PC Interfacing
The main links with your PC and the outside world are the centronic port, used for connecting the printer, the RS232 port, used for the mouse, and the games port for a joystick. This book explores how these input/output (I/O) ports can be put to u...
Sunbirth
From the celebrated author of Ghost Music and Braised Pork, a bewitching and atmospheric novel following two sisters in an isolated village as the sun begins to diminish above them In Five Poems Lake, a small village surrounded by impenetrable deserts, the sun is slowly disappearing overhead. A young woman keeps one apprehensive eye on the sky above as she tends the pharmacy of traditional medicine that belonged to her great grandfather. She has few customers, and even fewer visitors: her older sister Dong Ji, her last living relative, works at a wellness parlor across town for those who can afford it--which, during these strange and difficult days, is not many. Five Poems Lake had fallen on hard times long before the sun began shrinking, but now, every few days, a new sliver disappears. As the temperature drops and the lake freezes over, the population of the town realizes that they will soon die--if not of the cold and starvation, then of despair. When the Beacons begin to
Ghost Music
For three years Song Yan has filled her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students.She finds herself adrift, but her husband seems reluctant for a child of their own. It takes the arrival of her mother-in-law, together with sudden strange parcels and stranger dreams, to shake Song Yan from her malaise. Summoned to an ancient house in the heart of the city, can she find the notes she needs to make sense of the pain and beauty in her life?'There's something here of early Murakami's graceful, open-ended approach to the uncanny... Ghost Music is an evocative exploration of what it means to live fully' New York Times Book Review'Knits together music and life to touch on something profound' Guardian
Sunbirth
Sunbirth
News, Numbers and Public Opinion in a Data-Driven World
News, Numbers and Public Opinion in a Data-Driven World
Handbook of Industrial Mycology
Several excellent books have been published that address one or more aspects of the diverse field of industrial mycology, but none of them cover the entire process of fungal bioactive metabolites discovery. Until now. The Handbook of Industrial My...
Sunbirth
As the sun starts slowly disappearing, the residents of a remote town in the desert find themselves undergoing shocking transformations in this dazzlingly eerie and bewitching novel A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2025 'A supremely confide...
Coloniality of the Secular
In The Coloniality of the Secular, An Yountae investigates the collusive ties between the modern concepts of the secular, religion, race, and coloniality in the Americas. Drawing on the work of Édouard Glissant, Frantz Fanon, AimÉ CÉsaire, Sylvia ...
The Coloniality of the Secular
In The Coloniality of the Secular, An Yountae investigates the collusive ties between the modern concepts of the secular, religion, race, and coloniality in the Americas. Drawing on the work of Édouard Glissant, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Sylvia Wynter, and Enrique Dussel, An maps the intersections of revolutionary non-Western thought with religious ideas to show how decoloniality redefines the sacred as an integral part of its liberation vision. He examines these thinkers’ rejection of colonial religions and interrogates the narrow conception of religion that confines it within colonial power structures. An explores decoloniality’s conception of the sacred in relation to revolutionary violence, gender, creolization, and racial phenomenology, demonstrating its potential for reshaping religious paradigms. Pointing out that the secular has been pivotal to regulating racial hierarchies under colonialism, he advocates for a broader understanding of religion that captures the fundamental
I Can't Stand Being Your Childhood Friend Vol. 1
Aoi and Ryota have been friends for as long as they can remember, so when it comes time to head off to college, it only makes sense for them to room together. Practically joined at the hip, they are convinced that their relationship will stay the ...
Efterklang
"Jag älskar att inte veta vad som ska hända på nästa sida." Katarina Wikars i Kulturnytt, P1 "Jag roar mig med mysterierna och njuter av den ömsom drömskt skira, ömsom febriga prosan. Vad som helst verkar kunna hända härnäst i An Yus smakrika, trippiga och allt annat än ordinära roman." Sandra Stiskalo, Dagens NyheterSong Yans liv har inte riktigt blivit som hon tänkt sig. Istället för en karriär som konsertpianist ger hon nu pianolektioner till barn i en lägenhet i Beijing, där hon lever tillsammans med sin frånvarande make och hans missnöjda mor. En dag börjar anonyma paket med delikatessvampar från makens hemprovins anlända till lägenheten, och snart blir Song Yans liv mer och mer surrealistiskt. Om nätterna hemsöks hon av drömmar om talande svampar och ett dörrlöst rum, och om dagarna leder hennes efterforskningar om de mystiska leveranserna henne rakt mot makens familjehemligheter. Och till ett piano i ett ödehus mitt i den trångbodda staden. Efterklang är en gåtfull och vacker roman om bortglömda minnen och oförlösta drömmar, och om en kvinnas väg mot frihet. An Yu är född och uppvuxen i Beijing och flyttade som artonåring till New York för att studera. Hon skriver sina romaner på engelska och bor numera i Hongkong. Efterklang är hennes andra roman och den första som översatts till svenska. Anna Gustafsson Chen är översättare från kinesiska och engelska. Hon har översatt en lång rad kinesiska författare, däribland Mo Yan, Yan Lianke, Can Xue och Ai Weiwei. "Förtrollande och atmosfärisk." New York Times Book Review "En fängslande bok som genom att väva samman musik och liv lyckas vidröra något fundamentalt." The Guardian "Det här är en roman om sorg, överlevnad och konstnärliga ambitioner som fångar ensamhetens kusliga förtvivlan och det frigörande i att börja om på nytt." Vulture "Vacker prosa och klaustrofobiskt bildspråk ... som med hög intensitet framställer sin huvudpersons alienation." New Statesman
Braised Pork
The dreamlike story of a young woman in contemporary Beijing forging a different life for herself, from one of our brightest new literary stars. One morning in autumn, just after breakfast, Jia Jia finds her husband dead in the bathtub of their Be...
A Step from Heaven
A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) From master storyteller An Na comes the Printz Award-winning novel about a Korean girl who tells her firsthand account of trying to find her place and identity in America from the day she leaves Korea as a child to her rocky journey through the teenage years. At age four, Young Ju moves with her parents from Korea to Southern California. She has always imagined America would be like heaven: easy, blissful, and full of riches. But when her family arrives, she finds it to be the opposite. With a stubborn language barrier and cultural dissimilarities, not only is it impossible to make friends, but even her family's internal bonds are wavering. Her parents' finances are strained, yet her father's stomach is full of booze. As Young Ju's once solid and reliable family starts tearing apart, her younger brother begins to gain more freedom and respect simply because of his gender. Young Ju begins to lose all hope in the dream she once held--the heaven she
