Peter Chan
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For everyone from beginners to masters, the one essential book to growing, grooming, and caring for your bonsai tree.
Bonsai is the ancient craft of carefully regulating the growth and shape of trees in order to produce miniature versions of mature trees. Dating back over one thousand years to ancient Japan, bonsai trees are some of the most beautiful and meticulously looked-after plants in the world, and in recent years bonsai have exploded in popularity...
4) The Mystery of Mind: A Systematic Account of the Human Mind Toward Understanding Its Own Realization
Author
Language
English
Description
The Mystery of Mind is a systematic and critical introduction to the philosophy of mind. At issue is what is known as the mind-body problem. How does a body support a mind with its brain?Pivotal to the book is the author's working out of an adverbial concept of mind that is user-friendly to the materialist cause. It is upon the strength of this adverbial concept that the author has come to hold that the conceptual gap between the neurobiological and...
Author
Series
Familiars volume 1
Language
English
Description
When a scrappy alley cat named Aldwyn passes himself off as a magical animal companion to Jack, a young wizard in training, Aldwyn and his fellow "familiars," a know-it-all blue jay and bumbling tree frog, must save the kingdom after the evil queen of Vastia kidnaps Jack and two other wizards.
Author
Series
Familiars volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When human magic is destroyed, familiars Aldwyn the cat, Skylar the blue jay, and Gilbert the tree frog set out without their wizards to seek the Crown of the Snow Leopard, the only object that can save the kingdom of Vastia from the evil hare Paksahara.
9) The Warlords
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of the Taiping Rebellion of the 1860s, three men take an oath to become "blood brothers," pledging loyalty to one another until death, but soon become embroiled in a web of political deceit.
10) Leap
Publisher
ECHELONSTUDIOS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After 12 years, the Chinese women's volleyball team again reached the Olympic final. The ups and downs of the Chinese women's volleyball team for more than three decades have slowly spread away.
Author
Publisher
Mitchell Beazley, a division of Octopus Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This guide provides everything you need to know to grow bonsai successfully, including shaping with wires, watering, seasonal maintenance, tackling common ailments, choosing the right container, feeding and repotting.
14) Moongirl
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
When Leon is out fishing one night and is pulled into the sky by a giant fish-of-stars, he lands inside the moon where he must battle a fearsome monster, rescue Moongirl, and use lightning bugs to keep the moon's carousel lit.
15) The Warlords
Author
Language
Mandarin
Description
This lavish historical epic is set in the midst of war and political upheaval during the Taiping Rebellion of the 1860s.
16) SoulMate
Author
Language
中文
Description
Qiyue and Ansheng have been friends for decades and have now found themselves attempting to fit their real, authentic selves into the buzzing, modern world that surrounds them. Will they be able to embrace the urban world while maintaining their foundational friendship?Featuring unforgettable performances from Zhou Dongyu and Ma Sichun, two actresses who made history by tying for Best Actress at one of the most prestigious Chineses-language film awards,...
17) Os familiares
Author
Publisher
Editora Moderna
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Portuguese
Description
When a scrappy alley cat named Aldwyn passes himself off as a magical animal companion to Jack, a young wizard in training, Aldwyn and his fellow "familiars," a know-it-all blue jay and bumbling tree frog, must save the kingdom after the evil queen of Vastia kidnaps Jack and two other wizards
18) The Guillotines
Author
Language
Mandarin
Description
During the Manchurian-ruled Qing Dynasty, Emperor Yong Zheng creates an elite assassination squad known as the Guillotines, made to eliminate all who oppose him. But as time passes, the Guillotines are deemed expendable, and used instead to persecute the people in a reign of terror and oppression. The arrogant and complacent squad of five young warriors have never failed in 348 missions to eliminate their targets. But their newest mission leaves The...
