Can authoritarian regimes use democratic institutions to strengthen and solidify their rule? The Chinese government has legislated some of the most protective workplace laws in the world and opened up the judicial system to adjudicate workplace conflict, emboldening China's workers to use these laws. This book examines these patterns of legal mobilization, showing which workers are likely to avail themselves of these new protections and find them effective. Gallagher finds that workers wit...

Jam-packed with information on this fascinating destination, Footprintfocus Sicily: Catania and Southeast will guide you around all the best sights and provide you with up-to-date recommendations on where to eat, sleep and party. The guide features: • Essentials section with tips on getting there and around • Up-to-date recommendations of great places to stay and eat • Highlights map of the region plus detailed street maps where relevant • Key local words and phrases are included to help y...

This volume analyzes whether China's thirty years of legal reform have taken root in Chinese society by examining how ordinary citizens are using the legal system in contemporary China. It is an interdisciplinary look at law in action and at legal institutions from the bottom up, that is, beginning with those at the ground level that are using and working in the legal system. It explores the emergent Chinese conception of justice - one that seeks to balance Chinese tradition, socialist leg...

New title in this delightful storybook-and-stickers series, in which Bing finds it hard to hand over Sula’s birthday present…It’s Sula’s birthday and Bing is choosing her a present. He finds her a really special spinny wand that she’s sure to love – and so does he! In fact, Bing loves it so much that he finds it difficult handing it over to Sula, and when he finally has to, he feels sad.But then he sees just how much Sula loves the present and just how great it is, and real...

A breathtaking forbidden romance about perfectionism, hidden dreams, and the one person who sees through it all, set in the world of elite ballet.Just once. One night. Nothing else matters. Except him.Lia Winslow's life seems perfect: she comes from a respected Boston family, she's beautiful, and she's the most talented dancer at the New England School of Ballet. But no one suspects that she hides her true dreams behind a facade of discipline and perfection...

It was supposed to be a simple case of revenge: get to know King Tech owner and CEO Beckett King, learn his secrets, and ruin his life like he ruined my brother’s. But Beckett King offers me a deal I can't refuse.Not only does he want me to pretend to be engaged to him, he needs to marry me to get his grandmother off his back. And at the end of the year, we can go our separate ways, only I’ll be a whole lot richer.I won’t fall for his irresistible good looks, or that aw, sh...

Outdoor drama takes many forms: ancient Greek theatre, open-air performances of Shakespeare at summer festivals, and re-enactments of landmark historical events. The essays gathered in "Outdoor Performance," Volume 17 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium, address outdoor theatre's many manifestations, including the historical and non-traditional.Among other subjects, these essays explore the rise of "airdomes" as performance spaces in the American Midwest in the first h...

Boulder Blues brings you back to the era of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. Its madness is exposed in a naive twist of two musicians from Irish immigrant backgrounds who struggle through the nightmare of a political war and countrywide civil unrest as they try to make sense of a world beyond the American Dream of their parents and grandparents. Sweet, poignant, laughable and pithy, it catches a time once labeled as a 'Modern Renaissance'.

Few books in publishing history created such excitement in advance of publication as did "My Life with Jacqueline Kennedy." As a #1 Best Seller, it was originally published in September, 1969, though a small portion of the book had been released in Ladies' Home Journal magazine upwards of two months prior, which produced a wave of press speculation throughout the world and whetted the anticipation of readers everywhere for the whole story. Only by reading the complete book can the complexi...

In 1927, Paul Morand a French diplomat and noted European author made two extended trips to the Caribbean, Latin America and the American South. Published in 1929, his travel account begins as a diary about his experience of Venezuela, Curaçao, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Haiti, Trinidad, Jamaica and Cuba and ends with a lengthy essay on Mexico. Morand was already a prolific, cosmopolitan writer but he had not yet acquired his controversial post-war reputation.The stylish writing of Caribbean ...

Bradt’s newly published Catalunya & Barcelona has the most extensive coverage of any travel guidebook to the whole of this fiercely independent region (both French and Spanish sides), which is proud of its strong identity and packs a huge amount of fascination and contrast into a conveniently small area – from the Pyrenees mountains and sparkling Mediterranean coves to crisp cava and world-renowned cuisine.Although Barcelona, with its Gaudí architecture, may be the best-known desti...

Bing and Coco are playing at dressing up. When they both want to wear the only crown, and… SNAP… it breaks, can Flop find a way to save the day?With a wonderful story based on the TV series, this book is perfect for all Bing fans!Dressing up… it’s a Bing thing!