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|  | | Becoming Tough
Becoming Tough provides exercises that facilitate concentration and physical fitness.
How does one become tough? The answer proposed in Becoming Tough is, “Whatever kind of toughness you seek, it is achieved in the same way as any skill, through practice and study, that is, through training.”
To that end, Becoming Tough presents exercises whose outstanding feature is their use of simple repetitive movements to facilitate concentration. Because a long-lasting physical activity is easier to sustain than a long-lasting mental task, the poorer one’s ability to concentrate, the more important this assistance becomes. Physical fitness is a significant by-product, not only | |  | | Journey Into A Far Country
A novel of love and prejudice in modern China.
Journey Into A Far Country is a novel of love and prejudice in modern China. Thomas, a long-time foreign resident, discovers China through random travels, “living vignettes” that are circumscribed life experiences with no relation to the rest of his life until he is attacked on an isolated mountain in Sichuan Province. The consequences of the assault evolve as Thomas tries to defeat a vengeful policeman, be accepted into a Chinese family, and lay his Chinese alter ego, Lóng Măn Róng (Dragon Full Glory), to rest. In successive roles as patient, prisoner, monk, farmer, bouncer, and gangs | |  | | The Easiest Way to Learn Mandarin
"The Easiest Way to Learn Mandarin: Image Maps, Word Images, and Other Mnemonics" applies more than a dozen established memory techniques to the study of Mandarin, most for the first time.
"The Easiest Way to Learn Mandarin: Image Maps, Word Images, and Other Mnemonics" applies more than a dozen established memory techniques to the study of Mandarin, most for the first time. The mnemonic methods include a mnemonic dictionary of over 1,400 Mandarin words; 660 clipart illustrations, a dozen large image maps; the 100 most common Mandarin words; illustrated body parts; spelling, sound, and meaning of Chinese names; and more. The book's greater value lies in its potential for helping users expand their knowledge of Mandarin beyond the presented material through the use of mnemonic m | |  | | The Little Chinese Dreammaster
The Little Chinese Dreammaster is a fantasy set in the Qing Dynasty of China.
Although it was a maxim in her village that only nightmares became real, a young lucid dreamer did not believe that until she had a terrifying encounter with a dreammaster who lived two thousand years earlier. Morning Star’s dream was within Dreammaster Black Jade’s dream. That was a sentence of insanity or death. To avoid either of those fates, Morning Star had to become a dreammaster and something more.
The Little Chinese Dreammaster is a fantasy set in the Qing Dynasty of China. The first part (Morning Star) begins within the dreammaster’s dream. Morning Star escapes, but her effor | |  | | The Superior Men of Xinjiang
The Superior Men of Xinjiang is an action novel set against the background of the centuries old conflict between the native Uygurs and the Chinese.
May 2011
An environmental crisis in the largely desolate Xinjiang region of the People’s Republic of China re-ignites the centuries-old conflict between the native Uygurs and their recurrent Chinese masters. The escalating disaster draws in criminals, opportunistic politicians, terrorists, and military forces. A Uygur doctor and Chinese colleague defy Beijing and enter the affected region. A Chinese-American doctor, Dr Robert Jiang, with the aid of an American special operations team, infiltrates Xinjiang to rescue his Uygur and Chinese friends from gangsters, Muslim radicals, and Special | |  | | The Vengeance of Superior Men
The Vengeance of Superior Men is a political/action novel that builds on the characters and storyline in The Superior Men of Xinjiang (though the story will also stand on its own).
Robert Jiang, a Chinese American doctor and martial artist, faces the mounting consequences of exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) attempts to use an environmental disaster against the large Muslim minority in the vast resource-rich Xinjiang Autonomous Region. In that expose, Robert was aided by a native Uyghur doctor, a young Uyghur-Chinese woman, a Chinese friend, and a Special Operations Group (SOG) of the National Clandestine Service. After initially rejecting Robert, the young woman, Shamema, accepts him as her lover, and together they fend off attempts by the Chinese Bureau of I |
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The Twins of Moon
by Frank Ryan
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 Epic YA fantasy by bestselling author, Frank P. Ryan. Eefa and her twin brother Magio are on the run, hunted by a ruthless predator with a pack of wolf hounds. What fate awaits them in the magical Valley of the Raptors? Is it freedom or a trap?
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The Kalugu
by Edward Patterson
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 The Kalugu is the third book in the fifteen book series, The Adventures of Lord Belmundus, a remarkable tale of others worlds, strange customs, beauty and warfare; and, in its grips, lands a young celebrity, who has the chaps to play the many parts t |
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