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  • What They Meant for Evil

    How a Lost Girl of Sudan Found Healing, Peace, and Purpose in the Midst of Suffering

    by Rebecca Deng ...
    Many stories have been told about the famous Lost Boys but now, for the first time, a Lost Girl shares her hauntingly beautiful and inspiring story.One of the first unaccompanied refugee children to enter the United States in 2000, after South Sudan's second civil war took the lives of most of her family, Rebecca's story begins in the late 1980s when, at the age of four, her village was attacked ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Talking It Out

    by Deng ...
    First published in 2006. The innovative work by Francis Deng, the noted scholar, diplomat, legal expert and author, moves the study of negotiation out of the limited traditional context of industrial relations and resituates it in the broader arena of negotiating human relations, drawing on his childhood experiences, inter-racial and cross-cultural encounters at home and abroad, and incidents from ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Translating Global Policy into Local Reality

    Key Competencies-Based Education Reform in China

    by Li Deng ...
    This book analyses the global diffusion of key competencies-based education (CBE) as a “global education policy” (GEP), focusing on China’s process of adoption and adaptation.Based on a six-year empirical study combining interviews, observations, and document analysis, it examines how national and local actors interpret, modify, and resist CBE. Constructing and applying a four-stage framework for ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Customary Law in the Modern World

    The Crossfire of Sudan's War of Identities

    by Francis Deng ...
    Customary Law in the Modern World is the study of a coherent and well-established legal system, which is now operating in the context of a modern nation-state and therefore poised between remaining relevant and the threat of marginalization.Focusing on Sudan, the author places customary law in its historical and cultural context, analyzing the fundamental and traditional values that underlie ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Erhu Sings

    by Sally Deng ...
    Illustrated by Sally Deng ...
    In this gentle and poignant picture book about the power of music and the beauty of sad songs, a young boy copes with his cousin moving away with the help of his grandfather and the erhu—a Chinese instrument known for its mournful sound.One lonely evening, YeYe tries to cheer up Danny with music from his erhu. Danny’s interest is piqued—he’s never heard an erhu before. But the erhu cries one ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Warrior Princess: The Story of Khutulun

    by Sally Deng ...
    An empowering and informative picture book biography about Khutulun, the great-great granddaughter of Genghis Khan, and how she defied the expectations of her time to become commander of the Khan’s army.Just like the fourteen brothers that came before her, Khutulun, princess of her tribe, learned from an early age how to ride horseback, shoot arrows at full gallop and, most importantly, to wrestle ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Handbook of Face Recognition

    Edited by Stan Z. Li, Anil K. Jain, Jiankang Deng ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    The history of computer-aided face recognition dates to the 1960s, yet the problem of automatic face recognition – a task that humans perform routinely and effortlessly in our daily lives – still poses great challenges, especially in unconstrained conditions.This highly anticipated new edition provides a comprehensive account of face recognition research and technology, spanning the full range of ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Disturbed in Their Nests

    A Journey from Sudan’s Dinkaland to San Diego’s City Heights

    by Alephonsion Deng, Judy A. Bernstein ...
    Nineteen-year-old refugee Alephonsion Deng, from war-ravaged Sudan, had great expectations when he arrived in America three weeks before two planes crashed into the World Trade Towers. Money, he’d been told, was given to you in pillows. Machines did all the work. Education was free.Suburban mom Judy Bernstein had her own assumptions. The teenaged “Lost Boys of Sudan”—who’d traveled barefoot and ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Differential Equations and Control Theory

    Edited by Z. Deng, Z. Liang, G. Lu, S. Ruan ...
    Series series Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics
    This work presents the proceedings from the International Conference on Differential Equations and Control Theory, held recently in Wuhan, China. It provides an overview of current developments in a range of topics including dynamical systems, optimal control theory, stochastic control, chaos, fractals, wavelets and ordinary, partial, functional and stochastic differential equations. ... Read more

    $305.00 USD

  • Mapping China's Growth And Development In The Long Run, 221 Bc To 2020

    by Kent Deng ...
    The narrative of China's history in this book is 'theme-led' rather than conventionally chronicle-based. It covers China's resource endowments, historical contingencies (such as civil wars, invasions and climate changes) and ideologies (including Legalism, Confucianism, Social Darwinism, nationalism, and Marx-Stalinism) that shaped the particular path of growth and development in China over two ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Ex-wife, Don't Be Too Poisonous

    Volume 1

    by Deng Deng, Fancy Novel ...
    Series Book 1 - Volume 1
    She was a talented new photographer, with an impressive figure and beautiful face. She was the goddess of all men, but also the abandoned wife of a mother.The news had turned her from the Cinderella that everyone envied to the hundreds of millions of abandoned wives.But why was the ex-husband who had so cruelly abandoned her still pestering her? He would always try to prevent her from falling in ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Don't Look Back

    A Memoir of War, Survival, and My Journey from Sudan to America

    by Achut Deng, Keely Hutton ...
    Narrated by Nedra Marie Taylor ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 37 min

    In this propulsive memoir from Achut Deng and Keely Hutton, inspired by a harrowing New York Times article, Don't Look Back tells a powerful story showing both the ugliness and the beauty of humanity, and the power of not giving up.I want life.After a deadly attack in South Sudan left six-year-old Achut Deng without a family, she lived in refugee camps for ten years, until a refugee relocation ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook