January 2012
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New Acquisitions - January 2012
Stacks BL1803 .G66 2011 — The religious question in modern China / Vincent Goossaert and David A. Palmer
Stacks GR335 .C64 2011 — The Columbia anthology of Chinese folk and popular literature / edited by Victor H. Mair and Mark Bender
GT3021.C6 B46 2011 — Golden-silk smoke: a history of tobacco in China, 1550-2010 / Carol Benedict
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December 2011
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New Acquisitions - December 2011
Stacks DS481.G3 D433 2010 — Debating Gandhi : [a reader] / edited by A. Raghuramaraju
Stacks DS554.8 .B75 2011— Cambodia’s curse : the modern history of a troubled land / Joel Brinkley
Stacks E183.8.C5 L313 2011 — China’s America : the Chinese view the United States, 1900-2000 / Jing Li
Stacks E184.A75 E43 2010 — Embodying Asian/American...
November 2011
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New Acquisitions - November 2011
Stacks: DS341.3.U6 A447 2011 — American interests in South Asia: building a grand strategy in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India / foreword by Joseph S. Nye & Brent Scowcroft
Stacks: DS481.G3 C36 2011 — The Cambridge companion to Gandhi
Stacks: DS557.74 .T757 2010— Triumph revisited: historians battle for the Vietnam War /
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October 2011
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New Acquisitions - October 2011
Reference Collection DS446.3 .M36 2011 — Makers of modern India / edited by Ramachandra Guha.
Stacks DS907.18 .S426 2011 — A history of Korea : from antiquity to the present
Stacks GE160.V5 B54 2010 — Quagmire: nation-building and nature in the Mekong Delta / David Biggs ; foreword by William Cronon
Stacks HD9502.A782 E25 2011 —...
September 2011
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New Books - September 2011
Reference Collection BL473.5 .G64 2011 — Goddesses in world culture /
Stacks DS423 .J49 2011 — Royal patronage, power and aesthetics in princely India
Stacks DS509.5.H66 C48 2010 — An introduction to Hmong culture /
Stacks DS511 .H65 2011 — A history of East Asia : from the origins of civilization to the twenty-first century /
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August 2011
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New Books- August 2011
Stacks BR1065 .C45 2011 — Christianities in Asia / edited by Peter C. Phan
Stacks DS778.M3 K359 2010 — Mao Zedong and China in the twentieth-century world: a concise history / Rebecca E. Karl
Stacks JZ1480.A57 C6 2011 — America’s challenge: engaging a rising China in the twenty-first century / Michael D. Swaine
Oversize TX724.5.C5 S3513 2010 ...
July 2011
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New Books- July 2011
Stacks DS709 .T475185 2010 — China: through the lens of John Thomson, 1868-1872 = Wan Qing sui ying : Yuehan Tangmuxun yan zhong de Zhongguo
Stacks DS485.J4842 S53 2010 — In the shadows of the state: indigenous politics, environmentalism, and insurgency in Jharkhand, India / Alpa Shah
Stacks GT3331.J3 K38 2010 — Nature’s embrace: Japan’s aging...
June 2011
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New Books- June 2011
Stacks BQ935 .L44 2010 — Surviving nirvana: death of the Buddha in Chinese visual culture / Sonya S. Lee
Stacks DS754.25 .G89 2010 — Qing governors and their provinces: the evolution of territorial administration in China, 1644-1796 / R. Kent Guy
Stacks HC427.95 .B37 2010 — Awakening giants, feet of clay: assessing the economic rise of China and...
May 2011
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New Books- May 2011
Stacks BL1150 .N53 2010 — Unifying Hinduism: philosophy and identity in Indian intellectual history / Andrew J. Nicholson
Stacks BL1900.L26 E5 2011 — The complete Tao te ching with the Four canons of the Yellow Emperor / translation and commentary by Jean Levi
Stacks BR563.K67 Y66 2010 — Contentious spirits: religion in Korean American history,...
March 2011
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New Books- March 2011
Stacks BL1803 .J64 2009 — Spectacle and sacrifice: the ritual foundations of village life in North China / David Johnson
Stacks BQ732 .A44 2010 — American Buddhism as a way of life / edited by Gary Storhoff and John Whalen-Bridge
Stacks DS523.3 .S36 2009 — The art of not being governed: an anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia / James C. Scott
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February 2011
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New Books- February 2011
Stacks DS428.2 .G46 2011 —India Calling : An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking / Anand Giridharadas
Oversize GT2905 .S84 2009 — Steeped in History: The Art of Tea / Beatrice Hohenegger, editor ; with essays by Terese Tse Bartholomew
Reference Collection PL1455 .O884 2010 —The Oxford Chinese Dictionary: English-Chinese - Chinese...
January 2011
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New Books- January 2011
Oversize NA6011 .K435 2010 — Chinese Houses of Southeast Asia: the Eclectic Architecture of Sojourners and Settlers / Ronald G. Knapp ; photographs by A. Chester Ong ; foreword by Wang Gungwu
Encyclopedia of Modern China (e-book)
November 2010
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New Books- November 2010
Reference Collection E184.A75 E53 2010 —Encyclopedia of Asian American Issues Today / Edith Wen-Chu Chen and Grace J. Yoo, editors
Stacks HN670.3.Z9 V568 2010 —Political Violence in South and Southeast Asia: Critical Perspectives / edited by Itty Abraham, Edward Newman and Meredith L. Weiss
Stacks NK8875.8 .B748 2010 —British Asian Style: Fashion and...
October 2010
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New books- October 2010
Stacks HC427.95 .S74 2010 — Playing our game: Why China’s Economic Rise Doesn’t Threaten the West / Edward S. Steinfeld
Juvenile Young Adult Collection LA1133.7 . K47 2011 —Who Will Shout if Not Us? : Student Activists and the Tiananmen Square Protest, China, 1989 / Ann Kerns
The Sound of One Hand : Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin ...
August 2010
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New books- August 2010
Stacks QL737.C23 L3635 2009 —The life and fate of the Indian tiger / Tobias J. Lanz
Stacks PN6790.I4 M56 2009 — India’s immortal comic books: gods, kings, and other heroes / Karline McLain
Stacks JQ751.A58 T39 2009 — The state in Myanmar / Robert H. Taylor
July 2010
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New books- July 2010
Stacks DS719 .W78 2010 —The art of the Yellow Springs: understanding Chinese tombs / Wu Hung
Stacks JQ1519.A5 M3576 2010 — The Party: the secret world of China’s communist rulers / Richard McGregor
Stacks ND1383.C6 S88 2009 — Decoded messages: the symbolic language of Chinese animal painting / Hou-mei Sung
Reference Collection PL716 .M47 2009 ...
June 2010
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New Books- June 2010
Stacks DS796.H74 L44 2008 —City between worlds: my Hong Kong / Leo Ou-fan Lee
Stacks HV418 .S57 2009 —The art of doing good: charity in late Ming China / Joanna Handlin Smith
Stacks NK4165 .C75 2010 — Chinese trade ceramics for South-East Asia from the 1st to the 17th Century: Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Charles Muller / Monique Crick
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May 2010
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New Books- May 2010
Stacks E184.C5 C67 2010— The poker bride: the first Chinese in the Wild West / Christopher Corbett
Stacks HN740.Z9 E413 2009— Rise of the red engineers: the Cultural Revolution and the origins of China’s new class / Joel Andreas
Stacks JZ1734 .G56 2010—Rising star: China’s new security diplomacy / Bates Gill
April 2010
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New Books- April 2010
Stacks DS779.16 .G76 2010— Growing pains: tensions and opportunity in China’s transformation / edited by Jean C. Oi, Scott Rozelle, and Xueguang Zhou
Stacks DS735 .K398 2009 — China: a history / John Keay
Stacks DS838.7 .D74 2009 —Japan’s Imperial Army: its rise and fall, 1853-1945 / Edward J. Drea
Stacks JQ24 .C48 2010 —Comparing Asian...
March 2010
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New books- March 2010
Stacks LA1312 .C43 2010— Challenges to Japanese education: economics, reform, and human rights / edited by June A. Gordon
Stacks PN5364 .J65 2007/Reserve Collection Harris, K- Joining the Global Public: Word, Image, and City in Early Chinese Newspapers, 1870-1910; / edited by Rudolf G. Wagner
Stacks DS796.S257 B4713 2009/ Reserve Collection Harris,...
January 2010
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New books- January 2010
Stacks E183.8.T3 T829 2009 — Strait talk: United States-Taiwan relations and the crisis with China / Nancy Bernkopf Tucker
Stacks HC465.P6 H56413 2008 —Poverty and social welfare in Japan / Masami Iwata and Akihiko Nishizawa
Stacks NC1833.V52 H42 2009 — Vietnam posters: the David Heather collection / David Heather, Sherry Buchanan
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December 2009
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Nippon Foundation books (continued)
Stacks DS889.5 .P95 2007 —Japan rising: the resurgence of Japanese power and purpose / Kenneth B. Pyle
Stacks DS881.96 .H57 2005 —Japan’s love-hate relationship with the west / Sukehiro Hirakawa
Stacks UA845 .S328 2007 —Securing Japan: Tokyo’s grand strategy and the future of East Asia / Richard J. Samuels
Stacks HC462.95 .Y67313 2008 — Japan’s...
Nippon Foundation books
The Sojourner Truth Library has been selected to receive books from the Nippon Foundation program, 100 Books for Understanding Contemporary Japan.
Akira Shimada, Assistant Professor of History applied for this grant with assistance and support from the Dean of the Library, Chui-chun Lee, and Megan Coder, Asian Studies Library Liaison.
Stacks DS891.2 .K39 2003 —Japanese foreign policy...
November 2009
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New Asian Studies books at STL
Stacks DS779.32 .C463 2009 — Standoff at Tiananmen: how Chinese students shocked the world with a magnificent movement for democracy and liberty that ended in the tragic Tiananmen massacre in 1989 / Eddie Cheng.
Oversize N6510 .M782 2009 — The third mind: American artists contemplate Asia, 1860-1989 / Alexandra Munroe; appendices by Ikuyo Nakagawa.
October 2009
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New Asian Studies books at STL
Reference Collection: DS735.A2 B47 2009 —Berkshire Encyclopedia of China: Modern and Historic Views of the World’s Newest and Oldest Global Power
Stacks DS821 .B31313 2009—Japan: season by season / Sandrine Bailly.
Stacks JQ1692 .P64 2009—Political change in Japan: Electoral behavior, party realignment, and the Koizumi reforms / edited by Steven R. Reed,...
September 2009
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New Asian Studies books at STL
Stacks BQ6354.S64 B83 2009 —Buddhist Stupas in South Asia: Recent Archaeological, Art-Historical, and Historical Perspectives / edited by Akira Shimada, Jason Hawkes.
Stacks DS514.3 .S36 2008 —East Asia: Identities and Change in the Modern World, 1700-present / R. Keith Schoppa.
Stacks N6538.A83 A837 2008— Asian/American/modern art: shifting currents, 1900-1970...
August 2009
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New Asian Studies books at STL
Stacks E184.C5 S533 2009 — A Tiger’s Heart: The Story of a Modern Chinese Woman / Aisling Juanjuan Shen.
Stacks N6538.C48 S55 2009— Outside in: Chinese x American x contemporary x art / Jerome Silbergeld ; with contributions by Dora C.Y. Ching … [et al.]
Reference Collection GN625 .W47 2009—Encyclopedia of the peoples of Asia and Oceania.
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July 2009
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New Asian Studies books at STL
Stacks D767 .K84 2008 —Eyewitness Pacific theater: firsthand accounts of the war in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to the atomic bombs / John T. Kuehn with D. M. Giangreco ; foreword by Eric M. Bergerud.
Stacks DS779.29.Z467 A313 2009—Prisoner of the state: the secret journal of Zhao Ziyang / translated and edited by Bao Pu, Renee Chiang and Adi Ignatius ;...
June 2009
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New Asian Studies books at STL
Stacks DS777.488.C5 T39 2009 —The generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the struggle for modern China / Jay Taylor.
Stacks N7350 .J36 2009 —Japanese art and design / editor, Joe Earle.
Stacks NB1255.N35 G6913 2009 —Wood sculpture in Nepal: jokers and talismans, collection of Max Itzikovitz; / texts by Bertrand Goy, Gisèle Krausskopff.
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May 2009
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New Asian Studies books at STL
Stacks BL2055 .P434 2009 —Hero and deity: Tran Hung Dao and the resurgence of popular religion in Vietnam / Pham Quynh Phuong.
Stacks HF5478 .L58 2009—Alibaba: the inside story behind Jack Ma and the creation of the world’s biggest online marketplace / Liu Shiying and Martha Avery.
Stacks HQ674.5 .R43 2009—Reconfiguring families in contemporary Vietnam...
April 2009
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New Asian Studies books at STL
Stacks DS523.2 .S53 2009— Southeast Asian culture and heritage in a globalising world: diverging identities in a dynamic region / edited by Rahil Ismail, Brian J. Shaw, Ooi Giok Ling.
Stacks DS793.G67 L5657 2008— The Great Wall revisited: from the Jade Gate to Old Dragon’s Head / William Lindesay.
Stacks HD2910 .S74 2008— American businesses in...
March 2009
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New Asian Studies books at STL
Stacks DS799.67.A53125 2008—How Taiwan became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han colonization in the seventeenth century / Tonio Adrad.
Oversize N7345 .C4548 2008—Art and China’s revolution / Melissa Chiu and Zheng Shengtian ; with essays by Roderick MacFarquhar.
Stacks JZ1616.A57 C45 2008—Axis of convenience: Moscow, Beijing, and the new geopolitics /...
February 2009
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New Asian Studies books at STL
Stacks HC427.92 .H8429 2008— Capitalism with Chinese characteristics: entrepreneurship and the state / Yasheng Huang.
Stacks DS740.5.A34 C45 2008—China into Africa: trade, aid, and influence / Robert I. Rotberg, editor.
Stacks T173.5.C6 G743 2008— Greater China’s quest for innovation / edited by Henry S. Rowen, Marguerite Gong Hancock, and William F....
January 2009
2 posts
New Asian Studies books at STL
Stacks HD9734.C55 C53 2008— Factory girls: from village to city in a changing China / Leslie T. Chang
Stacks NK2083.B45 J834 2008— Juanqinzhai in the Qianlong Garden, The Forbidden City, Beijing / essays by Nancy Berliner … [et al.]
Stacks PN1993.5.C4 C4625 2008— Chinese films in focus II / edited by Chris Berry.
New Asian Studies books at STL
Oversize DS712 .G55 2008— Open hearts open doors: reflections on China’s past & future / Mingxin qifei / Elizabeth Gill Lui.
Stacks HD5811.85.A6 G57 2008— Globalization, flexibilization and working conditions in Asia and the Pacific / edited by Sangheon Lee and François Eyraud.
Media/Video PN1997.2 .S75 2008— Still life [videorecording] / Jia Zhang-Ke,...
November 2008
2 posts
New Asian Studies books at STL
Stacks F596.3.J5 E57 2008— The first to cry down injustice: Western Jews and Japanese removal during WWII / Ellen M. Eisenberg.
Stacks HD2358.5.U6 F35 2008— Race and entrepreneurial success : Black-, Asian-, and white-owned businesses in the United States / Robert W. Fairlie and Alicia M. Robb.
Stacks HT384.C6 U73 2008— Urban China in transition / edited by...
New Asian Studies books at STL
Oversize DS5.5 .F6513 2008— Asia / by Olivier Föllmi ; preface by José Frèches.
Stacks DS774 .C3815 2008— Return to the middle kingdom: one family, three revolutionaries, and the birth of modern China / Yuan-Tsung Chen.
October 2008
2 posts
New Asian Studies books at STL
Stacks DS706 .L455 2008— What does China think? / Mark Leonard.
Stacks ML420.T49 A3 2008—Along the roaring river: my wild ride from Mao to the Met / Hao Jiang Tian with Lois B. Morris; foreword by Robert Lipsyte.
New Asian Studies books at STL
Stacks DS556.8 .M387 2008— Print and power: Confucianism, communism, and Buddhism in the making of modern Vietnam / Shawn Frederick McHale.
Stacks DS559.46 .H64 2008— On their own: women journalists and the American experience in Vietnam / Joyce Hoffmann.
Stacks E184.A75 A8434 2008—Asian Americans in the twenty-first century: oral histories of first-...
September 2008
3 posts
New Asian Studies books at STL
Stacks BF1762 .F54 2008— Ancient Chinese divination / Stephen L. Field.
Stacks BQ9298 .G73 2009— Eminent nuns: women Chan masters of seventeenth-century China / Beata Grant.
Stacks HN733.5 .P36 2008— Out of Mao’s shadow: the struggle for the soul of a new China / Philip P. Pan.
Stacks JQ1510 .B45 2008— China’s new Confucianism: politics and...
New Asian Studies books at STL
Stacks BQ1372.E5 M85 2008b— The way of the Buddha: the illustrated Dhammapada / translated from Pali by F. Max Müller.
Stacks DS33.7 .L66 2008— The Asian military revolution: from gunpowder to the bomb / Peter A. Lorge.
Stacks DS485.B48 T73 2007— Ideology and empire in eighteenth century Indi : the British in Bengal / Robert Travers.
Stacks...
New Asian Studies books at STL
Stacks B831.2 .L82 2007— Chinese modernity and global biopolitics: studies in literature and visual culture / Sheldon H. Lu.
Stacks DS557.8.M9 K96 2006— After the massacre : commemoration and consolation in Ha My and My Lai / Heonik Kwon ; with a foreword by Drew Faust.
Stacks DS558 .C38 2008— Inventing Vietnam: the United States and...
August 2008
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New Asian Studies books at STL
Stacks DS518 .E19 2008— East Asia at a crossroads / edited by Jusuf Wanandi and Tadashi Yamamoto.
Stacks DS795.3 .L475 2008— Beijing: from imperial capital to Olympic city / Lillian M. Li, Alison J. Dray-Novey, Haili Kong.
Stacks PL2948.3.J53 B4513 2008—Beijing coma / Ma Jian; translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew.
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July 2008
2 posts
New Asian Studies books at STL
DS795.7.A2 M48 2008— The last days of old Beijing: life in the backstreets of a city transformed / Michael Meyer.
PL528 .J59 2006— Japanese: the written language / Eleanor Harz Jorden, Mari Noda.
New Asian Studies books at STL
Stacks E184.H55 Y36 2008— The latehomecomer: a Hmong family memoir / Kao Kalia Yang.
Stacks BJ1500.N8 J8513 2007— The impossible nude: Chinese art and western aesthetics / by François Jullien; translated by Maev de la Guardia; with photographs by Ralph Gibson.
Stacks HT384.C6 C36 2008— The concrete dragon: China’s urban revolution and what it means for the...
June 2008
2 posts
New Asian Studies books at STL
Media/Video D767.25.H6 W45 2007— White light, black rain [videorecording]: the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki / HBO Documentary Films presents a Farallon Films production ; co-producers, Taro Goto, Atsuko Shigesawa ; produced, directed & edited by Steven Okazaki.
Stacks DS556.8 .S73 2007— Replacing France: the origins of American intervention in...
New Asian Studies books at STL
DS732 .C557 2007— Chinese transnational networks / edited by Tan Chee-Beng.
DS747.9.Q254— The Terracotta warriors / Jane Portal ; photographs by John Williams and Saul Peckham.
May 2008
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New Asian Studies books at STL
DS732 .I5645 2007— Chinese overseas: migration, research and documentation / edited by Tan Chee-Beng, Colin Storey, Julia Zimmerman.
DS778.7 .G354 2008— The battle for China’s past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution / Mobo Gao.
HF1604.Z4 U636 2008— China’s expansion into the western hemisphere: implications for Latin America and the United...
April 2008
2 posts
New Asian Studies books at STL
DS721 .C48757 2007—China on paper: European and Chinese works from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century / edited by Marcia Reed and Paola Demattè. DS774 .L285 2007— China’s Republic / Diana Lary. GN635.C5 F38 2007— Emperor and ancestor: state and lineage in South China / David Faure. HC462.9 .B852 2007— East Asia...
New Asian Studies books at STL
PN1993.5.A75 V53 2007— Asian cinema: a field guide / Tom Vick. HC412 .A724 2007— Asia: changing the world / Bertelsmann Stiftung (ed.). JQ1519.A59 S52 2008— China’s Communist Party: atrophy & adaptation / by David Shambaugh. N7345.6 .R43 2007— The real thing: contemporary art from China / [editors, essays...