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  • End the LightCatcher

    by D. A. Cheng ...
    Series series End the LightCatcher
    The City of Lions in the year 3013 is a beautiful but treacherous city for children deemed silly, lazy or useless by society.Having been deemed useless by society for not achieving “Destiny” (which basically means not finding a job) by the age of 13, End Cloud is stripped of citizenship and subjected to the “Sphere of Influence”, a cruel device which will erase his memories, delete his ability to ... Read more

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  • The King of Violins

    The Extraordinary Life of China's Greatest Violin Virtuoso

    by M.G. Crisci, Cheng Ken Chi, Ph.D. Ph.D. ...
    HOW CHINA'S MOST CELEBRATED VIOLIN PRODIGY BECAME AN ENEMY OF STATE.The King of Violins is the heartbreaking story of China's most celebrated violin prodigy, Ma Sicong, who composed his first concerto at the age of 12.During his career, this gentle, dignified man composed 57 of the world's best-known symphonies and concertos and performed in front of hundreds of sold-out audiences across the globe ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Bake Pi

    An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics

    by Eugenia Cheng ...
    **One of the world's most creative mathematicians finds the meaning of mathematics in the kitchen  ****“Whimsical…rigorous and insightful.” —**New York TimesWhat is math? How exactly does it work? And what do three siblings trying to share a cake have to do with it? In How to Bake Pi, math professor Eugenia Cheng provides an accessible introduction to the logic and beauty of mathematics, powered, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Russian Motor Vehicles

    - The Czarist Period 1784 to 1917

    by Maurice A. Kelly Ch.Eng R.R.S., M.N. (Ret’d) ...
    Whilst many books have appeared concerning Russian aircraft, railway locomotives and naval craft, there has been nothing published outside of Russia concerning the activities of its motor industry. Bearing in mind that by 1937 the Soviets had become the largest producers of motor vehicles in Europe, albeit with the help of Henry Ford, it may appear strange that nobody has attempted to document ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Is Math Real?

    How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest Truths

    by Eugenia Cheng ...
    **One of the world’s most creative mathematicians offers a new way to look at math—focusing on questions, not answers      Winner of the *Los Angeles Times *Book PrizeA New Scientist Best Book of the Year   “Brilliant.” —*Popular Science  ***Where do we learn math: From rules in a textbook? From logic and deduction? Not really, according to mathematician Eugenia Cheng: we learn it from human ... Read more

    Was $18.99 USD Now $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Art of Logic in an Illogical World

    by Eugenia Cheng ...
    **How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth world “Advanced mathematics could make a meaningful contribution to creating a better society. . . this book is proof it can.” —*Guardian ***In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In* The Art of Logic in an Illogical World*, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to ... Read more

    Was $16.99 USD Now $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Headless Case

    by Cheng Xiaoqing ...
    One day, an elderly woman came to visit Mr. Hawthorne, crying and demanding to see him. She claimed that her daughter-in-law's head was missing and insisted that she needed to find it to prevent her son from being punished. Mr. Hawthorne, along with Longy Bao, went to the woman's residence to begin an investigation. The police suspected the husband as the murderer, but clues like footprints and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Delving into the Issues of the Chinese Economy and the World by Marxist Economists

    by Cheng Enfu ...
    This book, under the chief editorship of Prof. Cheng Enfu, is one of the results of the discipline construction and theoretical research of the Marxist Theory implemented by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and is one from the book series The Discipline Construction and Theoretical Research of the Marxist Theory. This book mainly contains the representative and high-level articles on ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cosmic Philosophical Conjecture

    宇宙哲學猜想

    by Cheng ...
    The 21st-Century Philosophical Conjecture on the Universe: A Groundbreaking Theory Challenging Existing Physics Frameworks and Pointing Directly to the Nature of TimeThis book bypasses the academic limitations of "measurability," revealing the fundamental laws governing the universe through pure logic and philosophical deduction.The following is a summary presenting the core ideas:<str... ... Read more

    $5.00 USD

  • Research Handbook on Agency and Intermediation

    Edited by Deborah A. DeMott, Cheng-Han Tan ...
    Series series Research Handbooks in Private and Commercial Law series
    This Research Handbook reaffirms agency law as a coherent body of law that governs consensual relationships in which one person has power to act with legal consequences for another person. The book explores how agency law and vicarious liability are related to but distinct from other subjects within private law, including contract and tort law.Written by leading experts, the chapters provide novel ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Life and Death in Shanghai

    by Nien Cheng ...
    The national bestselling memoir of a woman's resistance and struggles in Communist China—"an absorbing story of resourcefulness and courage" ( The New York Times).A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEARIn August 1966, a group of Red Guards ransacked the home of Nien Cheng. Her background made her an obvious target for the fanatics of the Cultural Revolution: educated in London, the widow of an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Philippines-Japan Relations in the Twenty-First Century

    Change and Direction

    Edited by Dennis D. Trinidad, Karl Ian Uy Cheng Chua ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Asia-Pacific Region
    Trinidad and Chua provide invaluable insights on various dimensions and directions of 21st-century Philippines-Japan relations from Filipino and Japanese scholars. Their chapters highlight the adjustments made in the relationship as the two countries grapple with old and emerging domestic issues amid changing international contexts.The book’s multidisciplinary approach and rich empirical data ... Read more

    $64.99 USD