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Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
by Viet NguyenNothing Ever Dies, Viet Thanh Nguyen writes. All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the bestselling novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of a conflict that lives on in the collective memory of both the Americans and ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Environmental Sustainability in Emerging Markets: Consumer, Organisation and Policy Perspectives (Approaches to Global Sustainability, Markets, and Governance)
Increasing evidence of environmental deterioration in emerging markets, climate change, and consequences of environmental waste have compelled not only businesses but also consumers to reduce the environmental burden, mitigate waste and preserve resources for future generations. What actions, strate... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
by Neil Gaiman • Dave Eggers • Scott Turow • Salman Rushdie • Michael Cunningham • Louise Erdrich • Geraldine Brooks • David Handler • Ann Patchett • Meg Wolitzer • Elizabeth Strout • Timothy Egan • Jonathan Lethem • Jacqueline Woodson • Rabih Alameddine • Lauren Groff • Victor Lavalle • Jennifer Egan • Aleksandar Hemon • Anthony Doerr • William Finnegan • Jesmyn Ward • Sergio De La Pava • George Saunders • Marlon James • Andrew Greer • Yaa Gyasi • Brit Bennett • Morgan Parker • Moriel Rothman-Zecher • Steven Okazaki • Li Yiyun • Hector Tobar • Moses Sumney • Viet Nguyen • C. J. Anders • Brenda Childs • Adrian LeBlancTo mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. <P><P>On January 19, 1920, a small ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Neuropharmacotherapy in Critical Illness (Updates in Neurocritical Care)
by Gretchen Brophy • Teresa A Allison • Karen Berger • Kathleen A. Bledsoe • Jennifer Bushwitz • Amber Castle • Katleen Chester • Aaron M Cook • Emily Durr • Olabisi Falana • Jose Guzman Garcia • Haley Goodwin Gibbs • Kristy N Greene • Jimmi Hatton-Kolpek • Teresa Human • Lisa Kurczewski • John J Lewin • Norah Liang • Kathryn A Morbitzer • Christopher Morrison • Ron Neyens • Viet Nguyen • Nicholas G Panos • Denise H Rhoney • A. Shaun Rowe • Ted Siindlinger • Eljim P TesoroThe field of research related to neurocritical care has grown significantly in recent years, and the clinical demands for current and dependable expertise has followed suit. It can be a challenge for the neurocritical practitioner to keep up with cutting-edge evidence-based research and best practic... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Some Current Advanced Researches on Information and Computer Science in Vietnam
This book includes the extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from the First NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (NICS'2014), held at Le Quy Don Technical Academy, Hanoi, Vietnam from 13/Mar. /2014 to 14/Mar. /2014. The conference was co-organized by The Natio... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
The Sympathizer
<P>Compared by critics to the works of Graham Greene, Denis Johnson, and George Orwell,The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity, politics, and America, wrought in electric prose. <P>The narrator, a Vietnamese army captain, is a man of divided loyalties, a half-French, half-Vi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Extending Modules (Pitman Research Notes In Mathematics Ser.)
Module theory is an important tool for many different branches of mathematics, as well as being an interesting subject in its own right. Within module theory, the concept of injective modules is particularly important. Extending modules form a natural class of modules which is more general than the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1994 -
The Committed
'Call The Committed many things. A white hot literary thriller disguised as a searing novel of ideas. An unflinching look at redemption and damnation. An unblinking examination of the dangers of belief, and the need to believe. A sequel that goes toe to toe with the original then surpasses it. A mas... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
The Committed
'Call The Committed many things. A white hot literary thriller disguised as a searing novel of ideas. An unflinching look at redemption and damnation. An unblinking examination of the dangers of belief, and the need to believe. A sequel that goes toe to toe with the original then surpasses it. A mas... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
The Refugees
In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dement... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
The Sympathizer: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
*** WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016***WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL 2016WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION 2016'A fierce novel written in a refreshingly high style and charged with intelligent rage' Financial TimesIt is April 1975, and Saigon is in ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
The Refugees
Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer was one of the most widely and highly praised novels of 2015, the winner not only of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but also the Center for Fiction Debut Novel Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, the ALA Carnegie Medal for Fiction, the Asian/Pacific... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
“Powerful and deeply moving personal stories about the physical and emotional toll one endures when forced out of one’s homeland.” —PBS OnlineIn January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The Committed
'Call The Committed many things. A white hot literary thriller disguised as a searing novel of ideas. An unflinching look at redemption and damnation. An unblinking examination of the dangers of belief, and the need to believe. A sequel that goes toe to toe with the original then surpasses it. A mas... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Flashpoints for Asian American Studies
Emerging from mid-century social movements, Civil Rights Era formations, and anti-war protests, Asian American studies is now an established field of transnational inquiry, diasporic engagement, and rights activism. These histories and origin points analogously serve as initial moorings for Flashpoi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Essentials of Microeconomics
by Bonnie Nguyen • Andrew WaitEssentials of Microeconomics is an excellent introduction to microeconomics. It presents the basic tools of microeconomics clearly and concisely. The book presents a vigorous treatment of all relevant introductory microeconomic concepts. The book also emphasizes on modern economics -- game theory an... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Commutative Algebra and its Interactions to Algebraic Geometry: Lectures At Vietnam Institute Of Advanced Study In Mathematics (Lecture Notes in Mathematics #2210)
This book presents four lectures on recent research in commutative algebra and its applications to algebraic geometry. Aimed at researchers and graduate students with an advanced background in algebra, these lectures were given during the Commutative Algebra program held at the Vietnam Institute of ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Thermoelectrical Effect in SiC for High-Temperature MEMS Sensors (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)
This book presents the fundamentals of the thermoelectrical effect in silicon carbide (SiC), including the thermoresistive, thermoelectric, thermocapacitive and thermoelectronic effects. It summarizes the growth of SiC, its properties and fabrication processes for SiC devices and introduces the ther... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Go Home!
An anthology of Asian diasporic writers musing on the notion of “home.” “Bold and devastating . . . the very definition of reclamation.” —The International ExaminerAsian diasporic writers imagine “home” in the twenty-first century through an array of fiction, memoir, and poetry. Both urgent and medi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Advances in Research on Water Resources and Environmental Systems: Selected papers of the 2nd International Conference on Geo-Spatial Technologies and Earth Resources 2022 (Environmental Science and Engineering)
This book composes the proceedings of the international Conference on Geo-Spatial Technologies and Earth Resources (GTER 2022) which was co-organized by Hanoi University of Mining and Geology and the International Society for Mine Surveying (ISM) held at Hanoi city on October 13–14, 2022.GTER 2022 i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
Looking Back on the Vietnam War: Twenty-first-Century Perspectives
by Robert Mason • Heonik Kwon • Leonie Jones • Viet Thanh Nguyen • Cathy J. Schlund-Vials • Vinh Nguyen • Jeehyun Lim • Professor Yen Le Espiritu • Brenda M. Boyle • Diane Niblack Fox • Lan Duong • Quan Tue TranMore than forty years have passed since the official end of the Vietnam War, yet the war's legacies endure. Its history and iconography still provide fodder for film and fiction, communities of war refugees have spawned a wide Vietnamese diaspora, and the United States military remains embroiled in ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
One World Two: A Second Global Anthology of Short Stories
by Edwidge Danticat • Aminatta Forna • Elleke Boehmer • Chris Brazier • Viet Thanh Nguyen • Ovo Adagha • Desiree Bailey • Okwiri OduorOne World Two is the eagerly awaited follow-up to One World and another globe-trotting collection of stories. But it is more than simply an anthology of short fiction, as it contains representative literature from all over the world, conveying the reader on thought-provoking journeys across continen... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art
by Mary Higgins Clark • Neil Gaiman • Richard Russo • Joyce Carol Oates • Lee Child • Jonathan Santlofer • Viet Thanh NguyenIn time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women’s March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors—including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Ne... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
One Health
by David Waltner-Toews • Rea Tschopp • Vanessa Racloz • Susan Cork • Susan C Welburn • Bonnie Buntain • Bassirou Bonfoh • Simon Reid • Jakob Zinsstag • Carol Rubin • Karin Hediger • Eric Boa • David H Cumming • Mahamat Bechir • Vreni Jean-Richard • Hung Nguyen-Viet • Marcel Tanner • Solveig Danielsen • Andrea Meisser • Professor Craig Stephen • Esther Schelling • Angela Cassidy • Monique Lechenne • Martin Bunch • Maxine WhittakerThe One Health concept of combined veterinary and human health continues to gain momentum, but the supporting literature is sparse. In this book, the origins of the concept are examined and practical content on methodological tools, data gathering, monitoring techniques, study designs, and mathemati... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
One Health: The Theory and Practice of Integrated Health Approaches
by Rea Tschopp • Vanessa Racloz • Susan Cork • Susan C Welburn • Bonnie Buntain • Bassirou Bonfoh • Simon Reid • Carol Rubin • Karin Hediger • Eric Boa • David H Cumming • Mahamat Bechir • Vreni Jean-Richard • Hung Nguyen-Viet • Solveig Danielsen • Andrea Meisser • Professor Craig Stephen • Angela Cassidy • Monique Lechenne • Martin BunchThe One Health concept of combined veterinary and human health continues to gain momentum, but the supporting literature is sparse. In this book, the origins of the concept are examined and practical content on methodological tools, data gathering, monitoring techniques, study designs, and mathemati... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015