Author: Angela Gluck Wood File Type: pdf The survivors stories - read their own words, hear their own voices. Between 1938 and 1945, six million Jewish men, women, and children were killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. For many, the sheer enormity of the crimes makes it difficult to imagine. Here, historical information combines with moving first-person accounts to give you the full story. Maps, charts, and timelines provide eye-opening context and the testimony of survivors featured in the book and accompanying DVD take you behind the statistics. Produced in association with the Shoah Foundation, this book is a major US Holocaust memorial and tolerance education organization, with a foreword from Steven Spielberg. Discover the faith and courage that guided people through one of the darkest hours of the modern age.**

Author: John Lanchester File Type: epub Fragrant Harbour is the story of four people whose intertwined lives span Asias last seventy years. Tom Stewart leaves England just before it is hit by the Great Depression to seek his fortune, and finds it in running Hong Kongs best hotel. Sister Maria is a beautiful and uncompromising Chinese nun whom Stewart meets on the boat out from England their friendship spans decades and changes both their lives. Dawn Stone is an English journalist who becomes the public face of money and power and big business. Matthew Ho is a young Chinese entrepreneur whose life has been shaped by painful choices made long before his birth, and who is now facing his own difficulties, and opportunities, in the twenty-first century. The complacency of colonial life in the 1930s the horrors of the Japanese occupation during the Second World War the post-war boom and transformation of Hong Kong into a laboratory of capitalism at its most cut-throat the growth of the Triads the handover of the city to the Chinese - all these are present in Fragrant Harbour, an epic novel of one of the worlds great cities.

Author: Nancy Fraser File Type: pdf Charts the history of womens liberation and calls for a revitalized feminism.Nancy Frasers major new book traces the feminist movements evolution since the 1970s and anticipates a newradical and egalitarianphase of feminist thought and action.During the ferment of the New Left, Second Wave feminism emerged as a struggle for womens liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements that were questioning core features of capitalist society. But feminisms subsequent immersion in identity politics coincided with a decline in its utopian energies and the rise of neoliberalism. Now, foreseeing a revival in the movement, Fraser argues for a reinvigorated feminist radicalism able to address the global economic crisis. Feminism can be a force working in concert with other egalitarian movements in the struggle to bring the economy under democratic control, while building on the visionary potential of the earlier waves of womens liberation. This powerful new account is set to become a landmark of feminist thought.

Author: Bridie Andrews File Type: pdf This volume examines important aspects of Chinas century-long search to provide appropriate and effective health care for its people. Four subjectsdisease and healing, encounters and accommodations, institutions and professions, and peoples healthorganize discussions across case studies of schistosomiasis, tuberculosis, mental health, and tobacco and health. Among the books significant conclusions are the importance of barefoot doctors in disseminating western medicine, the improvements in medical health and services during the long Sino-Japanese war, and the important role of the Chinese consumer. Intended for an audience of health practitioners, historians, and others interested in the history of medicine and health in China, the book is one of three commissioned by the China Medical Board to mark its centennial in 2014. **Review Medical Transitions in Twentieth Century China provides rich insights into how one country has dealt with perhaps the most central issue for any human society the health and wellbeing of its citizens. Yet the book sheds light on more than simply Chinas own medical transitions, and should appeal to anyone interested more broadly in the modern history of health. The Lancet An important contribution to scholarship. Historians of medicine and public health in China will find it useful and [it] will become required reading on modern China for scholars interested in the history of public health, and particularly those interested in the Rockefeller Foundation. Hilary A. Smith, Dickinson College [T]his volume provides an invaluable synthesis of modern medical development in China, and useful sources for survey courses on medical history, public health and the global circulation of knowledge. Social History of Medicine Anyone interested in the history of modern medicine will find this an especially instructive book for its focus on China, its treatment of political and social issues, and its explanation of how decollectivization and Chinas opening to a market economy have impacted medicine and health care. A substantial bibliography and detailed index make this a particularly useful volume for promoting further scholarship on the history and politics of medicine in contemporary China.... Highly recommended. Choice About the Author Bridie Andrews is Associate Professor of History at Bentley University. Mary Brown Bullock is Chair of the China Medical Board and Executive Vice-Chancellor of Duke-Kunshan University.