684 results for '"Sow-Hsin Chen'

The first exploration of the profound and often catastrophic impact the American Revolution had on the rest of the world. While the American Revolution led to domestic peace and liberty, it...

A beautifully jacketed hardcover selection of 53 darkly witty, whimsical, and macabre short stories by an acknowledged master of the form.Saki's dazzling tales manage the remarkable feat of being...

To cut dead means to refuse to acknowledge another with the intent to punish. Gregory Ellison says that this is the plight of African American young men. They are stigmatized with limited opportunity...

Winner of the 2025 New England Book Award for PoetryA major poet and literary critic leads an aesthetic adventure through poems about queer experience, by writers who identify as lesbian, gay,...

Few documents have had more of an impact on the course of history as has the Communist Manifesto. From its famous opening lines--"A specter is haunting Europe: the specter of Communism"--to its final...

We are inclined to see terrorist attacks as an aberration, a violent incursion into our lives that bears no intrinsic relation to the fundamental features of modern societies. But does this view...

This volume of essays was generated by the Taiwan 2002 Conference on the History of Painting in East Asia convened October 4-7, 2002, at National Taiwan University, Taipei. The objectives of this...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations...

Sunrise, a four-act play, was written in 1935 by Taso Yu, one of China's leading playwrights.As the Chinese publisher said in 1960, ''It describes the people's hellish life from 1931 to 1935 under...

The first day of school is exciting--but it can be scary, too! Meet Rosie, a brand-new student who just happens to have butterflies in her stomach. "Silvestro and Chen take a common figure of...

Following in the footsteps of the highly successful Coming of Age in America and Coming of Age Around the World, this new anthology of fiction and memoir explores coming of age in the new millennium...

LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST ANTHOLOGYSixteen short stories from China's groundbreaking science fiction writers, edited and translated by award-winning author Ken Liu.In Hugo award-winner Liu...

An explosive account of the resentments American policies are sowing around the world and of the payback that will be our harvest in the twenty-first century.Blowback, a term invented by the CIA,...

--One of Esquire magazine's 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time "Solomon debuts with a raw distillation of slavery, feudalism, prison, and religion that kicks like rotgut moonshine . . . Stunning."...

New Wild Garden combines new approaches to a more naturalistic design with the practical side of growing wildflowers and shows how to incorporate wildflowers, real meadows and a looser meadow-style...

A new perspective on parallels between ancient Rome and the modern world, and what comes next "[A] provocative short book . . . with a novel twist."--The Economist Over the last three centuries,...

Calvino's classic fable about independence, following a boy who climbs up a tree to spend the rest of his life in an arboreal kingdom, translated by acclaimed translator Ann Goldstein Cosimo di...

A day in Chinatown takes an unexpected turn when a bored little girl makes a connection with her grandpa.May isn't having fun on her trip through Chinatown with her grandfather. Gong Gong doesn't...

Instructions for traversing the entire Vajrayana path to enlightenment from one of Tibet's most famous wandering yogis.Composed by Shabkar at the Cave of Miracles close to Mount Kailash around 1815,...

The award-winning author of The Resisters returns with an engrossing, blisteringly funny-sad autobiographical novel tracing a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship.My mother had died, but still I...