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I Knew You Could!: Celebrate All the Stops in Your Life
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Craig Dorfman, Cristina Ong (Illustrator)
In celebration of the fifth anniversary of this inspiring story, we present a special hardcover edition featuring The Little Engine, proudly chugging away to achievement! With simple, rhyming text that is truthful and encouraging and applicable to all ages, it is no wonder that" I Knew You Could!" has been such a bestseller over the years. This ...
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The Little Engine That Could Storybook Treasury
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Watty Piper, pse, Cristina Ong (Illustrator)
The classic tale of a very determined little engine that, despite its diminutive size, makes it over a big mountain. Color illustrations accompany the text.
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Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word
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Walter J Ong
Professor Walter Ong's new book explores some of the profound changes in our thought processes, personality and social structures which are the result ...of the development of speech, writing and print. The cumulative impact of the book is dazzling. Read this book. Literature will never be the same again. And neither will you.' Robert Giddings, ...
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The Sweet Spot: Asian-Inspired Desserts
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Pichet Ong, Genevieve Ko, Pate Eng (Photographer)
When it comes to Asian desserts, most Americans think of fortune cookies. But, in fact, the Far East is home to a dazzling array of sweets rich with tropical fruits, crunchy nuts, aromatic spices, and, yes, even chocolate. In "The Sweet Spot," renowned pastry chef Pichet Ong presents a collection of one hundred recipes for cakes, cookies, pies, ...
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Orality and Literacy
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Walter J Ong, J Ong Walter
This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures and offers a brilliantly lucid account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology. In the course of his study, Walter J. Ong offers fascinating insights into oral genres across the globe and through time and ...
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Spirits of Resistance an: Factory Women in Malaysia
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Aihwa Ong
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Little Engine That Could and the Snowy, Blowy Christmas
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Watty Piper, pse, Cristina Ong (Illustrator)
It's Christmas Eve and Santa's reindeer have all come down with terrible colds. How will Santa deliver presents? Can The Little Engine That Could come to the rescue? This board book features shiny holographic foil on the cover. Full color.
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Fixer Chao
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Han Ong
Han Ong has written a brilliant exploration of race and class, of character and identity, and of the slippery natures of privilege and expertise. William Paulinha, a Filipino street hustler, is in the early days of self-imposed reform when he meets Shem C. A failed writer now ostracized by his wife and New York City's literati, Shem recruits ...
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Tropical Living: Contemporary Dream Houses in the Philippines
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Elizabeth Reyes, Andrew Chester Ong (Photographer)
Start with a warm tropical climate. Add an abundance of exotic natural building material. And then let the cross currents of Asian design and aesthetics create a rich architectural alchemy of its own. The result? The exquisite homes in the Philippines, a perfect balance of form and functionality. "Tropical Living" explores this dynamic experiment ...
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Chinese Houses: The Architectural Heritage of a Nation
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Ronald G Knapp, A Chester Ong (Photographer), Jonathan Spence (Foreword by)
Winner of ForeWord Magazine's Architecture "Book of the Year" Award Exquisite examples of traditional dwellings are scattered throughout modern-day China." Chinese Houses" focuses on 20 well-preserved traditional homes, presenting examples from a range of rural and metropolitan areas throughout China. The photographs of each are accompanied by ...
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Buddha Is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America
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Aihwa Ong
Fleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia; and their encounters with American citizenship are contradictory as well. Service providers, bureaucrats, and employers exhort them to be self-reliant, individualistic, and free, even as the ...
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Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty
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Aihwa Ong
Neoliberalism is commonly viewed as an economic doctrine that seeks to limit the scope of government. Some consider it a form of predatory capitalism with adverse effects on the South. In this groundbreaking work, Aihwa Ong offers an alternative view of neoliberalism as an extraordinarily malleable technology of governing that is taken up in ...
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Little Engine That Could ABC Time
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Watty Piper, pse, Jane O'Conner (Editor), Laura Driscoll (Editor)
The Little Blue Engine chug-chug-chugs through the countryside and puff-puffs-puffs through the alphabet as she goes. Full color.
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The Little Engine That Could Saves the Day
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Watty Piper, pse, Cristina Ong (Illustrator)
Based on Piper's original story, this board book tells the story of how the Little Engine That Could helps all the friends and neighbors she meets as she chugs through town. Shaped like the engine herself, this large board book is ideal for little hands. Full color.
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To Be an American: Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation
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Bill Ong Hing
The impetus behind California's Proposition 187 clearly reflects the growing anti-immigrant sentiment in this country. Many Americans regard today's new immigrants as not truly American, as somehow less committed to the ideals on which the country was founded. In clear, precise terms, Bill Ong Hing considers immigration in the context of the ...
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The Little Engine That Could Pudgy Word Book: 5
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Cristina Ong (Illustrator), Watty Piper, pse
Take the classic appeal of one of the most beloved and recognizable characters in children's literature, The Little That Could, and put it in the popular Wee Pudgy format--the result is an adorable concept that's sure to delight very young children. Full color.
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Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems
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Aihwa Ong
This title provides an exciting approach to some of the most contentious issues in discussions around globalization - bioscientific research, neoliberalism, governance - from the perspective of the "anthropological" problems they pose; in other words, in terms of their implications for how individual and collective life is subject to technological ...
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Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender & Body Politics Se Asia
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Aihwa Ong (Editor), Michael G Peletz (Editor)
These essays consider the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By analyzing femininity and masculinity as fluid processes rather than social or biological givens, the book provides ways of understanding how gender interacts with local, national and transnational forms of knowledge and power. The ...
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Chinese Furniture: A Guide to Collecting Antiques
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Karen Mazurkewich, A Chester Ong (Photographer)
The international market for antique Chinese furniture is booming, and masterpieces from the Ming and Qing dynasties are now worth hundreds of thousands. "Chinese Furniture" is a survey of these collectibles - from the very best hardwood pieces featured to standard softwood specimens still available on the Asian market. The book presents an ...
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The Disinherited
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Han Ong
In this incisive and illuminating exploration of the impulse to do good and the paradoxical harm brought on by generosity, Roger Caracera is stunned to discover that his late Filipino father has left him $500,000. Unwilling to accept the inheritance, he sets out to find a worthy recipient.
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Mastering Light & Shade in Watercolor: Infuse Your Paintings with Luminosity and Dramatic Contrast
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Ong Kim Seng, Kim Seng Ong, Robert A Wade (Foreword by)
Few painters realize that in order to give their paintings a luminous glow they must also manipulate the darker shades, or colors, of their composition. Ong Kim Seng is a master of this method and in this book he shows readers exactly how to do it. He does so with a stimulating, logical progression of lessons that begins with materials and ...
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The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History
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Walter J Ong
Terry Lectures. A religious philosopher's exploration of the nature and history of the word argues that the word is initially and always sound, that it cannot be reduced to any other category, and that sound is essentially an event manifesting power and personal presence. His analysis of the development of verbal expression, from oral sources ...
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The Silver Path
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Christine Harris, Helen Ong (Illustrator)
This tale tells of a young refugee and his mother through his letters to an English penfriend.
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Little Engine That Could Helps Out
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C Ong
Young readers will soon be echoing the little blue engine's trademark "I think I can!" as they take their first steps on the road to independent reading with this reissue, featuring simple words, rebus pictures, and 24 skill-building flash cards. Full color.
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Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness
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Walter J Ong
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