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Book Synopsis Finding Firmer Ground: by : Dr. Minghao Li/Dr. Wendong Zhang
Download or read book Finding Firmer Ground: written by Dr. Minghao Li/Dr. Wendong Zhang and published by Bouden House. This book was released on 2021-10-16 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive study and analysis by Dr. Minghao Li and Dr. Wendong Zhang, entitled "Finding Firmer Ground" adds a significant analytical element to the effort to enhance the Sino - American relationship through increased “Agricultural Cooperation” here in the Heartland of America, the part of the United States that has such a long and illustrious history of leadership in building connections between the Chinese and American peoples.
Book Synopsis Finding Firmer Ground: The Role of Higher Education in U.S.-China Relations by : Yawei Liu/Michael Cerny
Download or read book Finding Firmer Ground: The Role of Higher Education in U.S.-China Relations written by Yawei Liu/Michael Cerny and published by Bouden House. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S.-China educational exchange began auspiciously after a 30-year hiatus in 1978 when Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping announced his strategic decision to send 5,000 students and scholars from China each year to further their education. 1 Then-U.S. President Jimmy Carter famously responded, “Tell him to send 100,000.” This was the launch of educational exchange as a core pillar of the U.S.-China relationship. Until the 40th anniversary of the normalization of U.S.-China relations and U.S.-China educational exchange in 2019, there was general agreement that the exchange of students and scholars benefited both countries. There was recognition that the enormous increase in personal interaction and friendships — and knowledge about each other’s society, culture, economy, and government — strengthened understanding, trust, and cooperation. At a time when U.S.-China relations are at its lowest point since the normalization of relations, the benefits of educational exchange are being questioned, if not under assault. Few could have predicted that Chinese students would be weaponized by both sides, caught up in the political and security disputes between the two governments. A trade war, political tensions, concerns about academic espionage and influence operations, rising incidents of anti-Asian hate, and a global pandemic have created a perfect storm to stir up distrust as well as retaliatory measures that restrict student mobility on both sides of the Pacific. After years of fast growth, the number of Chinese students and researchers coming to the U.S. has slowed. China is still the largest source of international students in the U.S., accounting for about one-third of the total, but America’s appeal is weakening. Is this shift toward declining numbers an overdue correction to better protect America against academic espionage and influence operations and prevent China from capitalizing on American know-how to accelerate its own progress? Or is this decline in numbers an unnecessary and damaging hit on American universities’ preeminent position in global higher education and its open science model, leading to loss of U.S. competitiveness and international prestige? This report more broadly, is an attempt to discern the benefits, risks, and challenges of U.S.-China educational exchange and determine how educational exchange can advance the interests of both the U.S. and China going forward.
Book Synopsis Finding Firmer Ground: The Role of Civil Society and NGOs in U.S. - China Relations by : Yawei Liu
Download or read book Finding Firmer Ground: The Role of Civil Society and NGOs in U.S. - China Relations written by Yawei Liu and published by Bouden House. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual report on U.S.-China Relations is a project of The Carter Center with generous support from the Ford Foundation and the National Association of Chinese Americans in Atlanta. The Grandview Institution, a think tank based in Beijing, is a partner for this project. For more information on the Carter Center, please check its website at https://cartercenter.org/. For more information on the Grandview Institution, please check its website at http://www.grandview.cn/. For media inquiries or questions, please contact [email protected]. URLs for The Carter Center websites on U.S.-China relations are: English Language website: https://uscnpm.org/ Chinese
Book Synopsis Quine's Naturalism by : Paul A. Gregory
Download or read book Quine's Naturalism written by Paul A. Gregory and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. V. Quine was the most important naturalistic philosopher of the twentieth century and a major impetus for the recent resurgence of the view that empirical science is our best avenue to knowledge. His views, however, have not been well understood. Critics charge that Quine's naturalized epistemology is circular and that it cannot be normative. Yet, such criticisms stem from a cluster of fundamental traditional assumptions regarding language, theory, and the knowing subject - the very presuppositions that Quine is at pains to reject. Through investigation of Quine's views regarding language, knowledge, and reality, the author offers a new interpretation of Quine's naturalism. The naturalism/anti-naturalism debate can be advanced only by acknowledging and critiquing the substantial theoretical commitments implicit in the traditional view. Gregory argues that the responses to the circularity and non-normativity objections do just that. His analysis further reveals that Quine's departure from the tradition penetrates the conception of the knowing subject, and he thus offers a new and engaging defence of Quine's naturalism.
Download or read book Shifting Ground written by Naomi Scheman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays by Naomi Scheman brings together her views on epistemic and socio-political issues, views that draw on a critical reading of Wittgenstein as well as on liberatory movements and theories, all in the service of a fundamental reorientation of epistemology. For some theorists, epistemology is an essentially foundationalist and hence discredited enterprise; for others-particularly analytic epistemologists--it remains rigorously segregated from political concerns. Scheman makes a compelling case for the necessity of thinking epistemologically in fundamentally altered ways. Arguing that it is an illusion of privilege to think that we can do without usable articulations of concepts such as truth, reality, and objectivity, she maintains (as in the title of one of her essays) that epistemology needs to be "resuscitated" as an explicitly political endeavor, with trustworthiness at its heart. While each essay contributes to a specific conversation, taken together they argue for addressing theoretical questions as they arise concretely. Truth, reality, objectivity, and other concepts that problematically rest on shifting ground are more than philosophical toys, and the ground-shifting these essays enact is a move away from abstruse theorizing-analytic and post-structuralist alike. Following Wittgenstein's injunctions to just look, to attend to the "rough ground" of everyday practices, Scheman argues for finding philosophical insight in such acts of attention and in the difficulties that beset them. These essays are an attempt to grasp something in particular, to get a handle on a set of problems, and collectively they represent a fresh model of passionate philosophical engagement.
Book Synopsis Stranger Overload by : Tessa L. Whellord
Download or read book Stranger Overload written by Tessa L. Whellord and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two heroines grapple with their own history and the ominous spread of a far-reaching power-drain in at least two known universes. Lona, acyborg T-9 stumbles from one misadventure to the next, the Mia, a highly evolved member of a series fights her way out of imrisonment on her home planet. And then there is Leri... Anyone wishing to dream with the machines is invited on a light-speed journey into the far reaches of space and the workings of borg neuronia as well as the age old struggle between the sexes.
Download or read book Wolf Blood written by N.M. Browne and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-07-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spellbinding story of the original werewolf, woven against an amazing historical backdrop with a supernatural twist
Book Synopsis Three Expeditions Into the Interior of Eastern Australia by : Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
Download or read book Three Expeditions Into the Interior of Eastern Australia written by Thomas Livingstone Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis There Are Thirty Ways to Make a Scene by : Lisa Joelle
Download or read book There Are Thirty Ways to Make a Scene written by Lisa Joelle and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friendship is at the heart of every joy. Isla, Priya, and Emma have been best friends since high school. As they grow older, their different paths begin to strain that bond. Isla is fresh off a major heartbreak and stuck in a frustrating job. Priya has crushed every goal she has ever set and believes her final years of med school will be no different. Emma’s life has worked out exactly how she imagined: she and her loving husband have just moved into their dream home, with their first child on the way. What could go wrong? Will Isla settle down and figure out what she wants out of life? Will Priya allow her heart to be open to new paths and new ideas? Will Emma’s perfect life be all she imagined? Through all the ups and downs, as months pass, and the seasons change...will their friendship survive? There Are Thirty Ways to Make a Scene grabs readers and drags them into a vibrant, delightful world where they can feel welcome. As these friends navigate opportunity, and adventure, readers see how difficult, absurd, frustrating, and beautiful it is to be in relationships with those around us.
Book Synopsis Three Expeditions Into the Interior of Eastern Australia by : Sir Thomas Mitchell
Download or read book Three Expeditions Into the Interior of Eastern Australia written by Sir Thomas Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Three Expeditions Into the Interior of Eastern Australia by : T. L. Mitchell
Download or read book Three Expeditions Into the Interior of Eastern Australia written by T. L. Mitchell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, illustrated journal of exploration, first published in 1838, describing the landscapes and peoples of the Australian interior.
Book Synopsis England Expects That Every Man Will Do His Duty by : Robert Perkins
Download or read book England Expects That Every Man Will Do His Duty written by Robert Perkins and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 21, 1805, in the midst of the Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson and the H.M.S. Victory are enveloped by an unknown force which render Nelson and his entire crew unconscious in a moment and transport them through time to the year 793. When they awake, they find themselves adrift, not off Cape Trafalgar, but in the North Sea, off the coast of Lindisfarne Island. In the distance, they can see the flames from the burning monastery there, which, unknown to the men of the Victory, had been put to the torch by brutal Viking raiders earlier that day.Faced with this bizarre situation, Nelson must make some hard choices. Lost in a hostile world, with no friends, no home port, and no supplies, can he and his crew survive amid the violence and intrigue of the Viking Age?
Book Synopsis Geoffrey Chaucer (Authors in Context) by : Peter Brown
Download or read book Geoffrey Chaucer (Authors in Context) written by Peter Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer lived through a period of extraordinary upheaval: a protracted war with France, devastating plague, the peasants' revolt, religious controversy, and the overthrow of the king. Compact and comprehensive, this book offers a wide-ranging account of the medieval society from which works such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde sprang, and shows how these and other works manifest that society in fictional form. Significant aspects of the literary scene, such as patronage, audience, and performance, help to place Chaucer's practices in their historical framework, and his treatment of love, paganism, and reality are framed within their intellectual and philosophical contexts. The modern reception of Chaucer in film and television adaptations is also examined. Seen through the lens of his cultural experience, this is the perfect critical companion to Chaucer's life and poetry. The book includes a chronology of Chaucer's life and time, suggestions for further reading, websites, illustrations, and a comprehensive index. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Book Synopsis Without Good Reason by : Edward Stein
Download or read book Without Good Reason written by Edward Stein and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1996-01-11 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are humans rational? Various experiments performed over the last several decades have been interpreted as showing that humans are irrational—we make significant and consistent errors in logical reasoning, probabilistic reasoning, similarity judgements, and risk-assessment, to name a few areas. But can these experiments establish human irrationality, or is it a conceptual truth that humans must be rational, as various philosophers have argued? In this book, Edward Stein offers a clear critical account of this debate about rationality in philosophy and cognitive science. He discusses concepts of rationality—the pictures of rationality that the debate centres on—and assesses the empirical evidence used to argue that humans are irrational. He concludes that the question of human rationality must be answered not conceptually but empirically, using the full resources of an advanced cognitive science. Furthermore, he extends this conclusion to argue that empirical considerations are also relevant to the theory of knowledge—in other words, that epistemology should be naturalized.
Book Synopsis Pilgrims and Popes by : Tobias Brandner
Download or read book Pilgrims and Popes written by Tobias Brandner and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pilgrims and Popes introduces the foundational fifteen hundred years of the history of Christianity, from Jesus to the eve of the Reformation. The crucial decisions of the first centuries have indelibly shaped the subsequent journey of the Christian faith movement. The book tells how the Christian faith story unfolded in dialectic movements: hegemony and emancipation; institutionalization and protest; petrification and renewal; missionary involvement in the world and separation from the world. The book bridges the gap between the present and the seemingly remote world of the first fifteen hundred years of Christianity in the West by engaging with present-day readers' cultures and contexts. The rich material is presented in an easily readable way, combined with charts and with questions for discussion and deepening reflection. This study book will be a welcome learning tool in classrooms and in churches, particularly in the context of the Global South.
Book Synopsis Mrs. Martin's Company by : Jane Barlow
Download or read book Mrs. Martin's Company written by Jane Barlow and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Enthusiasm Every Day by : Mark D. Gleason
Download or read book Enthusiasm Every Day written by Mark D. Gleason and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you searching out wisdom? If so, its searching for you as well. Today and every day forward, will become what you decide to make it. Are you ready for your daily dose of energy? In Enthusiasm Every Day, author Mark Gleason offers daily quotes to inspire motivation, and he presents the knowledge to help you grasp what life has in store for you. Gleason presents a years worth of quotes to help you speak, persuade, perform, win over, and learn to listen. Enthusiasm Every Day will teach you how to balance your intuitiveness, your humorous side, and your ability to reason in the daily process. Each page will train you to ask for more by looking within yourself. In this inspirational book, Gleason shares a host of uplifting, thought-provoking quotes gained from more than thirty years of being a sales person and Realtor. He shares messages gained from a lifetime of teachings about how to thrive, survive, and get more from yourself. These success policies will leave your soul being the winner you have always wanted to be.
