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Captain Marvel starts a new era with a new look, new villains, and a new mission!"--

A Cantonese-Tauiwi queer man reflects on his lived experiences as a means to explore the intersection of Asian-ness and queerness in Aotearoa New Zealand. Queer Asian communities in Aotearoa New Zealand can suffer erasure caused by the dominance of whiteness in queer spaces. Written as a deliberate challenge to this invisibility, author Sidney Gig-Jan Wong ¿¿¿ reflects on his life and upbringing in order to explore the intersections of his own...

Shortlisted, 2018 Taste Canada Awards and 2018 Writers' Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for Non-FictionLonglisted, 2018 RBC Taylor PrizeJan Wong knows food is better when shared, so when she set out to write a book about home cooking in France, Italy, and China, she asked her 22-year-old son, Sam, to join her. While he wasn't keen on spending excessive time with his mom, he dreamed of becoming a chef. Ultimately, it was an opportunity h...

Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer -- and one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University -- her education included wielding a pneumatic drill at the Number One Machine Tool Factory. In the name of the Revolution, she renounced rock and roll, hauled pig manure in the paddy fields, and turned in a fellow student who...

Jan Wong is a third-generation Canadian, born and raised in Montreal. She was the acclaimed Toronto Globe and Mail's Beijing correspondent for the from 1988 to 1994. A graduate of McGill University, Beijing University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, her first book, Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now, was named one of Time magazine's top ten books of 1996. She lives in Toronto.

Een overzicht van Nederland voor geologen, ingenieurs en studenten aardwetenschappen.Nederland is een dusdanig vlak en laaggelegen land, dat ongeveer de helft zou worden overspoeld door de zee als we geen dijken zouden hebben gehad. Toch is juist hierdoor de onderliggende geologie fascinerend. Het land is rijk aan koolwaterstoffen, kolen, zout, grondwater en andere geologische hulpbronnen. 'Geology of the Netherlands' is een uitgebreide naslag...

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These compelling, poignant, lovely vignettes will resonate with anyone who has ever adopted. . . . A beautiful collection that belongs in the home of adoptive families everywhere." --Jane A. Brown, MSW, creator, Adoption Playshops!

Hoping to make amends, Wong returns to Beijing to find the classmate she betrayed during the Cultural Revolution. As she traces her way from one former comrade to the next, Wong unearths not only the fate of the woman she is searching for but a web of fates that mirrors the dramatic journey of contemporary China.