Meritocracy and Its Discontentsinvestigates the wider social, political, religious, and economic dimensions of the Gaokao, China's national college entrance exam, as well as the complications that arise from its existence. Each year, some nine million high school seniors in China take the Gaokao, which determines college admission and provides a direct but difficult route to an urban lifestyle for China's hundreds of millions of rural residents. But with college graduates struggling to find good jobs, some are questioning the exam's legitimacy—and, by extension, the fairness of Chinese society. Chronicling the experiences of underprivileged youth, Zachary M. Howlett's research illuminates how people remain captivated by the exam because they regard it as fateful—an event both consequential and undetermined. He finds that the exam enables people both to rebel against the social hierarchy and to achieve recognition within it.
In Meritocracy and Its Discontents, Howlett contends that the Gaokao serves as a pivotal rite of passage in which people strive to personify cultural virtues such as diligence, composure, filial devotion, and divine favor.
The study of slavery in the Americas generally assumes a basic racial hierarchy: Africans or those of African descent are usually the slaves, and white people usually the slaveholders. In this unique interdisciplinary work of historical archaeology, anthropologist Katherine Hayes draws on years of fieldwork on Shelter Island’s Sylvester Manor to demonstrate how racial identity was constructed and lived before plantation slavery was racialized by the legal codification of races.
Using the historic Sylvester Manor Plantation site turned archaeological dig as a case study, Hayes draws on artifacts and extensive archival material to present a rare picture of northern slavery on one of the North’s first plantations. The Manor was built in the mid-17th century by British settler Nathaniel Sylvester, whose family owned Shelter Island until the early 18th century and whose descendants still reside in the Manor House. There, as Hayes demonstrates, white settlers, enslaved Africans, and Native Americans worked side by side. While each group played distinct roles on the Manor and in the larger plantation economy of which Shelter Island was part, their close collaboration and cohabitation was essential for the Sylvester family’s economic and political power in the Atlantic Northeast. Through the lens of social memory and forgetting, this study addresses the significance of Sylvester Manor’s plantation history to American attitudes about diversity, Indian land politics, slavery and Jim Crow, in tension with idealized visions of white colonial community.
Автор: Howlett, Simon Название: British post-war jungle webbing ISBN: 1847970869 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847970862 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1879.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book details the evolution of British post-war jungle webbing equipment and examines the items used specifically during the Malayan Emergency and later, the Borneo Confrontation.
Описание: The author combines the time-dependent damage mechanisms of interface and fiber oxidation and fracture with the micromechanical approach to establish the relationships between the first matrix cracking stress, matrix multiple cracking evolution, tensile strength, tensile stress-strain curves and tensile fatigue of fiber-reinforced CMCs and time.
Описание: This book presents the proceedings of the KES International Conferences on Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare (KES-InMed-19), held in Split, Croatia, on June 17-19, 2020.
Автор: Uskov Vladimir L., Howlett Robert J., Jain Lakhmi C. Название: Smart Education and E-Learning 2020 ISBN: 9811555869 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811555862 Издательство: Springer Цена: 39130.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Smart Learning Analytics: Student Academic Performance Data Representation, Processing and Prediction.- EIFEL - a New Approach for Digital Education.- FINMINA: a French National Project Dedicated to Educational Innovation in Microelectronics to Meet the Challenges of a Digital Society.- Effect of International Student Competition Experience on Smart Education.- Knowledge-Based Model Representation for a Modern Digital University.- Effects on Girls' Emotions During Gamification-Tasks with Male Priming in STEM Subjects via Eye tracking.- Relevancy of the MOOC about Teaching Methods in Multilingual Classroom.- e-learning Tools for Informal Caretakers of Patients with Dementia - a Review Study.- Automation of e-Workshop Project Control for Knowledge-Intensive Areas.- Assessment of Student Work and the Organization of Individual Learning Paths in Electronic Smart-Learning Systems.
Описание: This book presents the proceedings of the KES International Conferences on Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare (KES-InMed-21), held virtually on June 14-16, 2021. and healthcare support systems, this book is a valuable resource for researchers, managers, industrialists and anyone wishing to gain an overview of the latest research in these fields.
Автор: Uskov Vladimir L., Howlett Robert J., Jain Lakhmi C. Название: Smart Education and E-Learning 2021 ISBN: 9811628335 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811628337 Издательство: Springer Цена: 46118.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book contains the contributions presented at the 8th International KES Conference on Smart Education and e-Learning (KES SEEL 2021), which being held as a virtual conference on June 14-16, 2021. digital education and economics in smart university, smart university development: organizational, managerial and social Issues;
Описание: Modern transportation systems have undergone a rapid transformation in recent years, producing a range of technological innovations such as connected vehicles, self-driving cars, electric vehicles, Hyperloop, and even flying cars, and with them, fundamental changes in transport systems around the world.
Описание: This book mainly analyzes the major issues at all phases of the transition of urban-rural relation, as well as measures adopted by the transition launcher in face of such issues, including not only the system and policy design of the national and local government, but the countermeasures of basic-level units at urban and rural areas and the people.
Автор: Howlett, J. Название: Le Calcul Simplifie ISBN: 0262518988 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262518987 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 4782.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: This first translation of d`Ocagne`s Le Calcul Simplifie makes a classic work on the early art of computation available to historians of computer science.
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