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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

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Optimizing Decision Making in the Apparel Supply Chain Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)

    From Production to Retail

    by S Y S Leung, Z. X. Guo, Calvin Wong ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles
    Practitioners in apparel manufacturing and retailing enterprises in the fashion industry, ranging from senior to front line management, constantly face complex and critical decisions. There has been growing interest in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to enhance this process, and a number of AI techniques have already been successfully applied to apparel production and retailing. ... Read more

    $181.59 CAD

  • 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

  • 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

  • Multiscale Materials Modelling

    Fundamentals and Applications

    Edited by Z. X. Guo ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering
    Multiscale materials modelling offers an integrated approach to modelling material behaviour across a range of scales from the electronic, atomic and microstructural up to the component level. As a result, it provides valuable new insights into complex structures and their properties, opening the way to develop new, multi-functional materials together with improved process and product designs. ... Read more

    $243.19 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

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • You May Not Be Incurable

    You've Been Misguided

    by Baoye Guo, Hangyu Guo ...
    This book challenges the conventional concept of "disease" and argues that humanity's persistent failure to overcome illness stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of life itself. The authors propose a paradigm shift called ReVitalization, which reframes illness not as pathology, but as a collapse of life's instinctual self-restorative system.Rather than treating symptoms or relying on ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • You May Not Be Incurable

    by Baoye Guo, Hangyu Guo ...
    This book challenges the conventional concept of "disease" and argues that humanity's persistent failure to overcome illness stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of life itself. The authors propose a paradigm shift called ReVitalization, which reframes illness not as pathology, but as a collapse of life's instinctual self-restorative system.Rather than treating symptoms or relying on ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Fashion Supply Chain Management Using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technologies

    Edited by Z. X. Guo, Calvin Wong ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles
    Fashion Supply Chain Management Using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technologies looks at the application of RFID technologies in such areas as order allocation, garment manufacturing, product tracking, distribution and retail. As supply chains in the textiles and fashion industry become ever more complex and global, and as the shift to mass customization puts more pressure on a rapid and ... Read more

    $181.99 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

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Principles of Reinforced Concrete

    by Zhenhai Guo ...
    Principle of Reinforced Concrete introduces the main properties of structural concrete and its mechanical behavior under various conditions as well as all aspects of the combined function of reinforcement and concrete. Based on the experimental investigation, the variation regularity of mechanical behavior, working mechanism, and calculation method are presented for the structural member under ... Read more

    $131.19 CAD