During the Vietnam War Bao Ninh served with the Glorious 27th Youth Brigade. Of the five hundred men who went to war with the brigade in 1969, he is one of only ten who survived. The Sorrow of War is his autobiographical novel.
The focus of the volume is on the texts produced by the various groups, examining questions of textual production (spirit-writing), textual traditions (how to “modernize” traditional discourse), textual authority (the role of texts in ...
The volume contains eleven chapters covering a wide range of aspects of diachronic Austroasiatic syntax, most of which contain new hypotheses, and several address topics that have never been dealt with before in print, such as clause ...
In The Thinsulin(TM) Program, bariatric internist Tu Song-Anh Nguyen and psychiatrist Charles Nguyen share their proven, science-based, two-stage plan for weight loss.
A timely response to the need to improve the quality of higher education in order to build work readiness in students, this book: Adds a critical, global dimension to this topical area in higher education as well as society’s concerns ...
Architectural historians, aficionados of modernist architecture, and anyone interested in Vietnamese culture will find that this book is a positive story about Vietnamese aspirations for independence and the value of modernist architecture ...
What if you could break your existing trade-offs between superior customer experience and low cost? This is the promise of a connected strategy.
Tãâet (short for Tãâet Nguyãen £âan) is the Vietnamese Lunar New Year. It's a time of celebration and it involves much preparation. This story provides an introduction to this most important Vietnamese cultural holiday.
In Smart Selling on the Phone and Online, you’ll learn how to: overcome ten different forms of “paralysis” and reestablish momentum; sell in sound bites, not long-winded speeches; ask the right questions to reveal customer needs; ...
“Incites us to reflect on fiction and philosophy, knowledge and truth, and brilliantly illustrates the art of the essay.” — The New Republic "Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of ...