This book focuses on China’s experience in development over the past 70 years and its significance, as well as building a community with a shared future for mankind. The book consists of a collection of papers contributed by researchers from many countries, covering the topics of world order, a community with a shared future for mankind, “the Belt and Road” initiative, exchange and mutual learning between civilizations, China Model, China and the World, multi-bilateral relationship, sustai...

Historically, many churches and theologians defended and supported race-based slavery and subsequent forms of racial hierarchy and violence. The essays in Reparations and the Theological Disciplines argue that it is urgent that the theological disciplines engage the issue of reparations by revisiting Scripture and our theological traditions. The time is now for remembrance, reckoning, and repair.

In "The Complete Christmas Stories of Anthony Trollope," the esteemed Victorian novelist weaves a tapestry of holiday-themed narratives that blend warmth, humor, and societal observation. These stories, originally published in the mid-to-late 19th century, exhibit Trollope's signature prose style'—characterized by its clarity, wit, and intricate characterizations. Exploring themes of charity, family, and the human condition during the festive season, Trollope offers a contemplative look at...

As the emotional components of physical illnesses become more recognised, there is a renewed interest in the potential of art therapy to help patients come to terms with injury, pain and terminal and life-long conditions.A wide range of experienced art therapists describe their work and its benefits to a variety of groups including those with cancer, debilitating conditions such as myalgic encephalopathy (M.E.) and ulcerative colitis. Physical conditions in combination with other f...

When Melissa Nyquist answers a mysteriously poetic want ad to help out in a botanist’s greenhouse, she is pleasantly surprised to find that her new boss is distinguished, handsome, intelligent, and sexy as all hell. She soon finds herself drawn to her employer and into the lascivious and sultry world of rare fruits and flowers. Meanwhile, she becomes unwittingly pulled into a web of international intrigue, global domination, and weather modification.Malcolm Brautigan’s prose is rou...

When Melissa Nyquist answers a mysteriously poetic want ad to help out in a botanist’s greenhouse, she is pleasantly surprised to find that her new boss is distinguished, handsome, intelligent, and sexy as all hell. She soon finds herself drawn to her employer and into the lascivious and sultry world of rare fruits and flowers. Meanwhile, she becomes unwittingly pulled into a web of international intrigue, global domination, and weather modification.Malcolm Brautigan’s prose is rou...

Throughout its history, animation has been fundamentally shaped by its application to promotion and marketing, with animation playing a vital role in advertising history. In individual case study chapters this book addresses, among others, the role of promotion and advertising for anime, Disney, MTV, Lotte Reiniger, Pixar and George Pal, and highlights American, Indian, Japanese, and European examples. This collection reviews the history of famous animation studios and artists, and redisco...

Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of private correspondence, the highly anticipated follow-up to THE PROUD HIGHWAY. Spanning the years between 1968 and 1976, these never-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend: running for sheriff in Aspen, Colorado, creating the seminal road book FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS, twisting political reporting to new heights for ROLLING STONE and making sense of it all in th...

'Brilliant' - Observer'Vivid, hyperactive, combative, ferociously intelligent and iconoclastic' - Guardian'Splendidly corrosive' - Independent_____________The Proud Highway is a literary milestone. The first volume in Hunter S. Thompson's intimate letters begins with a high school essay written in 1955, and takes us through 1967, when the publication of Hell's Angels made the author an international celebrity.Thompson's prolific and often profound cor...