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Throughout the ages, cunning and brave heroes have reached deep inside themselves to find the strength to triumph over long odds. Aspiring black belts will love this action-packed collection of twenty-six stories about the great heroes of the martial arts and their many paths to victory.
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The legendary Bruce Lee-Kung Fu master and greatest martial artist of his time
Miyamoto Musashi-the "greatest swordsman in history"...
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1952 On June 26, 1952, twenty-five men and five women entered the waiting room of a railway station in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. If they had been white people of European descent, they would have gone unnoticed. But they were black South Africans who were violating the waiting room's "Europeans Only" sign as part of the Campaign of Defiance against Unjust Laws. Instituted by the African National Congress (ANC), the campaign aimed to peacefully...
3643) Mao Zedong: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Chairman of the Communist Party of China, the Cultu
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Explore the Captivating Life of Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong is recognized alongside Chiang Kai-Shek and Sun Yat-Sen as one of the most influential figures of modern Chinese history. His political control of the nation waned during his later years, but he remained the Chairman of the Community Party of China since it was established in 1949 to the day he died (September 9, 1976). As the founding father of the People's Republic of China and the centerpiece...
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In this sweeping portrait of the political culture of the early People's Republic of China (PRC), Chang-tai Hung mines newly available sources to vividly reconstruct how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tightened its rule after taking power in 1949. With political-cultural projects such as reconstructing Tiananmen Square to celebrate the Communist Revolution; staging national parades; rewriting official histories; mounting a visual propaganda campaign,...
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During the Cold War, both Chinese and American officials employed a wide range of migration policies and practices to pursue legitimacy, security, and prestige. They focused on allowing or restricting immigration, assigning refugee status, facilitating student exchanges, and enforcing deportations. The Diplomacy of Migration focuses on the role these practices played in the relationship between the United States and the Republic of China both before...
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Happy New Year! Lunar New Year, that is! In this festive title, readers can learn all about this popular holiday and how to celebrate it. Step-by-step instructions show readers how to make common Lunar New Year foods, colorful decorations, and more! Short introductions for each project teach about the history or meanings behind the traditions. Readers won't need luck to throw a great party with this title!
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"Winner of a 2018 Gourmand World Cookbook Award, U.S. National Winner in "Tea"" "Winner of the 2018 PCCBS Book Prize, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies" "Co-Winner of the 2018 ASFS Book Award, Association for the Study of Food and Society" "Winner of the 2018 Jerry Bentley Prize in World History, American Historical Association" Erika Rappaport is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of...
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This travel companion is a proven authority on Tokyo's sex industry and all of its infamous pleasures. There are other books about Tokyo's exotic night life, but for the first time ever the Tokyo Pink Guide gives a hands-on account of Tokyo's vast array of "Pink" pleasures. Whether you are male or female, straight or gay, this book has something for every dedicated pleasure seeker.
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It's amazing how 100 key words and phrases provide instant communication! Do you want to speak simple Mandarin Chinese but are too busy to study it? Are you visiting China for a short time and want a Mandarin phrase book to help you communicate in the Chinese Language? If so, this is the book for you. It includes all the essential content necessary to speak basic Mandarin. The idea of Instant Chinese is simple learn 100 words and phrases and say...
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Extrait: "En relisant dernièrement diverses notes de voyage, je fus frappé par le caractère d'actualité tout particulier que présente la partie qui a trait à une excursion de plusieurs mois que je fis il y a quelque temps dans l'intérieur de la Chine et, par le conseil de plusieurs amis, je me suis décidé à en livrer le récit à l'impression. Cette publication me paraît d'autant plus opportune qu'en ce moment l'attention publique est mise...
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The Chinese New Year is an important Chinese festival that is celebrated by Chinese people worldwide. Readers will learn that people celebrate this holiday by giving gifts, praying for good fortune, decorating with red and lanterns, and enjoying time with family and friends. Complete with simple text and colorful photographs. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Junior is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division...
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In “Narratives of Civic Duty”, Aram Hur investigates the impulse behind a sense of civic duty in democracies. Why do some citizens feel a responsibility to vote, pay taxes, or take up arms in defense of one's country? Through comparing democratic societies in East Asia and elsewhere, Hur shows that the sense of obligation to be a good citizen-upon which the resilience of a democracy depends-emerges from a force long thought to be detrimental to...
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[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny] A Young Sublatern fights for his life and for glory during the Indian Mutiny, engaged at the bloody siege of Delhi and during the advance to relieve the besieged British Residence at Lucknow. General Sir Hugh Gough won his Victoria Cross while riding with the famous Hodson's Horse during the Indian Mutiny; this book,...
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It's amazing how 100 key words and phrases provide instant communication! Do you want to speak simple Thai but are too busy to study it? Are you visiting Thailand for a short time and want a Thai phrase book to help you communicate? If so, this is the book for you. It includes all the necessary information to speak basic Thai. The idea of Instant Thai is simple learn 100 words and phrases and say 1, 000 things. The trick is knowing which 100 words...
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[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny]. The fascinating diary of an officer of the 1st Madras Fusiliers who fought with General Havelock's column to the relief of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny. "A part of the corps [1st Madras Fusiliers] was amongst the first, to arrive at Allahabad...and on the 7th July they started on their perilous march... Fighting...
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Whether you want to visit Buddhist temples, sample Bangkok's street food, indulge in a Thai massage, or shop floating markets, the local Fodor's travel experts in Thailand are here to help! Fodor's Essential Thailand guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been fully-redesigned with an easy-to-read layout,...
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As the "world's factory" China exerts an enormous pressure on workers around the world. Many nations have had to adjust to a new global political and economic reality, and so has China. Its workers and its official trade union federation have had to contend with rapid changes in industrial relations. Anita Chan argues that Chinese labor is too often viewed from a prism of exceptionalism and too rarely examined comparatively, even though valuable insights...
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In a comprehensive and theoretically novel analysis, Take Back Our Future unveils the causes, processes, and implications of the 2014 seventy-nine-day occupation movement in Hong Kong known as the Umbrella Movement. The essays presented here by a team of experts with deep local knowledge ask: how and why had a world financial center known for its free-wheeling capitalism transformed into a hotbed of mass defiance and civic disobedience?
Take Back...
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This is a completely up-to-date Indonesian mini dictionary. Tuttle Mini Indonesian Dictionary is ideal for any application where a handy and portable dictionary is required. Intended for use by tourists, students, and business people traveling to Indonesia or as an Indonesian language study reference Mini Indonesian Dictionary is an essential tool for communicating in Indonesian. It's useful pocket-sized format and easy-to read type will make translating...
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Dina Bennett's on the road again-and she can't stop! Having completed the 7,800-mile Peking to Paris Classic Car Challenge while braving carsickness and patching rocky marital relations, she's once more in over her head, enduring 100,000 miles of road trips through the world's out-of-the-way places.
Drawn to strange foods and intriguing views into the kaleidoscope of local life, and with a knack for getting into-and out of-awkward situations, Dina...
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