Books by Sheldon Smith

The third book in the Chinese Characters for HSK series of text books covers all new characters in level 3 of the HSK test (270 in total), using the simplified characters of modern standard Chinese. The book lists all HSK words which use those characters, up to level 6, totalling 1564 words, including all 300 new words in level 3. There are photographic images for each character, from street signs, shop signs etc., to give a colourful, interesting representation, together with a plain text version of each character for clarity. Studying Chinese characters will aid in learning new words, allowing you to make connections between words and reduce the total learning (2663 characters in the HSK test levels 1-6, compared to 5000 words). Whether you are at beginning, intermediate or advanced level, there will be something for you in this book.

This book relies on a global studies (interdisciplinary) paradigm to study the basic transitions through which Latin America has gone over the last millennium.

This revised edition offers a non-polemic and pragmatic multidisciplinary perspective called the 'theory of blocked transitions'. This theory works to answer the question 'Why have some societies been successful in going through transitions, while others have been 'blocked in'?