Tong: 155 books

Book cover of Home in May (Storycuts)
by Su Tong
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011

Yongshan is taking her son back to Licheng to visit relatives, and to see the town where she grew up. But when they get there, all she could find were desolate houses. Even the people on the street seemed not to recognise her. But then, in the rubble of her old neighbourhood, Yongshan finds something...
Book cover of Feminist Thought

Feminist Thought

A More Comprehensive Introduction

by Rosemarie Tong
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018

A classic resource on feminist theory, Feminist Thought offers a clear, comprehensive, and incisive introduction to the major traditions of feminist theory, from liberal feminism, radical feminism, and Marxist and socialist feminism to care-focused feminism, psychoanalytic feminism, and ecofeminism....
Book cover of Chinese Marriage Traditions

Chinese Marriage Traditions

What's Right for the Christian?

by Daniel Tong
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005

Guidance and clear counsel (from a Chinese Christian church leader in Singapore) on how Chinese marriages are traditionally celebrated, and the extent to which Christians can participate; so as to both obey the commands of Scripture and be filial family members.
Book cover of Madwoman On The Bridge And Other Stories
by Su Tong
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009

Set during the fall-out of the Cultural Revolution, these bizarre and delicate stories capture the collision of the old China of vanished dynasties, with communism and today's tiger economy. The mad woman on the bridge wears a historical gown which she refuses to take off. In the height of summer...
Book cover of Thieves (Storycuts)
by Su Tong
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011

Tan Feng was my one and only friend in Sichuan. He was the same age as me: about eight or nine. Tan Feng's family lived next door to us, and their other kids were all girls, so you can imagine how they spoiled their only boy. They really adored him, but they didn't know what he got up to. Tan Feng...
Book cover of On Saturdays (Storycuts)
by Su Tong
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011

You don't expect some guy making small talk on a train to turn into a real friend, but that was just the kind of friend Papa Qi was. And afterwards, Saturday became Papa Qi's visiting day. Every Saturday. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.`
Book cover of Dance of Heartbreak/The Diary for August (Storycuts)
by Su Tong
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011

In 'Dance of Heartbreak', something happened to a young boy in Grade 4, at Red Flag Elementary School; but even today the whole affair remains fresh in his mind. He'd never met another girl like her; she was a little child of glass, beautiful in her sorrow when she ran to centre stage. For him, she...
Book cover of Another Life for Women and Three Lamps
by Su Tong
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016

These two quirky novellas about small towns and their unusual inhabitants are surprisingly dark and funny.
Book cover of Adventure Time Comics #23
by Pendleton Ward, Xiao Tong Kong, Jack Sjogren
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018

Finn and Jake are entrusted with the keys to the Breakfast Kingdom, which they will absolutely not lose in any way.
Book cover of Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide

Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide

A Distributed Real-Time Search and Analytics Engine

by Clinton Gormley, Zachary Tong
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015

Whether you need full-text search or real-time analytics of structured data—or both—the Elasticsearch distributed search engine is an ideal way to put your data to work. This practical guide not only shows you how to search, analyze, and explore data with Elasticsearch, but also helps you deal...
Book cover of Fundamentals of Predictive Text Mining
by Sholom M. Weiss, Nitin Indurkhya, Tong Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015

This successful textbook on predictive text mining offers a unified perspective on a rapidly evolving field, integrating topics spanning the varied disciplines of data science, machine learning, databases, and computational linguistics. Serving also as a practical guide, this unique book provides...
Book cover of Video Text Detection
by Tong Lu, Shivakumara Palaiahnakote, Chew Lim Tan
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014

This book presents a systematic introduction to the latest developments in video text detection. Opening with a discussion of the underlying theory and a brief history of video text detection, the text proceeds to cover pre-processing and post-processing techniques, character segmentation and recognition,...
Book cover of Colloquial Cantonese

Colloquial Cantonese

The Complete Course for Beginners

by Dana Scott Bourgerie, Keith S T Tong, Gregory James
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015

Colloquial Cantonese: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Cantonese as it is written and spoken today. Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language,...
Book cover of The Giant Baby (Storycuts)
by Su Tong
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011

It was rare for the people from Wangbao to come down from their mountain village, but one spring, they arrive in town with sensational news - a virgin birth. What's more, there is something very odd about the baby - he is as big as a child of three, black all over and missing a finger. The villagers...
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