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  • Golden Age

    A Novel

    by Wang Xiaobo ...
    Translated by Yan Yan ...
    "Like a Chinese Kurt Vonnegut. By turns lyrical and satirical, Wang Xiaobo's sexual comedies set during the Chinese Cultural Revolution are as improbable as that genre sounds. His long overdue publication in English comes as a gift. Golden Age is funny and brave and profound."—Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick"At the time Wang was writing, novels about the Cultural Revolution tended to be fairly ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Pleasure of Thinking

    Essays

    by Wang Xiaobo ...
    Translated by Yan Yan ...
    A yet-untranslated essay collection on the importance of critical thought, from one of the foremost Chinese intellectuals of the 1990s.Wang Xiaobo’s Pleasure of Thinking is an essay collection as riotous as it is contemplative. Between rollicking anecdotes about living between the East and West and serious musings on the intellectual situations at home and abroad, Xiaobo examines modern life with ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Making of a Smart City in Korea

    The Quest for E-Seoul

    by KwangJong Ahn, Monica Bernardi, Jesse W. Campbell, Lorenzo Chelleri, June-Suh Cho, Sungtaek Choi, Sangho Choo, Seok-Jin Eom, Sunyoung Hlee, Hanchan Hwang, Yu-Min Joo0, Jun Houng Kim1, Kijung Kim2, Sujae Kim3, Hyangsook Lee4, Hyunae Lee5, Jong Youl Lee6, Keumsook Lee7, Sang Do Park8, Sohyun Park9, Thorsten Schuetze0, Junmin Song1, Xiaobo Wang2, Changhyo Yi3, Yejin Yoo4, Joong-Hwan Oh5, Dr. Jaehyeon Jeong7, Dr. Hojeong Lee9 ...
    Series series Korean Communities across the World
    This book illustrates how Seoul's transition into a digitally networked city has reshaped governance structures, economic systems, and cultural life.Central to this transformation is the proactive role of the Seoul Metropolitan Government, which has guided the city through multiple stages of smart urbanization with strategic planning and policy innovation.Organized into three parts, the ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Metamaterial Design and Additive Manufacturing

    by Bo Song, Aiguo Zhao, Lei Zhang, Pengfei Wang, Xiaobo Wang, Yusheng Shi ...
    Series series 3D Printing Technology Series
    Metamaterial Design and Additive Manufacturing covers optimization design, manufacturing, microstructure, mechanical properties, acoustic properties, mass-transport properties and application examples of PMs fabricated by selective laser melting additive manufacturing technology. The book introduces the definition and concept of pentamode metamaterials and then describes their characterization, ... Read more

    $157.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    Golden Age

    A Novel

    by Wang Xiaobo ...
    Narrated by Brian Nishii ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 44 min

    Like Gary Shteyngart or Michel Houellebecq, Wang Xiaobo is a Chinese literary icon whose satire forces us to reconsider the ironies of history.Wang Er, a twenty-one-year-old ox herder, is shamed by the local authorities and forced to write a confession of his crimes, but he instead takes it upon himself to write a modernist literary tract. Later, as a lecturer at a chaotic, newly built university, ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of soybeans Volume 1

    Breeding and cultivation techniques

    by Prof. Henry T. Nguyen, E. Beche, D. Mutoni, Dr A. Scaboo, Xiaobo Wang, Prof. Li-Juan Qiu, Dr Tri Vuong, Dr David R. Walker, Dr Wensheng Hou, Dr Heng Ye0, Dr Babu Valliyodan1, M.B. Zhang2, Dr Li Song3, Dr J. Grover Shannon4, Dr Pengyin Chen5, Dr Ailin Liu6, Dr Wai-Lun Cheung7, Dr Wai-Shing Yung8, Dr Carol Lee9, Dr Fuk-Ling Wong0, Dr Kit-Wah Siu1, X. T. Chu2, Prof. Hon-Ming Lam3, Dr Chengjun Wu4, Dr L. Mozzoni5, Dr W. Hummer6, Dr G. Kaur7, Dr J. Orlowski8, Dr T. Carter9, Dr B. Buckley0, Dr Haishun Yang1, Prof. Dan Reynolds2, H. N. Su3, Roger W. Elmore4, Dr Rodrigo Werle5, Prof. Charles Wortmann6, Dr Phinehas Tukamuhabwa7, Dr Nathan Mueller8, Dr Byron Zamasiya9, Dr Kefasi Nyikahadzoi0, A. H. Hastwell1, P. M. Gresshoff2, Dr B. J. Ferguson3, Prof. Randall Nelson4, E. E. Large5 ...
    Series Book 29 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Reviews latest research on crop physiology and genetic diversityDetailed coverage of key advances in breeding and their application to produce more resilient drought, salt and cold-tolerant varieties of soybeanSummarises good agricultural practices to optimise crop cultivation and make it more sustainable ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Pleasure of Thinking

    Essays

    by Wang Xiaobo ...
    Narrated by Brian Nishii ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 3 min

    An essay collection on the importance of critical thought, from one of the foremost Chinese intellectuals of the 1990s.Wang Xiaobo's Pleasure of Thinking is an essay collection as riotous as it is contemplative. Between rollicking anecdotes about living between the East and West and serious musings on the intellectual situations at home and abroad, Xiaobo examines modern life with the levity ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Conductive Atomic Force Microscopy

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  • Wheat Improvement

    Food Security in a Changing Climate

    Edited by Matthew P. Reynolds, Hans-Joachim Braun ...
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  • Frontiers In Electronics - Proceedings Of The Workshop On Frontiers In Electronics 2009

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