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The people in the United States are experiencing an extreme degree of division, political partisanship, and civic disorder. Destructive fights are waged about matters such as misinformation, voting rights, school curriculum, government spending, and...

'A daring collection written in response to lockdown' Alison MacLeod 'A collection that reminds us what it is to be human. A book for right now' , Angela Readman '18 well-chosen stories, loosely based on the idea of solitude, explore loss, loneliness and...

Step into a story of life and love in Kyoto's 10th century royal court.Tale of Genji, the world's oldest known novel, tells the story of Prince Genji and his adventures in life, love, and power within the halls of the Chrysanthemum Royal Court. Handsome,...

State-of-the-art algorithmic deep learning and tensoring techniques for financial institutions The computational demand of risk calculations in financial institutions has ballooned and shows no sign of stopping. It is no longer viable to simply add more...

One of India's greatest epics, the Ramayana pervades the country's moral and cultural consciousness. For generations it has served as a bedtime story for Indian children, while at the same time engaging the interest of philosophers and theologians...

The basic writings of Chuang Tzu have been savored by Chinese readers for over two thousand years. And Burton Watson's lucid and beautiful translation has been loved by generations of readers. Chuang Tzu (369?-286? B.C.) was a leading philosopher...

According to most of the media, the left and the political establishment, Donald Trump was a racist, sexist, dangerous man who debased the office of US President, embarrassed his country and brought it to the brink of civil war. Throughout his...

Winner, 2024 Patrick D. Hanan Prize for Translation, Association for Asian StudiesIn the first half of the eighteenth century, rival dynasties of Naqshbandi Sufi shaykhs vied for influence in the Tarim Basin, part of present-day Xinjiang. In the 1750s,...

The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. The Misadventures of Master Mugwort: A Joke Book...

A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio HearnLafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was one of the nineteenth century's best-known writers, his name celebrated...

Effective persuasion is an art; an art which can be learned and perfected with practice and insight into human behaviour. This innovative book, written for lawyers and those interested in the science of persuasion in a legal setting, is the first to...

Kyokutei Bakin's Nanso Satomi hakkenden is one of the monuments of Japanese literature. This multigenerational samurai saga was one of the most popular and influential books of the nineteenth century and has been adapted many times into film, television,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793542123Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Romantic criticism, of which Shakespeare is the central figure, invented many of the modes of modern criticism. It is also distinct from many contemporary academic norms. Engaged with the social and intellectual currents of an age of revolutionary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781292393469Author Carolyn BarracloughImprint Pearson Education LimitedPublisher Pearson Education Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781705141427Author David FrangioniFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Modern DrummerPublisher Modern DrummerWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 302mm * 224mm...

A Tour of Computer Science Concepts provides students with a solid foundational knowledge base within the discipline of computer science.The opening chapter offers readers a concise overview of computer history, including the development of computers and...

On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations, the world has faced its biggest shared test since the Second World War in the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Yet while our welfare, and indeed the permanence of human life, depend on us...

The Best Jobs in the Music Industry is an essential career guide for those who love music and are exploring different areas of the music industry beyond the obvious performer route. This second edition includes updates and even more interviews, giving a...

This expansive collection explores the complexities of decolonization and indigenization of post-secondary institutions. Seeking to advance critical scholarship on issues including the place of Indigenous epistemologies, knowledges, curriculum, and...

Greek Literature and the Ideal contends that the development of Greek literature was motivated by the need to endow political geography with a sense of purposeful structure. Alexander Kirichenko argues that Greek literature was a crucial factor in the...

When we think of counterterrorism we often think of coercive measures, including expanded policing powers, extraordinary rendition, increased jail sentences, and no-fly lists. Yet, several countries also use surprisingly "soft" methods to deal with the...

Torts in New Zealand: Cases and Materials is the principal introductory torts casebook in New Zealand. Now in its sixth edition, this popular textbook has been updated to reflect legislative changes in New Zealand tort law and includes new cases and...

FOSSILS AND STRATA Number 66 * August 2021 ISSN 0024-1164Book InformationISBN 9781119781875Author Leonid E. PopovFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Wiley-BlackwellPublisher John Wiley and Sons LtdWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 213mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925860795Author John LesleyFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Redback PublishingPublisher Redback Publishing

Through the keen eyes and curious mind of a young girl, Ying-tzu, we are given a glimpse into the adult world of Peking in the 1920s.The five sequential stories in this collection can be read as either stand-alone pieces, or as a novel, due to the...

Narayana's best-seller gives its reader much more than "Friendly Advice." In one handy collection-closely related to the world-famous Pancatantra or Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom -numerous animal fables are interwoven with human stories, all designed...

Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work, sponsored by the Modern Language AssociationAn anthology of literary gems compiled in early China, newly translated and annotatedIn 17 BCE the Han dynasty archivist Liu...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781441339850Author Sun TzuFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Peter Pauper PressPublisher Peter Pauper PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 119mm...

How to Read a Japanese Poem offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditional Japanese poetry of all genres and periods. Steven D. Carter explains to Anglophone students the methods of composition and literary interpretation used by Japanese...

The Mongols, their khans, and the empire they built and ruled in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries exert an enduring fascination. Caricatured as a marauding horde that ravaged surrounding peoples, in reality the Mongols created institutions,...

Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside of Japan encountered Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have...

The greatest classic of Sindhi literature presented here in an authoritative and vivid modern English translation.Shah Abdul Latif's Risalo is acknowledged across Pakistan and the wider diaspora as the greatest classic of Sindhi literature. In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642361117Author Neil ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Clarkesworld BooksPublisher Clarkesworld BooksWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Three senior civil servants are dead or missing. As their brief is management of the deadly Virus, Bernard, Mona and the rest of the hard-pressed Health Enforcement Team are fighting not just a pandemic, but government secrets.Full UK marketing campaign...

Sources show Qu Yuan (?340-278 BCE) was the first person in China to become famous for his poetry, so famous in fact that the Chinese celebrate his life with a national holiday called Poet's Day, or the Dragon Boat Festival. His work, which forms the...

In this timely book, three noted fashion historians examine the global transformations in the fashion industry today, and identify the challenges of the future. Since the dawn of designer fashion at the beginning of the 20th century, the role and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479598380Author Michael DahlPage Count 24Imprint Picture Window BooksPublisher Capstone Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802150950Author Donald KeeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Grove PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressWeight(grams) 499g

Due to their popularity with the American counterculture, the poems attributed to Hanshan, Shide and Fenggan have been translated several times in recent decades. However, previous translations have either been broadly popular in nature or have failed to...