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This volume develops new strategies for reading, contextualizing, and interpreting the long Chinese tradition of women's biography. Drawing upon a vast array of sources--from formal biography to poetry, letters, and oral interviews--the authors examine how women's biography served particular cultural, political, and world-making projects, and how it illuminates these projects in new ways by highlighting tensions within and between them.

This book examines an important aspect of the relationship between higher education and the public - especially secondary - system of schooling in Britain.

Higher education has influenced secondary schools in a number of ways, and not least in the development of school examinations. The contributors to this book - each of them experts in their fields analyse the contributions made by some university luminaries, most of them still household names. These personalities have contributed in a variety of ways such as:

• becoming Ministers of Education
• contributing...

This book reveals and interprets the rich diversity of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Chinese approaches to their own past and the modern West through the lens of the woman question. Writers and activists who engaged in debates over this question variously appropriated biographies of women--a genre with a 2,000-year history in China and a new political salience in the early twentieth century. Judge maps the ways these individuals used historical Chinese and modern Western women's biographies to promote competing visions of female virtue, talent, and heroism, and, ultimately, to advance...

Applying for grants, bidding for project funding or helping to sell products are part of the day to day life of a research scientist. Drawing on experience at leading research institutes and companies, the authors of this book turned to best practice in marketing to make 'selling science' interesting and rewarding for scientists.The central thesis of the book is that effective marketing means planning for the impact of research, and this is a skill that every scientist can easily acquire. It sets out a structured approach, supported by tools, checklists and hints from experience so that...

These days, even a quick glance at the news can be disheartening. Much of modern life seems defined by anger, substance abuse, depression, and anxiety. Coupled with personal failure it can all be just too much. Fortunately, many manage to rise above the challenges and exist in a state of peaceful joy. How do they do it?

For Peter Judge, it is his faith in Christ that gets him through the day. Blessed by happiness, his alcoholism no longer controls his life-all thanks to a lot of old wisdom and faith-based methods that he shares in his new book.

Using a bridge metaphor, Judge...

As lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex identities increasingly secure legal recognition across the globe, these formal equality gains are contradicted by the continued presence of violence. Such violence emerges as a political pressure point for contestations of identity and power within wider systems of global and local inequality. Discourses of homophobia-related violence constitute subjectivities that enact violence and that are rendered vulnerable to it, as well as shaping political possibilities to act against violence.

Blackwashing Homophobia critiques prevailing...

This book examines an important aspect of the relationship between higher education and the public - especially secondary - system of schooling in Britain.

Higher education has influenced secondary schools in a number of ways, and not least in the development of school examinations. The contributors to this book - each of them experts in their fields analyse the contributions made by some university luminaries, most of them still household names. These personalities have contributed in a variety of ways such as:

• becoming Ministers of Education
• contributing...

"Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few here be that find it." Matthew 7:13-14. I walk the road less travelled, but it was not always so ... As a young man, I thought the road less travelled was relying on my own strength to break out of poverty and begin life anew. I thought I had all the answers. I was wrong. This is a book about the road less travelled. It is a work about the power of God, and the...