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  • The Healing Power Of Movement

    How To Benefit From Physical Activity During Your Cancer Treatment

    by Lisa Hoffman, Alison Freeland ...
    Recent clinical studies show that exercise rather than rest may be the best therapy for someone undergoing cancer treatments. The Healing Power of Movement addresses this significant shift in care recommendations and clearly illustrates fifty specific exercises-from simply sitting up or moving in bed to walking or lifting light weights-for different stages of cancer treatments, and for many ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • China Urban

    Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture

    by Lisa Hoffman ...
    China Urban is an ethnographic account of China’s cities and the place that urban space holds in China’s imagination. In addition to investigating this nation’s rapidly changing urban landscape, its contributors emphasize the need to rethink the very meaning of the “urban” and the utility of urban-focused anthropological critiques during a period of unprecedented change on local, regional, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Becoming Nisei

    Japanese American Urban Lives in Prewar Tacoma

    by Lisa M. Hoffman, Mary L. Hanneman ...
    A vital account of everyday Nisei life and identity formation in an early twentieth-century communityTacoma’s vibrant Nihonmachi of the 1920s and '30s was home to a significant number of first generation Japanese immigrants and their second generation American children, and these families formed tight-knit bonds despite their diverse religious, prefectural, and economic backgrounds. As the city’s ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China

    Fostering Talent

    by Lisa M. Hoffman ...
    Series series Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
    In the post-Maoist era, China adopted a strategy for investing in the “quality” of its people—through education and training opportunities—that created talented labor. In her significant ethnographic study, Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China, Lisa Hoffman explains why the development of “human capital” is seen as fundamental for economic growth and national progress. She examines these new ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Fate

    by Lisa M. Hoffman ...
    The island of Sanzu is in unknown turmoil. When humans begin forgetting how to respect nature, the spirits of the land begin to wither and die. From the sorrow and suffering of the spirits a deep hatred is born, seeking to destroy everything in its path. Only the birth of a special being spoken of by the ancient keepers can restore balance. But what happens when that one has no recollection of who ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Faerie Knitting

    14 Tales of Love and Magic

    by Alice Hoffman, Lisa Hoffman ...
    From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman and master knitter Lisa Hoffman comes Faerie Knitting, a magical melding of words and yarn where the ordinary is turned into the extraordinary and where imagination becomes creation.The magic of storytelling and the magic of knitting—woven together in 14 original patterns inspired by each story.“How fairy tales are told and remembered has a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Faerie Knitting

    14 Tales of Love and Magic

    by Alice Hoffman, Lisa Hoffman ...
    Narrated by January LaVoy ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 30 min

    From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman and master knitter Lisa Hoffman comes Faerie Knitting, a magical melding of words and yarn where the ordinary is turned into the extraordinary and where imagination becomes creation.The magic of storytelling and the magic of knitting—woven together in 14 original patterns inspired by each story.“How fairy tales are told and remembered has a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • STEM SMART Parenting

    A Practical Guide for Nurturing Innovative Thinkers

    by Alan Zollman, Lisa Hoffman, Emily K. Suh ...
    An invaluable resource for parents wishing to arm their children with the life skills necessary to succeed in a STEM-driven culture.In today's world of STEM, all children-even those with interests outside of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-need to develop specific skills in order to flourish in a complex landscape. Parents want to help their kids but are often overwhelmed by all ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The Sage Handbook of Urbanization in China

    Edited by Lisa M. Hoffman, Jennifer Hubbert, Zhilin Liu ...
    Series series Sage Handbooks of Modern China
    The Sage Handbook of Urbanization in China is a pioneering handbook that reframes our understanding of China′s extraordinary urban transformation—a demographic shift of unprecedented scale and speed that has seen two-thirds of its population becoming urban dwellers. Moving beyond conventional narratives, editors Hoffman, Hubbert, and Liu develop an innovative conceptual approach that emphasizes ... Read more

    $99.89 USD

  • Exophony

    Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue

    by Yoko Tawada ...
    Translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda ...
    An electrifying new side of the National Book Award Winner Yoko Tawada: her first book of essays in EnglishSHORTLISTED FOR THE NBCC AWARD IN CRITICISM AND THE GREGG BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZEA New Yorker Best Book of 2025I am trying to learn, with my tongue, sounds that are unfamiliar to me. A foreign-sounding word learned out of curiosity is not “imitation” per se. All of these ... ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Swallows

    A Novel

    by Natsuo Kirino ...
    Translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda ...
    **When a young single woman in Tokyo decides she’s ready to sell anything—even her womb—to escape the precarity of her life, an agency pairs her with a wealthy couple desperate to have a child. The match seems made in heaven. She even looks a little like the wife. But is anything ever that simple?One of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2025**Nothing has ever gone right for Riki. She left her boring ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $12.99 USD

  • Wildcat Dome

    A Novel

    by Yuko Tsushima ...
    Translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda ...
    An epic novel of postwar Japan—a powerful reckoning with empire, catastrophe, trauma, and truth-telling—by the author of Territory of Light.Mitch and Yonko haven’t spoken in a year. As children, they were inseparable, raised together in an orphanage outside Tokyo—but ever since the sudden death of Mitch’s brother, they’ve been mourning in their private ways, worlds apart. In the aftermath of the ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $12.99 USD