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This groundbreaking book powerfully humanizes the little-known urban workers who have been left behind in Chinäs single-minded drive to modernize. Dorothy Solinger traces the origins of their plight to the mid-1990s, when the Chinese government found that state-owned factories were failing in large numbers in the face of market reforms just as the country was about to enter the World Trade Organization. Under these circumstances, leaders urged firms to lay off tens of millions of previously lifetime-employed, welfare-secure, under-educated, middle-aged employees. As these dislocated people were left without any source of livelihood, the regime settled on a tiny welfare effort, the Minimum Livelihood Guarantee (dibao), to provide some support and, most important from the viewpoint of the leadership, to keep them quiet so that enterprise reform could proceed peacefully. Solinger explores the induced urban poverty that resulted and relates the painful struggle for survival of these discarded laborers. She also details the history and workings of the dibao and its missteps, as well as changes in policy over time. Drawing on dozens of interviews, this book brings to life the urban workers who have been relegated to obsolescence, isolation, and invisibility by Chinäs quest for modernity.

The Glow Code is an entertaining and engaging lifestyle manual offering concrete, actionable advice from experts across many fields to help women aged 35 and beyond navigate midlife, feel great, and age well. Covering a wide range of magazine topics but with deeper insight and sound advice, this is the cheat sheet for women with minimum free time but maximum ambition to feel, look and live better now, in midlife and beyond.

The Bonus Family Handbook introduces readers to a completely new approach to co-parenting and blending families. It teaches even the most contentious parents and bonus parents how to work together in the name of their children, reinforcing collaborative co-parenting to help form a supportive, loving family.

In The 50 Greatest Athletes in Boston Sports History, Martin Gitlin ranks the top 50 superstars in Boston¿s rich sports history with legends like Tom Brady, Bill Russell, Bobby Orr, Ted Williams, and Larry Bird.

With families spearheading the need to get outdoors with their little ones, there are places a-plenty for exploring with littles of all ages. Whether you live here or are simply traveling through, Hiking with Kids offers up new and exciting adventures for parents and their elementary school-age kids alike

Everything you need to know about the nation's fifteenth largest city! Whether you plan to pursue an education, start a business, or raise a family, this guide takes you through the rapidly growing Discovery City.

Diamond Duels: Baseball¿s Greatest Matchups takes a magnifying glass to some of the game¿s most entertaining and historic battles between hitters and pitchers.

Columbia Pictures will reach a major milestone in 2024 by celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Columbiäs incorporation. In the same vein of recent Hollywood movie studio titles such as Warner Bros.: Hollywood¿s Ultimate Backlot, Paramount: City of Dreams, and MGM: Hollywood¿s Greatest Backlot, this new book documents the studio history of Columbia Pictures Corporation in Hollywood, as well as Columbiäs back lot in Burbank, California. This book reveals how Columbia came to be founded by Joe Brandt, and Brothers Harry and Jack Cohn in 1924, and uses the ¿studio tour¿ concept to describe its history of filmmaking, which includes the making if such movies as Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,From Here to Eternity, The Bridge on River Kwai as well as many serials and television programs. The book has approximately 550 photos, including studio documents, vintage publicity stills and candid¿s, along with aerial views and maps. The majority of the photos have never been published before.

With colorful illustrations, activities, and anecdotes the strengthen the reader's understanding of the material, this is the perfect book to teach children how to cook safely outdoors with fun and delicious recipes.

Native Americans in the United States, similar to other indigenous people, created political, economic, and social movements to meet and adjust to major changes that impacted their cultures. For centuries, Native Americans dealt with the onslaught of non-Indian land claims, the appropriation of their homelands, and the destruction of their ways of life. Through various movements, Native Americans accepted, rejected, or accommodated themselves to the nontraditional worldviews of the colonizers and their policies. The Historical Dictionary of Native American Movements is designed to provide a useful reference for students and scholars to consult on topics dealing with key movements, organizations, leadership strategies, and the major issues these groups confronted.Historical Dictionary of Native American Movements, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on Native Americans. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Native Americans.

Hiking Central Florida describes 30 hikes designed to highlight some of the best natural areas throughout the region.

Best Easy Day Hikes Jacksonville includes concise descriptions of the best short hikes in the area, with detailed maps of the routes. The 20 hikes in this guide are generally short, easy to follow, and guaranteed to please.

Illustrated with well over 200 images drawn from the collections of the Maine Historical Society, the Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Special Collections at the Portland Public Library, the Maine State Museum, local historical societies, private collections, and even the Vatican, these pages contain many rare and fascinating drawings, paintings, and photographs. The bibliography is a rich resource for exploring Maine history further.

This book analyzes the social, economic, and political impact of Han Chinese migration into the borderlands that became Inner Mongolia during the Qing period. Linking local history to global movements, Yi Wang traces Inner Mongolia's integration into what would become the nation-state of China and from there into a global capitalist economy.

This updated comprehensive guide includes trail information, maps and more to Montana's Bob Marshall wilderness.

Some people's passion for sea glass goes beyond collecting--they use it to create something of beauty. Carole Lambert, author of Sea Glass Chronicles, gives us entree into the studios of those who do everything from gathering and amassing sea glass mulch for landscaping to designing stained-sea-glass windows. This volume will arouse a renewed sense of wonder in those who already possess a passion for sea glass and win legions of new sea-glass devotees.

Information Issues for Older Americans brings together leading faculty from the leading Information Schools to examine information needs, behavior, and policy related to older Americans.

This guide features sixty trails across the Green Mountain State.

This guide uncovers the edible wild foods and healthful herbs of the Rockies. Helpfully organized by environmental zone, the book is an authoritative guide for nature lovers, outdoorsmen, and gastronomes.

Today, the Mayflower II¿the replica of the 1620 ship that brought the Pilgrims to America and launched a nation¿is visited by some 2.6 million tourists annually and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. But there is much more to the replicäs story than meets the eye. In fact, the origins of Project Mayflower began in the 1950s not with an American, but with a British World War II veteran named Warwick Charlton who had what seemed an impossible dream: build an historically accurate replica, sail her across the Atlantic, and present the finished product as a thank you to his country¿s wartime ally.What Charlton didn¿t know was that the son of a powerful New England financier had the same idea. Henry (¿Harry¿) Hornblower II wanted a replica just as badly, though for a somewhat less altruistic reason: as a tourist attraction for a new museum he was building in Massachusetts, soon to be known as Plimouth Plantation, where the original Mayflower had landed centuries before. Despite different personal motives, Charlton and Hornblower agreed to join forces when they met by chance in 1955. Charlton would be responsible for financing, construction, and the vessel¿s safe passage across the Atlantic, while Hornblower promised mooring, maintenance, and exhibition. Neither man could imagine what would happen next.Project Mayflower recounts the never-before-told story of a grand adventure, from the origins of the idea, through the financial and political influences that nearly scuttled the ship, and the challenges of building an accurate replica based on a single known mention: William Bradford¿s reference in Of Plimoth Plantation describing his craft simply as ¿180 tons of burden.¿ From there, Stone traces the Mayflower II¿s dramatic seven-week ocean voyage from Plymouth, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in the skilled hands of Alan Villiers and a crew of thirty-three bold men, and finishes by exploring the legacy of praise for the achievement, the skullduggery to tarnish the reputation of the project¿s creator, and finally the Mayflower II¿s lasting¿and ongoing¿impact on America.

The new Basic Illustrated books are information-packed tools in a heavily illustrated, richly designed, contemporary four-color format. Written for the novice but great as a handy reference for the veteran, these highly illustrated guides distill years of knowledge into affordable and portable packages. Whether you're planning a trip or thumbing for facts in the field, Basic Illustrated books show you what you need to know.Discover how to:Assemble an outdoor first-aid kit of essential itemsSoothe bites and stingsDeal with hot and cold injuriesWrap sprains, fractures, and dislocated jointsHandle backcountry emergencies until professional medical help arrives

This revised edition will lead you through canyons, across rivers, and up mountains to the best outdoor adventures in Western Colorado.

Steve Ramirez, Author Bio, Casting Onward (Inside Back Jacket-Cover)Steve Ramirez is an outdoor and conservation author who lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country. Steve¿s first book, Casting Forward - Fishing Tales from the Texas Hill Country, (Lyons Press) has received critical acclaim, and is in its second printing. His work has appeared in various journals including Fly Fisherman Magazine, Trout Magazine, The Flyfish Journal, American Angler, Tail Magazine, Texas Sporting Journal, Explore Magazine, Under Wild Skies, Cutthroat: Journal of the Arts, The Houston Literary Review, and many more. Steve serves as the Ambassador for Texas, for the American Museum of Fly-Fishing, is a Life Member of Trout Unlimited, and a contributing member of the Nature Conservancy, Audubon, and the Native Fish Coalition. As a certified Master Naturalist, Steve is passionately involved in promoting the restoration and conservation of the watersheds, rivers, canyons, forests, deserts, wetlands, grasslands, and shorelines of North America and beyond. He is an avid hiker and world adventure traveler who has explored four continents, but who always seems to return home to the spring fed Hill Country streams of Texas. ¿Teaser¿ (Inside Front Jacket-Cover)How do we find healing and hope in an all too often wounded and seemingly hopeless world? What can be done to save the sacred places and wildlife that are threatened by the unending advance of humanity, and the unfortunate expansion of apathy? In this second installment of the ¿Casting Forward¿ series, Steve Ramirez takes us on an outdoor adventure, fly-fishing and hiking across the rivers, streams, and shores of North America, in search of native gamefish, meaningful friendships, and a more hopeful future. Casting Onward is the story of adapting to the rapidly unfolding transitions of the Earth¿s changing climate, both natural and human. It is the story of finding our tribe and uniting in the creation of a better future. It is a tribute to the resilience of humanity and nature, and a call for hopeful action. In Casting Onward, the existence or absence of native fish becomes a bellwether for the success or failure of human impacts on once healthy, whole, living, environments. It seeks to answer the questions about those things in life that truly matter, and what is most worth fighting to restore, preserve, and protect, across this great nation. It askes the core question that humanity needs to ask itself¿ ¿Are the choices we are making, healthy¿ or wise?¿ It doesn¿t matter if you are an angler, hiker, naturalist, or simply find peace walking in a city park¿ Casting Onward will transport you to times and places where you too can explore and experience the power of nature and the best of human nature.