"Drawing on more than a quarter century of field and documentary research in rural North China, this book explores the contested relationship between village and state from the 1960s to the start of the twenty-first century. The authors provide a vivid portrait of how resilient villagers struggle to survive and prosper in the face of state power in two epochs of revolution and reform. Highlighting the importance of intra-rural resistance ..."
"The detailed portrait of social change in the North China plain depicts how the world of the Chinese peasant evolved during an era of war and revolution and how it in turn shaped the revolutionary process. The authors spent a decade interviewing villagers and rural officials, exploring archives, and investigating villagers with diverse resources and cultural, traditions, and they vividly describe both the promise and the human tragedy o ..."
"Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote, published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, is a fictional masterpiece that helped to guide the development of the novel. Its energy is built on a joint emphasis on the story of the self-made knight errant and the story of the composition of the text itself. Humor, irony, and ingenuity mark every stage of the knight's progress. QUIXOTIC HAIKU borrows the haiku, a Japanese verse form known for its brevity, ..."
Crossing the Line A Quixotic Adventure in Two Acts (Juan de La Cuesta--Hispanic Monographs) by ProfessorEdwardFriedman Paperback, 126 Pages, Published 2012 by Juan De La Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs ISBN-13: 978-1-58871-216-5, ISBN: 1-58871-216-8
"A friend advises him to write whatever he likes, just to fill up the space of a prologue. This is the start of something big."
"The book provides an overview of the whole field of depressive disorders by two recognised experts.Written by well known authors, one European and one from USA this pocket-sized book covers the whole field including a practical guide of use in the clinic."
"The much-anticipated definitive account of China's Great Famine An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as "the three years of natural disaster." As a journalist with privileged access to off ..."
Pedro the Schemer A Work in Progress: An Adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes's "Pedro de Urdemalas" by ProfessorEdwardFriedman, Miguel De Cervantes Paperback, 102 Pages, Published 2018 by Juan De La Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs ISBN-13: 978-1-58871-309-4, ISBN: 1-58871-309-1
"The carefully crafted episodic plot of Pedro de Urdemalas, first published in 1615, makes the play--arguably, at least--the most archetypical of Miguel de Cervantes's full-length works for the theater. Before Lope de Vega's formula for the "new art of writing plays" (el arte nuevo) became the model for dramatic composition in Spain, Cervantes created a singular vision, ultimately far less successful than that of the younger playwright. ..."
Trading Up A Comedy of Manners (Paperback) by ProfessorEdwardFriedman Paperback, 118 Pages, Published 2015 by Juan De La Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs ISBN-13: 978-1-58871-267-7, ISBN: 1-58871-267-2
"His research also covers contemporary narrative and drama. Recent publications include Cervantes in the Middle: Realism and Reality in the Spanish Novel and the plays Into the Mist, Crossing the Line, and The Labyrinth of Love."
The Labyrinth of Love Inspired by El Laberinto de Amor by Miguel de Cervantes by ProfessorEdwardFriedman Paperback, 114 Pages, Published 2013 by Juan De La Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs ISBN-13: 978-1-58871-228-8, ISBN: 1-58871-228-1
"This original drama from Edward Friedman aims at baroque intensity. The main characters are three women who escape from their homes, disguised as men, in order to seek independence. Each becomes a metaphorical playwright on the road to freedom. The three male love objects are at the mercy of the women, whose maneuverings bring them success, but only through a labyrinthine process of role-playing, cross-dressing, quick thinking, and coll ..."
"Written by the leading authority on hormone receptors and prostate cancer, this book reveals the surprising truth about how you can prevent and treat breast cancer, prostate cancer, and Alzheimer's with testosterone and other FDA-approved drugs. For decades, doctors have sought to combat prostate cancer under the mistaken assumption that testosterone fueled its growth. But the latest research into the nature of hormone receptors and the ..."
"The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 contains the world's most comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation's highest court by leading legal practitioners - many who later became judges and associates of the court. It includes transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, supplements and other official papers of the most-studied and talked-about cases, includi ..."
"The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 contains the world's most comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation's highest court by leading legal practitioners - many who later became judges and associates of the court. It includes transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, supplements and other official papers of the most-studied and talked-about cases, includi ..."
"More than just an anthology, Aproximaciones al estudio de la literatura hispánica is an introduction to literary analysis with readings from Spanish and Spanish-American literature. Organized by the four genres of prose, poetry, drama, and the essay, the text provides a rich and diverse array of reading selections. Each section is accompanied by an introduction to the genre, and each reading includes a wealth of exercises ..."
"The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 contains the world's most comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation's highest court by leading legal practitioners - many who later became judges and associates of the court. It includes transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, supplements and other official papers of the most-studied and talked-about cases, includi ..."
"... triggered by the CCP's conciliationist response to isolating international
sanctions following the June 4 massacre of Chinese promoters of democracy, ...
Taiwan, as detailed by Bruce Jacobs (see chapter 5), lost its seat at the United
Nations."
"Implications for War and Peace Edward Friedman, Barrett L. McCormick.
Introduction. Barrett. L. McCormick. This book grew out of the editors' related
concerns over the growing animosity between the People's Republic of China (
PRC) and the United States and the limited prospects for democracy in the PRC.
In 1997, when we organized the conference that led to this book, we were
concerned about the increasingly nationalistic tone of Ch ..."
"Original essays chart the ascent and decline of specific nations and establish some of the principles of national movement within the world economic system. Germany, Britain, Taiwan and Turkey are nations whose specific cases are discussed. The effect of minorities and poorer regions within nations, in effect internal peripheries, is considered in essays on American Blacks and Hawaiians. The value of socialism as a strategy for ascent i ..."
"Drawing on more than a quarter century of field and documentary research in rural North China, this book explores the contested relationship between village and state from the 1960s to the start of the twenty-first century. The authors provide a vivid portrait of how resilient villagers struggle to survive and prosper in the face of state power in two epochs of revolution and reform. Highlighting the importance of intra-rural resistance ..."