A Study Guide for Gish Jen's "Typical American"


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A Study Guide for Gish Jen's "Typical American," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.




A Study Guide for Gish Jen's "What Means Switch"


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A Study Guide for Gish Jen's "What Means Switch," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.




A Study Guide for Gish Jen's "The White Umbrella"


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A Study Guide for Gish Jen's "The White Umbrella," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.







Jen's Journey


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After years of emotional eating, made worse by a bad relationship, Jennifer Carroll weighed almost 26 stone. When her son was born, she made the decision to leave the abusive situation, move home and drastically overhaul her lifestyle. By changing her eating habits and working with a personal trainer, she lost 12 stone. As she got stronger physically and mentally, every part of her life improved. In this book, Jen shares her remarkable story and describes how she overcame her struggles with emotional eating and learned to love exercise. Included are over 75 calorie-counted recipes that are simple, quick to make and packed with flavour, to fill you up while helping you to reach your goals, one meal at a time




Jen's Cove


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Reserved professional Polly has never been with a woman before but has long harbored secret fantasies about her adventuresome and openly lesbian college roommate Jen. When Jen reappears in Polly’s life with a sailboat, a sexy first-mate named Gladys, and a desire to rescue Polly from her humdrum life, the stage is set for a steamy voyage that sees Polly’s fantasies fulfilled and climaxes with a lusty threesome on a secluded beach.




Jen’s Hen


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Colorful Illustrations support decodable text, guiding beginning readers to identify, recognize, and read words with short e sounds /e/. Featuring high-frequency words, this authentic narrative also gives emerging readers the opportunity to decode and reinforce basic phonemic sounds. Readers will learn about Jen's pet hen.




A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law (2 vols)


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The first comprehensive survey of the world's oldest known legal systems, this collaborative work of twenty-two scholars covers over 3,000 years of legal history of the Ancient Near East. Each of the book's chapters represents a review of the law of a particular period and region, e.g. the Egyptian Old Kingdom, by a specialist in that area. Within each chapter, the material is organized under standardized legal categories (e.g. constitutional law, family law) that make for easy cross-referencing. The chapters are arranged chronologically by millennium and within each millennium by the three major politico-cultural spheres of the region: Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Anatolia and the Levant. An introduction by the editor discusses the general character of Ancient Near Eastern Law.




Confucian Thought


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Tu Wei-ming is the foremost exponent of Confucian thought in the United States today. Over the last two decades he has been developing a creative scholarly interpretation of Confucian humanism as a living tradition. The result is a work of interpretive brilliance that revitalizes Confucian thought, making it a legitimate concern of contemporary philosophical reflections.




Mainland China


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