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China
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Cecilia Lindqvist
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EMPIRE OF LIVING SYMBOLS
The origins of Chinese ideographs were not known until 1899, when a scholar went to an apothecary for some medicine made of "dragon bone." To his surprise, the bone, which had not yet been ground into powder, contained a number of carved inscriptions. Thus began the exploration of the 3000-year-old sources of the written characters still used in China today.
In this unparalleled and deeply researched book, Cecilia Lindqvist tells the story of these characters and shows how their shapes and concepts have permeated all of Chinese thought, architecture, art, and culture ...
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What Happened
Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
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Scott McClellan
With unprecedented candor, one of George W. Bush’s closest aides takes readers behind the scenes of the Bush presidency, and what exactly happened to take it off course
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The Gridlock Economy
How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives
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Michael Heller
A startling and definitive account of the “tragedy of the anticommons,” a hidden economic phenomenon that costs trillions in lost productivity and affects every field
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At First Sight
A Novel of Obsession
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Stephen Cannell
Stephen J. Cannell has written his most explosively saleable novel yet-fast paced, filled with wry humor, murder, lust and dead-on L.A. characterizations
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Hamburger America
One Man's Cross-Country Odyssey to Find the Best Burgers in the Nation
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George Motz
A State-by-State Guide to 100 Great Burger Joints
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Moon Living Abroad in China
If you have always dreamed of living in China and are ready to take that step of moving there, Moon Living Abroad in China delivers what you need to know about your move in a smart and organized
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Open
Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage
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Jenny Block
Jenny Block is your average girl next door, a suburban wife and mother for whom married life never felt quite right. She operates from the assumption that most couples who are curious about or engaged
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Party Crashing
How the Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence
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Keli Goff
One of the biggest young talents in Democratic politics takes on a subject she knows from the inside: why the new generation of black voters is leaving the Democratic Party
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Ain't No Makin' It
Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood, Third Edition
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Jay MacLeod
Jay MacLeod brought us to the "Clarendon Heights" public housing development and introduced us to Jinx and Mokey and their teenage friends—the "Hallway Hangers" and the "Brothers"—in 1987 with the
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