Many people today are familiar with Indian yoga but the secrets of the Chinese system have never been widely available. TAOIST YOGA offers a comprehensive course, which has passed down through the generations from ancient Chinese masters. Specially written to make its contents accessible to the Westerner, the book explains the mysteries of Taoist spiritual alchemy, which entails many sexual practices to preserve the generative force of the body.

As the sun starts slowly disappearing, the residents of a remote town in the desert find themselves undergoing shocking transformations in this dazzlingly eerie and bewitching novelLONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE‘A supremely confident and gifted writer’ Katie KitamuraIn Five Poems Lake, a town surrounded by impenetrable deserts, the sun is slowly disappearing overhead. A young woman keeps an apprehensi...

The dreamlike story of a young woman in contemporary Beijing forging a different life for herself, from one of our brightest new literary stars.One morning in autumn, just after breakfast, Jia Jia finds her husband dead in the bathtub of their Beijing apartment.Next to him is a piece of folded paper, a sketch of a strange creature from his dream. He has left her no other sign. Young, alone, and with many unanswered question...

For three years Song Yan has filled her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students.She finds herself adrift, but her husband seems reluctant for a child of their own. It takes the arrival of her mother-in-law, together with sudden strange parcels and stranger dreams, to shake Song Yan from her malaise. Summoned to an ancient house in the heart of the city, can she find the notes she needs to make sense of the pain and beauty in her life?...

Princess Lu knows that the throne of the Empire of the First Flame rightfully belongs to her. After all, she is the late Emperor's firstborn and has trained for the role all her life. And she can't forget made a promise to shapeshifter Nok, the boy she came to love, to win justice for his now powerless people. But even with an army at her side, Lu will need to face down a major obstacle: the current sitting Empress, her once beloved younger sister, Min.Princess Min used to live in ...

Noah used to have it good as the son of a duke. But when the almighty state religion excommunicates him, he’s suddenly tossed into a monster-infested forest in the middle of nowhere! Young an inexperienced, his odds of survival are grim. His only hope is if he can master his unique “Holy King” skill, which gives him the power to recruit monsters and humans alike—and make their skills his own.Thankfully, Noah’s a natural-born leader in the making. He quickly assembles a whole host o...

Xiao Yueze was originally her good friend's fiancé. Once, her good friend accidentally jumped into the sea to commit suicide because he lost his virginity in a bar, while Xiao Yueze blamed all the crimes on her.The wedding night.He was like an enraged lion, his hands tightly gripped around her neck, and killing intent raged in his eyes, "From tonight onwards, your good days will come to an end …"

In this book, we collected recent results on the control of underactuated mechanical systems subject to internal uncertainties and external disturbances. The strategy developed is so universal that it is not restricted to a specific system but a large class of underactuated systems. Several benchmark systems are studied in this book, including detailed literature review, system dynamics derivation, control problem formulation, and simulation verification. The control strategy developed in ...

On a certain day in a certain year, a faint shadow appeared in Mu Si Nan's eyes. Just like that, ten thousand years passed. I remember Shen Congwen saying something, "I know you came back, so I'll wait." That was why Mu Sinnan and the others had come. I remember that I love you only three words, but the hidden meaning is indescribable with words, so Mouseson didn't say it, but she did. Join Collection

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An enchanting debut novel about a young woman whose growing obsession with her boyfriend’s cat opens new possibilities for her life—but not without threatening to unravel it.“Abound in wit and restraint, Kitten explores the funny yet unsettling complexities of modern love. . . . A fearless debut!”—Weike Wang, author of Chemistry“Yu’s novel is both a kind of Gen Z parable of existential nihilis...

After suffering heartbreak right before Christmas, one man could get the gift of love after a run-in with a cute girl dressed as Santa in this shonen rom-com!Just days before Christmas, college sophomore Hasegawa Yuuta gets the worst kind of holiday surprise: his girlfriend's been cheating on him. Depressed and dodging couples on every corner, he stumbles into Shinohara Mayu--an irresistibly bold underclassman dressed like Santa and full of mischief. She's sweet, s...

Noah and his fluffy companions have escaped from the Purgatory Forest at last. As they make their way into civilization, they rescue a young noblewoman named Katarina, who quickly sees that Noah is more than he claims to be. Through Katarina’s patronage, Noah’s party is able to enter the town of Midrogue. But before they can settle in, they’ll have to get new status cards by joining the adventurer’s guild...and any good adventurer should challenge themselves with some quests. Luckily, than...