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  • YAN1

    Series series DALA COMIC
    In a public live broadcast, a female Peking Opera character in the scene hummed a verse “Leaving from Emei to Jiangnan….” She turned around and shot & killed a congressman’s son who was tied to a chair.“I am Yan Tieh-hua.” the female character sang with a smile.Yan Tieh-hua, a 15-year-old femaile high school student who was the only survivor in the murder of the Yan family.Thirty year later, she ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Sutra of Ksitigarbha's Fundamental Vows, The

    A Colloquial Translation

    Unabridged

    4 hours 42 min

    A colloquial, easy-to-understand English translation, this sutra gives simple, direct instructions about how we sentient beings in this chaotic, troubled and distressed era and world can make close, direct connections with a great enlightened being – Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Mahasattva – to be saved, protected, guided and blessed. The Buddha foresaw the suffering and chaos in this Dharma-Declining ... Read more

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  • Bamboo Shoots After the Rain

    Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of Taiwan

    A short story collection hailed as a "welcome and valuable addition to our growing knowledge about the inner lives and literary talents of Chinese women" (Amy Ling, author of Between Worlds: Women Writers of Chinese Ancestry).This remarkable anthology introduces the short fiction of fourteen writers, major figures in the literary movements of three generations, who represent a range of class, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan

    This sourcebook contains more than 160 documents and writings that reflect the development of Taiwanese literature from the early modern period to the twenty-first century. Selections include seminal essays in literary debates, polemics, and other landmark events; interviews, diaries, and letters by major authors; critical and retrospective essays by influential writers, editors, and scholars; ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Learning Geography Beyond the Traditional Classroom

    Examples from Peninsular Southeast Asia

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book provides a collection of critical pieces that support the idea that good teaching and learning of geography in fieldwork and using technology should consider the dimensions of curriculum design, instructional design and resource provision, as well as assessment for such learning activities. Further, it clearly describes the thinking, experiences and critical comments concerning two broad ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Literary Culture in Taiwan

    Martial Law to Market Law

    With monumental changes in the last two decades, Taiwan is making itself anew. The process requires remapping not only the country's recent political past, but also its literary past. Taiwanese literature is now compelled to negotiate a path between residual high culture aspirations and the emergent reality of market domination in a relatively autonomous, increasingly professionalized field. This ... Read more

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  • Medicinal Plants - Recent Advances in Research and Development

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Since ancient times, plants have been used as a prime natural source of alternative medicines and have played an important role in our lives. The old tradition of medicinal plant application has turned into a highly profitable business in the global market, resulting in the release of a large number of herbal products. People have tried to find different sources of medicines to alleviate pain and ... Read more

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  • Modernism and the Nativist Resistance

    Contemporary Chinese Fiction from Taiwan

    The first comprehensive English-language study of literary trends in the fiction of Taiwan over the last forty years, this pioneering work explores a rich tradition of literary Modernism in its shifting relationship with Chinese politics and culture.Situating her subject in its historical context, Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang traces the connection between Taiwan's Modernists and the liberal scholars of ... Read more

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  • Cognitive Cities

    Second International Conference, IC3 2019, Kyoto, Japan, September 3–6, 2019, Revised Selected Papers

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes refereed proceeding of the Second International Cognitive Cities Conference, IC3 2019, held in Kyoto, Japan, in September 2019.The 37 full papers and 46 short papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 206 submissions. The papers are organized according to the topical sections on cognitive city for special needs; cognitive city theory, modeling and simulation; XR and ... Read more

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  • Nonlinear Adiabatic Evolution of Quantum Systems

    Geometric Phase and Virtual Magnetic Monopole

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book systematically introduces the nonlinear adiabatic evolution theory of quantum many-body systems. The nonlinearity stems from a mean-field treatment of the interactions between particles, and the adiabatic dynamics of the system can be accurately described by the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. The key points in this book include the adiabatic condition and adiabatic invariant for ... Read more

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  • Structure- and Adatom-Enriched Essential Properties of Graphene Nanoribbons

    Structure- and Adatom-Enriched Essential Properties of Graphene Nanoribbons offers a systematic review of the feature-rich essential properties in emergent graphene nanoribbons, covering mainstream theoretical and experimental research. It includes a wide range of 1D systems; namely, armchair and zigzag graphene nanoribbons with and without hydrogen terminations, curved and zipped graphene ... Read more

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    Series series Routledge Advances in Research Methods
    No less than a revolutionary transformation of the research enterprise is underway. This transformation extends beyond the natural sciences, where 'e-research' has become the modus operandi, and is penetrating the social sciences and humanities, sometimes with differences in accent and label. Many suggest that the very essence of scholarship in these areas is changing. The everyday procedures and ... Read more

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