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  • How to Land a Top-Paying Neonatology nurses Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More

    by Chen Janet ...
    For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Neonatology nurses job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lucky Cat

    by Melody Cheng, Helen Wu, Janet Wang, AsianBoss Girl ...
    Illustrated by Eunice Chen ...
    Lucky Cat is a heartwarming story about an immigrant family in America, and a new friend their daughter June makes as they prepare to open their restaurant.June's family have a new home in America. There’s plenty to do before their restaurant opens, but Mama is excited when she finds the previous owners have left a Lucky Cat! It’s meant to bring good luck to their ventures, and June is even more ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Time and Language

    New Sinology and Chinese History

    by Ori Sela, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Joshua A. Fogel, Peter C. Perdue, Pingyi Chu, Theodore Huters, Peter Zarrow, Joan Judge0, Janet Y. Chen1, Marten Saarela2, Kang Xiaofei3 ...
    China’s past and present have been in a continuous dialogue throughout history, one that is heavily influenced by time and language: the temporal orientation and the linguistic apparatus used to express and solidify identity, ideas, and practices. Presenting a host of in-depth case studies, Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History argues for and demonstrates the significance of “New ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Sounds of Mandarin

    Learning to Speak a National Language in China and Taiwan, 1913–1960

    by Janet Y. Chen ...
    Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world today. In China, a country with a vast array of regional and local vernaculars, how was this “common language” forged? How did people learn to speak Mandarin? And what does a focus on speech instead of script reveal about Chinese language and history?This book traces the surprising social history of China’s spoken standard, from its ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Sounds of Mandarin

    Learning to Speak a National Language in China and Taiwan, 1913–1960

    by Janet Y. Chen ...
    Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world today. In China, a country with a vast array of regional and local vernaculars, how was this “common language” forged? How did people learn to speak Mandarin? And what does a focus on speech instead of script reveal about Chinese language and history?This book traces the surprising social history of China’s spoken standard, from its ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Guilty of Indigence

    The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1953

    by Janet Y. Chen ...
    In the early twentieth century, a time of political fragmentation and social upheaval in China, poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation about the future of the country. Investigating the lives of the urban poor in China during this critical era, Guilty of Indigence examines the solutions implemented by a nation attempting to deal with "society's most fundamental problem." ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Growing Mathematical Minds

    Conversations Between Developmental Psychologists and Early Childhood Teachers

    by Jennifer S. McCray, Jie-Qi Chen, Janet Eisenband Sorkin ...
    Growing Mathematical Minds is the documentation of an innovative, bi-directional process of connecting research and practice in early childhood mathematics. The book translates research on early mathematics from developmental psychology into terms that are meaningful to teachers and readily applicable in early childhood classrooms. It documents teacher responses, and conveys their thoughts and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Opting Out

    The Story of the Parents’ Grassroots Movement to Achieve Whole-Child Public Schools

    by David Hursh, Jeanette Deutermann, Lisa Rudley, Zhe Chen, Sarah McGinnis ...
    A 2020 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award winnerThe rise of high-stakes testing in New York and across the nation has narrowed and simplified what is taught, while becoming central to the effort to privatize public schools. However, it and similar reform efforts have met resistance, with New York as the exemplar for how to repel standardized testing and invasive data collection, such as inBloom... ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Six Records of a Floating Life

    by Shen Fu ...
    Translated by Leonard Pratt, Chiang Su-hui ...
    Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer. In this intimate memoir, Shen Fu recounts the domestic and romantic joys of his marriage to Yün, the beautiful and artistic girl he fell in love with as a child. He also describes ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Red Star over China

    The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism

    by Edgar Snow ...
    "A historical classic" that brings Mao Tse-tung, the Long March, and the Chinese revolution to vivid life ( Foreign Affairs).Journalist Edgar Snow was the first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936—and out of his up-close experience came this historical account, one of the most important books about the remarkable events that would shape not only the future of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China’s Wars

    Rousing the Dragon 1894-1949

    by Philip Jowett ...
    This new history of China's pivotal wars from 1894 to 1949 explains how China was transformed from a isolated and ramshackle medieval empire into a fledgling new world power.China is one of the great powers of the modern world. Yet in the late 19th century China was a ramshackle and isolated medieval empire upon whom the European colonial powers could impose their wishes at will.China's Wars ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The First Emperor

    Selections from the Historical Records

    by Sima Qian, K. E. Brashier ...
    Translated by Raymond Dawson ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The following year Qin unified all under Heaven and the title of August Emperor was immediately adopted.' The short-lived Qin dynasty unified China in 221 BC and created an imperial legacy that lasted until 1911. The extraordinary story of the First Emperor, founder of the dynasty, is told in the Historical Records of Sima Qian, the Grand Historiographer and the most famous Chinese historian. He ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD