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Shifting Tides: Culture in Contemporary China

Cultural immersion–learning all the facets of what Chinese means–is an integral part of language learning for serious students of Chinese. This book presents intermediate students with the cultural context that will enable them to better understand and communicate with Chinese people. Texts are based on excerpts from recent Chinese television shows that highlight specific aspects of contemporary culture. Each text is accompanied by notes that clearly explain how to incorporate new vocabulary, idioms, and grammar patterns into everyday speech. Shifting Tides may be preceded by Crossing Paths: Living and Learning in China, or used independently. Simplified characters, with explanations/examples in English and vocabulary examples in characters with pinyin.

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Functional Analysis: A Primer (Chapman & Hall Pure and Applied Mathematics) [Repost]

The marriage of algebra and topology has produced many beautiful and intricate subjects in mathematics, of which perhaps the broadest is functional analysis. My aim has been to write a textbook with which graduate students can master at least some of the powerful tools of this subject.

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Hell Without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative

Hell Without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative (History of African-American Religions) by YOLANDA PIERCE

English | Mar. 12, 2005 | ISBN: 081302806X | 168 Pages | PDF | 590.86 KB

Hell Without Fires examines the spiritual and earthly results of conversion to Christianity for African-American antebellum writers. Using autobiographical narratives, the book shows how black writers transformed the earthly hell of slavery into a "New Jerusalem," a place they could call home. Yolanda Pierce insists that for African Americans, accounts of spiritual conversion revealed "personal transformations with far-reaching community effects. A personal experience of an individual"s relationship with God is transformed into the possibility of liberating an entire community." The process of conversion could result in miraculous literacy, "callings" to preach, a renewed resistance to the slave condition, defiance of racist and sexist conventions, and communal uplift. These stories by five of the earliest antebellum spiritual writers–George White, John Jea, David Smith, Solomon Bayley, and Zilpha Elaw–create a new religious language that merges Christian scripture with distinct retellings of biblical stories, with enslaved people of African descent at their center. Showing the ways their language exploits the levels of meaning of words like master, slavery, sin, and flesh, Pierce argues that the narratives address the needs of those who attempted to transform a foreign god and religion into a personal and collective system of beliefs. The earthly "hell without fires"–one of the writer"s characterizations of everyday life for those living in slavery–could become a place where an individual could be both black and Christian, and religion could offer bodily and psychological healing. Pierce presents a complex and subtle assessment of the language of conversion in the context of slavery. Her work will be important to those interested in the topics of slave religion and spiritual autobiography and to scholars of African American and early American literature and religion.

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Shifting Tides: Culture in Contemporary China

Functional Analysis: A Primer (Chapman & Hall Pure and Applied Mathematics) [Repost]

Hell Without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative