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Award-winning author Grace Young celebrates and demystifies the art of wok cooking for the Western home cook. When Grace Young was a child, her father instilled in her a lasting appreciation of wok hay, the highly prized but elusive taste that food achieves when properly stir-fried in a wok. As an adult, Young aspired to create that taste in her own kitchen. Grace Young's quest to master wok cooking led her throughout the United States, Hong Kong, and mainland China. Along with award-winning photographer Alan Richardson, Young sought the advice of home cooks, professional chefs, and esteemed culinary teachers like Cecilia Chiang, Florence Lin, and Ken Hom. Their instructions, stories, and re...
"The story of how Joyce Chen, a girl born in Communist China, immigrated to the United States and popularized Chinese cooking."--
The beautiful minds of six extremely successful women artists in the entertainment industry present Lovely: Ladies of Animation. The history of art in animation has had many female heroes; this elite group is continuing the tradition and building upon it. Featuring the first published personal works by Lorelay Bovae, Lisa Keene, and Claire Keane along with the works of previously published Mingjue Helen Chen, Brittney Lee and Victoria Ying, Lovely is an indispensible addition to the library of anyone interested in animation. With a variety of styles, from graphic works to realistic portraits, these images will inspire and delight the viewer with each turn of the page.
Documenting Learning with ePortfolios Documenting Learning with ePortfolios provides higher education instructors with a theory-to-practice approach to understanding the pedagogy behind ePortfolios and to helping students use them to record and reflect on their learning in multiple contexts. The authors outline a framework of six critical iterative tasks to undertake when implementing ePortfolios for student success. Filled with real-life models of successful ePortfolio projects, the book also includes guidance for faculty development to support the use of ePortfolios and covers the place of ePortfolios in institutional assessment efforts. Finally, the authors offer considerations for decidi...
Death, Debauchery and Deception When the Australian based Down Under Corporation decides to expand its operation in Asia to Shanghai, it sends their ace trouble shooter Steve Conway to seek out a site. On arrival in Shanghai Conway meets the beautiful Selina Chan, who unknown to Conway is the right hand of Jao Min who controls the Shanghai underworld. Jao is being challenged for supremacy by another gangster Du Jing Ling who is determined to take over whatever the cost in human life…one of those lives being that of Steve Conway who finds himself caught in the middle of a savage gang war when Du believes he is aligned with Jao. Adding to his woes are several attempts on his life one of which, is from a business colleague of Selina and a deadly seduction from the sexy Wendy Han. Wild exotic women, Batman character impersonators, murderous locals and a host of other intriguing characters make up this tale ranging across Vietnam, the Philippines, Australia and China culminating in Conway facing his greatest danger yet.
Over the years, the Association of Women Doctors Singapore (AWDS) has observed and keenly understands the myriad of responsibilities of a modern woman. Daughter, mother, wife, caregiver, career woman, volunteer, advocate; it is common for many women to be juggling multiple roles at any given time. While being the key in maintaining healthy families, they often overlook their own physical, mental and even emotional health.We produce this book 'All about Eve: Your Women's Health Questions Answered' so women can find comprehensive information about health issues they may have to navigate in every stage of life.We hope that this book will reach out to women of all backgrounds, and empower them to become healthier and better versions of themselves. Because only when women understand how and why they should put their needs first, can our community continue to benefit from all that they selflessly give.
Maps Mizoguchi is new to Gotham Academy, but she’s found the perfect mentor: Olive Silverlock (her brother’s ex, which isn’t awkward at all). Olive’s had some problems recently, but amnesia pales beside a school that’s haunted by ghosts, secret societies, and bats. How bad can it be, showing her ex’s kid sister the ropes? How about when another prominent member of Gotham’s elite shows up, and she has to deal with Damian Wayne? Becky Cloonan, Brenden Fletcher, and Karl Kerschl welcome you back to school in this volume that collects Gotham Academy #1-18 and Gotham Academy Annual #1!
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2011, held in Montreal, Canada, in June 2011. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 16 short papers and 8 student papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on smart home and village; health telematics and healthcare technology; wellbeing, ageing friendly and enabling technology; and medical health telematics and healthcare technology.
Meet artist, animator, and film maker Eliza Ivanova, and her powerful figures that blend traditional painting with evocative movement.
Employing the classic Chinese saying “returning home with glory” (man zai rong gui) as the title, Michael Williams highlights the importance of return and home in the history of the connections established and maintained between villagers in the Pearl River Delta and various Pacific ports from the time of the Californian and Australian gold rushes to the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Conventional scholarship on Chinese migration tends to privilege nation-state factors or concepts which are dependent on national boundaries. Such approaches are more concerned with the migrants’ settlement in the destination country, downplaying the awkward fact that the majority of the ov...