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  Chou Ju-teng (1547-1629) at Nanking: Reassessing a Confucian scholar in the late Ming intellectual world

  Jie Zhao PhD

  Chou Ju-teng, an influential Confucian thinker of the late Ming, has remained a neglected and marginal figure in Ming studies. Knowledge of him is mainly drawn from the brief description in Huang Tsung-hsi's (1610-1695) Ming-ju hsueh-an (Intellectual biography of the Ming thinkers). This dissertation is an attempt to reassess Chou Ju-teng's position in the late Ming intellectual world, and then to use it as a means to re-evaluate Huang Tsung-hsi's characterization of late Ming thought.

  My dissertation deals with two different intellectual settings that are ultimately interconnected. One is the early Ch'ing period, where I have investigated why and how Huang Tsung-hsi came to choose Chou Ju-teng to carry out his agenda; the other is the late Ming, where I have investigated the intellectual growth of Chou Ju-teng and the people with whom he was associated. I try to explore the connections between their education, their social background and their official careers, and to identify their teachers, their associates and the literati circles they frequented. I seek to analyze the tensions and contentions that created divisions among them, and that sometimes led to heated debates. I also pay close attention to where they and their colleagues stood in relation to the power struggles going on in the central bureaucracy. This revisit to the late Ming intellectual world provides me with a basis upon which I am able to offer my critical assessment of Huang Tsung-hsi's views of late Ming thought.

  In this dissertation, Chou Ju-teng serves as a key figure who connects the intellectual setting of his day with that of Huang Tsung-hsi's. Reassessing his place in the late Ming intellectual world requires me to carefully examine the strategies Huang used to justify his interpretation of late Ming thought. My study shows that Huang's treatment of Chou reveals his attempt to remap late Ming thought in such a way as to spare Wang Yang-ming's (1472-1528) teachings from the harsh criticism by Huang's own early Ch'ing intellectual rivals.

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  Second Generation Curriculum : Changing What and How We Teach Early Adolescents

  Jody Capellluti and Edward N. Brazee

  By working with teachers who use curriculum integration daily, Ed Brazee and Jody Capelluti have spent years studying this important way of working with young adolescents. A rationale for curriculum integration is offered, followed by definitions and an explanation of the curriculum continuum. Strategies for change are then suggested. The authors move beyond "getting started" to help middle level educators develop a total integrative curriculum.

  From the Forward by Robert Spear

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  Hematology

  Laurie Caton-Lemos MS, FNP-C

  Chapter in American Nursing Review for Medical-Surgical Nursing Certification. Also contributed sections on Pain, Infection, Inflammation, Stress Response.

  Book description:

  An ever-popular study guide now thoroughly updated to better prepare nurses for a difficult exam. Organized by major disorders and grouped by body system, appropriate nursing actions are given along with insightful rationales. Contents include certification examination guidelines; foundations of nursing; legal and ethical aspects of nursing; principles of medical-surgical nursing; principles of wound care; principles of home health care; disruptions in homeostasis; cardiovascular disorders; hematologic disorders; respiratory disorders; neurologic disorders; musculoskeletal disorders; gastrointestinal disorders; skin disorders; endocrine disorders; renal and urinary tract disorders; reproductive system disorders; immune system disorders; ear, nose, and throat disorders; eye disorders; perioperative nursing; appendices: NANDA taxonomy and nursing implications of diagnostic tests, oncology care, and clinical pharmacology; and posttest.

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  Imagist Movement

  Jane Kuenz PhD

  Chapter in The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States.

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  Insights and Outlooks: Current Trends in Disability Studies

  Elaine Makas PhD and Lynn Schlesinger PhD

  The chapters in this book are extended abstracts of some of the presentations given during the June 17-19, 1993, annual meeting of the Society for Disability Studies held in Seattle, Washington.

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  Autobiography & Postmodernism

  Gerald Peters PhD, Kathleen Ashley, and Leigh Gilmore

  Edited by Kathleen Ashley, Leigh Gilmore, Gerald Peters.

  These essays set out to explore the connections between autobiography and postmodernism. They examine the response of various writers to the culturally specific pressures of genre; how these constraints are negotiated; and what self-representation reveals about the politics of identity,

  Contributors are Betty Bergland, Andrei Codrescu, Michael M. J. Fischer, Leigh Gilmore, David P. Haney, Paul Jay, Shirley Neuman, Christopher Ortiz, Sidonie Smith, Kirsten Wasson, and Hertha D. Wong.

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  A Nurse Speaks

  Carla Randall PhD, RN, CNE

  Chapter in Foundations of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing (2nd Edition), edited by Elizabeth M. Vacarolis.

  Book description:

  Teaches undergraduate nursing students to care for clients with the full range of psychiatric disorders and psychosocial problems. Features a popular anxiety continuum framework and nursing process format. Chapters on group communication and aggressive behaviors teach students to work with groups and to diffuse potentially dangerous situations. Learning objectives, self-study questions, bold-faced key terms and concepts, tear-out pocket-sized medication cards, and sample care plans simplify learning. An instructor's manual and examaster are also available.

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  'Why Should I Wish for Words?': Literacy, Articulation, and the Borders of Literary Culture

  Richard G. Swartz PhD and Lucinda Cole

  Chapter in At the Limits of Romanticism.

  The essays in this collection question romanticism's suppression of the feminine, the material, and the collective, and its opposition to readings centering on these concerns.

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  Gender Differences in Communication: Possible Consequences for the Learning Process

  R Bruce Thompson PhD

  Chapter in Group and Interactive Learning.

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  Jeffrey Weeks

  Shelton Waldrep PhD

  Chapter in Gay and Lesbian Literature.

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  Using the Exercise Test to Develop the Exercise Prescription in Health and Disease

  M A. Welsch, M L. Pollock, W F. Brechue, and James Graves PhD

  Chapter in Exercise Testing: Current Applications for Patient Management.

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  In Our Backyard: A guide to understanding pollution and its effects

  Travis Wagner PhD

  Most attempts to control pollution have been piecemeal, focusing on one environmental component at a time, such as air or water, and have not addressed the big picture. Such efforts have not fully accounted for the Earth's fundamental interconnectedness and unity; as a result, pollution control has often lagged behind pollution-related problems. This book puts all the pieces together as it explains how pollution affects all components of the environment. Using layperson's language and an easy-to-use question and answer format, it describes: how the components of the environment operate together; major sources of pollution; and what we can do to clean up our surface water, groundwater, and air. Care has been taken to avoid bias and to present only the most sound, objective data available.

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  Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Folklore, Writing, and the Sense of Place

  Kent C. Ryden

  This book is about the mystery, dimension and depth of any place people live, listen,and remember, talk and write.

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  Toward A Sustainable Maine : The Politics, Economics, and Ethics of Sustainability

  Richard Barringer (ed.)

  Toward A Sustainable Maine : The Politics, Economics, and Ethics of Sustainability

  Richard Barringer, editor, Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Maine

  Edmund S. Muskie Institute of Public Affairs, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, 1993.

  The proceedings of a conference presented at Bowdoin College on March 19 and 20, 1993, by the Edmund S. Muskie Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Southern Maine, and by the Natural Resources Council of Maine. Ellen Baum, conference organizer.

  Contents; Foreword by Richard Barringer / Welcome by Everett Carson / Global, Canadian, and Maine Perspectives / Sustaining Our Natural and Human-made Capital / Sustaining Our Community Resources / Sustaining Our Human Resources / Concluding Remarks / Appendices

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  Lesbian Stereotypes

  M Eliason; C Donelan; and Carla Randall PhD, RN, CNE

  Chapter 9 in Lesbian Health: What Are The Issues?, edited by Phyllis N. Stern.

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  The lumbar musculature: testing and conditioning for rehabilitation

  James Graves PhD

  Chapter in Rehabilitation of the Spine: Science and Practice.

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  Exercise testing in cardiac rehabilitation: role in prescribing exercise

  James Graves PhD and Michael L. Pollock

  Chapter in Cardiology Clinics Exercise Testing and Cardiac Rehabilitation.

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  Dollars and Sense: Maine State Budgeting at a Crossroads

  Josephine M. LaPlante and Robert G. Devlin

  Dollars and Sense: Maine State Budgeting at a Crossroads provides a "bird's eye" view and analysis. The value of this approach is the capacity to take an "arm's length" look at state finances. We hope that the broader perspective will promote viewing expenditure and tax policy issues comprehensively, not as isolated slices of the state budget pie, but rather, as interdependent building blocks of a healthy fiscal system. There is an important limitation to an "outside" study, however, which is actually the same as its strength: distance from the "whys" and "whens." We do not pretend to understand every policy area as fully as specialists within government, nor to be privy to the same information. Thus, this report will be best used as a working document, to encourage and facilitate directed inquiry, open and thoughtful discussion of issues, and hopefully, decisions that can place Maine on a sound fiscal footing for the 1990's.

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  Should Pregnancy be Sustained in Brain-Dead Women: A Philosophical Discussion of Postmortem Pregnancy [Book Chapter]

  Julien Murphy PhD

  Chapter from Moral controversies : race, class, and gender in applied ethics, edited by Steven Jay Gold.

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  Sephardim in the Americas : Studies in Culture and History

  Abraham J. Peck PhD and Martin A. Cohen

  Multidisciplinary essays examining the historical and cultural history of the Sephardic experience in the Americas, from pre-expulsion Spain to the modern era, as recounted by some of the most outstanding interpreters of the field.

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  Archives of the Holocaust : an International Collection of Selected Documents v. 8-9

  Abraham J. Peck PhD, Henry Friedlander, and Sybil Milton

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  The Mutilating God : Authorship and Authority in the Narrative of Conversion

  Gerald Peters PhD

  This theoretically sophisticated yet highly readable study presents a genealogy of the uses of conversion narratives in linking individual identity to various forms of social authority. In The Mutilating God, Gerald Peters shows how these narratives have been used in different ways to negotiate between private motivation and social authority in the production of an identity.

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  "Being Bridges": Cleaver/Baldwin/Lorde and African-American Sexism and Sexuality

  Shelton Waldrep PhD

  American sexism and sexuality from Critical Essays: Gay and Lesbian Writers of Color (Harrington Park Press, 1993)

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  The complete book of everlastings : growing, drying, and designing with dried flowers

  Mark Silber and Terry Silber

  Now in paperback, the most comprehensive guide to every aspect of working with everlastings--those flowers, foliage, plants and herbs that retain their color and shape long after they have been picked. The Silbers discuss 145 varieties of everlastings--each illustrated with full-color photos--and provide detailed instructions for handling each. 382 full-color illustrations.