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Author : Adeline Yen Mah
Publisher : Broadway
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : China
ISBN : UCSC:32106018627155
The author dicusses various aspects of Chinese culture, and traditions, including Buddhism, the "I Ching," Confucius, and others, and tells stories from her life as a child in China and later a doctor in England and America.
Author : Adeline Yen Mah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy, Chinese
ISBN : OCLC:972689613
Author : Adeline Yen Mah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:1302542182
Author : Christina DeCoursey
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443836883
This volume is the first of a series contributing to the academic study of Language Arts, as an English-language teaching paradigm. Language Arts has been widely used in native English-speaking countries including Australia and New Zealand. Its recent adoption into the second-language teaching curriculum in Hong Kong, as well as similar initiatives within secondary and tertiary education in mainland China, enhances its interest to scholars studying second-language teaching and learning in Asian contexts. This book offers many papers and discussions of interest to teachers, language professionals, scholars and administrators. Its chapters explore current topics in Language Arts research including trends in the rapprochment of stylistics and linguistics, teaching approaches and learning outcomes. At the same time, they offer diverse theoretical and methodological aproaches, of interest to the practitioner and policy-maker as well as the researcher. The value of this volume lies particularly in strengthening the theoretical and methodological foundations of Language Arts. The use of literature and the arts in humanist education has a long history within Europe, being traditionally appreciated for its ability to transform leaders, instill finer sensibilities and question social ills. In its postcolonial incarnations, as the traditional subject areas were informed by critical and linguistic theories, language arts subject areas were less often used, as they were understood to offer opportunities to analyse their functions as apology for leaders, coopting the young, and pacifying dissent but less often used to teach second language skills. Language Arts curricula arising since the 1980s have increasingly embraced authentic voices, styles and genres. Contemporary Language Arts curricula use literature to teach reading-based and communication skills, in conjunction with critical and creative thinking. The movement of English-language education beyond native English shores has placed Language Arts into a World Englishes frame, and therefore its curricula have included the teaching ethics, civics and intercultural sensitivity. The explosion of media and digital communications of the 1990s led to the adoption of media literacy as a crucial Language Arts skill. As digital innovations continue to impact the teaching of English, Language Arts has adopted multiliteracies. These developments are represented in the papers included in this volume.
Author : Adeline Yen Mah
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0006531547
Author of bestselling 'Falling Leaves' weaves together for the same audience her own personal experiences with the best of Chinese philosophy.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UCAL:B3837604
Articles on all aspects of anthropology.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3310 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015054057792
Author : Paul Kingsnorth
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781555979720
A provocative and urgent essay collection that asks how we can live with hope in “an age of ecocide” Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist—an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit. But as the environmental movement began to focus on “sustainability” rather than the defense of wild places for their own sake and as global conditions worsened, he grew disenchanted with the movement that he once embraced. He gave up what he saw as the false hope that residents of the First World would ever make the kind of sacrifices that might avert the severe consequences of climate change. Full of grief and fury as well as passionate, lyrical evocations of nature and the wild, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist gathers the wave-making essays that have charted the change in Kingsnorth’s thinking. In them he articulates a new vision that he calls “dark ecology,” which stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save us, and he argues for a renewed balance between the human and nonhuman worlds. This iconoclastic, fearless, and ultimately hopeful book, which includes the much-discussed “Uncivilization” manifesto, asks hard questions about how we’ve lived and how we should live.
Author : Alison Green
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780399181818
From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together
Author : His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Publisher : The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789171498717
Renunciation Through Wisdom is a collection of essays originally written in Bengali and published by Srila Prabhupada in India during the 1940s. They were later translated into English by his disciples. In these essays Srila Prabhupada expands on themes found in the Bhagavad-gita, discussing such topics as why people are averse to God, the ultimate causes of suffering, and how the world’s troubles are extraordinarily fleeting when seen from the standpoint of eternity. Students of Srila Prabhupada will recognize the same common-sense writing style in Renunciation Through Wisdom as in his later, well-known works such as Srimad-Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita As It Is, as well as his expertise at distilling the essence of India's ancient Vedic wisdom into powerful, convincing, practical, and easily readable directives.
Author : Zhuangzi,Thomas Merton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0811201031
Free renderings of selections from the works of Chuang-tzŭ, taken from various translations.
Author : Laozi
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191607257
'Of ways you may speak, but not the Perennial Way; By names you may name, but not the Perennial Name.' The best-loved of all the classical books of China and the most universally popular, the Daodejing or Classic of the Way and Life-Force is a work that defies definition. It encapsulates the main tenets of Daoism, and upholds a way of being as well as a philosophy and a religion. The dominant image is of the Way, the mysterious path through the whole cosmos modelled on the great Silver River or Milky Way that traverses the heavens. A life-giving stream, the Way gives rise to all things and holds them in her motherly embrace. It enables the individual, and society as a whole, to harmonize the disparate demands of daily life and achieve a more profound level of understanding. This new translation draws on the latest archaeological finds and brings out the word play and poetry of the original. Simple commentary accompanies the text, and the introduction provides further historical and interpretative context. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : John Bonner,George William Curtis,Henry Mills Alden,Samuel Stillman Conant,Montgomery Schuyler,John Foord,Richard Harding Davis,Carl Schurz,Henry Loomis Nelson,John Kendrick Bangs,George Brinton McClellan Harvey,Norman Hapgood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004961426
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590823274
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172022334822