Li: 1151 books
by Hua-Yu Li
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
In the first systematic study of its kind, Hua-yu Li tackles one of the most important unresolved mysteries of the early history of the People's Republic of China_the economic policy shift of 1953. As a result of this policy shift, the moderate economic policies of 'New Democracy' were abruptly terminated_much...
by Naja Li
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
Using a form of knowing made popular by Neale Donald Walsch, Naja Li's unique insight stands outside all religious and philosophical traditions. This book is dedicated to those who wish to have a peaceful death and offers a rare insight into what lies beyond.
The first part of the book builds...
Unearthing Conflict
Corporate Mining, Activism, and Expertise in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2015
In Unearthing Conflict Fabiana Li analyzes the aggressive expansion and modernization of mining in Peru since the 1990s to tease out the dynamics of mining-based protests. Issues of water scarcity and pollution, the loss of farmland, and the degradation of sacred land are especially contentious. She...
The Father of Non-Han Chinese Linguistics Li Fang-Kuei
A Pioneer in the Study of Minority Languages in China
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
What is linguistics? What does a linguist do? . . . He studies the way people speak. . . . What! Thats ridiculous? Who does not know how to speak except a deaf-mute? What is there to study? Li Fang-Kuei, one of the foremost Chinese linguists in the world, encountered the skepticism of his prospective...
by Yaobin Chen, Lingxi Li
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Advances in Intelligent Vehicles presents recent advances in intelligent vehicle technologies that enhance the safety, reliability, and performance of vehicles and vehicular networks and systems. This book provides readers with up-to-date research results and cutting-edge technologies in the area...
Extracting Physics from Gravitational Waves
Testing the Strong-field Dynamics of General Relativity and Inferring the Large-scale Structure of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
Tjonnie Li's thesis covers two applications of Gravitational Wave astronomy: tests of General Relativity in the strong-field regime and cosmological measurements. The first part of the thesis focuses on the so-called TIGER, i.e. Test Infrastructure for General Relativity, an innovative Bayesian...
by Arne Lißewski, Michael Suckow, Joachim Albers
Language: German
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Language: German
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Ihr Rechtsberater in Sachen Steuervergehen Finanzämter werten Steuer-CDs mit gestohlenen Daten aus, provozieren reihenweise Selbstanzeigen und zudem wird das Steuerstrafrecht ständig verändert– Ermittlungen wegen Steuerhinterziehung betreffen Prominente ebenso wie Bürger. In diesem Ratgeber...
Red Scarf Girl
A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Publishers Weekly Best Book * ALA Best Book for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children's Book * ALA Booklist Editors' Choice
Moving, honest, and deeply personal, Red Scarf Girl is the incredible true story of one girl’s courage and determination during one of the most terrifying eras of the...
Gracieuse dans ce désert
quinze nouvelles, traduites par Michel Volkovitch
Language: French
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Zyrànna Zatèli apparaît en 1984, à trente-trois ans, avec La fiancée de l’an passé, recueil de neuf nouvelles visiblement autobiographiques, où dès la première page elle crée son monde et ensorcelle ses lecteurs. Deux ans plus tard, elle donne un second recueil, Gracieuse dans ce désert,...
De zoetzure smaak van dromen
het familieverhaal achter een Chinees restaurant
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 5, 2016
‘De zoetzure smaak van dromen’ van Sun Li (1980) beschrijft het familieverhaal achter een Chinees restaurant. De ouders van Sun Li komen in 1980 naar Nederland, met lege zakken en vijf kinderen. Zij openen een Chinees restaurant in Friesland en het hele gezin helpt mee, maar tegelijkertijd worden...
Daughter of Heaven
A Memoir with Earthly Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
In this powerful, touching memoir of a critically acclaimed Chinese-American writer, taste becomes the keeper of memory and food the keeper of culture when Nai-nai, her extraordinary grandmother, arrives from mainland China.
Leslie Li’s paternal grandfather, Li Zogren, was China’s first...
Land's End
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania Murray Li offers an intimate account of the emergence of capitalist relations among indigenous highlanders who privatized their common land to plant a boom crop, cacao. Spurred by the hope of ending their poverty and isolation,...
by Li Feng
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
'Deeply moving story of self-sacrifice and pride' - Jennifer Byrne, Australian Women's Weekly
One family's epic tale of survival in tumultuous twentieth-century China.
Li Feng grew up in Mao's communist China with her mother's motto burning in her ears - Success demands two things: unconditional...
by Indalecio Liévano Aguirre
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Este el es el segundo y último de dos sobresalientes tomos de la historia de Colombia escritos por el jurista, diplomático, académico e historiador colombiano Indalecio Liévano Aguirre. En los últimos 16 capítulos de su formidable obra, Liévano Aguirre describió las luchas intestinas entre...