Shen: 167 books

« Découvrez le sulfureux prequel de Vicious et (re)tombez sous le charme de Jamie ! » Sulfurous. Si Mel devait qualifier Jaime Followhill, c’est sans nul doute l’adjectif qu’elle utiliserait. Car Jaime est aussi séduisant que dangereux : fils de la proviseure d’All Saints High,...

You wouldn't expect Nate and Charlie to be friends. Charlie's the laid-back captain of the basketball team, and Nate is the neurotic, scheming president of the robotics club. But they are friends, however unlikely—until Nate declares war on the cheerleaders. At stake is funding that will either...

Aphra Behn, first female professional writer. Sojourner Truth, activist and abolitionist. Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer. Marie Curie, first woman to win the Nobel Prize. Joan Jett, godmother of punk. The 100 revolutionary women highlighted in this gorgeously illustrated book were bad in...

From spoons to bullets to sterling coins, silver permeates our everyday culture and language. For millennia we’ve used it to buy what we need, adorn our bodies, or trumpet our social status, and likewise it’s been useful to vanquish werewolves, vampires, and even our own smelly socks.  This book...

Recollections of Western Hunan is a collection of the letters and essays of Chinese novelist Shen Congwen. Describing his childhood and life in Western Hunan between 1902 and 1937, this collection paints a vivid picture of both the idyllic beauty and turmoil of life in a province once known as the “bandit area,” a countryside shrouded in mystery, mysticism, and chaos.

This remarkable true story of a Chinese peasant girl’s unlikely rise to success is “like a suspense novel . . . Impossible to put down”(Library Journal, starred review). Aisling Juanjuan Shen was born to illiterate peasants in a tiny farming hamlet in China’s Yangtze Delta in 1974....

In this book, Korean multinational enterprises management strategies in China are analyzed. China is re centering Asia around its newfound economic might, even as neighboring countries such as Japan and Korea will remain more economically developed for generations to come. How do Asian companies adapt...

Based on Chinese archival documents, interviews, and more than twenty years of research on the subject, Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia offer a comprehensive look at the Sino-Soviet alliance between the end of the World War II and 1959, when the alliance was left in disarray as a result of foreign and...

This study provides an up-to-date empirical account of Chinese female judges within the context of the Chinese legal system and wider society, revealing a deeper understanding of women in contemporary China. Shen explores the gendered nature of judging in post-Mao China by examining: who female judges...

Analyzing contemporary Chinese literature, film, and television, Shen shows the significance of nationalism for the mass imagination in post-socialist China. Chapters move from the intellectual idealism of the 1980s, through the post-Tiananmen transition, to the national cinema of the 1990s, and finally to the Internet literature of today.

Five delightful bedtime stories ideal for young, first time readers. Caring and sharing are the values espoused by the author, Kao Shen, whose quaint fairy tales were originally released on audio tape in London during the 1960's. In an otherwise desperate world, these animal friendly stories...

Vielleicht wird unsere Liebe mich heilen. Vielleicht wird sie mich aber auch endgültig zerstören. Alles, was ich weiß, ist: Ich bin bereit, das Risiko einzugehen. Seit drei Jahren versucht Jesse Carter vor allem eins: zu vergessen. Doch die Erinnerungen an diese eine Nacht, in der sie alles verloren...

Sie darf ihn nicht lieben - denn er ist ihr Schüler! Als Melody Greens größter Traum - eine Karriere als Tänzerin - wegen eines schweren Unfalls platzt, hat sie keine Wahl: Sie muss den Job als Lehrerin an einer Elite-High-School annehmen, auch wenn es das Letzte ist, worauf sie Lust hat. Niemals...

Sie sind skrupellos, sexy, böse und verboten - aber es ist unmöglich, ihnen nicht zu verfallen Trent Rexroth ist kalkuliert und skrupellos. Einzig seine vierjährige Tochter Luna erwärmt sein kaltes Herz. Doch seit ihre Mutter vor drei Jahren sang- und klanglos aus ihrem Leben verschwand, spricht...