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A life-affirming, humorous show of songs and monologues drawing on real-life experiences, about the one thing we all have in common: we're gonna die. ...
When Ed and his three adult sons come together to celebrate Christmas, they enjoy cheerful trash-talking, pranks, and takeout Chinese. Then they confr...
Acclaimed playwright and director Young Jean Lee transforms her life-long struggle with Christianity into an exuberant church service. Both celebrator...
Two compassionately subversive plays about identity, by Young Jean Lee, a Korean American playwright whose work is groundbreaking, humorous and often ...
A brief biography of the inventor of a gin to seed upland cotton and of a way to mass produce musket locks....
A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American P...
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Readings chosen by teachers for skills work and discussion....
How Family Businesses Can Maintain Prosperity
In this book, three modern Chinese family businesses, including food and beverage company Yeo Hiap Seng, are studied to analyze the problems that fami...
“A subversive, seriously funny new theater piece by the adventurous playwright Young Jean Lee. . . . Ms. Lee does not shy away from prodding the aud...
The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920
2021 Honorable Mention Recipient of the Charles Hatfield Book Prize from the Comics Studies Society Taking up the role of laughter in society, How the...
“Bold, unguarded work . . . that resists pat definition. [Young Jean] Lee has penned profane lampoons of motivational bromides (Pullman, WA) and the...
Teacher-Approved Readings for Today's Students
A teacher-approved American English reading skills series for upper secondary and university students. Select Readings Second Edition contains a range...
Crossroads of Family Businesses in China: Succession and Transformation studies the intergenerational succession in family-owned businesses, specifica...
The fairy Grandmarina gives Princess Alicia a magic fishbone. To her father's confusion she declines to use it. her reward is marriage, which does see...
A biography of the West Point graduate who learned civil engineering "from the ground up" and supervised the completion of the Panama Canal....
Pearl Harbor and the tentacles of Word War II turn San Francisco into a raucous, electrifying city. Twenty-year-old Carmel St. John moves into this ma...
Working Women in Singapore
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A Poem
Seven Principles of Leadership
Chinese Women Business Leaders - Seven Principles of Leadership includes seven women who represent the characteristics of ShEOs in the wave of Chinese...
A brief biography of the inventor of the telegraph and Morse Code, who planned from early childhood to be a painter of great historical pictures but f...
Redefining Ethnicity and Authenticity
Winnifred Eaton, better known under her Japanese pseudonym, Onoto Watanna, was of English and Chinese heritage, but born and raised in Canada. She pub...
Bulrusher; Good Goods; The Shipment; Satellites; And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi; Antebellum; In the Continuum; Black Diamond
'Post-black' refers to an emerging trend within black arts to find new and multiple expressions of blackness, unburdened by the social and cultural ex...
Whales are the largest animals on Earth, and some communicate by singing to each other....
Stunning; The Road Weeps, the Well Runs Dry; Pullman, WA; Hurt Village; Dying City; The Big Meal
The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays is an anthology of six outstanding plays from some of the most exciting playwrights currently receiving c...
A Report
Singapore's Journey Towards Environmental and Water Sustainability
When Singapore became a sovereign state in 1965, the fledgling nation faced very similar problems as most other developing countries: high unemploymen...
Our First Admiral
A brief biography of the first admiral of the United States Navy....
(complement to Master Scroll A); Beginning the Use of Tools and Materials
Activities to foster self-education of children, produced for the Chautauqua society....
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was ...
Oral Histories from Stage, Screen, and Television
The acting profession is increasingly drawing more and more actors of Asian descent. Yet, even with the success of television programs (Martial Law), ...
A biography of the marine biologist and nature writer well-known for her campaign against the careless use of chemicals....
The Story of Cyrus W. Field
A biography of the man who rose from debt to amass a small fortune, and became the driving force behind the successful laying of the first transatlant...
New Voices at the Intersection of Oral and Environmental History
The Land Speaks explores the intersections of two vibrant fields, oral history and environmental studies. The fourteen oral histories collected here r...
A Comedy in One Act
Comedy in Three Acts
The American Revolution in Charles County
The Price of Nationhood reshapes the story of the American Revolution, bending the familiar contours imprinted by the New England revolutionary experi...
An Anthology of New Theater from Downtown New York
New Downtown Now brings together ten new works that exemplify the playfulness, excitement, and possibilities of the theater. The anthology includes In...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in...