Author: Peter Hessler
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: china, time, journey, bones, oracle
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0060826592
ISBN-13: 9780060826598

A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side of China’s transformation, viewing modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world through the lives of a handful of ordinary people. In a narrative that gracefully moves between the ancient and the present, the East and the West, Hessler captures the soul of a country that is undergoing a momentous change before our eyes.

Author: Peter Hessler
Publisher: Harper
Keywords: farm, factory, china, journey, driving, country
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2010-02-01
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 0061804096
ISBN-13: 9780061804090

From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic revolution in China. In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver’s license. For the next seven years, he traveled the country, tracking how the automobile and improved roads were transforming China. Hessler writes movingly of the average people—farmers, migrant workers, entrepreneurs—who have reshaped the nation during one of the most critical periods in its mod

Author: Peter Hessler
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: yangtze, years, town, river
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0060855029
ISBN-13: 9780060855024

A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Kiriyama Book Prize In the heart of China’s Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and growth, which came into remarkably sharp focus when Peter Hessler arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, marking the first time in more than half a century that the city had an American resident. Hessler taught English and American literature at the local college, but it was his students who ta

Author: Peter G. Hessler
Publisher: PennWell Corp.
Keywords: survival, guide, management, construction, plant, power
Number of Pages: 345
Published: 2005-10-05
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 1593700296
ISBN-13: 9781593700294

With the focus on return on investment and new technologies, the power industry today is much different than it was years ago. A unique set of management skills is necessary to supervise construction or retrofitting of a power generation plant, given today’s bottom-line emphasis on environment, fuel efficiency, up-to-date technical features, and the industry’s loss of experienced craftsmen and supervisory personnel. This book explains the power of economics behind the industry and how to manage the finances of work activities.

Author: Peter Hessler
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: past, present, china, journey, bones, oracle
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0060826584
ISBN-13: 9780060826581

From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world. A century ago, outsiders saw Chinaas a place where nothing ever changes. Today the coun-try has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. That sense of time—the contrast between past and present, and the rhythms that emerge in a vast, ever-evolving country—is brilliantly illuminated by Peter Hessler in Oracle Bones, a book that explores the human side of China’s transformation. Hessler tells the story of modern-da

Author: Peter Hessler
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: yangtze, years, town, river
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0060953748
ISBN-13: 9780060953744

In the heart of China’s Sichuan province, tucked away amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this vast and ever-evolving country, Fuling is shifting gears and heading down a new path, one of change and vitality, tension and reform, disruption and growth.Its position at the crossroads came into sharp focus when Peter Hessler arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, marking the first time in more than half a century that the city had an American resident. Hessler taught English and American literature at the local col

Authors:Hessler, Claus, Famularo, Dom, Claus Hessler,
Publisher: Alfred Publishing
Keywords: playing, handed, open
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0739054155
ISBN-13: 9780739054154

This groundbreaking book offers a step-by-step approach for drummers of all styles to learn and apply the concept of open-handed playing on the modern drumset. Based on concepts developed by teaching great Jim Chapin and fusion legend Billy Cobham, Open-Handed Playing not only outlines all the benefits of avoiding the crossing of hands when playing the drumset, but provides an incredibly detailed, complete and approachable method for learning this technique.