Author: Courtney Jeanne NorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Tearing Down the Bamboo Hedge
Author: Courtney Jeanne NorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Behind the Bamboo Hedges
Author: Mai PhuongThe Great Bamboo War in Color
Author: Benjamin K. PaplhamPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312904151
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Brutus the Panda King is thrust into a perilous adventure to save the Animal Realms.
The Outline of Knowledge: Travel
Author: James Albert RichardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Government of Mistrust
Author: Ken MacLeanPublisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299295931
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Focusing on the creation and misuse of government documents in Vietnam since the 1920s, The Government of Mistrust reveals how profoundly the dynamics of bureaucracy have affected Vietnamese efforts to build a socialist society. In examining the flurries of paperwork and directives that moved back and forth between high- and low-level officials, Ken MacLean underscores a paradox: in trying to gather accurate information about the realities of life in rural areas, and thus better govern from Hanoi, the Vietnamese central government employed strategies that actually made the state increasingly illegible to itself. MacLean exposes a falsified world existing largely on paper. As high-level officials attempted to execute centralized planning via decrees, procedures, questionnaires, and audits, low-level officials and peasants used their own strategies to solve local problems. To obtain hoped-for aid from the central government, locals overstated their needs and underreported the resources they actually possessed. Higher-ups attempted to re-establish centralized control and legibility by creating yet more bureaucratic procedures. Amidst the resulting mistrust and ambiguity, many low-level officials were able to engage in strategic action and tactical maneuvering that have shaped socialism in Vietnam in surprising ways.
The Southwestern Reporter
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
The Gardeners' Chronicle
Author: Travel
Author: Florida, an Advancing State, 1907-1917-1927
Author: Florida. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Seven Tears into the Sea
Author: Terri FarleyPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439120757
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Beckon the sea, I'll come to thee.... Shed seven tears, perchance seven years.... At the age of ten, Gwen Cooke had a strange encounter with a boy with dark, slightly tilted eyes. He came to her on the beach, whispered strange words in her ear, and then disappeared. Shortly thereafter, her family moved away from their seaside home and Gwen never saw the boy again. Now seventeen, Gwen is returning to her childhood home. Her nana asked her to come. But Gwen knows it's time to go back for another reason: She yearns for the sea. Perhaps the sea itself is calling to her. Perhaps the memory of the boy and his haunting words are drawing her back to the place they met. Perhaps it's time for her to face her destiny.