Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ma jian

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  • LIGHT ALLOYS
    IAN POLMEAR / DAVID STJOHN / JIAN-FENG NIE / MA QIAN
    Light Alloys: From Traditional Alloys to Nanocrystals, Fifth Edition, covers the materials science, properties, manufacturing processes, and applications of key engineering metals in a single accessible volume. As use of these metals is now more widespread than ever, with routine use in motor vehicles and aircraft, this book includes materials characteristics and applications, ...

    $1,994.00

  • BEIJING COMA
    MA JIAN
    Dai Wei has been unconscious for almost a decade. A medical student and a pro-democracy protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, he was struck by a soldier's bullet and fell into a deep coma. As soon as the hospital authorities discovered that he had been an activist, his mother was forced to take him home. She allowed pharmacists access to his body and sold his urine and hi...

    $251.00

  • STICK OUT YOUR TONGUE
    MA JIAN
    "Extraordinary. . .  [Ma Jian] has shown us how poverty and political repression have deformed [Tibet's] once rich and vibrant culture." —Francine Prose, People In this profound work of fiction, a Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet. As he wanders through the countryside, he witnesses the sky burial of a Tibetan woman who died during childbirth, shar...

    $251.00

  • THE NOODLE MAKER
    MA JIAN
    From Ma Jian, the highly acclaimed Chinese dissident, comes a satirical novel about the absurdities of life in a post-Tiananmen China. Two men meet for dinner each week. Over the course of one of these drunken evenings, the writer recounts the stories he would write, had he the courage: a young man buys an old kiln and opens a private crematorium, delighting in his ability to h...

    $249.00

  • SOIL, FERTILIZER, AND PLANT SILICON RESEARCH IN JAPAN
    MA, JIAN FENG / TAKAHASHI, EIICHI
    Silicon (Si) plays a significant role in the resistance of plants to multiple stresses including biotic and abiotic stresses. Silicon is also the only element that does not damage plants when accumulated in excess. However, the contribution of Si to plant growth has been largely ignored due to its universal existence in the earth's crust. From numerous intensive studies on Si...

    $2,289.00