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Closer to Liberation: Pin[a/x]y Activism in Theory and Practice is an edited volume that showcases contributions from activists, scholars, artists and cultural producers, and community members that identify with the type of intersectional feminist theory and practice that emerge from the specific lived experiences and histories of Filipina/x immigrant communities in the United States. While revisiting the "Pinayism" framework as articulated mo...

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A memoir in pieces that uses one woman's life-long obsession with pop culture as a lens to explore family, grief, the power of female rage, Asian fetish, and what it's cost to resist the trap of being a "good Chinese girl."For most of Jen Sookfong Lee's life, pop culture was an escape from family tragedy and a means of fitting in with the larger culture around her. Anne of Green Gables assured her that, despite losing her father at the age of ...

A pandemic memoir in diary form. This new collection from filmmaker and story artist Jen Lee delivers reflections in small bites, ranging from the personal to the poetic. In a time where no person's experience exactly mirrors another's, this daily accounting of the ebbs and flows offers comfort and company as we universally experience grief, loss, and the uncertainty of what's to come.

Part of the nonfiction Orca Think series for middle-grade readers, this illustrated book offers a look at how human migration has changed the world.

Chinese History, community, festivals, prosperity, elders, mythology, racism

From a master of family dynamics comes this vivid tale of two misfits who find each other while stumbling toward their own true identities. In 1958, eight-year-old Danny Lim has been sent to buy cigarettes for his father, when he realizes that he has lost the money. Frantic, he rushes through Vancouver's Chinatown and behind a nightclub, where he sees Miss Val, a long-time burlesque dancer. Danny is enraptured with her sequined garters and sil...

Excerpt from Redeveloping or Preserving Public Housing: The Future of Columbia PointColumbia Point, Boston's largest and most stigmatized public housing project, has been a focal point for public and private investment strategies to create a new mixed-income residential community. Columbia Point provided attractive housing for families or close to people for more than 15 years. Pres ently, only_350 households remain. Problems in management, ma...

In this festive dual-language board book, 12 animals race to see who will represent the Chinese zodiac. Text in English and Simplified Chinese is complemented by traditional Chinese graphic elements. Full color.

A moving portrait of three generations of the Chan family living in Vancouver's Chinatown Sammy Chan was sure she'd escaped her family obligations when she fled Vancouver six years ago, but with her sister's upcoming marriage, her turn has come to care for their aging mother. Abandoned by all four of her older sisters, jobless and stuck in a city she resents, Sammy finds herself cobbling together a makeshift family history and delving into sto...

Based on the bestselling Handbook of Phase I/II Clinical Drug Trials, this newly named, completely revised and expanded volume details how recent advances and increasing demands for safety and efficacy have changed the process by which drugs are developed and approved. It examines critical considerations for trials conducted during each phase of clinical development. It also explores early pre-clinical evaluations of pharmacological activity a...

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Excerpt from Redeveloping or Preserving Public Housing: The Future of Columbia Point Columbia Point, Boston's largest and most stigmatized public housing project, has been a focal point for public and private investment strategies to create a new mixed-income residential community. Columbia Point provided attractive housing for families or close to people for more than 15 years. Pres ently, only 350 households remain. Problems in management, ...

Everyone is affected by credit card fraud, if they are aware of it or not. Every day there are a variety of ways that scams and fraudsters can get your card and personal information. Today so much business occurs over the Internet or via the phone where no card is present. What can start as a seemingly legitimate purchase can easily turn into fraudulent charges - or worse, sometimes a physical confrontation, when a criminal steals a credit car...

Since the initial publication of Development and Evaluation Drugs from Laboratory through Licensure to Market in 1993, many changes have occurred in biomedicine, biotechnology, pharmaceutical science and technology, and drug evaluation systems. Updated and expanded, this second edition examines all of the recent advances in scientific and regulatory approaches as well as changes in the way in which drugs are discovered, developed, and evaluate...

An examination of the classic cult 1991 film "My Own Private Idaho", which sets it as a social bellwether for outsiders who were looking to join the right revolution.

This book is written for undergraduate and graduate students in biomedical engineering wanting to learn how to pursue a career in building up their entrepreneur ventures. Practicing engineers wanting to apply their innovations for healthcare will also find this book usefulThe 21st century is the ¿Biotech Century¿ where many nations are investing heavily in biotechnology. As a result, tremendous business opportunities exist for biomedical engin...