Narrating China's Governance Stories in Xi Jinping's Speeches / by People's Daily, Department of Commentary

Table of Contents: “…-Part 1 About the Interior -- On Incorrupt Government: "When the officials become corruptible and unfair, the regime is going into decline" -- On Characters and Morals: "To enter politics, a person should cultivate his moral character and enrich himself with virtues first" -- On Self-improvement: "If you want to enhance your ability, you must study; if you want to make the blade sharp, you must sharpen it"- On Governance: "Empty talk endangers the nation, practical work brings prosperity" -- Part 2 About Diplomacy -- On People-to-people Friendship: "The key to sound relations between states lies in amity between the people" -- On Intercourse Between Nations: "Of the things brought about by the rites, harmony is the most valuable" -- On Cultural Exchange: "It is the very nature of things to be unequal in quality" -- On Historical Affinity: "Distance cannot separate true friends who feel so close even when they are thousands of miles apart" -- On Xi Jinping's Personal Experience: Never forget why you started.…”
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Mythology Unbound An Online Textbook for Classical Mythology by Mellenthin, Jessica, Shapiro, Susan O.

Table of Contents: “…Aegis -- Agamemnon and Iphigenia -- Aphrodite -- Apollo -- Ares -- The Argonauts -- Artemis -- Athena -- Caduceus -- Centaurs -- Chthonian Deities -- The Delphic Oracle -- Demeter -- Dionysus/Bacchus -- Hades -- Hephaestus -- Hera -- Heracles -- Hermes -- Hestia -- Historical Myths -- The Iliad - An Introduction -- Jason -- Miasma -- The Minotaur -- The Odyssey - An Introduction -- The Oresteia - An Introduction -- Origins -- Orpheus -- Persephone -- Perseus -- Poseidon -- Prometheus -- Psychological Myths -- Sphinx -- Story Pattern of the Greek Hero -- Theseus -- The Three Types of Myth -- The Twelve Labors of Heracles -- What is a myth? -- Why are there so many versions of Greek myths? …”
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50 Years World Heritage Convention: Shared Responsibility - Conflict & Reconciliation

Table of Contents: “…Introduction into the overall message of the book: Destruction of Heritage is destroying identity - Shared Responsibility is therefore our common task for the future -- Chapter 2. 50 Years World Heritage Convention - Founding ideas and implementations - What has been promised - What has been achieved - What has not been achieved -- Part 2. …”
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Keys to Understanding the Middle East by Payind, Alam, McClimans, Melinda

Table of Contents: “…Chapter One: Languages -- Languages -- Linguistic Groups -- Arabic's Influence in the Region -- Islamic Expansion -- Chapter Two: Faith and Religious Identity -- Faith and Religious Identity -- Diverse Religious Identities of the Middle East -- Religious DIversity -- Islam in Middle Eastern Societies -- What is Shar'ia Law -- Religious Pluralism -- Prayer, A Part of Daily Life for Muslims Around the World -- Shi'ism -- The Mystical Tradition of Sufism, or Tasawwuf -- Who are the Salafis/Wahabis? …”
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The American Yawp Vol. II Since 1877

Table of Contents: “…16.Capital and Labor -- 17.Conquering the West -- 18.Life in Industrial America -- 19.American Empire -- 20.The Progressive Era -- 21.World War I and Its Aftermath -- 22.The New Era -- 23.The Great Depression -- 24.World War II -- 25.The Cold War -- 26.The Affluent Society -- 27.The Sixties -- 28.The Unraveling -- 29.The Triumph of the Right -- 30.The Recent Past…”
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Mnemonic Solidarity Global Interventions /

Table of Contents: “…Europe's Melancholias: Diasporas in Contention and the Unravelings of the Postwar Settlement- Eve Rosenhaft -- 4. What the World Owes the Comfort Women- Carol Gluck -- 5. …”
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Canadian History Pre-Confederation by Belshaw, John Douglas

Table of Contents: “…Children and Childhood -- Chapter 13. The Farthest West -- Chapter 14. The 1860s: Confederation and Its Discontents…”
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Microhistories of Technology Making the World / by Hård, Mikael

Table of Contents: “…Communicating and Trading in West Africa: Talking Drums and Pack Animals -- 4. …”
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Religious Entanglements Between Germans and Indians, 1800-1945

Table of Contents: “…Neglected Aspects of the So-Called Revival of a Classical Indian Dance Form -- 8 'The Priestess of Hindu Dance': Leila Sokhey's Repertoire and Its Reception in the Netherlands and Germany (1927-38) -- 9 Roaming Between East and West: In Search of Religious Ecstasy in the Interwar Period -- 10 Negotiating Germanness with Indian Religious History: Transfers of Academic Knowledge and Notions of völkisch Belief -- 11 Hakenkreuz, Swastika and Crescent: The Religious Factor in Nazi Cultural Politics Regarding India -- 12 Curating the Fragments of Local Modernities: The Menaka Digital Archive from the Perspective of Ongoing Research.…”
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Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Survival and Preparedness /

Table of Contents: “…The imagined disastrous: West German civil defence between war preparation and emergency management 1950-1990- Jochen Molitor -- 4. …”
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The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain by Tarlow, Sarah

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Some Further Terror and Peculiar Mark of Infamy -- Chapter 2: How to Hang in Chains: how, where and when eighteenth-century sheriffs organised a gibbeting -- Chapter 3: The Afterlife of the Gibbet -- Chapter 4: Conclusions: Why Gibbet Anyone? -- Appendix 1: All Cases of Hanging in Chains 1700-1832 -- Appendix 2: Maps, 1752-1834 -- Index.…”
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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History

Table of Contents: “…Montana -- 27: Slavery in Islamic West Africa; Jennifer Lofkrantz -- 28: Urban East African Slavery; Michelle Liebst -- 29: Slavery in South Asia; Emma Kalb -- 30: Slavery in Southeastern Europe; Viorel Achim -- 31: Injection: The Global Spread of Abolitionism; William Mulligan -- Part 5: Contemporary Societies (1900-Present) -- 32: American Slaveries since Emancipation; Catherine Armstrong -- 33: Slavery in French West Africa; Benedetta Rossi -- 34: Slave Labor in Nazi Germany; Marc Buggeln -- 35: State-introduced Slavery in Soviet Forced Labor Camps; Felicitas Fischer von Weikersthal -- 36: North Korean Slavery and Forced Labor in Present-Day Europe; Remco Breuker -- 37: Modern Slavery in the Global Economy; Bruno Lamas -- 38: Injection: Modern Slavery and Political Strategy; Joel Quirk -- 39: Conclusion: Situating Slavery Studies in the Field of Global History; Juliane Schiel.…”
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The Pathologisation of Homosexuality in Fascist Italy The Case of 'G' / by Romano, Gabriella

Table of Contents: “…"Dangerous to Themselves and Others, and of Public Scandal": The Internment Procedure -- 3."Psychic Degenerate": Why G. Was Interned -- 4. "He and I": G'.s Voice -- 5. …”
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World History by Kordas, Ann, Lynch, Ryan J, Nelson, Brooke

Table of Contents: “…India, the Indian Ocean Basin, and East Asia -- Chapter 13. The Post-Roman West and the Crusading Movement -- Unit 4. A Global MIddle Ages, 1200-1500 CE -- Chapter 14. …”
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The Evolution of China's Anti-Poverty Strategies Cases of 20 Chinese Changing Lives / by Brown, William N.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Mogan Mountain's Tang Hairong -- Chapter 2: Liu Yunguang: An Entrepreneur With a Passion for Youth -- Chapter 3: Jing Xuhua - A Loving Mother Triumphs at Home and in Business -- Chapter 4: Ye Nan Brings a Bright Future to West China -- Chapter 5: Yang Ying- From House Maid to Millionaire Philanthropist -- Chapter 6: Gerile - Making Snacks to Put Her Daughter Through College -- Chapter 7: Zhang Fang - Documenting Inner Mongolia's Environmental Fight -- Chapter 8: Zhao Xuan, A Retired Teacher From Xi'an -- Chapter 9: Bu Wenjun: Inheriting Wei-family's Brick-Carving Craftsmanship -- Chapter 10: Zhang Jianlong - From Migrant Worker to Cattle King -- Chapter 11: Xin Baotong- Helping the Helpless to Dream Again -- Chapter 12: Wang Zenghao - Young Volunteer Working in Tibet -- Chapter 13: Dawa Wangdui: A Tibetan Serf -turned Entrepreneur -- Chapter 14: Xia Jiangping - Greening the Roof of the World! …”
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U.S. History by Corbett, P. Scott, Janssen, Volker, Lund, John M.

Table of Contents: “…The English Empire, 1660–1763 -- Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774 -- America's War for Independence, 1775-1783 -- Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790 -- Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790–1820 -- The Industrial, Market, and Transportation Revolutions, 1800–1850 -- Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840 -- A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1860 -- Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860 -- Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860 -- Troubled Times: the Tumultuous 1850s -- The Civil War, 1860–1865 -- The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877 -- Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900 -- Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900 -- The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900 -- Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900 -- Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920 -- Age of Empire: American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914 -- Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919 -- The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929 -- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? …”
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Heritage Conservation and Tourism Development at Cham Sacred Sites in Vietnam Living Heritage Has A Heart / by Tuyen, Quang Dai

Table of Contents: “…Revisiting the Heritage Conservation of Sacred Cham Living Heritage Sites in Vietnam -- Authenticity and Tourism Development: The Simple Problems of Incense at the Cham Temples -- Rising Tensions: Heritage-Tourism Development and the Commodification of 'Authentic' Culture among the Cham Community -- Who Really Benefits from Tourism? Indigenous Perspectives on Tourism Benefit Sharing at a Cham Living Sacred-Heritage Site -- Jalan Daok Nao [Still on the Journey].…”
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E-Cigarettes and the Comparative Politics of Harm Reduction History, Evidence, and Policy /

Table of Contents: “…E-Cigarettes and the Burdens of History: Children, Bystanders, and the American War on Nicotine; Ronald Bayer and Amy Lauren Fairchild -- 5. Conclusion: Why did the UK, US, and Australia have different e-cigarette policies?…”
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General Average and Risk Management in Medieval and Early Modern Maritime Business

Table of Contents: “…Part 1: Why and How Risk is Shared -- 1. Introduction: Sharing Risks, on Averages and Why they Matter; Maria Fusaro -- 2. …”
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Documenting the Armenian Genocide Essays in Honor of Taner Akçam /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part I: Women and Girls -- The Victims of "Safety": The Destiny of Armenian Women and Girls Who Were Not Deported from Trabzon -- Cohabitating in Captivity: Vartouhie Calantar Nalbandian (Zarevand) at the Women's Section of Istanbul's Central Prison (1915-1918) -- Reenacting Testimony: The Armenian Genocide, Early Cinema, and Humanitarianism -- Part II: Agency and Assistance -- "Special Kind of Refugees": Assisting Armenians in Erzincan, Bayburt, and Erzurum -- On the Verge of Death and Survival: Krikor Bogharian's diary -- Categories and their Interstices: The Armenian Genocide Beyond Resistance and Accommodation -- Part III: Genocide and Society -- The Property Law and the Spoliation of Ottoman Armenians -- Refocusing on - Crimes Against - Humanity -- Taner Akcam as Scholar-Activist and Armenian-Turkish Relations -- Part IV: Consensus and Debate -- The Margins of Academia or Challenging the Official Ideology -- The Genocide of the Christians, Turkey 1894-1924 -- Since the Centennial:New Departures in the Scholarship on the Armenian Genocide, 2015-2021.…”
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