The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and factor markets, and the strategies of households. Perhaps most surprisingly, Pomeranz demonstrates that the Chinese and Japanese cores were no worse off ecologically than Western Europe. Core areas throughout the eighteenth-century Old World faced comparable local shortages of land-intensive products, shortages that were only partly resolved by trade.
Pomeranz argues that Europe's nineteenth-century divergence from the Old World owes much to the fortunate location of coal, which substituted for timber. This made Europe's failure to use its land intensively much less of a problem, while allowing growth in energy-intensive industries. Another crucial difference that he notes has to do with trade. Fortuitous global conjunctures made the Americas a greater source of needed primary products for Europe than any Asian periphery. This allowed Northwest Europe to grow dramatically in population, specialize further in manufactures, and remove labor from the land, using increased imports rather than maximizing yields. Together, coal and the New World allowed Europe to grow along resource-intensive, labor-saving paths. Meanwhile, Asia hit a cul-de-sac. Although the East Asian hinterlands boomed after 1750, both in population and in manufacturing, this growth prevented these peripheral regions from exporting vital resources to the cloth-producing Yangzi Delta. As a result, growth in the core of East Asia's economy essentially stopped, and what growth did exist was forced along labor-intensive, resource-saving paths--paths Europe could have been forced down, too, had it not been for favorable resource stocks from underground and overseas.
Автор: BuYun Chen Название: Empire of Style: Silk and Fashion in Tang China ISBN: 0295745304 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295745305 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 8778.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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Tang dynasty (618-907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang'an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via the Silk Road with the critical markets and thriving cultures of Central Asia and the Middle East. In Empire of Style, BuYun Chen reveals a vibrant fashion system that emerged through the efforts of Tang artisans, wearers, and critics of clothing. Across the empire, elite men and women subverted regulations on dress to acquire majestic silks and au courant designs, as shifts in economic and social structures gave rise to what we now recognize as precursors of a modern fashion system: a new consciousness of time, a game of imitation and emulation, and a shift in modes of production.
This first book on fashion in premodern China is informed by archaeological sources--paintings, figurines, and silk artifacts--and textual records such as dynastic annals, poetry, tax documents, economic treatises, and sumptuary laws. Tang fashion is shown to have flourished in response to a confluence of social, economic, and political changes that brought innovative weavers and chic court elites to the forefront of history.
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Автор: Babiera Название: Advanced therapy of breast disease ISBN: 1607950944 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781607950943 Издательство: McGraw-Hill Рейтинг: Цена: 23903.00 р. 34147.00-30% Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: This is the first collection of essays bringing together Deleuzian philosophy and postcolonial theory. Bignall and Patton assemble some of the world`s leading figures in these fields - including Reda Bensmaia, Timothy Bewes, Rey Chow, Philip Leonard, Nick Nesbitt, John K. Noyes, Patricia Pisters, Marcelo Svirsky and Simon Tormey - to explore rich linkages between two previously unrelated areas of study. . They deal with colonial and postcolonial social, cultural and political issues in Asia, Africa, the Americas, Australia and Palestine. Topics include colonial government, nation building and ethics in the contemporary context of globalisation and decolonisation; issues relating to resistance, transformation and agency; and questions of `representation` and discursive power as practiced through postcolonial art, cinema and literature. . This book constitutes a timely intervention to debates in poststructuralist, postcolonial and postmodern studies. It will be of interest to students in cultural studies, cinema and film studies, languages and literature, political and postcolonial studies, critical theory, social and political philosophy..
Автор: Thomas Название: Advanced Therapy in Facial аnd Plastic Reconstructive Surgery ISBN: 1607950111 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781607950110 Издательство: McGraw-Hill Рейтинг: Цена: 17691.00 р. 25273.00-30% Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: Offers coverage of facial and reconstructive surgery. This book covers the osmetic-aesthetic procedures and reconstructive procedures including congenital abnormalities, facial trauma and cancer. It contains special chapters on Scar Revision and Camouflage surgery, grafts and implants, laser surgery and wound healing.
Описание: Moving forward the conversation on the long called for greater consideration of identity, politics and social justice in practice, this book positions an understanding of intersectionality as critical for effective arts psychotherapy. It confronts the impact of gender, sexuality, race, age, disability and class in both typical settings for arts psychotherapy work and in the wider profession.
Название: Feminist Counselling and Domestic Violence in India ISBN: 0415832063 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415832069 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 23734.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Mainstream counselling in domestic violence often fails to address critical issues, such as gender socialisation processes and the abuse of power that allows violence against women, and focuses primarily on the intra-psychic nature of individual women. In contrast, feminist counselling is an effective alternative model, owing to its ability to address the fundamental correlation of abuse with power. In going beyond the individual, it helps women locate the source of their distress in the larger social context of power and control, manifesting in intimate, interpersonal relationships, and enables them to resist systemic oppression.
This volume offers one of the first systematic documentations of feminist psychosocial interventions in India. It situates the issue of domestic violence in the historical context of the women's movement, and examines institutional factors such as family and marriage that perpetuate abuse. Using extensive case studies, it discusses the methods, principles, techniques, skills and procedures followed by feminist organisations across the country, and their role in women's empowerment.
The book will serve as a practical reference guide to practitioners such as social workers, counsellors and para-counsellors, health activists, grassroots workers, protection officers and service providers. It will also be useful to scholars and students of psychology, sociology, women's studies, law and public policy.
Описание: North America’s Indigenous population is a vulnerable group, with specific psychological and healing needs that are not widely met in the mental health care system. Indigenous peoples face certain historical, cultural-linguistic and socioeconomic barriers to mental health care access that government, health care organizations and social agencies must work to overcome. This volume examines ways Indigenous healing practices can complement Western psychological service to meet the needs of Indigenous peoples through traditional cultural concepts. Bringing together leading experts in the fields of Aboriginal mental health and psychology, it provides data and models of Indigenous cultural practices in psychology that are successful with Indigenous peoples. It considers Indigenous epistemologies in applied psychology and research methodology, and informs government policy on mental health service for these populations.
Автор: Jan Trabue Название: Kaboom! ISBN: 1667848712 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781667848716 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 4502.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Kaboom is intended as an educational tool to teach children to identify imaginary fears and become aware of steps they can take to eliminate them or reduce their impact on their mental health. It is ideal for children ages 3-10, who have disruptive nights sleeping at bedtime because they are overwhelmed by fears that are imaginary. Although Kaboom targets imaginary fears, the same concepts and strategies can be applied to fears that are not imaginary. Kaboom promotes positive and practical ways for children to resolve their own problem and thus develop confidence in ones capabilities. The book is illustrated with entertaining and humorous images of a wild squirrel, named MartyLou, photographed by the author. The wild squirrel featured in Kaboom is an Eastern gray squirrel but has a genetic aberration causing the coat to be white. He was found as a baby on the ground with no signs of his mother attempting to take care of him within a span of time. He was taken to a wildlife rehabilitator who took care of him through the winter months and until he was old enough to be released back into the wild. Once released, he took up residence in my backyard. I began feeding him nuts and noticed that I was able to direct him with nuts to a spot where I could take pictures of him. By setting up an area ahead of time I was able to take pictures of him appearing to do human things. While it may appear that MartyLou is tame, remember, he is wild. He could injure me with his razor-sharp teeth if I attempted to touch him. It is unsafe to ever attempt to touch a wild animal. People sometimes ask me if these images are the result of some sort of trick photography. They are not, nor are they composite images, (meaning they are not combinations of two or more separate photos to give the appearance that MartyLou is interacting with objects). MartyLou really is doing what the pictures show! However, in some cases, for example, when there is an object MartyLou is holding, that object may be suspended by a thin wire. When processing the images, I remove the wire from the image so it isnt shown.
Автор: Desmond Shum Название: Red Roulette ISBN: 1398510378 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781398510371 Издательство: Simon&Schuster UK Рейтинг: Цена: 2473.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An insider`s story of wealth, power, corruption and vengeance in today`s China
Автор: Walder Andrew G Название: China Under Mao ISBN: 0674975499 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674975491 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 4110.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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China's Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was just beginning. China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976--an epoch of startling accomplishments and disastrous failures, steered by many forces but dominated above all by Mao Zedong.
"Walder convincingly shows that the effect of Maoist inequalities still distorts China today... It] will be a mind-opening book for many (and is a depressing reminder for others)." --Jonathan Mirsky, The Spectator
"Andrew Walder's account of Mao's time in power is detailed, sophisticated and powerful...Walder takes on many pieces of conventional wisdom about Mao's China and pulls them apart...What was it that led so much of China's population to follow Mao's orders, in effect to launch a civil war against his own party? There is still much more to understand about the bond between Mao and the wider population. As we try to understand that bond, there will be few better guides than Andrew Walder's book. Sober, measured, meticulous in every deadly detail, it is an essential assessment of one of the world's most important revolutions." --Rana Mitter, Times Literary Supplement
Автор: Weber, Isabella Название: How China Escaped Shock Therapy ISBN: 1138592196 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138592193 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 25265.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country`s rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism.
Описание: Harrison presents a broad overview of the development and current practice of school counseling in Hong Kong in both local and international schools and examines this in relation to school counseling in US and UK settings as well as the wider Asia-Pacific region.
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