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  • Records of the Lands South of Mount Hua

    華陽國志

    by Chang Qu, Arthur Peng ...
    Records of the Lands South of Mount Hua (華陽國志)This landmark regional chronicle was penned by Chang Qú (常璩), a fourth-century native of ancient Shu (modern Sichuan). Chang’s only surviving major work, the text documents over a millennium of history covering Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, Guizhou, southern Shaanxi and Gansu. The title translates to “Records of the Regions South of Hua Mountain”, as ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Multicultural Curriculum Transformation in Literacy and Language Arts

    by Jeannette Driscoll Alarcón, Benjamin Francisco, Dara Nix-Stevenson, Laura Shelton, Amy Tondreau, Laurie Rabinowitz, Vicki Sherbert, Eileen Montalvo Wertzberger, Ernestina Wiafe, Merida Lang, Molly Sherman, Rhianna Henry, Aja E. LaDuke, Alexandra Porrata, Kristen R. Strom, Sharon Chang, Yaojia Qu, Socorro García-Alvarado, Alisun Thompson, Judith A. Scott, Tricia Gallagher-Geurtsen, Melody Andrews, Brittany Goldsby, Christine Beaudry ...
    Series series Foundations of Multicultural Education
    This book focuses on multicultural curriculum transformation in literacy and language arts subject areas. The discussion of each area outlines critical considerations for multicultural curriculum transformation for the area by grade level and then by eight organizing tools, including content standards, relationships with and among students and their families, and evaluation of student learning and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Optical Fiber Sensors

    by Zujie Fang, Ken Chin, Ronghui Qu, Haiwen Cai, Kai Chang ...
    Series Book 226 - Wiley Series in Microwave and Optical Engineering
    This book describes the latest development in optical fiber devices, and their applications to sensor technology. Optical fiber sensors, an important application of the optical fiber, have experienced fast development, and attracted wide attentions in basic science as well as in practical applications. Sensing is often likened to human sense organs. Optical fiber can not only transport information ... Read more

    $113.00 USD

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  • 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

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  • To Rule All under Heaven

    A History of Classical China, from Confucius to the First Emperor

    by Andrew Seth Meyer ...
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  • Kingdoms in Peril

    A Novel of the Ancient Chinese World at War

    Series series World Literature in Translation
    This abridged edition introduces readers to the power and drama of the electrifying classic Chinese novel.One of the great works of Chinese literature, beloved in East Asia but virtually unknown in the West, Kingdoms in Peril is an epic historical novel charting the five hundred years leading to the unification of China under the rule of the legendary First Emperor. Writing some fourteen hundred ... Read more

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  • The Brilliant Reign of the Kangxi Emperor

    China's Qing Dynasty

    by Hung Hing Ming ...
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  • Records of the Grand Historian

    by Qian Sima ...
    Translated by Burton Watson ...
    This volume of the history of the Han dynasty consists of chapters dealing principally with the reign of Emperor Wu, one of the most energetic and strong-willed of China’s Rulers. Here the historian is chronicling events he has witnessed and writing of the men he personally knows or has known. In Nagano Hozan’s (1783-1837) words, He makes us see in our minds the character of the men of the time, ... Read more

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  • People Who Shaped China

    Stories from the history of the Middle Kingdom

    by New Epoch Weekly ...
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  • Ten States, Five Dynasties, One Great Emperor

    How Emperor Taizu Unified China in the Song Dynasty

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    Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Han to Liao

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