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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “kun guo”
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  • South of the Clouds

    Tales from Yunnan

    Edited by Lucien Miller ...
    Series series McLellan Endowed Series
    The tales included here represent all of Yunnan Province’s officially designated ethnic minorities, and include creation myths, romances, historical legends, tales explaining natural phenomena, ghost stories, and festival tales. The tales are peopled by memorable characters, such as the Tibetan mother who, reborn as a cow, comforts and helps her daughter into her harsh life as a slave girl; the ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • Conformal Array Antennas and Beamforming Technologies for Emergency Communication Applications

    by Xiang Gao, Chuanfei Ding, Wenfei Tang, Kun Guo ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents a comprehensive study on the design of conformal array antennas and beamforming technologies for emergency communication in complex terrains such as mountainous, forested, and hilly environments. It introduces pioneering balloon-mounted conformal arrays for wideband, wide-coverage operations, polarization-reconfigurable antennas for mobile platforms like UAVs and wearable ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD

  • Advances in SAR Remote Sensing of Oceans

    Edited by Xiaofeng Li, Huadong Guo, Kun-Shan Chen, Xiaofeng Yang ...
    The oceans cover approximately 71% of Earth’s surface, 90% of the biosphere and contains 97% of Earth’s water. Since the first launch of SEASAT satellite in 1978, an increasing number of SAR satellites have or will become available, such as the European Space Agency’s ERS-1/-2, ENVISAT, and Sentinel-1 series; the Canadian RADARSAT-1/-2 and the upcoming RADARSAT Constellation Mission series ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

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  • Where the Rekohu Bone Sings

    by Tina Makereti, Tina Makereti ...
    From the Chatham Islands/ Rekohu to London, from 1835 to the 21st century, this quietly powerful and compelling novel confronts the complexity of being Moriori, Maori and Pakeha. In the 1880s, Mere yearns for independence. Iraia wants the same but, as the descendant of a slave, such things are hardly conceivable. One summer, they notice t... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl?

    The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women

    by Jonetta Rose Barras ...
    What happens to a little girl who grows up without a father? Can she ever feel truly loved and fully alive? Does she ever heal—or is she doomed to live a wounded, fragmented life and to pass her wounds down to her own children? Fatherlessness afflicts nearly half the households in America, and it has reached epidemic proportions in the African-American community, with especially devastating ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Two Nations

    Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal

    by Andrew Hacker ...
    In this groundbreaking study, Andrew Hacker offers a fresh and disturbing examination of the divisions of color and class in present-day America, analyzing the conditions that keep black and white Americans dangerously far apart in their ability to achieve the American dream.Why, despite continued efforts to increase understanding and expand opportunities, do black and white Americans still lead ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Korean folk tales

    by Pang Im & Yuk Yi ...
    "Korean Folk Tales" is a collection of traditional stories and legends from Korean folklore. The book presents a range of tales that reflect the cultural and historical heritage of Korea.The stories include a variety of themes such as morality, supernatural elements, and traditional values. They often feature folklore figures, mythical creatures, and moral lessons, providing insights into Korean ... Read more

    $1.33 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nagarjuna's Middle Way

    Mulamadhyamakakarika

    by Mark Siderits, Shoryu Katsura ...
    Series series Classics of Indian Buddhism
    Winner of the 2014 Khyenste Foundation Translation Prize.Nagarjuna's renowned twenty-seven-chapter Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way (Mulamadhyamakakarika) is the foundational text of the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy. It is the definitive, touchstone presentation of the doctrine of emptiness. Professors Siderits and Katsura prepared this translation using the four surviving ... Read more

    $33.00 CAD

  • A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages

    Teachings on Guhyasamaja Tantra

    by Je Tsongkhapa ...
    Translated by Gavin Kilty ...
    Series series Library of Tibetan Classics
    Tsongkhapa's A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages (1419) is a comprehensive presentation of the highest yoga class of Buddhist tantra, especially the key practices - the so-called five stages (pancakrama) - of the advanced phase of Guhyasamaja tantra. Beginning with a thorough examination of the Indian sources, Tsongkhapa draws particularly from the writings of Nagarjuna, Aryadeva, Candrakirti, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Color and Money

    How Rich White Kids Are Winning the War over College Affirmative Action

    by Peter Schmidt ...
    What is the real story behind the fight over affirmative action at colleges? Veteran journalist Peter Schmidt exposes truths that will outrage readers and forever transform the debate. He reveals how:* colleges use affirmative action to mask how much they cater to the country club crowd and to solicit support from the big corporations they steer minority students toward;* conservatives have used ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet

    Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English

    by Dechun Li, Gerald Roche ...
    Series Book 8 - World Oral Literature Series
    Containing ballads of martial heroism, tales of tragic lovers and visions of the nature of the world, Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English is a rich repository of songs collected amongst the Mongghul of the Seven Valleys, on the northeast Tibetan Plateau in western China. These songs represent the apogee of Mongghul oral literature, and ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Assembly: A Tool for Transforming Communities

    by Donald L. Anderson, Hildegarde Hannum ...
    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Donald Anderson highlights the necessity in the fight against poverty to first and foremost organize communities and let them decide their courses of action for themselves rather than designing and imposing programs from outside of the community. He ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD