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We Two Alone
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

We Two Alone

Praised as “utterly remarkable” and “deeply resonant” by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Robert Olen Butler, a bold and brilliant debut collection, in the vein of The Refugees, which dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years. Set on five continents and spanning decades, We Two Alone traces the arc and evolution of the Chinese immigrant experience. A young laundry boy risks his life, pretending to be a girl to play organized hockey in Canada in the 1920s. A Canadian couple is caught when Shanghai succumbs to violence during the Second Sino-Japanese War. A family sttempts to buy a home in South Africa in the early years of aparthe...

We Two Alone
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

We Two Alone

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-06-14
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  • Publisher: HarperVia

Praised as "utterly remarkable" and "deeply resonant" by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Robert Olen Butler, a bold and brilliant debut collection, in the vein of The Refugees, which dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years. Set on five continents and spanning decades, We Two Alone traces the arc and evolution of the Chinese immigrant experience. A young laundry boy risks his life, pretending to be a girl to play organized hockey in Canada in the 1920s. A Canadian couple is caught when Shanghai succumbs to violence during the Second Sino-Japanese War. A family sttempts to buy a home in South Africa in the early years of apartheid. An a...

Star Wars Epic Yarns: Return of the Jedi
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 27

Star Wars Epic Yarns: Return of the Jedi

Jedi apprentices and little princesses will delight in this (heart)felt retelling of the Star Wars saga. And so will Star Wars fans of any age! The series launches with the original trilogy, and every word counts in these small but perfectly formed yarns. That's because each volume features 12 iconic scenes, handcrafted in felt and pithily summarized in just a single word. The attention to detail is eye-opening; the proportions are just-right for small hands; the fun is guaranteed. In Return of the Jedi, The monster Jabba is encountered, C-3PO conducts story time, and there is a happy ending. © and TM Lucasfilm Ltd. Used Under Authorization

Star Wars Epic Yarns: A New Hope
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 27

Star Wars Epic Yarns: A New Hope

Jedi apprentices and little princesses will delight in this (heart)felt retelling of the Star Wars saga. And so will Star Wars fans of any age! The series launches with the original trilogy, and every word counts in these small but perfectly formed yarns. That's because each volume features 12 iconic scenes, handcrafted in felt and pithily summarized in just a single word. The attention to detail is eye-opening; the proportions are just-right for small hands; the fun is guaranteed. In A New Hope, Princess Leia sends a hologram message through R2-D2, Luke Skywalker will learn how to use a lightsaber, and our heroes triumph. © and TM Lucasfilm Ltd. Used Under Authorization

The Neurobiology of Cocaine Addiction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 142

The Neurobiology of Cocaine Addiction

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-03-18
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  • Publisher: Routledge

With the use of crack on the rise in American cities, there is more need than ever to understand the biological, environmental, and social factors behind cocaine addiction, as well as the pharmacological properties of cocaine that make it such an addictive drug. The Neurobiology of Cocaine Addiction helps clinicians and researchers analyze research findings and their relevance to the clinical treatment of cocaine dependency. To do this, it looks at the whole spectrum of cocaine use, from trends in cocaine-involved deaths, hospital emergencies, arrests, and treatment admissions to the specific impact the drug has on brain function. The book reports on important findings from positron emission...

Cozy Classics: L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 27

Cozy Classics: L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Presents Baum's story of Dorothy, who is stranded in the magical land of Oz, and must seek the assistance of the Wizard to get her home to Kansas, condensed to twelve words, and accompanied by hand-felted illustrations.

Carceral Capitalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 361

Carceral Capitalism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-02-23
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing. What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces, but the creation of living hells. When people are trapped in a cycle of debt it also can affect their subjectivity and how they temporally inhabit the world by making it difficult for them to imagine and plan for the future. What psychic toll does this have on residents? How does it feel to be routinely dehumanized and exploited by the police? —from Carceral Capitalism In this collection of essays in Se...

WHFSC Grandmaster's Council: a compendium of the world's leading Grandmasters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 647

WHFSC Grandmaster's Council: a compendium of the world's leading Grandmasters

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-03-12
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

This a compendium of the world's greatest council of Grandmasters. These Grandmasters both past and present represent an amazing history of the martial arts. It contains their bios told as they want it heard and seen along with pictures past and present of these Grandmasters. The WHFSC World Head of Family Sokeship Council brings together Grandmasters and Sokes from every style of martial arts to a yearly meeting, with an awards dinner, Hall of Fame and seminars sessions given by the Grandmasters themselves. Included in the book are some of the upcoming masters in the martial arts.

Oil in Their Blood
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 501

Oil in Their Blood

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-02
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

This historical novel is a matriarch's remembrance of two oil industry families over three generations: In Pennsylvania, as the Civil War ends, oil industry pioneers fight to control the commodity, own the infrastructure and win the wealth; in the 1890s New York City of the Standard Oil barons, the second generation fights corruption and suffers romantic tragedy as the trade goes global; and, caught in the terrible horrors of World War I, the third generation learns what mature love--and oil--really mean to the emerging modern world. In lean, muscular prose and through relentless storytelling, the book (the first in a multivolume saga of oil's history) is a tour of the world's first oil producing regions, from Pennsylvania to Baku to Mesopotamia to Indonesia to Persia to Romania. It weaves hard fact with adventure, romance and melodrama to explore the metaphysical and stark cold truths about love, family, oil and our addiction to it.

Cozy Classics: Great Expectations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 27

Cozy Classics: Great Expectations

Presents Dicken's story of Pip, an orphaned young man in Victorian England, condensed to twelve words, and accompanied by hand-felted illustrations.