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The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been a period of mass production and proliferation of Jewish ideas, and have witnessed major changes in Jewish life and stimulated major debates. The New Jewish Canon offers a conceptual roadmap to make sense of such rapid change. With over eighty excerpts from key primary source texts and insightful corresponding essays by leading scholars, on topics of history and memory, Jewish politics and the public square, religion and religiosity, and identities and communities, The New Jewish Canon promises to start conversations from the seminar room to the dinner table. The New Jewish Canon is both text and textbook of the Jewish intellectual and communal zeitgeist for the contemporary period and the recent past, canonizing our most important ideas and debates of the past two generations; and just as importantly, stimulating debate and scholarship about what is yet to come.

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In view of its size, and vast land and sea boundaries that it shares with its neighbours, China has always regarded its peripheral policy as a crucial aspect of its national security. Such a mentality conforms to Chinese leaders' core belief that a stable external environment – in particular, its immediate region – remains the sine qua non for the continued and sustained rejuvenation of their nation.This book examines China's evolving strategies towards its surrounding peripheries. It is the first book to examine in detail President Xi Jinping's steering of China's peripheral diplomacy. It argues that China pursues an ambitious, omnidirectional regional diplomacy that emphasizes the entire periphery region, and not just specific peripheries. According to this book, Chinese regional policy cannot be properly and adequately understood without taking into account its full breadth, substance and scope. Featuring chapters that explore China's evolving policy in Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and Central Asia, and addressing new developments under Xi, this book fleshes out the intricacies of how China has been managing its peripheral relationships in Asia under new circumstances and new leadership.

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This book provides a comprehensive review of China's experience in reform and opening up from political, social, and economic perspectives. It attempts to engage existing scholarly debates in three areas – first, how the party-state has evolved in the past four decades and whether it remains a Leninist system or has departed from this system; second, how public attitudes, values and behavior have been intertwined with institutional change, and how the state is expanding its welfare coverage to enhance regime legitimacy. Second, how China has attempted to explore new engines for its growth, with consideration towards environmental protection and technological progress.Chapters in this book are selected from three years of conference presentations co-organized by the Institute of Public Policy (IPP) at the South China University of Technology and UNESCO. Since 2014, IPP and UNESCO have co-hosted a series of annual international conferences and invited leading scholars from China, Europe, and the US to discuss the major challenges to China and the world.

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A Kite in the Wind is an anthology of essays by 20 veteran writers and master teachers. While the contributors offer specific, practical advice on such fundamental aspects of craft as characterization, character names, the first person point of view, and unreliable narrators, they also give extended, thoughtful consideration to more sophisticated topics, including “imminence,” or the power of a sense of beginning; creating and maintaining tension; “lushness”; and the deliberate manipulation of information to create particular effects.The essays in A Kite in the Wind begin as personal investigations — attempts to understand why a decision in a particular story or novel seemed unsuccessful; to define a quality or problem that seemed either unrecognized or unsatisfactorily defined; to understand what, despite years of experience as a fiction writer, resisted comprehension; and to pursue haunting, even unanswerable questions.Unlike a how-to book, the anthology is less an instruction manual than it is an intimate visit with twenty very different writers as they explore topics that excite, intrigue, and even puzzle them. Each discussion uses specific examples and illustrations, including both canonical stories and novels and writing less frequently discussed, from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, by both American and international authors.The contributors share their hard-earned insights for beginning and advanced writers with humility, wit, and compassion. The first section of the book focuses on narration, with particular attention paid to various kinds of narrators; the second, on strategic creation and presentation of character; the third, on some of the roles of the visual, beginning with establishing setting; and the fourth, on structural and organizational issues, from movement through time to the manipulation of information to create mystery and suspense. Contributors include Wilton Barnhardt, Andrea Barrett, Charles Baxter, Karen Brennan, Maud Casey, Lan Samantha Chang, Robert Cohen, Stacey D’Erasmo, Judy Doenges, Anthony Doerr, C. J. Hribal, Michael Martone, Kevin McIlvoy, Alexander Parsons, Frederick Reiken, Steven Schwartz, Dominic Smith, Debra Spark, Megan Staffel, Sarah Stone, and Peter Turchi.

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A celebration of handmade toys, featuring fabulous stuffed animals, handmade baby gifts, Christmas makes and more – all made using fat quarter cuts of fabric – the most popular way that sewers buy fabric. Continuing the series from 50 Fat Quarter Makes , this fun collection features beautiful photography, step-by-step diagrams and templates for over 50 handmade toys, with patterns provided by a wealth of international talent. All the toys are made using simple sewing techniques alongside patchwork, applique and embroidery.

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This book celebrates the sizzle and sensation that is bacon. Once a side dish to an ordinary breakfast, bacon has risen to the status of its own food group! For dinner, for dessert, for cocktails, bacon is the most delectable and versatile of foods, the “meat candy” of the culinary world, capable of improving everything it meets. While bacon may be the “it” ingredient of today’s foodies, it is by no means a new creation, and the book opens with a short fun chapter titled “The Tasty History of Bacon.” In this colorful volume, professional chefs and butchers offer tips about today’s various forms of artisanal and heritage varieties. Bacon presents more than 45 recipes, from the perfect BLT and bacon mac and cheese to wild spins on everyone’s favorite pork, such as bacon-studded biscuit cinnamon rolls, bacon blondies, bacon and kale savory bread pudding, and bacon Snickers milkshake. The mouthwatering recipes in this book offer homecooks hundreds of ideas for all three meals of the day as well as inspiration for jazzing up cocktails, late-night snacks, desserts, salads, side dishes, soups and stews. The book also offers tips for choosing the best sources for bacon and making bacon from pork belly, curing with salt, and smoking with various types of wood, as well as the best ways to prepare bacon. INSIDE BACON:From pork belly to sizzling joy: easy steps to making bacon from scratchUnderstanding traditional methods of dry curing and wet curing porkA look at artisanal and heritage varieties of bacon, such as applewood smoked, southern dry cured, peppered, maple bourbon-flavored, apple-cider-cured, and traditional smokedMore than 45 irresistible recipes using various types of bacon, from store-bought to your own homemade slabsExploring the best ways to cook bacon: pan-fried, broiled, roasted, or microwaved

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Covers the theoretical framework underpinning biodiversity conservation in agriculture: landscape approaches, methods for mapping and modelling biodiversity, and ways of assessing the economic value of biodiversity conservation practices Comprehensive review of the range of biodiversity conservation practices such as field margins, hedgerows, agroforestry and improved grassland managementIncludes case studies of successful biodiversity conservation programmes

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The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children raises important questions at the heart of society and culture, and through an interdisciplinary, trans-cultural analysis, presents important findings on socio-cultural representations and embodiments of the child and childhood. At the start of the 21st century, new anxieties constellate around the child and childhood, while older concerns have re-emerged, mutated, and grown stronger. But as historical analysis shows, they have been ever-present concerns. This innovative and interdisciplinary collection of essays considers examples of monstrous children since the 16th century to the present, spanning real-life and popular culture. to exhibit the manifestation of the Western cultural anxiety around the problematic, anomalous child as naughty, dangerous, or just plain evil. The linkage between children and horror, or horror-full children, would seem an almost natural connection to make given its popularity in contemporary horror films and novels. However, the intersection between the two categories has a long history going back beyond the more obvious Gothic reimaginings of the 19th century with its under-age ghostly terrors revealing that the idea of the ‘little horror’ is seemingly an inherent demarcation within society between adults and those that are viewed as ‘not adults’.  However, as seen in this timely and innovative collection, the anomalous child can also be seen in a positive light, and that resistance to easy categorization can be embraced by wider society as a force for change as can be seen in the recent example of a problematic child/adolescence, Greta Thunberg, a singularly focused individual, who is 16 years-old at the time of writing, has consistently refused to act as desired by the adult society around her in pursuit of gaining recognition of the urgent need for action in regard to environmental change. The book takes an inter- and multidisciplinary approach, drawing upon fields as diverse as sociology, psychology, film, and literature, to study the role of the child and childhood within contemporary Western culture and to see the ways in which each discipline intersects and influences the other, as well as viewing all this through a historical lens.

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The first book in a new series, 'Culture and Health', this volume builds on current academic thinking that views 'health' as a status no longer confined to the biological body.Addresses the importance of culture for health by exploring the many diseases impacted by beliefs, social practices and shared conventional understanding.Focuses on specific case studies that illuminate the interdependence of biological and social processes, helping us rethink the nature-culture duality and setting a new agenda for cross-disciplinary research.

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En la forma que Pablo le impartió a Timoteo su sabiduría, esta colección de cartas desde pastores de experiencia representan 480 años de ministerio en total. Los pastores jóvenes y más grandes valorarán este tesoro de asesoría amorosa y verdad que les guiará a través de los desafíos y gozos de su vocación en Cristo.Autores: Tom Ascol, Conrad Mbewe, Tedd Tripp, Ted Christman, Andy David, Martin Holdt, C.J. Mahaney, Bill Ascol, Mark Dever, Fred Malone, Raymond Perron, Ligon Duncan, Joel Beeke, Roger Ellsworth, Terry Johnson, Steve Martin, Phil Newton, Ray Ortland Jr, Geoff Thomas."Como ministro de veinticuatro años de experiencia pastoral, deseo que hubiera tenido este libro en el inicio de mi ministerio. Ahora, como profesor de seminario, quiero que todos mis alumnos tengan este libro para el comienzo de su ministerio". Dr. Don Whitney, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Senior Associate Dean, Associate Professor of Biblical Spirituality

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