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  • Coinage and State Formation in Early Modern English Literature

    by S. Deng ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    A reassessment of the historic relation between money and the state through the lens of early modern English literature, Coinage and State Formation examines the political implications of the monetary form in light of material and visual properties of coins as well as the persistence of both intrinsic and extrinsic theories of value. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • What They Meant for Evil

    How a Lost Girl of Sudan Found Healing, Peace, and Purpose in the Midst of Suffering

    by Rebecca Deng ...
    Many stories have been told about the famous Lost Boys but now, for the first time, a Lost Girl shares her hauntingly beautiful and inspiring story.One of the first unaccompanied refugee children to enter the United States in 2000, after South Sudan's second civil war took the lives of most of her family, Rebecca's story begins in the late 1980s when, at the age of four, her village was attacked ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Talking It Out

    by Deng ...
    First published in 2006. The innovative work by Francis Deng, the noted scholar, diplomat, legal expert and author, moves the study of negotiation out of the limited traditional context of industrial relations and resituates it in the broader arena of negotiating human relations, drawing on his childhood experiences, inter-racial and cross-cultural encounters at home and abroad, and incidents from ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Differential Equations and Control Theory

    Edited by Z. Deng, Z. Liang, G. Lu, S. Ruan ...
    Series series Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics
    This work presents the proceedings from the International Conference on Differential Equations and Control Theory, held recently in Wuhan, China. It provides an overview of current developments in a range of topics including dynamical systems, optimal control theory, stochastic control, chaos, fractals, wavelets and ordinary, partial, functional and stochastic differential equations. ... Read more

    $305.00 USD

  • Applied Genomics of Foodborne Pathogens

    Series series Food Microbiology and Food Safety
    This book provides a timely and thorough snapshot into the emerging and fast evolving area of applied genomics of foodborne pathogens. Driven by the drastic advance of whole genome shot gun sequencing (WGS) technologies, genomics applications are becoming increasingly valuable and even essential in studying, surveying and controlling foodborne microbial pathogens. The vast opportunities brought by ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Globalization and the Singapore Curriculum

    From Policy to Classroom

    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume provides a multi-faceted and critical analysis of the Singapore curriculum in relation to globalization. First, it details reform initiatives established by the Singapore government to meet the challenges posed by globalization. Next, Globalization and the Singapore Curriculum presents how these reforms have been translated into programs, school subjects and operational frameworks and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Application of Clinical Bioinformatics

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book elucidates how genetic, biological and medical information can be applied to the development of personalized healthcare, medication and therapies. Focusing on aspects of the development of evidence-based approaches in bioinformatics and computational medicine, including data integration, methodologies, tools and models for clinical and translational medicine, it offers an essential ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Customary Law in the Modern World

    The Crossfire of Sudan's War of Identities

    by Francis Deng ...
    Customary Law in the Modern World is the study of a coherent and well-established legal system, which is now operating in the context of a modern nation-state and therefore poised between remaining relevant and the threat of marginalization.Focusing on Sudan, the author places customary law in its historical and cultural context, analyzing the fundamental and traditional values that underlie ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Erhu Sings

    by Sally Deng ...
    Illustrated by Sally Deng ...
    In this gentle and poignant picture book about the power of music and the beauty of sad songs, a young boy copes with his cousin moving away with the help of his grandfather and the erhu—a Chinese instrument known for its mournful sound.One lonely evening, YeYe tries to cheer up Danny with music from his erhu. Danny’s interest is piqued—he’s never heard an erhu before. But the erhu cries one ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Warrior Princess: The Story of Khutulun

    by Sally Deng ...
    An empowering and informative picture book biography about Khutulun, the great-great granddaughter of Genghis Khan, and how she defied the expectations of her time to become commander of the Khan’s army.Just like the fourteen brothers that came before her, Khutulun, princess of her tribe, learned from an early age how to ride horseback, shoot arrows at full gallop and, most importantly, to wrestle ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Translating Global Policy into Local Reality

    Key Competencies-Based Education Reform in China

    by Li Deng ...
    This book analyses the global diffusion of key competencies-based education (CBE) as a “global education policy” (GEP), focusing on China’s process of adoption and adaptation.Based on a six-year empirical study combining interviews, observations, and document analysis, it examines how national and local actors interpret, modify, and resist CBE. Constructing and applying a four-stage framework for ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Disturbed in Their Nests

    A Journey from Sudan’s Dinkaland to San Diego’s City Heights

    Nineteen-year-old refugee Alephonsion Deng, from war-ravaged Sudan, had great expectations when he arrived in America three weeks before two planes crashed into the World Trade Towers. Money, he’d been told, was given to you in pillows. Machines did all the work. Education was free.Suburban mom Judy Bernstein had her own assumptions. The teenaged “Lost Boys of Sudan”—who’d traveled barefoot and ... Read more

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