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October 2009Das Zeichen des Jägers
Kriminalroman
by Soti Triantafillou, Birgit Hildebrand
New York im Sommer 1990: Privatdetektiv Stuart Malone leidet unter der Hitze, unter Schlaflosigkeit und trüben Erinnerungen. Daß die New Yorker Polizei ihn und seine Assistentin Deenie zu laufenden Ermittlungen hinzuziehen will, hebt seine Laune nicht unbedingt. Doch die ehemaligen Kollegen brauchen seine Hilfe bei einer rätselhaften Mordserie in Chinatown. Denn dem ersten Anschein nach haben die Getöteten nur eines gemeinsam: das Zeichen eines Hirsches, das ihnen auf den Arm gemalt wurde.
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The ArtsJune 2021Genre and performance: film and television
by Christine Cornea
Looking at contemporary film and television, this book explores how popular genres frame our understanding of on-screen performance. Previous studies of screen performance have tended to fix upon star actors, directors, or programme makers, or they have concentrated upon particular training and acting styles. Moving outside of these confines, this book provides a truly interdisciplinary account of performance in film and television and examines a much neglected area in our understanding of how popular genres and performance intersect on screen. Each chapter concentrates upon a particular genre or draws upon generic case studies in examining the significance of screen performance. Individual chapters examine contemporary film noir, horror, the biopic, drama-documentary, the western, science fiction, comedy performance in 'spoof news' programmes and the television 'sit com' and popular Bollywood films.
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Biography & True StoriesFebruary 2017Jackie Chan：Never Grow Up, Only Get Older
by Jackie Chan, Zhu Mo
This is an autobiography of Chinese Kongfu star Jackie Chan. The book is a true recording of this international superstar’s growth and life experience for the last 50 years. It tells us the legendary actor’s stories, and also reflects a fantastic acting age.
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September 2020My Day with Gong Gong
by Sennah Yee (author), Elaine Chen (illustrator)
A day in Chinatown takes an unexpected turn when a bored little girl makes a connection with her grandpa.
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Computer games: strategy guidesAugust 2012The Nintendo DS Super Games Edition
Professor Layton and Pandora's Box / The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks / Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
by The Cheat Mistress
Cheats Unlimited are the specialists when it comes to video game cheats, tips and walkthrough guides. Fronted by the glamorous and gorgeous Cheatmistress, Cheats Unlimited has helped over five million gamers worldwide over the last 12 years. Through phone lines, fax machines, the Web and WAP sites and now eBooks, we have been there for gamers when they've needed us the most.With EZ Guides we aim to help you through the top games on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, DS and PSP, step by step from beginning to end in an easy and entertaining way. Along the way we'll teach you about the game's top secrets and the best way to unlock that Achievement / Trophy. EZ Guides are written by dedicated gamers who are here to help you through the difficult times in gaming.EZ Guides: The DS Super Games Collection contains every answer for Professor Layton and Pandora's Box, the main story guide for The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, plus the mission guide for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. You have no reason to ever be stuck on three of the DS's top games.Formats Covered:Nintendo DS / DS Lite / Dsi
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Children's & YAChina Tales·The Chinese Dragon
by Judy Petrosian
The Chinese Dragon beginning with the dragon dance performance in Chinatown, tells the important significance of Chinese dragon to Chinese nation. One day, Peter told his Chinese teacher Long Laoshi that he had saw him in the dragon dance. So Long Laoshi taught children the important significance of dragon in Chinese culture in class. He also introduced varieties of cultures elements with dragon, such as the Chinese Zodiac, Kowloon in Hong Kong, the Forbidden City, the dragon boat,etc. In the end, Long Laoshi advised all class members to make a dragon like the one that was in the dance.
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MysteryJune 2014Slice
A Micki Li Mystery: Book One
by Mary Jo Kim
Boston's worst crimes have her name on them.In Chinatown, she's known as Hyun Sook. At her home, she's Mom. On the inner-city ball fields, she's Coach. To her Irish-cop partner, she's Mick. At headquarters, she's Detective Li. To the killer who's carving up convicted pedophiles, and the mysterious man who's trying to snatch kids off the city's panicked streets . . . She's trouble.
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Computer games: strategy guidesAugust 2012iPhone Games Exposed
by The Cheat Mistress
iPhone Games Exposed: A Beginner's Guide is a collection of 50 classic reviews compiled from the website, iphonegamesunlimited.co.uk, featuring games of many different styles and levels of quality. Several of the names may be familiar to you, while others may be catching your eye for the first time. What we aim to do is help you to spend your money wisely in the App Store, picking off the games that will give you the best value for your money, while also warning you against other that might not be quite as fun as their initial description may sound. iPhone Games Exposed: A Beginner's Guide includes Doodle Jump, Angry Birds, Plants vs. Zombies, Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, James Cameron's Avatar: The Game, Resident Evil 4, Street Fighter IV, Assassin's Creed II: Discovery and Spider: The Secret Of Bryce Manor, amongst many others. Format iPhone / iPod Touch
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EducationOn the Learning of Chinese
by Marton, F.
Although more people speak Chinese than any other language on Earth, proficiency in Chinese is largely confined to the people who live in or adjacent to the Chinese Mainland and Taiwan, and to the ethnic Chinese inhabitants of the various “Chinatowns” in countries around the world. Despite its allure, many people find Chinese a hard language to learn, including a considerable number of children who learn it as mother tongue. The basic units of written Chinese are ideographic symbols called characters; and the meaning and pronunciation of each character is determined by the tone attached to it by the speaker. Facing the very large number of Chinese characters and words, it seems impossible for learners, regardless of their native language, to master the language other than via rote memorization. The attempt to facilitate the route to proficiency in Chinese has understandably attracted the attention of numerous psycholinguistic researchers and educators. Using the Theory of Variation as the primary learning framework, the authors of this book conducted a number of large-scale and robustly-designed studies to investigate the relationship between the learning and teaching of Chinese, mostly among native speakers However we believe that the results are applicable to the learning of Chinese as a second language. Studies into ways of understanding the phonological and orthographical acquisition of characters are reported; ways of helping learners come to terms with reading Chinese, a textual language that does not always correspond word-for word with the spoken discourse, are explained; and the implications of the evidence for Chinese curriculum and syllabus design are pointedly addressed by the contributors. The authors believe that there are effective ways to become skilled in Chinese and that learning Chinese can be pleasurable and interesting. They provide empirical evidence for educators, parents, policymakers and readers interested in Chinese language education. They also illuminate the path to the mastery of Chinese in schools and how Chinese should be taught in today’s world.
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Colonialism & imperialismJanuary 2017Reading Colonies
Property and Control of the British Far Eas
by Rohan B. E. PRICE
By 1945, everywhere one looked in the Far East the British Empire was being openly questioned or was failing outright. Yet in the previous century, the British had been the pre-eminent imperial power from Weihaiwei to North Borneo. Reading Colonies: Property and Control of the British Far East investigates how the British held on for so long. Rent control legislation, and other measures of property law such as land improvement opportunities, are nominated as key tools used to frustrate decolonization in most Eastern colonies. British colonial administrations tried long and hard to inhibit the dialectical discord between their colonial hierarchism and local forms of nationalism with the prompts and plaudits of property policy. In cases where indigenous landlordism masqueraded as patriotism, independence came quickly (Ceylon and Burma). Where public housing established itself as a key post-war plank of social policy, freedom from British rule was a more gradual affair (British Malaya and Hong Kong). This study concludes that British colonial regimes did not offer a share of their industrial modernity to stay at the apex of political power, but readily adjusted old-style landlordism to keep nationalist usurpers at bay.
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How I saved Einstein's Life
by Cornelia Franz and Petra Baan (ill)
It’s shortly before midnight on February 28, 2020, and Emily is on board the Queen Mary 2, sailing toward New York. Tomorrow is her 12th birthday and the ocean crossing is her birthday present. Suddenly, she finds herself in an entirely new place and time -- on board a refugee ship in the year 1913! The same happens to Lorenzo and Malik, who have made this trip before. They relate the news that after the ship arrives in New York, a fire will break out, killing and injuring many on board. They must prevent this catastrophe! Somehow they have to find a way to travel back in time. If there’s anyone that can help, it’s Albert Einstein. A suspenseful adventure story that looks back in time to 1913, when many German citizens left everything behind to start a new life in a foreign land.
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FictionThe Partition
by Don Lee
Twenty-one years after the publication of his landmark debut collection Yellow, Don Lee returns to the short story form for his sixth book, The Partition. The Partition is an updated exploration of Asian American identity, this time with characters who are presumptive model minorities in the arts, academia, and media. Spanning decades, these nine novelistic stories traverse an array of cities, from Tokyo to Boston, Honolulu to El Paso, touching upon transient encounters in local bars, restaurants, and hotels. Culminating in a three-story cycle about a Hollywood actor, The Partition incisively examines heartbreak, identity, family, and relationships, the characters searching for answers to universal questions: Where do I belong? How can I find love? What defines an authentic self?
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FictionFrost & Payne - Die mechanischen Kinder 1: Die Jagd beginnt
by Luzia Pfyl
Former thief Lydia Frost runs an agency for lost and missing property. Her latest job sees her reunited with the notorious Madame Yueh and her so-called ‘Dragons’ – the very organization from which she only recently managed to extricate herself! Adding to her woes, Frost is tasked with tracking down missing Pinkerton agent Jackson Payne. But the American detective is on a mission of his own. Frost soon finds herself caught in a crossfire and must choose between Payne’s life and her own freedom.
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Biography & True StoriesNovember 20079 1/2 Years Behind the Green Door, A Memoir
A Mitchell Brothers Stripper Remembers Her Lover Artie Mitchell, Hunter S. Thompson, and the Killing That Rocked San Francisco
by Simone Corday
It's the 80's and we are behind the scenes at the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theater, which gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson called "the Carnegie Hall of public sex in America." The theater and its steamy live shows are a countercultural venue for celebrities, and for San Francisco politicians and journalists. They are drawn by the beautiful strippers and the backroom hospitality of their outrageous porn king hosts, Artie and Jim Mitchell--who directed the groundbreaking porn film, Behind the Green Door, starring Marilyn Chambers. Simone Corday, who danced at the Mitchell Brothers Theater for nearly a decade and was a girlfriend of the late Artie Mitchell, shares her story and her insights. She is the only woman insider to write about this insular but captivating world during this period, when she was close to the impulsive Mitchells, and a friend of the theater's honorary Night Manager Hunter Thompson. Corday’s background of having an MA in English, along with her honesty, irreverent sense of humor, and keen focus as an observer, make this a delicious expose. Corday gives vivid accounts of three Mitchell Brothers films she took part in. They include the disastrous Behind the Green Door, the Sequel, a grandiose safe-sex epic with characters from Greek mythology, and their documentary on Hunter Thompson, titled The Crazy Never Die. She shares memories of her unconventional, passionate relationship with “Party Artie” Mitchell. His affectionate personal side, along with his love for his children are remembered fondly. His taste for cocaine and advancing alcoholism—that led him to disappear on binges with a succession of young dancers—is also recaptured, as well as his volatile temper, his impish sense of fun, and his charismatic, macho persona. Corday sheds light on Jim Mitchell's motives for killing Artie, and his murder trial. She reflects on her experience in the sex industry, and on her relationship with a notorious club owner. From the fun she had performing in the O’Farrell’s spotlight as the theater’s nemesis, then-San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, to her heartbreak visiting Artie’s grave a few short years later, this is a sensational ride.
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Food & DrinkSeptember 2018Brick Lane Cookbook
by Dina Begum
Brick Lane is famous for many things: for being home to the biggest Bangladeshi community in the UK, for its curry houses and Bengali sweet shops, for its graffiti, its long-running market and its beigel shops. Now, its also increasingly well known for its thriving art and fashion scene and the incredible street food available there. Dina Begum has been a regular visitor since she was a little girl eating lamb kofta rolls with her dad at the Sweet & Spicy cafe. In her first book, she celebrates Brick Lane's diverse food cultures: from the homestyle Bangladeshi curries she grew up eating to her own luscious and indulgent cakes, from Chinese-style burgers to classic Buffalo wings, from smoothie bowls to raw coffee brownies. With contributions from street food traders and restaurants including Gram Bangla, Beigel Bake, Blanchette, Chez Elles, St Sugar of London, Cafe 1001 and Moo Cantina, the Brick Lane Cookbook is a culinary map of the East End's tastiest street and a snapshot of London at its authentic, multi-cultural best.
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October 2010Choreographing Asian America
by Yutian Wong
A critical study of Asian American performance and creative process
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Erotic fictionDecember 2014The Philanderer's Wife
by Katherine Trelawney
Paddy is the charismatic film producer who has got used to having his cake and eating it. Joscelyn has tolerated her husband’s philandering for years, and has always been confident that their unusual union is happy and secure. But when one of Paddy’s girlfriends becomes pregnant all the relationships involved come under immense strain. Paddy has the competing demands of wife and mistress, and they come under threat from a third woman who is hoping to take both their places. There are difficult decisions to be made, and this prompts a dramatic end in which the Philanderer’s Wife has to decide on the future of her marriage.
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Food & DrinkTikim
Essay on Philippine Food and Culture
by Doreen G. Fernandez
Doreen Gamboa Fernandez represents “the compleat writer” – her incisive yet soulful writing, coupled with her keen understanding of the Filipino’s culture and psyche, has brought her (and us fortunate readers) into the very essence of Filipino cooking. According to her, “Writing about food should not be left to newspaper food columnists, or to restaurant reporters. It should be taken from us by historians of the culture, by dramatists and essayists, by novelists, and especially by poets. For it is an act of understanding, an extension of experience. If one can savor the word, then one can swallow the world.”
