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  • Five Spice Street

    by Can Xue, Karen Gernant, Zeping Chen ...
    Five Spice Street tells the story of a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. The novel interweaves their endless suppositions into a work that is at once political parable and surreal fantasia. Some think X is 50 years old; others that she is 22. Some believe she has occult powers and has thereby enslaved the young men of the street; others ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Frontier

    by Can Xue ...
    Translated by Karen Gernant, Chen Zeping ...
    A surreal, fantastic coming-of-age novel blending Eastern and Western beliefs, from the winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tensor-Based Dynamical Systems

    Theory and Applications

    by Can Chen ...
    Series series Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive review on tensor algebra, including tensor products, tensor unfolding, tensor eigenvalues, and tensor decompositions. Tensors are multidimensional arrays generalized from vectors and matrices, which can capture higher-order interactions within multiway data. In addition, tensors have wide applications in many domains such as signal processing, machine learning, ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Administering and Managing the U.S. Food System

    Revisiting Food Policy and Politics

    by A. Bryce Hoflund, John C. Jones, Michelle C. Pautz, Helen Alemayehu Mebrate, Nurcan Atalan-Helicke, Angela Babb, Jodi Benenson, Brent Blevins0, Can Chen1, Carol Ebdon2, Rachel Emas3, Erin Feichtinger4, Sheila Fleischhacker5, B.J. Fletcher6, Xaq Frohlich7, Clarivel Gonzalez8, Michael Haedicke9, Carina Isbell0, Jake Jacobs1, Kristal Jones2, Carolyn Lois3, Emily MacNabb4, Craig S. Maher5, Sungho Park6, Laurie Ristino7, Amy Rosenthal8, Jennifer Rutledge9, Andrew J. Schneller0, Danni Smith1, Daniel Tobin2 ...
    Food and the systems that produce, disrupt, prepare it are central to all human life. Yet, scholarly analysis of the food systems that support human life are highly fragmented across a variety of disciplines. Public administration, with its focus on the doing of public policy, would seem to be a logical home for analysis of food systems in action. However, food is largely ignored by public ... Read more

    $98.89 USD

  • Innovative Infrastructure Finance

    A Guide for State and Local Governments

    by Can Chen, John R. Bartle ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Infrastructure is the foundation of modern economies. A robust, efficient, and well-maintained infrastructure system is critical to support the nation’s economy, improve quality of life, and strengthen global competitiveness. The serious infrastructure deficit in the U.S. is well-known. State and local governments are struggling to finance the needed expansion, upgrades, and repairs. Meeting the ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Mother River

    by Can Xue ...
    Translated by Karen Gernant, Chen Zeping ...
    Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book AwardIn Mother River, Can Xue, one of China’s most daring and visionary writers, invites us into a surreal landscape where reality is as fluid as a river itself. This collection of thirteen stories weaves together vivid, dreamlike narratives that challenge our perceptions of time, identity, and existence.Through her signature blend of the absurd and the ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Barefoot Doctor

    A Novel

    by Can Xue ...
    Translated by Karen Gernant, Zeping Chen ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    A profound, poignant story of a village healer and her community, from one of the world’s great contemporary novelists“A complex and illuminating portrait of a group of healers in China . . . [that] offers profound insights about what it means to pursue and live a fulfilling life.”—Publishers Weekly“A barefoot doctor herself, [Can Xue] has a unique and powerful way of transporting readers to new ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Displaced Heritage

    Responses to Disaster, Trauma, and Loss

    by Professor Ian Convery, Catherine Roberts, Chia-Li Chen, Claire Twigger-Ross, Diana Walters, Ellie Land, Esther Edwards, Gerard Corsane, Gordon Walker0, Graeme Were1, Hugh Deeming2, Isabelle Lackman3, James Gardner4, Jo Besley5, John Welshman6, Jonathan Skinner7, Josephine Baxter8, Maggie Mort9, Marc Ancrenaz0, Marion Walker1, Professor Peter Davis3, Mark Wilson4, Özgün Emre Can5, Pat Caplan6, Peter Lurz7, Phil O'Keefe8, Philip R Stone9, Rebecca Whittle0, Richard Johnson1, Rob Morley2, Andy Law3, Rupert Ashmore4, Sarah Elliot5, Shalini Sharma6, Stephen Miles7, Susannah Eckersley8, Takashi Harada9, Tim Padley0, William Medd1, Aron Mazel2, Athur McIvor3, Billy Sinclair4, Bryndis Snaebjornsdottir5, Bryony Onciul6 ...
    The essays in this volume address the displacement of natural and cultural heritage caused by disasters, whether they be dramatic natural impacts or terrible events unleashed by humankind, including holocaust and genocide. Disasters can be natural or human-made, rapid or slow, great or small, yet the impact is effectively the same; nature, people and cultural heritage are displaced or lost. Yet ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Vertical Motion

    by Can Xue ...
    Translated by Karen Gernant, Chen Zeping ...
    Thirteen dreamy stories from one of China's most innovative writers. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • I Live in the Slums

    Stories

    by Can Xue ...
    Translated by Karen Gernant, Zeping Chen ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literatureCan Xue’s stories observe no obvious conventions of plot or characterization. That is the only rule they follow. Instead, they tend to limn a disordered and poetic state given structure by philosophical wonder and emotional rigor.Combining elements of both Chinese materiality—the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Frontier

    by Can Xue ...
    Narrated by Rebecca Lam ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours

    New Novel from the Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book AwardFrontier opens with the story of Liujin, a young woman heading out on her own to create her own life in Pebble Town, a somewhat surreal place at the base of Snow Mountain where wolves roam the streets and certain enlightened individuals can see and enter a paradisaical garden.Exploring life in this city (or in the frontier) through ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Vertical Motion

    by Can Xue ...
    Narrated by Eunice Wong, Tim Lounibos ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 41 min

    "There's a new world master among us, and her name is Can Xue." —Robert CooverTwo young girls sneak onto the grounds of a hospital, where they find a disturbing moment of silence in a rose garden. A couple grows a plant that blooms underground, invisibly, to their long-time neighbor's consternation. A cat worries about its sleepwalking owner, who receives a mysterious visitor while he's asleep. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook