Chinese business networks state, economy and culture

Table of Contents: “…Schak -- Hui: Chinese business in action / I-Chuan We-Beyens -- Chinese business enterprise as inter-family partnership: a comparison with the Japanese case / Ichiro Numazaki -- Political structures and Chinese business connections in the Malay world: a historical perspective / Robert Cribb -- The Chinese networks in Southeast Asia: past, present and future / Qiu Liben -- In search of patrons: Chinese business networking and Malay political patronage in Malaysia / Edmund Terence Gomez -- Ethnic Chinese business people and the local society: the case of the Philippines / Liao Shaolian -- The economic roles of the Southeast Asian Chinese: information gaps and research needs / Jamie Mackie -- Overseas Chinese networks: a reassessment / Peter S. …”

Teaching Chinese, Japanese, and Korean heritage language students curriculum needs, materials, and assessment

Strengths and challenges of new immigrant families implications for research, education, policy, and service /

Table of Contents: “…How immigration changes immigrants and how imigrants change america -- A sociological analysis of the psychosocial adaptation of Khmer refugees in Massachusetts -- Understanding the immigration experience through a life course lens: four personal stories-- Transnational families and the social construction of identity: whiteness matters -- Influence of american culture on east indian immigrants: perception of marriage and family life -- Strong marriages in latino culture -- Family strengths of hmong and somali refugees in the united states -- Migrating latinas and the grief process -- Career and employment concerns of immigrant women -- Childcare challenges f african immigrant families: an inductive thematic analysis -- Decisions about child rearing practices in first genereation asian indian immigrants -- Intergenerational differences in acculturation and family conflict among korean immigrant families -- Lost boys finding their way: challenges, changes, and small victories of young sudanese refugees in the united states -- Distant relations between migrant adult children and their older parents -- Co-residence in chinese immigrant families -- Stress, status, and sociability: exploring residential satisfaction in the rural midwest following rapid immigration -- Rural Latino immigrant families: hunger satisfaction in the rural midwest following rapid immigration -- Rural latino immigrant families: hunger, housing, and social support -- Parental stress among u.s. mexican heritage parents: implications for culturally relevant family life education -- The impact of latino immigrants and bicultural program coordinators on organizational philosophy and values: a case study of organizational responsiveness.…”
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International perspectives on contexts, communities and evaluated innovative practices family-school-community partnerships /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Rollande Deslandes -- Key policy questions about parent engagement recommendations from the evidence / Kenneth Leithwood -- Family-school partnership in theory and practice of the Czech schools : conflict between ideal and reality / Milada Rabusicova -- Home-school collaboration in two Chinese societies : Hong Kong and Macao / Esther Sui Chu Ho -- 'Class acts' : home-school involvement and working-class parents in the UK / Diane Reay -- Creating effective family-school partnerships in highly diverse contexts : building partnership models and constructing parent typologies / Frederik Smit and Geert Driessen -- The challenge of co-education in a disadvantaged context / Willy Lahaye, Jean-Pierre Pourtois, and Huguette Desmet -- Indigenous family and community involvement in Australian curriculum development / Neil Hooley and Maureen Ryan -- Observatory on family-school-community partnership in Spain : a longitudinal programme to promote quality in education and social development / Raquel-Amaya Martinez-Gonzalez ... …”
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Sea rovers, silver, and samurai Maritime East Asia in global history, 1550-1700

Table of Contents: “…Wills Jr. -- Between bureaucrats and bandits : the rise of Zheng Zhilong and his organization, the Zheng Ministry (Zheng Bu) / Cheng-heng Lu -- The Zheng regime and the Tokugawa bakufu : asking for Japanese intervention / Patrizia Carioti -- Determining the law of the sea : the long history of the Breukelen Case, 1657-1662 / Adam Clulow -- Dreams in the Chinese periphery : Victorio Riccio and Zheng Chenggong's regime / Anna Busquets -- Shame and scandal in the family : Dutch eavesdropping on the Zheng lineage / Leonard Bluss -- Bridging the bipolar : Zheng Jing's decade on Taiwan, 1663-1673 / Xing Hang -- The burning shore : Fujian and the coastal depopulation, 1661-1683 / Dahpon David Ho -- Admiral Shi Lang's secret proposal to return Taiwan to the VOC / Weichung Cheng -- Trade, piracy, and resistance in the Gulf of Tonkin in the seventeenth century / Robert J. …”

Asian American elders in the twenty-first century key indicators of well-being by Mui, Ada C. 1949-

Organizational reality reports from the firing line

Table of Contents: “…Barrett -- The Catbird Seat / James Thurber -- The Rate-buster: The Case of the Saleswoman / Melville Dalton -- Secrecy -- Politicians Should Never Forget Cardinal Telephone Rule / Ken MacQuenn -- At Apple, Proper Business Attire May Someday Include A Muzzle / G. …”

Mobile technologies from telecommunications to media /

Table of Contents: “…[et al.] -- Mobile media on low-cost handsets : the resiliency of text messaging among small enterprises in India (and beyond) / Jonathan Donner -- Innovations at the edge : the impact of mobile technologies on the character of the Internet / Harmeet Sawnhey -- Media contents in mobiles : comparing video, audio, and text / Virpi Oksman -- New economics for the new media / Stuart Cunningham and Jason Potts -- Domesticating new media : a discussion on locating mobile media / Larissa Hjorth -- Back to the future : the past and present of mobile TV / Gabriele Balbi and Benedetta Prario -- Net-d�erive : conceiving and producing a locative media artwork / Atau Tanaka and Petra Gemeinboeck -- Mobile news in Chinese newspaper groups : a case study of Yunnan daily press group / Liu Cheng and Axel Bruns -- Reinventing newspapers in a digital era : the mobile e-paper / Wendy Van Den Broeck, Bram Lievens and Jo Pierson -- Face to face : avatars and mobile identities / Kathy Cleland -- Re-imagining urban space : mobility, connectivity, and a sense of place / Dong-Hoo Lee -- These foolish things : on intimacy and insignificance in mobile media / Kate Crawford -- Mobility, memory and identity / Nicola Green.…”
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Malaya and its history including a history of Malaya and early Indian influence in Malaysia (and other essays) by Winstedt, Richard 1878-1966, R J Wilkinson (Richard James) 1867-1941