The Human Body's Hidden Pathways 🎁 NYTimes
“This is clearly a third bodily system for the circulation of fluids,” in addition to the cardiovascular and lymphatic systems, says Rebecca Wells, a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
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In Xanadu
in xanadu A travel adventure to commemorate Marco Polo’s journey along the Silk Road, Scottish historian (a Cambridge student at the time he took this journey), William Dalrymple, uses older historic narratives and maps to help guide him and fellow travelers from the Holy Land to Xanadu (Shan-tu, just north of Beijing). Dalrymple's more recent book, The Golden Road posits that Indian ships were a more economical and vital trade route than the better known (and slower) land route of...
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The Three Body Problem
The novel begins during the Cultural Revolution in China, where a young astrophysicist named Ye Wenjie witnesses her father's death at the hands of Red Guards.
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Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
The story spans several decades of Chinese history, following the protagonist, Ximen Nao, through his various lives and reincarnations.
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Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee
A collection of detective stories set in the Tang dynasty.