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In the fall of 1999, at the close of the 20th century, there were 3,726 international students on the West Lafayette campus of Purdue University. Three of the largest groups came from Taiwan, South Korea, and Hong Kong. The stories behind Purdue's long-term relationship with Taiwan, Korea, and Hong-Kong is told here.

Uses colour photographs and captions to tell the story of the first one hundred years of the Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering. Formed four years after a chemical engineering curriculum was established at the University, the School grew rapidly in size and reputation. It continues to provide expertise and solutions to the 'grand challenge' problems that the world faces today.

It has been two decades since Yugoslavia fell apart. The brutal conflicts that followed its dissolution are over, but the legacy of the tragedy continues to unsettle the region. Reconciliation is a long and difficult process that necessitates a willingness to work together openly and objectively in confronting the past. Over the past ten years the Scholars¿ Initiative has assembled an international consortium of historians, social scientists, and jurists to examine the salient controversies that still divide the peoples of former Yugoslavia. The findings of its eleven research teams represent a direct assault on the proprietary narratives and interpretations that nationalist politicians and media have impressed on mass culture in each of the successor states. Given gaps in the historical record and the existence of sometimes contradictory evidence, this volume does not pretend to resolve all of the outstanding issues. Nevertheless, this second edition incorporates new evidence and major developments that have taken place in the region since the first edition went to press. At the heart of this project has always been the insistence of the authors that they would continue to reconsider their analyses and conclusions based on credible new evidence. Thus, in this second edition, the work of the Scholars' Initiative continues. The broadly conceived synthesis will assist scholars, public officials, and the people they represent both in acknowledging inconvenient facts and in discrediting widely held myths that inform popular attitudes and the electoral success of nationalist politicians who profit from them. Rather than rely on special pleading and appeals to patriotism that have no place in scholarship, the volume vests its credibility in the scientific credentials of its investigators, the transparent impartiality of its methodology, and an absolute commitment to soliciting and examining evidence presented by all sides.

Offers the lessons and tools that the author used in her career as the first woman partner at Accenture. This book is suitable for women who have a dream.

Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature as well as J-horror and manga, Chinese cinema and Internet, and the Korean Wave, Sheng-mei Ma's Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity probes into the conjoinedness of West and East, of modernity's illusion and nothing's infinitude.

Based on extensive oral history and archival research, this book sheds new light on the important role female staff and faculty played in improving the quality of life for rural women during the first half of the twentieth century. It is also a fascinating story, engagingly told, of two very different personalities united in a common goal.

Examines the remarkable and unknown role that the medieval legend (and Wagner opera) Tannhauser played in Jewish cultural life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It analyses how three of the greatest Jewish thinkers of that era, Heinrich Heine, Theodor Herzl, and I. L. Peretz, used this central myth of Germany to strengthen Jewish culture and to attack anti-Semitism.

Analyses historical, architectural, visual, literary, and philosophical perspectives on the Western-styled garden that formed part of the great Yuanming Yuan complex in Beijing. Through detailed examination of historical literature and representations, it explores the ways in which the Jesuits accommodated their design within the Chinese cultural context.

What does literature reveal about a country¿s changing cultural identity? In History, Violence, and the Hyperreal by Kathryn Everly, this question is applied to the contemporary novel in Spain. In the process, similarities emerge among novels that embrace apparent differences in style, structure, and language. Contemporary Spanish authors are rethinking the way the novel with its narrative powers can define a specific cultural identity. Recent Spanish novels by Carme Riera, Dulce Chacon, Javier Cercas, Ray Loriga, Lucia Etxebarria, and Jose Angel Manas (published from 1995 to 2008) particularly highlight the tension that exists between historical memory and urban youth culture. The novels discussed in this study reconfigure the individual¿s relationship to narrative, history, and reality through their varied interpretations of Spanish history with its common threads of national and personal violence. In these books, culture acts as mediator between the individual and the rapidly changing dynamic of contemporary society. The authors experiment with the novel form to challenge fundamental concepts of identity when the narrative acknowledges more than one way of reading and understanding history, violence, and reality. In Spain today, questions of historical accuracy in all foundational fictions¿such as the Inquisition, the Spanish Civil War, or globalization¿collide with the urgency to modernize. The result is a clash between regional and global identities. Seemingly disparate works of historical fiction and Generation X narrative prove similar in the way they deal with history, reality, and the delicate relationship between writer and reader.

The years 1992 and 2000 marked the 500-year anniversary of the arrival of the Spanish and the Portuguese in America and prompted an explosion of rewritings and cinematic renditions of texts and figures from colonial Latin America. Cannibalizing the Colony analyzes a crucial way that Latin American historical films have grappled with the legacy of colonialism. It studies how and why filmmakers in Brazil and Mexico ¿the countries that have produced most films about the colonial period in Latin America ¿appropriate and transform colonial narratives of European and indigenous contact into commentaries on national identity. The book looks at how filmmakers attempt to reconfigure history and culture and incorporate it into present-day understandings of the nation. The book additionally considers the motivations and implications for these filmic dialogues with the past and how the directors attempt to control the way that spectators understand the complex and contentious roots of identity in Mexico and Brazil.

Several canonical works of literary fiction have provided their readers with verbal maps that in their depictions of boundary spaces construct indirect images of national territory and geography. This book analyzes fictional texts as a discursive territoriality that shape readers' notions of (and ambivalence about) national and regional belonging.

Shows how a small New York group, predominantly Jewish, moved from communist and socialist roots to become a primary voice of liberal humanism and, in the case of a few, to launch a new conservative movement. This book concentrates on Lionel Trilling as the paradigmatic liberal intellectual and also includes reconsiderations of Irving Howe.

Provides an overview of the relationship between Germany, German speakers, and successive waves of German colonists with their eastern neighbors from the Middle Ages. This book covers medieval period which saw the first German colonial expansion eastward. It reviews the role of German speakers in the development policies of enlightened absolutism.

By focusing on the dialogic relationship that inherently exists between performer and spectator in performance, this work diachronically examines the performative poetics of the jongleuresque tradition and synchronically traces its performative impact on the Spanish theater of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Examines contemporary French society's relationship with violence in an era of increased media dominance. This book presents an interdisciplinary approach which integrates media, cinema, and literary studies. It analyzes how media and politicians use the crime story as a tool for upholding the dominant ideology.

Paul Harris Stores brought fashion, comfort, style, and functionality to millions of women in the Midwest. The business cycle of Paul Harris Stores provides a glimpse into the inner workings of specialty retail. This is the story of dreams and individual accomplishments.

Illustrates the diversity of research in the field of veterinary behavioral medicine, and includes the findings of scientists, veterinarians, and practitioners. The materials included provide additions to the knowledge base, avenues for research, and increase the understanding of the different approaches used internationally within the discipline.

In the eighteenth century, a type of novel flourished, showing outsiders who come to Europe. After studying the origin of the genre in Montaigne's essay ""Des Cannibales"", this book analyzes Montesquieu's ""Lettres persanes"", Francoise de Graffigny's ""Lettres d'une Peruvienne"", Voltaire's ""L'Ingenu"", and Claire de Duras's ""Ourika"".

Each year, there are an estimated 125,000 people with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia who leave the safety of their homes, unable to find their way back. As a workbook, this title outlines steps that families can take to find their loved ones if they are discovered missing. It is a useful tool providing answers that could save lives.

William Carol Latta became the driving force behind Purdue's world-famous School of Agriculture and initiated extension services that have lasted for more than a century. In 1890, he laid out the first permanent soil fertility field experiments, inaugurating a system of research considered one of the best in the country at that time.

The Rule is a basic textbook to create and maintain effective organizations. It offers today's reader insights into some of the kost difficult resource management in business. It is a guide to success for entrepreneurs, managers and business.

A child can't be owned, but parents are legally responsible for their child's care. A painting and a dog can be owned; both fall under the jurisdiction of the law and in particular, property rights. But why should a dog, man's best friend, an animal with a mind and emotions, fall under the same category as a painting?

Silesia became a focal point as an area that was sought after by all three nations. This work analyzes the problems of nation building in the Central European region of Silesia during the years 1848-1918, which was influenced by Western European movements, especially German nationalism.