In the United States in 1993 the American Cancer Society estimated that there were about 1,300,000 new cases of invasive cancer diagnosed. At the time of presentation about 70% of those patients represented limited local regional disease without evidences of distant dissemination. About 30% of the patients had demonstrated metastatic disease at the time of initial diagnosis or about 390,000 patients. Of those patients with local regional disease about 56% would be cured by the best treatme...

When your sister murders three hundred people, you can't help but wonder why 'Tiffany Tsao's visceral debut...reads a bit like Crazy Rich Asians if the book began with familicide instead of romance" CrimeReads Gwendolyn and Estella are as close as sisters can be. But now Gwendolyn is lying in a coma, the sole survivor after Estella poisons their entire family. As Gwendolyn struggles to regain consciousness, she desperately retraces her memories, trying to uncover the moment that led to suc...

Practical Tai Chi Training: A 9-Stage Method for Mastery leads the reader into the inner energy practice of tai chi and serves as a bridge to connect tai chi theory to practice. Jesse Tsao, PhD, and his longtime student Jason Weil provide clear training stages useful to both tai chi players and tai chi instructors. Teaching tips, sidebars, new translations of ancient texts, and over 200 illustrations make the technical topics easier to understand. Detailed descriptions explain methods for ...

Tai chi bang combines meditative self-healing and self-defense fundamental practice, and is based on characteristic tai chi postures. Tai chi bang provides an object to focus on between the palms, bonding the two hands as they move together, making it easy and fun for beginners to feel qi (氣), the vital energy. Some people who find it difficult to quiet their minds find this practice especially effective in gathering attention. Holding the stick with both palms helps them concentrate and b...

Sioe Jeng Tsao brengt het grootste deel van haar jeugd door in Alphen aan den Rijn, waar haar ouders een succesvolle toko runnen. Opgroeien als een van de weinige Nederlands-Aziatische kinderen is daar niet makkelijk, en thuis is ze weer niet Chinees genoeg. Door haar worsteling met de hoge verwachtingen van haar moeder, pesterijen, een laag zelfbeeld en racisme, raakt Sioe Jeng steeds verder van zichzelf verwijderd. Maar wanneer Sioe Jeng ervoor kiest haar eigen pad te bewandelen om zo ha...

Set in an alternate reality where pregnancy endows women with exceptional powers, one new mother uncovers terrifying truths about herself and life in this philosophical and propulsive tale of a woman and mother in crisis.In a world where drastic measures have averted the global environmental crisis, humans too are now subject to great transformation.Vivi should be happy she’s pregnant. But she’s troubled by a looming reality that seemingly bothers no one el...

A propulsive feminist gothic novel blending Indonesian folklore with Islamic mysticism; violence with complicity; care with harm, and familial love with the limits of sisterhood.Three sisters.A caretaker, a traveller, and a bride.Mutiara and Maya find their lives irrevocably altered when their younger sister, Annisa, commits a devastating act.What led Annisa to get on a motorbike with a bomb strapped to her ...

«La obra singular de Guillermo del Toro lo ha convertido en un cineasta clave de fin del siglo pasado y principios del presente.» - del prólogo de Felipe CazalsEn una amena conversación informal junto a su amigo Leonardo García Tsao, crítico de cine con una larga trayectoria , Guillermo del Toro recorre en estas páginas sus tempranas influencias, s...

Résultant d’une convergence entre la recherche de main d’œuvre de l’administration de la Guerre française, malgré des désaccords au sein du gouvernement, et la volonté des autorités chinoises de se rapprocher des Alliés afin de se préserver des visées japonaises, environ 37 000 Chinois débarquèrent à Marseille à partir du 24 août 1916. L’auteur retrace au travers d’une approche chronologique et thématique le parcours de ces travailleurs, soumis à un encadrement militaire tenu d’exercer un ...

A new English translation of an existential tale of obsession by Indonesia’s celebrated writer of absurdist realismA Penguin ClassicIn Bloomington, Indiana, Fanton Drummond’s life changes when he encounters Olenka Danton in an elevator. Infatuated at first sight, Fanton begins to see Olenka everywhere, from bus stops and parks to the imagined settings of his mind’s eye. Soon they begin an affair, and Fanton steps deeper into Olenka’s myster...

Sergius Seeks Bacchus is a heartbreaking and humorous rumination on what it means to be in the minority in terms of sexuality, ethnicity, and religion. Drawing on the poet's life as an openly gay writer of Bataknese descent and Christian background, the collection furnishes readers with an alternative gospel, a book of bittersweet and tragicomic good news pieced together from encounters with ridicule, persecution, loneliness, and also happiness.The thirty-three poems in Nor...

In this new book, Frederick Chavalit Tsao and Chris Laszlo argue that current approaches to leadership fail to produce positive outcomes for either businesses or the communities they serve. Employee disengagement and customer fickleness remain high, resulting in a lack of creativity and collaboration at all levels of entrepreneurial activity. Investor demand for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) continues to be poorly integrated into profit strategies.Drawing on extensive...