A 2006 IBBY Honor List title, this innovative book combines the story of Liu who goes off to visit her grandfather with a rebus-style look at the evolution of Chinese written language from pictures to today's modern calligraphy characters. You can read them, play with them, and dream about them. This book is sure to please children and adults of all backgrounds with its peek into this fascinating topic.

Liu and the Bird: A Journey in Chinese Calligraphy

Children's Books

LOUIS, Catherine

Min, Feng Xiao

Growing Up & Facts of Life

NorthSouth

A wonderful introduction for young readers to the Chinese zodiac adapted from a Chinese Buddhist legend dating from the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD). Illustrated by the critically acclaimed team of author, illustrator, and calligrapher that created THE LEGEND OF THE CHINESE DRAGON.

What the Rat Told Me

SELLIER, Marie

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

An eclectic collection of short story, notes, and critical essay written with an eye on American culture and ecologies. Ghost towns, big city life, lost industry, frontier mythologies, barb wire borders, and religion fill roles as unlikely protagonists. Road trips across Interstate 70, 90 and Pacific Coast highway tell their stories about everyday human interaction along America's main arteries. It's a compilation tinged with picturesque elements. Views on performance art, imagination and kitsch fit into the mix. Part ten critiques the abject human body in art and society. Part eleven discusses the iconography of women: portrayals of liberty & justice in art.

cultural MATTER: art.icons.industry.relics

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Independently published

The fascination with gold is a story which spans millennia, however scientists have recently found a new interest for gold when it is divided into miniscule grains, such as gold nanoparticles. This scientific enthusiasm started in various fields of science in the middle of the 1980s and the present book offers a panorama of the major scientific achievements obtained with gold nanoparticles.Various topics are reviewed such as: gold nanoparticle preparation methods, their plasmon resonance and thermo-optical properties, their catalytic properties, their use in biology and medicine as well as their possible toxicity and, finally, their future technological applications. The book also contains an in-depth study of the use of gold nanoparticles throughout the ages, starting from times where the concept of nanoparticles was beyond the realm of human imagination. All these topics are presented by world-class scientists within a set of self-contained chapters.This book may be used as an advanced textbook by graduate students and scientists who need an introduction to gold nanoparticles. It is also suitable for experts in the related areas of chemistry, biology, material science, optics and physics, who are interested in broadening their knowledge and who wish to have an overview of the subject. Each chapter gradually leads the reader from the basics of a topic towards some of the current scientific challenges in the area. The necessary background material to achieve a solid understanding of each topic and the scientific literature to go further in the field is provided.

GOLD NANOPARTICLES FOR PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY

Science & Math

Pluchery, Olivier

Chemistry

IMPERIAL COLLEGE PRESS

Catalysis By Gold (Catalytic Science)

Gold has traditionally been regarded as inactive as a catalytic metal. However, the advent of nanoparticulate gold on high surface area oxide supports has demonstrated its high catalytic activity in many chemical reactions. Gold is active as a heterogeneous catalyst in both gas and liquid phases, and complexes catalyse reactions homogeneously in solution. Many of the reactions being studied will lead to new application areas for catalysis by gold in pollution control, chemical processing, sensors and fuel cell technology. This book describes the properties of gold, the methods for preparing gold catalysts and ways to characterise and use them effectively in reactions. The reaction mechanisms and reasons for the high activities are discussed and the applications for gold catalysis considered.

CATALYSIS BY GOLD (Catalytic Science)

Bond, Geoffrey C.

Thompson, Professor David

Hue ! Colette

HONGFEI

LIU ET L'OISEAU

XIAO-MIN, Feng

PICQUIER

MON PREMIER LIVRE DE CHINOIS

BRESNER, Lisa

Teen & Young Adult

PREMIERES LECONS DE CHINOIS (livre + CD)

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