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  • Nine Continents

    A Memoir In and Out of China

    by Xiaolu Guo ...
    The acclaimed novelist's award-winning memoir of growing up in a remote Chinese fishing village is "a rich and insightful coming-of-age story" ( Kirkus).The acclaimed author of A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers and I Am China, Xiaolu Guo grew up an unwanted child in a poor fishing village on the East China Sea. But a Taoist monk made a startling prediction to her grandmother: that ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

    by Xiaolu Guo ...
    From one of our most important contemporary Chinese authors: a novel of language and love that tells one young Chinese woman's story of her journey to the West—and her attempts to understand the language, and the man, she adores. Zhuang—or “Z,” to tongue-tied foreigners—has come to London to study English, but finds herself adrift, trapped in a cycle of cultural gaffes and grammatical mishaps. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth

    A Novel

    by Xiaolu Guo ...
    The latest novel from Orange Prize finalist Xiaolu Guo is the enchantingly comic story of a young Chinese woman's life as a film extra in hyper-modern, tumultuous Beijing.Though twenty-one-year-old Fenfang Wang has traveled 1,800 miles to seek her fortune in urban Beijing, she is ill-prepared for what greets her: a Communist regime that has outworn its welcome, a city in slap-dash development, and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Lover's Discourse

    A Novel

    by Xiaolu Guo ...
    A story of desire, love, language, and the meaning of home set against the backdrop of Brexit London—from the award-winning author of Nine Continents.A Chinese woman moves from Beijing to London for a doctoral program—and to begin a new life—just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch. Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners, she meets a landscape architect and ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Silent Illumination

    A Chan Buddhist Path to Natural Awakening

    by Guo Gu ...
    Our natural awakening—or buddha-nature—is inherent within all of us and waiting to be realized. Buddha-nature has the qualities of both silence and illumination, and by working with silent illumination meditation you can find your own awakening. Distinguished Chan Buddhist teacher Guo Gu introduces you to the significance and methods of this practice through in-depth explanations and guided ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Call Me Ishmaelle

    by Xiaolu Guo ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors' Pick“Well worth your time . . . By adding in new characters while adhering to the original story, the author creates something new, strange and thrilling.”—Los Angeles Times“An astonishingly ambitious undertaking . . . you’re in the hands of a genuine storyteller.”—New York Times Book ReviewFrom the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning au... ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Physical Modelling in Geotechnics

    Proceedings of the International Conference ICPGM '02, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada. 10-12 July 2002

    Edited by P. Guo, R. Phillips, R. Popescu ...
    Papers cover topics including: physical modelling facilities; experimental advances; seismic experimental advances; education; soil behaviour; offshore systems; cold regions; geo-environment; dynamics; earthquake effects; and strategies for disaster reduction. ... Read more

    $735.19 CAD

  • Tell Me Who You Are

    Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, & Identity

    by Winona Guo, Priya Vulchi ...
    An eye-opening exploration of race in AmericaIn this deeply inspiring book, Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi recount their experiences talking to people from all walks of life about race and identity on a cross-country tour of America. Spurred by the realization that they had nearly completed high school without hearing any substantive discussion about racism in school, the two young women deferred ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering

    Synthetic Biology, Cell Engineering and Bioprocessing Technologies

    Edited by Ashok Pandey, Guocheng Du, Sudesh Kumar, Sudhir P. Singh ...
    Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Synthetic Biology, Cell Engineering and Bioprocessing Technologies covers the current perspectives and outlook of synthetic biology in the agriculture, food and health sectors. This book begins with the basics about synthetic biology and cell engineering, and then explores this in more detail, focusing on topics like applications of ... Read more

    $194.39 CAD

  • The Essence of Chan

    A Guide to Life and Practice according to the Teachings of Bodhidharma

    by Guo Gu ...
    Clear and illuminating commentary on one of Bodhidharma’s most important texts—designed to help Chan practitioners apply timeless and essential advice to their practiceLegend has it that more than a thousand years ago an Indian Buddhist monk named Bodhidharma arrived in China. His approach to teaching was unlike that of any of the Buddhist missionaries who had come to China before him. He ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction

    by Li Guo ...
    Series series Comparative Cultural Studies
    Women’s tanci, or “plucking rhymes,” are chantefable narratives written by upper-class educated women from seventeenth-century to early twentieth-century China. Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women’s Tanci Fiction offers a timely study on early modern Chinese women’s representations of gender, nation, and political activism in their tanci works before and after the Taiping Rebellion (1850 ... Read more

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  • Surgical Atlas of Functional Single Ventricle and Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome

    Edited by Bin Qiao, Zhong Min Liu, Yu Guo Weng, Ajit P. Yoganathan ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive surgical atlas of functional single ventricle and hypoplastic left heart syndrome, based on theoretical insights and a wealth of clinical practice. It offers anatomical morphology and descriptive texts, while also highlighting key aspects of each procedure.The book is divided into three major parts, the first two of which illustrate the procedures for the ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD