China: 76 books

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE SEATTLE TIMES, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.   When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. To investigate,...

By the eve of the Civil War, there were four million slaves in North America, and Harrison County was the largest slave-owning county in Texas. So when China Galland returned to research her family history there, it should not have surprised her to learn of unmarked cemeteries for slaves. "My...

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When Frank, Shelley and their two young children move into the home of their dreams, they discover a problem with the cellar. It doesn't take them long to find out why the house was sold at a knock-down price.

Un thriller bélico sobre un cataclismo surrealista que nunca existió. Una novela sobre cómo sobrevivir en una ciudad imposible. China Miéville hace que se crucen hechos y personajes reales, reconfigurando la historia y el arte en algo completamente nuevo. Marsella, 1941. En el caos...

La metrópolis de Nueva Crobuzon se extiende desde el centro del mundo. Humanos, mutantes y razas arcanas malviven en la penumbra bajo sus chimeneas, donde el río se torna viscoso por los afluentes artificiales, donde las fábricas y fundiciones amartillan la noche. Durante más de mil años, el...

In this collection of essays written by the former head of the Library of Congress Chinese Collection, Chi Wang chronicles the modest beginnings of the Chinese Collection at the Library of Congress and his crusade to transform it into the largest collection and Chinese cultural presence outside Asia. For...

This text provides higher education teachers with an overview of the many approaches to setting, marking and reviewing coursework, assignments, tests and examinations used in programmes for certificates, diplomas, first degrees or higher degrees. It discusses the influence of each on students.

Gratification widened her face. Bubbles enclosed a twisting doll pulled by a case compressing eyes and ears sinking further in darkness.

The second edition of this popular text systematically addresses all aspects of treatment of infertility using Chinese medicine. Clinically focused and with a new easy-to-navigate design, the book begins by covering all the essential fundamentals you will need to understand and treat infertility,...

This approaches the variants here, “Honestly Speaking’’ a possible common preface to a lie thus avoiding its phrase in all communications,” while parallel universes and eternal return the opposite occurs.

“Other names besides [Herman] Melville’s will surely come to mind as you read this thrilling tale—there’s Dune’s Frank Herbert. . . . But in this, as in all of his works, Miéville has that special knack for evoking other writers even while making the story wholly his own.”—Los Angeles...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak. Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown...