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  • The Middler’s Library: Surviving the Sea of Chinese Web Novels

    The Middler’s Library, #1

    by Ming Tian ...
    Series Book 1 - The Middler’s Library
    So you want to read Chinese web novels… but where do you even start?Don't worry—I've done the awkward, baffling, and occasionally mind-blowing reading for you.Inside, you'll find curated, candid (and yes, occasionally savage) reviews of the gems and grenades in China's massive web fiction universe. Whether you're here for futuristic mecha battles, post-apocalyptic survival, or xianxia cultivation ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Middler’s Library: From Rum Doodle to Vogons — A Middler’s Guide to British Comic Fiction

    The Middler’s Library, #2

    by Ming Tian ...
    Series Book 2 - The Middler’s Library
    So you like books that make you laugh — but British comedy often feels like another language.Welcome to Book 2 of The Middler's Library: eight careful, affectionate reviews of comic English novels that surprised me, confused me, and made me laugh out loud.From the mountaineering parody of The Ascent of Rum Doodle to the cosmic absurdity of The Hitchhiker's Guide series, these essays explain what's ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Middler’s Library: Time-Travellers, Eunuchs and Dragons — A Middler’s Reading Guide to Chinese Alternate History Web Novels

    The Middler’s Library, #3

    by Ming Tian ...
    Series Book 3 - The Middler’s Library
    I grew up with two languages and one cultural identity crisis – and heaps of curiosity. This book is my attempt to make sense of Chinese history, palace gossip and the sprawling world of serialised web fiction — so you don't have to start from zero.Inside you'll find short, sharp reviews of Ming-era alternate histories and web novels (from feel-good power fantasies to dark palace dramas), ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grains in China

    Foodgrain, Feedgrain and World Trade

    by Zhang-Yue Zhou, Wei-Ming Tian ...
    This book addresses the dynamics of China's grain production, consumption and trade with a particular emphasis on China's demand for feedgrain vis-a-vis its demand for foodgrain and the likely implications of this on the international grain trade given that China is now a member of the WTO. The book provides the reader with insight into the latest developments in China's foodgrain and feedgrain ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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    by Charlie Brooker ...
    Would you like to eat whatever you want and still lose weight?Who wouldn't? Keep dreaming, imbecile.In the meantime, if you'd like to read something that alternates between laugh-out-loud-funny and apocalyptically angry, keep holding this book. Steal it if necessary.In his latest collection of rants, raves, hastily spluttered articles and scarcely literate scrawl, Charlie Brooker proves that there ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Institutional Reform and Economic Development in the Chinese Countryside

    Edited by Keith Griffin ...
    First Published in 1985. This volume contains material prepared over a three week field trip by the authors in rural China in July and August of 1982 and then again in September 1983. Including field work in the areas of Shaanxi, and the Chongqing municipality. ... Read more

    $234.99 USD

  • Lightspeed Magazine, June 2014

    Women Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue

    by Christie Yant, Seanan McGuire, N.K. Jemisin ...
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    LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF—and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month, we present our special anniversary issue, Women Destroy Science Fiction! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Chinese Economy, second edition

    Adaptation and Growth

    by Barry J. Naughton ...
    The new edition of a comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy, revised to reflect the end of the “miracle growth” period.This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China's economic development offers a quality and breadth of coverage not found in any other English-language text. In The Chinese Economy, Barry Naughton provides both a broadly focused ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Hell of it All

    by Charlie Brooker ...
    Brooker on the BNP Party Political Broadcast: 'Nick Griffin's first line is "Don't turn it off!", which in terms of opening gambits is about as enticing as hearing someone shout "Try not to be sick!" immediately prior to intercourse.'Brooker on Philip from The Apprentice: 'If it were legal or even possible to do so, he'd probably marry himself, then conduct a long-term affair with himself behind ... Read more

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  • China Urbanizes: Consequences, Strategies, And Policies

    by Yusuf Shahid; Saich Anthony ...
    The key challenges facing China in the next two decades derive from the ongoing process of urbanization. China's urbanization rate in 2005 was about 43%. Over the next 10-15 years, it is expected to rise to well over 50%, adding an additional 200 million mainly rural migrants to the current urban population of 560 million. How China copes with such a large migration flow will strongly influence ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Famine in North Korea

    Markets, Aid, and Reform

    by Stephan Haggard, Marcus Noland ...
    In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's failure to formulate a quick response-including the blocking of desperately needed humanitarian relief.As households, enterprises, local party ... Read more

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  • Nerd Do Well

    A Small Boy's Journey to Becoming a Big Kid

    by Simon Pegg ...
    The unique life story of one of the most talented and inventive comedians, star of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Paul, Spaced, and Star Trek.Zombies in North London, death cults in the West Country, the engineering deck of the Enterprise -- actor, comedian, writer, and supergeek Simon Pegg has been ploughing some bizarre furrows. Having landed on the U.S. movie scene in the surprise cult hit Shaun ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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