Li: 1151 books
The Engaged Leader
A Strategy for Your Digital Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
NYT and WSJ bestselling author Charlene Li guides business leaders deeper than ever before into the uncomfortable and ever-changing terrain of the digital era
Technology has revolutionized the very idea and nature of relationships between leaders and their followers. Yet, many leaders remain...
Voices from the Vietnam War
Stories from American, Asian, and Russian Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The Vietnam War's influence on politics, foreign policy, and subsequent military campaigns is the center of much debate and analysis. But the impact on veterans across the globe, as well as the war's effects on individual lives and communities, is a largely neglected issue. As a consequence of cultural...
Does the 21st Century Belong to China?
The Munk Debate on China
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Is China's rise unstoppable? Powered by the human capital of 1.3 billion citizens, the latest technological advances, and a comparatively efficient system of state-directed capitalism, China seems poised to become the global superpower this century. But the Middle Kingdom also faces a series of challenges....
by Li-Young Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory, family, culture and history. In language as simple and powerful as the human muscle, these poems work...
The Winged Seed
A Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
"It has true spiritual importance for contemporary American literature."-Edward Hirsch
Upon its initial publication, acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee's memoir The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (1995), received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. In lyrical prose, Lee's...
Blockbuster Drugs
The Rise and Decline of the Pharmaceutical Industry
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
For the world's largest prescription drug manufacturers, the last few years have been a harrowing time. Recently, Pfizer's Lipitor, GlaxoSmithKline's Advair, AstraZeneca's Seroquel, and Sanofi-Aventis and Bristol-Myers Squibb's Plavix all came off patent in the crucial U.S. market. This so-called...
The Will to Improve
Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2007
The Will to Improve is a remarkable account of development in action. Focusing on attempts to improve landscapes and livelihoods in Indonesia, Tania Murray Li carefully exposes the practices that enable experts to diagnose problems and devise interventions, and the agency of people whose conduct is...
China and East Asian Strategic Dynamics
The Shaping of a New Regional Order
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
China and East Asian Strategic Dynamics: the Shaping of a New Regional Order, edited by Mingjiang Li and Dongmin Lee, examines how China's remarkable economic growth and its proactive diplomatic efforts in recent years have not only shored up its importance in global issues, but also induced a transformation...
Myth of the Stone
20th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Selected by the National University of Singapore Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences as one of 85 Landmark Books A curious young boy opens a door and is thrust into the Architrave, a fantastical, fractured world upheld by four Columns. Arriving as the Great Gateway War draws to a start, Li-Hsu...
Poems of Mao Zedong in Chinese and English
Poems of Chairman Mao of China
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
“Poems of Chairman Mao Zedong” as translated to English by Dr. Li Zhengshuan are now available. Erwin Sniedzins, President, TORONTO EDUCATION PRESS stated that; “There is a long history of warm friendship between Canada and China especially with Dr. Norm Bethune, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Jean...
A Backpack and a Bit of Luck
Stories of a Traveller with No Sense of Direction
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
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Since she fled in terror from an earthworm on the workbench of her biology lab, Zhang Su Li has found herself at various crossroads in life. Her penchant for travelling and talking to strangers may have begun when, as a schoolgirl, she met an old British chap who was posted...
by Eva Di Cesare, Sandra Eldridge, Li Cunxin
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
This extraordinary play for young people is an adaptation of Li Cunxin’s picture book The Peasant Prince—the true story of Mao’s Last Dancer. Adapted by Monkey Baa, Australia’s leading theatre company for young audiences, The Peasant Prince has toured nationally, performing to tens of thousands...
by Kay Li
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This book explores the cultural bridges connecting George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, such as Charles Dickens and Arthur Miller, to China. Analyzing readings, adaptations, and connections of Shaw in China through the lens of Chinese culture, Li details the negotiations between the focused...
Power versus Law in Modern China
Cities, Courts, and the Communist Party
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Today 700 million Chinese citizens -- more than fifty-four percent of the population -- live in cities. The mass migration of rural populations to urban centers increased rapidly following economic reforms of the 1990s, and serious problems such as overcrowding, lack of health services, and substandard...