JANPANESE AESTHETICS AND CULTURE (A READER) (Hết hàng)
Author: Nancy G Hume
Thể loại: Cooking - Science - Social - Economic (ISBN: 9780791424001 | Giá: 1,969,000 đ)
This anthology is intended to supplement courses in which Japanese aesthetics and culture are taught. The essays assume little background knowledge; they do represent seminal thought in literary, cultural, and aesthetic criticism, and are well known to scholars for their clarity and straightforward exposition, making them especially useful to the Westerner who does not speak Japanese.Some of the essays provide a general introduction to the basic theories of Japanese aesthetics, others deal with ...

THE SAGE DICTIONARY OF CULTURAL STUDIES (Hết hàng)
Author: Chris Barker
Thể loại: Cooking - Science - Social - Economic (ISBN: 9780761973416 | Giá: 1,107,000 đ)
`A scholarly lexicon and stimulating "rough guide" for cultural studies as it confronts and navigates the shifting sands of past, present and future′ - Tim O′Sullivan, Head of Media and Cultural Production, De Montfort University   `I′m certain undergraduate and postgraduate readers will consider the Dictionary to be a highly useful resource. Taken together, the definitions provide a effective overview of the field′ - Stuart Allan, Reader in ...

WUTHERING HEIGHTS (HARDBACK) (Hết hàng)
Author: Emily Bronte
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780241425138 | Giá: 333,000 đ)
Explore Bronte’s world of crime and punishment, nature and culture, and love and loss.Since its original publication in 1847, the tempestuous relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine has long echoed on the moors. After being spurned by his lover and degraded by his adoptive family, Heathcliff leaves his home in Yorkshire, only to return wealthy, educated, and seeking retribution. Obsession, vengeance, and jealousy will pour from this tangle of lovers in Emily Bronte’s only ...

RUSSIAN FORMALISM - A METAPOETICS (Hết hàng)
Author: Peter Steiner
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780801493669 | Giá: 1,145,000 đ)
Russian Formalism, one of the twentieth century's most important movements in literary criticism, has received far less attention than most of its rivals. Examining Formalism in light of more recent developments in literary theory, Peter Steiner here offers the most comprehensive critique of Formalism to date. Steiner studies the work of the Formalists in terms of the major tropes that characterized their thought. He first considers those theorists who viewed a literary work as a mechanism, an ...

BUSINESS & SOCIETY - ETHICS, SUSTAINABILITY & STAKEHOLDER (Hết hàng)
Author: Archie B Carroll, Jill Brown, Ann K Buchholtz
Thể loại: Cooking - Science - Social - Economic (ISBN: 9780357718629 | Giá: 8,843,000 đ)
Gain a solid understanding of the importance of business ethics, sustainability and stakeholder management using a strong managerial perspective within Carroll/Brown's BUSINESS AND SOCIETY: ETHICS, SUSTAINABILITY, AND STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT, 11E. You discover, first-hand, how today�s most successful business decision makers both balance and protect the interests of various stakeholders, including investors, employees, consumers, the community, and the environment. You learn how strong business ...

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY (Hết hàng)
Author: Steven W Lee
Thể loại: Cooking - Science - Social - Economic (ISBN: 9780761930808 | Giá: 5,843,000 đ)
The Encyclopedia of School Psychology is the first comprehensive guide to this field, featuring the latest research on school learning, motivation, and educational assessment. Approximately 250 entries by 175 contributing authors from psychology, education and counseling, child development, and special education address student success, behavior disorders, intelligence testing, learning disabilities, strategies to improve academic skills, and ...

FRANKENSTEIN HARDBACK (Hết hàng)
Author: Mary W Shelley
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780241425121 | Giá: 436,000 đ)
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797–1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous, sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the novel was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared on the second edition, published in 1823. Shelley ...

TENDER IS THE FLESH (Hết hàng)
Author: Agustina Bazterrica
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9781982150921 | Giá: 327,000 đ)
Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore.His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special ...

SAVVY SHELDON FEELS GOOD AS HELL (Hết hàng)
Author: Taj McCoy
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780778311843 | Giá: 254,000 đ)
A sexy romance about a plus-size sweetheart who gets a full-life makeover after a brutal breakup and falls for the incredibly hot contractor renovating her home.Savvy Sheldon spends a lot of time tiptoeing around the cracks in her life: her high-stress and low-thanks job, her clueless boyfriend and the falling-apart kitchen she inherited from her beloved grandma—who taught her how to cook and how to love people by feeding them. But when Savvy’s world starts to crash down ...

VISUAL THINKING - THE HIDDEN GIFTS OF PEOPLE WHO THINK IN PICTURES, PATTERNS, AND ABSTRACTIONS (Hết hàng)
Author: Temple Grandin
Thể loại: Cooking - Science - Social - Economic (ISBN: 9780593543115 | Giá: 277,000 đ)
“A powerful and provocative testament to the diverse coalition of minds we’ll need to face the mounting challenges of the twenty-first century.” —Steve Silberman“An absolute eye-opener.” —Frans de WaalA landmark book that reveals, celebrates, and advocates for the special minds and contributions of visual thinkersA quarter of a century after her memoir, Thinking in Pictures, forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin— ...

FROM LITTLE TOKYO, WITH LOVE (Hết hàng)
Author: Sarah Kuhn
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780593403082 | Giá: 176,000 đ)
Celebrated author Sarah Kuhn reinvents the modern fairy tale in this intensely personal yet hilarious novel of a girl whose search for a storybook ending takes her to unexpected places in both her beloved LA neighborhood and her own guarded heart. If Rika's life seems like the beginning of a familiar fairy tale--being an orphan with two bossy cousins and working away in her aunts' business--she would be the first to reject that foolish notion. After all, she loves her family (even if her ...

AI 2041 (Hết hàng)
Author: Kai Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan
Thể loại: Cooking - Science - Social - Economic (ISBN: 9780593240717 | Giá: 336,000 đ)
AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Within two decades, aspects of daily human life will be unrecognizable. AI will generate unprecedented wealth, revolutionize medicine and education through human-machine symbiosis, and create brand-new forms of communication and entertainment. In liberating us from routine work, however, AI will also challenge the organizing principles of our economic and social order. Meanwhile, AI will bring new risks in the form of autonomous ...

A MIND FOR NUMBERS - HOW TO EXCEL AT MATH AND SCIENCE (Hết hàng)
Author: Barbara Oakley PhD
Thể loại: Cooking - Science - Social - Economic (ISBN: 9780399165245 | Giá: 297,000 đ)
Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand how it feels to struggle with math. She flunked her way through high school math and science courses, before enlisting in the army immediately after graduation. When she saw how her lack of ...

RIOT DAYS (Hết hàng)
Author: Maria Alyokhina
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780141986616 | Giá: 281,000 đ)
From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in Siberian jail for standing up for what she believed in. 'One of the most brilliant and inspiring things I've read in years. Couldn't put it down. This book is freedom' Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick 'A women's prison memoir like no other! One tough cookie!' @MargaretAtwood 'Once you begin reading, you are completely disarmed, unable to ...

ONE OF US IS LYING (Hết hàng)
Author: Karen M McManus
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction & Poetry (ISBN: 9780241562017 | Giá: 205,000 đ)
“Pretty Little Liars meets The Breakfast Club” (Entertainment Weekly) in this addictive mystery about what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive. Pay close attention and you might solve this.On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention.    Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule.    Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming ...