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The House of Yan

A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History

by Lan Yan ...

Translated by Sam Taylor ...

Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family’s history through early 20th Century to present day.The history of the Yan family is inseparable from the history of China over the last century. One of the most influential business leaders of China today, Lan Yan grew up in the company of the country’s powerful elite, including Mao ... Read more

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Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family’s history through early 20th Century to present day.The history of the Yan family is inseparable from the history of China over the last century. One of the most influential business leaders of China today, Lan Yan grew up in the company of the country’s powerful elite, including Mao
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Blood Sword Tao

Volume 1

by Lan Yan, Fancy Novel ...

Series series Volume 1
Death had always come unexpectedly. We are grateful for your rebirth! In his previous life, he possessed trillions of dollars out of thin air. He had been reborn as a commoner, but his body was still weak. Even if he had to die, he would die anyway. Live, still live, who will stop me! To wield a sword without a sword, to wield a Secret Book without a word, to walk on a path of glory or a tomb, or ... Read more

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Death had always come unexpectedly. We are grateful for your rebirth! In his previous life, he possessed trillions of dollars out of thin air. He had been reborn as a commoner, but his body was still weak. Even if he had to die, he would die anyway. Live, still live, who will stop me! To wield a sword without a sword, to wield a Secret Book without a word, to walk on a path of glory or a tomb, or
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The House of Yan

A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History

by Lan Yan ...

Narrated by Angela Lin ...

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10 hours 54 min

Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family’s history through early 20th Century to present day.The history of the Yan family is inseparable from the history of China over the last century. One of the most influential businesswomen of China today, Lan Yan grew up in the company of the country's powerful elite, including Zhou Enlai, ... Read more

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Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family’s history through early 20th Century to present day.The history of the Yan family is inseparable from the history of China over the last century. One of the most influential businesswomen of China today, Lan Yan grew up in the company of the country's powerful elite, including Zhou Enlai,
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Tu Youyou's Journey In The Search For Artemisinin

by Wenhu Zhang, Yiran Shao, Manyuan Wang, Lan Yang, Zhiqiang Hu, Yansong Li, Dan Li, Zhenhu Sun, Junxian Yu ...

Tu Youyou's Journey in the Search for Artemisinin is an autobiographical science book chronicling in detail the great experiences of Tu Youyou from her childhood to winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.As Tu Youyou is the first female scientist from China to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, this win created a sudden wave of interest in medicine, resulting in numerous ... Read more

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Tu Youyou's Journey in the Search for Artemisinin is an autobiographical science book chronicling in detail the great experiences of Tu Youyou from her childhood to winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.As Tu Youyou is the first female scientist from China to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, this win created a sudden wave of interest in medicine, resulting in numerous
... Read more
Understanding and Developing Student Assessment Literacy

Translating Research into Actionable Approaches

by Min Yang, Zi Yan, Lan Yang, Ying Zhan ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book provides research-based approaches and classroom strategies for frontline teachers and practitioners, to aid them in formulating actionable approaches to develop student assessment literacy (SAL) in school and higher education sectors. This book helps readers to:Understand the concept of SAL and its significant role in assisting students’ achievements of desirable learning goalsDesign ... Read more

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This book provides research-based approaches and classroom strategies for frontline teachers and practitioners, to aid them in formulating actionable approaches to develop student assessment literacy (SAL) in school and higher education sectors. This book helps readers to:Understand the concept of SAL and its significant role in assisting students’ achievements of desirable learning goalsDesign
... Read more
Unlocking the Power of Teacher Feedback

A Student-Centric Perspective

Edited by Lan Yang, Ming Ming Chiu, Zi Yan ...

This volume addresses the pivotal role of feedback in enhancing students' motivation and learning. Through a series of innovative studies, it uncovers the intricacies of how students perceive and utilize feedback, offering practical strategies for educators while bridging the gap between feedback research and classroom practice.The book showcases six outstanding studies that offer unique insights ... Read more

$62.99 USD

This volume addresses the pivotal role of feedback in enhancing students' motivation and learning. Through a series of innovative studies, it uncovers the intricacies of how students perceive and utilize feedback, offering practical strategies for educators while bridging the gap between feedback research and classroom practice.The book showcases six outstanding studies that offer unique insights
... Read more
Assessment as Learning

Maximising Opportunities for Student Learning and Achievement

Edited by Zi Yan, Lan Yang ...

Series series Asia-Europe Education Dialogue
Based on a solid theoretical basis of assessment-as-learning and updated empirical evidences, this timely book significantly expands the existing scope of assessment-as-learning typically developed in Western contexts.This edited volume updates theoretical and empirical advances in assessment-as-learning in complex learning processes, brought together by an international panel of authors. The ... Read more

$60.99 USD

Based on a solid theoretical basis of assessment-as-learning and updated empirical evidences, this timely book significantly expands the existing scope of assessment-as-learning typically developed in Western contexts.This edited volume updates theoretical and empirical advances in assessment-as-learning in complex learning processes, brought together by an international panel of authors. The
... Read more
Patent Portfolio Deployment: Bridging The R&d, Patent And Product Markets

by Shang-jyh Liu, Anna Hoi Yan Fong, Tony Yuhong Lan ...

Patents are powerful weapons in a company's legal arsenal, with both defensive and offensive capabilities. Patents protect a company's innovation from potential infringers, while at the same time support the company's efforts to exploit their innovation commercially in the global marketplace. This book explores the role of patents in today's knowledge economy. We discuss how patents have become a ... Read more

$84.99 USD

Patents are powerful weapons in a company's legal arsenal, with both defensive and offensive capabilities. Patents protect a company's innovation from potential infringers, while at the same time support the company's efforts to exploit their innovation commercially in the global marketplace. This book explores the role of patents in today's knowledge economy. We discuss how patents have become a
... Read more
Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Second or Foreign Language

Emerging Trends

by Dali Tan, Angela Gunder, Shaoyu Chi, Susan Picard, Yalun Zhou, Michael Wei, Pei-ni Causarano, Yan Gao, I-Ping P. Fu, Chiara Romagnoli, Xin Zhang, Wenying Zhou, Hsiao-Mei Tsai, I-Chiao Hung, Yan Xie, Lan Zhang, Hsiu-Jen Cheng, Hong Zhan, Xiaoshi Li, Justin Olmanson, Xianquan Liu, Christopher C. Heselton, Asha Srivastava, Sujane Wu, Yalin Chen ...

Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Second or Foreign Language, edited by Ko-Yin Sung, addresses three emerging themes in the field of Chinese language teaching and learning. (1) Increasingly ubiquitous in all language learning and teaching, and for the learning of Chinese as a second language in particular, information and communication technology (ICT) can serve as an important and effective tool ... Read more

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Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Second or Foreign Language, edited by Ko-Yin Sung, addresses three emerging themes in the field of Chinese language teaching and learning. (1) Increasingly ubiquitous in all language learning and teaching, and for the learning of Chinese as a second language in particular, information and communication technology (ICT) can serve as an important and effective tool
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Then the Fish Swallowed Him

A Novel

by Amir Ahmadi Arian ...

Narrated by Fajer Al-Kaisi ...

Unabridged

7 hours 41 min

An critically-acclaimed Iranian author makes his American literary debut with this powerful and harrowing psychological portrait of modern Iran—an unprecedented and urgent work of fiction with echoes of The Stranger, 1984, and The Orphan Master’s Son—that exposes the oppressive and corrosive power of the state to bend individual lives.Yunus Turabi, a bus driver in Tehran, leads an unremarkable ... Read more

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An critically-acclaimed Iranian author makes his American literary debut with this powerful and harrowing psychological portrait of modern Iran—an unprecedented and urgent work of fiction with echoes of The Stranger, 1984, and The Orphan Master’s Son—that exposes the oppressive and corrosive power of the state to bend individual lives.Yunus Turabi, a bus driver in Tehran, leads an unremarkable
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Hubris

The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century

by Alistair Horne ...

Narrated by James Adams ...

Unabridged

12 hours 30 min

“EMINENTLY PROVOCATIVE AND READABLE.”—THE WALL STREET JOURNALSir Alistair Horne has been a close observer of war and history for more than fifty years and in this wise and masterly work, he revisits six battles of the past century and examines the strategies, leadership, preparation, and geopolitical goals of aggressors and defenders to reveal the one trait that links them all: hubris.In Greek ... Read more

$32.99 USD

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“EMINENTLY PROVOCATIVE AND READABLE.”—THE WALL STREET JOURNALSir Alistair Horne has been a close observer of war and history for more than fifty years and in this wise and masterly work, he revisits six battles of the past century and examines the strategies, leadership, preparation, and geopolitical goals of aggressors and defenders to reveal the one trait that links them all: hubris.In Greek
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Case Studies in Language Curriculum Design

Concepts and Approaches in Action Around the World

by John Macalister, I.S.P. Nation ...

Series series ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
Case studies are a powerful pedagogical tool for illuminating constructs and models in real-life contexts. Covering a wide range of teaching-learning contexts and offering in-depth analyses of ESL/ELT language curriculum design issues, this casebook is distinctive and unique in that each case draws on and is clearly linked to a single model presented in Nation and Macalister’s Language Curriculum ... Read more

$73.99 USD

Case studies are a powerful pedagogical tool for illuminating constructs and models in real-life contexts. Covering a wide range of teaching-learning contexts and offering in-depth analyses of ESL/ELT language curriculum design issues, this casebook is distinctive and unique in that each case draws on and is clearly linked to a single model presented in Nation and Macalister’s Language Curriculum
... Read more

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