This is not an ordinary guide to Melaka. This book weaves together history, cultures, architecture and cuisine to tell a more multifaceted story of Melaka, once a great trading port fought over by various colonial powers, resulting in a rich heritage that is still salient today, resulting in a multicultural city reflecting its cosmopolitan journey over the centuries. Journey along the old streets of Melaka and past its ruins, where its rich history, reflecting hundreds of years of Asian and European influence, remains alive and evolving to this day.

Amidst the growth challenges encountered by numerous Chinatowns across America, this timely work offers insightful perspectives on a sustainable model for urban and community development, as demonstrated by the transformative journey of Houston’s New Chinatown.

Having completed an extensive car restoration in record time, Dani Winters is looking forward to showing off her work and getting new clients at the infamous Pebble Beach car show. Tomlin Takahashi, the owner of the restored car and new business partner, has more than a car show in mind when he invites her to Los Angeles a week prior to Pebble Beach to watch him compete in a charity Judo match. Pining after her business partner and taking a trip with him is the last thing her poor heart needs after he’s rejected her repeatedly. Little does she know, his rejection protects him from more pain and tragedy in his life. Both yearn for love and acceptance, even if they go about it in different ways. Giving it one last shot, Dani Winters agrees to the trip and basks in the newfound love they share until one lie threatens it all. Takahashi is Book Two of a Duet. A full-length novel with a happily ever after. It is an enemies-to-lovers, slight age gap, forced proximity romance containing dark themes. Content warnings are available on the author’s website. Keywords: Luxurious Pebble Beach car showcase, thrilling charity Judo competition, poignant unrequited love, protective emotional barriers, deep longing for affection and acceptance, scenic Los Angeles romance, glamorous celebrity romance, affluent millionaire love story, intense enemies-to-lovers dynamic, subtle age difference romance, captivating forced proximity situations, brooding dark romance narrative, culturally diverse romance, charming Japanese hero, guaranteed happily ever after, resilience in face of romantic rejection, modern-day romantic tale, intricate romantic conflict and heartfelt resolution, mature content advisory, high-profile sports romance, intertwined business and romantic interests, passionate car restoration romance, vintage car love affair, entrepreneurial romance adventures, journey of emotional maturity, romance against all odds, high-stakes love drama, mysterious pasts entwining lovers, idyllic romantic getaway fiction, love intertwined with car craftsmanship, nostalgic vintage car restoration, empowered female protagonist, romance with a sports celebrity, complex business and love partnership, intricate dynamics of wealth in romance, ambitious love pursuits, exploring deep-seated trust issues, intensely passionate romance, emotionally rich love story. You’ll enjoy this series If you like these authors: J. Daniels, L.J. Shen, Corinne Michaels, K.A. Tucker, Aly Martinez, Abbi Glines, Alice Clayton, J. Kenner, Karina Halle, Lauren Blakely, Mia Sheridan, Samantha Young, S.C. Stephens, Belle Aurora, Raine Miller, Monica Murphy, Willow Winters, Tessa Bailey, Meghan Quinn, Elle Kennedy, Sarina Bowen, Penelope Douglas, Sally Thorne, Helena Hunting, Mariana Zapata, Vi Keeland, Tessa Bailey, Kristen Callihan, K. Bromberg, Meghan Quinn, R.S. Grey, and Kendall Ryan.

This encyclopedia provides a premier reference guide for students, scholars, policy makers, and others interested in assessing the moral consequences of global interdependence and understanding the concepts and arguments that shed light on the myriad aspects of global justice.

This book argues that future generations of modernity as a whole will shape participatory modernization whether Chinese modernization or Western modernization. The public discourse is inundated with the good and the bad modern events with the acceleration of globalization. This book debates that the biggest question in the twenty-first century is not who will dominate, touting a new world order upon us, but rather that it is the orientation of modernization that haunts our daily realities. This book explores the idea that life is not about living for an identity in any society, it is about the demands for dignity and safety. It goes further to state that there is also a demand for the power of being, and these three elements are beyond identities as modernization moves forward. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book uses theories, data, and philosophy as toolboxes to align with microrealities around the globe. Witnessing modernization and modernizing identities in China and in Australia beyond day by day, the author provides a more suitable, more realistic, and possibly, more nuanced perspective. This book will be of interest to professionals, students, academics, as well as businesspeople with China experience, interested in modernization and identity, the Chinese perspective, and the new generation of Chinese.

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key article, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands and see how their work contributes to the development of the field. Carl A. Grant has spent the last 35 years researching, teaching, thinking and writing about some of the key enduring issues in multicultural education. He has contributed to a multitude of books and articles, and is former President of the National Association for Multicultural Education. In his selected works, Carl Grant brings together 14 of his key writings in one place. Starting with a specially written Introduction, which gives an overview of his career and contextualises his selection within the development of the field, the book is divided into three parts: - Race and Educational Equity - Theorizing Multicultural Education - Multicultural Teacher Education. This book not only shows how Carl Grant’s thinking developed during his long and distinguished career, it also gives an insight into the development of the fields to which he contributed.

Heightened interest in multicultural issues in psychology and an understanding of culture as a critical aspect of human behavior has moved the topic of multiculturalism into the forefront of research and to required coursework in the helping professions. However, this is not without the backlash of resistance. Resistance to Multiculturalism: Issues and Interventions examines the subtle forms of racism and resistance to the multicultural movement in psychology and society. The authors use their vast experience in the arena of multiculturalism, both from the perspective of teaching and administration, to detail accounts, experiences, and challenges of resistance. Therapy and research is interwoven throughout this text that begins by placing multiculturalism at the heart of the best traditions of scholarship as proposed by the highly regarded Ernest Boyer of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. In a conversational style and through chapters addressing what includes modern resistance, the classroom, stereotypes, resistance at the administrative level, and groups, this book offers techniques and interventions to overcoming resistance. Readers who teach multiculturalism, students, researchers, and those advocating for multiculturalism on on the broader community level will find Resistance to Multiculturalism an informative guide to combating the challenges of resistance.

This volume explores some of the tensions and pressures of citizenship in Western liberal democracies. Citizenship has adopted many guises in the Western context, although historically citizenship is attached only to some variant of democracy. How democracy is configured is thus at the core of citizenship. Beginning in ancient Greece, citizenship is attached to the notion of a public sphere of deliberation, open only to a small number of males. Nonetheless, we take from these origins an understanding of citizenship that is attached to friendship, preservation of a distinct community, and adherence to law. These early conceptions of citizenship in the west have been dramatically altered in the modern context by the ascendancy of individual rights and equality, expanding the inclusiveness of definition of citizenship. The universality of rights claims has led to debate about the legitimacy of the nation state and questioning of borders. A further development in our understanding of citizenship, and one that has shifted citizenship studies considerably in the last few decades, is the backlash against the universalism of rights in the defense of cultural recognition within democratic polities. Multiculturalism as a broad spectrum of citizenship studies defends the autonomy and recognition of cultural, and sometimes religious, identity within an overarching scheme of rights and equality. This collection draws upon the many threads of citizenship in the Western tradition to consider how all of them are still extant, and contentious, in contemporary liberal democracy.

The SAGE Handbook of Child Development explores the multicultural development of children through the varied and complex interplay of traditional agents of socialization as well as contemporary media influences, examining how socialization practices and media content construct and teach us about diverse cultures. Editors Joy K. Asamen, Mesha L. Ellis, and Gordon L. Berry, along with chapter authors from a wide variety of disciplines, highlight how to analyze, compare, and contrast alternative perspectives of children of different cultures, domestically and globally, with the major principles and theories of child development in cognitive, socioemotional, and/or social/contextual domains.