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In a remote Manchurian town in the 1930s, a sixteen-year-old girl is more concerned with intimations of her own womanhood than the escalating hostilities between her countrymen and their Japanese occupiers. While still a schoolgirl in braids, she takes her first lover, a dissident student. The mor... More

re-creating the lives of two of the most intriguing rulers in history, Shan Sa brings us a novel filled with the sound of hooves, the whistle of arrows, blood, passion, and betrayal. The familiar figure of Alexander the Great comes to new life in this richly imagined tale, which entwines his histor... More

Such is the voice of Shan Sa's unforgettable heroine in her latest literary masterpiece, Empress. Empress Wu, one of China's most controversial figures, was its first and only female emperor, who emerged in the seventh century during the great Tang Dynasty and ushered in a golden age. Throughout hi... More

This tale explores the Chinese mythology of Nuwa. Long ago before mankind, Nuwa traveled through vast fields and mountains of the earth in awe of its beauty. The planet was beautiful, but lonely and she decided to fill the earth with human beings. But while life filled the Earth and Nuwa’s heart, cr... More

This is a hands-on book with plenty of well-explained code. Each chapter has a standalone project in which a complete web application with specific features of a social networking site is emphasized. The final chapter of the book is a project that has a complete and fully developed social networking... More

This book is project-based. The format of each project is similar, with a statement of the project, discussion of the main protocols involved, an overview of the API, and then complete code for building the project. You will be led methodically through concrete steps to build the mashup, with asides... More

Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies collects in two parts the scholarly work—both published and unpublished—that Sam See had completed as of his death in 2013.In Part I, in a thorough reading of Darwin, See argues that nature is constantly and aimlessly variable, and that nature itself might be conside... More

For a single person who had such big feelings, countless women would tell me countless stories every day. Lolita, the young lady, the oneesan … it turns out that the big feelings hurt my kidney so much …... More

For a single person who had such big feelings, countless women would tell me countless stories every day. Lolita, the young lady, the oneesan … it turns out that the big feelings hurt my kidney so much …... More

For a single person who had such big feelings, countless women would tell me countless stories every day. Lolita, the young lady, the oneesan … it turns out that the big feelings hurt my kidney so much …... More

For a single person who had such big feelings, countless women would tell me countless stories every day. Lolita, the young lady, the oneesan … it turns out that the big feelings hurt my kidney so much …... More

The Book of Revelation was meant to ignite awe and worship.There is a special blessing promised to all who read and obey the words of Revelation (1:3). Yet many Christians slam their Bible shut before reading because they find the end times prophecy to be confusing, weird, and even scary.Revelation ... More

The former model, the Queen, was banned for choosing wrong things, but she did not regret it because she chose love. She thought that she would live the rest of her life peacefully, but she did not expect that the day before she registered the marriage with her boyfriend, Meng Tianyu, she would find... More

The former model, the Queen, was banned for choosing wrong things, but she did not regret it because she chose love. She thought that she would live the rest of her life peacefully, but she did not expect that the day before she registered the marriage with her boyfriend, Meng Tianyu, she would find... More

The former model, the Queen, was banned for choosing wrong things, but she did not regret it because she chose love. She thought that she would live the rest of her life peacefully, but she did not expect that the day before she registered the marriage with her boyfriend, Meng Tianyu, she would find... More

The former model, the Queen, was banned for choosing wrong things, but she did not regret it because she chose love. She thought that she would live the rest of her life peacefully, but she did not expect that the day before she registered the marriage with her boyfriend, Meng Tianyu, she would find... More

Over 25 recipes to help you design and test informative applications on the Salesforce Lightning platformKey FeaturesLearn Salesforce Lightning concepts from scratch.Build scalable enterprise apps with Salesforce design guidelines and the CSS frameworkUse Visualforce to build custom user interfaces ... More

The book presents a critical evaluation of current approaches related to the use of digital games in education. The author identifies two competing paradigms: that of games-to-teach and games-to-learn. Arguing in favor of the latter, the author advances the case for approaching game-based learning... More

Don't compete with me in talent. My five branches share the same cultivation, and I have the Demonic Lotus Legacy, the Sky Flipping Palm, and the condensed Nuwa Stone. Don't fight with me for a woman. I am elegant and elegant like a flower. I am a human beauty. I am a demi-human princess. I am a dra... More

Don't compete with me in talent. My five branches share the same cultivation, and I have the Demonic Lotus Legacy, the Sky Flipping Palm, and the condensed Nuwa Stone. Don't fight with me for a woman. I am elegant and elegant like a flower. I am a human beauty. I am a demi-human princess. I am a dra... More

Don't compete with me in talent. My five branches share the same cultivation, and I have the Demonic Lotus Legacy, the Sky Flipping Palm, and the condensed Nuwa Stone.Don't fight with me for a woman. I am elegant and elegant like a flower. I am a human beauty. I am a demi-human princess. I am a drag... More

Don't compete with me in talent. My five branches share the same cultivation, and I have the Demonic Lotus Legacy, the Sky Flipping Palm, and the condensed Nuwa Stone.Don't fight with me for a woman. I am elegant and elegant like a flower. I am a human beauty. I am a demi-human princess. I am a drag... More

Don't compete with me in talent. My five branches share the same cultivation, and I have the Demonic Lotus Legacy, the Sky Flipping Palm, and the condensed Nuwa Stone.Don't fight with me for a woman. I am elegant and elegant like a flower. I am a human beauty. I am a demi-human princess. I am a drag... More

An Yan loved Fu and Si Ze, but she personally sent him to prison.Fu Size loved to keep a straight face, but it caused her family to be ruined and her family to be killed.Their relationship had suffered many hardships along the way, and was in a precarious situation. They were separated by a few bloo... More

Hong Kong's story in the Second World War has been predominantly told as a story of the British forces and their defeat on Christmas Day 1941. But there is another story: the Chinese guerrilla forces who harassed the Japanese throughout the occupation played a crucial part in the escapes from Hong K... More