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  • Audiobook

    Savage Season

    Unabridged

    18 hours 57 min

    He owns the city. She's about to own his heart...Czar Savage was never meant for love. Cold. Calculating. The eldest son of Houston's most notorious crime family, he was born into blood and baptized in violence. To the world, he’s untouchable. To women, he’s a dangerous temptation. But to himself, he’s a monster too broken for love.Until her…Kyla Reed buried her heart the night her father was ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Elegant Universe, The

    Unabridged

    56 min

    Most of us fail to appreciate the order of magnitude of the changes happening right now on our own planet. Swimme and Berry place current events in their larger context, to illustrate how we may be entering an unprecedented planetary age. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Translation, Disinformation, and Wuhan Diary

    Anatomy of a Transpacific Cyber Campaign

    by Michael Berry ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    During the early days of the COVID-19 health crisis, Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary provided an important portal for people around the world to understand the outbreak, local response, and how the novel coronavirus was impacting everyday people. But when news of the international publication of Wuhan Diary appeared online in early April of 2020, Fang Fang’s writings became the target of a series of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Divided Lenses

    Screen Memories of War in East Asia

    Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia is the first attempt to explore how the tumultuous years between 1931 and 1953 have been recreated and renegotiated in cinema. This period saw traumatic conflicts such as the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, and the Korean War, and pivotal events such as the Rape of Nanjing, Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the bombings of Hiroshima ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • A Half-Century of Physical Asymptotics and Other Diversions

    Selected Works by Michael Berry

    by Michael Berry ...
    Michael Berry is a theoretical physicist who has contributed to a wide variety of areas in quantum mechanics, optics and related mathematics, linked by the geometrical aspects of waves, especially phase. This collection of his selected published and unpublished papers, reviews, tributes to other scientists, speeches and other works ranges from the technical to the popular. It is organized by the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Leeds Trams and Buses

    by Michael Berry ...
    The Leeds Tramways Company was authorised to construct tramway lines in Leeds in 1871 under the Leeds Tramways Order, with the first route opening on 16 September of that year and running from Boar Lane to the Oak Inn at Headingley. The Tramways Company operated horse-drawn and steam-powered vehicles, full electrification coming in after the Company was bought out by Leeds Corporation in 1893. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Huddersfield Trolleys and Buses

    by Michael Berry ...
    In the early days of tram operations, the local borough or corporation would lay tracks that would carry the trams, while the cars would be operated by private enterprise. All this changed on 11 January 1883 when Huddersfield Corporation was given government dispensation to operate its own system. The last Huddersfield tramcar operated to Brighouse on Saturday 29 June 1940 and no vehicle survived ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Song of Everlasting Sorrow

    A Novel of Shanghai

    by Wang Anyi ...
    Translated by Michael Berry, Susan Chan Egan ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    The classic story of a woman in post-World War II China. "[A] complex and penetrating portrayal . . . that best displays [Anyi's] gifts as a novelist."— The New York TimesInfatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao—a girl born of the longtang, the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods—seeks fame in the Miss Shanghai beauty pageant. This ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Listening to Rap

    An Introduction

    by Michael Berry ...
    Over the past four decades, rap and hip hop culture have taken a central place in popular music both in the United States and around the world. Listening to Rap: An Introduction enables students to understand the historical context, cultural impact, and unique musical characteristics of this essential genre. Each chapter explores a key topic in the study of rap music from the 1970s to today, ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • The Future of Public Education

    One District′s Journey to Transform Schools and Systems

    The future of school isn’t just a dream–it’s already happening.What if we could build schools and systems that prepare every student for college, career, and life, not just for a test? It turns out, we can. The future of public education is being built right now in the Anaheim Union High School District, and this book shows you how they did it.This isn’t just another theory; it′s a practical guide ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • A History of Pain

    Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film

    by Michael Berry ...
    Series series Global Chinese Culture
    The portrayal of historical atrocity in fiction, film, and popular culture can reveal much about the function of individual memory and the shifting status of national identity. In the context of Chinese culture, films such as Hou Hsiao-hsien's City of Sadness and Lou Ye's Summer Palace and novels such as Ye Zhaoyan's Nanjing 1937: A Love Story and Wang Xiaobo's The Golden Age collectively ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Running Flame

    A Novel

    by Fang Fang ...
    Translated by Michael Berry ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    “She knew that if she didn’t say her piece, that flame would never be extinguished; even after death, it would continue raging.”The Running Flame opens with its protagonist in prison awaiting execution, desperate to give an account of her life. Yingzhi, a girl from the countryside, sees opportunity in the liberal trends sweeping across China. After high school, she joins a song-and-dance troupe, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD