Asian honey bees: biology, conservation, and human interactions, by Benjamin P. Oldroyd and Siriwat Wongsiri. Very fascinating book ( Read more... )

Cyberpsychology: an introduction to human-computer interaction, by Kent L. Norman ( Read more... )

Found this in Boston's craigslist ( Read more... )

From How Language Works: how babies babble, words change meaning, and languages live or die, by David Crystal:

"There are some impressive similarities in naming practice across different languages, such as the use of names based on professions. Smith, and its foreign-language equivalents, is the best-known case, being the most common surname in ( Read more... )

http://community.livejournal.com/linguaphiles/3363452.html

If you remove all the sexing, Hebrew would be half as hard.

So would most of us.

The Butcher's Wife is a 1983 book by Taiwanese author Li Ang. She got the idea from a Shanghai news report about a woman who killed her husband. Normally all such women are assumed to have a man on the side, as there is no other reason she could possibly kill her husband; however, this woman was not having an affair, there was no evidence she was, ( Read more... )

Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore is a collection of short stories by Catherine Lim, published in 1978. Lim is Singaporean but grew up in Malaysia ( Read more... )

These two short stories were by Indian writer Amrita Pritam and found online ( Read more... )

This is a 1978 book by Yūko Tsushima, a Japanese writer. It takes place in the present and focuses on one character, Kōko, a thirty-six year old single mother. The point of view is Kōko's only ( Read more... )