Fifteen-year-old Sandy Miller thinks she's the luckiest girl in the world-and then reality hits, hard.Her entire life changes in an instant when she learns that she's been chosen for an incredible hon
Rayson Huang began his studies at the University of Hong Kong in 1938. Thirty-four years later, in 1972, he became the University's first Chinese Vice-Chancellor and served in that position until 1986
Peter George, charismatic academic, idealist, lover of life, is dead. His three wives - and his daughter - come together to arrange his funeral. So begins a fascinating retrospective on George's life.
Huang's autobiography offers readers a personal view of the turmoil and challenge of an academic career in East Asia during the 20th century. Huang received a chemistry degree at Oxford and completed
A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese is an invaluable tool for all learners and users of Mandarin Chinese, providing a list of the 5,000 words and the 2,000 Chinese characters (simplified) most
A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese is an invaluable tool for all learners of Mandarin Chinese, providing a list of the 5,000 words and the 2,000 Chinese characters (simplified) most commonly u
This book features twelve critical essays on ecodocumentaries written by eminent scholars in the area of ecocriticism and ecocinema studies from India, USA, Ireland, Finland and Turkey. Situating soci
This book presents the methodology, findings and implications of a large-scale corpus-based study of the metaphors used to talk about cancer and the end of life (including care at the end of life) in
Saturday night, small town Wales, one pub, one party and three lads stuck with their school reputations - the gimp, the geek and the bully. Their dream - to get the hell outDead White Males: "Triumpha
The book provides ecocultural perspectives on ethics from a variety of cultural contexts. It argues that any ecological perspectives/issues/conditions cannot be separated from their cultural contexts
