A former spreechwriter for President Clinton explores his ambivalent feelings about his Chinese-American heritage. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
Although their Mongol overlords (beginning with the founding of the Yuan dynasty by Kublai Khan in 1280) tyrannized the Chinese in nearly every area of life, the arts enjoyed a new-found freedom. On the one hand oppressed, on the other released from the straight-jacket of Confucianism, the Chinese made the most of recent developments in poetry and ...
Sixty surgery cases with complete discussions offer the most outstanding clerkship and USMLE Step 2 review possible. "Case Files: Surgery, 2e" presents sixty clinical cases illustrating key points. Each case includes an extended discussion, definition of terms, clinical pearls, and USMLE format review questions. This interactive learning system ...
It's been hijacked by the right and abandoned by the left, but the principles of true patriotism -- country above self, responsible stewardship, equality, shared sacrifice and service -- are inherently progressive. "The True Patriot "challenges progressives to retake patriotism. Written in the pamphleteering style of Thomas Paine, it presents a ...
In this stirring new book, acclaimed author and educator Liu takes readers on a quest for great mentors to help them find their way through life. He shares invaluable lessons from people whose "classrooms" are boardrooms, arenas, concert halls, theaters, kitchens, and places of worship.
In the California of 1906, where it is a crime for them to even touch each other, Hope Newfield and Leong Po-yo fall in love and, defying every taboo, decide to marry. As they move from San Francisco to China to raise a family, their love is tested by prejudice, revolution and their own traditions.
This title features 55 high-yield cases in Surgery that help you to excel in the clerkship and improve your shelf-exam scores. "Case Files: Surgery" allows you to enhance your diagnostic and problem-solving skills as you work through 55 high-yield clinical cases. Each case includes a complete discussion, clinical pearls, references, and USMLE ...
This deft translation of a classic Chinese novel tells the story of a man, now an itinerant healer, who wanders through the towns and countryside of North China in the last years of the Manchu dynasty.
Maibelle Chung was raised in New York's Chinatown, where her red hair and green eyes marked her as an outcast. Now an adult, Maibelle is plagued by nightmares that hint at family secrets and hidden shame dating back to her childhood and beyond, to the China her father left behind.
"Case Files: General Surgery" will contain 60 randomly-ordered cases in general surgery. It will present self-contained cases, each asking "what is the best diagnosis?" and "what is the next step in treatment?" followed by a concise case discussion (highlighting key terms and concepts), clinical pearls and a few USMLE-style questions and answers ...
In this stirring new book, acclaimed author and educator Liu takes readers on a quest for great mentors to help them find their way through life. He shares invaluable lessons from people whose "classrooms" are boardrooms, arenas, concert halls, theaters, kitchens, and places of worship.
This second edition of "Essentials of Pain Management and Regional Anesthesia", offers an accessible and concise, yet complete, overview of today's theory and practice of pain medicine and regional anesthesia. From a review of basic considerations through local anesthetics and nerve block techniques, this book provides the reader with an excellent ...
A boy named Chang is unable to speak--the only sounds he can make are those of the cormorants, the birds that his father trains for fishing. Although shy, Chang is thrilled when he is finally old enough to go with his father on a fishing expedition. While on the trip, Chang is teased by one of the other young passengers, a cruel boy named Jinan, ...
This book introduces readers to a new and exciting cross-disciplinary field of digital communications with chaos. This field was born around 15 years ago, when it was first demonstrated that nonlinear systems which produce complex non-periodic noise-like chaotic signals, can be synchronized and modulated to carry useful information. Thus, chaotic ...
Deterministic and Stochastic Time-Delay Systems provides professionals and advanced students in control engineering with the most recent results on deterministic and stochastic time-delay systems. It is an excellent text/reference for graduate level engineering students, or a reference for practicing control engineers, and researchers in control ...
In this companion volume to "Bird Boy, " a Parent's Choice Gold Award Winner, the author and illustrator present another sensitive, appealing book, in which a boy in China discovers how to play to his strengths rather than keeping them hidden. Illustrations.
This captivating memoir characterizes life in China during a tumultuous period in its history. Bea Exner Liu moved to China in 1935 to teach English. She married a Chinese, and witnessed the Japanese invasion of China during the years 1935 to 1945. Using narrative and quoting the letters she wrote to her family over those ten years, Liu presents a ...
VHDL is a hardware description language that allows the specification of a digital system over different levels of abstraction. It supports behavior specification during the early stages of a design process and structural specification during the later implementation stages. Originally introduced as a hardware description language that permitted ...
Written by Liu E, an intellectual born at the end of the Qing Dynasty. By describing what Lao Can sees and hears in his travels, the author fiercely attacks the injustices he witnessed and exposed the hypocrisy of so-called "honest and upright officials." Intriguing novel, and one of the last books to be written in the "old style" of Chinese ...
Catalogue of the exhibition of cultural artifacts from Sanxingdui at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. The 39 exhibits include bronze masks, standing figures, bronze fittings and jade blades. The essays bring up-to-date the latest research on Sanxingdui and the ancient Shu kingdom.
"The extraordinary life of a courageous, outspoken American woman who survived forty years of upheaval in twentieth-century China . . . A unique perspective on a period of -critical transformations in China."-"Kirkus Reviews" "Reads like a riveting and complex novel. Set against the fascinating backdrop of China during the Cultural Revolution, it ...
This is a stuyd of the traditional Chinese craft of paper sculpture: the construction in bamboo and paper of human figures, gods and buildings - all to be ritually burned, documenting it as it exists today in Taiwan. Tools, materials and techniques are described and illustrated in detail.
Nanotechnology is a progressive research and development topic with large amounts of venture capital and government funding being invested worldwide. Nano mechanics, in particular, is the study and characterization of the mechanical behaviour of individual atoms, systems, and structures in response to various types of forces and loading conditions ...
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