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by Anne S. Tsui, Yanjie Bian, Leonard Kwok-Hon Cheng
2006 · M.E. Sharpe
Provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary perspective on the factors important to the successful operation and growth of China's domestic private firms.
by Jeffrey S. Adler
2002 · Cambridge University Press
How conflict sparked by the debate over the future of slavery remade the urban West.
Sacred Ground is a sumptuous photographic portrait of New Orleans's legendary cemeteries. Robert S. Brantley celebrates the otherworldly landscapes, intricate ironwork, evocative memorials, and stately monuments as vibrant sites of remembrance. New Orleans history is further revealed through biographies of twenty individuals whose grave sites are among those featured, including entrepreneurs, celebrated musicians, a world-class violin maker, an ex-slave turned minister, a ship's captain, and a young soldier felled by Spanish flu while in basic training for World War I. The rich duotone photographs, organized by cemetery, are followed by an index identifying the tombs and their iconography; an introduction by S. Frederick Starr provides background on New Orleans cemetery history, culture, and burial customs. Sacred Ground provides a stunning exploration of the traditions born of New Orleans's unique religious, cultural, and ethnic diversity.
Among the most respected public figures in Russia today, Dmitrii Sergeevich Likhachev has profoundly influenced generations of Soviet historians, literary scholars, philosophers, and other intellectual and cultural leaders. This is the only available English translation of his Zametki o russkom, a collection of notes on nature as an essential compo
Jazz: Research and Pedagogy is the third edition of an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites in the field of jazz. Since the publication of the 2nd edition in 1995, the quantity and quality of books on jazz research, performance, and teaching materials have increased. Although the 1995 book was the most comprehensive annotated jazz bibliography published to that date, several books on research, performance, and teaching materials were omitted. In addition, given the proliferation of new books in all jazz areas since 1995, the need for a new, comprehensive, and annotated reference book on jazz is apparent. Multiply indexed, this book will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars in sorting through the massive amount of new material that has appeared in the field over the last decade.