There are more than 225 million rural-to-urban migrant workers, and some 20 million migrant children in Chinese cities. Because of policies related to the household registration (hukou) system, migrant students are not allowed a public high school education in the cities, so their urban education stops abruptly at the end of middle school. This book investigates the post-middle...(展开全部)

"Unreservedly recommended, sums up in simple language Adler's experience of children." --eacher's World

A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin. . . . A call to police emergency from a distant lake house is cut short. . . . A phone glitch or an aborted report of a crime? Off-duty deputy Brynn leaves her family's dinner table and drives up to deserted Lake Mondac to find out. She stumbles onto the scene of a heinous murder. . . . Before she can call for backup, though, she fin...(展开全部)

"The Girl You Left Behind" is a hauntingly romantic and utterly irresistible new weepy from Jojo Moyes, author of the "Richard and Judy" bestseller, "Me Before You". What happened to the girl you left behind? France, 1916. Sophie Lefevre must keep her family safe whilst her adored husband Edouard fights at the front. When she is ordered to serve the German officers who descend ...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly "Some 35 years have passed since I wrote this novel and, on rereading it, I am struck by the immature technique revealed in certain places." So writes Endo (Deep River) in a candid afterword. Endo, Japan's foremost Catholic novelist, is a good critic of his own work, for this novel is a sentimental tale filled with coincidence and heavy Christian symbolis...(展开全部)

By 2030, China's cities will be home to 1 billion people one in every eight people on earth. What kind of lives will China's urban billion lead? And what will China's cities be like? Over the past thirty years, China's urban population expanded by 500 million people, and is on track to swell by a further 300 million by 2030. Hundreds of millions of these new urban residents are...(展开全部)

By 2030, China's cities will be home to 1 billion people - one in every eight people on earth. What kind of lives will China's urban billion lead? And what will China's cities be like? Over the past thirty years, China's urban population expanded by 500 million people, and is on track to swell by a further 300 million by 2030. Hundreds of millions of these new urban residents a...(展开全部)

朱锋，北京大学国际战略研究中心副主任、北京大学国际关系学院教授。曾在美国哈佛大学、美国战略与国际研究中心、英国杜兰大学等多家国际学术机构担任访问学者。其学术专著有《人权与国际关系》（200）、《弹道导弹防御计划与国际安全》（2001）、《东亚安全：理论与政策的分析》（2007）。 罗伯特·阿特(Robert J．Art)，美国布兰代斯大学赦脱国际关系学教授，哈佛大学博士，著名的国际关系学家、国际安全研究专家，也是闻名于国际战略学界的杰出学者。曾在哈佛大学的奥林战略所供职，曾任美国国防部远程计划参谋秘书、麻省理工学院安全研究项目的高级研究员。研究方向是国家安全事务与美国外交政策。

The rise of major metropolises across China since the 1990s has been a double-edged sword: although big cities function as economic powerhouses, concentrated urban growth can worsen regional inequalities, governance challenges, and social tensions. Wary of these dangers, China’s national leaders have tried to forestall top-heavy urbanization. However, urban and regional develop...(展开全部)

'Reading 'Threads of Thinking' is like having a comfortable conversation with one who exudes experience and skilfully imparts knowledge about young children's learning and the role of early education….it is a highly informative resource for teachers of early childhood. Students studying from Level 3 to degree level will find it a trusty companion' - ESCalate Threads of Thinking...(展开全部)