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    Sanctioned Violence in Early China

    Mark Edward Lewis

    This book provides new insight into the creation of the Chinese empire by examining the changing forms of permitted violence-warfare, hunting, sacrifice, punishments, and vengeance. It analyzes the interlinked evolution…

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    Writing and Authority in Early China

    Mark Edward Lewis

    Traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and authority in early China, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual canon as the basis of imperial…

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    Writing and Authority in Early China

    Mark Edward Lewis

    Traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and authority in early China, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual canon as the basis of imperial…

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    The Construction of Space in Early China

    Mark Edward Lewis

    Shows how the emerging Chinese empire purposely reconceived but was also constrained by basic spatial units such as the body, the household, the region, and the world.

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    The Construction of Space in Early China

    Mark Edward Lewis

    Shows how the emerging Chinese empire purposely reconceived but was also constrained by basic spatial units such as the body, the household, the region, and the world.

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    The Flood Myths of Early China

    Mark Edward Lewis

    Explores how the flood myths of early China provided a template for that society’s major social and political institutions.

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    The Flood Myths of Early China

    Mark Edward Lewis

    Explores how the flood myths of early China provided a template for that society’s major social and political institutions.

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    Sanctioned Violence in Early China

    Mark Edward Lewis

    This book provides new insight into the creation of the Chinese empire by examining the changing forms of permitted violence-warfare, hunting, sacrifice, punishments, and vengeance. It analyzes the interlinked evolution…

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    Honor and Shame in Early China

    Mark Edward Lewis (Stanford University, California)

    Shedding new light on the history of the early Chinese empires, Mark Edward Lewis explores the evolution of ideas about honor and shame. He shows that honor-shame discourse had a…

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    Violence and the Rise of Centralized States in East Asia

    Mark Edward Lewis (Stanford University, California)

    This Element examines how states in ancient East Asia wielded violence to create and display authority. It also explores how their licit violence was entangled in the violence whose suppression…

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    The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han

    Mark Edward Lewis

    In 221 BC the First Emperor of Qin unified what would become the heart of a Chinese empire whose major features would endure for two millennia. In the first of…

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    China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties

    Mark Edward Lewis

    After the collapse of the Han dynasty, China divided along a north-south line. Lewis traces the changes that underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw China’s…

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    China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty

    Mark Edward Lewis

    The Tang dynasty is often called China’s golden age. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule, painting and ceramic…

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    The Lady of Linshui Pacifies Demons: A Seventeenth-Century Novel

    The Lady of Linshui-the goddess of women, childbirth, and childhood-is still venerated in south China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. Her story evolved from the life of Chen Jinggu in the…

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    The Lady of Linshui Pacifies Demons: A Seventeenth-Century Novel

    The Lady of Linshui-the goddess of women, childbirth, and childhood-is still venerated in south China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. Her story evolved from the life of Chen Jinggu in the…

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    Crusade, Settlement and Historical Writing in the Latin East and Latin West, c. 1100-c.1300

    This collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom.

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    Making Civilizations: The World before 600

    From the History of the World series, Making Civilizations traces the origins of large-scale organized human societies. Led by archaeologist Hans-Joachim Gehrke, a distinguished group of scholars lays out latest…

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    There Once Was a Limerick Anthology: Lewis Carroll, Robert Frost, Edward Lear, Mark Twain, Carolyn Wells, Woodrow Wilson and Others

    Humor buffs and poetry lovers will laugh out loud with this captivating collection of more than 350 limericks featuring limerick legends plus renowned political figures, poets, and writers.

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    The Ancient Greek Economy: Markets, Households and City-States

    The Ancient Greek Economy: Markets, Households and City-States brings together sixteen essays by leading scholars of the ancient Greek economy. The essays investigate the role of market-exchange in the economy…

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    The Ancient Greek Economy: Markets, Households and City-States

    The Ancient Greek Economy: Markets, Households and City-States brings together sixteen essays by leading scholars of the ancient Greek economy. The essays investigate the role of market-exchange in the economy…

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    Exploring the Use of Computational Cognitive Models to Personalize Training

    Matthew Walsh, Mark Toukan, Thomas Edward Goode, Andrea M Abler, Sean Mann, Lewis Schneider

    The U.S. Department of the Air Force (DAF) must develop and sustain mission-critical knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) among airmen, guardians, and civilians. Yet training and education is costly. This…

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    PSYCHOLOGY, 3E: The science of mind and behaviour

    Michael W. Passer (UNIV OF WASHINGTON SEATTLE),Ronald E. Smith (UNIV OF WASHINGTON SEATTLE)

    Bringing new developments in the field and its renowned pedagogical design, this book’s scientific approach, which brings together international research, practical application and the levels of analysis framework, encourages critical…

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