Mei: 169 books
Alien Virus Love Disaster
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Philip K. Dick Award finalist
Washington Post Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2018
Abbey Mei Otis’s short stories are contemporary fiction at its strongest: taking apart the supposed equality that is clearly just not there, putting humans under an alien microscope, putting humans...
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Hu Feng's Prison Years
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Hu Feng, the ‘counterrevolutionary’ leader of a banned literary school, spent twenty-five years in the Chinese Communist Party’s prison system. But back in the Party’s early days, he was one of its best known literary theoreticians and critics—at least until factional infighting, and his...
Les forces de l'Esprit
Contact avec les grands esprits
Language: French
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Qui n’a pas rêvé un jour de « franchir le miroir » en communiquant avec ceux qui ont fait l’histoire. C’est pourtant ce qui m’est arrivé lorsque j’ai rencontré Mei kuei Lin. Les révélations que nous firent les plus grands, sur les mystères de leurs époques où sur ce qui nous attend...
by Burkhard Meißner, Burkhard Meißner
Language: German
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Mit dem Tod Alexanders des Großen (323 v. Chr.) beginnt eine Epoche der europäischen Geschichte, an deren Ende das gesamte Mittelmeer und große Teile Mitteleuropas im Römischen Reich vereint waren. Im Hellenismus entstanden große Territorialstaaten in der griechischen Welt, darunter Makedonien,...
Lean Impact
How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Despite enormous investments of time and money, are we making a dent on the social and environmental challenges of our time? What if we could exponentially increase our impact?
Around the world, a new generation is looking beyond greater profits, for meaningful purpose. But, unlike business,...
Red Thread
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
This collection of poems is largely autobiographical, telling the turning points in a life that began in war-torn Vietnam. Somehow, unlike many, Teresa and her family survived, although her parents were separated for a long time. She, her brother, and her mother escaped Vietnam in a ship crowded with...
One Child
The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
An intimate investigation of the world’s largest experiment in social engineering, revealing how its effects will shape China for decades to come, and what that means for the rest of the world
When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birth-rates...
How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm
And Other Adventures in Parenting (from Argentina to Tanzania and Everywhere in Between)
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
A “breezy and entertaining” tour of parenting practices around the world that shows there’s more than one way to diaper a baby (The Boston Globe).
Mei-Ling Hopgood, a first-time mom from suburban Michigan—now living in Buenos Aires—was shocked that Argentine parents allowed their...
by Mei-Ling Hopgood
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The true story of an American woman’s unexpected reunion with her Chinese birth family: “A great book” (Good Housekeeping).
In 1974, a baby girl from Taiwan was brought to the United States, newly adopted by a loving couple in Michigan. Mei-Ling Hopgood had an all-American upbringing,...
Twenty-Five Doors to Meditation
A Handbook for Entering Samadhi
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998
Twenty-Five Doors to Meditation is the first guide to provide extensive, comprehensive, and detailed information about a variety of meditation methods. Together, William Bodri and Lee Shu-Mei make sense of that seemingly conflicting information that exists today regarding the path to spiritual enlightenment....
Gifts, Favors, and Banquets
The Art of Social Relationships in China
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business—all...
Group Leadership Skills
Interpersonal Process in Group Counseling and Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Group Leadership Skills provides a road map and a practical toolkit for users to lead all types of groups effectively. Drawing on extensive teaching and clinical experience, authors Mei-whei Chen and Christopher Rybak give readers numerous skills, techniques, insights, and case illustrations demonstrating...
Sanctuary
The Preservation Issue
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Exploring the myriad ways in which we go about preserving what might otherwise be forfeited.
Whether trained specialists or lay people who care about something, preservationists come from every stratum of life. The archivist, the linguist, the local town historian. The paleontologist, the heirloom...
by Mei
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
School is out and Jimmy is finally free. In book two of the three-part All Saints series, we find our young hero flipping burgers in a grease joint. But for all the cow guts and blow flies, life has never been sweeter. He’s in a band, meeting girls and generally doing everything he can to abuse...