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The Multilingual Citizen

Towards a Politics of Language for Agency and Change

Edited by Assist. Prof. Lisa Lim, Christopher Stroud, Dr. Lionel Wee ...

Series Book 11 - Encounters
In this ground-breaking collection of essays, the editors and authors develop the idea of Linguistic Citizenship. This notion highlights the importance of practices whereby vulnerable speakers themselves exercise control over their languages, and draws attention to the ways in which alternative voices can be inserted into processes and structures that otherwise alienate those they were designed to ... Read more

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In this ground-breaking collection of essays, the editors and authors develop the idea of Linguistic Citizenship. This notion highlights the importance of practices whereby vulnerable speakers themselves exercise control over their languages, and draws attention to the ways in which alternative voices can be inserted into processes and structures that otherwise alienate those they were designed to
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Masked Hero

How Wu Lien-teh Invented the Mask That Ended an Epidemic

by Shan Woo Liu ...

Illustrated by Lisa Wee ...

Meet Dr. Wu Lien-teh, defeater of the Manchurian plague—in a story authored by his great-granddaughter, an emergency physician who relied on his life-saving invention during a pandemic a century later.More than a hundred years before Covid, a deadly pneumonic plague threatened to sweep through Northeast China. Medical experts were summoned to help contain it—among them Wu Lien-teh, who had ... Read more

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Meet Dr. Wu Lien-teh, defeater of the Manchurian plague—in a story authored by his great-granddaughter, an emergency physician who relied on his life-saving invention during a pandemic a century later.More than a hundred years before Covid, a deadly pneumonic plague threatened to sweep through Northeast China. Medical experts were summoned to help contain it—among them Wu Lien-teh, who had
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The Leaky Beak

by Priyanka Agarwal Mehta ...

Illustrated by Lisa Wee ...

There is a leaky tap going drip, drop!The hen wants to fix the leaky tap in the chicken coop and asks the horse to help, but a small mistake leads to a lot of confusion. It often finds children laughing out loud at the end. The book also provides a perfect script for reenactment to work on the children's storytelling, drama and sequencing skills. This brilliant story by Priyanka is brought to ... Read more

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There is a leaky tap going drip, drop!The hen wants to fix the leaky tap in the chicken coop and asks the horse to help, but a small mistake leads to a lot of confusion. It often finds children laughing out loud at the end. The book also provides a perfect script for reenactment to work on the children's storytelling, drama and sequencing skills. This brilliant story by Priyanka is brought to
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Masked Hero

How Wu Lien-teh Invented the Mask That Ended an Epidemic

by Dr. Shan Woo Liu, Kaili Liu Gormley ...

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**“Mother and daughter coauthors, both descendants of their subject, trace the course of Wu’s career. … Chockablock with timely themes and connections to recent world-shaking events.”—**Kirkus ReviewsMore than a hundred years before Covid, a deadly pneumonic plague threatened to sweep through Northeast China. Medical experts were summoned to help contain it—among them Wu Lien-teh, who had overcome ... Read more

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**“Mother and daughter coauthors, both descendants of their subject, trace the course of Wu’s career. … Chockablock with timely themes and connections to recent world-shaking events.”—**Kirkus ReviewsMore than a hundred years before Covid, a deadly pneumonic plague threatened to sweep through Northeast China. Medical experts were summoned to help contain it—among them Wu Lien-teh, who had overcome
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陌上飛花昔人非《卷6》(完)

Farewell, My Princess

by 時起雲 ...

Series Book 6 - 陌上飛花昔人非（電子書共六冊）
▌文案：莫衛下詔召莫曦回大靖述職，此去長路迢迢充滿危機與變數。為了能夠順利回到山丹，莫曦利用鬼軍假扮北韃在大靖邊疆滋擾，並說服流亡的大瑠王留予凡前往苗黔尋找前宰相元君渡共謀復國。然而，莫曦一回到大靖便遭遇暗殺。他將計就計自請前往北韃平亂，打定主意再也不回大靖，莫衛卻派他到大瑠就藩與大瑠王一戰。而齊熙回嵐都的路上遭人奇襲，整支隊伍憑空失蹤。獲知消息的莫曦決定就藩，並藉由東引川回元齊找尋齊熙。豈知這一切都是連環計，帝王心術萬般詭譎，要你求生不得，求死不能。所謂的真相與謊言虛虛實實，導致莫曦與齊熙重逢後卻必須兵刃相向。決裂的兩人要如何做才能相守，抑或是這輩子就這樣天各一方，再不相見？？ ... Read more

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▌文案：莫衛下詔召莫曦回大靖述職，此去長路迢迢充滿危機與變數。為了能夠順利回到山丹，莫曦利用鬼軍假扮北韃在大靖邊疆滋擾，並說服流亡的大瑠王留予凡前往苗黔尋找前宰相元君渡共謀復國。然而，莫曦一回到大靖便遭遇暗殺。他將計就計自請前往北韃平亂，打定主意再也不回大靖，莫衛卻派他到大瑠就藩與大瑠王一戰。而齊熙回嵐都的路上遭人奇襲，整支隊伍憑空失蹤。獲知消息的莫曦決定就藩，並藉由東引川回元齊找尋齊熙。豈知這一切都是連環計，帝王心術萬般詭譎，要你求生不得，求死不能。所謂的真相與謊言虛虛實實，導致莫曦與齊熙重逢後卻必須兵刃相向。決裂的兩人要如何做才能相守，抑或是這輩子就這樣天各一方，再不相見？？
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Harry Grows Up

The Early Years of Lee Kuan Yew

by Patrick Yee ...

Series Book 2 - Harry Lee
-- 2nd Prize Winner of Popular Readers' Choice Awards 2015, English (Children) Category --Harry Grows Up is the second book in the series of picture books about the life of Singapore’s remarkable leader, Lee Kuan Yew. In the first book, A Boy Named Harry, young readers learn what it was like for him to grow up in British-ruled Singapore. In this book, Harry is now a teenager, eager to start ... Read more

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-- 2nd Prize Winner of Popular Readers' Choice Awards 2015, English (Children) Category --Harry Grows Up is the second book in the series of picture books about the life of Singapore’s remarkable leader, Lee Kuan Yew. In the first book, A Boy Named Harry, young readers learn what it was like for him to grow up in British-ruled Singapore. In this book, Harry is now a teenager, eager to start
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The Mauritanian (originally published as Guantánamo Diary)

by Larry Siems ...

The "profound and disturbing" national bestseller written by a Guantánamo prisoner—now a major feature film starring Tahar Rahim and Jodie Foster ( The New York Times Book Review).When The Mauritanian was first published as Guantánamo Diary in 2015—heavily redacted by the U.S. government—Mohamedou Ould Slahi was still imprisoned at the detainee camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, despite a federal court ... Read more

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The "profound and disturbing" national bestseller written by a Guantánamo prisoner—now a major feature film starring Tahar Rahim and Jodie Foster ( The New York Times Book Review).When The Mauritanian was first published as Guantánamo Diary in 2015—heavily redacted by the U.S. government—Mohamedou Ould Slahi was still imprisoned at the detainee camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, despite a federal court
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They Can't Kill Us All

Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement

by Wesley Lowery ...

A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it.Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery ... Read more

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A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it.Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery
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Austerity

The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy

by Kerry-anne Mendoza ...

For the last five years, Britain has been under the hammer of Austerity’. In its name, wages have been frozen, benefits have been slashed and public spending squeezed. The pain of a financial crisis caused by bankers and speculators has been borne by ordinary people all over the country and by the poor and disabled most of all. ... Read more

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For the last five years, Britain has been under the hammer of Austerity’. In its name, wages have been frozen, benefits have been slashed and public spending squeezed. The pain of a financial crisis caused by bankers and speculators has been borne by ordinary people all over the country and by the poor and disabled most of all.
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Negro with a Hat: Marcus Garvey

by Colin Grant ...

Discover the definitive biography of Marcus Garvey'Grant is an accomplished storyteller and writes with an elegance leavened by wit and cynicism that makes this book eminently readable' GuardianAt one time during the first half of the twentieth century, Marcus Garvey was the most famous black man on the planet. Hailed as both the 'black Moses' and merely 'a Negro with a hat', he masterminded the ... Read more

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Discover the definitive biography of Marcus Garvey'Grant is an accomplished storyteller and writes with an elegance leavened by wit and cynicism that makes this book eminently readable' GuardianAt one time during the first half of the twentieth century, Marcus Garvey was the most famous black man on the planet. Hailed as both the 'black Moses' and merely 'a Negro with a hat', he masterminded the
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Covering

The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights

by Kenji Yoshino ...

A lyrical memoir that identifies the pressure to conform as a hidden threat to our civil rights, drawing on the author’s life as a gay Asian American man and his career as an acclaimed legal scholar.“[Kenji] Yoshino offers his personal search for authenticity as an encouragement for everyone to think deeply about the ways in which all of us have covered our true selves. . . . We really do feel ... Read more

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A lyrical memoir that identifies the pressure to conform as a hidden threat to our civil rights, drawing on the author’s life as a gay Asian American man and his career as an acclaimed legal scholar.“[Kenji] Yoshino offers his personal search for authenticity as an encouragement for everyone to think deeply about the ways in which all of us have covered our true selves. . . . We really do feel
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Captive Genders

Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

Edited by Nat Smith, Eric A. Stanley ...

While other titles have explored gender in the context of the American prison population, Captive Genders is the first book to explicitly examine self-identified trans-folk and gender-queer individuals inside US prisons.Composed largely of first-hand accounts of the policing of trans and gender-queer folks, this book is suitable for readers in the GLBTQ community, as well as for readers who are ... Read more

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While other titles have explored gender in the context of the American prison population, Captive Genders is the first book to explicitly examine self-identified trans-folk and gender-queer individuals inside US prisons.Composed largely of first-hand accounts of the policing of trans and gender-queer folks, this book is suitable for readers in the GLBTQ community, as well as for readers who are
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