral team-formation project sponsored by Loyola University and the Archdiocese of Chicago...
Book cover of For Gods, Ghosts and Ancestors
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Offerings of various kinds food, incense, paper money and figures have been central to Chinese culture for millennia, and as a public, visual display of spiritual belief, they are still evident today in China and in Chinatowns around the world. Using Hong Kong as a case study, Janet Scott looks at...
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