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Ma Jian
ISBN:9780312428365
Dai Wei, a PhD student and protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, was caught by a soldier's bullet and fell into a deep coma. But as the millennium draws near...more details Format:Paperback Pages:703
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Ma Jian
ISBN:9780701178079
May 1989. Tens of thousands of students are camped out in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. But what started as a united protest at the slow pace of their government's political reform has begun to lose direction: people from all over China are coming to join the demonstration...more details Format:Hardback Pages:592
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Ma Jian
ISBN:9780701176051
Written in the aftermath of the Tiananmen massacre, The Noodle Maker is a virtuoso piece of 'red humour' - a darkly funny novel about the absurdities and cruelties of life in modern China. Every week...more details Format:Book Pages:192
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Ma Jian
ISBN:9780099459064
From the award-winning author of "Red Dust", comes a virtuoso piece of "Red Humour" - a darkly funny novel about the absurdities and cruelties of life in modern China. Every week...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:192
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Ma Jian
ISBN:9780099490845
'My painter friends think I am a die-hard conservative, my writer friends think I am a man of loose morals. In Jushlin Temple I am a quiet disciple...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:336
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Ma Jian
ISBN:9780701169121
In 1983, Ma Jian turned 30. He was overwhelmed by a desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. China was changing, Deng Xiapoing was introducing economic change but was clamping down on "Spiritual Pollution". Ma Jian...more details
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Ma Jian
ISBN:9780099283294
Ma Jian's journey would last three years and take him to deserts and overpopulated cities, from scenes of barbarity to havens of tranquility and beauty...more details Format:Paperback
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Ma Jian
ISBN:9780099481331
A Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet. As he wanders through the countryside, he witnesses the sky burial of a Tibetan woman who died during childbirth...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:96
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Ma Jian
ISBN:9780701178062
A new collection of short stories, set in Tibet, from one of China's foremost writers -- the author of Red Dust. With its publication in English...more details Format:Hardback Pages:96
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Ma Jian;Flora Drew
ISBN:9780374110178
Dai Wei has been unconscious for almost a decade. A medical student and a pro-democracy protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, he was struck by a soldier's bullet and fell into a deep coma. As soon as the hospital authorities discovered that he had been an activist...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:586
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Ma Jian;Jian Ma
ISBN:9780385720236
In 1983, at the age of thirty, dissident artist Ma Jian finds himself divorced by his wife, separated from his daughter, betrayed by his girlfriend...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
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Ma Jian;Flora Drew
ISBN:9780312426903
When "Stick Out Your Tongue" was published in Chinese in 1997, a blanket ban was placed on Ma Jian's future work. With its publication in English...more details Format:Paperback Pages:104
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Ma Jian;Flora Drew
ISBN:9780374269883
Tibet is a land lost in the glare of politics and romanticism, and Ma Jian set out to discover its truths. "Stick Out Your Tongue "is a revelation: a startlingly vivid portrait of Tibet...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:93
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Ma Jian;Flora Drew
ISBN:9780312424794
From Mi Jian, the highly acclaimed Chinese dissident, comes a satirical novel about the absurdities of life in a post-Tiananmen China. Two men meet for dinner each week. Over the course of one of these drunken evenings...more details Format:Paperback Pages:181
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Marcio Valerio Ronci;Jian-Ye Wang
ISBN:9781589064041
Trade finance has long been an important component of international financial flows. Firms in emerging-market economies, in particular, rely heavily on bank-financed trade credits to support their export and import activities. This book examines why and how much trade finance flows decline during financial crises...more details Format:Paperback Pages:130
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Michael Beetz;Jin Mahmoud Mufeed MJiang
ISBN:9783540003182
Modern technological systems rely on sophisticated control functions to meet increased performance requirements. For such systems, Fault Tolerant Control Systems (FTCS) need to be developed...more details Format:Paperback Pages:239
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Wen G Jiang;W G Mansel Robert EJiang
ISBN:9780792363958
This book covers the molecular and cellular aspects of cancer metastasis, and discusses the clinical aspect of micro- and macro-metastases, which result in the death of the majority of patients with cancer. The current edition attempts to examine the current status of the basic scientific and clinical research in the area...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:444
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Yue-Man Yeung;Jianfa Shen
ISBN:9789629961572
From macro and micro perspectives, this book provides a panoramic view of China's sprawling western region. Through several critical thematic dimensions the twelve provincial units in China's west are examined. Combining an intimate knowledge of the region along with social science analytical tools...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:610
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George Jianwei Miao;Mark A Clements
ISBN:9781580531351
A dynamic and rapidly growing field, statistical digital signal processing (DSP) has a wide range of applications in the areas of speech, image...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:500
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Margaret M Carreiro;Jianguo Song Yong-ChangWu
ISBN:9780387714240
Urban forests play a fundamentally important role in building ecological cities. They improve the environmental quality of the urban environment and the aesthetics of urban landscapes...more details Format:Hardback Pages:467
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Burton G Malkiel;Jianping Taylor Patricia AMei
ISBN:9780393333589
In From Wall Street to the Great Wall, Burton G. Malkiel and his coauthors show how average investors can tap into the opportunities this affords without losing their shirts. The authors present firsthand knowledge from their research trips to China on how Chinese firms and industries...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:330
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Jianren Mao
ISBN:9781420088991
Highlights in "Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia": GROUNDBREAKING CONTENT - the first clinically focused text dedicated to the newly emerging area of pain medicine known as opioid-induced hyperalgesia (OIH) provides pain specialists...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:192
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Jianfeng Ma
ISBN:9783642009945
"Security Access in Wireless Local Area Networks - From Architecture and Protocols to Realization" deals with the method and technology of the WLAN security architecture...more details Format:Paperback Pages:454
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Jianfeng Ma
ISBN:9783642101625
Intended for researchers in wireless and computer technology, as well as graduate students, this book covers in depth the technology of WLAN security architecture...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:451
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Jianfeng Ma
ISBN:9783642009402
"Security Access in Wireless Local Area Networks - From Architecture and Protocols to Realization" deals with the method and technology of the WLAN security architecture...more details Format:Hardback Pages:431
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Jeff Kelley;Jean Marc Jianguo SuiDecrop
ISBN:9789889839536
A November 2001 account in the "New York Metro" states, "The staff at the Tribeca Grand Hotel got a shock recently when a man drove up and unloaded a ten-foot-high fiberglass statue of a Mao Tse-tung jacket on the street in front of the lobby entrance. The "gift" came courtesy of Tribeca gallery owner Ethan Cohen...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Norman Manea;Angela Jianu
ISBN:9780374529468
"The Hooligan's Return" is Norman Manea's long-awaited memoir, a portrait of an artist that ranges freely from his early childhood in prewar Romania to his return there in 1997. In October l941...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
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Norman Manea;Angela Jianu
ISBN:9780374282561
The long-awaited memoir by one of Romania's greatest living authors "The Hooligan's Return" is a haunting memoir, vividly re-creating Norman Manea's harrowing childhood in Fascist Romania while providing indelible portraits of Ceausescu's dictatorship and the pre- and post-Communist eras...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:400
This book compiles a wonderful collection of original scientific articles from a group of outstanding scientists around the world who have worked or are affiliated with the Nobel Laureate Professor William N Lipscomb throughout his scientific career...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:400
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Jian-Guo Ma
ISBN:9783540438069
As the first wave of third-generation communication devices arrives, the technological and societal effects are becoming widespread. The ability to communicate via hand-held devices through voice...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:246
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Jianren Mao
ISBN:9781600212055
Basic science and clinical pain research is particularly challenging for several reasons. This book covers such topics as: central mechanisms of pain and pain modulation and clinical use of ion channel blockers (Chen); spinal glutamatergic mechanisms and issues related to glutamate receptor antagonists in pain management (Mao); and more....more details Format:Hardback Pages:351
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Jadwiga Indulska;Laurence T Ma JianhuaYang
ISBN:9783540735489
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, UIC 2007, held in Hong Kong...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:1257
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Jianhua Ma;Laurence T Jin HaiYang
ISBN:9783540380917
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, UIC 2006, held in Wuhan...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:1190