Wu: 544 books
I Ching The Book of Answers
The Profound and Timeless Classic of Universal Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2005
This revised and expanded edition of Wu Wei's well-loved version of the I Ching is unparalleled in its clarity, making this the easiest-to-grasp I Ching ever published. The I Ching is a book of answers that miraculously guides us to success in every possible situation. Yet, if we are to rely with absolute...
Whither China?
Restarting the Reform Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
How has China been able to maintain high-speed economic growth during the last thirty-plus years and successfully transform itself from a poor, backward, and developing country to become the world's second-largest economy? What are the challenges that China faces today and how will she deal with them...
I Ching Wisdom Volume Two
More Guidance from the Book of Answers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
This sequel to the popular I Ching Wisdom Volume One contains more of Wu Wei's profound sayings drawn from the I Ching's deepest wisdom. Wu Wei has added his enlightened comments to these sayings to help us apply the practical, timeless wisdom of the I Ching to our lives. The wisdom of the I Ching reveals...
by Yanrui Wu
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
China has enjoyed unprecedented high economic growth for three decades. This growth has however been unbalanced and has led to some serious consequences which Chinese policy makers are now trying to rectify. One of the consequences is the deterioration of regional disparity which is threatening the...
Nanomaterials for Tumor Targeting Theranostics
A Proactive Clinical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Nanomaterials offer great potential for effective tumor diagnosis and therapy combing diagnostic agents and therapeutic drugs into one platform. In this book, the most recent progress of main nanomaterials and their applications in tumor targeting theranostics is presented. It summarizes the recent...
Radicals on the Road
Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Traveling to Hanoi during the U.S. war in Vietnam was a long and dangerous undertaking. Even though a neutral commission operated the flights, the possibility of being shot down by bombers in the air and antiaircraft guns on the ground was very real. American travelers recalled landing in blackout...
The Attention Merchants
The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
One of the Best Books of the Year
**The San Francisco Chronicle * The Philadelphia Inquirer * Vox * The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch ( a New Yorker and Fortune Book of the Year) and who coined the term "net neutrality”—a revelatory,...
by Johnny Wu
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Instagram Sensation Johnny Wu has amassed a gargantuan following for his photographs depicting action figures starring in glorious, cinematic adventures. This first book collection of Wu's work will take you on a hero's journey through action figure eyes with appearances throughout from some of pop culture's most beloved and recognized toys.
Will the Boat Sink the Water?
The Life of China's Peasants
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
The Chinese economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the fifteenth century. They are truly the voiceless in modern...
William Hazlitt
The First Modern Man
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Romanticism is where the modern age begins, and Hazlitt was its most articulate spokesman. No one else had the ability to see it whole; no one else knew so many of its politicians, poets, and philosophers. By interpreting it for his contemporaries, he speaks to us of ourselves - of the culture and...
by Xiaolong Wu
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
In this book, Xiaolong Wu offers a comprehensive and in-depth study of the Zhongshan state during China's Warring States Period (476–221 BCE). Analyzing artefacts, inscriptions, and grandiose funerary structures within a broad archaeological context, he illuminates the connections between power...
The Color of Success
Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013
The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of...
by Yiching Wu Wu
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
The Cultural Revolution began from above, yet it was students and workers at the grassroots who advanced the movement's radical possibilities by acting and thinking for themselves. Resolving to suppress the resulting crisis, Mao set events in motion in 1968 that left out in the cold those rebels who had taken it most seriously, Yiching Wu shows.
My Mom is a Fob
Earnest Advice in Broken English from Your Asian-American Mom
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Fob (noun)-derived from the acronym F.O.B. ("fresh off the boat")
Does your mom still make Peking duck instead of turkey on Thanksgiving, own a giant cleaver, or take twenty-four more napkins than she needs at Chipotle?
Your mom may be a fob.
Through their hit blog "My Mom Is...