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It is generally agreed that learners of Chinese need a working knowledge of about 100 characters in order to make themselves at all understood and to travel in China

With one poem for every autumn evening

journalist Andrew Ramsey has succeeded in telling a story so detailed and compelling that even knowing where it leads does not distract from the journey

A Russian scientist defects to the West in this vintage spy thriller

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Ghostbodies Certification (MSCE It is generally agreed thatHow is illness represented in todays cultural texts? In Ghostbodies, Maia Dolphin Krute argues that the illusive sick body is often made invisiblea ghostbecause it does not always fit societys definition of disability. In these pages, she reflectively engages in a philosophical discussion of the lived experience of illness alongside an examination of how language and cultural constructions influence and represent this experience in a variety of forms.