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    North of Beautiful

    by Justina Chen ...
    Narrated by Nancy Wu ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 12 min

    -Best Books of the Year, Kirkus Reviews-Finalist, 9 state book awards-Starred review, Publishers Weekly-Starred review, Kirkus Reviews-Starred review, BooklistAs he continued to stare, I wanted to point to my cheek and remind him, "But you were the one who wanted this, remember? You're the one who asked - and I repeat - Why not fix your face?"It's hard not to notice Terra Cooper.She's tall, blond, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Breathing Spaces

    Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China

    by Nancy Chen ...
    The charismatic form of healing called qigong, based on meditative breathing exercises, has achieved enormous popularity in China during the last two decades. Qigong served a critical social organizational function, as practitioners formed new informal networks, sometimes on an international scale, at a time when China was shifting from state-subsidized medical care to for-profit market medicine. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Wreck-It Ralph 2 Little Golden Book (Disney Wreck-It Ralph 2)

    by Nancy Parent ...
    Illustrated by Helen Chen ...
    Series series Little Golden Book
    A Little Golden Book version of the exciting new Disney film Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2--coming to theaters in November 2018!Walt Disney Animation Studios welcomes Wreck-It Ralph back to the big screen for a smashing sequel! This time, Wreck-It Ralph leaves the arcade behind, venturing into the expansive universe of the internet--which may or may not survive Ralph's not-so-light ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health

    Nutrition, Medicine, and Culture

    by Nancy Chen ...
    What we eat, how we eat, where we eat, and when we eat are deeply embedded cultural practices. Eating is also related to how we medicate. The multimillion-dollar diet industry offers advice on how to eat for a better body and longer life, and avoiding harmful foods (or choosing healthy ones) is considered separate from consuming medicine-another multimillion-dollar industry. In contrast, most ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Happy Student

    5 Steps to Academic Fulfillment and Success

    by Daniel Wong ...
    A smart, supportive guide to staying engaged and motivated, written by a student for students.Daniel Wong doesn't have a PhD in education or psychology—but his transformation from unhappy overachiever to happy straight-A student has given him unique insight into what motivates students intrinsically.Sharing with readers his personal story and the five-step program he has developed, this book can ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 101 Amazing Uses for Cinnamon

    by Nancy Lin Chen ...
    Series series 101 Amazing Uses
    Everyone loves a good cinnamon roll, but did you know cinnamon can help your hair grow longer and stronger? In 101 Amazing Uses for Cinnamon, discover the many ways this simple spice can improve your health, your home, and of course, your food. From improving memory to aiding digestion to supporting a healthy garden, add some spice to your life with cinnamon.Millions of people are turning away ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Qi as Lived Experience

    Breath, Wind, Potency, and Mind in Chinese Thought

    by Mr Adam D. Frank, Mr Stephen L. Field, Nancy N. Chen ...
    Series series Daoism and the Human Experience
    In this exploration of the central Chinese concept of qi, a team of authors trace its role in early texts and contemporary neuroscience to show how it continues to be relevant beyond China.As life-long scholars of qi related practices, Adam Frank, Nancy Chen, and Stephen Field offer new insights into the significance of qi in the current Anthropocene. They connect Daoist studies, Chinese medicine, ... Read more

    $93.99 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

    $28.99 USD

  • Beyond the Numbers

    A Reader on Population, Consumption and the Environment

    by J. Boutwell, G. Rathjens, Judy Norsigian, Sharon Stanton Russell, David E. Horlacher, Adrienne Germain, Jane Ordway, Judith Bruce, Anrudh Jain, Barbara S. Mensch, Christopher Elias, Nafis Sadik, Nancy Yu Ping Chen, Hania Zlotnick, Steven Sinding, John Ross, Allan Rosenfield, Lynn Freedman, Cynthia B. Lloyd, Michael S. Teitelbaum, Ruth Macklin, Don Edwards, Frank Sharry, Jodi Jacobson, Frances Kissling, Peter J. Donaldson, Amy Ong Tsui, F. Landis MacKellar, Carl Haub, Martha Farnsworth Riche, Sharon L. Camp, Judith Lichtenberg, L. Anathea Brooks, Robert Fox, Ruth Dixon Mueller, Denese Shirvington, Susan Power Bratton, Judith Heerwagen, Fatima Vianna Mello, Mahmoud F. Fathalla, M. Teresita de Barbieri, Russel Barsh, Teresa Chandler, Emma Rothschild, T. Homer Dixon ...
    Beyond the Numbers presents a thought-provoking series of essays by leading authorities on issues of population and consumption. The essays both define the poles of debate and explore common ground beyond the polarized rhetoric.Specific chapters consider each of the broad topics addressed at the International Conference on Population and Development held in September 1994 in Cairo, Egypt. The ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • What Isn’t Being Said

    Culture and Communication at Work

    by Wendi L. Adair, Nancy R. Buchan, Xiao-Ping Chen, Leigh Anne Liu ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book examines how exactly effective intercultural communication at work takes place. In order to do so, the authors take a deep dive into understanding the communication process and variation in communication patterns across cultures and individuals. They introduce a model that focuses on four sources of nonverbal communication, discuss existing research on intercultural communication in the ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Asian Biotech

    Ethics and Communities of Fate

    by Michael M. J. Fischer, Joseph Dumit, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Charis Thompson ...
    Series series Experimental Futures
    Providing the first overview of Asia’s emerging biosciences landscape, this timely and important collection brings together ethnographic case studies on biotech endeavors such as genetically modified foods in China, clinical trials in India, blood collection in Singapore and China, and stem-cell research in Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. While biotech policies and projects vary by country, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Ploughshares Spring 2021 Guest-edited by Laura van den Berg

    by Laura van den Berg, Kaveh Akbar, Aldo Amparán, Eloisa Amezcua, Marianne Boruch, nicole v basta, Gabrielle Bates, Paola Bruni, Kayleb Rae Candrilli, Michael Collier, Dana Curtis, Nancy Chen Long, Gustavo Firmat, April Eliza Goldman, Michele Herman, Sarah Mackey Kirby, Daniel Lawless, Anni Liu, Chloe Martinez, Matthew Minicucci, Alicia Mountain, André Naffis-Sahely, Carl Phillips, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Michael Shewmaker, Ralph Sneeden, R.A. Villanueva, Cynthia Williams, Wendy Xu, Maria Zoccola, Shaleigh Kwok, 'Pemi Aguda, Venita Blackburn, Fernando A. Flores, Tania James, Fajer Alexander Khansa, Amy Lin, Claire Luchette, Zora Mai Quỳnh, Helen Phillips, Fortunato Salazar, Seth Wang, Ruth Hoberman ...
    The Spring 2021 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD