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Mary's Last Dance

The untold story of the wife of Mao's Last Dancer

by Mary Li ...

The highly anticipated memoir of Australian ballerina Mary Li – and the long-awaited sequel to her husband Li Cunxin's bestselling memoir, Mao's Last Dancer.Mary’s Last Dance is a powerful and uplifting memoir about chasing an impossible dream, and sacrificing one’s own ambition for the love of a child. It is a moving and unforgettable story of passion, dedication and devotion – and the highly ... Read more

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The highly anticipated memoir of Australian ballerina Mary Li – and the long-awaited sequel to her husband Li Cunxin's bestselling memoir, Mao's Last Dancer.Mary’s Last Dance is a powerful and uplifting memoir about chasing an impossible dream, and sacrificing one’s own ambition for the love of a child. It is a moving and unforgettable story of passion, dedication and devotion – and the highly
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Mary's Last Dance

The untold story of the wife of Mao's Last Dancer

by Mary Li ...

Narrated by Taylor Owynns ...

Unabridged

18 hours 32 min

'I can vividly remember the last steps of the last ballet, walking off the stage led by a mother and knowing the decision I had to make. That was my last dance.'Mary Li (ne� McKendry) is an international ballet star and a mother like no other. She became a household name when her husband Li Cunxin published his bestselling memoir, Mao's Last Dancer - but that book told only half the story.Growing ... Read more

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'I can vividly remember the last steps of the last ballet, walking off the stage led by a mother and knowing the decision I had to make. That was my last dance.'Mary Li (ne� McKendry) is an international ballet star and a mother like no other. She became a household name when her husband Li Cunxin published his bestselling memoir, Mao's Last Dancer - but that book told only half the story.Growing
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An Alphabet of Embers - An Anthology of Unclassifiables

by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Amal El-Mohtar, Arkady Martine, Celeste Rita Baker, Ching-In Chen, Emily Jiang, Emily Stoddard, Greer Gilman, Ian Muneshwar, JY Yang, Kari Sperring, Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali, M Sereno, M. David Blake, Mari Ness, Mina Li, Nin Harris, Nisi Shawl, Nolan Liebert, Sara Norja, Sheree Renée Thomas, Shweta Narayan, Sonya Taaffe, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Vajra Chandrasekera, Yoon Ha Lee, Zen Cho ...

An Alphabet of Embers is an anthology of unclassifiables – lyrical, surreal, magical, experimental pieces that straddle the border between poetry and prose. It lives in a place between darkness and sound, between roads and breaths, its pages taut with starlight; between its covers, words talk to each other, and have an occasional cup of tea.Edited by Rose Lemberg, featuring work by:Alvaro Zinos ... Read more

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An Alphabet of Embers is an anthology of unclassifiables – lyrical, surreal, magical, experimental pieces that straddle the border between poetry and prose. It lives in a place between darkness and sound, between roads and breaths, its pages taut with starlight; between its covers, words talk to each other, and have an occasional cup of tea.Edited by Rose Lemberg, featuring work by:Alvaro Zinos
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Recent Trends in Social and Behaviour Sciences

Proceedings of the International Congress on Interdisciplinary Behaviour and Social Sciences 2013

Edited by Ford Lumban Gaol, Seifedine Kadry, Marie Taylor, Pak Shen Li ...

The human aspect plays an important role in the social sciences. The behaviour of people has become a vital area of focus in the social sciences as well. Recent Trends in Social and Behaviour Sciences contains papers that were originally presented at the International Congress on Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Sciences, held 4-5 November 201 ... Read more

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The human aspect plays an important role in the social sciences. The behaviour of people has become a vital area of focus in the social sciences as well. Recent Trends in Social and Behaviour Sciences contains papers that were originally presented at the International Congress on Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Sciences, held 4-5 November 201
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Protein Instability at Interfaces During Drug Product Development

Fundamental Understanding, Evaluation, and Mitigation

Edited by Jinjiang Li, Mary E. Krause, Raymond Tu ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Proteins are exposed to various interfacial stresses during drug product development. They are subjected to air-liquid, liquid-solid, and, sometimes, liquid-liquid interfaces throughout the development cycle-from manufacturing of drug substances to storage and drug delivery. Unlike small molecule drugs, proteins are typically unstable at interfaces where, on adsorption, they often denature and ... Read more

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Proteins are exposed to various interfacial stresses during drug product development. They are subjected to air-liquid, liquid-solid, and, sometimes, liquid-liquid interfaces throughout the development cycle-from manufacturing of drug substances to storage and drug delivery. Unlike small molecule drugs, proteins are typically unstable at interfaces where, on adsorption, they often denature and
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China and the Globalization of Biomedicine

by David Luesink, Nicole Nicole Barnes, Shi Yan, William H. Schneider, Yu Xinzhong, Daniel Asen, Gao Xi, He Xiaolian0, Li Shenglan1, Mary Augusta Brazelton2 ...

Today China is a major player in advancing the frontiers of biomedicine, yet previous accounts have examined only whether medical ideas and institutions created in the West were successfully transferred to China. This is the firstbook to demonstrate the role China played in creating a globalized biomedicine between 1850 and 1950. This was China's "Century of Humiliation" when imperialist powers ... Read more

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Today China is a major player in advancing the frontiers of biomedicine, yet previous accounts have examined only whether medical ideas and institutions created in the West were successfully transferred to China. This is the firstbook to demonstrate the role China played in creating a globalized biomedicine between 1850 and 1950. This was China's "Century of Humiliation" when imperialist powers
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Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel

by Kathleen Costello-Sullivan, Neil Murphy, Anne Fogarty, Michelle Wang, Prof. Dr. Katharina Rennhak, Mary M. McGlynn, Lianghui LI, Adel Cheong0, Sylvie Mikowski1, Katherine O'Callaghan2, Michael G Cronin3, Molly Ferguson4, Deirdre Flynn5, Seán Golden6, Margarita Estévez-Saá7, Eoghan Smith8, Christine Cusick9, Gerry Smyth0, Hedwig Schwall1, Graham Matthews2, Joseph Valente3, Patricia Malone4, Jack Fennell5, Jennifer Mooney6, Keith O’Sullivan7, Brian Cliff8, Ondrej Pilný9, Hana Zahradníková0, Kersti Powell1, Paula Murphy2 ...

Since the 1980s, Ireland has gone through a profound social, demographic, and religious disruption, the impact of which has been seen across recent fiction from Irish writers. Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel traces this cultural shift and its impact by examining how modern novels have reckoned with a new conception of Irishness.Despite the heady mix of cultural and social destabilization ... Read more

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Since the 1980s, Ireland has gone through a profound social, demographic, and religious disruption, the impact of which has been seen across recent fiction from Irish writers. Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel traces this cultural shift and its impact by examining how modern novels have reckoned with a new conception of Irishness.Despite the heady mix of cultural and social destabilization
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Joys Of Aging

Anthology/Compilation of Beautiful Poems based on Different Ages

by Vilya Levitskiy, Hope Cotter, Anne Marie Brown, Jennifer Ayala, Quinn Li, Kris Whorton, Evelyn Hampton, Kristina Sargent, Laura Trigg, Ava Compagnoni, Max McCoubrey, Anne Green, Tessa Morgan, Asa Brown, Erik Peters, Dannielle Pendzich, Leslie Frisbee-Moeller, Shani Naeema, Lynn Portillo, Suzanne Eaton, Leon O'Chruadhlaoich, LR Berger, Gloria Williams Tran, Stefan Sullivan, Alan Pritchard, Ana Delgadillo, Gabby Gilliam, Ida Lewenstein, Ronald Haigh, LJ Farrow, Sarah Myers, Sam Love, Christina Mylonas, Eric Shorter, Hattie Hayes, Anda Peterson, Gloria Nixon-John, Girard Tournesol, Gavin Bourke, Ali Flynn, Deb Nordlie, Martin Schwarz, Breda Joyce, Suzanne Frank, Philip Redo, Curt Alderson, David Shaddock, Kate MacDonald, Christine Adams, Sonja Cudmore ...

Series series Collection of Poems
This great English Poetry Anthology contains the Most Famous Poems from different writers around the globe. Dating from different periods, from different regions. These famous poems remain Masterpieces of English Literature and continue to inspire, motivate and influence people all over the world. This poetry compilation comes in the size of 5.5x8.5 inches and is perfect as a gift for poetry ... Read more

$9.99 USD

This great English Poetry Anthology contains the Most Famous Poems from different writers around the globe. Dating from different periods, from different regions. These famous poems remain Masterpieces of English Literature and continue to inspire, motivate and influence people all over the world. This poetry compilation comes in the size of 5.5x8.5 inches and is perfect as a gift for poetry
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Vermilion Riddle, The

by Dana Li ...

Narrated by Michelle Marie ...

Unabridged

5 hours 19 min

“To enter Faerie’s blessed demesnefour secrets must be found:the land unbound by time and spaceopens only to the one who knowsthe Light, the Song, and Mortal Gate.”In the sheltered town of Carmel, women do not have a future outside of a good marriage. That future is threatened when Leah Edwards’ father gambles away the family’s livelihood and estate. She and her sisters must hurry to find husbands ... Read more

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“To enter Faerie’s blessed demesnefour secrets must be found:the land unbound by time and spaceopens only to the one who knowsthe Light, the Song, and Mortal Gate.”In the sheltered town of Carmel, women do not have a future outside of a good marriage. That future is threatened when Leah Edwards’ father gambles away the family’s livelihood and estate. She and her sisters must hurry to find husbands
... Read more

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Feminist Perspectives on Advertising

What's the Big Idea?

by Dunja Antunovic, Li Chen, Janice Marie Collins, Patricia G. Davis, Grace Diabah, Carol M. Liebler, Roseann M. Mandziuk, Natalie A. Mitchell, Angelica Morris, Gillian W. Oakenfull, Cara Okopny0, Anqi Peng1, Whitney Peoples2, Angela T. Ragusa3, Michelle Rodino-Colocino4, Jennifer Ford Stamps5, Kim Golombisky7, Ella Houston9 ...

This volume, edited by Kim Golombisky, applies an intersectional lens to advertising, focusing on gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, age, class, and nationality. Intersectional feminist perspectives on advertising are rare in the advertising industry, even as it faces pressure to reform. This anthology focuses on advertising messaging to follow up the professional practices covered in ... Read more

$42.89 USD

This volume, edited by Kim Golombisky, applies an intersectional lens to advertising, focusing on gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, age, class, and nationality. Intersectional feminist perspectives on advertising are rare in the advertising industry, even as it faces pressure to reform. This anthology focuses on advertising messaging to follow up the professional practices covered in
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Narrative Practices and Emotions

40+ Ways to Support the Emergence of Flourishing Identities

by Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin, Gerald Monk ...

Narrated by Kathleen Li ...

Unabridged

7 hours 23 min

Contemporary challenges and discoveries call for an expansion of narrative therapy practices.Narrative therapy has the potential to help clients understand their challenges as separate from their selves, shifting the focus to their inner strengths when managing a problem. Narrative Practices and Emotions provides a fresh perspective for new and experienced practitioners alike on how to combine ... Read more

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Contemporary challenges and discoveries call for an expansion of narrative therapy practices.Narrative therapy has the potential to help clients understand their challenges as separate from their selves, shifting the focus to their inner strengths when managing a problem. Narrative Practices and Emotions provides a fresh perspective for new and experienced practitioners alike on how to combine
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Lioness

The extraordinary untold story of Sue Brierley, mother of Saroo, the boy known as LION

by Sue Brierley ...

Narrated by Anna Skellern ...

Unabridged

8 hours 57 min

Saroo Brierley's journey home to a small village in India with the help of Google Earth became an internationally bestselling book and inspired the major motion picture LION. But the story of how his adoptive mother, Sue, came into his life half a world away in Tasmania is every bit as riveting.In this uplifting and deeply personal book Sue reveals for the first time her own traumatic childhood. ... Read more

$26.99 USD

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Saroo Brierley's journey home to a small village in India with the help of Google Earth became an internationally bestselling book and inspired the major motion picture LION. But the story of how his adoptive mother, Sue, came into his life half a world away in Tasmania is every bit as riveting.In this uplifting and deeply personal book Sue reveals for the first time her own traumatic childhood.
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