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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Having served Chairman Mao and the Communist leadership for two decades, and having become a key figure in China's foreign policy, Ji Chaozhu now provides a detailed account of the personalities and events that shaped today's People's Republic. Nine-year-old Ji and his family fled Japanese invaders to America in the late 1930s. Ji came of age in New York's East Village and attended Harvard University. But in 1950, he felt driven to volunteer to serve...
Author
Language
English
Description
For over three decades, Reynolds Price has been one of America's most distinguished writers, in a career that has been remarkable both for its virtuosity and for the variety of literary forms he has embraced. Now he shows himself as much a master of the story as he is of the novel, in a volume that presents fifty stories, including two early collections - The Names and Faces of Heroes and Permanent Errors - as well as more than two dozen new stories...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"In 1918, the Right Reverend Edward T. Demby took up the reins as Suffragan (assistant) Bishop for Colored Work in Arkansas and the Province of the Southwest, an area encompassing Arkansas, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and New Mexico. Set within the context of a series of experiments in black leadership conducted by the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas in the early decades of the twentieth century, Demby's tenure in a segregated ministry illuminates...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Why do so many of the most promising businesses fail to achieve consistent, sustainable growth? Tiffani Bova, the Growth and Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce, draws on her expertise as a consultant and practitioner to devise a new framework for business leaders looking to pursue growth. We're witnessing an age of endless customization, and growth strategy is no exception. There's no one size fits all strategy; a winning strategy for one business...
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"This volume collects fascinating articles about mammals by award-winning Times journalists. In order of ascending brain power, the book reveals the bizarre behaviors of the rarest of creatures and little-known facts about common animals."--Jacket.
108) The science of sleep
Publisher
Scientific American Educational Publishing, in association with The Rosen Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It is commonly understood that sleep in some form or another is an almost universal phenomenon among animals, including humans. However, the specific reasons why we need sleep are not as clear. The articles in this volume explain what sleep is, the benefits it has on the mind and the body, and its role in cognitive and biological functions. It examines disorders that disturb normal sleep and what these disorders tell us about our need for sleep....
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