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China in Ten Words
Author | : Yu Hua |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2012-08-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307739791 |
From one of China’s most acclaimed writers: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades. Framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacular, China in Ten Words uses personal stories and astute analysis to reveal as never before the world’s most populous yet oft-misunderstood nation. In "Disparity," for example, Yu Hua illustrates the expanding gaps that separate citizens of the country. In "Copycat," he depicts the escalating trend of piracy and imitation as a creative new form of revolutionary action. And in "Bamboozle," he describes the increasingly brazen practices of trickery, fraud, and chicanery that are, he suggests, becoming a way of life at every level of society. Witty, insightful, and courageous, this is a refreshingly candid vision of the "Chinese miracle" and all of its consequences.
The Last Lecture
Author | : Randy Pausch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Cancer |
ISBN | : 9780340978504 |
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
Author | : Dan Egan |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2017-03-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0393246442 |
New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.
The Story of Illegitimate Daughter
Author | : Chen Ling |
Publisher | : Funstory |
Total Pages | : 966 |
Release | : 2019-12-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1647873878 |
She was an unwelcome Second Miss. His mother had died when she gave birth to him. Be bullied by female patriarch and elder sister. Long years of bullying, after meeting someone. She wanted to fight back, one by one. He sent each of them to the eighteenth level of hell.
Dì Yu
Author | : Daniel St-Amour |
Publisher | : Daniel St-Amour |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2023-03-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 2982022931 |
For about two years, men who abuse and rape women have been attacked and stripped of their masculinity, amputated from their virile organ. The police investigation services have no leads, no clues, nothing. Who is committing these sordid crimes against these equally deranged criminals? Under the pressure of his superiors, a detective nearing retirement will be forced to enlist the services of a sensitive/psychic to elucidate these atrocities of a sexual nature committed against these abusive sociopaths, brutes with burnt brains. A group of mismatched bikers made up only of women will lend a hand to the investigation. Sisters from a religious congregation in Montreal will also participate to find out who is committing these crimes against these phallocrats who rapes and abuses women. Mind-blowing paranormal phenomena, disturbing visions and extrasensory feelings. Four days of more than trying and disturbing investigation. A horror/suspense/thriller novel that will haunt you forever and ever. You will be marked for life.
Children and Mother Nature
Author | : Rouhollah Aghasaleh |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2019-08-26 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9004399828 |
It is an old, yet relevant, argument that education needs to focus more on real-world issues in students’ lives and communities. Nevertheless, conventional school curricula in many countries create superficial boundaries to separate natural and social worlds. A call for science learning approaches that acknowledge societal standpoints accumulate that human activities are driving environmental and evolutionary change which has lead scholars to investigate how different societies respond to environmental change. Children and Mother Nature is a multilingual volume that represents indigenous knowledges from various ethnic, linguistic, geographical, and national groups of educators and students through storytelling. Authors have identified indigenous stories, fables, and folk tales with a theme of human-nature interaction and facilitated storytelling sessions with groups of students in K–8 grade (5–14 years old) in Turkey, Greece, US, Jamaica, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and Chinese and Korean language speaking communities in the US. Students have discussed and rewritten/retold the stories collaboratively and illustrated their own stories. All student-told stories are presented in the original language along with an English translation. This volume provides authentic materials for teachers to use in their classrooms and could also be of interest to educational, literary, and environmental researchers to conduct comparative and international studies.
Interior Chinatown
Author | : Charles Yu |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2020-01-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307907198 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes "one of the funniest books of the year.... A delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire" (The Washington Post). A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He’s a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. Or is it? After stumbling into the spotlight, Willis finds himself launched into a wider world than he’s ever known, discovering not only the secret history of Chinatown, but the buried legacy of his own family. Infinitely inventive and deeply personal, exploring the themes of pop culture, assimilation, and immigration—Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet.
Tokyo Ueno Station (National Book Award Winner)
Author | : Yu Miri |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2021-06-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0593187520 |
WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo. Kazu's life in the city began and ended in that park; he arrived there to work as a laborer in the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and ended his days living in the vast homeless village in the park, traumatized by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and shattered by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics. Through Kazu's eyes, we see daily life in Tokyo buzz around him and learn the intimate details of his personal story, how loss and society's inequalities and constrictions spiraled towards this ghostly fate, with moments of beauty and grace just out of reach. A powerful masterwork from one of Japan's most brilliant outsider writers, Tokyo Ueno Station is a book for our times and a look into a marginalized existence in a shiny global megapolis.