This compelling book analyzes the rise of civil society and legal contentiousness in contemporary China. Scott Wilson examines how Chinese AIDS carriers and pollution victims, relying on weak laws and judicial institutions, pursue justice and protection of their rights in Chinese courts and civil society. In exploring the “politics of justice” in China, the author contends that civil society and legal rights advance when their organizers have support from pockets of the Chinese Communist Party, resources from international groups, and the backing of protesters. Even lawsuits that fail in the courts can raise societal consciousness of social issues and can lead to revised state policies to address the substantive claims of disadvantaged citizens. Underlying the politics of justice is the regime’s attempt to balance commitments to legal development and its interest in regime stability. Wilson argues that the Chinese state has looked more favorably upon pollution victims’ civil-society organizations and lawsuits than those of AIDS carriers. Going beyond the standard overviews of China’s legal system, Tigers without Teeth is unique in its close comparison of legal activism on two sensitive and politically relevant social issues. It provides important insights into the development of civil society, as well as highlighting limitations to the pursuit of justice as the system balances between the development of rule of law and regime stability.

Hard Stew always gets what he wants, but he's not the only thing chasing Davey. There's also a secret - the sort that jumps up on you and is more frightening than a hundred Hard Stews. The sort you've got to stare in the face. If you've got the guts... Shortlisted for the Sheffield Children's Book Award and the Angus Award.

INDEX CHAPTER ONE D'ARTAGNAN, PORTHOS … AND MONTE CRISTO DON LUIS PERENNA CHAPTER TWO A MAN DEAD "MONSIEUR LE PRÉFET: CHAPTER THREE A MAN DOOMED CHAPTER FOUR THE CLOUDED TURQUOISE "THE TEETH OF THE TIGER." CHAPTER FIVE THE IRON CURTAIN CHAPTER SIX THE MAN WITH THE EBONY WALKING-STICK CHAPTER SEVEN SHAKESPEARE'S WORKS, VOLUME VIII "MY DEAR OLD FRIEND: CHAPTER EIGHT THE DEVIL'S POST-OFFICE CHAPTER NINE LUPIN'S ANGER "SENSATIONAL DECLARATION BY DON LUIS PERENNA "MME. FAUVILLE IS INNOCENT. "IMMINENT ARREST OF THE TWO CRIMINALS" CHAPTER TEN GASTON SAUVERAND EXPLAINS CHAPTER ELEVEN ROUTED CHAPTER TWELVE "HELP!" CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE EXPLOSION CHAPTER FOURTEEN THE "HATER" CHAPTER FIFTEEN THE HEIR TO THE HUNDRED MILLIONS "MONSIEUR LE PRÉFET: CHAPTER SIXTEEN WEBER TAKES HIS REVENGE "I?" CHAPTER SEVENTEEN OPEN SESAME! CHAPTER EIGHTEEN ARSÈNE I EMPEROR OP MAURETANIA CHAPTER NINETEEN "THE SNARE IS LAID. BEWARE, LUPIN!" CHAPTER TWENTY FLORENCE'S SECRET CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE LUPIN'S LUPINS

A preeminent historian’s memoir of the first peasant rebellion in postcolonial Nigeria

The circus has arrived in town! A little girl named Mia understands and speaks the language of the animals. Her dream of joining the circus is about to come true! Yet a conversation with a tiger at the circus has suddenly changed her mind. Now she wants only one thing - to free the tiger. Mia wanders around the circus, asking all the grown ups for help, but instead of helping her, most simply brush her aside the way adults often do. Mia prefers to talk with the animals, in the language of emotion, unbound by words. The animals come together in an adventure to release the tiger. Along the way, Mia meets many characters, most of whom can't speak her language, but by the end she also meets some who do. This is a story that teaches children about true feelings, and will also help grown ups to find the inner child within.

This book provides a timely update on the ongoing transformation of the Chinese economy. As the world's second largest economy, China marked the 40th anniversary of economic reform and opening-up in 2018. In this book, top scholars on Chinese economic studies review China's remarkable economic achievement in the past four decades and analyse the challenges facing economic development in the country.The book focusses on structural changes of China's economy, which are essential to steer the country towards sustainable development. It studies the long-term factors affecting the Chinese economy such as education and innovation, and emerging sources of economic growth, such as e-commerce. Other important aspects of the Chinese economy explored in this book include the economic role of the Chinese government, fiscal reforms, capital account liberalisation, housing policies, competition policy and anti-monopoly law, China's export, trends of regional development and reforms of state-owned enterprises.This rich collection of policy-oriented economic studies is also a tribute to Professor John Wong, former research director of the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, who passed away in June 2018. For over three decades, Professor Wong had followed and provided insightful analyses on China's economic development.

In just ten months in Vietnam, he was overrun, shot up, but not underworked—he survived fifty-four missions as point man. He has one hell of a story to tell. You didn't get into the Rangers without volunteering, and you didn't stay on point unless you liked it. But after watching most of his buddies die in a firefight when his LRRP team was overrun by the NVA, Kregg Jorgenson volunteered to serve on a Blue Team in the Air Cavalry, racing to the aid of soldiers who faced the same dangers he had barely survived. Whether enduring NVA sapper attacks, surviving “friendly” fire, or landing in hot LZs, Jorgenson discovered that in Vietnam you never knew whether you were paranoid or just painfully aware of the possibilities.

"A history of Chinese law and justice from the imperial era to the post-Mao era, the book addresses the evolution and function of law codes and judicial practices in China's long history, and examines the transition from traditional laws and practices to their modern counterparts in the twentieth century and beyond. From the ancient times to the twenty-first century, there has been an enduring expectation or hope among the Chinese people that justice should and will be done in society, which is expressed in a popular Chinese saying, "Heaven has eyes." To the Chinese mind in the imperial era, justice was, and was to be achieved as, an alignment of Heavenly reason, state law, and human relations. Such a conception did not change until the turn of the twentieth century when Western-derived notions--natural rights, legal equality, the rule of law, judicial independence, and due process--came to replace the Confucian moral code of right and wrong, which was a fundamental shift in philosophical and moral principles that informed law and justice. The legal-judicial reform agendas since the beginning of the twentieth century (still ongoing today) stemmed from this change in the Chinese moral and legal thinking, but to materialize the said principles in everyday practices is a very different order of things that is much more difficult to accomplish, hence all the legal dramas including tragedies in the past one century or so. The book will lay out how and why that is the case"--

Northeastern Tiger Beetles: A Field Guide to Tiger Beetles of New England and Eastern Canada is the first book to draw together information about adult and larvae of tiger beetles of New England and Eastern Canada. Details are provided about key characteristics of adults and larvae; habitat; range; and life history information of the various species, including notes on conservation status of rare or endangered species.