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Lan Yan

Translated by

Sam Taylor

Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family’s history through early 20th Century to present day.The history of the Yan family is inseparable from the history of China over the last century. One of the most influential business leaders of China today, Lan Yan grew up in the company of the country’s powerful elite, including Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Deng Xiaoping. Her grandfather, Yan Baohang, originally a nationali...

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Lan Yan, Fancy Novel

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Volume 1

Death had always come unexpectedly. We are grateful for your rebirth! In his previous life, he possessed trillions of dollars out of thin air. He had been reborn as a commoner, but his body was still weak. Even if he had to die, he would die anyway. Live, still live, who will stop me! To wield a sword without a sword, to wield a Secret Book without a word, to walk on a path of glory or a tomb, or to walk on a fog. For countless years on the continent, who would break the tranquility, guide...

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Lan Yan

Narrated by

Angela Lin

Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family’s history through early 20th Century to present day.The history of the Yan family is inseparable from the history of China over the last century. One of the most influential businesswomen of China today, Lan Yan grew up in the company of the country's powerful elite, including Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and other top leaders. Her grandfather, Yan Baohang, o...

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Wenhu Zhang, Yiran Shao, Manyuan Wang, Lan Yang, Zhiqiang Hu, Yansong Li, Dan Li, Zhenhu Sun, Junxian Yu

Tu Youyou's Journey in the Search for Artemisinin is an autobiographical science book chronicling in detail the great experiences of Tu Youyou from her childhood to winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.As Tu Youyou is the first female scientist from China to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, this win created a sudden wave of interest in medicine, resulting in numerous autobiographical books about Tu Youyou appearing on the market. Contrary to these mass market tit...

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Min Yang, Zi Yan, Lan Yang, Ying Zhan

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Education (R0)

This book provides research-based approaches and classroom strategies for frontline teachers and practitioners, to aid them in formulating actionable approaches to develop student assessment literacy (SAL) in school and higher education sectors. This book helps readers to:Understand the concept of SAL and its significant role in assisting students’ achievements of desirable learning goalsDesign and implement supportive classroom strategies for inducting students to ...

This volume addresses the pivotal role of feedback in enhancing students' motivation and learning. Through a series of innovative studies, it uncovers the intricacies of how students perceive and utilize feedback, offering practical strategies for educators while bridging the gap between feedback research and classroom practice.The book showcases six outstanding studies that offer unique insights into how teacher feedback influences student learning and achievement, all from the pe...

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Asia-Europe Education Dialogue

Based on a solid theoretical basis of assessment-as-learning and updated empirical evidences, this timely book significantly expands the existing scope of assessment-as-learning typically developed in Western contexts.This edited volume updates theoretical and empirical advances in assessment-as-learning in complex learning processes, brought together by an international panel of authors. The contributors provide a wide range of practical ways to harness the power of assessment-as-...

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Shang-jyh Liu, Anna Hoi Yan Fong, Tony Yuhong Lan

Patents are powerful weapons in a company's legal arsenal, with both defensive and offensive capabilities. Patents protect a company's innovation from potential infringers, while at the same time support the company's efforts to exploit their innovation commercially in the global marketplace. This book explores the role of patents in today's knowledge economy. We discuss how patents have become a valuable commodity and have a lucrative market of their own. However, to profit from patent mo...

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Dali Tan, Angela Gunder, Shaoyu Chi, Susan Picard, Yalun Zhou, Michael Wei, Pei-ni Causarano, Yan Gao, I-Ping P. Fu, Chiara Romagnoli, Xin Zhang, Wenying Zhou, Hsiao-Mei Tsai, I-Chiao Hung, Yan Xie, Lan Zhang, Hsiu-Jen Cheng, Hong Zhan, Xiaoshi Li, Justin Olmanson, Xianquan Liu, Christopher C. Heselton, Asha Srivastava, Sujane Wu, Yalin Chen

Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Second or Foreign Language, edited by Ko-Yin Sung, addresses three emerging themes in the field of Chinese language teaching and learning. (1) Increasingly ubiquitous in all language learning and teaching, and for the learning of Chinese as a second language in particular, information and communication technology (ICT) can serve as an important and effective tool. Several chapters focus on how certain emerging ICT tools are applied in teaching and learnin...

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Amir Ahmadi Arian

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Fajer Al-Kaisi

An critically-acclaimed Iranian author makes his American literary debut with this powerful and harrowing psychological portrait of modern Iran—an unprecedented and urgent work of fiction with echoes of The Stranger, 1984, and The Orphan Master’s Son—that exposes the oppressive and corrosive power of the state to bend individual lives.Yunus Turabi, a bus driver in Tehran, leads an unremarkable life. A solitary man since the unexpected deaths of hi...

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Alistair Horne

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James Adams

“EMINENTLY PROVOCATIVE AND READABLE.”—THE WALL STREET JOURNALSir Alistair Horne has been a close observer of war and history for more than fifty years and in this wise and masterly work, he revisits six battles of the past century and examines the strategies, leadership, preparation, and geopolitical goals of aggressors and defenders to reveal the one trait that links them all: hubris.In Greek tragedy, hubris is excessive human pride that challenge...

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James H. Stronge, Xianxuan Xu

Expertly motivate and engage all students. Taking a practical approach to differentiated instruction, the authors outline research-based strategies and illustrate how teachers, coaches, and administrators can use them to enhance their everyday practices. Explore ways to implement differentiated learning for students needing personalized remedial instruction and high-ability students, as well as tactics for executing instruction in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms.