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A fascinating, intimate portrait of Beijing through the lens of its oldest neighborhood, Dazhalan. Meyer examines how the bonds that hold the neighborhood together are being torn by forced evictions as century-old houses and ways of life are increasingly destroyed to make way for shopping malls, the capital's first Wal-Mart, high-rise buildings, and widened streets for cars replacing bicycles. Beijing has gone through this cycle many times, as Meyer reveals, but never with the kind of dislocation and overturning of its storied culture now occurring as the city prepares to host the 2008 Summer Olympics--From publisher description

"This book is a biography and an intellectual biography of Leo Baeck. The book treats him as a community leader and also as an intellectual figure. Baeck is synonymous with German Jewish intellectual life. During the Weimar years, he was very engaged in the integration of Jews in German society. After World War II, his opinion was the opposite: he felt that there should be no Jewish life in Germany"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. An Unconventional Student and Rabbi -- Chapter 2. Restoring the Dignity of Judaism -- Chapter 3. Rabbi in the World War -- Chapter 4. A Thinker Engaged -- Chapter 5. The Burden of Leadership -- Chapter 6. Enmeshed -- Chapter 7 Theresienstadt -- Chapter 8. Reality After Catastrophe -- Epilogue. The Icon and the Person -- Notes -- Bibliographic Essay -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Genesis -- The Wall -- Democracy on the Danube -- A miraculous conversion -- Parallel universes -- The Hungarian connection -- High noon -- Déjeuner sur l'herbe, or Hieronymus Bosch's Hell -- The great escape -- Vortex of change -- A kiss of death -- The fall -- Aftermath -- Denouement

This unique volume presents an edited selection of works upon the laws of armed conflict by the late Professor Colonel G. I. A. D. Draper, OBE. Professor Colonel Draper was a central figure in the analysis and dissemination of the humanitarian laws of armed conflict in the English-speaking world. He had a wide practical and academic experience of the subject including service as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials. His work covered not only the contemporary substance of the law but also its moral, ethical and political context, the pressures upon its development and its potential for further positive, and other, development. This edited collection presents a very significant part of Professor Colonel Draper's work, including many pieces which are no longer readily accessible or have never before been published, with modern commentary referring to developments which have occurred since his death. The late Professor Colonel's work is an important scholarly contribution to the subject and also retains a very great degree of modern relevance, including comment upon such issues as war crimes and appropriate responses to them. The Editors present this collection as both an important scholarly and practical resource and a fitting tribute to one of the great twentieth century contributors to this area of law