The 1980s saw spirited debate in China, as officials and the public pressed for economic and political liberalization. But after Tiananmen, the Communist Party erased the reform debate from memory. Julian Gewirtz shows how the leadership expunged alternative visions of China's future and set the stage for the policing of history under Xi Jinping.
Why and what organizations change is generally well known; how organizations change is therefore the central focus of this Handbook. Leading scholars focus on processes of change and the factors that influence these processes, with the organization as the central unit of analysis.
Newly updated, a definitive guide for anyone who works with words has been prepared with an eye toward how we find, create and cite information in both the digital and print worlds and continues to reflect expert insights gathered from the University of Chicago?s own staff and from an advisory board of publishing experts from across the profession. Includes 12 tables.
Famous throughout history for their doomed stand at Thermopylae, and immortalised by contemporary Athenian writers who viewed them as the exotic other, the Spartans, and their brutality and bravery, both fascinate and appal us. Andrew Bayliss reveals the best and the worst of this harsh society, separating myth from reality.
Nussberger traces the history of the European Court of Human Rights from its political context in the 1940s to the present day, answering pressing questions about its origins and workings. This first book in the Elements of International Law series, provides a fresh, objective, and non-argumentative approach to the European Court of Human Rights.
Without the Sun, our planet - and life on it - would not exist. As our nearest star, the Sun is also important for astronomers and still presents many puzzles. Philip Judge explains what we know about the Sun's structure and evolution, solar phenomena, and the impact of solar activity on the Earth.
In one way or another, we are all affected by the actions of the American judicial system. This VSI explains how and why this is -- cracking the vail that surrounds American courts and the law by translating the legal technicalities, structural complexities, and jargon of the law into plain English with a real-world context. Aimed at anyone who is caught up on the legal process or someone just curious about how it all works and why, this VSI is the starting place to understanding the workings and importance of the third branch of American government
Filled with discoveries, this is the dramatic story of Pope Pius XII's struggle to response to the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Nazi domination of Europe.
This book is the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the linguistics of humor, exploring not only theoretical linguistic analyses, but also topics from applied linguistics. It will be a valuable resource for students from advanced undergraduate level upwards, particularly those coming to linguistics from related disciplines.