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Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton: Lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese Grocers

by John Jung ...

The story of how a few Chinese immigrants found their way to the Mississippi River Delta in the late 1870s and earned their living with small family operated grocery stores in neighborhoods where mostly black cotton plantation workers lived. What was their status in the segregated black and white world of that time and place? How did this small group preserve their culture and ethnic identity? ... Read more

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The story of how a few Chinese immigrants found their way to the Mississippi River Delta in the late 1870s and earned their living with small family operated grocery stores in neighborhoods where mostly black cotton plantation workers lived. What was their status in the segregated black and white world of that time and place? How did this small group preserve their culture and ethnic identity?
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A Chinese American Odyssey: How A Retired Psychologist Makes A Hit As A Historian

by John Jung ...

This memoir describes the discoveries, many unexpected, when a Chinese American psychology professor retires and reinvents himself as a public historian of Chinese in America... a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the processes involved in researching, writing, publishing, and promoting books. Writers of books on any topic will find useful information, ideas, and inspiration. ... Read more

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This memoir describes the discoveries, many unexpected, when a Chinese American psychology professor retires and reinvents himself as a public historian of Chinese in America... a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the processes involved in researching, writing, publishing, and promoting books. Writers of books on any topic will find useful information, ideas, and inspiration.
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Chinese Laundries: Tickets to Survival on Gold Mountain

by John Jung ...

A social history of the role of the Chinese laundry on the survival of early Chinese immigrants in the U.S.during the Chinese Exclusion law period, 1882-1943, and in Canada during the years of the Head Tax, 1885-1923, and exclusion law, 1923-1947. Why and how Chinese got into the laundry business and how they had to fight discriminatory laws and competition from white-owned laundries to survive. ... Read more

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A social history of the role of the Chinese laundry on the survival of early Chinese immigrants in the U.S.during the Chinese Exclusion law period, 1882-1943, and in Canada during the years of the Head Tax, 1885-1923, and exclusion law, 1923-1947. Why and how Chinese got into the laundry business and how they had to fight discriminatory laws and competition from white-owned laundries to survive.
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Chinese Laundrymen: Macon, Georgia 1884-1956

by John Jung ...

A history of Chinese immigrants, all bachelors except one, who settled in Macon, Georgia, where they all ran laundries starting as early as 1884. All were gone by the late 1920s, except for the only one who had a wife and children, and by 1956, they had departed leaving Macon with no Chinese residents. Why did these Chinese come to the Deep South where they were so culturally isolated during a ... Read more

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A history of Chinese immigrants, all bachelors except one, who settled in Macon, Georgia, where they all ran laundries starting as early as 1884. All were gone by the late 1920s, except for the only one who had a wife and children, and by 1956, they had departed leaving Macon with no Chinese residents. Why did these Chinese come to the Deep South where they were so culturally isolated during a
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Southern Fried Rice: Life in a Chinese Laundry in the Deep South

by John Jung ...

This memoir conveys the experiences, first of my parents and subsequently of our family, the only Chinese people living in Macon, Georgia between 1928 and 1956. It describes our family's isolated existence running a laundry, enduring loneliness as well as racial prejudice for over 20 years, explains why and how we moved across the continent to live in San Francisco to be near a Chinese community, ... Read more

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This memoir conveys the experiences, first of my parents and subsequently of our family, the only Chinese people living in Macon, Georgia between 1928 and 1956. It describes our family's isolated existence running a laundry, enduring loneliness as well as racial prejudice for over 20 years, explains why and how we moved across the continent to live in San Francisco to be near a Chinese community,
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Cardiff Stadium Murder, The

A gripping crime thriller full of twists

by Stephen Puleston ...

Narrated by Joseph Tweedale, Joseph Tweedale ...

Series Audiobook 0 - Inspector John Marco
Unabridged

2 hours 10 min

Eddie Westford is connected to some powerful people in Cardiff. But who would slit his throat in the car park of Cardiff City football club?Inspector John Marco discovers photographs of Westford sitting in various luxury cars and Westford’s connections with the organised hooligan gangs of Cardiff points to a connection with hardened criminals.But is it that easy?Evidence suggesting Westford is a ... Read more

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Eddie Westford is connected to some powerful people in Cardiff. But who would slit his throat in the car park of Cardiff City football club?Inspector John Marco discovers photographs of Westford sitting in various luxury cars and Westford’s connections with the organised hooligan gangs of Cardiff points to a connection with hardened criminals.But is it that easy?Evidence suggesting Westford is a
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Synchronicity

An Acausal Connecting Principle. (From Vol. 8. of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung)

by C. G. Jung ...

Narrated by John Telfer ...

Series series Jung Extracts
Unabridged

4 hours 36 min

This audiobook narrated by John Telfer introduces listeners to Jung's groundbreaking ideas about synchronicityC. G. Jung was intrigued from early in his career with coincidences, especially those surprising juxtapositions that scientific rationality could not adequately explain. He discussed these ideas with Albert Einstein before World War I but first used the term "synchronicity" in a 1930 ... Read more

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This audiobook narrated by John Telfer introduces listeners to Jung's groundbreaking ideas about synchronicityC. G. Jung was intrigued from early in his career with coincidences, especially those surprising juxtapositions that scientific rationality could not adequately explain. He discussed these ideas with Albert Einstein before World War I but first used the term "synchronicity" in a 1930
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The Red Book: A Reader's Edition

A Reader's Edition

by C. G. Jung ...

Translated by Sonu Shamdasani, John Peck, Mark Kyburz ...

A portable edition of the famous Red Book text and essay.The Red Book, published to wide acclaim in 2009, contains the nucleus of C. G. Jung’s later works. It was here that he developed his principal theories of the archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation that would transform psychotherapy from treatment of the sick into a means for the higher development of the ... Read more

$30.79 USD

A portable edition of the famous Red Book text and essay.The Red Book, published to wide acclaim in 2009, contains the nucleus of C. G. Jung’s later works. It was here that he developed his principal theories of the archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation that would transform psychotherapy from treatment of the sick into a means for the higher development of the
... Read more
ADHD 2.0

New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction--from Childhood through Adulthood

by Edward M. Hallowell M.D., John J. Ratey M.D. ...

A revolutionary new approach to ADD/ADHD featuring cutting-edge research and strategies to help readers thrive, by the bestselling authors of the seminal books Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction“An inspired road map for living with a distractible brain . . . If you or your child suffer from ADHD, this book should be on your shelf. It will give you courage and hope.”—Michael ... Read more

$9.99 USD

A revolutionary new approach to ADD/ADHD featuring cutting-edge research and strategies to help readers thrive, by the bestselling authors of the seminal books Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction“An inspired road map for living with a distractible brain . . . If you or your child suffer from ADHD, this book should be on your shelf. It will give you courage and hope.”—Michael
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Mystic Wisdom

Inspiration for the Soul

by Avicenna, Marcus Aurelius, Black Elk, Christian Bernard, William Blake, Catherine of Siena, Meister Eckhart, Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hafiz, John of the Cross, Hazrat Inayat Khan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Carl Jung, G.E. Lessing, H.Spencer Lewis, Ralph M. Lewis, Plotinus, Cecil A. Poole, Pythagoras, Sri Ramana Maharshi, Tukaram, Rumi, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Thales of Miletus, Validivar, Claudio Mazzucco ...

Narrated by Loni Kappus ...

Unabridged

32 min

Overflowing with inspiration for both the heart and the soul. The joyful reflections this beautiful book contains transcend religion and draw from the teachings of renowned mystics from antiquity to the present.Whether you seek knowledge of the great mysteries or answers to the everyday questions of life, delve into Mystic Wisdom. Contemplate the wisdom it offers. Then look within your own being. ... Read more

$3.68 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Overflowing with inspiration for both the heart and the soul. The joyful reflections this beautiful book contains transcend religion and draw from the teachings of renowned mystics from antiquity to the present.Whether you seek knowledge of the great mysteries or answers to the everyday questions of life, delve into Mystic Wisdom. Contemplate the wisdom it offers. Then look within your own being.
... Read more
The Javan War

The Cruel Stars, #0

by John Birmingham, Jason Lambright ...

Series Book 0 - The Cruel Stars
The Javan War plunges readers into a war that shatters not only bodies but memories and time itself. Sub-Lieutenant Lucinda Hardy, tethered to a strike team on the enemy warship Jakarta, feels every shot and death through her neural link. But as gigaton blasts tear through space, they rip apart more than fleets of giant warships—they fragment Lucinda's perception of time, unravelling her memories ... Read more

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The Javan War plunges readers into a war that shatters not only bodies but memories and time itself. Sub-Lieutenant Lucinda Hardy, tethered to a strike team on the enemy warship Jakarta, feels every shot and death through her neural link. But as gigaton blasts tear through space, they rip apart more than fleets of giant warships—they fragment Lucinda's perception of time, unravelling her memories
... Read more
The Self In Psychotic Process

Its Symbolization In Schizophrenia

by John Weir Perry, C. G. Jung ...

C.G. Jung started as a psychiatric learning from schizophrenic patients. Among the Jungian school, only John Weir Perry has continued this line of Jung's work with such depth of understanding, clinical acumen, and the ability to write beautifully.Perry's therapy in the California Bay Area with acute episodes in young psychotic patients brought him national and international renown. The case of the ... Read more

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C.G. Jung started as a psychiatric learning from schizophrenic patients. Among the Jungian school, only John Weir Perry has continued this line of Jung's work with such depth of understanding, clinical acumen, and the ability to write beautifully.Perry's therapy in the California Bay Area with acute episodes in young psychotic patients brought him national and international renown. The case of the
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